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Lupul carries Leafs over Panthers
Toronto, ON – Joffrey Lupul scored the game-winner early in the third period as the Toronto Maple Leafs edged the Florida Panthers, 3-2, on Tuesday.
Lupul scored twice in the game while Dion Phaneuf had the other goal for the Maple Leafs, who have won three of five and hold a three-point edge over New Jersey for the sixth spot in the Eastern Conference. Ben Scrivens stopped 40 shots in the win.
Tomas Fleischmann and Shawn Matthias each scored for the Panthers, who went 2-3-0 on their five-game road trip and sit in last place in the Eastern Conference. Jacob Markstrom turned away 28 shots in the loss.
"We looked like a different team in different sections of the game," Panthers coach Kevin Dineen admitted. "You play 25, 30 solid minutes and then have a few issues that we have to take care of...We had a fairly strong finish but not enough to get the job done."
Toronto took a 2-1 lead just 22 seconds into the third while on the power play. Phil Kessel sent a pass from the right wing to the left circle for Tyler Bozak, who dished it down low where Lupul re-directed it in.
Florida, though, tied it again just 23 seconds later as Matthias skated down the right wing and danced to the side of the net before banking a shot off the skate Michael Kostka and into the net.
The Leafs, though, got the lead back just over two minutes later. Bozak grabbed a loose puck at the right boards and eventually fed it to Kessel behind the net. Kessel skated to the left circle where he centered it for Lupul, who wristed it home for his sixth of the year.
"He got a goal in that first or second shift and just carried it on from there," said Toronto head coach Randy Carlyle. "They were carrying the play to us for much of the game so we had to find a way to get it done and Lupul did that for us tonight."
Scrivens stopped 13 shots in the frame to help Toronto give itself some space in the playoff chase.
The only goal of the first period went to Florida as Fleischmann's shot from the top of the right circle hit off the leg of a Leaf and went into the net at the 6:39 mark.
In the second period, the Maple Leafs were the only ones to get on the board after Phaneuf's blast from the right circle found its way into the left corner near the midway mark of the frame.
Game Notes
Toronto hosts Carolina on Thursday ... Florida returns home to face Buffalo on Thursday ... Toronto took a 3-0 win in Florida on Feb. 18 ... Toronto was 1- for-3 on the power play while Florida went 0-for-1.


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President Obama made it clear Tuesday night in his victory speech that there was one act he carried out in his first term that would not be repeated in his second: There will not be a second first dog.
Alluding to the promise he made in his first victory speech -- that his two daughters had "earned" the puppy that would be coming with them to the White House -- Obama said he was proud of Sasha and Malia, then added, "But I will say that for now, one dog's probably enough."
I love that he gave himself an out -- "probably enough" -- in case Sasha, 11, and Malia, 14, are persuasive enough to change his mind. It's understandable why, as parents, the Obamas think one canine is enough. The girls are growing up and busy. The cute puppy, Bo, also grew and is now a big Portuguese water dog.
Perhaps the first family should consider getting a first cat. They're quieter than dogs, less labor intensive -- not that staff is a problem in the White House -- and really good at amusing themselves. Malia Obama has pet allergies, but there are some breeds of cats -- for instance, the Oriental shorthair, the Javanese and the Balinese -- that produce fewer allergens than others. (No dog or cat is completely nonallergenic.) And they all have fur; they're not those creepy-looking hairless cats.


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It was in January 1988, as a Daily Northwestern reporter covering the police beat, that I first grappled with how to cover suicides.
A Northwestern sociology major had been found dead on a bench in Evanston. A jogger had discovered the body early that morning. A gun was found in the snow near the body, and a note was found in the student's room on campus.
The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office ruled the death a suicide.
As it turned out, I knew 21-year-old Ed Brown, who lived in my dorm.
To say I was shocked was an understatement. My editors even asked if I'd rather hand off the story.
The Daily Northwestern published my story on the front page, along with a companion article that included interviews with Brown's friends.
