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Touring Windows Vista - Part 5: Wrap-Up
Our epic journey comes to a close
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 by Zoomba | Discussion: Windows Vista
|This is the final part of a 5 part series offering a look into some of the new features of Windows Vista, slated for release to consumers on January 30th, 2007. These articles will be posted once per week starting at the end of December and leading up to the commercial launch of Vista.
The series so far:
If you'd like to read the entire series in one shot, I've compiled a single pdf containing all five parts of the series. You can grab it here.
Conclusion & General Thoughts
This article series was not a "Is Vista Worth It?" sort of sales pitch. When I started writing this article series, I intended to just write a "Day with Vista" sort of thing, a stream-of-consciousness narration of what it's like to use Vista over the course of one work day. Nothing really pro or con, just the thoughts on average use. It quickly morphed into a more detailed examination of what is in Vista and what it might mean for power users looking to get the most out of their purchase. So it turned into a walkthrough of the OS for those who haven't used it yet, a glance at some of the bits and pieces of Windows Vista they might not have heard about.
As I stated at the beginning, this wasn't an in-depth look at Vista, but more of a skimming of the top layers, looking at some of the more obvious improvements. Others have spoken at length about the technical underpinnings and very specific features. Considering how long just this high-level article series ended up running, if I had dug deeper and broken out into more detail, you would have been reading the beginnings of a book rather than just a collection of tech articles.
So after a week solid writing (and a few weeks editing), digging around Vista, learning about the various nooks and crannies hidden away, how do I personally feel about Vista? It's a step in the right direction. The operating system is finally reaching a level of detail and sophistication that seems to match up with general level of technology we're seeing rapidly develop around us. In Windows 98, 2000 and even XP, Windows was just a shell within which the user placed interesting items. Now, with Vista, many of those interesting bits are built into the OS. The diagnostic tools alone are miles above and beyond what we've seen in previous versions of Windows, or even Mac OS X. The addition of Live components gives me the sense that not only will my OS be a framework for other applications to connect into, but that it will also become a channel of its own for services and content distribution. For the first time it's starting to feel like Windows is an actual platform.
All of that said, if you're an XP user, you have little to gain immediately from upgrading to Vista. The new features are great and everything, but there's nothing that screams "must have" just yet. Add to that the generally buggy and incomplete state of device drivers at the moment and spotty application compatibility as developers race to certify their software on Vista, there just isn't much advantage (and honestly, a few disadvantages currently) for most users. And, with the rearranged interface and resorting of where tools are placed, troubleshooting those bugs could be extremely frustrating.
If you're a gamer, stay away from Vista until NVIDIA and AMD/ATI get their drivers sorted out. If a game even runs under Vista, chances are you'll see decreased performance compared to the same system running the same game under XP. At the moment, NVIDIA's drivers are in particularly poor shape. Driver support on video cards and the fact that no games are using DirectX 10 yet make Vista a poor choice at the moment for gamers.
- Stability. My experience with the RTM build is that it's just as stable as XP is. This is a nice contrast to using Windows several years ago where a restart at least once a week was required. I rarely restart my PC anymore and see crashes even less frequently
- Search Bar in the Start Menu. Despite my gripes about the overly complicated new Start Menu, the search bar acting as a hybrid search/run command has grown on me significantly. It's one of those things that seems dumb at first, but quickly becomes essential to your day-to-day use
- Improved Diagnostic Tools. I can now see why my hard disk is thrashing, and the event logs give me something that's actually useful. There's a lot of power hidden underneath the hood here.
- Integration of Live services. This mostly depends on how Microsoft handles this new distribution channel, but I think if they do what they did with XBox Live, they'll have a huge success on their hands that provides a good service to customers.
- New Start Menu. Outside the new search bar functionality, I don't like the Start Menu redesign at all. I especially don't like the confusing way they handled shutdown/restart options. I anticipate many frantic phone calls from my parents in the future asking me how they turn their PC off. I'm also not too keen on the new way you navigate the programs list in the start menu. I liked the ever-expanding tree of menus to the right. Sure it looked ugly, but it was very functional.
- New Disk Defragmenter. This is just utter crap. It took a useful tool and dumbed it down to the point where it gives me nothing useful. I used to be able to use the defrag tool to give me an idea of where potential performance problems were coming from. Not anymore. Now I just have to press a button and let magic happen in the background, hoping that it fixes what's wrong.
- UAC. I turned it off shortly into writing this series. I'm sorry, but I don't want to have to answer a dozen confirmation messages to do simple system tasks. UAC could have been useful. It could have worked like the MacOS method where you authenticate once as the administrative user on the first system-critical task you were trying to perform, and for a certain amount of time, you remain authenticated and aren't prompted again. The way UAC is right now, less confident users will be too terrified to delete even a shortcut from their desktop after all the WARNINGS OF DOOM the OS tosses at them.
- Driver Support. It's still in poor shape, especially for gamers. This is partially the fault of both Microsoft and hardware vendors. Microsoft failed to provide a stable OS to code against until very late in the game, and evidently hardware manufacturers waited until the very last second even then to start putting serious effort into development.
Final Verdict:
Overall, it's a solid entry into the Windows family, it fixes issues seen in previous versions, it's stable, and offers a lot of promise. It's just that at this moment, much of that promise is yet to be fulfilled. Unless you're getting a copy with a new PC early this year, I'd wait to consider Vista for as a primary OS until at least the middle of 2007, by then drivers, applications and such should be sorted out.
On issues of price and value, I can't really say. I personally wouldn't shell out $400 for a copy of Ultimate no matter how fantastic the OS turned out being. So until I purchase a new computer at the end of the year, I won't be running Vista at home. Not necessarily because of technical issues, but because I can't afford it. Personally, because I do find myself working from home, and I do use my PC as a multimedia hub, I need the functionality of both Business and Home Premium (i.e. Ultimate).
Pick up Vista when you buy a new machine starting around 3rd Quarter 2007.


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Probably, but you should test again in a few days to make sure. For a home pregnancy test to give you a positive result, your body has to be making a detectable level of the hormone human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG).
When you get pregnant, your hCG level starts to increase. Most home tests are designed to be positive when you're two to three days late for a period (or 15 to 16 days after ovulation). If there's a faint line, there's only a small amount of hCG in your urine, usually because it's early in the pregnancy.
Some pregnancy tests are more sensitive to hCG than others. A more sensitive pregnancy test might turn clearly positive even if a low amount of the hormone is present, while a less sensitive test taken at that same time might show a faintly positive result.
If you still have the box, it should say somewhere what the test's sensitivity is — the lower the number, the better the test. For example, a test with a sensitivity of 20 IU/L (international units per liter) will determine whether you're pregnant sooner than a test with a sensitivity of 50 IU/L. A good rule of thumb is that the more expensive a pregnancy test is, the more sensitive it's likely to be. But you should still read the side of the box to see what it says.
Many women get a faintly positive result if they're not as far along as they expected. If this is your situation, taking another test in two or three days should give you results that are more exact.
If your test is faintly positive for a few days and then turns completely negative, you may have had a very early miscarriage. Experts estimate that about 20 to 30 percent of pregnancies end in miscarriage, so unfortunately this is very common.
Keep in mind that almost all women who have a very early miscarriage are eventually successful, so even a briefly positive pregnancy test should be encouraging when you're trying to conceive.

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FDA panel recommends approval of obesity drug
A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee recommended Thursday the agency approve a new drug to treat obesity, the second time this year agency advisers have backed a fat-fighting medication.
Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. makes the drug, lorcaserin, and hopes to market it under the brand name Lorqess.
The advisory committee voted 18-4, with one abstention, that the weight loss benefits of the medication outweigh any possible risk.
