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SK Foods' Former Owner and CEO Scott Salyer Pleads Guilty to Racketeering and Price Fixing in California
|U.S. Attorney's Office March 23, 2012
SACRAMENTO—Frederick Scott Salyer, 56, of Pebble Beach, California, pleaded guilty today to racketeering and price fixing, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Salyer entered his plea before U.S. District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton.
Between 1990 and 2009, Salyer was the CEO and owner of SK Foods LP, a grower, processor, and international seller of tomato paste and other processed agricultural products with facilities in Monterey, Lemoore, Williams, and Ripon, California. In his plea, Salyer admitted that he operated SK Foods as a racketeering organization. According to the plea agreement, from January 2004 to April 2008, Salyer encouraged food broker Randall Rahal to pay bribes and kickbacks to purchasing officers employed by SK Foods' customers Kraft Foods, Frito-Lay, and B&G Foods. The intent was to induce Kraft's Robert Watson, Frito-Lay's Richard Wahl, and B&G's Robert Turner to promote the interests of SK Foods over their employers' interests. Salyer also admitted that at his direction, SK Foods routinely falsified the lab test results for its tomato paste. Salyer ordered former employees Alan Huey and Jennifer Dahlman to falsify tomato paste grading factors, and SK Foods lied about its product's percentage of natural tomato soluble solids, mold count, production date, and whether the tomato paste qualified as "organic." Finally, Salyer admitted that he had discussed an illegal target price agreement with other sellers of tomato paste and, when another co-conspirator offered a lower price, Salyer got the co-conspirator to agree to withdraw that offer to a customer.
U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner said, "Food grown in California's Central Valley feeds people all over the United States; agriculture and food processing are critical to this region's economy. This case of corporate corruption was met with the government's full arsenal of law enforcement tools, which included grand jury process, an informant operation, wiretaps, search warrants, computer forensics, and arrests. This office and its partners will continue to use these tools to attack fraud and corruption wherever it is detected in this district."
"The Antitrust Division has made antitrust enforcement in the agriculture sector a priority," said Acting Assistant Attorney General Sharis A. Pozen in charge of the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division. "The division is committed to continuing to work with its law enforcement partners to crack down on illegal price fixing conspiracies that affect products used by consumers in their everyday lives."
"Corruption in any form is despicable, but when such occurs within the food industry, it erodes public trust in products and threatens the industry as a whole," said Herbert M. Brown, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Sacramento Field Office. "The FBI continues to tirelessly combat white collar crime that is motivated by unscrupulous greed."
"Today's guilty plea is the result of a combined law enforcement effort against a corrupt organization motivated by greed and profit," said Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Rick Goss. "These crimes touched the lives of many unsuspecting citizens and the public should know that we will hold accountable those individuals who put personal financial gain above the safety and well-being of the general public."
"The Food and Drug Administration-Office of Criminal Investigations is fully committed to investigating and supporting the prosecution of those who defraud consumers by manufacturing and selling adulterated foods to an unsuspecting public for economic gain. We continue to look forward to working with our law enforcement partners and commend the U.S. Attorney's Office for their diligence," said Thomas Emerick, Special Agent in Charge, Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-Office of Criminal Investigations, Los Angeles Field Office.
Salyer's plea caps an investigative effort that began in August 2006 when federal agents executed a search warrant at the home of Anthony Manuel, an SK Foods employee who had embezzled approximately $1 million from his former employer, a competitor of SK Foods. Manuel promptly confessed to the embezzlement and later told agents about the crimes to which Salyer and others have now pleaded guilty. In 2007 and 2008, Manuel recorded conversations with SK Foods executives, including Salyer, and provided documents corroborating his account of the crimes being committed at SK Foods. Wiretaps of Rahal telephones revealed that Rahal was discussing bribery and food mislabeling with Salyer and other senior officers of SK Foods. The wiretap also confirmed that Rahal was bribing Watson, Wahl, Turner, and Safeway Inc. employee Michael Chavez. On April 18, 2008, agents of the FBI, IRS-CI, and FDA Office of Criminal Investigations executed search warrants at the offices of SK Foods and at Salyer's residence in Pebble Beach, seizing documents and copying SK Foods's computer servers.
In 2009, the bribe recipients and many of Salyer's subordinates at SK Foods pleaded guilty before Judge Karlton. Also that year, creditors forced SK Foods into bankruptcy. According to court documents, in late 2009, Salyer moved more than $3 million to Andorra and made a $50,000 deposit on a condominium there. Andorra is a small principality in the Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain and has no extradition treaty with the United States. When agents learned of Salyer's plans, they obtained an arrest warrant for him, which was executed on February 4, 2010, when Salyer made what was to have been a short visit back to the United States. Salyer was jailed as a flight risk until September 3, 2010, when he was released to house arrest after posting a $6 million bond.
Salyer was indicted by a federal grand jury on February 18, 2010, with a superseding indictment brought against him on April 29, 2010. According to court documents, several issues have been litigated, such as whether the evidence against Salyer had been obtained lawfully. Judge Karlton ultimately rejected Salyer's efforts to suppress the evidence gathered by Manuel. Judge Karlton also upheld the wiretap and search warrant applications.
Salyer is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Karlton on July 10, 2012 at 9:15 a.m EDT. The maximum statutory penalty for a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) violation is 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The maximum statutory penalty for price fixing is 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine. The actual sentence, however, will be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables. In the plea agreement, Salyer may argue for a sentence as low as four years and the government may argue for a sentence up to seven years. Salyer also agrees to forfeit to the United States all of his interest in the $3 million that he transferred to Andorra.
This is the 11th guilty plea in an extensive investigation by the FBI, IRS-CI, FDA Office of Criminal Investigations, and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. The case is currently being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Matthew D. Segal, R. Steven Lapham, and Jared C. Dolan and Antitrust Division Trial Attorneys Anna T. Pletcher and Tai Milder.