Little did I realize just how controversial that decision would be.
In the days that followed, just about every journalism class I attended talked about our coverage. My editor-in-chief was called in to one of my classes to talk about where the story was published, whether it should have been reported at all, and what, if anything, we had learned.
All these many years later, it's a debate we're still having, even here at the Northwest Herald. It's one that happens in newsrooms across the country.
Readers from time to time question our coverage of suicides. A recent short story about a 14-year-old girl who was found in a Crystal Lake park is only the latest example.
To be clear, these stories are never easy to cover. They are heartbreaking, no matter whom they involve, but never more so than when they involve children.
As in the case of the suicide at Northwestern, if one takes one's own life in a public place, we usually will publish at least a short story about it.
Here's why: If a body is found in a public place, and people see a lot of police activity, they might assume a crime has been committed.
One of our first questions to police is whether a death is a suicide. If it is, a short story will provide just the basic details to let people know what happened. Recent newsroom discussion has included whether we should publish the person's name.
Of course, if the person is the head of Metra and under investigation, that's an entirely different situation.
Some readers have questioned why we do not go into the reasons behind most suicides. Often, we do not know them.
Sometimes a family wants to share their story as a means to bring awareness to depression, bullying or some other issue.
We have been able to provide them with that forum, but it's not our policy to do so without the family's cooperation or consent.
Unfortunately, no matter what we print – or in some cases do not print – there will be those who disagree, finding that our coverage either is sensationalistic or falls short of the "real story."
There are no easy answers. Be assured that each suicide brings its own newsroom debate. As well it should.
These stories were hard to do in January 1988.
They still are today.
• Joan Oliver is the assistant news editor for the Northwest Herald. She can be reached at 815-526-4552 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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What you see above isn't the product of some Photoshop trickery. Well, maybe it is; but only in the sense that the ubiquitous image manipulation program that has been used to make the impossible real – at least in photos – was probably used to create the artwork for the packaging.
What you see is real: Indiana Jones is available in "original" packaging as a member of the G.I. Joe team. But the back shows other "available" figures such as Jason from the Friday the 13th movies, Snake Plisskin, Freddy Kruger and Darth Vader as additional G.I. Joe team members. And again, the figure is real – this isn't some sort of Robot Chicken mash up.
The custom figures are available now from Old Colony Hobbies and are newly made to resemble the classic 1970s and 1980s figures and packaging that many Gen X-ers and Gen Y-ers grew up with. While there were once Indy and Vader figures in the past, many of these custom figures – again custom – are from films that never had tie-ins back in the day.
Modern day toy companies such as Todd McFarlene Productions might not have much of a problem producing Spawn and Halo figures. But back in the day, no one would have dared create The Road Warrior, Dawn of the Dead and Taxi Driver playsets or other such merchandise – which is a shame considering how cool a Travis "you talkin' to me" Bickle figure could have been at the time.
These new toys aren't really meant to be played with, or even taken out of the packaging. Rather, they are meant to be sold as a faux collectible. These could make excellent accessories for a home theater – or better still a gift for the holidays. And who says the guys at Robot Chicken should have all the fun playing with action figures?


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Monday, 10 December 2012
All is fine here
Hello, all is going well in my life, I have not been hospitalized or have died, as some comments have suggested. And yes, I have posted in Guru3D. I spend some hours finding good SLI config for Farcry 3, Assassin's Creed 3 and Hitman Absolution. Very good games.
I bought a new motherboard, cpu and memory. Now my computer is a 2700K, G1 Sniper 3 and 32 GB of RAM. I was testing the computer, doing oc (5 Ghz for 24/7) and testing some games that I have bought and had not had time before. I have also spent time with my family and I had to do some jobs at home that had left backward by using the free time with the mod (I will post pictures for the curious).
The thing about the mod is that Crysis 2 install, Editor and material in progress, is on a IDE hard drive (I took them out of the SSD after problems in the past), and the new motherboard only has SATA connectors. Ten days ago I ordered an adapter IDE-> SATA, but I have not received it yet.