Research showed signs the medicine might be linked to a small risk of cancer and heart valve disease.
In February, an advisory committee recommended the agency approve Vivus Inc.'s Qnexa drug for weight loss. The agency has not acted on it yet.
Lorcaserin was rejected in 2010 by the federal agency, which cited "modest weight loss" and concerns about a study that linked the drug to mammary tumors in rats.
This time, Arena returned to the FDA with new data showing that 38 percent of patients on the drug had weight loss of five percent or more in a year, compared with 16 percent of patients on a placebo.
Overall, neither Arena nor the FDA officials who testified presented data that were definitive about safety concerns.
William R. Shanahan Jr., a senior vice president at Arena, contended the cancer effect was "rat-specific," not likely meaningful in humans, and that evidence "mitigates human risk."


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Thor's Bus Unit Buys Federal Coach for $6.8M
December 21, 2012 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Thor's Bus Unit Buys Federal Coach for $6.8M
Thor Industries Inc. announced that its Champion Bus Inc. subsidiary has purchased the bus operation assets of Federal Coach, Goshen, Ind., for $6.8 million in cash from Forest River Inc.
According to a news release, Champion plans to move the assets and begin production of Federal Coach buses at its Imlay City, Mich., production facility in early calendar 2013.
Federal Coach is a premier luxury bus manufacturer, producing a full line of shuttle, executive and limousine buses ranging in capacity from 12 to 44 passengers with annual sales of approximately $25 million. Thor's Bus Group generated net sales of approximately $444.9 million in the fiscal year ended July 31.
"We are pleased to add the Federal Coach line of luxury buses to our family of brands," said Andrew Imanse, Thor Bus Group President. "The addition of the Federal Coach line offers Thor's Bus Group both potential operating synergies and access to important markets within the industry.
"The purchase of the Federal Coach assets, like the purchase of the assets of Krystal Infinity LLC, dba Krystal Enterprises, in September 2012, brings an upscale, high-end retail product that complements our existing product lines, including Champion's Defender, Crusader and Challenger bus lines."


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Go for it, anyone can do so. I've reported two
errors this week. Unfortunately neither of these
events you mention are reflected in the MLS
boxscores online, which Mark uses as the official
MFLS scoring record. You have a valid case to be
sure. I pick my battles. My guess is no one in top
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Marsch was given his -2 a couple weeks back, and Heath now has his red card, too.
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Pets in the Bedroom
It's clear from the response to the post about sharing your bed with your pets, that Apartment Therapy readers are passionate about the subject. And while finding the right mattress, bedside table and pillows are important, nothing compares to the comfort provided by one of our favorite bedroom "accessories" – the pet.
Here's a roundup of some of the amazing furry friends that have graced the bedrooms of our readers' homes over the past few years. Small or large, dog or cat – there's no denying the special warmth a pet adds to the tour. (Often, pets generate at least as many comments as their owner's décor choices!)
Do you have a favorite?
For the cat lovers-
1. House Tour: Sasha's Excelsior Escape
2. House Tour: Amy's Williamsburg Railroad
3. House Tour: Tyke and Jon's Topanga Canyon Casa
4. Alison & Joe's Suburban Mid-Century Thrift
5. Third Annual Fall Colors Contest: #11- DMstudio's Private Sanctuary
6. Derek's Gidget Goes Disco
7. Trish's North Portland Nest
8. Ariana and Andreas' Downey Street Tree House
9. Janean & Kyle's Light and Lively Courtyard Apartment
10. Liv, Jeff and the Friendly Yeti Sharing a Home
11. Kat & Jon's Thrifty Dollhouse
For the dog lovers-
12. Byron & Nate's Nature-Sleek Urban Loft
13. Jessica's Warm & Well-Traveled Loft
14. Minna's English Countryside in the City
15. House Tour: Alex's Granny Chic
16. House Tour: Matt (man) and Otto (dog) in Rogers Park
17. Ofer & Randy's Flea Market Collections
18. Brian & Riccardo's Lower East Side Apartment
19. Stephen Improvises a Home
20. Johnny & Stacie's Super Sweet Loft
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"In a State that has given America many of its greatest jurists, none stood higher than Irving Lehman, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals."1 So wrote the New York Times in its editorial eulogy shortly after Lehman's death. The scion of a powerful merchant banking family, he served as a judge from 1908 to 1944. Over those 36 years - stretching from the Horse and Buggy era to the dawn of the Nuclear Age - he decided thousands of cases. He wrote opinions and extra judicial articles that placed him in the vanguard of judicial thought. He was ahead of his time in arguing that courts should shape the common law pragmatically, protect civil liberties aggressively, and defer to the executive and legislative branches when acting to ameliorate social and economic ills. He also left an enduring legacy off the bench through his work on behalf of numerous civil, philanthropic, and religious causes. While much of this remarkable career has been forsaken by history, the fact remains that "the judicial system of the country had no more conscientious officer" than Irving Lehman.2
Lehman's Childhood
Lehman was born in New York City on January 28, 1876.3 His father, Mayer Lehman, and mother, Babette Newgass Lehman, immigrated to the United States from Bavaria in 1848.4 They settled in Montgomery, Alabama, where Mayer joined his brothers, Henry and Emanuel, and established one of the largest cotton broker firms in the state.5
After the Civil War, Mayer Lehman moved to New York City and established the counterpart of the Montgomery business.6 He helped organize the New York Cotton Exchange, becoming a charter member of its Board of Directors.7 Over time Mayer and Emanuel (Henry passed away in 1856) expanded their business to other commodities, like coffee and oil, and then moved into underwriting and investment banking. They called their firm Lehman Brothers and by the turn of the century it was one of the most important investment banking houses in the country.8
Irving Lehman was the next to youngest of Mayer and Babette's seven surviving children.9 The family lived in the privileged and inbred world of German Jews in New York City.10 The Lehman household was warm hearted and cultivated, and the children were instilled with a sense of responsibility and purpose.11
Irving was particularly close with his younger brother, Herbert, who grew up to become a New York Governor and United States Senator. As boys, they were inseparable.12 Their relationship reached its heights in adulthood when Irving, as Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, administered the oath of office to Herbert as Lieutenant Governor on two occasions and as Governor on four occasions.13
Irving Lehman's childhood was not without challenge. Most notably, from an early age he was almost completely deaf. Self conscious of this condition, which others joked about behind his back, he tended to avoid an active social life.14 Nevertheless, his physical disability did not stand in the way of his later pursuit of a career in public life.
