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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco judge said Wednesday she is considering tossing out the lion's share of the $289 million judgment against agribusiness giant Monsanto and ordering a new trial over whether the company's weed-killer caused a groundskeeper's cancer.
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Suzanne Bolanos didn't formally rule on any issues after a two-hour hearing to consider Monsanto's demand to toss out the entire jury verdict in the first of thousands of similar cases across the country to go to trial.
The San Francisco jury in August said Monsanto knew — or should have known — its best-selling Roundup weed-killer causes cancer and hit the company with $250 million in punitive damages, which are designed to punish companies who act recklessly. The jury also awarded DeWayne Johnson $33 million in so-called "pain-and-suffering" damages and $6 million in actual damages.
But Bolanos issued a written tentative ruling ahead of the hearing saying she intended to strike down the punitive damages and schedule a new trial on that issue.
During the hearing, Bolanos also said she was troubled by the $33 million in "non-economic" pain-and-suffering damages the jury awarded. Johnson's lawyer argued for $1 million a year for the next 33 years. But Monsanto's lawyers argued that Johnson is expected to live for two more years — an argument that appeared to resonate with Bolanos who mulled out loud about fashioning an order reducing the entire verdict to under $9 million.
Ultimately, Bolanos ordered lawyers to submit written argument by Friday and said she would rule after that.
Johnson and his lawyers left court without comment. So did Monsanto's legal team.
However, Bayer AG, which acquired Monsanto in June, said it agreed with the judge and "continues to believe that the evidence at trial does not support the verdict and the damage awards."
"The jury's verdict was wholly at odds with over 40 years of real-world use, an extensive body of scientific data and analysis ... and approvals in 160 countries, which support the conclusion that glyphosate-based herbicides are safe when used as directed and that glyphosate is not carcinogenic," Bayer's statement said.
"Tentative rulings are common in California and it's rare for judges to reverse themselves," said David Levine, a professor at the University of California's Hastings Law School in San Francisco.
During the hearing, the judge said she was concerned with improper statements Johnson's lawyer Brent Wisner made during his closing arguments. Despite the judge's order not to, Wisner compared Monsanto to tobacco companies and said company executives would be drinking champagne in their boardroom if the jury sided with the St. Louis-based company.
The judge admonished the jury to disregard those comments at the time, but wondered Wednesday if they entitled Monsanto to a new trial.
"It was intentional and purposeful," Monsanto attorney George Lombardi argued.
Johnson's lawyer Michael Miller said the judge's admonition during the closing arguments was sufficient.
"The jury did not miscarry justice," Miller said. "Its decision was unanimous. It should be respected."
Copyright 2018 Associated Press. All rights reserved.


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Pembleton Super Sports/Grasshopper
Named after the caravan that supplied the aluminium for the prototype, more than 300 have been sold in the past decade. The Super Sports is a handsome car with simple but well-curved, laser-cut aluminium panels and a spacious and comfortable cockpit. It's neither as dynamically able nor as fast as some alternatives, but that popping Citroën engine, the gentle ride quality and the light steering are charming.
Contact: Phil Gregory, Pembleton Motor Company, Bayton, Worcestershire. Tel +44 (0) 1299 832944

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Telangana issue: Kiran Kumar Reddy meets Sonia Gandhi
Published: 04th February 2013 10:16 AM | Last Updated: 04th February 2013 12:36 PM | A+A A-
Amid mounting pressure from
pro-Telangana groups for an early decision on the statehood
issue, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy Monday
met Congress President Sonia Gandhi and discussed the matter.
Reddy, who arrived in the national capital in the wee hours, had an hour-long meeting with AICC General Secretary in-charge of the state Ghulam Nabi Azad soon after his arrival.
He then drove to the residence of Gandhi where her political secretary Ahmed Patel also joined in.The meeting is underway.
Party spokesperson P C Chacko had said on January 30 that Congress is not against the formation of Telangana but it needs time to complete the formalities. He signalled that the process has been put on the fast track.
"Congress is not against the formation of Telangana state. We are in the process of taking a decision but then formalities have to be completed," Chacko had told reporters.
His remarks had come even as Congress MPs from Telangana were waiting for an appointment with Gandhi for submitting their resignation to press for an early creation of a separate state.


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Nope, they're not back on the market just yet.
We previously reported the alleged break up of the on again off again couple, Karrueche Tran & Chris Brown. Media buzzed earlier this week speculating that the two broke up over a post Chris put on Instagram of his love wearing very little clothes which was deleted from his profile almost instantly.
It seemed innocent up until sources noticed that the two unfollowed each other from their social media profiles and deleted photos of each other – as any other couple would do in the middle of a break up but Karrueche's manager says otherwise.
Jacob York took to twitter Saturday afternoon to put the rumors to rest.
Rumors are funny
— JACOB YORK (@JACOBYORK) July 7, 2014
RT @necolebitchie: Did Chris Brown & Karrueche Call It Quits…Again? http://t.co/MTuXk6YGRf pic.twitter.com/cPnc60O2oD < false
— JACOB YORK (@JACOBYORK) July 7, 2014
Womp womp to those who thought they were next up – better luck next time?


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Providing drivers and passengers with an adequate comfort level is a critical design objective. This is true across all modes of transport including automobiles, trucks, off-road vehicles, trains, and aircraft. HVAC climate control is a critical element in the highly influential and respected J.D. Power and Associates APEAL study. Cabin cool-down and warm-up times are not only key design requirements, but are often regulated. Increasing globalization of brands means vehicles must be designed to operate in an ever wider range of environmental conditions with very high or very low ambient temperatures and strong solar radiation, and sometimes under extreme conditions with heavy loads on the engine. Vehicle electrification is adding additional efficiency requirements on the design of HVAC systems.
Although it is very important for cabin design to meet passenger comfort requirements, an active HVAC system can cut fuel economy by as much as ten percent, so efficiency of the entire climate control system is essential to good overall fuel economy.
Addressing cabin thermal performance early in the design cycle is critical to the key business objectives of occupant comfort and good fuel economy.
Cabin comfort assessment traditionally depends heavily on testing physical prototypes. Physical testing is very expensive, time-consuming, and inflexible. Solar radiation is a critical component that can be reproduced only to a limited degree in climatic wind tunnels. Measuring surface and fluid temperatures is not sufficient. Passenger comfort is a complex physiological function of temperature, heat transfer rates, air velocity, clothing, body type, body mass, and other factors. With physical testing, such evaluations are very subjective.
The SIMULIA PowerFLOW suite is ideally suited to address cabin comfort issues. SIMULIA PowerFLOW's unique, inherently transient Lattice Boltzmann-based physics enables it to perform simulations that accurately predict real-world transient conditions on the most complex geometry. The resolution of large scale turbulence provides an accurate prediction of the heat transfer coefficients. SIMULIA PowerTHERM is a fully coupled, highly accurate, transient, conduction, and radiation solver that has sophisticated capabilities for modeling solar radiation and a best-in-class, proprietary, human comfort physiological model. The combination of PowerFLOW and PowerTHERM enables you to accurately predict cabin air temperature over long time periods, calculate heat-up and cool-down times, and visualize the flow and temperature fields for the entire cabin. This enables you to not only identify problem areas, but provide design recommendations that eliminate problems early in the design cycle. Rapid turnaround times for model setup, simulation, visualization, and design modification enable you to quickly make design changes to the baseline and evaluate the improvements in cabin comfort.
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What's coming up?
Well, the NFL draft is today so that's kind of exciting. In case you are wondering why there is a naked guy at the top of this page, it's because I will be doing "Rush week" this coming week. That's in honor of their new album coming out. Plus they are probably my fourth favorite band of all time. When my wife was pregnant with our first child we didn't find out the gender so we had to come with names for both genders. Early on I suggested Geddy, but my wife quickly shot that one down. So here is what I hope to have out this week.
-A Rush version of Judge the album cover
-A Rush version of the Heavy Metal Jukebox
-A review of Caress of steel
-A review of Permanent Waves
-The importance of Rush
-One other topic
Who would have thought a band that once looked like this......
....could be so cool?
***The new Rush is the album I am looking forward to most this year. What album are you most looking forward to? (it can be one that has already come out in 2007 too)


