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Colour Film's debut delivers six songs that could be home movies in the listener's mind. Produced by Les Cooper (Jill Barber, Good Lovelies), Super 8 features harmonies by Julie Fader, Robbie Grunwald on keys, bassist Mark McIntyre, and drummer Joel Stouffer. Colour Film taps a vein of sincerity to sing about old friends, new families, and waking up on the right side of the wrong bed. The songs come alive on the big screen behind your eyes.
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Imagine Nick Drake cheering up and meeting Beck. That's the vision conjured on Matthew's third album Colour Film. Produced by Les Cooper (Jill Barber, Good Lovelies) and graced with beautiful harmonies by Julie Fader (Sarah Harmer, Great Lake Swimmers), Colour Film rewards the careful listener with surprising arrangements and atmospheric production. Featuring an inspired rhythm section, lush keyboards, and sparkling pedal steel, Colour Film calls for a dark room, good headphones, and a glass of single malt.
Matthew's second album Bottom of the World explores the universal foundations of one person's life: love, family, the past, the future, and the inevitable truth of human mortality. Recorded mostly live off the floor in a hundred year-old barn, this collection of songs captures the feeling of Matthew performing with his touring band; it is the sound of intuitive musicians playing in a room, working together to deliver a cohesive body of music. These songs keep melody to the fore and favour beauty over bravado, honesty over obscurity. Produced by Dave King and featuring a duet with Jenn Grant, Bottom of the World displays Matthew's continuing growth as a writer and vocalist. Plus, the packaging is cleverly designed to provide a portrait for your bedside table.
Matthew's debut Across the Sea reveals a natural sense of melody and a 'less is more' approach to recording. Ranging from simple ballads to joyful pop revelries, the songs are united by de Zoete's engaging voice and startlingly honest lyrics. The album's themes of distance and separation, be it physical, temporal, or emotional, underpin reflections on family history, dying relationships, and farewell lullabies. Produced by Dave King, Across the Sea features performances by Dave Clark (Rheostatics, Woodchoppers), Julie Fader (Sarah Harmer, Great Lake Swimmers), Don Kerr (Ron Sexsmith), and Graham Walsh (Holy F**k). Across the Sea is a fine introduction to Matthew's music, and it makes a nifty coaster, too.


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MAY 17--Angered that drive-thru workers at a Wendy's botched her order, a Florida woman stormed the Daytona Beach restaurant this morning and tried to tase an employee with a stun gun. Melanese Reid, 20, reportedly became enraged after fast food workers failed to provide her with the requisite number of mustard and mayonnaise packets.
A high-ranking Williams police officer has lost his job after a dispute over a meal.Accounts of what happened vary, with two restaurant employees saying the off-duty officer threatened to arrest them over some chicken, and the officer saying he did not.The Williams police chief, Herman Nixon, said the officer was fired for using his position and authority for personal gain, by attempting to get a refund on the meal. Right after it happened, I stripped him of his police powers, Nixon said.Williams Police Lt. Michael Graham, who formerly ranked second-in-command in the department, said he plans to file a wrongful-termination lawsuit over his July 28 firing, and that his restaurant complaint is a real case of fraud that the police ignored. He ordered some chicken that we didnt have available at that moment, during a July visit, said Tavi Padilla, the restaurant manager on duty at the time at a Williams KFC/Taco Bell.Another manager offered another type of chicken and a voucher for a free meal later during the July 9 visit. But Graham wanted his money back, which is against store policy, according to Padilla.He told me, Look, fat a--, I dont want to talk. Just give me my money or Im taking you to jail. Do you know who I am? Padilla told other Williams police officers via a written statement.Padilla took off his apron, ready to go to jail, he said. Corey Fritsinger, 19, is another manager at the store and the owners son.He told me that he was the police lieutenant and told me I had to give him his money back. I said that whether hes the president of the United States or just a regular person, I cant give him his money back, Fritsinger said.Fritsinger later left the counter to phone his father.He asked me how old I was and said he was going to take me to jail personally, he said. He said, Im putting you in the back of my car.ASKED FOR HANDCUFFSThe Williams Police Department promptly responded to a public records request from the Arizona Daily Sun by providing documents on the case. Statements from Grahams call to police dispatch that day record Graham as saying to a dispatcher: Ive got a problem with the manager. Im going to take him for fraudulent activity, so I need a car.Another Williams police officer said Graham asked to use the other officers handcuffs to make the arrest, according to reports, and Graham offered to write up the related arrest paperwork.Graham was on leave from the department at the time, following a serious April motorcycle accident in which he received multiple injuries, including a brain injury. His memory of the events is different.The thing that Im proud of: I didnt lose my temper. I didnt raise my voice. This isnt worth it, Graham said, especially in light of the brain injury sustained in the motorcycle accident.Graham said he never spoke to Padilla, never yelled at anyone in the store, never said he was going to arrest anyone, and ultimately called police to settle the dispute when the store employees would not refund his wifes payment but could not provide what she ordered.I told them, Youre committing fraud. You cant take someones money, not give them any product, and refuse to give the money back, Graham said. ... I didnt yell. I didnt use profanity, and I left. So how was that disorderly?ASKED HIM TO LEAVEPadilla said Graham threatened to arrest others in the store, and Padilla asked him to leave.We had a full lobby. I dont need people yelling, being the way he was in the lobby ... we have kids in there and stuff, Padilla said.Then other police arrived.Graham said he called the Williams police, and that although he out-ranked the officers who arrived, he did not order them to handle the case in any particular fashion. I could have ordered them to make the arrest. I didnt, he said. The fellow officers told Graham his complaint was a civil matter, and that they would not take action, just as had been the case with past customer complaints over the non-refund policy at the restaurant.Its a civil matter because youre a lazy f-----, Graham said he responded to one subordinate officer.That generally aligns with what the other police officers reported hearing.AGGRESSIVE STANCEOne officer reported Graham took an aggressive stance and was speaking to him while standing inches from his face.Sgt. Darrell Hixson wrote Chief Nixon a memo on July 9, outlining what he said were police department policy violations by Graham in the encounter: neglect of duty, not supporting fellow officers, disorderly conduct, not creating harmony and cooperation within the department, not conforming to rules and regulations and oppression under the color of law.Graham said he finds each of the alleged violations unsubstantiated.Graham was called in for a pre-disciplinary hearing on July 23.Asked to explain his position, he said: Well ... I screwed up, Chief, according to a transcript of that hearing.Graham said he actually made that comment before the hearing, and that it pertained to a data problem Graham was having with a computer, and nothing else.Graham did not answer other questions during that hearing and did not receive answers to questions he asked, according to the transcript. Graham was ordered to turn over his phone, badge, weapons and other police equipment while being investigated in mid-July, Nixon said.He declined.Police then served a search warrant at his home to retrieve the items, according to records.Graham was officially terminated on July 28.Nixon filed a form on July 29 with a state board that oversees police officer training, notifying the board that Graham may have violated Arizona law. Cyndy Cole can be reached at 913-8607 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Man punches Burger King employee for not having it his wayA person attempting to enter an Evanston Burger King after hours allegedly punched a store employee in the face for refusing to allow him entrance, authorities said.The employee told police that the man, possibly 18 or 19 years old, was banging on the restaurant door in the 1800 block of Dempster Street at about 11 p.m. Oct. 15.When the employee opened the door to tell the man to leave, he allegedly punched the employee in face, causing swelling to the left side of the employees face, police said.The man then fled west on Dempster Street, police said. Evanston police are investigating.