Preparatory, College and Law School Education
Lehman prepared for college at the then famous Sachs Collegiate Institute School of Boys. The headmaster, Dr. Julius Sachs, was a renowned educator. He imposed a demanding regimen on the students, who were required to come to classes dressed in suits and starched collars.15
"Reflective and studious, Irving seemed marked out from childhood for a learned career in the law."16 He showed a strong interest in legal history, followed newspaper accounts of important cases, and often talked with attorneys who were family friends.17 One such person was Edward Douglass White, who later became Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.18
In 1892, Lehman entered Columbia College, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1896 and a master's degree in political science the following year.19 Joseph M. Proskauer, a college classmate of Lehman, recalled that he "had none of the adolescent brilliance which too often warps the quest for knowledge; but rather an innate modesty which prompted him to days and nights of toil to glean the learning and train the mind for the tasks that lay ahead."20
Lehman graduated from Columbia Law School in 1898 with an LL.B., winning the Toppan Prize for excellence in constitutional law.21 Honorary degrees followed in later years, including Doctor of Law from Columbia College in 1927, St. Lawrence University in 1936, and Syracuse University in 1943; and Doctor of Hebrew Literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1936.22
Early Career as a Practicing Attorney and Election to the Supreme Court
Unlike his brothers, Irving Lehman did not enter the family business.23 Instead, he practiced law in New York City with the firm of Marshall, Moran, Williams & McVicker, where he made partner in 1901. He devoted most of his practice to commercial law and was recognized as one of the bar's rising stars.24
At age 25, Lehman married Sissie Straus, the only daughter of merchandising magnate and philanthropist, Nathan Straus.25 The marriage was an unusually happy one.26 "They were wrapped up in one another with a love, a devotion, and a companionship that constantly grew with the years."27 Sissie Lehman was well educated, highly accomplished, and possessed a forceful and assertive personality.28 She took a keen interest in her husband's career and helped him realize his full potential as a lawyer and judge.29
In 1906, Lehman became a named partner in the firm of Worcester, Williams & Lehman.30 Even at this early point in his career, he saw the law as a higher calling crucial to the nation's well being a view he expressed to the students of Brooklyn Law School in 1907:
"A lawyer is one who uses his knowledge of the law to serve justice and not to thwart it; to maintain the law, not to evade or undermine it. In countless offices scattered throughout the country, lawyers at this very minute are guiding and protecting men, women and children who have sought their help. The trickster . . . , the ambulance chaser and the counselor of those who seek to prey upon society, loom large in the public eye. They are more dramatic in their destructive activities than the lawyers and judges who day in and day out build and preserve the common law and the institutions of America; who lead its public opinion and guide in large part its affairs. It is upon them that America must rely for the wise solution of many of its perplexing problems."31
A life long Democrat, Lehman was elected to the New York State Supreme Court, First Judicial District, in 1908, the result of a compromise between two factions in New York City's Democratic organization.32 He was 32, making him one of the youngest men in the history of the State to become a Supreme Court Justice.33 On grounds of merit the selection was unassailable - in fact, it was widely approved by the media and the bar.34 But years later Lehman acknowledged that family connections played a role in his ascension to the bench:
"I was a very young lawyer, in practice only a short time; I was deaf; and I was Jewish. None of these helped. But I was married to Nathan Straus's daughter, and Mr. Straus was a dear friend of Al Smith, and Smith knew the governor of New York. So I became a judge."35
Lehman soon acquired a reputation as an industrious trial justice, with powerful analytical faculties and common sense. Of his first years on the bench, a fellow judge recalled that Lehman:
"had a power of cool, analytical judgment. Thorough, shrewdly conversant with the ways of the world, his instinct for the significant and essential always present, he could seize the point at issue, skillfully disentangle the twisted strands of the evidence, bring out of a crushing mass of facts, and arrive at a dispassionate, reasoned judgment."36
In 1922, at the expiration of his first fourteen year term, Lehman was re elected to Supreme Court on the nomination of both the Democratic and Republican parties.37
Election to the Court of Appeals
A year after Lehman's reelection, in which much of his work had been at the Appellate Term, both major parties nominated him to be an Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals.38 He was elected and began his service on the Court on January 1, 1924. He was 48 years old.
His long experience as a trial justice in a busy metropolitan court stood him in good stead. He was joining a bench on which sat such seasoned and independent jurists as Chief Judge Frank H. Hiscock, three future Chief Judges, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Cuthbert W. Pound and Frederick E. Crane, and Associate Judges William S. Andrews and Chester B. McLaughlin. With over 140 years of judicial experience between them, this extraordinary group of jurists constituted the finest common law tribunal of last resort in the nation.39
Lehman especially enjoyed the company and intellectual rivalry of Benjamin Cardozo, who later became an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. They had long been friends and shared much in common.40 Both were graduates of Columbia Law School, loved books, and were golfing companions, spending as much time talking as playing.41 After Lehman joined the Court, their relationship grew into a brotherly bond.42 Cardozo was treated as part of the Lehman family, often dining and vacationing with them.43 The friendship found its culmination when Cardozo chose to spend his final days and died in 1938 at the Lehmans' estate in Port Chester, New York.44
Although not wont to express his personal feelings in public, Lehman acknowledged the depth of his affection and intellectual debt to Cardozo after his death:
"I had the privilege of close association with him in the work of the Court of Appeals and at home. I loved him, but so did all who knew him well. I realized that, in truth he was the Master who was bringing new methods and new ideas into judicial decisions. I felt the influence of his great soul and mind."45
Qualities as a Judge
Lehman had a prodigious capacity for work, of which his published opinions represented but a fraction of his efforts.46 He was renowned for his knowledge of the minute details of every case, regardless of whether it was assigned to him for report or to another judge.47 During the Court's recesses he would twice read every report and draft opinion he received.48 The salutary impact on the Court's work of Lehman's meticulous study of the facts left a strong impression on William J. Armstrong, the Clerk of the Court from 1924 to 1936:
"[O]f all the judges who ever sat in this Court while I have been here, none has been more useful than Irving Lehman. . . . I do not mean that necessarily he was the most learned or the most brilliant, but I do mean he always knew his facts and always came to a happy practical conclusion that set the court on the right path."49
Lehman's colleagues respected his objectivity and ability to quickly grasp the nettle of a case. Frederick E. Crane, who served with Lehman on the Court for 16 years, remarked: "I never knew a man who excelled Judge Lehman in laying aside all his natural feelings and inclination, prejudices or beliefs in order to judge impartially and fairly the cause before him."50 As for his ability to cut straight to the heart of a complex legal problem, Cuthbert Pound said: "Lehman can take the hide off a case faster than any man I have ever known."51
Once Lehman made up his mind about a case, he was a tenacious advocate for his position when the Court met in conference. Edmund H. Lewis, who succeeded Lehman as Chief Judge, recalled that "when Irving Lehman was presenting the view of a dissenter, his contribution to the debate, while always fairly and powerfully presented, was rarely a cooling draft."52 Similarly, Charles H. Desmond, another future Chief Judge, remembered that Lehman sometimes got "quite excited" during the conferences.53 Even with Cardozo, Lehman would fight to get a majority of the Court. "When they disagreed in their vote in a case, each of them put his whole effort into capturing the votes of his associates so that he would have a majority."54
The force of Lehman's advocacy was magnified by his distinctive appearance and bearing:
"A tall sturdy figure, he had a natural dignity in which pompousness found no place. Underneath his sphinx like calm there was deep feeling. His face was at once strong and sensitive, with gentle, querying, brown eyes, quietly intent and at times a brooding sadness in them. In conversation his face was mobile, with an attractive smile; in repose it assumed a thoughtful, rather stern expression. Unaffected and forthright, he was austere at times, but often he was radiantly responsive to those about him. To meet him was to feel yourself in the presence of a strong and unusual personality."55