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Trip Report: Steps of Rome
Posted by TheShot on 09 Jun 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew
This youthful North Beach hangout is often filled with patrons who speak Italian, and they often show the "calcio" (soccer) games from Italian RAI International TV. Several customers will be reading Italian newspapers at any given time, and Italian pop music often plays in the background.
However, this locale strikes me as the kind of place where the staff could care less about Italian soccer, etc., and they largely keep up appearances as a business strategy. I've often come in here to catch a big Juve-Roma match, only to find they are airing infomercials on TV instead and no one inside seems to care. (Contrast this with nearby Panta Rei, where the staff are religious followers. It may seem like a small matter, but it's like the difference between watching the World Cup on the drowsy, wannabe ESPN versus the we-live-and-die-by-this-sport Univision.)
Still, this is the place the local papers often reference for passionate World Cup followers — and that's definitely more a reflection of the patrons than the place. For the World Cup, they have an HDTV plasma screen in the corner so patrons can watch the action from inside and on the sidewalk. While they have many tables — indoor and out on the Columbus Ave. & Grant St. sidewalks — there was hardly an open table during opening match day.
The walls are decorated with humorous black & white glamour photos of espresso-drinking models. They serve pre-packaged Miscela d'Oro GranCrema coffee from a three-group La Spaziale.
Their espresso has a thinner, blond-to-nutmeg-colored crema (it varies) and a clove-like flavor with smoke, occasional sweetness, and no bitterness. San Francisco magazine once crowned their espresso as the best in the city in an August 2002 cover story, which is a perplexing exaggeration. Yet they do make a decent cup (even if there are many better cups in North Beach alone). They serve espresso in ACF cups branded with their lipstick logo.
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Baby in D.C. police shooting in custody battle
STAMFORD -- An application by Miriam Carey's family to take custody of the baby girl who was in the car when her mother was shot and killed last week during a wild chase in Washington, D.C., was denied Friday by a Stamford judge.
On Thursday, Valarie Carey, sister of 34-year-old Miriam Carey, came to Stamford and filed an ex parte application to obtain temporary custody of 14-month-old Erica Francis, currently in the custody of her father, Eric Francis, who is estranged from Carey's family.
Carey's family hoped to get custody of Erica before her mother's funeral on Tuesday in Brooklyn, N.Y. A disappointed Valarie Carey said the motion was denied Friday by Judge Jane Emmons.
"I believe my niece has the right to be in the presence of her mother for one last time to say goodbye. She needs to be in the presence of people who know her and love her, like her grandmother and her aunts. We need to have her there on Tuesday," said Carey, who served with the New York City Police Department for 12 years.
"This is not acceptable," she said. "As a woman, to deny the child to go to the grandmother? It is questionable."
At first, Carey said she wanted to file an injunction on Emmons' decision, but near the end of the afternoon, she said she would come back on Oct. 24 for a custody hearing on the matter.
Carey charges that Francis will not bring the baby to visit the Carey family in Brooklyn, and the family doesn't know where Erica is living, according to court records.
Miriam Carey, who lived in Stamford's Woodside Green condominium complex, was shot and killed Oct. 3 when she reportedly tried to breach a White House barrier. The incident has prompted a review of whether the use of force was justified by Washington, D.C., law enforcement officials.
Carey's mother, Idella Carey, said her daughter, a dental hygienist, was suffering from post-partum depression after Erica was born. Carey was later hospitalized following an incident in which Stamford police were called about Erica's welfare in December.
During an interview at the courthouse Friday, Carey said she had no idea why her sister went to Washington, D.C., on Oct. 3. She also was uncertain if the trip had anything to do with the depression she fought.
"In my heart of hearts, I cannot say if that played a role in what happened in D.C.," Carey said. "I don't know what my sister was doing at the time. I don't know where my sister was going. I don't know. No one will know because she is not here to defend herself."
Aside from what Carey was doing at the courthouse Friday, her biggest concern is what happened to her sister and why.
"The question is, why is she dead? Why did the officer shoot? Why did they feel the need to shoot several times and continue shooting?" she said.
Carey said she believed her unarmed sister was murdered in Washington, D.C.
"It is definitely murder. She was executed," Carey said.
Carey said her other sister, Amy, talked to Francis and he refused to bring Erica to Brooklyn on Tuesday for her mother's funeral.
A statement by Valarie Carey attached to the custody application said, "The alleged father has not been present in Erica Francis' life physically for the past two months nor has he provided financial support. The respondent Eric Francis has not disclosed his home address to the Carey family ... The respondent is interfering with the established relationship Erica Francis has with her maternal grandmother and aunts in Brooklyn, New York."
The statement also said the 55-year-old Francis, who is from Jamaica, goes by more than one name as well as several Social Security numbers.
"The Carey family fears he is likely to abscond with Erica Francis," the statement said.
Attorney Darnell Crosland, who is working with Valarie Carey to gain custody of her niece, said the family is trying to stop its suffering.
"The best way to do that is to make sure her minor child is in a secure and loving home, and just as important a home that the child is accustomed to," Crosland said.
Crosland said if the judge grants the application, the child would be taken to Brooklyn to attend her mother's funeral on Tuesday and live with her aunts and grandmother.
"There are numerous other reasons why custody should remain with the maternal family, but we are not opposed to arguing those reasons in court at a later date. For now, we feel the court's immediate intervention is necessary to protect Erica's welfare," Crosland said.
Valarie Carey said her sister seemed fine before her death last week.
"My sister appeared happy in her last interactions with the family and the last conversation she had with my mom on (Oct. 2). And I was looking forward to seeing Erica on the weekend because we see her every weekend," she said.
When asked if the family planned to file a wrongful death suit against the officers involved, Carey said she did not know yet.
"Right now, it is time to bury my sister and we need to as a family. We need closure and know what happened in D.C and why these things did happen," she said.


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That was a good article on overhead power lines [News, "Crossed wires: Why aren't those power lines buried?" September 25, 2003].
Blake Caravati was mistaken when he said the City Attorney did not share my opinion about Charlottesville's franchise that gives the City authorities the right to direct where the where the lines may be put. He told me and the mayor at the time that Virginia Power would sue the City if it adopted an underground wiring ordinance.
Council never accepted my offer to pay for legal research to support my argument. There is also the political issue; 20 years ago practically every lawyer in the General Assembly was local counsel for VEPCO (that's what Virginia Power was called then) and was more than susceptible to its lobbyists.
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After Monday's performance finale, there's nothing left to do but wait and theorize while The Voice tabulates the votes and iTunes downloads.So who do you think will win: Team Blake's The Swon Brothers, the show's first successful duo; ...
After Monday's performance finale, there's nothing left to do but wait - and theorize - while The Voice tabulates the votes and iTunes downloads.So who do you think will win: Team Blake's The Swon Brothers, the show's first successful duo; Danielle Bradbury, the impressive ingénue; or Team Usher's Michelle Chamuel, the eclectic indie singer?The Voice: 10 reasons why Michelle Chamuel should winAccording to Adam Levine, we should expect Danielle to take home top honors Tuesday night. "The crazy thing about your voice is it's just so unbelievably perfect and powerful. It's one of the better voices I think I've ever heard live. ... And I'm just gonna go ahead and say, I think Danielle's [the] winner of this thing," Adam said after Danielle's repeat performance of "Maybe It Was Memphis."But before anyone takes Adam's declaration as a reliable prediction, let's go over Monday's performances and weigh the chances ourselves.Team Blake's The Swon Brothers.Zach and Colton Swon never fail to entertain onstage and off, but no one expected them to last this long. This is not necessarily a reflection of their talents. Not only does the duo consistently perform in the fatal first half timeslots of each performance episode, but no group has ever made it this far on The Voice.Yet thanks to standout performances like "Danny's Song" and last night's debut of their smooth falsetto in "I Can't Tell You Why," the Swons might stand a fighting chance at winning. Keyword: might (and that's being generous). Britney vs. Shakira: The ultimate face-off, in GIFsTeam Blake's Danielle BradburyMany viewers agree with Adam that Danielle is the favorite to win Tuesday, but how dull would that be? Danielle is incredibly talented, especially considering she's only 16, but her performances tend to be stagnant. Literally. She typically stands in one place, delivering pitch-perfect vocals with little stage presence. Plus: Danielle would make Blake's win record 3-for-4 (a record he also faces with The Swon Brothers, but whose status as a group act would keep things fresh). Blake would then become The Voice's presumed favorite coach, making the blind auditions much less exciting if the contestants all believe choosing Blake is the key to success.Out of the three finalists, Danielle does have the most potential for a successful post-Voice career (as evidenced by her growing number of singles in the iTunes Top 10 )and it's hard to argue with such performances as "Born to Fly" and "Maybe It Was Memphis." PHOTOS: Christina Aguilera's biggest Voice fashion flopsTeam Usher's Michelle ChamuelIt's no secret I'm rooting for Michelle, but an indie artist - let alone a gay artist - has yet to win The Voice. And in a refreshing move, instead of trying to mold her into a more commercial artist, Usher has helped Michelle cultivate her unique style and become this season's most memorable performer week after week. The bond between Michelle and Usher has been heartwarming to watch, which might garner votes.Then again, Michelle's only song to reach the iTunes Top 10 was "I Knew You Were Trouble" and it's no coincidence that this was a pop-country cover. That didn't mean Monday's performance of the Taylor Swift hit was any less powerful, especially when countered by her emotional rendition of "Why."
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Silver Sparrow : Tayari Jones
What was your inspiration for Silver Sparrow ?
I think of my writing kind of like I think of love—so mysterious and so wrapped up in my own life and history (and issues!) that I can't really tell how it began. But I can say that I have always been
intrigued by the idea of "half " sisters. I have two sisters with whom I share a father, but we each have different mothers. They were born before my father met my mother, and they grew up in another state and led completely separate lives from me and from each other. When I was a little girl, with only brothers, I used to fantasize about having two big sisters far away who would love me, dress me up, listen to me talk, et cetera.
I got from my own personal obsession to this fictional story on a night out with a bunch of friends. We were discussing one of the many cases you hear about—a man dies and the other grieving widow shows up with her stair-step kids. One of my girlfriends looked up from her cosmo and said, "You know, he had to have some help from the inside. You cannot get local bigamy off the ground unless one of the women is willing to work with you." It was all I could do to keep from running out of the bar to get home and start writing. The first line, "My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist," jumped into my head. I sent it to myself on my blackberry so I wouldn't forget it. (As if I could!)
How did you come to the title Silver Sparrow?
This was really an eleventh hour title. This book went through half a dozen titles before I settled on Silver Sparrow. The reference is to the gospel classic "His Eye Is on the Sparrow." When I was a girl, I took great comfort in the idea that God is taking care of everything and everyone, even a tiny sparrow. (This was especially important because I grew up in Atlanta during a very dangerous time.) The characters refer to the song, and it occurred to me that although Chaurisse thinks of Dana as her "silver girl," in many ways Dana is the tiniest sparrow in the story. She is flawed, of course, and sometimes she acts out, but she is also "the least of these."
Like your previous two books, Silver Sparrow is set in Atlanta in the 1980s. Why did you pick Atlanta for the setting, and what role does landscape play in shaping your narrative?
Sometimes I wonder if my imagination just lives in Atlanta. When the story comes to me, the characters tend to be hanging out in all my
old stomping grounds. Atlanta has been such a gift to my work. The "new" and urban South is everchanging, but we still wear our history on our sleeves. This is what makes Southern literature so rich, ultra-specific and universal at the same time.
What do you hope readers will take away from Silver Sparrow?
I hope that readers will come away from the book with a sort of tolerance for people who find themselves in complicated and messy situations. When I started writing this novel, I didn't really have empathy for Gwen, and I had nothing but sympathy for Laverne. But by the time I finished, I sort of understood the way people get trapped and try to make the best out of bad situations. Both women love their daughters with a bottomless devotion. As Dana would say, "You can't help but respect something like that."