Burger King worker likely to face charges in fatal fightFast-food worker in custody after man's death ruled a homicideDarren A. Nichols and Mark Hicks / The Detroit NewsDetroit Police are pursuing charges against a 20-year-old Burger King employee accused of punching a customer who later died.The Wayne County Medical Examiner on Friday declared the death of Paul Cannon, 67, a homicide.AdvertisementOfficials say Cannon died of a blunt force trauma following the fight with an employee at the fast-food restaurant on Gratiot near St. Aubin on Thursday.It was unclear what sparked the disagreement, said Sgt. Eren Stephens of the Detroit Police Department.A spokesman for Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said a warrant request was issued but it was still under review late Friday."It is now under review.We do not expect any charging decision to be made (Friday)," spokesman Mark Bernardi said.Detroit Police spokeswoman Yvette Walker said Cannon was reportedly causing a disturbance and tried to hit the employee, and the employee swung back. Cannon died at a local hospital."The victim fell to the floor," Stephens said. "He was conveyed to a hospital and pronounced dead."Spokesman for the Medical Examiner Office Dennis Niemiec said Cannon's dentures "were broken, but not a factor" in the death, and he had a history of heart disease.An earlier report said the punch may have caused the older man to choke on his dentures.Police didn't release additional details, including the identity of the worker, who remains in custody.Jerome Perdu, 59, a Detroit security guard, was at the restaurant when the scuffle occurred. He said he didn't see the customer get hit, but watched as paramedics tried to revive him. The restaurant was crowded at the time, he said."I just seen him lying on the floor," Perdu said. "EMS was pumping him."The restaurant was closed Friday except for the drive-through. Burger King spokeswoman Denise Wilson said company officials were aware of the incident and the franchise owner was cooperating with police.From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20101211/METRO01/12110373/Burger-King-worker-likely-to-face-charges-in-fatal-fight#ixzz17yPXVD9s
If I knew what was gonna happen, Smith said, I wouldve gone to Taco Bell."
The price of the Beefy Crunch Burrito had gone up from 99 cents to $1.49 and the man at the Rigsby Road Taco Bell drive-thru had just ordered seven.The fast food customer was so disgruntled by the price hike he shot an air gun at the manager, displayed an assault rifle and pistol while in the restaurant's parking lot, fled as police were called, and pointed one of his weapons at three officers who pulled him over. Fleeing when they opened fire, he barricaded himself in his hotel room all over $3.50 plus additional tax.All three of his weapons were found to be air-powered and not firearms.The final incident in the burrito-triggered spree happened Sunday afternoon at the Rodeway Inn on North W.W. White Road, engaging SWAT negotiators in a more than three-hour standoff, according to officials and witnesses.Ricardo Jones, 37, was charged with two felony counts of aggravated assault against a public servant.Jones was in the Bexar County Jail on bail totaling $50,000. No one was injured in the incident.Jones was taken into custody about 6:45 p.m. Sunday after officials used tear gas to get him out of the motel room where he was staying. Police recovered the rifle and two handguns, Benavides said.It all began about four hours earlier when the man put in his order at the Taco Bell/KFC two-for-one restaurant in the 5300 block of Rigsby Road on the city's East Side.Restaurant manager Brian Tillerson, 41, said his employees told him a customer was upset about the price of the Beefy Crunch Burrito.They did use to be 99 cents, but that was just a promotion, Tillerson said. He pointed a gun at me, and he fired it. I leaned to the side and there was a pop but nothing happened.Tillerson said the police later found a BB, but the following five minutes were pretty crazy, he said.Looking out the windows, he said he saw the man put an assault rifle and a handgun on the roof of his Mitsubishi Endeavor. Customers dove under their tables, the employees scrambled to the back and Tillerson ran to the front to lock the doors as he called police.The man then jumped into his vehicle and took off, Tillerson said.Fewer than two miles away, at W.W. White Road and Hershey Drive, officers spotted the suspect and two patrol units pulled over the car, Benavides said. As the officers got out of their cars, the man got out of his car carrying the assault rifle in his hands and pointing it at the officers.Police initially reported Jones exchanged fire with the officers. But on Monday, an SAPD spokesman said investigators could not be sure about that because his rifle was also a BB gun and they could find no spent BBs. It was unclear who shot out the windshield of a police patrol car during the shooting.From there, the man sped off to the Rodeway Inn in the 200 block of North W.W. White Road just a few blocks away from Interstate 10.It was about 3 p.m., and the man refused to come out.Sharpshooters climbed up on the roof of the Sky Line Food Mart next to the motel. Police blocked off W.W. White in both directions. They evacuated some nearby businesses and some of the rooms in the motel.Through a megaphone the negotiator could be heard telling the man to pick up the phone.No one needs to get hurt, the negotiator said.Around 6:30 p.m., and without a reply from the man inside, SWAT used tear gas to clear the room, Benavides said. The man came out without incident.Tillerson, calm and back at work after giving a statement to police, said after hearing that the customer shot at officers he was even more relieved he didn't get into his restaurant.The weird thing is, Tillerson said, He was here a week ago around the same time last Sunday. He yelled at me then too.
Taco Bell Hot Sauce Beef Ends In Patron's BustFeds: Customer pulled shotgun over botched orderSEPTEMBER 21--Angered that his Taco Bell drive-thru order failed to include hot sauce, a Missouri man returned to the fast food restaurant and allegedly pulled a shotgun on an employee, who fled in fear from the takeout window.The bizarre incident Saturday evening resulted in the arrest of Jeremy Combs, a 30-year-old convicted felon, on both state and federal charges. Combs is pictured in the below mug shot.According to a U.S. District Court complaint, investigators with the Lees Summit Police Department interviewed Combs Sunday afternoon about the incident. Combs admitted that he had purchased several items from Taco Bell, only to return home to discover the Taco Bell employee had failed to include his hot sauce.While Combs told cops that he became upset and drove back to the Taco Bell to confront the employee, he denied brandishing a shotgun at the drive-thru worker. He said the item was actually a tire iron, a claim police say is belied by Taco Bell surveillance footage showing Combs in his Ford F-150 truck.During a subsequent search of Combss residence, police discovered a Mossberg shotgun with live rounds of ammunition affixed to its side (the weapon was hidden under the mattress in Combss bedroom). In a conversation Monday with a Lees Summit detective, Combs reportedly copped to possessing the shotgun at Taco Bell, adding that he bought the weapon--which did not have a serial number--from Mark at a drug house in Independence, Missouri.The incarcerated Combs is scheduled for a detention hearing tomorrow in federal court in Kansas City. According to the criminal complaint, Combss rap sheet includes 14 felony arrests and three felony convictions. (3 pages)
Cops Hunt Man Who Firebombed Taco Bell Because His Chalupas Had Too Little MeatGeorgia police are hunting for the aggrieved Taco Bell customer who threw a Molotov cocktail at the restaurants drive-thru window after phoning in a complaint that there was not enough meat in the chalupas he had purchased.The bizarre incident occurred around 5 AM Sunday at a Taco Bell on North Slappey Boulevard in Albany. The small blaze did not cause injuries or damage to the building.According to a police report, Taco Bell manager Cynthia Thompson told cops that, shortly before the firebombing, a man called the restaurant to complain about a reported meat shortage in his two XL Chalupas. The caller told Thompson that after getting home realized that there was not enough stuffing inside of his chalupas, and demanded his order be corrected.When Thompson explained that she could not accommodate him because the business was closing, the man replied, You must be one of them niggers up there. He added, Thats alright, Ill just come and redecorate the place.Thompson said that shortly after the call she and other Taco Bell employees could smell gasoline but was unaware of where it was coming from. They then realized the fire outside of the drive thru window. Investigators found the makeshift incendiary device--a melting plastic bottle with a liquid substance still inside--outside the Taco Bell, where a large sign beckons patrons to Come Try The New XXL Chalupa. Bigger Is Better.The search for the firebomb suspect has been hampered since the video feed from the drive-thru window was of poor quality, cops reported.