Another notable aspect of his appearance was the presence of a hearing aid, without which he would not have been able to do his job.56 Indeed, Lehman may be the only judge in Court of Appeal's history who had a life long physical disability that required accommodation. He installed at Court of Appeals Hall three cumbersome hearing aid devices, each consisting of a large metal box amplifier on the floor, a large box microphone on the desk, and an ear attachment which plugged into the microphone. One of these large sets remained at his place on the bench, one at his place at the conference table and one on his desk in his chambers. In traveling between these spots he also had a smaller portable set. 57
Judicial Outlook
In 1936, upon the expiration of his first term on the Court, Lehman was re elected as an Associate Judge, having been nominated by the Democratic, Republican, and American Labor parties.58 By this point he had an acknowledged place as one of the nation's most eminent jurists.59 Influential commentators like Jerome Frank, in his seminal book Law and the Modern Mind (1930), placed Lehman in the upper echelon of American jurists along with Cardozo and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.60 So, too, when Cardozo's death in 1938 created a vacancy on the United States Supreme Court, many believed that Lehman should and would fill it.61
Lehman's judicial outlook evolved considerably from the time he first became a trial justice.62 By his own admission, his initial understanding of the judicial process was naïve.63 He viewed the judicial function as requiring little more than the rigid application of known rules of law, which were fixed or discovered, to the facts of the case at hand. It did not take long, however, before he recognized that the law was a living, vital force that must serve the needs of society.64
Lehman espoused a common law jurisprudence, the predominant characteristics of which were pragmatic. Facts, realities, and consequences were of paramount importance. The law must be functional. Its rules, administration and judicial process should justify themselves by the stern test of workability. Of course, he was guided by precedent, which provided continuity and was the foundation of a stable legal order.65 But precedent needed to be examined to determine if it was in harmony with the needs of an "everchanging society, and not perpetually restricted to the exact interpretation placed upon it when first enunciated."66 The art of judging, therefore, was striking the proper balance "between the will to do justice in the individual case and the duty of preserving . . . certainty and uniformity which are essential parts of . . . the law" too.67
In a law review article entitled the "The Influence of the Universities on Judicial Decision," which was published in 1924, Lehman articulated his vision of the judicial function:
The judge has the task of using forms and procedure, statutes and precedents - the law, in all its phases, which he has been called upon to administer - as an instrument with which to do justice between man and man; but he has also the responsibility of preserving and even molding the law so that human relations can be fitly ordered by it in the future.68
This pragmatic viewpoint, while unremarkable today, was widely regarded in the 1920s as "a legal version of hard core pornography."69 Lehman braved potential criticism and helped lay the ground work for a jurisprudential revolution - the so called legal realist movement - which continues to influence law schools and courts.70
In the public and constitutional law realm, Lehman's jurisprudence varied depending on the character of the interest acted upon by the government. When the legislative and executive branches sought to ameliorate social and economic conditions, his inclination was to defer to their efforts.71 He had a healthy democratic respect for the values of society and the roles of other governmental entities. He was not a populist - on the contrary, he considered himself part of an enlightened elite. But he strongly believed in the presumptive legitimacy of legislative and executive action, which represented an extension of the public will.72 This view - which would later become a commonplace of constitutional law - was then struggling for acceptance.73 It placed Lehman at odds with the conservative bloc of justices on the United States Supreme Court that "openly resisted the legislative reforms of the New Deal and thereby helped precipitate the Court packing crisis in 1937."74
"Lehman was similarly in advance of his times on civil liberties issues."75 A self described libertarian, he believed that constitutional freedoms were inalienable and God given,76 and called for increased judicial intervention when government infringed upon them.77 This outlook found its most notable expression in his concurring opinion in People v. Sandstrom,78 where he defended the refusal by children of Jehovah's Witnesses to salute the flag in school on pain of expulsion. This case was decided shortly before Justice Felix Frankfurter, for a majority of the United States Supreme Court in 1940, ruled that a local school board in Pennsylvania could impose on children a compulsory flag salute, regardless of their religious beliefs.79 But a few years later, during the throes of World War II, the Supreme Court saw things Lehman's way, striking down as unconstitutional a West Virginia flag salute statute.80
Lehman's libertarian instinct can also be seen in cases involving the rights of the accused. He was especially critical about police utilizing unsavory means to extract confessions from criminal suspects.81 In People v. Doran,82 for example, he dissented from the majority's ruling that a confession was voluntarily given. The defendant's confession was allegedly prompted by a policeman who conducted an all night interrogation while wearing a boxing glove. Lehman rejected these tactics:
"The courts should not hamper the police by technical rules nor reverse a just conviction because of technical error, but the courts cannot sanction disregard of the substantial rights of an accused . . . . The courts may not approve the punishment even of the guilty, if guilt is established, by means which are destructive of the fundamental rights of the accused. We have long ago abolished the rack and thumbscrew as a means of extorting confession; the courts cannot sanction the introduction of the boxing glove in their place."83
Election as Chief Judge
As 1939 was drawing to a close, so too was the tenure of Chief Judge Frederick E. Crane, who at the end of the year was compelled to retire because of the constitutional age limit of 70. Lehman, the Senior Associate Judge on the Court, was Crane's logical successor. The established practice then was for the Democratic and Republican leaders to nominate jointly the senior judge for head of the Court.84
In some quarters, however, Lehman's elevation to the Chief Judgeship was controversial. His brother was then Governor of the State. Never before in New York had brothers simultaneously headed the executive and judicial branches. Some saw it as a conflict of interest and a concentration of too much power in a single family.85
Irving and Herbert's close relationship was no secret. Irving's wife occasionally served as hostess at the Executive Mansion in Albany for her brother in law Herbert during his terms as Governor when his own wife was absent.86 Less well known, perhaps, was that Irving acted as a confidant to Herbert throughout his political life.87
The "brother issue" was raised most prominently by Fiorello H. LaGuardia, the Mayor of New York City. LaGuardia was an outspoken critic of the Court of Appeals, whose judges he complained were old and out of touch with New York City's problems.88 LaGuardia let it be known that he was considering running for Chief Judge as a Republican or Independent. He also played upon the fears of upstate Republicans that Herbert would make a partisan appointment to fill the vacancy created by Irving's elevation to the Chief Judgeship.89
But LaGuardia's trial balloon soon burst. The media and organized bar overwhelmingly threw its weight behind Lehman.90 "Of Judge Lehman's eminent qualifications it is almost impertinent to speak," the New York Times observed.91 Likewise, the New York State Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York endorsed Lehman's appointment, and the nominations of the Democratic, American Labor, and Republican parties followed in rapid order.92
At the same time, LaGuardia's advisors urged him not to run for a position that his volcanic personality made him unfit to hold.93 Thomas D. Thacher, who himself later became a Judge of the Court of Appeals, told LaGuardia that the brother issue could fan the fires of anti Semitism.94 LaGuardia abhorred religious intolerance and was persuaded to withdraw his name from consideration, clearing the way for Lehman's election in 1939.95 He was sworn in on the last day of the year after a series of congratulatory dinners.96
In the tradition of his predecessors, Lehman was a strong Chief Judge. "A man of immense dignity, [he] enforced strict decorum during oral argument."97 Some learned this the hard way like Nathaniel L. Goldstein, New York's Attorney General from 1943 to 1954. In the first and last case that he personally argued before Lehman as the Court's presiding officer, Goldstein began his oral argument with what amounted to a political harangue. But Lehman halted him: "Sir, do you have a legal argument? If not, I suggest that you leave that to the Solicitor General, and SIT DOWN."98
Priviate Life and Philanthropic Work
Lehman lived at the pinnacle of American life. His brother was New York's Governor. His best friend was Benjamin Cardozo.99 Albert Einstein was his houseguest not long after the world renowned physicist fled to the United States from Nazi Germany.100 He knew well the President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom he had twice sworn in as Governor of New York.101