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Bye Bye Rumsfeld
Edit: Oops... didn't see the other thread about this.... sorry.
So long, Rummy!
Edit: Oops... didn't see the other thread about this.... sorry.
So long, Rummy!
sourceBy ROBERT BURNS and KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writers 29 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - After years of defending his secretary of defense,
President Bush on Wednesday announced Donald H. Rumsfeld's resignation within hours of the Democrats' triumph in congressional elections. Bush reached back to his father's administration to tap a former
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Iraq war was the central issue of Rumsfeld's nearly six-year tenure, and unhappiness with the war was a major element of voter dissatisfaction Tuesday — and the main impetus for his departure. Even some GOP lawmakers in Congress became critical of the war's management, and growing numbers of politicians were urging Bush to replace Rumsfeld.
Bush said Robert M. Gates, 63, who has served in a variety of national security jobs under six previous presidents, would be nominated to replace Rumsfeld. Gates, currently the president of Texas A&M University, is a Bush family friend and a member of an independent group studying the way ahead in Iraq.
"Secretary Rumsfeld and I agreed that sometimes it's necessary to have a fresh perspective," Bush said in the abrupt announcement during a postelection news conference.
In a later appearance at the White House with Rumsfeld and Gates at his side, Bush praised both men, thanked Rumsfeld for his service and predicted that Gates would bring fresh ideas.
"The secretary of defense must be a man of vision who can see threats still over the horizon and prepare our nation to meet them. Bob Gates is the right man to meet both of these critical challenges," Bush said.
In brief remarks, Rumsfeld described the Iraq conflict as a "little understood, unfamiliar war" that is "complex for people to comprehend."
Asked whether Rumsfeld's departure signaled a new direction in a war that has claimed the lives of more than 2,800 U.S. troops and cost more than $300 billion, Bush said, "Well, there's certainly going to be new leadership at the Pentagon."
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said Rumsfeld was not leaving immediately. Rumsfeld planned to deliver a speech on the global war on terrorism at Kansas State University on Thursday.
Just last week Bush told reporters that he expected Rumsfeld, 74, to remain until the end of the administration's term. And although Bush said Wednesday that his decision to replace Rumsfeld was not based on politics, the announcement of a Pentagon shake-up came on the heels of Tuesday's voting, in which Democrats captured control of the House and could win control of the Senate if the remaining undecided race in Virginia goes their way.
With his often-combative defense of the war in Iraq, Rumsfeld had been the administration's face of the conflict. He became more of a target — and more politically vulnerable — as the war grew increasingly unpopular at home amid rising violence and with no end in sight.
Gates ran the CIA under the first President Bush during the first Gulf war. He retired from government in 1993.
He joined the CIA in 1966 and is the only agency employee to rise from an entry level job to become director. A native of Kansas, he made a name for himself as an analyst specializing in the former Soviet Union and he served in the intelligence community for more than a quarter century, under six presidents.
Numerous Democrats in Congress had been calling for Rumsfeld's resignation for many months, asserting that his management of the war and of the military had been a resounding failure. Critics also accused Rumsfeld of not fully considering the advice of his generals and of refusing to consider alternative courses of action.
Sen. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record) of Michigan and Rep. Ike Skelton (news, bio, voting record) of Missouri — the top Democrats on the Armed Services committees — said the resignation would only be a positive step if accompanied by a change in policy.
"I think it is critical that this change be more than just a different face on the old policy," Skelton said.
Rumsfeld, 74, has served in the job longer than anyone except Robert McNamara, who became secretary of defense during the Kennedy administration and remained until 1968. Rumsfeld is the only person to have served in the job twice; his previous tour was during the Ford administration.
Rumsfeld had twice previously offered his resignation to Bush — once during the
Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in spring 2004 and again shortly after that. Both times the president refused to let him leave.
Gates took over the CIA as acting director in 1987, when William Casey was terminally ill with cancer. Questions were raised about Gates' knowledge of the
Iran-Contra scandal, so he withdrew from consideration to take over the CIA permanently. Yet he stayed on as deputy director.
Then-National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, who has been a critic of the younger Bush's policies, asked Gates to be his deputy in 1989 during the administration of Bush's father. President Bush, a former CIA director himself, asked him to run the CIA two years later. The scandal had faded and Gates won confirmation.
After leaving government, Gates joined corporate boards and wrote a memoir, "From The Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War." It was published in 1996.
Gates is a close friend of the Bush family, and particularly the first President Bush. He became the president of Texas A&M University in August 2002. The university is home to the presidential library of Bush's father.


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Well they had the Sharks (winners of six straight at the time) down 1-0 until the 3rd.Meds wrote:There is nothing in this game to be excited about.
After Kipper, Tanguay, Wideman, and Cammalleri, this is pretty much an AHL squad. And as has already been said, the a Canucks are playing at half speed and still managing to get into some cluster fucks. Calgary hasn't shown much get up and go since Iginla was traded. Their forecheck is laughable, their PK pressure is pathetic, their offense is minor league at best.
4-1 is nothing to write home about, especially when you consider that Edmonton beat them 8-2 the other night.
It's the NHL. Anyone can win at anytime.


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The Central Connecticut men's cross country team placed seventh Saturday at the Bryant Invitational in Smithfield, R.I. earning 153 points.
Sophomore Andy Pullaro was the first Blue Devil to cross the finish line coming in 12th place with a time of 26:43.90. Pullaro was followed by sophomore Brian Biekert who placed 17th just 16 seconds later. Scoring for Central was rounded out by junior Andrew Hill in 30th (27:42.40), sophomore Joey Farrington in 45th (28:49.50) and freshman David Scheibenpflug in 49th (29:19.50).
Of the nine teams in the tournament, Monmouth placed first with a team score of 61, followed by Quinnipiac (82), Sacred Heart (88), Mount St. Mary's (102), Wagner (117) and Saint Francis (N.Y.) (149). Bryant (176) came in just behind Central at eighth followed by Fairleigh Dickinson (211) in ninth.
The Blue Devils return to action Saturday, Sept. 15 at the Quinnipiac Invitational in Hamden, CT.


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The 20 Most Overplayed Songs of 2013 Performed in One Minute Mashup Video
There are still 28 days left in December, but that doesn't mean we can't go ahead and begin looking at the year in review, starting with this video of the 20 most overplayed songs of 2013 performed in a one minute mashup.
From "Get Lucky" to "Royals" to "Roar," Chad Neidt covers this year's top songs in this guitar medley. Also included are "What Does The Fox Say," Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball," and Robin Thicke's summer anthem "Blurred Lines."