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Reviewer Geoffrey Koziol (University of California, Berkeley) "wish[es] [he] could recommend" Francis Oakley's Empty Bottles of Gentilism: Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050) (Yale University Press, 2010). He worries, however, that the book is "dangerous."Many more books were reviewed in this issue, so stay tuned . . . .
Mike Macnair (St. Hugh's College , Oxford University) shares other critics' high opinion of Paul Halliday's Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010), but raises a question about its "framing narrative."
Oren Bracha (University of Texas School of Law) recommends to students of copyright history Isabella Alexander's Copyright Law and the Public Interest in the Nineteenth Century (Hart Publishing, 2010). He notes that it "also provides much food for thought for those interested in contemporary intellectual property debates."
Núria Silleras-Fernández (University of Colorado, Boulder) highlights Marie A. Kelleher's convincing argument for Christian women's simultaneous agency and victimhood in The Measure of Woman: Law and Female Identity in the Crown of Aragon (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010). She welcomes the book into the historiography of gender and the law.
Reviewer William Chester Jordan (Princeton University) commends Thomas N. Bisson for "tak[ing] on a big problem" in The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government (Princeton University Press, 2008), even if he leaves future historians with a "significant problem" of their own.
In the meantime, subscribers may access the journal's full content here.


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Ruck'n Maul
Rabble-like Rebels in disarray
Greg Growden
March 29, 2013
Russell barwick and Greg Growden discuss the big issues of the week (video available only in Oceania)%]
The Rebels are in disarray both on the road in South Africa and at home in Melbourne. There will be further ramifications from the embarrassing late night fight involving Kurtley Beale, Cooper Vuna and captain Gareth Delve, which exposed the franchise as being a rabble.
Ruck'n Maul has been told of several other incidents involving Rebels players and officials in South Africa, including allegations of one player calling another a "Judas fag", which saw a third player having to be restrained; a player's wallet mysteriously disappearing; and an unsavoury incident in the team hotel lift. The behaviour of several team officials, when they have been placed under pressure, has also been questioned.
Back at home, uncertainty surrounds the future of the team with the private ownership of the Rebels set to be transferred to the Victorian Rugby Union. Observers have criticised the slowness of the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) to pledge support of any ownership changes, with influential Melbourne identities even arguing that some people in head office want to see the financially troubled Rebels either disappear or relocated.
There has even been mutterings of Australia losing one province and South Africa getting an extra place as long as the ARU are compensated. ARU officials were adamant yesterday, however, that they will not be getting rid of any Australian Super Rugby provinces.
Some at the Rebels are pushing for a complete revamp of staff, especially with head coach Damien Hill under enormous pressure as he struggles to control egos, poor results and a board that, according to one well-placed source, remains "almost disinterested".
Two names mentioned as possible Rebels head coaches are Scott Johnson and Brian Smith. But for either to be involved, the province must undergo a complete revamp and a dramatic improvement in leadership at numerous levels.
Another week in Tahland
The Waratahs are a relieved bunch after a lucky win over the Blues last weekend, a victory that hinged on several dubious refereeing decisions. Even in triumph, we hear the relationship between two important backline players is very fragile, with one refusing to speak to the other outside training; it all revolves around the first player believing the other has pushed for an outside signing to replace him next year. Another high-profile player is deeply worried that a Waratahs official is stalking him. The other Waratahs think the situation is hilarious, and they have named the player "Charlie" and the official "Alan" after the characters in Two and a Half Men.
Also what's this about a Waratahs official lodging a complaint against another senior staff member, citing unfair demands and interference? At the Waratahs, it is just one mess after another - especially with serious questions asked about sponsorship revenue, which could lead to the downfall of leading officials.
Coach slams players as 'half-talented"
A well-known and highly experienced Australian coaching figure has told colleagues this will be his last season at provincial level. He is not enjoying what he terms "part-time coaching and half-talented players". He is also unimpressed with certain dubious figures who hang around the province. Players would be shocked to know the identity of this respected coaching figure.
Ireland McKenzie's 'only' option
The shadow of Ewen McKenzie continues to haunt the ARU. While one union director has made it known that he does not want McKenzie as the next Wallabies coach because as a prop he supposedly doesn't know anything about backline play, another member of the board wasn't smart in uttering a few days ago that Ireland would be the only place that would take McKenzie as a coach. McKenzie deserves better.
Waratahs 'nothing like another game'
Don't be hoodwinked by newspaper reports that Western Force coach Michael Foley is treating the Waratahs encounter on Sunday as "just another game". Absolute tosh. Foley is desperate for revenge, especially after his season as Waratahs head coach last year was a mess, prompting serious rifts within the dressing room. He basically lost the players' support. Foley, a master politician, hasn't forgotten those who undermined him at the Waratahs, both on and off the field, and he has made it known to the inner sanctum that he wants "to shove it up 'em". If the Force win, there could be some interesting celebrations and comments made.
Another concern comes with a Force player making it known that he wasn't impressed with a derogatory, insensitive "handicap" remark made by one of the province's leading officials at a recent function. Also a departing Force official is none too happy that he has missed out on a big job despite promises. It had led to a major rift.
Radio update
There are certainly some comedians at the Rebels. As their South African tour blunders along, two Rebels players were told as the media gathered a few days ago to quickly remove a sign outside their door which said: "Where's Radio when you need him?" And name the ARU official who's "on the front foot" speech on Wednesday night prompted the MC to utter: "I hope you realise you've just made more promises than Julia Gillard did in five days in Western Sydney."
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Reported bugs through bugzilla, anything else I can do?
I'm actually a bit disappointed as a friend of mine is a network admin and he told me they have a linux server that has not been rebooted for a few years now, so why is mine crashing so often? I'm a big fun of Debian and Fedora, but Fedora latest release keeps annoying me. Is the only solution to switch to something more stable, like Debian Lenny or hopefully Fedora 11 or 12?
here is the error message:
Dec 4 15:09:33 julia kernel: [drm:i915_hangcheck_elapsed] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... GPU hung
Dec 4 15:09:33 julia kernel: [drm:i915_do_wait_request] *ERROR* i915_do_wait_request returns -5 (awaiting 230713 at 230710)
I'm still not convinced that the crashes are caused by faulty cdrom drive. Have added my vote on the launchpad bug issue hoping someone is going to fix it soon.
UPDATE2: Memory has been tested thoroughly and no errors were detected during the test