Woman's Beef With Taco Bell Leads To 3rd OWICustomer Wouldn't Leave Restaurant Drive-ThruPOSTED: 11:45 am CST November 30, 2011UPDATED: 3:46 pm CST November 30, 2011Taco BellWAUWATOSA, Wis. -- A West Allis woman was given her third OWI after she refused to leave a Wauwatosa Taco Bell drive-thru last week.The Taco Bell manager called 911 late on Nov. 23 to report a woman was yelling and swearing at employees, according to the Wauwatosa police report.The police report says the 32-year-old woman told the officer who arrived at the scene that she was trying to call police because the Taco Bell operators were being rude to her.The officer smelled alcohol on her breath and noticed she was staggering as she walked.The Taco Bell manager told police the woman became argumentative when he explained the restaurant was out of beef.The police report says that once at the police station, officers performed a breathalyzer test, showing her blood-alcohol content at 0.13, according to the police report.During the booking process the woman said, "I normally drink Budweiser, but today I drank two Jacks."
Hash Browns Rage! Teacher Arrested For Pelting McDonalds Worker With Food At Drive-Thru WindowA Florida middle school teacher is facing a battery charge after she threw an assortment of food items back through a drive-thru window following a dispute with a McDonalds employee, according to cops.The incident, which was captured by a restaurant surveillance camera, occurred around 9:45 Saturday morning at a McDonalds in Lakeland. Simone Paolercio, 39, had ordered about $20 worth of food when she got into a dispute with a worker manning the drive-thru window.The video can be found below.Jessica Balderas, a McDonalds worker, told cops that there was a disagreement over two hashbrowns, according to a Polk County Sheriffs Office report. Paolercio reportedly became irritated and wanted them to take the food back and refund her money.After a manager arrived to speak with Paolercio, the educator tossed some of the food items back through the drive-thru window when the man refused to provide a refund. Paolercio later admitted that she "chucked it" through the window when her refund demand was rejected. Some of the airborne grub struck Balderas in the face and chest, according to investigators. When Paolercio denied hitting Balderas with the breakfast items, a deputy advised that footage showed "a hashbrown fly out of the bag and through the air." Paolercio, cops noted, "said she could not argue with the surveillance video."Paolercio, pictured in the above mug shot, fled the area in her vehicle following the confrontation. After being tracked to her residence, she was arrested on the misdemeanor charge.A sixth grade teacher at Lakeland Highlands Middle School, Paolercio was booked into the county jail Saturday, and released from custody yesterday.Paolercio has worked as a teacher in Polk County since 2004, according to a school web page. The geography instructor has a history degree from the University of South of Florida and a Master Degree In Education from American InterContinental University. In a Facebook posting yesterday, Paolercios husband threatened legal action over his wife's collar. I will never step foot in a McDonald's again, wrote Chris Paolercio, a long-haul trucker. "A lawsuit will be coming for what they did....."
What I've been saying has been true all along: The typical fast food customer has a room-temperature IQ.
Indeed. Some people honestly believe that fast food workers are there to be abused.Hell, service jobs in general get no respect.
Patron Busted After Calling 911 To Lodge Complaints About "Nasty" Hamburger She Purchased From Hardee's Perturbed about the taste of a hamburger she purchased from Hardees, a Tennessee woman twice called police emergency operators to lodge a complaint about the fast food outlets nasty grub.Those calls, of course, made Donna Marie Nichols, 50, the latest restaurant patron to get arrested for Abuse of 911 system, according to a criminal complaint filed last Thursday in Roane Countys General Sessions Court.After Nichols made two 911 calls, a cop responded to her location, and was told that she had purchased a meal from the Hardees in Rockwood and that the hamburger tasted funny. Nichols, pictured in the above mug shot, added that before she contacted cops, she called Hardees, and that they told her to return and they would refund her money.In one of her 911 calls (listen below), Nichols told a police operator that the Hardees food is no good and that, I only took a small bite out of the burger and its nasty.Nichols was subsequently busted and booked into the county jail, where bail was set at $1500. She was released from custody yesterday evening.Previously, customers have been popped for calling 911 to register dismay about Burger King lemonade, McDonald's McNuggets, and pizza.
Angered By "Messed Up" McDonald's Cheeseburgers, Tennessee Duo Returns To Vandalize EateryIncensed about the messed up cheeseburgers they purchased at a McDonalds drive-thru window, two Tennessee men allegedly returned to the fast food joint and vandalized it, cops report.The peeved patrons were apparently set off by the paucity of onions on their cheeseburgers.According to a Murfreesboro Police Department report, Christopher Slate, 21, and Sean Mosey, 23 were collared in connection with Sundays early-morning attack on the McDonalds. Each man was charged with felony reckless endangerment and vandalism.Slate (left) and Mosey are pictured in the above mug shots.In an interview with cops, Slate said that the duo was upset with McDonalds because their cheeseburgers had been messed up. He then advised that they went home and continued to drink beer and get worked up about the cheeseburgers.The men, Slate confessed, returned to McDonalds and hurled a piece of concrete through the drive-thru window and tossed a brick through the eaterys front window. An employee standing near the drive-thru window was struck by debris and suffered several lacerations on his left arm. The restaurants manager was struck in the leg by the concrete chunk.Slate and Mosey were subsequently arrested when their getaway attempt was derailed after Mosey, running from the scene, tripped and fell. He landed in the street and was unable to get up. Mosey is also facing a public intoxication charge.The alleged cheeseburger avengers, both free on bond, are due to appear July 11 in Rutherford County General Sessions Court.


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Ottawa, Canada – February, 20th 2017 – Signority, the easiest and most secure electronic signature platform serving the small and medium-sized business (SMB) community — announced today, that it has integrated with the leading automated app integration platform, Zapier.
Signority lets businesses to simply send, eSign, and securely manage documents with their end-to-end solution, allowing for a seamless end-experience for both users and businesses. The new Zapier integration makes it possible for customers to further automate processes and build workflows with just a few clicks, allowing businesses to save time and streamline operations — all without the need of a developer.
"This Zapier integration will make it easier for our customers to automate their operations or automatically store copies of their important documents into third-party apps like Google Drive or Box. We believe this will help our customers avoid complicated processes that can be an unnecessary burden and cause a negative impact on corporate revenue.", said Samer Forzley, CEO of Signority.
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CDC launches new batch of graphic anti-smoking ads
(AP)—Government health officials are launching the second round of a graphic, emotional ad campaign designed to push smokers into kicking the habit.
The $48 million campaign involves TV, radio, online, print and billboard ads. It's the second year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has spent tens of millions to get people to quit smoking. In previous years the agency relied on public service announcements.
Last year's campaign which cost a few million more triggered an increase of 200,000 calls to quit smoking lines. CDC officials believe it prompted tens of thousands of smokers to kick the habit.
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story comes to us from Australia, where the federal government is telling child protective workers to consider — and classify — kids who "often" hurt themselves as at a "high risk of neglect." "Accident-prone children might be the victims of poor parental supervision," is how AdelaideNow sums the reasoning up. Thus, anyone treating (or seeing?) bruised or clumsy kids is told to assess the role that parental supervision — or lack thereof — played, even in minor accidents.
The theory behind this isn't bad. It's true that severely neglected children, especially young ones, may be hurting themselves because their parents are (as this study suggests) totally out of it, on drugs, or passed out on the couch.
But I have to think this call for scrutiny and immediate suspicion would have a chilling effect on any parents ready to let their kids have some Free-Range, old-fashioned fun and independence — like riding a bike, or climbing a tree. If a kid wipes out on his bike one week, bonks his head on a branch the next, is he a lovingly tended child with parents who believe kids can (and even should) endure a couple bruises? Or is he a neglected child? And how can we be sure the evaluator will be able to tell the difference?
Or even believe there IS a difference?
