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The winners were chosen by a jury of 49 automotive journalists from the United States and Canada.
The awards – now in their 21st year - are unique in the United States because instead of being given by a single media outlet they are awarded by a group of automotive journalists from the United States and Canada who represent magazines, television, radio, newspapers and web sites.
The awards are designed to recognize the most outstanding new vehicles of the year. These vehicles are benchmarks in their segments based on factors including innovation, comfort, design, safety, handling, driver satisfaction and value for the dollar.
The jurors gave the Stingray 211 points; the Mazda3 got 185 and the Cadillac CTS 94.
It was the sixth car win for General Motors. The Corvette also won in 1998.
The jurors gave the Silverado 219 points; the Jeep Cherokee 174 and the Acura MDX 97.
It was the fourth truck win for General Motors. The Silverado also won in 2007.
Domestic automakers have won North American Car of the Year 12 times. Japanese automakers have won three times. European automakers have won four times. A Korean automaker (Hyundai) has won twice.
Domestic automakers have won North American Truck of the Year 14 times. Japanese automakers have won four times. European automakers have won three times.
To be eligible a vehicle must be all new or substantially changed. The jurors considered dozens of new vehicles before sending their ballots to Michelle Collins, a partner at Deloitte & Touche early in December.
On December 10th the three car and truck finalists were announced. But only Ms. Collins knew the winners until she handed over envelopes today to Tony Swan, a freelance journalist and member of the organizing committee, who made the announcements.
The votes of each juror will be posted by January 20th on the awards web site, www.northamericancaroftheyear.org
The awards were inspired by the "Car of the Year" in Europe.
They are administered by an organizing committee and are funded with dues paid by the jurors. There are no paid positions. Automakers do not pay to have their vehicles considered or to mention the awards in ads.
The "2013 North American Car of the Year" was the Cadillac ATS.
Last year's "2013 North American Truck of the Year" was the Ram 1500 pickup.
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Procurement Policy: the basic principle for the MOD's procurement policy is to purchase the best quality equipment, and material available provided that it:
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Groups pledge to work with senators to ensure final passage of legislation
News Release (Washington, D.C.—March 27, 2012) Capitol newspapers will run full-page color ads this week by six Gulf restoration advocacy groups thanking the 76 Senators who approved legislation to dedicate 80 percent of the Clean Water Act fines from the parties responsible for the Gulf oil spill to restoring the Gulf.
The ad copy says:
"On behalf of our members nationwide, we thank the 76 Senate leaders who voted in favor of restoring the ecosystems and economies of the Gulf region by passing the RESTORE Act as an amendment to the transportation bill.
The RESTORE Act will help repair and strengthen the environment, communities and businesses in the Gulf still suffering nearly two years after the unprecedented Gulf oil disaster.
We look forward to working with you to ensure final passage of RESTORE into law."
The ads are paid for by: National Wildlife Federation, Environmental Defense Fund, National Audubon Society, Oxfam America, and Ocean Conservancy. The ads will run on the following dates in the following newspapers:
- Tuesday, March 27, Roll Call
- Wednesday, March 28, Roll Call
- Thursday, March 29, Congressional Quarterly Today
The House already has approved a similar RESTORE Act amendment sponsored by Congressman Steve Scalise (R-La.) as part of the House transportation bill.
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This is going to sound really strange, but there are times when I don't have enough computers.
Now that you're finished laughing, let me explain. I have one machine that I rely on for day-to-day tasks — checking e-mails, chatting, keeping notes, scheduling my work day.
Another machine is a test bed, mostly because it's sufficiently fast to allow for quick installations. But it's also sufficiently slow as to not outstrip anything else in the house, and prove an unreliable subject.
Aside from that I also have one machine that I rely on as a network transfer client, a Crux ports server, an rtorrent slave, and an fttps client. It sounds like a lot, but all those things combined don't require much muscle, except if they're all happening at one time.
Ordinarily I have a battered laptop that lived some years at the top of a garbage heap to handle the task. It works because it doesn't need much love, the network connection is fast, and it's low on power consumption.
In recent days though, the idea of repairing that computer's only flaw — a busted LCD — has become more appealing. I tried once already, but the leftover LCD I bought had different mounts and was impossible to connect. I think however, that with the proper replacement part, the machine would be a viable giveaway, or at least a secondary machine for someone else to enjoy.
And I only spent about US$80 total, shipping included, to try and fix it the first time. It's been a year and I'm willing to spend another small sum to see it reborn. US$80 a year is about what I want to spend on computer repairs.
So here comes the role reversal — the last member of the family right now is really just a curiosity: that 100Mhz Pentium machine you probably heard about. I've already proven its ability in all three functions (most importantly as an rtorrent slave), and while network speeds are significantly slower through a wired PCMCIA card and occasional reboots are a possibility, it can do the job.
And so it is. Yesterday I rebuilt the entire system on another machine, transferred the hard drive, booted it up and it's now downloading torrents, serving the house Crux machines and downloading files in the background. And if I want to transfer something between machines, it is available as an intermediary.