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We've not been big fans of the cheaper, American-ized version of the new Volkswagen Jetta. The Jetta GLI offers some course corrections: 200 hp, independent rear suspension, a manual standard and an interior who's first cousin isn't Fisher-Price.
Revealed today in glossy red at the Chicago Auto Show, the Jetta GLI will hit the streets in May, with prices starting at $23,495. Power comes from the venerable turbo four-cylinder, mated to the standard six-speed manual or an optional dual-clutch six-speed autobox with paddle shifters. Sports bling includes honeycomb grilles that scrub a little beige off the design and red brake calipers, which add back in a touch of cliché.
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Al Qaeda in Iraq Disrupted; Iraqi Operation in High Gear
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
BAGHDAD, June 15, 2006 - Al Qaeda in Iraq is in disarray and confusion following the death of its terrorist boss, and the Iraqi government is moving forward quickly to provide security for its capital city, coalition officials said today at a news conference.
Army Maj. Gen. Bill Caldwell, a coalition spokesman, said Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death June 7 helped set the conditions for a huge step forward in the security picture of Iraq.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced the beginning of Operation Together Forward yesterday. Iraqi forces are leading this operation and it is designed to cripple or shut down the terrorist network in and around Baghdad, officials said. Iraqi soldiers and police are operating traffic-control points, rolling roadblocks, cordon-and-knock missions, and many other tactics to find and capture or kill insurgents who target innocent Iraqis.
Coalition forces are participating in some operations, but are mostly acting as a quick-reaction force to be called on if needed.
Coalition officials are pleased with the speed Maliki is demonstrating in his effort against terrorists. "The people of Baghdad are sick of the terrorist strikes in the neighborhoods and streets," said a Multinational Force Iraq official. "The Iraqis are getting results."
Since Zarqawi's death June 7, there have been 452 Iraqi and coalition operations, Caldwell said. The vast majority of the operations, though, were Iraqi-only (143) or coalition-Iraqi combined operations (255). The operations netted 759 anti-Iraqi forces and killed 104 terrorists. The patrols also uncovered 28 arms caches.
An official with Multinational Division Baghdad said it amazes him that officials are still finding so many weapons caches more than three years after the operation that toppled Saddam Hussein. "Of course, the entire country was one large arms cache," he said. "And we're not finding new weapons. But there is enough of the old to keep everyone busy."
Zarqawi's death allows Operation Together Forward to be even more effective than planned. The operation's intent is to disrupt terrorists in Baghdad, Caldwell said.
"Removing the personal threat of Zarqawi disrupted the Al Qaeda network," he said. "This forced the terrorists to reshuffle their leadership, dislodging them from their quarters leading in to the capital. These factors alone have set the conditions for Iraqi security forces to establish the foundation for unity, security and prosperity for the people of Iraq."
Related Site:
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Introducing the QCEW State and County Map Application
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has developed an interactive state and county map application available at http://beta.bls.gov/maps/cew/us. The application displays geographic economic data through maps, charts, and tables, allowing users to explore employment and wage data of private industry at the National, State, and county level. Throughout this application, URLs are specific to the data displayed, so links can be bookmarked, reused, and shared. The application includes maps, charts, tables, and a link to standard BLS data tables and graphs.
Map features
The maps feature displays data levels and changes at the state or county level.
- To view detail for a specific State or county, click on the desired location.
- To change time periods, industries, color modes, and other map characteristics, select items from the drop-down boxes and then click the Update button.
- To print or save a copy of a map, right click anywhere on the map and make a selection from the resulting menu.
Chart features
The charts feature (shown below) is another new data presentation tool which displays the distribution of the selected variable. To see the chart, select the Chart "Show" option in the map control section.
Table features
Multiple table layouts are presented depending on the level of geographic detail.
- The national table displays rows of data by State.
- The state table displays rows of data by county.
- The county table displays industry data for the county.
- National and state industry tables are available by clicking the Industry Data tab, located just above the map.
- Variables can be sorted by clicking on the column header.
- County level data can be accessed by clicking the name of a State.
- An industry supersector table for a particular county can be viewed by clicking on the county's name.
- The variable featured on the map can be changed by clicking the "Show On Map" icon above the column header of the desired variable.
For a single-variable graph and table (shown below), click on any blue underlined value in the Map Application data table.
At the bottom of each table are download links. Each table can be downloaded as a CSV file for Microsoft Excel, a CSV data feed for use in "mash-ups", or as an XML file, preformatted for use as a web-based data source.
Contact information
For more information or comments, please contact the QCEW program.


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While it is very rare for any Windows Phone to crash or freeze, we have on a few occasions seen it happen. It's rare because 3rd party apps don't have access to the core of the OS and therefore it's very difficult to cause the system to become unstable. Still, the problem may pop up and we figured we would cover you for the Lumia 800 & 900.
Why these two Nokia devices? With their unibody design, there's no physical way to access and therefore pull the battery. That puts users in a pickle if they need to soft-reset a stuck device. So without further ado, here's how you do it:
Lumia 900
- Press and hold the volume keys, power button and camera together for 3-5 seconds
- The phone should soft-reset (although some say you should feel 3 vibrations, ours never has)
Lumia 800
- Press and hold the volume keys and power button together for 3-5 seconds
- The phone should soft-reset
That's it. So although you will probably never need this it's good to know if you're in a pinch.
Edit: Some are saying in comments that just holding the power button for 10 seconds works too.