My fear is not so much that the authorities will mistake normal childhood injuries for the negligence endured in the home of severely drug-addled parents. I fear that, increasingly, normal childhood injuries won't be considered normal anymore, period. So any kid sustaining them will automatically be considered neglected, because why weren't the parents right behind him on that tree, or standing under it with a safety net?
The New South Wales Children's Commissioner quoted in the aritcle, Megan Mitchell, said, "I don't think we can expect parents to be super-parents but they need to know what their child is doing as best they can."
What the heck does that mean? Is it enough to know my kid is playing outside and will be home by dinner? Or should I know every activity he will be participating in from 10 a.m. till 6 on a Saturday, including that he's going to jump off a swing at 12:16? The commissioner went on to say that she would "hope" that prosecuting parents "would be reasonably rare and that people in authority would establish a relationship with the families and then make a good judgment about whether there is a real problem or not."
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Wisconsin 7th District Judges Association (LaCross, WI, 2007)
Michigan District Judges Association State Conference (2006)
Governors Highway Safety Association National Meeting (Norfolk, VA, in 2005, and Honolulu, HI, in 2004)
Nebraska County Judges Seminar (North Platte, NE, 2005)
New Hampshire District Court Judges Association, Durham Conference (2004)
National Association of Juvenile and Family Law (Orlando, 2004)
National and State Policy Briefing on Underage Drinking (Dept. of Military Affairs, Wisconsin (2002)
Minnesota Institute Legal Education (MILE) (1998, 2001, and 2003)
Annual Vehicular Homicide/DWI Conference (Chicago 1997)
New York Drunk Driving Institute, Binghamton, NY (1997)
Minnesota Annual Conference of Judges (1995 and 2000)
Adjunct Faculty - National Judicial College (2002 - Present)
Faculty - Minnesota Judicial College, Minnesota Sentencing Institute, and New Judges Orientation (1989 – Present)
National High School Mock Trial Championship Judicial Orientation Trainer/Judge (1992 – Present)
Peer Mediation Trainer - Princeton, MN, and St. Francis, MN, School Districts (1993 – 2009)
National High School Mock Trial Judge (1992 – Present)
Judicial Orientation Instructor (1996 – Present)
Minnesota High School Mock Trial Judge (1990 – Present)
Hamline University National Silver Flight Mock Trial Judge (1998 –1999)
MSBA Mock Trial Advisory Board (2006 – Present)
Coach, Cambridge/Isanti High School Mock Trial Team (1988 - 2009)
National Awards: Paul H. Chapman Award from the Foundation For Improvement of Justice, Inc. (2003); National MADD Distinguished Service Award For Efforts to Combat Underaged Drinking (2001); National MADD Criminal Justice Award, The National President's Award Committee (1996)
State Awards: Towards Zero Deaths (TZD) Judicial Star Award (2009); MADD Outstanding Greater Minnesota Judiciary Award (2006); "Outstanding Judge Award," Minnesota District Judges Association (Sept. 2000); WCCO (a CBS Affiliate) Good Neighbor Award (1996)
National Media Coverage: Wall Street Journal (Electronic Monitoring) – May 24, 1994; TIME Magazine (Staggered Sentencing) – April 29, 2002.
Publications: Highway To Justice, Fall 2004, "Staggered Sentencing – A Proven DUI Sentencing Model"; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, March 2004, "Promising Sentencing Practice - Staggered Sentencing"; Hardcore Drunk Driving Judicial Guide – A Resource Outlining Judicial Challenges, Effective Strategies and Model Programs, "Staggered sentencing with intensive probation".


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Fracking crosses the ocean
Published 12:00 am Monday, June 24, 2013
What does the German language have to do with one of the most contentious environmental issues facing North Carolinians?
First of all, remember that some of our best words come from the German language.
Think about it. Kindergarten, aspirin, blitz, diesel, doppelganger, flack, gesundheit, hamburger, kaput, Neanderthal, poltergeist, realpolitik, rucksack, schadenfreude, strudel, ubermensch, verboten, wanderlust, wunderbar, wunderkind and many more.
Some of these borrowed words help us express ideas and feelings better than we could if we used only non-German English words. So, we should say thank you to the Germans for these great words that help us express our thoughts more vividly and variously.
And the Germans ought to say "danke" to us as well, because it works both ways. At a rapid rate they are adopting English language terms and using them as they write and speak German. What does this have to do with North Carolina environmental issues? Keep reading. Hint: It has to do with energy exploration.
The Germans have a contest to recognize the "Anglizismus des Jahres," the most important English word that has worked its way into the German language.
Here are some of the nominees for the recently awarded 2012 Anglizismus des Jahres: Bailout, blackfacing, bootstrappen, candystorm, cloud, community, cornern, crowdfunding, facility, fracking, hangout, hashtag, hipster, kickstarter, likeability, liken, liquid democracy, nerd, paid content, paywall, posten, rage, rant, refugee, scripted reality, second screen, sharen, smartphone, snippet, stylish, tablet and three strikes.
Read over that list again carefully and you will get another hint about the connection we are looking for.
But the first thing I noticed about the list was how many English words the Germans are using that are not in common use here, like "blackfacing" and "candystorm." The term "blackfacing," seldom used here, got a boost in Germany when a controversy developed over using white actors (with dark makeup) to play black roles. "Candystorm" is used to describe a wave of public support or positive occurrences in favor of a public official or proposal. It is the opposite of the word that was named the 2011 Anglizismus des Jahres, a word unprintable in this newspaper, another storm that begins with "s——." That contest-winning word was described "as the name of an unforeseen, sustained, transported via social networks and blogs wave of indignation over the behavior of public persons or institutions that quickly becomes independent from the substantive core and often spills over into the traditional media."
Of course, you also noticed "fracking" on the list of nominated words, and that is the connection I wanted you to find. "Fracking," wrote a German explaining why the word should be the 2012 winner, "is a typical loan word that has been adopted as the name of a previously unknown and therefore unnamed thing. It fills an important gap in the German vocabulary."
Now that we see the connection between North Carolina environmental issues and the Germans' use of our words, we might think that fracking would have been named 2012 Anglizismus des Jahres.
It didn't happen. "Fracking" finished third, after second place "hipster." What does that word mean to Germans? "What qualities actually make hipsters remains very vague," said one judge, "But one thing is clear: hipsters are always the others."
And the final 2012 winner was "crowdfunding." The contest judges explained, "The word refers to a new form of capital for a new product or project that is presented on the internet to secure the required sum from many small individual contributions."
I know that word crowdfunding and, following the Germans' lead, I like it better than fracking.
D.G. Martin hosts "North Carolina Bookwatch," which airs Sundays at noon and Thursdays at 5 p.m. on UNC-TV (www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch).


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Assessment of smoke movement from potential fires in enclosed spaces, such as underground stations, airport terminals, office buildings or shopping malls, is essential to ensure that they are safe for their occupants and in particular that, in the event of a fire, there will be sufficient time for everyone to evacuate.
However, such an assessment is not straightforward. Different methods are available but each has its limitations.
Actual fire tests, or hot smoke trials, can be invaluable for establishing the propagation of smoke in an enclosed space, or for evaluating and demonstrating the performance of smoke control measures. But safety, cost and/or political considerations often make these impractical or limited in extent. Measurements may also be carried out using "cold" smoke - from smoke bombs or theatrical smoke generators. Thyer1 described such tests, but highlighted the potential differences in behaviour between cold and hot smoke. Extrapolation of the findings of cold smoke tests to a hot smoke (fire) scenario is difficult, because the latter is dominated by buoyancy, whilst the former is not. Of course, if the assessment is to be undertaken before the building is completed, or at the design stage, then reliance will largely have to be placed on modelling techniques, possibly substantiated by limited fire trials upon completion of the building.