By all accounts, Lehman was a happy person with a wide range of interests.102 Although he and his wife were childless, they were extremely close with their relatives and enjoyed spending time with them.103 Devoutly religious,104 he became a self taught scholar in ancient and modern Hebrew culture.105 He was also passionate about books and art.106 He spent years amassing a world class collection of Judaica, listing each acquisition in a small notebook in which he set down details relating to the objects.107
The great wealth Lehman inherited allowed him to enjoy a privileged lifestyle.108 But he gave back an enormous amount of his time and money to civic, philanthropic, and religious causes. In his college days he became a volunteer social worker at Lillian Wald's Henry Street Settlement.109 Later, he served on the Executive Committee of the Boy Scouts Foundation of Greater New York and in 1916 established "Camp Lehman," a summer camp for underprivileged boys on his Port Chester estate.110 He worked to achieve racial and religious harmony, collaborating with the Mayor of the City New York to improve inter racial relations and serving on organizations that combated prejudice such as the Goodwill Union and the Committee on Better Understanding.111
But by far and away the lion's share of Lehman's time off the bench was devoted to Jewish communal and philanthropic activities. Here he made an indelible mark, becoming one of the foremost leaders of American Jewry.112 He was active in the 1920's helping the American Jewish Committee combat Henry Ford's anti Semitic propaganda.113 From 1929 to 1938, he was President of Congregation Emanu El, one of the most important Reform synagogues in the nation.114 He was a founder of the National Jewish Welfare Board and served on its board from 1917 to 1940. During World War I he was a member of the Jewish Welfare Board's Executive Committee and Chairman of the Committee on Religious Activity, which distributed prayer books for use among Jewish soldiers. As President from 1921 to 1940, he developed the plan for the Jewish Welfare Board to become the national coordinator of Jewish community center work.115
He was a member and officer of the American Jewish Committee for three decades, becoming an Honorary Vice President in 1942. For eight years he was President of the 92nd Street YMHA.116 He was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Intercollegiate Menorah Association and the Admissions Committee of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Agencies. From 1901 to his death he served on the Board of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and was elected its Honorary Secretary. He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations; the Board of Governors of the American Friends of the Hebrew University in Palestine; and the Visiting Committee for the Semitic Museum at Harvard University.117
Final Years
During the last years of Lehman's life his prominence in the public's mind grew to a stature known by few other state court jurists.118 In 1939, he was asked to deliver an address on the Central Park Mall before 20,000 people who gathered for a citizenship rally.119 Later that year, he delivered an address on "Youth and Civic Responsibility" broadcast over the radio by the National Broadcast Company.120
On May 28, 1941, Lehman presided over a ceremony commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Founding of the New York State Supreme Court.121 These exercises, in which President Roosevelt and Governor Lehman participated, were held in the chamber of the New York State Assembly in Albany.122 Irving's and Herbert's nephew, Arthur Lehman Goodhart, a distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University, traveled from England to participate as a speaker too.123
However, Lehman's last years were saddened by the events of World War II. He was devastated by the destruction of European Jewry during the Holocaust.124 Also, Herbert's son, Peter, a decorated war hero, was killed during a mission against Germany on March 31, 1944.125 Many of Irving's public speeches during this period have an elegiac quality, frequently alluding to the war and religious faith.
Probably the summit of Lehman's career in the public consciousness occurred on the evening of June 19, 1945, when the City of New York held an official welcoming dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in honor of General Dwight D. Eisenhower on his triumphal home coming as the leader of the Allied Forces. The dinner followed a ticker tape parade for Eisenhower witnessed by an estimated 4,000,000 people. Approximately 1,600 people attended the dinner, at which Lehman was selected to give the welcoming address on behalf of the City.126
"Because the heart of New York was in that welcome and because . . . Lehman sensed so deeply, and with such accurate knowledge of the facts, what an allied victory had meant to all peoples of the earth, he felt himself greatly honored when he was chosen to introduce the City's guest."127 The speech he delivered expressed a singular love of America as the land of opportunity for people of all religious faiths and ethnic groups.128
Lehman's welcoming address proved to be his valedictory. Three weeks after delivering it, as he walked around his Port Chester estate with his pet dog, Carlo, he collided with the dog and broke his left ankle. Confined to a wheel chair, he hoped to be able to return to work for the opening of the Court's October session. But an embolism developed, his heart began to fail, and on September 22, 1945 he died before his colleagues on the Court even knew he was ill.129 He was buried in Salem Fields Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.130
Memorial exercises were held at Court of Appeals Hall on October 23, 1945. Judge Charles B. Sears, Joseph M. Proskauer, and Attorney General Nathaniel L. Goldstein spoke for the bar and Chief Judge John T. Loughran responded for the Court of Appeals.131
On November 25, 1945, over 1,100 people attended a public memorial service held for Lehman at Congregation Emanu El in New York City.132 Numerous luminaries of the bench, bar, and Jewish community addressed the gathering. But the most eloquent words were perhaps spoken by Lehman's Rabbi, Dr. Samuel H. Goldenson:
"[Lehman] belonged to that rare company of men who are endowed with a goodly measure of the qualities attributed by the Prophet Isaiah to that moral and spiritual personality, who, in the course of time is to lead mankind to the ultimate goal of peace. . . . [A] God conscious and reverend person, his life and labors rested upon knowledge and love of the moral law."133
Lehman and his wife left no offspring.
This biography appears in The Judges of the New York Court of Appeals: A Biographical History, ed. Hon. Albert M. Rosenblatt (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007). It has not been updated since publication.
Sources Consulted
Birge, Address Commemorating The 100th Anniversary of Irving Lehman Graduation from Columbia Law School (Oct. 8, 1998).
Crane, Address Before The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Oct. 16, 1945), in Assoc. of the Bar of the City of N.Y., Year Book, 1946 at 406.
Goldstein, in Proceedings in the Court of Appeals in Reference to the Death of Honorable Irving Lehman, N.Y. Reports, vol. 294, at xi.
Lewis, The Contribution of Judge Irving Lehman to the Development of the Law (1951).
Loughran, in Proceedings in the Court of Appeals in Reference to the Death of Honorable Irving Lehman, N.Y. Reports, vol. 294, at xiii.
McKenna, 12 American National Biography Encyclopedia 437 (1999).
Proskauer, in Proceedings in the Court of Appeals in Reference to the Death of Honorable Irving Lehman, N.Y. Reports, vol. 294, at vii.
Proskauer, Memorial of Irving Lehman (Oct. 16, 1945), in Assoc. of the Bar of the City of N.Y., Year Book, 1946 at 403.
Rosenman, Irving Lehman, 6 The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia 595 (1948).
Roosevelt, My Day, Sept. 24, 1945.
Sears, in Proceedings in the Court of Appeals in Reference to the Death of Honorable Irving Lehman, N.Y. Reports, vol. 294, at ix.
Shientag, Chief Judge Irving Lehman, Citizen and Jurist: An Appreciation, XXXV Menorah Journal 155 (Spring 1947).
Schneiderman, Irving Lehman, 1876 1945, 48 Am. Jewish Y.B. 85 (1947).
Weil, A Tribute to Judge Irving Lehman (Sept. 29, 1945).
Wiecek, The Encyclopedia of New York State 881 (2005).
Wiecek, Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement Three, 1941 1945, at 451.
Wiecek, The Place of Chief Judge Irving Lehman in AmericanConstitutional Development, 60 Am. Jewish Hist. Q. 280 (1971).
Published Writings
An Address Welcoming General Dwight D. Eisenhower (1945). The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 57 Harv. L. Rev. 1240 (1944) (book review).
The Moral Foundation of Law, An Address Delivered at Temple Emanu El in New York City (Nov. 12, 1944).
Address Delivered at the Sixty Sixth Annual Meeting of the New York State Bar Association (Jan. 22, 1943), in LXVI Ann. Rep. of the N.Y. St. B.A. 457 (1943).
The Supremacy of the Law, An Address Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the New York State Bar Association (Jan. 24, 1941).
The Influence of Judge Cardozo on the Common Law (1942). This lecture, which was given on Oct. 8, 1941 before the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, was also published in: 1 Benjamin N. Cardozo Memorial Lectures Delivered Before the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1941 1995, at 15 (1995); and 35 Law. Libr. J. 2.
Frederick Evan Crane, 9 Brooklyn L. Rev. 113 (1940).
An Address by Irving Lehman Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, in The Supreme Court of the State of New York _ 1691 1941 _ Exercises Upon the Occasion of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of Its Founding 33 (1941).