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Plumbing Permit Data
Data on commercial, industrial, and residential plumbing permits in the City of St. Louis
About This Dataset
Plumbing permit information by property type, year, neighborhood, ward, and project type.
- Data Provided by: Building Division
- Topic: Land Acquisition, Reutilization, and Development Permits, Inspections, and Certifications Home Repairs and Renovation
- Update Frequency: Daily
Browse Data
- Plumbing Permits - July 1992 to Present (CSV) 11.8MB file, last modified 10/13/19. Contains plumbing permit data in CSV format. Data is grouped by permit application year. Updated daily.
- Electrical, mechanical, and plumbing permits 61.18MB file, last modified 10/13/19. Microsoft Access database that includes eletrical, mechanical, and plumbing permits (due to recent system upgrades, some recent data may be missing)
- Codes 51.41MB file, last modified 2/7/18. Contains various Microsoft Access databases of codes, descriptions, and child tables used in the various tables
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Many of our gardens are winding down, and finding ways to keep some for later and sharing some of the bounty with others keeps us busy. This last weekend, more than 28 local garden owners (private as well as commercial gardens) donated a tremendous variety of produce for our annual Produce Bounty.
Some of the produce already was cleaned and bundled in nice packages for families of four. The rest of the produce was washed, sorted and packaged for families of four by volunteers throughout the weekend. We had 24 very dedicated community members give more than 180 hours just to sort, clean and package the produce we received at the Fairgrounds Extension Office.
That, of course, doesnt begin to appreciate the hours and hours of labor, skill and love to plant, care for and harvest the variety of fresh fruits and vegetables that we received.
You just havent lived until you have enjoyed washing, bundling and packaging beets, beet greens, apples, pears, carrots, Japanese and regular eggplant, varieties of squash, cucumbers, onions and the list goes on.
Then, in a flash, well, actually four hours, that ton of produce was taken with glee by 266 of your neighboring households (668 people). Each of the participating county resident households that came for the quarterly distribution of Commodity Foods walked away with an average of just less than 52 pounds of groceries. Participants received 11,670 pounds of groceries for the cupboards as well as more than 2,500 pounds of fresh, locally grown produce.
By Monday evening, I was seeing nothing but produce swirling through my mind. So much was collected during the three days. Then poof gone.
And the samplings of foods prepared to give ideas of what people could do with the food given them amazing. Thanks, Warren (Manna Soup Kitchen) and Erin (Cooking Matters) and your helpers. They created simple, nutritious items with next to nothing that tasted fantastic.
Thanks also to Beth LaShell and her student volunteers who planted a plat of produce specifically for this event.
No longer does one need to financially qualify to participate in the food bank. Proof of residency in the county is all that is needed now. If someone is in distress (temporary, short term or long term), there is food available.
The foods given to the participants was not the surplus food of days gone by. That high-fat cheese and white rice has been replaced with items such as fresh milk, eggs and chicken, pinto beans and canned fruits and vegetables.
The other big change is that people needing food can now go to the food bank monthly. Since there are numerous food banks throughout our community, I know no one should have empty cupboards or go hungry for decent foods.
Thank you to everyone who was so generous with time, support and produce. It was certainly appreciated by many of our neighbors.
firstname.lastname@example.com or 247-4355. Wendy Rice is family and consumer science agent for the La Plata County Extension Office.


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Economic and Strategy Viewpoint
July 2016
In this month's Viewpoint: - Brexit: Populists 1 Economists 0 - UK: Stagflation looms as Brexit reality sets in - EM and Brexit: should we worry?
Brexit: Populists 1 Economists 0 (page 2)
•In voting to leave the European Union on 23 June the UK may have shot itself in the foot, but at just over 4% of global GDP it is not significant enough to derail the world economy. Easier monetary policy will also help soften the blow and global growth is only a tad lower on our revised projection.
•However, such a conclusion ignores the increase in tail risks following the UK's decision. Political risk on UK assets has clearly risen as reflected in the fall in the pound, but the UK experience could be repeated elsewhere as populist sentiment fuelled by inequality increases.
UK: Stagflation looms as Brexit reality sets in (page 6)
•The risk scenario is now the reality. The UK is preparing to leave the EU but must first find new leadership. Risk assets have reacted negatively, with domestic UK stocks coming under pressure.
•We are downgrading UK growth substantially, although a recession should narrowly be avoided. Inflation is being revised up as sterling slides. The Bank of England is likely to cut interest rates, while fiscal support should also follow. The Eurozone forecast has also been adjusted, albeit not to the same degree as the UK numbers.
EM and Brexit: should we worry? (page 13)
•Despite a market wobble, Brexit is not a major risk for EM. Direct links with the UK are limited, with some exposures via trade, bank claims, and remittances. A wider European crisis would be an issue for a larger part of EM, but this is not our base case.
•CEEMEA economies are most at risk while Asia and particularly Latin America looks insulated. Where concerns build for the latter would be in tail risk scenarios, prompting tighter global liquidity which hurts those economies more reliant on overseas financing.


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Definition from Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court allowed the Boy Scouts of America to bar homosexuals from serving as troop leaders. The Court said that the Boy Scouts' decision was protected by the First Amendment right to expressive association.
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With his 7-inch cut cock and fuzzy, tight hole, this dark-haired, blue-eyed twink is the hot, nerdy boy of our wettest dreams.
He's got a cute smile, bright blue eyes, and dark hair that add up to an attractive face. His toned muscles and seven-inch cock are definitely our favorite features. Will's versatility is just one more reason we've got such a crush on him!
As a Men exclusive, he has delivered some of the most delicious older/younger scenes in recent years. Dad's Diary is one of the best. He's all over this movie, which costars Wesley Woods, Zane Anders, and JJ Knight. Big Bro with Dirk Caber is another fan favorite, and it's easy to see why—these two performers look amazing together, and both of them are fantastic fuckers in general. You might look at the two of them and expect Dirk to be the top, but instead he takes Will's hard young dick up his hairy ass in a scene you will want to watch repeatedly.


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How to Manipulate Pixels with the HTML5 Canvas Tag
With HTML5, you can extract the data of a canvas tag into the underlying pixel data. Manipulating this data gives you extensive control of your image in real time. You can use this data for color balancing as well as for experimenting with your own blurs, sharpens, and chroma-key effects.
No matter what format an image is stored in on the file system, it is displayed as a list of pixels. Each pixel is represented (in the standard 32-bit system, anyway) by four integers: RGBA. The R represents how much red is in the current dot, G stands for green, and B stands for blue. The A stands for alpha, which is a measure of the transparency of the image. Each of these values can vary from 0 to 255. When you convert an image to the image data format, you get a huge array of integers. Each group of four images represents a single pixel of color data.
This code changes the color balance of an image:
function draw(){ var drawing = document.getElementById("drawing"); var con = drawing.getContext("2d"); var original = document.getElementById("original"); CANV_WIDTH = 200; CANV_HEIGHT = 200; //draw the original on the canvas con.drawImage(original, 0, 0); //get the image data imgData = con.getImageData(0, 0, 200, 200); //loop through image data for (row = 0; row < CANV_HEIGHT; row++){ for (col = 0; col < CANV_WIDTH; col++){ //find current pixel index = (col + (row * imgData.width)) * 4; //separate into color values r = imgData.data[index]; g = imgData.data[index + 1]; b = imgData.data[index + 2]; a = imgData.data[index + 3]; //manipulate color values r -= 20; g += 50; b -= 30; a = a; //manage boundary conditions if (r > 255){ r = 255; } if (r < 0){ r = 0; } if (g > 255){ g = 255; } if (g < 0){ g = 0; } if (b > 255){ r = 255; } if (b < 0){ b = 0; } if (a > 255){ a = 255; } if (a < 0){ a = 0; } //return new values to data imgData.data[index] = r; imgData.data[index+1] = g; imgData.data[index+2] = b; imgData.data[index+3] = a; } // end col for loop } // end row for loop //draw new image onto canvas con.putImageData(imgData, 0, 0); } // end function
While the code listing seems quite long, it really isn't too difficult to follow:
Draw an original image.
The technique you'll use extracts data from a canvas element, so to modify an image, you first need to draw it onto a canvas. You can use the ordinary drawImage() method.
Extract the image data.
The getImageData() method gets the picture displayed by the current canvas and places it in a huge array of integers.
Make a loop to handle the rows.
Image data is broken into rows and columns. Each row goes from 0 to the height of the canvas, so make a for loop to iterate through the rows.
Make another loop to handle the columns.
Inside each row is enough data to go from 0 to the width of the canvas, so make a second for loop inside the first. It's very common to use a pair of nested for loops to step through two-dimensional data like image information.
Find the index in imageData for the current row and column.
The imageData array contains four integers for each pixel, so we have to do a little math to figure out where the first integer for each pixel is. The easiest formula is to multiply the row number by the width of the canvas, add that to the column number, and multiply the entire result by four.
Pull the corresponding color values from the index.
The index also represents the red value of the current pixel. The next int holds the green value, followed by the blue value, and finally the alpha value.
Manipulate the color values as you want.
If you're going to do a color-balancing app, you can simply add or subtract values to change the overall color balance. You can also do much more elaborate work if you want to play around with pixel-level image manipulation.
Check for boundaries.
A pixel value cannot be lower than 0 or higher than 255, so check for both of these boundaries and adjust all pixel values to be within legal limits.
Return manipulated values back to the imgData array.
You can copy values back to the array, and you should do so to make the changes visible.
Draw the image data back to the canvas.
The putImageData() function draws the current image data back to the canvas as an ordinary image. The new version of the image will reflect the changes.