In the mean time the battered Thinkpad will be on the sidelines, awaiting an LCD replacement. If that goes well, its future may be with a new user. If it goes poorly, its future is likely to be a return to its former responsibilities. Either way, it will find work. And that's the most important thing. 🙂


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VANCOUVER — Gloria Taylor doesn't believe God wants her to suffer unnecessarily from what is commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, a condition that doctors expect will kill her within about three years.
That's why the once-avid motorcyclist eagerly volunteered to be a plaintiff in the precedent-setting case, which was decided on Friday.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Lynn Smith ruled that the Criminal Code provisions making physician-assisted death illegal are invalid.
The judge ruled the current law violates the constitutional rights of Taylor and the two other plaintiffs, Lee Carter and her husband Hollis Johnson. Carter and Johnson joined the landmark legal challenge on behalf of Lee's elderly mother Kay Carter, whom they helped obtain a legal assisted suicide in Switzerland.
The plaintiffs "succeed because the provisions unjustifiably infringe the equality rights of Gloria Taylor and the rights to life, liberty and security of the person of Lee Carter and Hollis Johnson," the judge concluded in a 395-page written judgment.
While declaring the law against euthanasia invalid, the judge suspended that declaration for one year.
"During that period of suspension, a constitutional exemption will permit Ms. Taylor the option of physician-assisted death under a number of conditions," Smith said.
The judge's decision is expected to be appealed.
Taylor joined the B.C. Civil Liberties Association and the Vancouver family of Kay Carter in launching the constitutional challenge in hopes that all terminally ill Canadians will gain the right to choose what she considers to be a good death.
"I don't want to die," Taylor said in an interview this spring, as she awaited the judge's ruling. "I feel good. I'm a positive thinker. I look for the beauty in life. But I'm not afraid of talking about dying. It's part of living. I have no trouble accepting that."
Taylor was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis about three years ago, forcing her to quit her job. ALS is a progressive neuromuscular disease in which nerve cells die and leave voluntary muscles paralyzed.
During the months that followed the 21-day trial, while she had been awaiting the judge's decision, Taylor said her condition deteriorated.
"I'm having real trouble swallowing," she said.
Spending time in a wheelchair in her small Kelowna-area home, she was constantly tired and had to give up driving and writing. She had a feeding tube inserted into her stomach early this year.
Nevertheless, Taylor remained hopeful.
She believes Canadian culture has changed since 1993, when Victoria resident Sue Rodriguez fought unsuccessfully in the Supreme Court of Canada for the law against assisted suicide to be declared invalid.
Despite the ruling in her case, Rodriguez, who also had ALS, died in February 1994 in a clandestine assisted suicide.
Taylor has been frustrated that the Canadian and B.C. governments — whose lawyers argued for assisted suicide to remain an offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison — so vigorously opposed the public's wishes.
A Forum Research survey in December found that 67 per cent of Canadians support physician-assisted suicide, while 21 per cent oppose it and 12 per cent have no opinion.
The crux of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association's argument is that the world has changed a great deal since the Rodriguez case, when the Supreme Court of Canada decided by a 5-4 vote that the B.C. woman could not have an assisted suicide.
The majority of Supreme Court of Canada judges maintained in 1994 they wanted to protect the disabled, elderly and depressed from abuse and family pressure to kill themselves.
But Rodriguez, with the support of her husband and son, did things her way. She ended up dying as a result of an illegal assisted suicide involving an unnamed physician and former NDP MP Svend Robinson.
Suicide researcher Russel Ogden obtained the coroner's report, which showed that Rodriguez died by sipping an overdose of morphine and secobarbital through a straw. Neither the doctor nor Robinson was ever charged.
The plaintiffs in the current case argued that, since Rodriguez's death, the terminally ill have been further protected by the safeguards instituted when assisted suicide was legalized in the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Oregon and Washington state.
The other plaintiffs in this case — Carter and Johnson — took advantage of Swiss law to help Lee's 88-year-old mother, Kay, die peacefully at the Dignitas clinic.
Lee Carter described her mother, who was suffering chronic pain and unable to walk, as "fiercely independent" and determined to end her life on her own terms.
But lawyers for the B.C. and federal governments stood their ground against assisted suicide. They argued in court that protecting the "vulnerable" from any risk was still the governments' prime reason for opposing physician-assisted suicide, despite opinion polls.
Two organizations backed the governments' case: The Christian Legal Fellowship and the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.
On the other side, interveners supporting Canadians' right to active euthanasia included the Farewell Foundation for the Right to Die and the Ad Hoc Coalition of People with Disabilities Who Are Supportive of Physician-Assisted Suicide.
The court heard from more than 35 expert witnesses and accepted 75 affidavits last fall, raising five key points of contention:
- Will legal assisted suicide lead to abuse of the aging and vulnerable?
Government lawyers maintained the aging and depressed are put at great risk by legal assisted suicide, particularly in the Netherlands. However, the plaintiffs insisted the experts relied upon by governments have been discredited, among them Dr. Herbert Hendin of New York, John Keown of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and Dutch euthanasia opponent Dr. Richard Fenigsen.
Proponents of assisted suicide introduced their own studies from the Netherlands, Belgium and Oregon that claimed regulating assisted suicide has made it a more responsible choice.