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Fisherman - Fishing Game Review
- Publisher: digitalsirup GmbH
- Genre: Family
- Released: 29 Sep, 2008
- Size: 1.7 MB
- Price: $1.99
- Simple controls mean anyone can play.
- There are a variety of different fish and other creatures to catch.
- The money gained from catching fish is reasonable, meaning you won't struggle to get enough cash for a wanted upgrade.
- Players cannot pause gameplay or return to the menu after a level has started.
- There are no online leaderboard options.
- The game has the one single player mode, nothing else.
Fisherman is a simple and enjoyable game, but without leaderboards or diversity in game modes, it just doesn't seem to be worth the current price.
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Fisherman is a fishing game where players must proceed though the different levels catching specific types of fish in the allowed time limit. You begin to earn cash for the different fish you catch, which you can then use to purchase upgrades such as faster reels, longer lines and more level time.
You move your boat around the level by tilting your iPhone and you cast your line by tapping the screen. Players are then able to reel in fish they hook by tapping the screen again. While it sounds simple, calculating the fish's paths and casting to compensate takes some practise to get right, especially with deeper dwelling fish.
The visuals are simple but do their job. The only sound effects in the game are those of fish flapping when you catch one and the timer counting down during the last 5 seconds of a level. But thankfully, players can use their iPod during gameplay to spice up the sound scape. This is a single player game, with a local highscore board only.
If you like the 'non-serious' style fishing games, then you might enjoy Fisherman. There's some fun in catching fish against a timer and then upgrading your gear, but without online leaderboards, it all seems to be done in vain. Hopefully, an update will come along and fix some of the game's issues, leaving us with a better gaming experience.
DescriptionTilt your iPhone to move the fisherboat. Tap anywhere on the screen to throw the spinning rod, tap again to hall in. You'll need a good timing to catch the fishes while picking up the fishing rod.
You will earn money for each fish you catch. After each round you'll be able to upgrade your equipment. The first level you will begin with a short line, a slow spinning rod an a low line strength.


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Koch Industries bid for Tribune Co. newspapers could expand existing climate denial in Koch media
Brothers Charles and David Koch have spent decades and millions of dollars to influence the news we read in newspapers, see online and watch on TV. The Kochs regularly convene high security meetings with high society attendees, many of whom work in the media, influence it, or own it.
Now reporters across the country are eyeing the Koch's first attempt to directly own media themselves. Last weekend's New York Times confirmed Koch Industries' bid for the Tribune Company as a way for the Kochs and their allies to "make sure our voice is heard." Tribune's newspapers reach tens of millions of U.S. citizens, an ideal captive audience for Charles Koch's self-serving philosophy to promote "economic freedom," and to end "crony capitalism," an ironic choice of words for the one of country's most infamous corporate political manipulators. Tribune Co. owns eight newspapers and 23 TV stations across the country including the L.A. Times, the Chicago Tribune and Hoy, the country's 2nd largest daily Spanish newspaper, a clear asset for conservative politicians still reeling from their underwhelming rapport with the U.S. Hispanic population in the 2012 election. Reaching Hispanic and Latino voters will be a major topic at the Kochs' secretive "billionaires caucus" next week, which was delayed three months so the Kochs could audit the results of their 2012 electioneering activities, bolstered by hundreds of millions of dollars raised at previous Koch meetings.{C}
It's worth noting that the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council distributed Arizona's controversial racial profiling law, SB 1070, to states around the country so private prison companies can rake a profit off the incarceration of immigrants.
Existing Kochtopus Media Publishes Climate Science Denial
Preceding their bid for the Tribune Company, the Koch brothers' network ties them to media outlets promoting the climate change denial campaign infamously bankrolled by the Kochs. Read the slaughter of science yourself at the Wall Street Journal opinion page, the Weekly Standard, the National Review, the Washington Examiner, and Breitbart.com. A Greenpeace investigation detailed key media outlet owners and pundits with ties to the Kochs through their secretive strategy meetings, as did Lee Fang's ThinkProgress article on the Kochs' pet "journalists." Here are some of the Koch's key allies that own or work in the media:
- Stanley S. Hubbard, the billionaire chairman and CEO of Hubbard Broadcasting, which owns TV and radio stations in major cities across the country, including Washington DC's WTOP and WFED.
- Karl Eller, who founded the world's largest outdoor advertising company, Clear Channel Outdoor, and launched numerous TV, radio and newspaper outlets that were absorbed by Gannett Company. Gannett owns USATODAY and dozens of other U.S. newspapers and television stations, and Clear Channel Outdoor stemmed from a Gannett advertising subsidiary purchased by Eller. Karl Eller served on the board of Turner Broadcasting, which owns CNN. He was chosen by the American Advertising Federation for its Advertising Hall of Fame in 2004.
- Ramesh Pannuru, the senior editor of the National Review, an outlet funded by the Charles Koch Foundation. National Review's "Planet Gore" blog is dedicated to dismissing global warming.
- Foster Friess, the billionaire who provided money to launch the Daily Caller, a conservative news outlet. The Daily Caller has criticized the Obama 2012 campaign's "anti-Koch" activity.
- Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, contributor to the National Review and frequent TV news pundit. Stephen Moore used to work at the Cato Institute, which was founded by Charles Koch in the 1970's and continues to be directed by David Koch and other Koch Industries associates. Moore advises the Koch-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and regularly collaborates with the Heritage Foundation and Americans for Prosperity. In 2009, Moore told attendees of the 2009 RightOnline conference, "What would we do without the Wall Street Journal and FOX News, Right? And Americans for Prosperity?" Moore is a former director of Donors Capital Fund, according to 2010 IRS tax filings.
- Steven Hayward, who is affiliated with numerous groups financed by the Kochs as well serving as treasurer and board member to Donors Capital Fund. DCF and sister group Donors Trust hide money from the Kochs and other corporate interests to groups like the Heartland Institute, the Franklin Center, CFACT, Americans for Prosperity, and many other groups connected to Hayward--read more on Steven Hayward and the Donors Trust network. Steven Hayward frequently dismisses global warming in the Weekly Standard, the National Review, and Powerline Blog, run by attorney John Hinderaker, whose firm has represented Koch Industries.
- Glenn Beck, the former FOX News hysteric who thanked Charles Koch on air for providing misinformation on climate change he presented during his show.
- Dixon Doll, the co-founder and General Partner of DCM, a venture capital firm involved in telecommunications. Dixon Doll sits on the board of directors of DIRECTV.
The New York Times included the brothers' connection to oil and gas billionaire Philip Anschutz, who owns the Weekly Standard, the Washington Examiner, and other outlets through Clarity Media Group (check out the Weekly Standard's puff piece on the Kochs). Phil Anschutz, a fellow financier of climate science denial groups, is one of many elites who attends the Kochs' twice-annual strategy meetings, where millions of dollars are raised to influence politics through groups like the Heritage Foundation, Americans for Prosperity, the Franklin Center, and the other members of the State Policy Network. The State Policy Network and its affiliates often gin up their own astroturf media, with the Franklin Center's "Watchdog" websites dishing out content to bolster the campaigns of Koch's flagship SPN operations like Americans for Prosperity and ALEC. The Franklin Center is 95% funded by Donors Trust, the "Dark Money ATM" that hides money from the Kochs and other secretive political manipulators.
Pressure from advocates and Tribune employees to reject Koch bid
Media Matters reported numerous accounts from Tribune Co. paper employees concerned they would be a "conservative mouthpiece" for Koch Industries. As reporters from Tribune's various newspapers voice their discontent, Forecast the Facts and Courage Campaign have obtained over 100,000 petitions to the Tribune Company against the Koch bid, citing Tribune reporting on climate change that could be threatened by Koch ideology. The public pressure has been acknowledged by @TribuneCo on Twitter, though the company remains noncommittal.
This post was crossposted from Greenpeace's The Witness: Koch Bros Tribune Co? Climate change denial in Koch-friendly media
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Transgender/Transfamilies Support Group
June 18, 2018 @ 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
This meeting focuses exclusively on topics relating to gender identity. We welcome parents and other family members, friends, allies, and transgender or gender nonconforming people to attend.
Held at Church House of the Presbyterian Church at Shrewsbury at 352 Sycamore Avenue, Shrewsbury, NJ
*Although our meetings are held in a church, PFLAG Jersey Shore is not a religious organization and is not affiliated with any specific religion.