If I have not written before is because in reality these delays are affecting me more than you.
All I can promise is that the mod will come before the end of the year, whatever the cost.
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Yeah I took it in December and the guy seated next to me lost his ID the day before the LSAT. He brought a bank statement, DWP bill, and his student ID but they informed him just before the test started that he couldn't take the exam. The guy started crying. It was pretty horrible.
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"Pat can't come to the phone right now. He's in the middle of an experiment."
It is so reassuring hearing a receptionist say that. It means someone in America is Doing Something, and so much the better it's Pat Quilter in his Costa Mesa lab, trying to create a widget that wasn't there before. Maybe it's a prototype of his tentatively named Booyaa Bass—a tennis racket-sized, battery-powered thing that can replace your standup bass at a beach party. Maybe he's trying to bring the Cyclops to life: not your cave-dwelling, Greek-chewing variety, but a lightweight race car that previously only existed as a hoax in the 1950s.
More likely, he's fine-tuning his line of Quilter Labs guitar amplifiers, which may just be Orange County's most significant revolution in sound since Leo Fender opened shop in Fullerton more than 60 years ago.
There's plenty of cause to be cynical about nearly everything these days, especially business, with its evil, despoiling, outsourcing, crap-making, profit-maximizing corporations. But this is a story about shoving your cynicism because it gets in the way of seeing that amidst all the venality and banality, some businesses are still doing the stuff that made America great: giving birth to innovative things that are of use, integrity and value to their fellow man; kicking progress up the hill a bit; and making Old Jim happy in the process.
Guitar amplifiers are nothing new; they go back to the 1930s. The current market is ultra-glutted with them, in staggering variety and price points, made by everyone from huge conglomerates with sweatshop Asian factories to boutique builders who use wine-tasting terms such as "bloom" and "bouquet" to describe their pricy wares.
Practically no one thought there was need or room in the world for another damned guitar amp, yet Quilter's little, greener, hi-tech products are a whole other type of amplification that has picky musicians thrilled.
"I'm usually not that crazy about gear, but I am such a dork for this amp," gushes Bob Morris, guitarist with the Hush Sound. "Once they get over the hump of getting people to believe that a solid-state amp can be this good, I think Quilter will be the amp company. They're mad scientists."
More on "solid-state" later. For now, just know that it is one more hurdle for Quilter because most guitarists are fiercely loyal to amps using antiquated vacuum-tube technology. An increasing number of former tube loyalists and musician's musicians, though, have been switching to Quilters, including Los Lobos' David Hidalgo, Allan Holdsworth, Robert Randolph, Deke Dickerson, Johnny Winter, Matt Hill, Nathan James, Pokey LaFarge and Howard Alden, which leaves several million players yet to snare.
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It's only fitting this slow sea change is taking place where the electric guitar and amp first flowered. Before Orange County was ever known for its action-sports industries, reality-TV embarrassments or even its theme parks, it was the electric guitars and amps birthed in Fullerton at Fender Musical Instruments that put us on the map. As author Richard Smith put it in the title to his definitive Fender history, those instruments were "the sound heard 'round the world."
Traveling in Europe back in the '70s, I got to talking with a Yugoslavian guy—"Hey, how do you like living in a communist slave state?" "Screw off, Yankee moron"—and like many folks, he'd never heard of Orange County. I rattled off our more noted city names, all drawing a blank until I got to Fullerton. "Fullerton!" he exulted. "Home of Leo Fender! Stratocaster! Telecaster!"
Talk to most people younger than 60 who grew up behind the Iron Curtain, and you'll know it wasn't MX missiles and Reagan's rhetoric that brought down the wall; it was their generation that grew up longing for Levis and the sound of a Stratocaster. Products matter!
Closer to ground zero, a young Pat Quilter was aware of the revolution Fender's products facilitated, no more palpably than in the early 1960s when he heard the Beach Boys and their Olympic White Fender guitars and blond amps.