A key witness for the plaintiffs was psychiatrist Linda Ganzini of Oregon Health & Science University. Between 1997 and 2010 in Oregon, Ganzini said, only two out of every 1,000 dying residents had a physician-assisted death.
Of these, only 1.6 per cent lacked health insurance. Of those who died from a lethal prescription, 93 per cent were enrolled in hospice care at the time of death. The median amount of time between the first request for assisted suicide and death was 46 days.
- Is the "slippery slope" argument relevant?
Hugh Scher of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition told the court that legalizing assisted suicide goes too far down the ethical "slippery slope." Scher said it makes society's most vulnerable people, seniors and the disabled, "fair game" to be killed against their wishes.
Suicide is never a rational act — it is a cry for help, Scher argued. "By legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide, society crosses over that line that maintains human life as inviolable, of intrinsic worth and value." He warned that seniors or disabled people could be pressured into assisted suicide.
In response, a lawyer for the Canadian Unitarian Council, representing 50 spiritual congregations, maintained the slippery slope defence can be "entirely addressed by a rigorous application of the ordinary legal standard for all medical decision-making: the standard of informed consent."
Informed consent is sufficient to withdraw life-sustaining medical treatment when the consequence is death, Tim Dickson said. So there is no compelling reason that the same standard should not be applied to physician-assisted dying.
The Farewell Foundation introduced numerous "procedural safeguards" for conducting assisted suicide in a responsible way. They are based on the model set by Switzerland's Dignitas clinic.
- Does the government always come down on the side of "life"?
Judge Smith challenged the lawyer for the federal government, Donnaree Nygard, when she argued that to the Canadian government human life is sacrosanct, therefore never to be put at risk.
"Where the state draws the line is that we will not condone the taking of life," Nygard said.
The judge, however, challenged the government lawyer, saying: "But (the state) sends young men off to war."
The federal government lawyer replied that war is "a separate and different issue" that isn't relevant to the euthanasia case.
- Does the Charter of Rights and Freedoms pave the way for assisted suicide?
Joe Arvay, representing the plaintiffs, argued that the Charter should give Canadians the right to make decisions of "fundamental human importance" about their own body. The current prohibition against assisted suicide, he said, discriminates against people who are severely physically disabled, who cannot carry out their own suicides.
- Is palliative care always painless?
One major counter-argument to demands for legal assisted suicide is that quality palliative care is available in Canada, and that drugs can make even a drawn-out and difficult death "painless."
Dr. Douglas McGregor, the regional director of palliative care for Vancouver Coastal Health, testified medical teams frequently give palliative drug sedation to dying patients to make them "comfortable."
But Arvay questioned McGregor about the ethics of palliative sedation. He submitted an article from the Journal of Medical Ethics, which concluded palliative sedation can be a "cruel and inhumane method of terminating life." It can lead to patients slowly dying, through refusal of food and fluids, while feeling helpless.
Another article, from the Journal of Palliative Medicine, said up to 17 per cent of patients receiving palliative sedation may appear calm on the outside, but have "internal awareness." In other words, they can suffer a "locked-in syndrome," experiencing intense fear they can't express.
Smith's ruling offers great hope to Taylor.
Hope that it will bring an end to "back-alley" assisted suicides, where doctors and nurses often camouflage suicides by providing excessive morphine to the terminally ill, knowing it will kill them.
"Everybody just looks the other way," she said, and the medical practitioners are forced to live in fear someone will complain to authorities.
The judge's decision also offers hope that no other person will have to die a grim death like Peter Fenker, a 71-year-old West Kelowna man who had been highly active until struck by ALS. Fenker wrote an affidavit saying he considered killing himself with a gun when he was diagnosed, but he worried about the effect it would have on his family.
Later — when the paralyzed, pain-wracked man could not physically end his own life — he wished for a physician-assisted death. The fact it wasn't an option in Canada left him outraged.
"I think of Peter often," Taylor said. "I think, 'How cruel is that?' He could have got someone to help him. He wanted me to fight for people like him."
Despite her tiredness, Taylor said she has spent the past few months "puttering about." Along with enjoying regular visits from family, she's been reading books such as Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie, which explores how to have a meaningful life and death.
"My belief is that God wants the best for me. And He, or She, certainly doesn't want me to die in agony," Taylor said. Nor does God want her to die, she said, while in a coma, under sedation, unable to communicate.
As the clock winds down on her final months or years on the planet, Taylor believes in heaven and has faith in a merciful God.
"There's a better world coming. And I'm looking forward to it."
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Nita A. Farahany is a leading scholar on the ethical, legal, and social implications of biosciences and emerging technologies, particularly those related to neuroscience and behavioral genetics. She is the Director of Duke Science & Society, the Duke MA in Bioethics & Science Policy, and a Professor of Law & Philosophy.