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Nowadays, it's nearly impossible to follow sports and not be hammered over the head by their "fantasy sports" equivalents.
Considering their widespread proliferation, it's surprising somebody hasn't figured out a way to apply fantasy sports to high schools. (Maybe somebody has, it's hard to say what people do in their spare time these days, right?)
Now if you were going to cook up a high school basketball fantasy draft, limiting the player pool to the region, here's a pretty great starting five. Not only would this hypothetical team be hard to beat, if we applied "keeper" rules, it'd be tough to stop next year, too, since it's comprised entirely of juniors.
Bear in mind this team would probably be better as an actual team on the court rather than one racking up fantasy points.
So without any further ado, let's unveil my one-man high school fantasy basketball draft.
Pick No. 1: Paschal Chukwu, center, Fairfield Prep: Pretty much a no-brainer here, as the oft-uttered cliche goes, "You can't teach height."
The 7-footer who transferred from Trinity Catholic is averaging a double-double with 6.5 blocks for good measure. Chukwu's team-first mentality will mesh well with the rest of my starting five.
As Jesuit coach Leo Redgate says about Chukwu, "We don't speak about any individual stats, and to his credit, he understands that they mean very little in our efforts to make him a more complete player and get better every day. We have four starters averaging double figures and Paschal is more proud of the fact that we play like a team, not his own results."
We'll let Chukwu patrol the paint, rebound and swat anything that comes in his direction, letting the wins pile up in the process.
Pick No. 2: Quincy McKnight, guard, St. Joseph: One problem many pro teams have run into -- think the Los Angeles Lakers' situation -- is that adding a bunch of stars together on the same team doesn't necessarily work. Everybody wants their touches, so often egos win out over chemistry.
This isn't a worry with McKnight (17.1 ppg.), who is a winner first and foremost. It's all he knows at St. Joseph with back-to-back Class LL titles.
Last year he was a third option, this year he's the go-to guy, showing he can thrive in both roles. With McKnight you'll get an athletic finisher, end-to-end defender and, most importantly, a leader. Think of him in the Scottie Pippen role with the old Bulls teams.
"Being named captain made me change how I looked at the team," McKnight said earlier this month. "I didn't think I was going to be captain as a junior. I'm trying to push everybody."
That's the attitude this hypothetical squad needs.
Pick No. 3: Issac Vann, forward, Bunnell: Call this a pick based on upside, or ESPN draft analyst Jay Bilas' favorite term, "length." Vann (21.4 ppg) is a long and lanky swingman, well worthy of his nickname "Mr. Showtime."
"I like to put on a show," the 6-3 Vann said Tuesday. "I like to dunk. I like to get the crowd hyped."
At Bunnell, Vann plays a combination of both forward spots and center, using his freakish athleticism to block shots and fill up the stat sheet, making him the region's breakout -- and perhaps the most fun to watch -- player this winter.
"He's tough to stop when he gets it going under the basket," Bunnell coach Pat Yerina said.
Pick No. 4: Ian Gardner, forward, Kolbe Cathedral: Gardner is a lot like Vann, albeit without as much flash. Unlike Vann, who has 21-point scorer Matt Nolting and rising sophomore Ryan Pittman to help him out, Gardner is doing a little bit of everything for the Cougars to shoulder the load each night.
"He's pretty much been the catalyst," coach Chris Smith said. "He does it all for us. He can do it all. He can handle the ball. He can shoot."
The 6-4 Gardner (21.6 ppg) came to Kolbe playing center but has progressively improved his perimeter game each season, making him a tricky matchup.
"He works hard in practice," Smith said. "He puts in a full two hours and that carries over into games."
A hard worker with versatility? Sign him up.
Pick No. 5: Tyler Ancrum, point guard, Central: Asked who is the best player in the Bridgeport area, McKnight picked Ancrum. He might not be far off base.
The only freshman to start under Barry McLeod at Central, Ancrum has gotten better as the year has progressed. More than that, on a Hilltoppers' squad lacking a senior, Ancrum's evolved into a steady floor general.
"It's not all about me," Ancrum said. "It's trying to make everybody score and be on the same page."
As dynamic as anyone with the ball in his hands, on this squad, Ancrum would only need to facilitate, racking up assist after assist. The potential alley-oops Ancrum could feed Vann would likely need their own section on YouTube.
For all the potential numbers this team could put up, the most important would be wins. Going into play Thursday, the combined record of these five star juniors' teams is a sterling 57-10.
That's no fantasy.
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~American southwestern feel. Think Monument Valley, Utah, and Navajo Reservation, prehistoric cliff dwellings.
~Navajo dream catcher.
~Then, superimpose the asian element: Buddhist temples, carved jade, bamboo, Tibetian prayer wheels, mandalas, kung fu grace.
This logo design will appear on all things: website (when designed), labels, business cards (bilingual), etc. So, it need to work both big and small.
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ROCKFORD — A 26-year-old Marengo man was stabbed in the face and abdomen during a confrontation about 2:30 a.m. Sunday at the Steak N' Shake, 7561 E. State St.
Thomas E. Anast, 23, of Rockford was arrested on charges of aggravated battery.
Hospital staff told police that the Marengo man's injuries were not life threatening, Lt. John Hoeksema Jr. said in a news release.
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Fly Neighbourly Advice for the Tasman National Park
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Elephant seal harem at Macquarie Island
The practise of hunting seals for food and skins by pre-industrial societies has a long history, however, it was not until the eighteenth century that the large scale commercial exploitation of seals commenced. The pelts of fur seals were in demand for clothing, and they were highly valued by European merchants as a relatively easily obtained and profitable cargo. Oil, produced from rendering down the blubber of both fur and elephant seals was more difficult to process and bulkier to transport. From the late 1700s the demands of the industrial revolution increased the market for both seal and whale oil for lighting, lubrication of machinery and some manufacturing processes.
Sealers usually took advantage of the animal's behavioural patterns, as seals tended to congregate in large numbers in restricted areas during their breeding seasons. Fur seals were herded together and kept from escaping to the sea while they were clubbed to death. The animals were skinned immediately and the pelts were salted and usually stored in timber casks. The larger and slower elephant seals were clubbed and lanced before being stripped of their blubber, which was cut into pieces and rendered down in large metal cauldrons known as trypots. The resulting oil was allowed to cool before being run into casks, ready for shipping.
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In Australasian waters the sealing industry commenced in Bass Strait in 1798 and rapidly spread to Tasmania and along the southern coasts of the mainland as far as Western Australia. The industry was largely carried out by Sydney based gangs, and the shipment of seal skins and oil to China became the first viable export from the new colony. By 1810 the Bass Strait industry had largely collapsed and the Sydney, and Hobart, sealing vessels were exploring and working further afield towards New Zealand and its southern islands.
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Higher taxes on gasoline and cigarettes kicked in Wednesday for consumers across Massachusetts.
The state's gasoline tax jumped 3 cents, from 21 cents per gallon to 24 cents. The excise tax on cigarettes is also increasing a dollar, to $3.51 per pack.
The state has alerted retailers to begin collecting the new taxes, which were part of a transportation finance bill approved by the Legislature over the veto of Gov. Deval Patrick.
The law also imposes a 6.25 percent sales tax on computer software services.
Massachusetts Republicans criticized the tax increases at a morning news conference with business owners at a gas station in the Dorchester section of Boston. They said the increases marked a return to the days when the state was known as "Taxachusetts."
Patrick rejected the label, saying Massachusetts' tax burden isn't excessive.
"No, we are very competitive. We have long since lost the reasons for that moniker on almost every measure now," Patrick told reporters at the Statehouse. "We're right in the middle of the pack nationally."
He also said higher taxes were needed because Republican governors chose to starve the state's transportation infrastructure to help pay for the Big Dig.
"It's time to pay those bills and it's time to reinvest in our infrastructure for the sake of our growth, the sake of our economy and for the sake of our quality of life," added Patrick, who had sought but failed to secure a further increase in the gas tax if tolls on the western portion of the Massachusetts Turnpike come down in 2017.
Senate Republican leader Bruce Tarr said that GOP lawmakers offered proposals that would have addressed the state's aging roads and bridges without resorting to new taxes — but that those proposals were ignored by Democrats.
"Unfortunately, we have lost sight of our obligation to the taxpayers, and now consumers and employers are left with a regressive gas tax increase that is running on auto-pilot," said Tarr, R-Gloucester.
Tarr was referring to the fact that under the law future increases in the gas tax would be indexed to inflation.
On the same day that the permanent tax hikes kicked in, House and Senate lawmakers approved a bill creating another sales tax-free weekend for Aug. 10 and 11.
The bill would apply to retail sales excluding any single item priced higher than $2,500. It also excludes vehicles, motor boats, tobacco, meals and utilities.
Patrick has said he expects to sign the bill, although he said the state will have to come up with a way to offset the lost revenue, which has averaged about $20 million in past years.
Lawmakers have typically approved the tax-free weekends to give store owners and consumers a boost during the typically sluggish dog days of summer.