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NEW YORK (AP) - Netflix, Instagram and Pinterest are using Twitter and Facebook to update subscribers after a Virginia storm caused server outages for hours.
Netflix and Pinterest restored service by Saturday afternoon. Instagram engineers are working to restore service but no data was lost. The three websites are customers of Amazon Inc.'s web services division.
The storm killed six people and knocked out electricity for hundreds of thousands in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Amazon spokeswoman Kay Kinton told The Associated Press in an email that the storm cut power to some of company's operations. Service has been restored for most customers, Kinton said.
Netflix, a video streaming service, tweeted that subscribers should reconnect if they still experienced problems.
The online scrapbook service Pinterest says employees are working on remaining issues that may affect performance.


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Top prospects report early to camp
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Second baseman Delino DeShields Jr. and outfielder George Springer, a pair of former first-round picks who are at their second Major League camp, reported to Osceola County Stadium on Thursday, one day ahead of the reporting date for players.
"It was a long winter," DeShields said after signing autographs for fans. "I'm excited to see the new environment and meet the new people. There's been a lot of changes. It's different, but I like it."
DeShields Jr. will get the chance this spring to work with legendary basestealer Vince Coleman, who's joined the Astros' staff.
Coleman stole 752 bases in 13 seasons in the Major Leagues, and became the only player in history to steal more than 100 bases in three consecutive seasons when he was with St. Louis (1985-87). He will be an outfield/baserunning developmental specialist assigned to Class A Quad Cities.
DeShields Jr.'s eyes lit up when he found out Coleman would be in camp; the prospect stole 101 bases last year en route to being named Astros Minor League Player of the Year.
"He's here? That's cool," DeShields Jr. said. "I'll be excited to talk to him and meet him and stuff, and see what he's got under his sleeves."


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Michael Kenneth Williams had what might be my favorite line ever in a TV show or movie on "Boardwalk Empire" but unfortunately I can only quote it in the shower, with music on and after a quick scan of my neighborhood to make sure no one is home. It's pretty bad. What I'm getting at here is Michael Kenneth Williams has been rumored to be joining the "Robocop" remake at Alex Murphy's partner and family friend. I mean partner in a police sort of way, not like life partner. Although they may have changed the story for the remake. I don't judge.
Blake Sheldon is apparently not the country singer. That guy has a T in his name or something. This Blake is an actor and he's been tapped to play not 1 but 2 roles in the upcoming season of "American Horror Story". Young Shel Shel (patent pending) will play the role of "Devon" and "Cooper" in the next chapter in the series. I have no idea who those characters are but they're powerful names so I have high hopes.
Do you like classic horror movies? Of course you do. Even if you don't you're too embarrassed to admit you don't like them. So most likely you and a group of friends will be too ashamed to call each other's bluffs about wanting to see "The Birds", "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein" when they are restored and put into theaters this coming September and October. Make comments like "oh this is classic" and "did you know 'The Birds' is a reference to the threat of communism". You're going to look so cultured.
Don't ask me why but I'm here to tell you that Lindsay Lohan and Charlie sheen have both been added to the cast of "Scary movie 5". I'm also here to tell you that I've been wearing the same clothes for 2 days... to work.


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Pranks on unsuspecting drive up window attendants have been around for years. But then YouTube came along.
It seems more people each day would film themselves singing an order to a McDonalds and posting it on the internet. They stopped being original.
But when someone dresses up as a seat to become invisible, well, that shit is gold.


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AQ Monitoring Results:
Wilmington: Arsenic
This page last reviewed September 07, 2010
Arsenic is a metallic element with three allotropic forms, yellow, black, and gray, of which the brittle, crystalline gray is the most common. Arsenic exists as both organic and inorganic compounds. The majority of atmospheric arsenic is inorganic arsenic. Through injection, inhalation and skin permeation, arsenic can cause minor to serious health
effects. California has determined under Assembly Bill 1807 and Proposition 65 that inorganic arsenic compounds
are cancer-causing compounds. Non-cancer effects from arsenic exposure include irritation of the eyes, nose and
bronchi, vascular disorders (hemolysis), neurological disturbances, adverse reproductive effects, and liver or
kidney damage.
Combustion and high-temperature processes are the largest sources of inorganic arsenic emissions to the atmosphere. Arsenic is used in metallurgy for hardening copper, lead, and alloys. It is also used in the manufacturing of certain types of glass. The primary industrial sources of arsenic in California are electrical services and metal mining. Arsenic and its compounds are also used in insecticides, weed killers, fungicide and wood preservative. Indoor arsenic sources include tobacco smoke, and burning of wood treated with arsenic wood preservatives. One cigarette typically contains 40 to 120 nano-grams of arsenic.
Arsenic composes small percent of the earth's crust. Inorganic arsenic can be released into the air by volcanoes and the weathering of arsenic-containing minerals and ores. Due to natural geo-chemical enrichment in California, arsenic is found in both above ground and below ground drinking water, and total exposure to arsenic from drinking water is usually far higher than total exposure from inhalation from the ambient air.
The Air Resources Board adopted an airborne toxic control measure in 1993 for non-ferrous metal melting operations. This control measure is expected to reduce emissions of arsenic. From year 1990 to year 2000, the average arsenic concentration in California has reduced approximately by 6 percent.
Ambient Monitoring Results
Ambient levels of arsenic are routinely monitored at approximately twenty sites in the California air toxics monitoring network. The statewide average concentration of arsenic during 1998-2000 was 1.66 ng/m3 (nanograms per cubic meter),
with values ranging from 1.5 ng/m3 to 18.0 ng/m3. Relative to the statewide average, the Los Angeles County region # was 4% lower, with an average concentration of 1.60 ng/m3 for the same time period. Most
of the observed values for arsenic at Wilmington were below the limit of detection.
The ambient monitoring results at Wilmington are provided here:
- A graph comparing the monthly summaries of arsenic at the community with historical statewide and regional levels
- A table of summary statistics
- Raw data in Excel format
Cancer Risk
Cancer risk is the number of excess cancer cases among a million people if the people are exposed to levels of a toxic air pollutant over 70 years. Arsenic is equivalent to less than 1% of the potential cancer risk of the nine measured compounds and the estimated diesel particulate matter.