In 2010, Farahany was appointed by President Obama to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, and continues to serve as a member. Her recent scholarship includes "Searching Secrets," 160 U. Penn. L. Rev. 1239 (2012) which explores the descriptive potential of intellectual property law as a metaphor to describe current Fourth Amendment search and seizure law and predict how the Fourth Amendment will apply to emerging technology. A related article, "Incriminating Thoughts," 64 Stanford Law Review 351 (2012) demonstrates through modern neuroscience applications the need to redefine the taxonomy of evidence subject to the privilege against self-incrimination. She also is the editor of The Impact of Behavioral Sciences on Criminal Law (Oxford University Press), a book of essays from experts in science, law, philosophy, and policy.
Farahany presents her work widely including to audiences at the Judicial Conferences for the Second and Ninth Circuits, the National Judicial College, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academies of Science Workshops, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the National Association of Criminal Defense lawyers, the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, and by testifying before Congress. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, chair of the Criminal Justice Section of the Association of American Law Schools , on the Board of the International Neuroethics Society, and the recipient of the 2013 Paul M. Bator award given annually to an outstanding legal academic under 40.
She received her AB in genetics, cell, and developmental biology at Dartmouth College, a JD and MA from Duke University, as well as a PhD in philosophy; her dissertation was entitled "Rediscovering Criminal Responsibility through Behavioral Genetics." Farahany also holds an ALM in biology from Harvard University. In 2004-2005, Farahany clerked for Judge Judith W. Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, after which she joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University. In 2011, Farahany was the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Stanford Law School.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
7A4 - The Trial of a Time Lord 4
Robert Holmes has, quite rightly, been praised up and down over the years for many of his hallmarks: witty dialogue, double acts, satirical elements, and so on. What's not as often mentioned is Holmes's pitch perfect understanding of the importance of pacing. Some of the more successful Holmes stories really rattle on, particularly in the concluding episode. The Caves of Androzani is the most recent example of this (Episode 4 of that story starts at 11 and only increases in intensity over the next 24 minutes), but the last of his initial four episodes of Trial is right up there in building excitement.
There are several different storylines and character threads building to a conclusion in Episode 4. Can The Doctor get into Drathro's main control room? Can he make the robot see reason? Can Merdeen, Peri, and Balazar save the inhabitants of UK Habitat? What's behind the motivations of Glitz and Dibber? Why is dialogue between the two being excised from the versions of events shown as evidence in The Doctor's trial? It all makes for a riveting watch, and while a great deal of credit can be given to Colin Baker and director Nicholas Mallett (the latter making his Doctor Who debut in this), Holmes's immense talent is at the backbone of this story's success.
It's insulting that the higher ups at the BBC had the gall to pick apart Holmes first crack at this story. Even though he was, sadly, in the last year of his life, Robert Holmes still showed that he was at the top of his game. From great dialogue that mirrored the programme's tenuous standing within the BBC at the time, to a couple of his all time great "double acts" in Glitz and Dibber and Humker and Tandrell, this is one of Robert Holmes's finest stories (even if the basic plot is remarkably similar to that of his 1968 debut story, The Krotons).
I loved these four episodes (fine, I'll call it The Mysterious Planet) when I first saw them in my youth, and I still love the story today. It gets the massively ambitious Trial season off to a roaring and running start, creating such a great sense of optimism and excitement that hadn't been seen in Doctor Who to this extent for years.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
7A3 - The Trial of a Time Lord 3
The relaunch of Doctor Who after the hiatus was not only evident in the visual presentation, but it was also enhanced in the audio department, as well. Dominic Glynn made his debut on Doctor Who by providing the incidental music for the first four parts of The Trial of a Time Lord. Being the first composer not a member of the Radiophonic Workshop, be it directly or indirectly, since the end of Season 17, Glynn's music is a breath of fresh air.
Not that the work of Peter Howell, Roger Limb, Paddy Kingsland, et al were of an inferior nature, but Glynn's output has an entirely different feel compared to the music of the first five years of the John Nathan-Turner era. For instance, Glynn uses basic drum beats to underscore his music in some scenes. It seems like a minor point to make, but only Paddy Kingsland's rock and roll score for Mawdryn Undead seemed current, for lack of a better word, in relation to what was being listened to at the time. Glynn's score uses a lot of sounds heard in pop music, if not the melodies and rhythms, for the first time, really, in the show's long history. For Doctor Who, a pulsating hi-hat rhythm was the programme's first tentative olive branch to the hear and now.
In addition to the incidental score, of course, Glynn provided the series with only its third markedly different version of the iconic theme tune. Glynn's new version is as shocking a change from its predecessor as Peter Howell's rendition was to Delia Derbyshire's original work. Glynn's version sparkles with a brightness that characterizes all of his work during this story, but there's a certain darkness to it that rises the theme above the rushed nature of its production. At the time, it was my favourite version; now, it's probably dropped a couple notches but still remains a memorable take on the best theme tune ever written.
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Monday, July 19, 2010
7A2 - The Trial of a Time Lord 2
I mentioned recently (well, the last post, which was over two months ago!) about Doctor Who's permanent switch to videotape for location shooting. Many have decried this as making the entire series look cheap, as opposed to just the studio sequences, in relation to the crisp(!) 16mm film location footage that we've been treated to for most of the programme's history up until this point.