Empirical models can be employed to help identify the potential routes of transport of smoke from a fire. However, these models are based on experiments in geometrically simple configurations. Therefore, they cannot readily be used to extrapolate beyond the configuration in which the experiments were carried out.
Zone models allow some of the complexity of the configuration to be taken into account. They are relatively simple mathematical models which divide the problem into a small number of "zones" - such as the fire plume, a hot and cold layer. Typically empirical models are used to model some of these zones. They are applicable to simple spaces, such as regular-shaped rooms. For this application they are a good compromise between speed and accuracy. However, if used in the context of complex enclosed spaces, or even certain large regular spaces, e.g. modern warehousing, then the basic assumption that the flow can, a priori, be divided into a small number of distinct zones, breaks down. In this case other techniques should be employed.
In principle, CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) modelling provides a means to predict smoke movement without the constraints imposed by the above simpler modelling techniques. In particular, it can be used to represent complex geometries and can be readily adapted to model varying levels of physics.
CFD can be applied at the design stage as well as in assessing a finished structure. It can, potentially, be used to evaluate the effects of changes in structural design and ventilation, and to assess performance of safety measures for a range of fire scenarios. CFD results contain a wealth of information about the predicted flows; which may include velocity, temperature, smoke and gas concentrations at hundreds of thousands or even millions of points within the space.
However, CFD does have limitations. It is a complex technique to apply and requires a knowledgeable approach to produce reliable results: ill-considered application of CFD can produce predictions that may differ greatly from reality. It should be remembered that any modelling technique is, at best, an approximation.
Arguably the most credible and useful assessment of smoke movement in a building can be gained from a combination of CFD modelling, and measurements made during actual fire tests or hot smoke trials. Measurements can be used to check the validity of the simulation results. CFD modelling can then be used to explore a far wider range of scenarios than is practicable in what are usually limited fire trials.
This book provides guidance on the application of CFD to the analysis of smoke movement from fires in large complex enclosed spaces such as underground stations, shopping malls, and airport terminals. The built environment is the primary area of application for CFD modelling of smoke movement, and it is against this background that the guidance is given.
Although many of the issues and techniques outlined in this book are relevant to the modelling of fire and smoke movement in simple closely confined spaces, such as a single compartment, the focus of the book is smoke movement in large and complex spaces. Therefore, some of the considerations which are very relevant to simple compartment fires, such as the downward radiation of heat from a high temperature smoke layer, are of lesser concern, and as a consequence are either covered briefly or not at all.
The main interest is the CFD modelling of smoke transport, rather than smoke production. Therefore, only relatively simple means to model the fire source are described.
The guidance covers the use of Reynolds-averaged Navier Stokes (RANS) CFD modelling of smoke movement. This approach is widely used for smoke movement analysis. It provides a reasonable compromise between accuracy and the computational resources required.
The guidance is of a practical nature. It is written from the perspective of use within fire safety engineering for assessment of life safety. The main aim of such an assessment should be to demonstrate that occupants can be protected from smoke as they make their way to safety, since it is widely accepted that most fire fatalities are due to exposure to smoke and its toxic products of combustion.
The guidance is specific to smoke movement analysis. Thus general advice on, for example, mesh design is not covered. Instead, guidance on those aspects of mesh design which are specific to smoke movement analysis are addressed.
This book does not aim to provide a detailed description of all the modelling issues that are relevant to the prediction of smoke movement. Instead, the book provides an overview and introduction to the issues involved. A wide range of references is included. It is recommended that these are consulted to obtain a deeper understanding, and the knowledge necessary, to successfully utilise CFD in what is a challenging area of application.
This book is aimed at the reader who has some understanding and experience in the use of CFD but is not familiar with its application to the analysis of smoke movement. Some prior knowledge of fire safety science is assumed and recommended – it would be unwise to attempt CFD analysis of smoke movement without either a basic knowledge of fire safety science or good access to fire safety specialists. An understanding of fluid mechanics is also presumed.
1.1 Why do CFD?.
1.2 Scope of this book.
1.3 Target Audience.
2.1 Key steps.
2.2 Expertise of the CFD user
2.3 CFD tools.
2.4 Computational domain.
2.5 Mesh.
2.6 Physical sub-models.
2.7 Fire source specification.
2.8 Smoke generation and transport
2.9 Smoke visibility and toxicity.
2.10 Boundary conditions.
2.11 Numerical aspects.
2.12 Validation.
3.1 Smoke movement in a multi-storey building.
3.2 Smoke movement in a lab-scale inclined tunnel
3.3 Smoke movement in a lab-scale atrium.
3.4 Smoke movement in a building under construction.
3.5 Smoke movement in an offshore accommodation module.
3.6 Smoke movement in an underground station.
3.7 Conclusion.
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Austrian psychiatrist; born at Gross-Meseritsch, Moravia, July 20, 1851; educated at Berlin and Vienna (M.D. 1875). He became assistant physician at the lunatic asylum at Wehnen, Oldenburg (1875), and at the state asylum at Prague (1877); privat-docent at Prague University (1878); and was appointed in 1880 chief physician at the asylum in Dobrzan, which position he held till 1886, when he was elected professor of psychiatry at Prague.
Among his many works may be mentioned: "Beiträge zur Pathologie und zur Pathologischen Anatomie des Centralnervensystems" (with Kahler), Leipsic, 1880; and "Beiträge zur Pathologie und Pathologischen Anatomie des Centralnervensystems mit einem Excurse zur Normalen Anatomie Desselben," Berlin, 1898.
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In the early 1920's, a one million gallon reservoir was built on east Wall Street and five wells were drilled. This field was used until the late 1920's, when Cole Park was purchased and used until 1968. Rosedale wells were drilled in the early 1940's and were used until the late 1960's. Wadley Well Field (Hogan Park) was started in the early 1940's, with water being pumped from fifteen wells until the early 1960's.
Beginning in the early 1950's, McMillen Well Field was developed and used until depleted in the mid 1960's. This field is currently shut down due to concerns with perchlorate, but can pump up to 4.5 million gallons per day. Two 5-million ground storage tanks and a 1 million gallon Elevated Storage Tower were constructed in the early 1950's. During the late 1950's, a 1 million gallon reservoir was added at Shell and Midland Drive.
In the late 1950's, Paul Davis Well Field was started. This field included a 2.5 million gallon ground storage tank, and a Pump Station. Later, another 2.5 million gallon ground storage tank was added and a total of 42 wells have been drilled. Paul Davis is maintained for peaking and as a backup supply.
The City of Midland is also a customer of the Colorado River Municipal Water District.
In 1965, the City purchased the T-Bar Ranch as a future water supply. Through a public-public partnership, the City of Midland and Midland County Freshwater Supply District No. 1 built the T-Bar pipeline and well field in 2012. This groundwater supply can be used to supplement our surface water supplies and provide Midland's needs through 2060 and beyond.


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Cosplay Piano's back at the Stan Lee's World of Heroes YouTube channel, and it's the Game of Thrones theme this time, performed by Sonya Belousova joined by a cast of… a lot of people, and directed by Tom Grey. We saw them take on The Walking Dead before, so they're used to shows with a lot of dead people suddenly turning up.
And, as before, they want suggestions for future installments,so go to the YouTube page and comment there with your requests.


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On Wednesday, Prospect Park filed a new amended complaint with more details of ABC's alleged fraud and a demand for more than $95 million in damages. According to the latest court papers, ABC schemed in a quest for a "mega soap."
Unbeknownst to Prospect Park, at the same time the ink was drying on the Licensing Agreement granting Prospect Park an exclusive license for 'OLTL' through January 31, 2013, ABC insiders were developing a plan to create a mega-soap through the amalgamation of 'OLTL' and 'GH,' intentionally disregarding Prospect Park's rights.According to Prospect Park's filing, the production company agreed to pay ABC $4.5 million per season for the rights to the first three seasons of ALL MY CHILDREN and $4 million per season for ONE LIFE TO LIVE.