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CNN's Ramy Inocencio breaks down the who, what and where of modern-day slavery.
Regarding the Wall Street Journal list of the greenest states...............pls ask their reporters to leave their East Coast comfort zone and visit OREGON. This beautiful, GREEN state has been the environmental leader since before the other 49 states could spell GREEN !!!! :):) Thanks.
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This site is absurd. What about the legalized slavery in US prisons?
The rest of us call that punishment you dink!
13th Amendment, 2nd 1/2. Read it.
Every body middle class in usa is a modern slave ,especialy if you are latin
Latin peaple are all honourable.we are also extremely inteligent, proficient and succesful in everything we must demonstrate to society at any time anywhere.Depriveus, and deprive yourself.And then some.
You should fix the govyment in Mexico.
How do you feel mr. david almost #6 and mr. oregan ahole #7 ?
so um.....by that definition of slavery – the united states government and the federal reserve would be slave owners running a plantation in America. we are enslaved to their monetary and governmental systems, we have NO CHOICE and NO ESCAPE! what if you decide to live as you please and not pay income taxes, or follow stupid laws that when violated hurt no victims? they threaten you with jailtime, and police or troops with weapons! this is slavery people! WAKE UP!!
I agree 100% with you enslaved mentally to believe we are free nothing is free in this country not even water
That isn't slavery,ppl put their own definition of slavery,OK and if you don't like our freedom then go somewhere else...you have the freedom to do that! Anyone who tries to shame America the way you do needs to be kicked out of this country! Our service men/women fight for their lives for your freedom,I don't agree 100% with the way somethings are done,when someone breaks the law,yes they need to be felt with. If it means jail/prison,then that's the way it should be. The professional sports players get a way with breaking the law all the time but,when we break the laws we get punished they don't!
It would really help if anti-trafficking activists stopped confusing sex slavery with consenting adult sex work.
Children need to be protected and we are the people who should be at the front lines. A choice is a choice a chain i s a chain.
Modern day,slavery is initiated largely by those in high position in govt.pls let the poverty driven show patience. We will stop this tragedy.
So are the Chinese still making fantasy comments about Americans being slaves for having good paying jobs that tracks their hours? Lol...
Let me tell you this. Modern day, and legalized slavery is the capitalism we have in its extreme. The credit system which preys on the poor as credit/loan providers only to have borrowers only work out their lives to pay the sinfully hyper compounded interests put in place. There are a lot of people working out their butts and breaking their backs just like the slaves of old to pay loans that never get any less month by month , and year by year. Mortgages, Auto loans, Student loans, Credit cards, unnecessarily high house rents, and sinfully high health bills are different faces of modern slavery. Who is free of these?
Well said et . . Respect for all who deserve it. . And respect for all who have the courage to think for themselves . . A significant part of freedom is ones state of mind . .
We should all stand in one voice for the protection of men,women and children and say no to slavery..As in the House of lords decision in Sommerset v Stewart,"The air in Britain is too pure for slaves to breathe,so set him free!"
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Warmer weather makes for a perfect Penguin Plunge in Winsted
WINSTED >> February's blizzard was too much winter weather for the Penguin Plunge, but Saturday's warmth was perfect.
The Penguin Plunge went off according to the revised schedule without a hitch, as people from throughout northwestern Connecticut raised money for the Special Olympics. The fundraiser is one of nine events across Connecticut, and although the Winsted edition was originally scheduled for Feb. 9, the massive quantities of snow and wind made that date unworkable.
March 9, on the other hand, saw temperatures reach into the 50s as nearly 150 participants jumped into Highland Lake. Thanks to snow earlier in the week, the water was cold enough to remind people how the Penguin Plunge earned its name.
"The water was the coldest that I've ever jumped into in my life," said Janet Hiltz, one of the plungers. "It was awful. I couldn't breathe."
In all, Special Olympics director of development Sharon Pelkey said the Penguin Plunge raised $54,500, blowing the 2012 Penguin Plunge's total of over $45,000 out of the water. Teams or individuals had to raise at least $75 to take the plunge into a section of Highland Lake where the ice had been cut away, although what they wore into the water and how they entered the lake was up to them.
"Each year participants come decked out in costumes, swimsuits and bow ties to brave the cold and plunge in the icy waters," said Pelkey in a press release. "It is truly a sight to see."
Costumes ranged from a penguin suit to wings, wigs and other accessories, and teams choreographed dances before jumping in. Hiltz's bulldog, Mindy, had her own jacket, but stayed dry even after her owner and Team Walrus teammates jumped into the lake. Team Walrus eventually won best costume honors after all the plungers had climbed out of the lake and dried off.
However, Team Walrus was not the biggest team, nor was it the team to raise the most. Both honors went to I Want My Mummy, whose 18 members raised a total $27,955. The proceeds from all nine Penguin Plunges are the main source of funds for Special Olympics Connecticut, leaving Pelkey pleased, even if -- as she said -- "the weather is kind of funny."
"It was phenomenal," Pelkey said. "The costumes were awesome and the people were genuinely having a great time, because the weather cooperated.
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Much of our most important career content is available online. You will receive access to these materials prior to Orientation and will have a chance to explore and prepare deliverables so you can hit the ground running when you arrive.
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We work with you as you are moving through the online "Day 1" content, helping you to stay on track and suggesting additional resources related to your interests. We also reach out to you regularly with information about programs that occur (either virtually or in person) during the spring and summer that may assist you in your career exploration and preparation. Opportunities include:


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Below are fragments of text (from the journals of Lewis and Clark and other contemporary sources) that were used as part of the York: Terra Incognita project. The fragments are on bronze plaques mounted on the boulders surrounding the sculpture to help "paint a portrait" of who York was.
York's relationship with fellow members of expedition
"¦the swet run off our men in a stream when they row hard, York verry near loseing his eyes by one of the men throwing sand at him in fun & recved into his eyes"¦
William Clark
June 20, 1804
York and hard labor
My man york verry unwell from a violent coald and strain by carrying meet from the woods and lifting the heavy logs on the works &c.
William Clark
December 28 1805
York's relationship with the native Americans
The graetest curiosity to them was york Captn. Clarks black man. All the nation made a great deal of him. The children would follow after him and if he turned toward them, run from him a hollow as if they were terreyfied & afraid of him.
October 1804
"¦Some of the party also told the Indians that we had a man with us who was black and had short curling hair, this had excited their curiosity very much"¦ (and they seemed quiet as anxious to see this monster as they were to see the merchandise which we had to barter for their horses.)
Meriwether Lewis
August 16 1805
"¦The Indians much astonished at my Black Servant and call him the big medison, this nation never saw a black man before"¦
William Clark
October 9, 1804
York's hunting skills and gun
The Next morning we found that the buffaloe in passing the Perogue had trodden on a rifle, which had belonged to Captn. Clark's Black man.
Meriwether Lewis
May 29,1805
"¦Derected my servant York with me to kill a buffalow near the boat from a numbr then scattered in the plains"¦
William Clark
September 9, 1804
York's dry riverbed
"¦Draw up canoes and take shelter in an old indian Lodge above the enterance of a rives which is nearly dry it has latterly been very high an spread over nearly ¼ a mile in width. Its chanel is 88 yards and in this there is not more water than could pass theough an inch auger hole. I call it Yorks dry river"¦
William Clark
July 30, 1806
York's treatment after the expedition
"¦He is here, but of verry little service to me. Insolent and sulky, I gave him a severe trouncing the other day and he has much mended sence"¦
William Clark to Jonathan Clark
May 28, 1809
"¦I did wish to do well by him "" but as he has got such a notion about freedom and his emence services, that I do not expect he will be of much service to me again. I do not think with him, that his services has been so great or my situation would permit me to liberate him"¦
William Clark to Jonathan Clark
December 10, 1808