Judge Cardozo in the Court of Appeals, 52 Harv. L. Rev. 364 (1939). This is one of the "Essays Dedicated to Mr. Justice Cardozo" (1939), which were originally published in volume 39 of the Columbia Law Review, volume 52 of the Harvard Law Review, and volume 48 of the Yale Law Journal.
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo: A Memorial (1938).
Remarks Before the Bar and Officers of the Supreme Court of the United States at the Exercises Held in Memory of Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo (Nov. 26, 1938), in 1 Memorial of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States 431 (1981). These remarks were also published at XXVII Menorah Journal 171 (Spring 1939).
The Constitution: The Safeguard of Our Religious Liberties, An Address Delivered Before an Assembly at the Jewish Theological Seminary (Dec. 16, 1937).
Foreward to Max James Kohler, Immigration and Aliens in the United States: Studies of American Immigration Laws and the Legal Status of Aliens in the United States at iii (1936). Max J. Kohler, 37 Am. Jewish Y.B. 21 (1935).
Address Before the Joint Conference on Legal Education in the State of New York (June 28, 1935).
Address at the 25th Anniversary of American Jewish Committee, in 34 Am. Jewish Y.B. 335 (1932).
The One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Constitutional Establishment of Religious Liberty, An Address Before the Judaeans (April 24, 1927), in Luigi Luzzati, God in Freedom: Studies on the Relations Between Church and State at 661 (1930).
Memorial Address for Louis Marshall (Nov. 10, 1929), in Louis Marshall: A Biographical Sketch and Memorial Addresses 89 (1931).
Constitutional Liberty, in Christian and Jews: A Symposium for Better Understanding at 331 (1929).
Address Before the N.Y. County Lawyers' Association, in 1928 N.Y. County Law Ass'n Y.B. 295 (1928).
The Commonwealth Committee's Report on The Law of Evidence, 27 Colum L. Rev. 890 (1927) (book review).
Religious Freedom as a Legal Right, Am. Hebrew, Sept. 23, 1927, at 602.\
Technical Rules of Evidence, 26 Colum. L. Rev. 509 (1926). This article was also published at 4 Tenn. L. Rev. 125 (1926).
The Influence of the Universities on Judicial Decision, 10 Cornell L.Q. 1 (1924).
Additional Research
Irving Lehman's widow, Sissie Lehman, destroyed all of his papers in her possession at the time of his death, including his correspondence with Benjamin Cardozo. But some of Lehman's correspondence and other papers survive in The Hebert H. Lehman Suite and Papers at Columbia University; in the archives of the Jewish Welfare Board at the American Jewish Historical Society (15 West 16th Street in New York City); and amongst the papers of his nephew, Arthur Lehman Goodhart, at the University of Oxford, Bodleian Library.
Oil portraits of Lehman hang at Court of Appeals Hall in Albany, New York, and at Congregation Emanu El, in New York City. There is also a bronze bas relief portrait of Lehman at the Friedenberg Collection, Jewish Museum, in New York City.


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ALAMEDA — The redevelopment of the Alameda Naval Air Station will increase traffic throughout the city and parts of Oakland, clogging a road network already stretched near capacity, an Environmental Impact Report on the massive project has found.
The report, which the Planning Board will consider recommending to the City Council on Monday, also said it will not be financially feasible to offset the increased traffic by widening and building more roads, or by building a new bridge or tunnels across the Oakland-Alameda Estuary.
Instead, the report said city officials should adopt a traffic plan that will encourage future residents and workers to use ferries and other public transport, and that the redevelopment of the 1,560-acre site now known as Alameda Point should be "transit-oriented."
Along with the EIR, the board will consider resolutions Monday that call on the council to amend the city's General Plan and municipal code, as well as a draft Master Infrastructure Plan to will help set the stage for private investment and redevelopment.
The City Council is expected to hold public hearing on the documents Feb. 4.
While Alameda Point was once a Navy station where about 18,000 people worked, the EIR reviews the impacts based on what is happening there now and the anticipated changes over next 20 years.
Currently, the former base has 267 housing units and businesses that provide about 1,000 jobs. But city officials expect the base will have about 9,000 jobs and 3,278 people will live there after it has been fully redeveloped.
The EIR also looks at the impacts in Alameda against what is expected to take place in Oakland during the coming decades.
"The existing transportation network in Alameda and Oakland is near capacity in 2013," City Planner Andrew Thomas and Jennifer Ott, the CEO of Alameda Point, said in background report for the board. "With the anticipated growth in (Oakland) along the I-880 corridor, which will add over 15,000 housing units and over 10 million square feet of nonresidential development … the local and regional transportation network in Alameda and Oakland has little capacity to accommodate additional vehicles."
Alameda cannot take on funding the work that will be needed to improve regional transportation, plus expanding the network of streets and roads would boost greenhouse gas emissions and undermine the quality of life in the city's neighborhoods, Thomas and Ott said.
The EIR does not review the impacts in the city's West End if an earthquake closed the Webster and Posey tubes. Caltrans upgraded the tubes between 2000 and 2003 and both meet current seismic standards, according to the report.
"Nevertheless, the potential for the tubes to incur some level of damage following a substantial earthquake cannot be fully ruled out and that damage could require temporary closure of one or both tubes," Thomas and Ott said. "If such circumstances should occur, traffic would be routed to one of the other bridges that access the island, in addition to expanded ferry service …. Catastrophic failure of the tubes is not considered likely by Caltrans."
The EIR also books at environmental cleanup, population growth, housing and other aspects of the overall effort to redevelop Alameda Point.
The current plans include a waterfront "town center" that would be built near where many of the former Navy base's historic buildings are located. The character of some buildings, however, may end up compromised as crews upgrade infrastructure, take steps to offset projected sea level rise and carry out other work, the document said.
The center, which would be located around what was known as the Seaplane Lagoon, would include a marina, ferry terminal and places for recreation.
While the EIR recommends steps to lessen the potential effects of the area's transformation, it concludes that some impacts may be significant and unavoidable. It also looks at the impact of tweaking the overall redevelopment plan, including building more or fewer homes, as well as the impact of leaving Alameda Point as it is.
The EIR and other documents were created after city officials gathered public comment through surveys, meetings and other community events over the past 18 months.
The EIR is available, in chapters, on the city's website at http://alamedaca.gov/alameda-point/eir. Printed copies are also available at local libraries, the City Clerk's Office, Mastick Senior Center and other locations throughout the city.
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Council passes $83 million New London budget for second time
New London - Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio offered the City Council a way on Monday to avoid laying off 25 firefighters - put $600,000 back in the budget and raise taxes.
But in a split vote, the council rejected the mayor's suggestion, approving the proposed $83 million spending package that councilors spent weeks deliberating. It is the second time the council approved the budget and will revisit it for a third and final vote next week.
Councilors Anthony Nolan, John Maynard and Wade Hyslop voted against the budget. Council President Michael Passero and Councilors Marie Friess-McSparran, Donald Macrino and Adam Sprecace voted for the budget.
"We will probably still debate on how we get to the bottom line,'' Sprecace said after the vote. "But I think that amount ($83 million) is sufficient to do without layoffs."
Nolan voted against the budget, saying he disagreed with a proposal to combine education and municipal finance departments because it would cost the city about $500,000.
Hyslop also voted against the budget for a second time, saying it was too low to support city services and preserve jobs.
Passero, although he voted for the budget, sided with Hyslop.
"I share Councilor Hyslop's concern that we're cutting too much, but we had to somehow satisfy the needs of the taxpayers chafing under an 8 percent tax increase, with people in the community who want to continue services and support employees,'' he said. "When we crafted this budget, we struck a very delicate balance. ... I don't believe this budget requires layoffs."