ABC breached these express provisions of the License Agreement and the Amendments in a myriad of ways, including, but not limited to:The new versions of ALL MY CHILDREN and ONE LIFE TO LIVE launched in April on Hulu and iTunes.
a. significantly altering the storylines of and/or killing the Borrowed OLTL Characters without consulting and/or obtaining Prospect Park's prior approval;
b. significantly altering the storylines of other OLTL characters not mentioned in the First Amendment without Prospect Park's knowledge or permission;
c. signing the OLTL actors playing Starr Manning, Todd Manning, Blair Manning, and John McBain to exclusive, secret, multi-year contracts with GH even though it knew Prospect Park would need those actors for OLTL;
d. refusing to turn over the URLs for OLTL and AMC to Prospect Park even though such URLs were part of the format rights granted to Prospect Park;
e. creating GH copy-cats of the OLTL characters Todd Manning and Starr Manning to be played by the same OLTL actors;
f. featuring the copy-cat character of Todd Manning in GH episodes at the same time Prospect Park was airing episodes featuring Todd Manning; and
g. even after suit was filed, continuing to create and use "copy-cat" characters on GH.
According to Prospect Park's complaint, executives at ABC "instruct[ed] Hulu management not to offer Prospect Park the beneficial terms and arrangements that Hulu was prepared to provide and had provided to other less-popular shows."
The company said it has lost $30 million in out-of-pocket expenses in producing the first seasons and/or at least $95 million in lost profits.
1. Compensatory damages including lost profits in an amount to be determined at trial, but not less than $95,000,000;Read the full complaint here.
2. Punitive damages in an amount to be determined at trial;
3. All costs of suit incurred herein;
4. Pre-judgment and post-judgment interest as may be provided by law;
5. A declaration that Prospect Park's continued payment of the licensing fees under the Agreement is excused; that Prospect Park is entitled to an extension of the License Agreement; and that the term of the License Agreement is tolled, from the time of ABC's breach until the breach is fully remedied; and
6. All such other and further relief as the Court may deem to be just and proper.
- Prospect Park Sues ABC For $25M Over ONE LIFE TO LIVE & ALL MY CHILDREN Licensing Agreement
- LAW SUIT: A View Through the Looking Glass at the Prospect Park vs. ABC Lawsuit
- ABC: Prospect Park's Claims Are "Baseless"


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From 6pm yesterday evening more than half of Australia's population found themselves in lockdown.
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NSW is heading for its fourth week of lockdown and is in its first week of stricter conditions, while Victoria went into a snap five-day lockdown last week, which has been extended for another week.
Yesterday, South Australia joined in, announcing a seven-day lockdown. While parts of regional NSW were also locked down.
So what are the rules in each state?
Nine new local cases in Victoria have sparked a seven-day extension to the state's lockdown which is now set to stretch until at least next Wednesday.
On borders, Victoria has slammed its shut to 'red zone arrivals' with Victorian residents in NSW and the ACT no longer allowed to go home amid a two-week pause on issuing red zone permits.
Only authorised workers and those who apply for and receive an exemption are now able to travel between the two states, along with border residents.
Current restrictions in Victoria:
- You can only leave home for five reasons:
- Essential shopping
- Authorised work or education
- Exercise
- Caregiving, compassionate and medical reasons
- To get vaccinated
- There is a two hour limit on exercise and it must be within five kilometre radius of your home.
- Masks must be worn everywhere except in your home
- No visitors are allowed to your home
- Schools are moving to remote learning
- Restaurants, cafes and pubs are open for takeaway only
NSW recorded 78 new local cases spread across Sydney with 29 spending part or all of their infectious period in the community.
Lockdown now also covers three local government areas in the state's Central West.
While the Sydney and surrounds lockdown is slated to end on July 30, there's increasing concern an extension may be needed as the virus circulates in the nation's biggest city.
Current restrictions in Greater Sydney:
- You can only leave home for four reasons:
- Shopping for food or essential goods and services
- Medical care or compassionate needs, including getting the vaccine
- Exercise outdoors in groups of two, within 10km of our home or local government area
- Essential work or education where you can't study or work from home
- Further restrictions apply to those who live in Fairfield, Canterbury-Bankstown and Liverpool LGAs, they can not leave the area unless they are authorised workers.
- The only businesses that can remain open are: Supermarkets and grocery stores; pharmacies and chemists; petrol stations; car hire; banks and financial institutions; hardware, nurseries and building supplies; agricultural and rural supplies; pet supplies; post offices and newsagents; and office supplies.
- Construction is paused as is non-urgent maintenance to residences
- No visitors are allowed in your home
- Masks must be worn in all indoor areas, except your home, and on public transport and while working outside. If you leave your home you must carry a mask at all times.
Restrictions for Orange, Blayney, Cabonne LGAs:
You can only leave home for the following reasons:
- Shopping for food or other essential goods and services;
- Medical care or compassionate needs (people can leave home to have a COVID-19 vaccination unless you have been identified as a close contact);
- Exercise outdoors in groups of two or fewer (unless members of the same household);
- Work, or education, where you cannot work or study from home.
- To attend a wedding or a funeral (but only during the grace period, which ends at 12:01am on Friday July 23, 2021). After this date, funerals will be limited to 10 people.
- Masks must be worn indoors (not including the home) and in outdoor settings where you cannot socially distance from others (e.g. while queuing for takeaway).
For the rest of NSW:
- Masks must be worn in all indoor areas, except your own home
- Only five guests, including children, can visit your home
- Dance and gym classes limited to 20 per class (with masks)
- Public transport limits as per the green dots
- Up to 200 people can gather in outdoor public places
- Outdoor seating events are limited to 50 per cent seated capacity
- One person per four square metres in all indoor and outdoor settings
- Drinking while standing at indoor venues is not allowed
- Singing and dancing is banned
- Weddings, funerals and religious services must have a COVID-19 safety plan
South Australia
South Australia's cluster of local COVID-19 cases grew to five.
The fifth case, a man in his 60s, is someone who dined at a restaurant in Adelaide where previously infected people were also present on Saturday night.
Those people had all attended a birthday party in a private function room which authorities said had the potential to act as a super-spreader event.
The following applies for seven days:
- There are only five reasons to leave home:
- To care for someone,
- For essential work,
- To purchase essential goods such as food,
- Exercise with people from the same household,
- Healthcare - including COVID testing and vaccination.
- Exercise must be within 2.5km of home and only for up to 90 minutes per day.
- Schools will be closed from tomorrow
- Elective surgery is on hold
- Construction can not go ahead
Measures to support businesses are expected to be announced tomorrow.
Other states border closures
There is effectively a hard border up for those from NSW, Queensland, Victoria and South Australia as all those states are classified as 'medium risk'.
The restrictions against people from SA come into affect from midday today.
The ACT is deemed low risk while the Northern Territory and Tasmania are classified as 'very low risk'.
All of Victoria is declared a hotspot and as of 1am Thursday it is also closing its border to NSW and South Australia.
NSW/Qld border zone residents can only enter the state for essential reasons. Queensland residents can enter into the NSW border zone for essential reasons, but can not travel further than that zone.
Queenslanders returning from NSW and SA will have to do 14 days in hotel quarantine.
Greater Sydney has been declared a hotspot and 14 mandatory supervised quarantine is required.
A number of Victorian regions have been declared hotspots also including Greater Melbourne, Bass Coast Shire and Muldura Rural City.
There are also restrictions for Queenslanders and South Australians.
Tasmanian has declared the entire state of South Australia high-risk, making it the third state to be blocked by Tasmania in the past week.