"I was achingly dissatisfied with the pabulum that old people were forcing on us on the radio, so that new sound burst like a bombshell on me," Quilter recalls now. "Suddenly, you had these kids making music for kids, with this exciting amplified racket, and still-breaking voices singing in open California harmonies about the stuff we were doing, like surfing, skateboarding and cars. This can even happen? That sound opened the door to what would become the counterculture revolution of the late '60s, where the kids kind of took over."
Lots of kids bought amps. Quilter built one from scratch in his bedroom in 1967, a hulking 100-watt bass rig with four 12-inch speakers bearing a hand-etched logo reading, "A Quilter Sound Thing." Forty-six years later, that amp's still running.
Quilter was living at home, and home was on the El Toro Marine base, where his dad, Charles Quilter, was a two-star general in charge of the 3rd Marine Air Wing. Pop wasn't home much, since the Vietnam War was raging then. (Pat's older brother Charlie was also in Vietnam as a fighter pilot. His other older brother, Chris, is a writer, who for years has co-penned the Lagunatics' musical-parody revue.)
Pat was born in 1946 in a Navy hospital in Glenview, Illinois. As with a lot of military kids, he got used to moving a lot. "There's a whole syndrome to that," he says. "You learn how to be superficially pleasant enough to make friends quickly, since you need to make new ones every couple of years. I was your classic nerd as a kid, so I got picked on, and every time we'd move, it would be a clean slate and the possibility things would be better."
His younger brother and noted surf musician Matt recalls, "While the rest of us were reading comic books, Pat was reading Popular Mechanics and studying the scientific method. He actually devised a logical approach to cleaning our bedroom, dividing it into quadrants to make the work more methodical and efficient, while my approach was, 'How do I get out of doing any of this?'"
There were innumerable good sides to having a nerdy brother. When the little 78 RPM record player broke, Pat, age 7, disassembled and fixed it. When he was around 12, he built a working, gravity-powered roller coaster in the family's rambling back yard, which produced a pleasing "whoopa whoopa whoopa" sound as kids plunged into the unknown.
This was sometime after 1957, when General Quilter was first stationed at El Toro, and the family lived off-base on a sprawling four-lot property in Emerald Bay, with a knotty-pine ranch house, swimming pool and kid-swallowing wilderness area. It was paradise compared to some of the places they had been stationed.
Pat and Matt attended Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, which in those days meant a trip through the countryside and bean fields on two-lane roads, with only a couple of traffic signals to slow things down.
The two did a lot together. "Pat was probably the greatest brother ever," Matt says. "My friends and I were just a bunch of knuckleheads, but Pat, who was three years older, was always there for us. He was always the smartest kid in the room, and at the time, if you were a little different, you got picked on, and he really didn't have friends his own age. But he was a hero to us. It seemed like he could make or fix anything and could always show us better ways of doing something."
It wasn't until another military move brought the family to Hawaii that Pat began feeling comfortable with his peers. He enrolled at Punahou Academy, one of the top prep schools in the nation (and where Barry Obama attended 15 years later).
"It was my first school where an appreciable segment of the student body were willing to admit they were studying for college, as opposed to just enduring prison for young people," Pat says. "The idea that you could be smart and even relish it was an eye-opener and allowed me to blossom."
He was still a boy apart in many ways. While Pat was enjoying the Beach Boys and Beatles with one ear, he was busy combing thrift shops for 1920s and 1930s jazz records, which he'd come to love as a kid when he heard the music in old cartoons and Laurel and Hardy shorts. So, while everyone else, including Matt, was taking up the electric guitar, Pat hunkered down with a four-string banjo, studying Paul Whiteman 78s.