Maynard voted against the budget, saying he disagreed with previous council action that he believes took away the council's control to make line-item cuts.
Last week, Finizio announced that 25 firefighters and 10 police officers would lose their jobs under the council's proposed $83 million budget. Finizio had proposed an $87 million budget that would have preserved all jobs in the city and required a 20 percent tax hike.
After weeks of review, the council whittled the mayor's proposal to $83 million. It is just over a 1 percent increase from the current fiscal year, but represents an 8 percent increase in taxes because of reductions in revenues.
It also includes cuts in the number of employes who work in the public works and education departments.
Before the council vote Monday night, Finizio said he believed he could avoid layoffs in the fire department by opening up contract negotiations with the union to discuss a defined benefit pension plan.
"I believe we can avoid layoffs,'' he said before the council vote. "But there is another option. Put $600,000 back in the fire department budget and raise taxes.''
Sprecace said he calculated the fire department overtime budget is equal to about 700 hours per year of overtime for each firefighter, a figure he says can't be accurate.
"My suspicion is there are monies in the fire department budget not being used as they were intended,'' he said. "I believe $8 million for the fire department, (which is an increase from last year) is sufficient.''
At the meeting, Rocco Basilica said the fire department would continue to serve the citizens "despite the media binge that's been the New London Fire Department."
Basilica, president of the firefighters' union, said the union will continue to negotiate with the city.
"I'm here looking for some support,'' he said. "We've had two meeting with the city, and hopefully we can meet in the middle somewhere."
The superintendent of schools has put 68 teachers on notice that their jobs may be eliminated at the end of the school year. Three public works employees and a worker in the Parks and Recreation Department also received layoff notices. Others lost their jobs through department restructuring, Finizio said Monday night.
The personnel coordinator's position will be eliminated when Bernadette Welch retires at the end of the month.
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MILWAUKEE, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson Controls, Inc., the world's leading supplier of automotive batteries, is slated to begin production this spring of Li-ion battery packs out of its advanced battery plant in Holland, Mich., for Torqeedo's all-electric boat motors.
Torqeedo, a German-based manufacturer, will use Johnson Controls' Li-ion automotive battery packs to power its award-winning 80-Horsepower electric boat motor called DEEP BLUE.
"With our leading battery expertise, we helped our customer combine two distinct technologies – the large outboard engine and electric motor -- making the Torqeedo DEEP BLUE system a real game-changer," said Holger Jetses, vice president and general manager for Johnson Controls Power Solutions' Original Equipment group, EMEA. "In bringing this innovative product to the marine market we are helping to provide a cleaner, quieter and more economical boating experience for users."
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DEEP BLUE has taken the boating industry's top awards for innovation. Earlier this month, it received the 2013 Innovation Award at the National Marine Manufacturers Association conference in Miami.
Torqeedo's DEEP BLUE was also the Overall Winner of the prestigious 2012 DAME Award at the world's largest marine equipment show, METS, in Amsterdam this past November. The jury praised Torqeedo's groundbreaking research and development, saying, "In bringing this truly original product to the marine market, DEEP BLUE's designers have achieved a first-class package that offers convenience, price worthiness and performance."
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Nonlinear type family instances considered dangerous
This page discusses problems and solutions that come up when thinking about type family instances with repeated variables on the left-hand side.
The Problem
Consider the following:
type family F a b type instance F x x = Int type instance F [x] x = Bool type family G type instance G = [G]
G is a nullary type family, but its nullariness is just for convenience -- no peculiarity of nullary type families is involved.
These declarations compile just fine in GHC 7.6.3 (with
-XUndecidableInstances), and on the surface, this seems OK. After all, the two instances of
F cannot unify. Thus, no usage site of
F can be ambiguous, right? Wrong. Consider
F G G. We might simplify this to
Int, using the first instance, or we might first simplify to
F [G] G and then to
Bool. Yuck!
I (Richard/goldfire) have tried to use this inconsistency to cause a seg fault, but after a few hours, I was unable to do so. However, my inability to do so seems more closely related to the fact the type families are strict than anything more fundamental.
It's worth noting that
-XUndecidableInstances is necessary to exploit this problem. However, we still want
-XUndecidableInstances programs to be type-safe (as long as GHC terminates).
The Solution
We need to consider the two instances of
F to be overlapping and inadmissible. There are a handful of ways to do this, but the best seems to be this:
- when performing the overlap check between two instances, check a version of the instances where all variables are distinct
We call the "version of the instance where all variables are distinct" the "linearised form" of the instance.
Using such a check, the two instances for
F above indeed conflict, because we would compare
(F a b) against
(F [c] d), where a,b,c,d are the fresh distinct variables.
This can break existing code. But, a medium-intensity search did not find any uses of nonlinear (i.e. with a repeated variable) family instances in existing code, so I think we should be OK. However, a change needs to be made -- the current system is subtly broken and has been so for years.
(Interestingly, proofs of the soundness of the existing system have been published. For example, see here and here. These proofs are not necessarily incorrect, but they implicitly don't allow nonlinear family instances.)
This new overlap check only looks at the left hand side of the instance. The alert reader will know that GHC currently also looks at the right hand side, which we return to in "coincident overlap" below.
Branched instances
But, how does this interact with branched instances (those new instance forms that allow for ordered overlapping)? We still need nonlinear branched instances, as the canonical example of a nonlinear instance is an equality test. The solution is to declare a type space that all branches fit within.
For example:
type family Equals a b :: Bool type instance Equals x y where Equals x x = True Equals x y = False
The header "
type instance Equals x y" declares the "type space" of the declaration; the
where part says how to match calls within that type space (top to bottom).
In this case the type space is the whole space, but that need not be the case:
type family F a b :: * type instance F Int x where F Int Bool = Double F Int Int = Char F Int a = Bool type instance F Bool y = Int
Here the first
type instance covers calls of form
(F Int x), while the second covers
calls of form
(F Bool y).
All the equations in the
where part must be part of (i.e. an instance of) the
type space declared in the header. For example, this will be disallowed:
type instance Bad [x] y where Bad [Int] Int = Bool -- OK Bad a b = () -- not OK: outside the type space (Bad [x] y)
The declared type space will be checked for overlap with other instances using the same linearization check that unbranched instances use.
Concrete Proposal
- Among unbranched instances, check linearized forms of the instances when doing overlap checking. Thus, our two problematic instances of
F, at the top, will conflict.
- After linearizing a left-hand side, the right-hand side of the instance is ill-defined. Thus, the current coincidence check (see here for more information) is no longer possible and will be removed. (Don't yell yet. Keep reading.)
- Add type space declarations to the
type instance wheresyntax, checking to make sure that branches fit within the declared space.
- Allow coincident overlap within branched instances. This recovers the lost coincident overlap check on unbranched instances. See here for more information.
- Add new syntax
type family Foo a b where { Foo ... = ... ; Foo ... = ... }to declare a type family with one branched instance covering the entire type space. This would be a closed type family.
Discussion about coincident overlap
This proposal has the net effect of forcing all uses of coincident overlap to appear in one module, instead of spread across modules. That's admittedly not great, but it's possible that no one will be negatively affected. The only alternative we've (Simon, Dimitrios, Richard) thought of is to disallow coincident overlap when the left-hand sides are non-linear, but that seems very ugly and ad-hoc.
To see why disallowing coincident overlap checking for unbranched axioms is vitally necessary, consider this example:
type instance F a a Int = a type instance F c d d = Int
No, they most certainly are not OK (think about
F G G G, where this is the malignant
G from the beginning of this page), but they do coincide in the region of overlap. Yuck Yuck! So, we give up and just say "no" to coincident overlap in this case.