I disagree. Yes, videotape does seem to lack a certain depth in picture quality, but at least now the outside sequences look similar to the ones shot indoors. It not only makes for a much more polished and consistent visual product, but it also makes it less obvious where certain scenes were shot. For instance, there are a couple of sets seen in this episode, namely Katryca's hut and the smaller hut that serves as a prison for Glitz, Dibber, and Peri, that I'm still unsure whether they're studio sets are mockups/alterations made on location. Frankly, I don't want to know - television is about fostering an illusion and with wall-to-wall videotape, it's much less obvious where certain scenes are shot. If something looks cheap now, don't necessarily blame the designer. It must look that cheap in real life.
Another quality of using videotape for location sequences is that these scenes could now be shot using a multi-camera setup as opposed to the single camera technique used in the film days (although some single camera stuff was still evident). Whereas this now gave the actors and directors less control over each individual aspect of a particular scene, it allowed the natural rhythm of the actors to be captured in one single take. With a script written by Robert Holmes, still, even in these, his last days, one of the snappiest writers on Doctor Who, not having to rely on editing to capture the pace of a scene can only be seen as a benefit.
Speaking of benefiting from a new approach, I'll start my praise of Colin Baker now, only to warn you that it will continue for the rest of his all-too-brief tenure, as well. Baker is absolutely delightful in this episode and in this whole season, in general. It was a conscious decision on the the parts of Baker and Nicola Bryant to smooth over their tempestuous onscreen relationship, and it was a move that was long overdue. This relation is even at variance with the scripts. Look at what would have been a normal, spiteful conversation between the two in Episode One in their opening scene together. Both Baker and Bryant play against the vindictiveness of the dialogue and turn it into a rather playful exchange. One gets the impression that the Season 23 Doctor is the one that Baker had wanted to play all along. Baker's natural effervescence is now finally matched the scripts that he's given. Look at how Baker interacts with Merdeen and the train guards in this episode, and (especially) with Drathro and his two minions. He's sharp, witty, charming, funny - everything you want in a Doctor, and everything that Baker wasn't allowed to be in his first year in the role.
This is probably the same Colin Baker that John Nathan-Turner saw holding court at a wedding in 1983 enough for the producer to offer Baker the role of The Doctor. Seeing Baker in this, it's easy to see why JNT made that decision. I'd rank the Season 23 Colin Baker Doctor right up there with the best. As this season (his last) continues, it will become more and more apparent how much of a missed opportunity this characterization of the Sixth Doctor was.
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Had my Blink HQ installed over the weekend, it seems to be a great deal as the entire $499 purchase price will be paid for by our local utility company's rebate (PSE), and my only out of pocket is $60 of shipping and tax. The charger looks great and appears to be well built, I'm pretty happy with it but I just got a couple of questions.
First is compare L1 with L2, is one considered more "harmful" over another? I always thought the faster it charges the more damage it'll do to the battery, but again having the battery constantly in a "charging" state for 15 hours probably has some consequences too.
Second I know Blink marks the Ethernet port under the HQ as for diagnostics only, has anyone figured out whether the unit can potentially be network capable in the future? I was surprised to find out we don't have a time of the day based electricity rate here in King County, the nice delay start feature on the charger has become useless.


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During the past 5 years in the conditions of an increased competition between the higher education institutions the Faculty has achieved by 100 percent its admission goals within the framework of its complete capacity of 3650 students trained in the profiles of Philology and Pedagogy of Language and Literature Education, in the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, with full time and part time attendance. There is instruction in 34 programmes in the Faculty with 15 languages studied in different combinations: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Czech, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Modern Greek, Turkish, Chinese, and as from the present academic year also Korean and Hebrew. The Faculty applies innovative ideas in launching new programmes addressing the public needs. Linking philological training with the high technology is demonstrated by the unique programme for our country Linguistics and Information Technology, whereas the programmes Linguistics and Marketing and Linguistics and Business Administration have been launched as a result of the partnership with leading companies who have identified an available niche for experts of this type on the labour market. The faculty provides training for doctoral students in 15 doctoral programmes.
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The best "enterprise architecture" plan will never be realized as long as developers assume the client of a piece of code is another piece of code. In reality, there are people creating code and by and large those people do not think of other people as clients. This is where SOA (service-oriented architectures) will fail.
The value of SOA is clear. We've been trying to produce SOA software for years. I know COBOL applications that were built on the same principles. I was a team lead for a project that built over 700 functional core services in a three-tiered architecture in COBOL 74; we produced code that was highly reusable. Of course, that was all in a silo for the large system we were building for a financial institution. We built it with the mindset that this software could be reused in other parts of the organization. I was proud of that work, but in retrospect, we weren't very good customers. We were happy to try to find commercial off-the-shelf applications that could provide major functionality, but we weren't good customers of code within our own organization. We didn't even look for software we could reuse from within the organization. The problem hasn't really changed today because we are still focused on the code, making it "reusable." The problem isn't really in the reusability of the code from the code perspective. We have to understand that the client of the code is literally other programmers and architects. We need to see ourselves as service providers who are creating code that needs to be right for our customers. It has to be easy to use. It has to be easy to find. It needs to be marketed and pitched right, and it has to fit the customer need, and we have to be better customers ourselves.