Physics had been his favorite science course, so he picked that as his college major, "without realizing college physics was way more theoretical and esoteric than the hands-on stuff I was interested in," he recalls. "I shifted to engineering, and it was full of tiresome calculations about girder stress and so forth. Meanwhile, my aunt found a 1920s table radio someone was throwing out. I got it going and figured a way to play my records through it. Then I got interested in making a portable, so I studied transistors and batteries on my own and made an early boom box."
College wasn't half as interesting as he thought it would be, so he dropped out. By then, the Quilter family was living on the base at El Toro. He and his brother had it better than most of the teens there. Some had fathers who were Great Santini types; it was all "yes, sir; no, sir," and they'd make the kids stand at attention as their rooms were inspected.
"I knew a lot of Marine fathers who were classic jarheads, very strict, and politically and philosophically rigid," Pat says. "While my father was a staunch Catholic and thoughtfully conservative, he was always willing to listen to us. I'm sure we were something of a disappointment to him, with our derelictions, drug use and all that, but he never cut us off like a lot of Marine fathers would have, especially the higher-ups where their reputations might be at stake. All the other guys made sure their kids got military crew cuts, while we were running around with long hair. He occasionally got heat for it, but I think he took a secret pride in saying, 'What does it matter if they're not robbing banks?'"
While Vietnam caused schisms at a lot of dinner tables, the general didn't need his kids to tell him about the war. "He was a loyal Marine and servant of the nation, but I don't think he approved of the war, or certainly the conduct of it," Pat says. "He did his tour. When he came back—a broken man is maybe too dramatic a term to use, but his spirits seemed run down, and he retired thereafter."
He credits his dad with his steadiness and respect for skill. From his mom, Liz—better known by the pen name Suzie Q, used as a local newspaper columnist for decades—he got "a love of music, an interest in culture, a desire to have some fun as life goes on. She had a real joy of life and liked to laugh; my father would just wheeze a little."
One 1967 day, the bass player in Matt's rock band complained there was no decent amp around for the $250 he could afford, so Pat offered to build him one. He'd made several 5- and 10-watt amps by then, "and I figured I'd just use more of everything to make a 100-watt one," he recalls. It wasn't so simple, and by the time he was done, he figures he'd made 3 cents per hour on it. The result was the approximate shape and volume as a hulking Vox Super Beatle, which listed for $1,195. Unlike most of those Voxes, the $250 Quilter No. 1. is still operational and now sits in Quilter Labs' lobby.
Pat tried attending Cal State Long Beach for a while, but come June 1968, it was time to get a summer job. The previous summer, he'd worked as a dishwasher at Laguna Beach's long-gone Gayle Pike's Steakhouse and figured he'd have more fun and money building amps. After all, 20 years earlier, just up Harbor Boulevard, Leo Fender had started making steel guitars and amps in his little radio shop and had become a millionaire.
Pat rented a 20-foot-by-40-foot shop on Costa Mesa's Placentia Avenue, took out a license and a DBA under Quilter Sound Co., and got down to the business of losing money. Some of his amp designs blew up. Others had a high infant-mortality rate, conking out on gigs. He had a little problem with employees.
Matt and his buddies were building the cabinets while Pat wired up the circuitry. It wasn't exactly a production line. "We'd adjourn for lunch, smoke a joint and never come back," Matt says. "We only worked part of the summer before Pat got wise and hired some real people."
Pat eventually took on partners with more business acumen, and the company stayed afloat with investments from his mom and brother Charlie. Even once those bugs were fixed, he knew nothing about marketing. According to Matt, "Pat's business plan was: You make something good and hope somebody stops in to buy it."
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It was around 1970 that I first met Pat. I'd seen his gear on stages, including at a mini-rock fest in a cattle field near UC Irvine. Quilter stacks brooded over the stage, and cloudy, suspect apple juice was passed around the crowd. So of course one had to check out his little Costa Mesa workshop, smelling of sawdust and solder, before heading over to the Groove Company on Harbor to buy some psychedelic vinyl. My friends and I thought Pat was one of the coolest things around. A hippie with a business! Making guitar amplifiers!