Regional NSW, a range of Sydney suburbs found here, and the Fairfield LGA have all been deemed high risk (Levels 1 or 2). This effectively means all people from NSW can not enter the island.
Victoria is also high-risk and subject to the same restrictions.
Travel restrictions are in place preventing non-ACT residents from entering the territory from South Australia, Victoria and hotspot areas of NSW, which include Greater Sydney, Central Coast, Blue Mountains, Wollongong and Shellharbour regions.
Only people who have received an exemption will be permitted to travel and will be subject to stay-at-home orders on arrival.
Residents traveling from identified NSW hotspots will be subject to 14-day home quarantine.
ACT residents returning may also be subject to stay-at-home orders.
People traveling from Queensland who have visited certain areas need to complete an online declaration.
There are no restrictions in place regarding other states and territories or New Zealand. Full advice is available at this page.


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ICANN and IANA
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a non for profit organisation coordinating the Domain Name System (DNS), Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management functions.
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is responsible for the global coordination of the DNS Root, IP addressing, and other Internet protocol resources such as IP numbers or addresses. IANA manages the global pool of Internet numbers (Internet Protocols IPs and Autonomous System Numbers ASNs) and distributes them among the five regional Internet registries (RIRs).
How are RIRs allocated address space?
The Internet Number Resource blocks allocated by IANA is governed by the following global polices that define their distribution.
- Criteria governing the allocation of IPv4 address space from the IANA to the RIRs
- Criteria governing the allocation of IPv6 address space from the IANA to the RIRs
- Criteria governing the allocation of ASN Blocks from IANA to RIRs
IPv4 Exhaustion
In February 2011, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the remaining last five /8s of IPv4 address space to the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) in accordance with the Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space. With this action, the free pool of available IPv4 addresses is now fully depleted. Insert link http://www.icann.org/en/news/in-focus/global-addressing/remaining-ipv4


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Did Woodstock hippies lead to US financial collapse?
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A new film is gaining traction among tea-party followers for suggesting that the collapse of the US financial system has roots dating back 40 years to the Summer of Love.
"Generation Zero," a film set to premiere in March, examines what producer David Bossie says is a "historic perspective on a generational change" that led to the September 2008 bank collapse. Mr. Bossie says generational narcissism, as represented by the 1969 Woodstock Festival, is responsible for the excessive spending, mortgage crisis, and recklessness on Wall Street.
"The people who were at Woodstock turned into the yuppies of the '80s and the junk bond traders of the '90s and the Wall Street executives of the 2000s," he says. "They went from Woodstock to driving a Jaguar."
Defending baby boomers
Quantifying baby boomers as yuppies is a familiar position taken by conservative groups, says Leonard Steinhorn, author of "The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy."
Mr. Steinhorn says it is common for boomers to become a target, because their generation helped "reverse the social order of the '50s" by creating civil rights for blacks, women, and gays, and by helping address issues such as environmental pollution.
"Not every boomer was a hippie, but the normative structure of the baby-boom generation has been for a more inclusive, equal, and free society, and so if you have problem with that, you're going to have problem with boomers," he says. (Monitor op-ed on boomers as volunteers here.)
Citizens United, Bossie's company, is no stranger to controversial topics that take aim at liberals or their causes.
The company was at the center of a recent US Supreme Court case involving "Hillary: The Movie," a documentary it produced that showed then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in an unfavorable light. The high court overturned a provision of the McCain-Feingold law that barred the use of political advertisements created or paid for by independent parties. (Monitor analysis of the Supreme Court decision here.)
Before his tenure at Citizens United, Bossie was a chief investigator in the Whitewater hearings and he also led investigations into alleged finance abuses in Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign.
'Tea partiers' love the movie
Early this month, a screening of the film was warmly received at both the National Tea Party Convention and the Conservative Political Action Conference. From there, it was the subject of an hour-long special on FOX News hosted by Sean Hannity.
Bossie says the attention may mean an eventual theatrical release. At the moment, it is available only via DVD from the movie's website.
The film, which features commentary from conservative pundits such as Charles Krauthammer, Newt Gingrich, and Dick Morris, offers no concluding message other than a plea to control government spending. Bossie adds that blame is shared among both Democrats and Republicans for failing to do so.
"The political correctness of not wanting to say 'no' took hold not in 1999; it started in 1969," he says.
Steinhorn, who also teaches at American University's School of Communication, says that type of position is unfair and has ulterior motives.
"As a conservative, if you can trivialize what boomers have done, to create a false hippie-to-yuppie paradigm, then your goal is to trivialize all these remarkable changes to our society in the last forty years," he says. "Changes that made us a far more equal, free, inclusive, and environmentally conscious society than we've ever been before."


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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
October 15, 2004
Presidential Message: Ramadan
I send warm greetings to Muslims in the United States and around the world as they begin observance of Ramadan, the holiest season in their faith.
Ramadan commemorates the revelation of the Qur'an to Muhammed. By teaching the importance of compassion, justice, mercy, and peace, the Qur'an has guided many millions of believers across the centuries. Today, this holy time is still set aside for Muslims to remember their dependence on God through fasting and prayer, and to show charity to those in need.
American history has taught us to welcome the contributions of men and women of all faiths, for we share the fundamental values of religious freedom, love of family, and gratitude to God. Americans who practice the Islamic faith enrich our society and help our Nation build a better future.
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Thanks for your interest! Have a read of the original paper or the FAQ, and be sure to check out our major follow-up study on communicative repair for context.
A word like 'Huh?' —used when one has not caught what someone just said—appears to be universal: it is found to have very similar form and function in spoken languages across the globe. This is one of the findings of a major cross-linguistic study by researchers Mark Dingemanse, Francisco Torreira and Nick Enfield, at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The study was published in the journal PLOS ONE.
Dingemanse, Mark, Francisco Torreira, and N.J. Enfield. 2013. "Is 'Huh?' a universal word? Conversational infrastructure and the convergent evolution of linguistic items." PLOS ONE. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0078273.
[altmetric doi="10.1371/journal.pone.0078273″ popover="left" float="right"] If you want to know more about the study, we recommend reading the paper itself. Here we provide the following:
- a quick overview of our key findings and methods
- an FAQ covering some misinterpretations we encountered
- a selection of the media coverage our work has generated
Key findings
Huh? is not trivial. It might seem frivolous or even trivial to carry out scientific research on a word like Huh? But in fact this little word, along with others that function in similar ways (e.g., 'Sorry?' 'What?') is an indispensible tool in human communication. Without such words we would be unable to signal when we have problems with hearing or understanding what was said. Because conversation moves along so quickly, if we did not have reliable ways of signaling trouble, we would constantly fail to stay 'on the same page' in social interaction. While Huh? may seem an unlikely topic of scientific research, in fact human communication, and thus common understanding in social life, relies heavily on the use of such linguistic devices.
Huh? is universal. We sampled 31 spoken languages from diverse language families around the world in this study, and we found that all of them have a word with a near-identical sound and function as English Huh? This is an exception to the normal situation, namely that when words in different languages mean the same thing, they will usually sound completely different: compare, for example, these very different-sounding words for 'dog': inu in Japanese, chien in French, dog in English. Why do these differences between the sounds of words across languages occur? Because language does not impose any necessary connection between sound and meaning in words (a principle that linguists call 'the arbitrariness of the sign'). This study shows that 'Huh?' is a rare exception to this otherwise strong rule.
Huh? is a word. An objection to our first finding might be that 'Huh?' is not a word after all. But our study finds that it is. Although the expression 'Huh?' is much more similar across languages than words normally should be, when we zoomed in and looked at the finer details, we discovered that this expression does differ across languages in subtle but systematic ways. These differences give us evidence that 'Huh?' is integrated into each linguistic system, thus supporting the view that it is, in fact, a word. Here are some of the subtle differences: In Spanish it's e. In Dutch it often starts with /h/, as in hè. In Cha'palaa (an indigenous language of Ecuador) it often starts with a glottal stop, as in ʔa, and it has falling intonation, in line with the fact that questions in this language often have falling intonation. Therefore: Huh? is not like those human sounds that happen to be universal because they are innate, such as sneezing or crying. It is a word that has to be learned in subtly different forms in each language.