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I graduated from college just over a year ago, and I'm finally living in a place where I plan to stay for more than just a nine-month lease. Better yet, I'm allowed to paint and replace things within the apartment. Needless to say, I'm excited to be trying new decorations and renovations after several years of boring, apartment-white walls. I constantly have a project I'm working on, whether it's finding new furniture or painting a room.
Luckily, I've found a number of quality applications to help out along the way as I work to improve my home. I have a few folders on my iPad dedicated to apps related to home improvement in some way. I've got apps to help find inspiration, choose paint colors, furnish my apartment and even DIY dedicated applications. There are a huge variety of home improvement apps out there — stick with me after the jump to read up on some of my favorite apps.


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We see a lot of crossovers in Smash Bros — that's pretty much what the franchise is about. And while fans might clamor for all sorts of ridiculous inclusions in the franchise, there are some things we can realistically expect to never see. Like say, bringing Star Wars into the fold.
No matter. James Farr's wild imagination takes The Empire Strikes Back and makes what seems to be an entire Smash Bros single player campaign out of it. It's elaborate and awesome — especially since, weirdly, Nintendo characters lend themselves nicely to taking up classic Star Wars roles.
Make sure you watch part 2 of this crossover too!
SUPER SMASH WARS 2: The Empire Smashes Back (Part 1/2) A Star Wars / Nintendo-Verse Mashup [James Farr]