One day, I lucked onto a Dan Armstrong Plexiglas guitar cheap, but I play left-handed and upside-down and needed a strap peg drilled in the opposite horn. No music store would touch the job—"It'll shatter, kid. You can't drill this stuff." So I took it to Pat. I'd never bought a thing from him and didn't look like I ever could, and guitar repair wasn't his job. But he looked at it, pondered the molecular structure of Plexiglas for a moment and drilled a perfect hole, no charge.
Pat seemed like one together hippie guy to us. He felt otherwise.
"I was kind of fascinated by the hippie culture," he says, "but I have low blood-sugar levels, so I was never the kind of guy who could live on the streets. If I miss a meal, I'm useless. I admired people who lived rough and took things as they came, but the way I'm wired, I needed to have structure around me and an organized, consistent life. I tagged along with that culture, but never to the extent I would have been in a riot or protest."
I finally managed to buy an amp from him, a two-12-inch combo that sounded fabulous for a solid-state amp.
That "for a solid-state amp" proviso led to Pat becoming the Rip Van Winkle of the guitar-amp biz: When he launched Quilter Labs two years ago, it was after being absent from the business for more than 35 years.
That's because Pat had backed the wrong sonic horse. Guitar amps and most things electronic had run on balky, fragile, glass vacuum tubes since the get-go, until the magic little transistor came along. This was still the space age, when we all assumed new shit was better.
The transistor was small, durable and the wave of the future in everything, it turned out, except in guitar amps. Players complained to Pat that his transistorized amps didn't sound as good as their old tube ones. He wasn't alone: Fender and a lot of other companies made soon-to-be-reviled solid-state product lines. Some companies failed; some still had their tube-powered lines to fall back on.
Pat kept on his transistorized path. He continued studying tube amps, convinced he could re-create their qualities.
Want to be popular at parties? Tell the gang how electric guitars work:
The motion of a magnetized guitar string induces a small alternating current in an adjacent coil of wire at the same wavelength as the string's vibration. In a guitar amp, the pre-amp and power-amp stages boost that signal until it is strong enough to move the amp's speaker, and voila, you get music.
When LA's Rickenbacher company (since respelled Rickenbacker and relocated to Santa Ana) came up with the electric guitar and amp in the early 1930s, it was a godsend because guitarists until then were the weak sisters in any band, drowned out by horns, banjos and most other instruments. It has been a sweet, noisy revenge, these past 80 years.
Along the way, guitarists discovered they could make their equipment misbehave in ways the manufacturers never intended. Turn a tube amp up until it's overdriven, and instead of accurate reproduction, you get everything from a singing sustain to a raw, distorted sound that bluesmen particularly used to great advantage. The fuzzed-out music of the '60s and beyond grew out of that. Transistor amps were largely immune to that sort of fun, sounding harsh and brittle when overdriven.
Pat's solid-state amps sounded better than most and were used by touring acts such as Honk and Black Pearl, as well as by local hippie wonders including Laguna's Wildfire, while kids in my high school garage band were grateful for his good-sounding, reliable, economic products. The stuff never caught on nationally, though, and the company was a slow-bleeding failure until the mid-'70s when it morphed into QSC Audio.
Pat and his partners gave up on guitar amps and refocused on producing pro sound gear. The company started to become profitable, and by 1984, Pat felt things were running smoothly enough that he took his first real vacation.
"I was sad because I still thought there should be some way of making a good tube-like sound using practical solid-state, and we hadn't quite figured it out. But we needed to move on," he says. "It looked for a while then that synthesizers were going to push guitars off the stage anyway."
It is some consolation, perhaps, that over the years, QSC became phenomenally successful as a leader in the pro sound business. Go to any movie theater in the U.S., and you're probably listening to QSC gear, and they're also huge with concert halls, touring sound companies and retail customers.
The company is privately held and doesn't release its numbers, though Quilter is comfortable saying it has sales well in excess of $100 million per year.