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P3 - Audio Effects and Physical Modeling
Friday, October 26, 10:00 am — 11:30 am (Foyer)
P3-1 Luciverb: Iterated Convolution for the Impatient—Jonathan S. Abel, Stanford University - Stanford, CA, USA; Michael J. Wilson, Stanford University - Stanford, CA, USA
An analysis of iteratively applied room acoustics used by Alvin Lucier to create his piece "I'm Sitting in a Room" is presented, and a real-time system allowing interactive control over the number of rooms in the processing chain is described. Lucier anticipated that repeated application of a room response would bring out room resonances and smear the input sound over time. What was unexpected was the character of the smearing, turning a transient input into a sequence of crescendos at the room modes, ordered from high-frequency to low-frequency. Here, a room impulse response convolve with itself L times is shown have energy at the room mofes, each with a roughly Gaussian envelope, peaking at the observed L/2 times the frequency-dependent decay time.
Convention Paper 8691 (Purchase now)
P3-2 A Tilt Filter in a Servo Loop—John Lazzaro, University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley, CA, USA; John Wawrzynek, University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley, CA, USA
Tone controls based on the tilt filter first appeared in 1982, in the Quad 34 Hi-Fi preamp. More recently, tilt filters have found a home in specialist audio processors such as the Elysia mpressor. This paper describes a novel dynamic filter design based on a tilt filter. A control system sets the tilt slope of the filter, in order to servo the spectral median of the filter output to a user-specified target. Users also specify a tracking time. Potential applications include single-instrument processing (in the spirit of envelope filters) and mastering (for subtle control of tonal balance). Although we have prototyped the design as an AudioUnit plug-in, the architecture is also a good match for analog circuit implementation.
Convention Paper 8692 (Purchase now)
P3-3 Multitrack Mixing Using a Model of Loudness and Partial Loudness—Dominic Ward, Birmingham City University - Birmingham, UK; Joshua D. Reiss, Queen Mary University of London - London, UK; Cham Athwal, Birmingham City University - Birmingham, UK
A method for generating a mix of multitrack recordings using an auditory model has been developed. The proposed method is based on the concept that a balanced mix is one in which the loudness of all instruments are equal. A sophisticated psychoacoustic loudness model is used to measure the loudness of each track both in quiet and when mixed with any combination of the remaining tracks. Such measures are used to control the track gains in a time-varying manner. Finally we demonstrate how model predictions of partial loudness can be used to counteract energetic masking for any track, allowing the user to achieve better channel intelligibility in complex music mixtures.
Convention Paper 8693 (Purchase now)
P3-4 Predicting the Fluctuation Strength of the Output of a Spatial Chorus Effects Processor—William L. Martens, University of Sydney - Sydney, NSW, Australia; Robert W. Taylor, University of Sydney - Sydney, NSW, Australia; Luis Miranda, University of Sydney - Sydney, NSW, Australia
The experimental study reported in this paper was motivated by an exploration of a set of related audio effects comprising what has been called "spatial chorus." In contrast to a single-output, delay-modulation-based effects processor that produces a limited range of results, complex spatial imagery is produced when parallel processing channels are subjected to incoherent delay modulation. In order to develop a more adequate user interface for control of such "spatial chorus" effects processing, a systematic investigation of the relationship between algorithmic parameters and perceptual attributes was undertaken. The starting point for this investigation was to perceptually scale the amount of modulation present in a set of characteristic stimuli in terms of the auditory attribute that Fastl and Zwicker called "fluctuation strength."
Convention Paper 8694 (Purchase now)
P3-5 Computer-Aided Estimation of the Athenian Agora Aulos Scales Based on Physical Modeling—Areti Andreopoulou, New York University - New York, NY, USA; Agnieszka Roginska, New York University - New York, NY, USA
This paper presents an approach to scale estimation for the ancient Greek Aulos with the use of physical modeling. The system is based on manipulation of a parameter set that is known to affect the sound of woodwind instruments, such as the reed type, the active length of the pipe, its inner and outer diameters, and the placement and size of the tone-holes. The method is applied on a single Aulos pipe reconstructed from the Athenian Agora fragments. A discussion follows on the resulting scales and the system's advantages, and limitations.
Convention Paper 8695 (Purchase now)
P3-6 A Computational Acoustic Model of the Coupled Interior Architecture of Ancient Chavín—Regina E. Collecchia, Stanford University - Stanford, CA, USA; Miriam A. Kolar, Stanford University - Stanford, CA, USA; Jonathan S. Abel, Stanford University - Stanford, CA, USA
We present a physical, modular computational acoustic model of the well-preserved interior architecture at the 3,000-year-old Andean ceremonial center Chavín de Huántar. Our previous model prototype [Kolar et. al. 2010] translated the acoustically coupled topology of Chavín gallery forms to a model based on digital waveguides (bi-directional by definition), representing passageways, connected through reverberant scattering junctions, representing the larger room-like areas. Our new approach treats all architectural units as "reverberant" digital waveguides, with scattering junctions at the discrete planes defining the unit boundaries. In this extensible and efficient lumped-element model, we combine architectural dimensional and material data with sparsely measured impulse responses to simulate multiple and circulating arrival paths between sound sources and listeners.
Convention Paper 8696 (Purchase now)
P3-7 Simulating an Asymmetrically Saturated Nonlinearity Using an LNLNL Cascade—Keun Sup Lee, DTS, Inc. - Los Gatos, CA, USA; Jonathan S. Abel, Stanford University - Stanford, CA, USA
The modeling of a weakly nonlinear system having an asymmetric saturating nonlinearity is considered, and a computationally efficient model is proposed. The nonlinear model is the cascade of linear filters and memoryless nonlinearities, an LNLNL system. The two nonlinearities are upward and downward saturators, limiting, respectively, the amplitude of their input for either positive or negative excursions. In this way, distortion noted in each half an input sinusoid can be separately controlled. This simple model is applied toy simulating the signal chain of the Echoplex EP-4 tape delay, where informal listening tests showed excellent agreement between recorded and simulated program material.
Convention Paper 8697 (Purchase now)
P3-8 Coefficient Interpolation for the Max Mathews Phasor Filter—Dana Massie, Audience, Inc. - Mountain View, CA, USA
Max Mathews described what he named the "phasor filter," which is a flexible building block for computer music, with many desirable properties. It can be used as an oscillator or a filter, or a hybrid of both. There exist analysis methods to derive synthesis parameters for filter banks based on the phasor filter, for percussive sounds. The phasor filter can be viewed as a complex multiply, or as a rotation and scaling of a 2-element vector, or as a real valued MIMO (multiple-input, multiple-output) 2nd order filter with excellent numeric properties (low noise gain). In addition, it has been proven that the phasor filter is unconditionally stable under time varying parameter modifications, which is not true of many common filter topologies. A disadvantage of the phasor filter is the cost of calculating the coefficients, which requires a sine and cosine in the general case. If pre-calculated coefficients are interpolated using linear interpolation, then the poles follow a trajectory that causes the filter to lose resonance. A method is described to interpolate coefficients using a complex multiplication that preserves the filter resonance.
Convention Paper 8698 (Purchase now)
P3-9 The Dynamic Redistribution of Spectral Energies for Upmixing and Re-Animation of Recorded Audio—Christopher J. Keyes, Hong Kong Baptist University - Kowloon, Hong Kong
This paper details a novel approach to upmixing any n channels of audio to any arbitrary n+ channels of audio using frequency-domain processing to dynamically redistribute spectral energies across however many channels of audio are available. Although primarily an upmixing technique, the process may also help the recorded audio regain the sense of "liveliness" that one encounters in concerts of acoustic music, partially mimicking the effects of sound spectra being redistributed throughout a hall due to the dynamically changing radiation patterns of the instruments and the movements of the instruments themselves, during performance and recording. Preliminary listening tests reveal listeners prefer this technique 3 to 1 over a more standard upmixing technique.
Convention Paper 8699 (Purchase now)
P3-10 Matching Artificial Reverb Settings to Unknown Room Recordings: A Recommendation System for Reverb Plugins—Nils Peters, International Computer Science Institute - Berkeley, CA, USA; University of California Berkeley - Berkeley, CA, USA; Jaeyoung Choi, International Computer Science Institute - Berkeley, CA, USA; Howard Lei, International Computer Science Institute - Berkeley, CA, USA
For creating artificial room impressions, numerous reverb plugins exist and are often controllable by many parameters. To efficiently create a desired room impression, the sound engineer must be familiar with all the available reverb setting possibilities. Although plugins are usually equipped with many factory presets for exploring available reverb options, it is a time-consuming learning process to find the ideal reverb settings to create the desired room impression, especially if various reverberation plugins are available. For creating a desired room impression based on a reference audio sample, we present a method to automatically determine the best matching reverb preset across different reverb plugins. Our method uses a supervised machine-learning approach and can dramatically reduce the time spent on the reverb selection process.
Convention Paper 8700 (Purchase now)


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Orange County mayor proposes texting ban for commissioners
The Orange County mayor said she wants to make sure that commissioners will not be improperly influenced by lobbyists during key meetings.
Mayor Teresa Jacobs said the proposal stems from when Orange County commissioners voted down a proposed "Earned Sick Time" measure, a time when the public never knew that five of the six commissioners and Jacobs were aware of plans to try and defeat it.
Jacons said they had been texting with the head of the Orange County Republican Party, Lew Oliver, and with lobbyists from the major theme parks, Darden Restaurants and Mears.
Jacobs said Commissioner Jennifer Thompson texted with Disney lobbyist Sharon Smoley 32 times during the meeting. She later deleted the messages, Jacobs said.
The new proposal orders that "County business transacted on a personal mobile device is subject to disclosure under the Public Records Law" and must be provided upon request.
Jacobs also proposed a ban on texting by commissioners during meetings.
"We've shown time and time again our commitment to transparency, open government and accountability. I would match Orange County with any other city or county in the state in that regard, and we need to be there on this issue, and I'm confident we will," Jacobs said.
The proposal is expected to be discussed at a workshop Tuesday morning.
Jacobs said some of the changes can be enacted right away, while others might take until spring.
She said she expects the proposed policy to be a national model that would help to restore public trust.