Alternative (Non-)Solution
One way we (Simon, Dimitrios, and Richard) considered proceeding was to prohibit nonlinear unbranched instances entirely. Unfortunately, that doesn't work. Consider this:
type family H (x :: [k]) :: * type instance H '[] = Bool
Innocent enough, it seems. However, that instance expands to
type instance H k ('[] k) = Bool internally. And that expansion contains a repeated variable! Yuck. We Thought Hard about this and came up with various proposals to fix it, but we weren't convinced that any of them were any good. So, we concluded to allow nonlinear unbranched instances, but we linearize them when checking overlap. This may surprise some users, but we will put in a helpful error message in this case.


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Sunday, 20 September 2009
Just a few Numidians..
Greg has very kindly painted 160 (!) minis (the ones on the tray), but unfortunately they took a bit of a pasting in the post and will need a little tender working care to get them into the field. I retouched a dozen last night, though, and I think it'll be relatively quick; hopefully I should be able to finish about a dozen a night. As well as these, I have 28 more unpainted infantry and 24 mostly unpainted cavalry. Plenty to do...
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"Bridesmaids" star Rose Byrne has never actually been one in real life. But the sultry beauty told us she will be this summer for her best friend's wedding in Australia. "I'm looking for tips," Byrne said at a premiere of the final season of her show "Damages." "It's the first time for me." A guest then offered a pointer: "Do everything the bride says." Byrne nodded and seemed to be making a mental note when she said, "Be obedient." Her "Damages" co-stars Glenn Close and Jenna Elfman also celebrated at a swank party at The Plaza Thursday night. But overshadowing the stars' arrival, the biggest attraction of the evening was a blimp circling the hotel with a screen flashing the cast's faces. "Wow. That's pretty cool. That's huge! I should tell my mother," exclaimed Byrne when a pal pointed out the airborne billboard overhead. Along with a preview of the legal series' swan song, guests enjoyed a live jazz band and mingled among on-theme props, like bloody business cards and a red-stained bathtub that was full of wine.
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Williams to face Red Sox on two days' rest
ANAHEIM -- Angels right-hander Jerome Williams often says his arm never tires, thanks in large part to the 200-pitch bullpen sessions he often threw during a one-year stint in Taiwan.
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ANAHEIM -- Angels right-hander Jerome Williams often says his arm never tires, thanks in large part to the 200-pitch bullpen sessions he often threw during a one-year stint in Taiwan.
That claim will really be put to the test on Saturday.View Full Game Coverage
The Angels, scrambling to find someone to take Tommy Hanson's spot in the rotation, will turn to Williams for the second game of a three-game series against the Red Sox -- three days after the 31-year-old started against the Cardinals.
Williams' Wednesday outing saw him give up seven runs while recording only five outs. But there was a blessing in disguise: He only threw 55 pitches -- 45 of which came in a second inning he didn't finish -- and now he believes he'll be good to go on two days' rest.
"I'm just going to go out there and throw," said Williams, 5-4 with a 3.89 ERA in 21 games (10 starts) this season. "That's my job. I did it numerous times in Taiwan, independent ball. Whatever they need me to do to help, I'll do it."
Williams has only started on two days' rest one time in his career. It was April 19, 2005, when he gave up four runs in four innings three days after pitching two-thirds of an inning out of the bullpen for the Giants. This situation seems even more challenging, given how many pitches he threw his last time out, and it'll come against a Red Sox team that came into a weekend series with the most runs scored in the Majors.
But Williams has been moved in and out of the rotation all season and, as Mike Scioscia said, "He's bounced back great from whatever we've asked him to do."
He pitched six innings out of the bullpen in a 19-inning game against the A's on April 29, then made six turns through the rotation, then compiled 12 innings in an eight-day stretch from June 8-16, then made three more turns through the rotation.
Now, a new challenge.
"It'll be different," Williams said. "But I'm sure I've done it at some point."
The Angels are off on Monday and Thursday, with the four-day All-Star break following four days later. Williams can start again on Friday -- giving him five days' rest after extending himself -- and the Angels won't need a fifth starter until July 23.
By then, perhaps Hanson (right forearm strain) or Jason Vargas (blood clot in left armpit) -- or both -- can be back.
"I wasn't a pitcher, but I would think you're chomping' at the bit to get out there and get another shot at it after you've struggled," Scioscia said. "If Jerome wasn't quite recovered enough, he would've been fine pitching last week in Chicago. He's up for it, he wants to get out there, and hopefully he'll give us what we're looking for tomorrow."
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Los Angeles • Coach Tyrone Corbin cautioned against overreacting. Center Al Jefferson said the Jazz must stick together. Devin Harris and Gordon Hayward know Utah missed way too many makeable shots.
But after the lifeless Jazz were blown out 96-71 by the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night at Staples Center, there was no getting around a single fact: Utah's 2011-12 debut was historically bad.
How bad?
The Jazz set a franchise-low for points scored during a season opener, according to the team's public relations staff, eclipsing a 37-year-old mark. The then-New Orleans Jazz lost 89-74 to New York on Oct. 17, 1974.
Utah (0-1) barely fought off two other inglorious franchise lows. The Jazz shot just 32.2 percent (29 of 90) from the field Tuesday, edging a 29.3 floor percentage that's an all-time worst. In addition, Utah's 25-point deficit was just one point better than a 26-point loss to Dallas on Oct. 31, 1986 that holds the record as the Jazz's biggest season-opening loss.
Corbin wasn't surprised his rebuilding team danced with futility after watching Utah miss a staggering variety of open looks. And as the clanking shots mounted, the Jazz's defense fell apart.
"The [Lakers] came out and they were the aggressor," Corbin said. "They ran the ball down the floor and got the ball where they wanted to and we didn't get the shots to fall in that we wanted to, so we pressed a little bit."
Utah appeared unfocused, unmotivated and unprepared just minutes into the fallout. Now, the Jazz have entered a lockout-shortened 66-game campaign staring at unforgiving NBA life from the bottom up.
"We just have to find some continuity, some rhythm, where everybody knows what everybody likes to do," Utah forward C.J. Miles said. "I don't think we've gotten to that point where everybody knows where everybody likes to be."
Down by 29 during the fourth quarter, Utah watched early-game miscommunication turn into in-game yells, and the faces of everyone from Raja Bell to Gordon Hayward tightened.
Bell gathered the Jazz's other four starters together during an extended timeout, raising his voice and attempting to motivate his teammates.
But the Lakers (2-1) nullified the chatter with action, continuing to roll and turning a 25-8 run to start the third quarter into a total rout.
By the start of the fourth, Jefferson sat on the bench. The Jazz's leading average scorer and rebounder last season had his right knee heavily wrapped, his face was in his hands and he was 2 of 16 from the field.
Nothing was working for Utah, and the Jazz were left to watch a near frame-by-frame reply of the worst moments from a bitter 2010-11 campaign.
Jefferson said the "basketball Gods" weren't on his side Tuesday, adding he was already past the loss by the time Utah's locker room opened to the media. But after the Jazz struggled through exhibition play and entered the regular season searching for everything from a true No. 1 player to a team identity, he acknowledged the blowout to the Lakers was a wake-up call.
"No need to panic," he said. "We know what we got to do. … We just had to be better than what we was. It's a wake-up call, but it's not the end of the world."
Paul Millsap came off the bench to lead Utah with a team-high 18 points, while Josh Howard added 10. Rookie center Enes Kanter recorded 11 rebounds.
Kobe Bryant's 26 points topped the Lakers.
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R In short • The Jazz show little life during their 2011-12 season opener.
Key stat • Utah shoots just 26 percent (13 of 50) during the first half.
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