QSC's buildings occupy 150,000 square feet of Costa Mesa, where some 400 people are employed at what The Orange County Register consistently rates as one of the best places to work in the county. (Contrast that with music-industry legend Gibson in Nashville, ranked by its employees as the worst job in the nation.)
The company is greener than the law requires and has a work environment that reflects Pat's thinking.
"Business presents problems," he explains. "My philosophy is: Solve the problems. You do that best in an environment of mutual respect and calm. We went into this with the feeling we had in the '60s, where we were consciously reacting to and hopefully discarding all the corporate goopy, pretentious, unnecessary and unhelpful bullshit that attended the business of making a living. We've always been a highly informal company that likes to think we know how to do our work very well, but don't want to have to dress uncomfortably while we're doing it. That's as much a California thing as anything else."
While Pat was still the company's chief designer and technical problem-solver, he found time to pursue other interests. He has become one hell of a steel-guitar player, gamely fitting into Django-styled bands, beach parties and barbecue jams. He has collected some 100 lap steels and 20 vintage amps along the way. He has somewhat fewer early-20th-century wind-up phonographs to play his old 78s on, plus a great handful of micro-cars—including a Citroen 2CV, a Fiat Multipla 600, an Austin Mini micro-woodie and a Messerschmitt—that he can barely fit his 6-foot-4 frame into. His interest stems from the days when he and Matt would tool around in their dad's 1951 Volkswagen, and also because he likes the comic juxtaposition, "sort of like when you'd see the saxophone quartet at Disneyland, and the short guy was playing the big baritone sax."
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Whenever I can't stand to type another word, such as now, I grab a guitar, switch on my always-handy Quilter Micropro 200 amp and play for a while. I bought one of the first ones, and it is my go-to amp. I've had all the cool-guy stuff—a '50s Fender Bassman and Deluxe, '60s Marshall Plexis, Vox AC-30s and a DeArmond—but I've forsaken them for Pat's little marvel. It sounds as rich and responsive as any tube amp I've had, puts out 200 watts—as though I'd ever need it—and remarkably weighs just more than 18 pounds.
Two years ago, Pat pretty much retired from QSC, and on that New Year's Eve, he launched Quilter Labs. Shortly thereafter, the five-employee company released the Micropro, which combined decades of Pat's work on replicating the qualities of a tube amp with state-of-the-moment Class D technology.
Know what to do when the party is getting late and you want your friends to leave? Explain Class D amplification to them:
Remember that tiny signal an electric guitar produces? An amplifier basically tricks some of your wall current into mimicking that signal. In all previous amps, the transistors or tube acts like variable resistors, meaning they place obstacles in the big signal's path to make it behave like the little signal.
In Class D, the amp's circuit is more like a switch opening and closing incredibly fast. It's either on or off, and it is a whole kaboodle more efficient. The trick, Quilter says, is "you have to switch on and off at hundreds of kilohertz, so these pulses can blend together and form smooth audio pulses at 20 to 20 K. Do this, and you have a device that's 90 percent to 95 percent efficient compared to regular amps that are only 10 percent to 15 percent."
At normal volumes, Quilter's amps use only about 15 percent as much power as a conventional amp, making it a lot more efficient than a Prius. That pleases Pat.
"We live on a finite planet with limited resources. Fortunately, there's no limit on knowledge. The kind of conservation I like is where it's all win-win. Use knowledge wisely, and you get a smaller, lighter amp that uses less power and raw materials, saves manufacturing costs, saves shipping costs and takes up less space."
The Micropro was intentionally designed to stand out from the herd. The herd didn't much like that, perhaps because musicians thought the colorful amp looked like something their daughter would take to glee club. It's been a slow take-off. While Pat doesn't like to say how much of his own money he has pumped into Quilter Labs to keep it afloat, it's safe to say it's more than I'm going to earn over the rest of my life.
This year, the company released its more conventional-looking Aviator line and is getting a lot more notice. It isn't just aging journalists singing the amps' praises now.