Huh? is not like a sneeze. 'Huh?' may seem almost primitive in its simplicity, but we don't find vocalizations with this function in our closest evolutionary cousins. It's not an involuntary response like a sneeze or a cry of pain. Indeed, to have such a word, specialized for clarifying matters of understanding, only makes sense when a fully functioning cooperative system of communication (i.e., human language) is already in place — babies don't use it, infants don't use it perfectly, but children from about 5 have mastered it perfectly, along with the main structures of their grammar. If there is a plausible explanation that doesn't assume 'huh?' is innate, we prefer that, on the standard scientific principle that it is best to keep to the simplest possible assumptions and explanations. In our paper we provide such an explanation: convergent cultural evolution.
Huh? is likely shaped by convergent evolution. In conversation, we are under pressure to respond appropriately and timely to what was just said; when we are somehow unable to do this—for example, when we didn't quite catch what the other person just said—we need an escape hatch. This particular context creates pressures for the form of the word. The signal has to be something maximally simple and quick to produce in situations when we're literally at a loss to say something; and it has to be a questioning word to signal that the first speaker must now speak again. In language after language, we find a word like 'Huh?' that fits the bill perfectly: it is a simple, minimal, quick-to-produce questioning syllable. We propose this is a form of convergent evolution in language. Convergent evolution is a phenomenon well-known from evolutionary biology. When different species live in similar conditions, they can independently evolve similar traits. In a similar way, the similarity of huh? across a set of widely divergent languages may be due to the fact that the constraints from its environment are the same everywhere.
What did we do?
Our starting point was a finding we reported in another study (Enfield, Dingemanse et 16 al. 2013): that many spoken languages provide two basic ways of signalling communicative trouble: an interjection like 'huh?' and a question word like 'what?'. While the question word differed across unrelated languages, the interjection looked suspiciously similar, something we flagged for further investigation. The present study is a careful comparative investigation of 196 tokens of this interjection in ten languages.
To make sure that the similarities we saw were not just due to our particular selection of ten languages, we located examples of the interjection in as many additional languages as we could find. There were 31 spoken languages for which we either had recordings or published transcripts of sequences of other-initiated repair (the technical term for the context in which we find the interjection, explained below). These languages are shown on the map below.
In all of the languages, we found that 'huh?' showed the same tight fit of form and function. Everywhere this word appears to be a simple syllable with a low-front central vowel, glottal onset consonant if any, and questioning intonation. This made us confident that our preliminary observations warranted a careful comparative phonetic analysis.
Our research question was: Is "Huh?" a universal word? And what is the explanation for its striking similarity across ten languages from five continents?
Data collection
We examined 196 instances of huh? extracted from recordings of informal conversation in 10 languages around the world: Siwu (a minority language spoken in Ghana), Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Cha'palaa (a minority language spoken in Ecuador), Icelandic, Lao (spoken in Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia), Dutch, and Murriny Patha (an Australian Aboriginal language). These are languages 1-10 on the map above.
In all of the languages, we restricted our focus to cases that occurred in exactly the same context in conversation. The technical term for this context is "other-initiated repair": a sequence in which one person says something, the other then 'initiates repair' by saying Huh?, and the first provides a 'repair solution', usually by repeating the thing they said before (though often with slight revisions).
Phonetic analysis
We studied these audio recordings in two ways. First, we did an auditory phonetic analysis in which three linguistically-trained analysts independently scored every one of the 196 recordings on five phonetic dimensions. The instances were presented in random order and no information was provided about the language. One set of findings presented in the paper was derived from the combined results of this auditory phonetic coding.
Second, we did an instrumental phonetic analysis of a subset of the data in order to verify the quality of the auditory analysis. For this we focused in on two of the languages—Spanish and Chapalaa (an indigenous minority language spoken in Ecuador)—and we compared readings of pitch, and of the first and second 'vowel formants' of each example (these provide an objective measure of the differences in sound between vowels such as 'a' versus 'i' versus 'u').
What did we NOT do?
We did NOT study huh? in dictionaries. Many dictionaries don't list it as a word and even if they do we can't be sure of its precise form or function. Instead, we only use recordings of actual conversations.
We did NOT look at uses of huh? in contexts other than 'other-initiated repair'. We know that huh?-like words are also used in other contexts (e.g. to pursue a response, or as a tag question at the end of an utterance). We suspect that these uses are related to the function we studied, but that would be a matter for another study.
We did NOT compare written-down versions of huh? across languages, nor did we rely on second-hand reports about the languages we studied. We worked with almost 200 audio recordings of huh? in real conversations (averaging about 20 per language), and we compared those auditorily and instrumentally. This was to make sure that our analysis was based on directly observed facts about what happens in real, everyday language use.
We did NOT study only huh?. This research is part of a larger investigation of language and social interaction in the ERC-funded project "Human Sociality and Systems of Language Use" led by Enfield. 'Huh?' belongs to a larger set of expressions used to signal and solve communicative mishaps — an extremely important function of human language. Most of these expressions vary quite widely across languages. Only 'Huh?', which is the most common generic signal of trouble we found, happens to be strongly similar everywhere, and that is one of the findings we report in this paper. If you are interested in the larger system (and the place of huh? within it), we can recommend other comparative studies we published:
Dingemanse, Mark, Joe Blythe, and Tyko Dirksmeyer. 2014. "Formats for Other-Initiation of Repair across Languages: An Exercise in Pragmatic Typology." Studies in Language 38 (1): 5–43. doi:10.1075/sl.38.1.01din (download pdf).
Dingemanse, Mark, Seán G. Roberts, Julija Baranova, Joe Blythe, Paul Drew, Simeon Floyd, Rosa S. Gisladottir, Kobin Kendrick, Stephen C. Levinson, Elizabeth Manrique, Giovanni Rossi, and N.J. Enfield. 2015. "Universal Principles in the Repair of Communication Problems." PLOS ONE 10 (9): e0136100. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0136100.
Languages and contributors
This study uses data from 10 languages, collected in a larger comparative research project on how communicative mishaps are solved. Below is a list of the languages we studied along with the colleagues who made recordings from their corpora available for analysis.
Language | Field site | Researcher |
Cha'palaa | Ecuador | Simeon Floyd |
Dutch | The Netherlands | Mark Dingemanse |
Icelandic | Iceland | Rósa Gísladóttir |
Italian | Italy | Giovanni Rossi |
Lao | Laos | Nick Enfield |
Mandarin Chn. | Taiwan | Kobin Kendrick |
Murrinh-Patha | Northern Australia | Joe Blythe |
Russian | Russia | Julija Baranova |
Siwu | Ghana | Mark Dingemanse |
Spanish | Spain | Francisco Torreira |
Want to know more?
Check out the paper or the supplementary materials. The authors of this study are Mark Dingemanse, Francisco Torreira and Nick Enfield.
Want to save or cite our paper? Zotero will automatically detect the bibliographic metadata on this page. Or you can copy the following bibtex code:
title = {Is "Huh?" a universal word? Conversational infrastructure and the convergent evolution of linguistic items},
url = {http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0078273},
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Silicon Valley's biggest water provider took another step this week toward treating the drinking supply with fluoride.
A committee of the Santa Clara Valley Water District board voted 3-0 Monday on a recommendation to fund fluoridation at its three water treatment plants. The plan calls for the water district to spend $4.2 million while the remaining $2.4 million is being funded by outside sources.
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