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Release Date: 2010 |
Album Rating: 4.3http://www.myspace.com/mansgin
Highly recommended!
Digging: Raphael Saadiq - Jimmy Lee
Very nice, professional review. Good work Greg!
great work
Digging: Pastel Ghost - Ethereality
Album Rating: 4.5great review. ive been meaing to listen to this for a while now since i love Cobalt so much. ill get on this asap.
Album Rating: 4.5Awesome I've been wanting to review this so bad but just been busy. Nice review. It was my AOTY
Album Rating: 4.0Cool, another Greg' review! This sounds pretty interesting. Not surprising since your taste in music is almost as good as mine.
Album Rating: 4.3Thanks for the support guys.
More people should check this out (which is always the case as regards the albums I review sigh).
@Bleekill: It's a great choice for AOTY. I clearly like some songs more than the others on here, but as I stated the music always feels genuine. So yeah, this would definitely end up on my top 2010 list if I listened to it earlier.
@Jethro: Thanks. You're right my taste is almost as good as yours bro. How modest of me. Haha.
Great review, couldn't get into this to save me. Maybe it's because I don't understand America.
Album Rating: 4.0great album and review!
Album Rating: 4.3Thanks a bunch. I know it's not for everybody and fans of Cobalt's Gin may not like it because the
music is totally different. Here's the band performing Nuclear Ambition:
Album Rating: 4.5Cobalt is one of my favorite, if not favorite black metal band so I was on this album right when it came out. It's got heavy play, definitely my most played from last year. Every song just clicked with me right away, I'm suprised I haven't worn it out yet. That's how I am with Cobalt too, these guys just know how to fucking make music.
Album Rating: 4.3Agreed. I'm not really a black metal fan, but this Cobalt debut got me interested as well. I look
forward to what Wunder's gonna do next.
Album Rating: 4.0Woah I want this!!!
Album Rating: 4.0I got this. Fan-fucking-tastic!!!
Album Rating: 4.3Yea. I knew you'd like it. It is growing on me with every listen. Doggamn it! It's fucking ace!
surprised this album doesn't have a bigger cult following on here tbh
Album Rating: 4.3Surprised that you're surprised. Sputnik users check out only the albums that are hyped. And this didn't even get reviewed by Pitchfork (though it seems to be their cup of tea).
This wasn't very entertaining so why should it be hyped?
Album Rating: 4.3So that more people would check it out? I don't know what you mean by 'entertaining'
Album Rating: 4.0rules
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Sure, we have the X-Games and X-treme Cheese Nachosplosion Doritos now in our modern age, but the extreme skateboarders and snowboarders and parkourists and whomever aren't fit to boil parrafin for the extreme sportsmen of a century ago. Take these fellows here, who, as a 1912 copy of Popular Mechanics tells us, rode railroad tracks down a freaking mountain at 120 miles per hour.
Oh, but don't be too impressed. If you look at the protective gear they had, you can see they were wearing hats, and their rail-sleds were made of advanced materials like wood, or as they called it "tree pork."
As the article says, the formula to make a sport attractive is "two parts novelty and one part danger." I suspect the exchange rate of danger must have changed dramatically over the past century, since sliding on a cogged railroad track down Pike's Peak (now Pikes Peak) is a hell of a lot more than one part danger. The toboggans used appear to be composed of a sitting board with a steel cleat to engage the center, cogged rail, and a long perpendicular bar for hand grips and to rest on the rails on either side. Oh, and what looks to be a foot rest.
No belts, seats, padding or any kind of protection at all, and these are used on nine miles of track, which drops nearly a mile. It's not surprising top speeds of around 120 mph, two miles a minute, were recorded on the steepest sections of the track.
Rail Tobogganing was started by railroad employees looking for a more exciting, lazier way to get down the mountain rapidly, and as their balls transformed into spheres of tempered steel, became a sport of sorts. Another article from the September 9, 1911 Telegraph shows that "shooting the peak" had been popular for a while, but railroad officials wanted to stop it because "the fool killer got on the job too often."
So the next time you're impressed by some bonkers skateboarding jump or see a moron train sledding, remember: barely-literate badasses were doing crazier shit a century ago. And in dress shoes.
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A Kentucky man accused of strangling his wife is poised to claim excessive caffeine from sodas, energy drinks and diet pills left him so mentally unstable he couldn't have knowingly killed her, his lawyer has notified a court.
Woody Will Smith, 33, is scheduled for trial starting Monday on a murder charge in the May 2009 death of Amanda Hornsby-Smith, 28.
Defense attorney Shannon Sexton filed notice with the Newport court of plans to argue his client ingested so much caffeine in the days leading up to the killing that it rendered him temporarily insane — unable even to form the intent of committing a crime.
Sexton declined requests for comment on the defense strategy he indicated he would pursue in filings before the court.
Hoffman withdrew $1,200 hours before death: sources
Philip Seymour Hoffman withdrew a total of $1,200 from an ATM at a supermarket near his New York City apartment the night before he was found lifeless in his bathroom with a syringe still in his left arm, sources told NBC News.
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Strategy has worked
A legal strategy invoking caffeine intoxication is unusual but has succeeded at least once before, in a case involving a man cleared in 2009 of charges of running down and injuring two people with a car in Washington state.
Dr. Roland Griffiths, a professor of behavioral biology at Johns Hopkins University has noted in an unrelated study that there is a diagnosis for "caffeine intoxication," which includes nervousness, excitement, insomnia and possibly rambling speech.
Prosecutors, meanwhile, said their own expert may testify there was no evidence Smith had consumed diet pills or energy drinks as he claimed before his wife died.
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Prosecutor Michelle Snodgrass said Smith tested negative for amphetamine-type substances shortly after the killing.
Police say Smith used an extension cord to strangle his wife on May 4, 2009, then used the same cord to bind her feet together. Smith then used another cord to tie his wife's hands.
Radio station WKRC Cincinnati reported that police records said Smith had confronted his wife shortly before her death, after learning that she had allegedly had an extra-marital affair.
If convicted of murder, Smith could be sentenced to life in prison.
Smith told Dr. Robert Noelker, a psychologist from Williamstown hired by the defendant, he remembers taking his children to school that morning.
But Smith remembers little else about the ensuing hours.
'In a daze'
In the weeks preceding May 4, 2009, Woody Smith told Noelker, he hadn't been sleeping, in part out of fear his wife would take their two children and leave him.
"The next several hours of Mr. Smith's life, were described to me as if he were in a daze," Noelker wrote in a report.
After sleeping intermittently, Smith had nap with one child he picked up from school at midday at a school near their home in Dayton, Ky., across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. After picking up the second child later that day, Smith said he went to his mother and stepfather's house.
He described feeling "out of control," weeping to the point of being unable to communicate. Smith eventually confided in his stepfather, Noelker wrote, "I think my wife is dead."
Reports and case records say during that time, he was drinking five or six soft drinks and energy drinks a day, along with taking diet pills; it all added up to more than 400 milligrams of caffeine a day.
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — published by the American Psychiatric Association showing standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders — defines overdose as more than 300 mg. That's about three cups of coffee.
Noelker said he determined Smith was open to "brief psychosis" brought on by sleep deprivation, which was caused by the heavy ingestion of diet pills and caffeine in the weeks leading up to his wife's death.
"It is my opinion that this disorder was the direct result of psychosis due to severe insomnia," Noelker wrote in a report filed in Smith's case. Noelker is expected to be called as a defense witness.
Previous case
The defense strategy recalls the case of Daniel Noble, a budget analyst at the University of Idaho Foundation who awoke Dec. 7, 2009, after a restless night and multiple weeks of working long hours on the foundation's budget.
Attorney Mark Moorer of Moscow, Idaho, won a dismissal of charges against the 31-year-old analyst, who had been accused by authorities of running down and injuring two pedestrians with a car in Pullman, Wash. Each man survived with a broken leg.
Moorer said Noble awoke in pajamas and slippers in near-freezing weather, went to a Starbucks and downed two large coffees before driving eight miles to Pullman where the pedestrians were hit.
Medical tests in the Noble case resulted in a diagnosis of a rare form of bipolar disorder — triggered by heavy consumption of caffeine, Moorer said.
That evidence went before a judge, who dismissed the charges after concluding Noble was unable to form the mental intent to commit a crime.