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Autopano-sift-C build
According to several forums and my own experience on Ubuntu 11.04 you need to install these lib's at first, otherwise, you get errors during building:
sudo apt-get install libtiff4-dev sudo apt-get install libpng12-dev sudo apt-get install libpano13-dev
Plus, you need to have cmake and mercurial.
sudo apt-get install mercurial sudo apt-get install cmake
26 March 2012
enblend build
I just added the -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX... to the enblend build instructions. This to make it easier to find how to change it if you don't want the default. -- Rew 15:42, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
older stuff
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In ubuntu 7.10 AMD64, replace lib64z1 and lib64z1-dev with zlib1g and zlib1g-dev in the above command. COULD SOMEBODY PLEASE DOUBLE-CHECK? You probably meant "In 32bit ubuntu 7.10 systems, ..." And yes, I this works. Heikki 12:10, 4 February 2008 (CET)
This page being about the bleeding edge versioning system installation, it would be useful to note that enfuse adds one more dependency to hugin: exiftools. You need to run
sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl before running it. Personally, I think exiftools is not a good choice for this. Use something that is smaller and more focused to just copying the EXIF data over. Why not use jhead that is already part of hugin distribution? Heikki 12:18, 4 February 2008 (CET)
Folder naming convention to build
I noticed libpano now uses cmake. cd build.libpano was missing. Fixed it. Wouldn't it better to use the same naming convention for hugin, like suggesting to create a build.hugin instead of hugin-build? esby 22:31, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
Looking through the steps today, I noticed the same sort of thing - in the libpano and enblend steps, the folder structure is libpano.hg and libpano.build (etc.) whereas for hugin we have hugin.hg and hugin.hg-build. Is it okay to rename our build directory for hugin to hugin.build? --Onomou 18:31, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
If you want to rename it, use hugin.hg.build (or libpano-build) The idea being that the first postfix (.hg) identifies the branch for users who check out multiple branches simultaneously in the same working space (which is what I do when I have an ongoing release or when I am using a development branch. Libpano does not have active branches (yet). --Yuval 23:49, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
Error executing hugin
I'm using ubuntu 9.10, and after compiling and installing hugin, when I try executing it I get:
$ hugin
hugin: error while loading shared libraries: libhuginbase.so.0.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
$ which hugin
The deb package installs everything in /usr/local, and libhuginbase.so.0.0 is in /usr/local/lib/.
What am I wrong in? donPaolo 22:01, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
Try to do this:
$ sudo ldconfig
worked for me, and maybe it could be interesting to add that to the wiki --Lepuma 23:25, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
If autotools is not being used anymore, could we drop it from the compile list?


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Woof! Bark! A puppy in the White House! The Obama family has adopted a 6-month-old Portuguese Water Dog named Bo. Way back in November I reviewed a great book called Wackiest White House Pets. I'm posting my review again, with a giveaway this time!
Wackiest White House Pets by Gibbs Davis covers an amuzing array of past presidential pets, from Jefferson's mocking birds to Teddy Roosevelt's chaotic "zoo" which included a one-legged rooster! Fifteen presidents and their pets are featured in this lighthearted read, each earning a special wackiest pet designation. For instance, George Washington's horses earned the "Cleanest Teeth" title while the "Luckiest Pet" went to Lincoln's lucky turkey pardoned from the Thanksgiving table. Hilarious almost cartoonish illustrations by David A. Johnson add interest to the text. My preschool daughter was slightly frightened by the sight of John Quincy Adams running away from an alligator on the cover. However, the book is meant for ages 7 to 10, so I imagine that age group would greatly enjoy the silly scenes pictured. The final pages of the book include a fact-filled listing of all 43 presidents and their respective pets. Most kids love pets. They'll devour this read, and quite possibly absorb some useful presidential facts while they are at it!
Wackiest White House Pets by Gibbs Davis, illustrated by David A. Johnson. Scholastic Press (October 1, 2004), 48 pages, ISBN 9780439443739
Awards: 2004 Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner.
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Next Level Security Systems Releases New Tier Of Flagship Security Management Platform
NLSS Gateway 4000 scales from standalone unit to enterprise-class security solution
Carlsbad, Calif. – Next Level Security Systems, a provider of a new breed of unified, networked security solutions, today announced the release of the NLSS Gateway 4000, the latest addition to the Gateway product suite, a line of unified security appliances that integrate security management functionalities into one system. The NLSS Gateway 4000 delivers an optimal security solution for environments of up to 64 HD cameras and thousands of doors in a compact, space-saving appliance.
The NLSS Gateway 4000 is a security management platform that combines video management, access control, video analytics and intrusion into a single, easy-to-use networked platform. The Gateway 4000 features 10 built-in video analytics, including forensic analytics, facial recognition and audio analytics. The intuitive and Web-based user interface allows users to centrally manage andcontrol all system features anytime from anywhere in the world. To minimizecomplex installations, the NLSS Gateway 4000 includes advanced deployment tools, such as auto-discovery and provisioning, and is based on industry standards. The sophisticated event management system that is built in to the Gateway allows for streamlined reporting. Multiple Gateways can be combined for distributive processing and a truly scalable solution.
"The NLSS Gateway 4000 brings the immense advantages of unified security management systems to a larger pool of end users across the globe," said Peter Jankowski, CEO and Chairman, Next Level Security Systems. "The NLSS Gateway product suite now features the perfect amount of processing power to meet any size deployment and budget."
The NLSS Gateway 4000 delivers a consolidated user interface, unique video search tools and simplified export of video evidence to allow users to make more informed decisions while maximizing their technology investments. NLSS Cloud Services, a hosted service that enables the management of multiple NLSS Gateways across sites, can be added to the base package for enhanced mobility. NLSS Cloud Services draws on improvements in cloud-computing technology to offer more than other hosted service models currently on the security market. By leveraging NextConnect — a patent-pending, peer-to-peer technology that efficiently streams live video to an unlimited number of users from a single site — Next Level improves upon traditional models of hosted video and access control by eliminating the need to route video and other data through a host computer for each update.
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Next Level Security Systems is a physical security company delivering a new breed of unified networked security technologies. The NLSS Gateway, Next Level's flagship product, is an award-winning, IP-based security management platform that integrates video management, IP access control, video analytics and managed services into a single appliance. It is successfully used in the retail, commercial, education, transportation and government markets. All of Next Level's products, sold through distribution worldwide, combine the performance, sophistication andfunctionality of enterprise-class security systems into a compact, unified and affordable solution.
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Shakira is multi-talented: a singer, dancer, producer and now White House adviser.
The Colombian singer was appointed as a member of the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, according to a White House press release.
No, Shakira won't be performing at a school near you. She has, however, been involved in many education efforts over the years and will continue to help needy children in Latin American countries.
"This is a tremendous honor for me," Shakira told the Huffington Post. "Latino youth are the fastest-growing group in America, yet more Latino children are living in poverty -- 6.1 million in 2010 -- than children of any other racial or ethnic group. As I have seen in my own Foundation work, the only road out of poverty is education."
Shakira's creds include founding the Barefoot Foundation in 1995, which helps feed and educate children in Colombia, South Africa and Haiti. She has also been a Goodwill Ambassador at the U.N. since 2003 and has served on a number of education boards.
The 34-year-old pop star also endorsed President Obama while he was campaigning in 2008, Politico reports. Her mentor, music legend Emilio Estefan, once hosted a fundraiser for Obama in their Miami home with his wife Gloria, The Wall Street Journal notes.
The education advisory panel was created a year ago and holds 30 members, according another White House press release.
Selected Reading: The White House, The Wall Street Journal, Politico