This idea of customer and service within the organization and team is very much not in the mainstream culture. Currently, our customers are perceived to be entities to which we have no real access or feedback. There are more people in our wider organizations to shield the customer from us than there are people in our development team. If I see myself as providing services to customers within my team and perhaps people in other teams within the organization, then I have to ask myself some questions that probably should be asked. If my customers can choose their service provider, and let's make no mistake, they are making those choices, what do I need to do to make sure I keep winning their business? How can I make my service as easy to consume as possible?
There are some great tools that are appearing on the market that support the consumption of reusable artifacts. These are collectively in the space of asset management. In the software industry, these tools can help provide some valuable metrics about the real consumption of reusable assets within their portfolio. We have generally not had this kind of information before. I'm trying to get some hard numbers from major players using these tools, but if I had to take a bet, I'd be trying to get a nice low number in the pool. So, if I'm right, then what is stopping the reuse of all our great reusable code?
As software developers we are not very good customers of the work our colleagues do. We are quicker to search the Internet for a utility or example than we are to search our own internal repositories. One reason might be that our organization has not provided a utility like a search tool the same way our web crawlers have. More importantly, we aren't thinking about other developers when we create the code. We don't create interfaces that make it easy for people to use our code in ways we have not considered. We don't provide design-level abstractions that help other programmers and architects fit our solution into theirs. We don't market the code to the rest of the team or to other teams within the organization. We don't do any market research to make sure the nontraditional customers of our code are going to make the most of it. We don't package it in ways that also make it easy to use outside our intended use.
The technological support for working this way is coming and parts of it are already here. We have to start shifting our focus toward service provision that is much more focused on people than on code to effectively make use of this technological support. Then we can use some of these cool tools to help market and make our code available to others. My hope then, is that we could see some metrics on reuse that really shows a valuable return on the long, hard work we have done trying to build reusable software. The customer focus shift has to come first. The service consumption in an SOA model is at least half of the equation.


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Ted and Linda Reece were not in their house at 5045 Lago Vista Way when the fire broke out, and no injuries were reported.
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However a press report from Cal Fire-Butte County put damage at $240,000. Seven engines and one water truck were deployed, and 26 people fought the fire, saving $140,000 worth of property, according to the report.
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With its melody and meter determined by the text or the lyrics, the cueca is a song most often interpreted by two voices and accompanied by a guitar, harp, piano, accordion and tambourine.
Any of these instruments may be absent, except the guitar, which is essential, just as the public's clapping, which stimulates the couples who dance in the ramadas during the Independence Day celebrations, or in the folk peñas, gathering places for singing, dancing and traditional foods.
The cueca has been Chile's national dance since 1979 and is expressed in various ways in different areas of the country. There is the northern cueca, the cueca chilota, the fierce cueca or the cueca chora, the urban cueca and the traditional cueca, danced in the central zone. In the latter, a cowboy, or huaso, and a peasant woman, or china, are dance partners. The choreography is a representation of the romantic flirtation and conquest.
It is said that cueca comes from the word clueca, meaning a hen that about to lay eggs, which would mean that the dance is symbolic of the mating ritual between rooster and hen. The lyrics tell an anecdote about a fight in a bar or at a rodeo, the typical celebration with mounted huasos rounding up a steer in the rodeo ring.


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Caffe aims to provide computer vision scientists with a clean, modifiable implementation of state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms. For example, network structure is easily specified in separate config files, with no mess of hard-coded parameters in the code.
At the same time, Caffe fits industry needs, with blazing fast C++/Cuda code for GPU computation. Caffe is currently the fastest GPU CNN implementation publicly available, and is able to process more than 20 million images per day on a single Tesla K20 machine.
Caffe also provides seamless switching between CPU and GPU, which allows one to train models with fast GPUs and then deploy them on non-GPU clusters with one line of code: Caffe::set_mode(Caffe::CPU).
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The recent article about mandatory Spiritual Fitness in the Pasadena Sun was overall quite positive. Out of a group of 10 or so religious leaders from various religious preferences, the vast majority were on our side. I'm actually happy that only a few took a stand against us.
One of them at least tried to pair his response with the US Constitution, but fell victim to the Army's smoke-screen 'this is about team-spirit' etc. I left a comment containing a thorough refutation. I invited civilians to educate themselves with the Army's Virtual Spiritual Fitness Center to decide the religiosity of Spiritual Fitness (website by the same people). My comment was actually supposed to be a part of the article itself, not sure what happened there.
But then Rev. Bryan Griem lost his damn mind. Fuck everything about this:
There's an adage I expect will be repeated by other ministers responding to this question. It goes, "there are no atheists in foxholes." Meaning, when bombs burst, everyone hedges their bets and prays, "God, save me!" There's a joke about one combat vet who prayed "Lord, if you're there, I'll serve you and attend church every Sunday; just get me through." The Air Force immediately comes and blasts everything, answering the man's prayer. He then looks up to heaven and says "never mind…."