"We referred to it as a temporary insanity defense," Moorer said. "If you sat down and talked with him now, you'd think he's as normal as you and I."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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I was tagged by two lovely people for this challenge ~ The Domesticated Goddess ~ and ~ But I Smile Anyway ~
10 Things I love:
*My family and friends of course.
*Red Wine. You can click here for some of my wine reviews.
*Blogging. I have a great story here about being consumed with blogging.
*(All in that order)
*Rainy days when it's warm outside.
*A clean house (although lately I have lowered my standards of clean just a wee bit)
*Air Conditioning (especially this time of year when it's nearing 100F* outside)
*A good scary or suspenseful movie
*A hot bubble bath in the candle light with the window open (especially if it's stormy outside).
*My life.
10 Things I hate:
*Doing the dishes (of course I don't think I have met anyone who enjoys that chore)
*Laundry (it's never done…you think it's done but then you realize the clothes you and all your little family of monsters are wearing…still needs to be washed!).
*Insomnia and Restless Leg Syndrome (they are bound to keep me awake most nights…like some kind of "YOU NO SLEEP" team).
*PMS and the bloody hell that follows. No explanation needed.
*My children fighting with one another.
*Being hot and sweaty. Nothing attractive about that.
*Rude cell phone talkers. You know the ones. They are loud and obnoxious while they insist on talking on their cell phone in public.
*The Whirlpool products still in my kitchen. You can read about my headache with them here.
*Gray Fucking Hair!
*Bugs, scorpions, snakes, and anything else that creeps and crawls in the night.
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Five tips for improving customer profitability from Harvard Business Review
Right now, customers are experiencing your company. They may be interacting with your mobile app, company website, on the phone, by email, in person and possibly multiple ways at once. The question is: Are those experiences forging a bond – or driving your customers to look for alternatives?
Acquiring new customers is expensive, so keeping the ones you have and increasing wallet share is critical to survival. It's a multifaceted challenge, but there is one silver bullet solution: Customer experience management.
Anyone who's left a store after rude and careless treatment – or gotten a kind and helpful customer service rep on the other end of the line – knows one thing: customer experience matters. And the companies investing in customer experience management (the processes an organization uses to manage customer interactions across the enterprise) are far outperforming the ones that don't, according to a recent report from Harvard Business Review (HBR).
The report, Lessons From the Leading Edge of Customer Experience Management, is an in-depth study of more than 400 customer experience management executives worldwide. The results show a distinct divide between the leading companies and the laggards in profitability, revenue, market share and customer retention (see Figure 1).
So, which best practices will help your organization manage customer experience and increase customer profitability?
1. Create a customer-centric culture
And the best way to pay for it is to reward employees for superior customer service. Though only one in four respondents say they connect compensation to customer experience performance, this tactic was rated more effective than any other customer experience management strategy.
"Tying compensation to customer experience metrics creates a customer focus from top management down. The results are shared with everyone, and it's top of mind for everyone," said one of the executives interviewed.
Other customer experience practices that were rated "most effective" include: sharing customer experience metrics and models with all employees; reviewing customer experience projects and metrics regularly to monitor progress toward business goals; and screening candidates for customer-centric attitudes during the hiring and selection process.
Despite being highly rated, these practices are not always commonly used (see Figure 2).
2. Give the lines of business control of customer experience
A coordinated approach to customer experience management – one that is built from the ground up – is more likely to take root. "You don't want customer experience to sound like just another corporate initiative," said one customer experience director interviewed by HBR. "We had to make it clear that it's not another initiative. It's part of what we do. We achieve our sales goals via solid customer experience."
3. Tame channels and data
Systems integration, channel complexity, organizational structure and data issues all make providing a consistent customer experience challenging for any company. However, leading-edge companies recognize multichannel management as a strategic imperative.
More than half of leading-edge companies say that multichannel management is extremely important, versus one in five of lagging companies. In addition, leading-edge companies are more likely to embrace new channels such as social media, mobile and video.
4. Apply analytics
Leading-edge companies are embracing new technologies and processes (see Figure 3), and are more effectively applying analytics to:
• Create organizationwide customer experience standards.
• Analyze cross-organizational customer insights.
• Map customer interactions within the organization.
The leaders also recognize the importance of emerging analytics technologies, including systems that analyze online behavior, social media sentiment and text, as well as tools that can deliver real-time analysis of large data sets.
5. Expand the definition of customer experience success
Measuring the impact of customer experience efforts is difficult. Most respondents struggle to tie customer experience investments to the bottom line.
The more traditional measure of customer success – customer satisfaction scores – are widely used, yet a variety of other metrics rated highly important (such as Net Promoter and customer-effort scores) are not as widely established.
Leading-edge companies use a wider range of metrics to report their customer experience management progress, including measures such as customer lifetime value, indirect traffic, social media sentiment and up-sell rates (see Figure 4).
Customer experience efforts need enterprisewide visibility and focus to last. "You have to be clear about what you're trying to accomplish and take it a step at a time," says one customer experience director, "from marketing the program to employees to developing new processes to rewarding people for customer experience behavior to reporting on results." Ultimately, however, when customer experience becomes a strategic agenda item for the whole company, it results in improved business outcomes across the enterprise. And with ample room for improvement, financial services firms that embrace analytically driven customer experience management can get an edge on the competition by enabling better customer experiences, which in turn create value for their organization.
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Last year saw the resurrection of Evil Dead as a reboot that was grislier and more graphic than Sam Raimi's original trilogy. Despite vocal outrage from the franchise's fans early on in the reboot's development, this new Evil Dead was a big hit, pulling in $97 million worldwide. So you'd think a sequel would be a no-brainer. But the reboot's writer-director Fede Alvarez isn't committing to a timeline for his Evil Dead 2.
Shock Till You Drop spoke with Fede Alvarez as he did press rounds for his next project, a television series based on From Dusk Till Dawn. Alvarez insists that he, Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and Rob Tapert are all in communication about the future of Evil Dead's franchise. But there's no rush to get a second Evil Dead 2 in theaters. He explains:
"Sam, Bruce and Rob Tapert and I are good friends and we talk to one another often and we're always coming up with new ideas and projects. Sam is teasing Army of Darkness 2, which he is working on the script with his brother, but at the same time Evil Dead 2 is something we definitely want to do at some point. ... It's always in the background and always in our heads. And every time I talk with Sam, we're bouncing around ideas to find what would be the perfect sequel."
In theory, Army of Darkness 2 would essentially mean Evil Dead 4, a Raimi project that genre fans have been pleading for since Army of Darkness, the third film in his trilogy, debuted back in 1992. But it has been Fede Alvarez who got our hopes up for Evil Dead 4/Army of Darkness 2 while on the press tour for his Evil Dead. Alvarez has been eager to have the worlds of their respective Evil Dead's collide.
Back at WonderCon 2013, Alvarez had teased the possibility of a movie that would unify the threads of Ash (Bruce Campbell) and Mia (Jane Levy), the heroes of each branch of the horror franchise. According to his initial outline, Army of Darkness 2 would follow the Evil Dead reboot, and then from there Evil Dead 2--which really should be called something, anything else--would bring together these two ass-kicking characters. While this is an intriguing idea, it means we all have to wait on Sam Raimi making Army of Darkness 2 before we'll see Evil Dead 2. And clearly Raimi is in no rush.
In the meantime, Alvarez is developing the Playstation 3/Xbox 360 video game Dante's Inferno into a movie for Universal.