Look, you just read the stats: "Researchers have found that spiritual people have decreased odds of attempting suicide, and that spiritual fitness has a positive impact on quality of life, on coping and on mental health." Atheists be damned. They will be. So I really don't care what they think regarding these tests. I'm tired of having their constant nagging, their constant opposition against God — their evil. They contribute nothing positive in the long run.Their very name, "a" theist, means they are "against," with a big "no" regarding America's "creator" and "Nature's God" (the one mentioned in our Declaration of Independence). I'm frankly sick of them. Why they are here on the In Theory cast is beyond me. It's like saying, "I have no spiritual input because I don't believe in the spirit. So here's my ignorance…."
I wonder what the military puts on gravestones of atheists, a thumbs-down? Listen, all religions are protected by our laws, but atheists don't countenance America's documents that mention God. They don't actually deserve rights that even bizarre religionists have. If it could be shown that people who deny God create military weakness, however small, what should commanders do when choosing a winning military? I agree with you.
The Rev. Bryan Griem
Montrose Community Church
Readers quickly noticed that Pastor Bryan has a form that lets you contact him. I sent him an email, and I recommend you do so as well. Let me know what you get in response. I imagine a big fat nothing.
Here's what I asked Rev. Bryan Griem:
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I am willing to die for your right to say nasty things about atheist soldiers like myself. I am willing to die for your right to preach how you want to preach, including trashing myself and thousands of others who also fight for your rights.
There are foxhole atheists out there fighting for your rights. Are you not willing to return the favor by standing up against the unconstitutional religious testing?
This motivational poster was made by my friend SGT Dustin Chalker. Dustin was a foxhole atheist who has very recently left the service. He's studying law right now. Hurry up, man, graduate! We need you.


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I slowed next to them, lowered my passenger window and said: "Guys, peeing in public is illegal. You really shouldn't be doing that."
The big guy, the pee-er, bent at the waist and glared at me as he walked.
"What you say bitch? You talkin' to me?" he asked.
"Yes, I am talking to you and I'm saying that I saw you pissing on the wall, on busy West Broadway, and that is illegal. You shouldn't do that."
"M.F.," he said, "you got to be crazy. You can't be talking' to me. What you go'n do, M.F.?" His head was now inside the car. "Call 911?"
"Don't worry about 911. I'm talking to you right here and saying you can't do that in public."
"You can't be talking to us, B'. Get the f' outta here before you get your f'ing ass kicked, M.F."
Now this is where my street outrage and savvy kicked into overdrive. I bucked to a halt and jumped out of the car, but stayed in the relative safety between my door and the car.
"You're gonna do what?" I asked. "Did you say you were going to kick my a'? Well, here I am. Come on over here and show me how you're going to do this."
He moved around to my side of the car, but halted just in front of my left headlight. I could see his wheels turning, and I knew I had the upper hand.
"You got to have a piece. I just know you got to have a piece. You couldn't be that crazy, get'n outta that car, knowing you go'n get an ass whuppin,' if you didn't."
I have been at this point many times in urban confrontations and I knew I was in control. "Don't worry about a gun," I said. "You're there and I'm here -- now, what's your plan"?
Just then, I noticed a wry approving smile across his face. He was looking at the smaller man, who was at the passenger side of my car. I kept my focus on the big guy. But I knew something was getting out of control.
Quickly, the short man moved toward the big guy and they both ran forward, laughing, through the parking lot of KFC and into the night. Puzzled, I ducked into the car and followed for a few yards, but I stopped short and began to inspect the car. The window had been open from our initial exchange, and I figured he had spit into the seat. Cautiously I searched for the sight of foam and phlegm.
Then it dawned on me. My iPhone had been on the seat. It was gone. I'd been chumped. I had just recently lost my office phone, and now my personal phone was stolen. Frustration and embarrassment enveloped me.
I raced home and called the cops and returned to the scene, all the while using my wife's phone in a vain attempt to activate the "Find My IPhone" app. Thirty minutes later, officers Chris Smith and Jeff Sworski arrived. They took a statement and gave me a blue card. They promised to return if my "find" feature ever located the phone. I have no idea if they knew I was a City Council member.
I hurried to retrieve my daughter, and an hour later returned to the task of activating Find My iPhone. After another 30 minutes and finally getting the right password, the miracle began, and the night switched from a gritty urban tragedy to a story of tech magic and reclamation.
Right there on the screen of my wife's iPhone was the white graphic of my white iPhone floating at the curb of a precise home in the 1400 block of a North Side avenue, on a crystal-clear satellite picture. The foliage and roof configurations were plain to see.
I jumped in my car, hurried to the Fourth Precinct and asked for Smith and Sworski. They were notified, and I cruised back home to await their arrival. But I just had to drive by to see the house for myself. The hair stood up on the back of my neck as I half expected to see a dozen tough dudes hanging out front, but the house was silent. I looked at my graphic again and discovered that the phone had moved into the house. Modern technology was magical.
Many minutes later, our doorbell rang. I excitedly showed the graphic to the two cops, and we counted off houses from the corner to positively identify the house. They would drive to the house and call me when they got there, then I would remotely activate the "find" alarm on the stolen phone.
Five minutes later, they called, and I activated the alarm repeatedly. It turns out this was a fourplex, so they had to go door to door. But within 10 minutes, right before my eyes, "find" indicated that my phone had moved from the house to the middle of the street.
I woke my wife excitedly, "Honey, I think the cops have the phone. It's now in the middle of the street."
Immediately, the phone rang, and the next six words sent chills down my spine. "Hello, sir. We have your phone."
It turns out that the thief (our short guy) had come to the door in his white T' and plaid shorts, just as I had described. Hearing the electronic and descriptive evidence against him, he'd quickly pulled the phone out of his pocket.
The cops assured me that he had been very cooperative, with no attitude or reluctance, but they said it was up to me to decide whether to press charges. I got the message; this was a soft recommendation to not press charges. I requested that they and the suspect meet me at the scene of the crime, where I would accept a heartfelt apology.
Five minutes later, we were all in the parking lot of Pizza Hut, and the thief had been extricated from the back seat of the squad. He had no cuffs on and was in stocking feet. I approached and stood three feet in front of him, with both cops flanking us.
"Okay," I said, "here's my plan. I will recount the incident and you tell me if my version is correct, then it's your turn to say your piece."
"Yes, sir," he said.
We went through the entire incident blow by blow, punctuated by "yes, sirs" after each sentence in a strange call-and-response sequence made all the more bizarre because I included every profanity in the very tone they were spat at me.
"Now," I said, "consider this. Here I am, a 63-year-old black male of this largely black community. I see two young black men breaking the law and pull over to caution them, and I am cussed out, threatened, intimidated and chumped. I did not call 911, I didn't have a gun, and I was simply interacting with you as an older man to younger men. Now, two hours later, here we are with you saying "yes, sir" to everything I say. But the reason I am earning your respect is not my age or the respect I gave you but the respect you have for two white cops with guns. What has become of our community?"
He paused, "Sir ... I didn't mean to intimidate..."
"Hold it right there," I said, "that is precisely the problem. You didn't mean to intimidate. Two young, fit 20-year-olds are telling a 63-year-old they are going to f' him up. But you didn't mean to intimidate? Do you have a girlfriend"?
"No, sir."
"Well, you will, and I know what will happen. You will get angry and punch the wall or pick up a weapon. She will be smaller than you and will be scared to death, but you won't consider it intimidation. You will have a kid and get angry, kicking his toys and yelling curses. But you won't mean to intimidate anybody. You'll just go around leaving people traumatized and damaged. Well, let me tell you, you do intimidate. I was intimidated; you are going around the community scaring people. You are scary!"
He flinched. "I'm sorry, sir. You saved me from my first felony."
"Okay, so here we are, two white cops and an old dude, and there you are, the scary guy, and we all agree we are going to give you a break."
I went to my car and brought him back one of my special large business cards. "This is for you and one for your friend. There are resources here for school, housing, jobs and other supports. I made them up for guys who hang out on the corners and piss on buildings."
He smiled his first smile of the night and said thanks.
"Now look at the cover," I said. "Do you see that? Don Samuels, City Council Member. That's me. Here we are at the end of a long adventure, and this is the first time I have told you who I am. Do you see now who you were threatening on the street? You were punking the chair of the Public Safety Committee. The police department reports to me! You have no idea who you are abusing."
I gave him a hug and said, "Now, one more thing." I put my iPhone in camera mode and handed it to him. "Take a picture of your two heroes and me."
Don Samuels is a member of the Minneapolis City Council.


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There is a lot yet to be decided about the new nationwide public safety network whose birth is being overseen by the First Responder Network Authority. But one thing is known.
"We are going to implement an LTE system," said FirstNet chairman Samuel Ginn.
What it is: The Long Term Evolution standard for advanced cellular communications is an emerging standard being embraced by commercial carriers. It holds the promise of an interoperable network based on non-proprietary, commercially available technology.
LTE is being developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project, made up of six telecom standards organizations. It has begun appearing in commercial offerings as 4G — or fourth generation — wireless service, although only the LTE Advanced standard finalized in 2011 is recognized by the International Telecommunications Union as true 4G wireless.
How it works: LTE operates in a range of frequencies, including the 700 MHz band in which the Federal Communications Commission has set aside a block of spectrum for the public safety network. It is built on TCP/IP and provides a packet-based alternative to earlier circuit-switched wireless networks, offering the ability to support a variety of devices using multiple services, including voice, video and data. Current implementations provide peak downlink rates of about 300 megabits/sec and 75 megabits/sec for uplinks. It incorporates quality-of-service provisions to minimize latency, enabling effective handoffs for fast-moving mobile devices.
One LTE cell operating with a 5 MHz slice of spectrum can support up to 200 data clients. Voice traffic can be carried either as a packet-switched data stream or as circuit-switched traffic over a legacy voice network. LTE's support of Half-Duplex FDD (with only a one-direction channel in operation at a time) enables the use of push-to-talk features that can be used by police to access traditional land mobile radio systems.
Long range: LTE has been gaining momentum since 2008 as an alternative to the more widespread WiMax. Use of both technologies is expected to continue to grow.
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