To me, Los Lobos are the Beatles that never broke up. They just keep on growing, changing, challenging and becoming ever-more soulful. Singer/composer David Hidalgo is my kind of guitar god, always emotional, inventive and articulate. I've seen him play through nearly every sort of tube amp over the years, but now he's working out with a variety of Quilters.
A musician friend had told him about the amps, "so I looked the company up and found they're only half an hour from my home. I've been using their amps ever since," Hidalgo says by phone.
"I like the portability"—for fly-to gigs, he just stows an 8-pound Micropro head in his carry-on—"the reliability and mainly the tone. Right out of the gate, it sounds great, with all the sound of a tube amp. It has enough power for whatever you need. Also, when we played the Greek, they have a 95-decibel sound limit. With most amps, it's really hard to get a tone at low volume, but the Quilter worked perfect there."
Deke Dickerson is another total amp hound, to the degree that he owns one of Elvis' guitar player Scotty Moore's über-rare Echosonic amps and several of the nearly as rare 1950s Standel amps favored by Joe Maphis, Chet Atkins and other hot pickers. He just finished touring the U.S. by Cadillac, using a prototype Quilter Steelaire amp.
"All I'm ever looking for is the qualities of the old tube amps I like, and the Quilters really nail that," Dickerson says from his Valley abode. "The Steelaire kept reminding me of my old Standel amps, in the sense it was loud, clean, had a twangy bottom end, and didn't fart out on the low notes, which is everything I liked about my old Standels."
If the company keeps winning over players at its present rate, Pat may be able to take another vacation in a few years. While he's the resident genius, he leaves a lot of the lifting to the rest of the crew, which includes CEO Chris Parks and COO Robert Becker, both of whom followed him from QSC and share his penchant for quixotic quests. Becker, for example, hopes to resurrect the Optigan, a weird 1970s budget Mellotron-like device originally marketed by Mattel. That, the Cyclops race car and other side-projects have been shelved for now, so they can focus on making a go of the amps.
For about 15 years, Pat was involved in being a mountain man, spending weekends with like-minded souls dressing and living as the rugged explorers of 150 years ago did. He learned to make his own buckskins, throw a tomahawk and sleep on the ground without whimpering, and he found out just how long it takes a guy to build a log cabin using only the hand tools of the 1800s.
Along with the physical conditioning, he thinks it helped him grow as a person. While he has been a whopping success and has helped countless other people, Pat's a bundle of insecurities. "I was always a bit of a scaredy cat about taking on challenges," he says. "Put me in a familiar situation, and I'm okay, but I'm not the type who sails off into the unknown. That's probably one of the reasons I've avoided relationships. They're fundamentally unnerving because you have no idea what might happen."
He finds his work and hobbies fulfilling and has enough of a social life with his friends and family. As for marrying and starting a family of his own, he says, "I think that ship has pretty much passed me by." Maybe he's right. If there's one thing women can't stand, it's a smart, tall, rich guy.
At work, Parks handles most of the marketing and interface with the public. "I like having someone else breaking the ice out front," Pat says. "Chris Parks does that here at Quilter. He's not afraid to charge ahead into the unknown territory. I wouldn't want to be that, until I'd radar-scoped the thing and figured where land mines were."
Yet Pat is the clear figurehead of the company, with his tall, silver-bearded visage as integral to the company identity as Colonel Sanders was to chicken. He's in their ads, and he's the star of a video they made in which he goes back in time to the beginning of tone. And it is his name on every product. If his new amps fail, he's the one all the I-told-you-sos will be sniggering at.
For a guy who doesn't like uncertainty, he has certainly ordered himself a jumbo portion of it. He's two years past retirement age; why not just go riding off into the sunset in one of his adorable little cars?
"What else am I going to do with myself? This is an opportunity to bring something new to the game, to give something back to the music business," he says. "Designing power amps is a pretty narrow specialty, and I happen to be expert in all three technologies: tubes, linear solid-state and Class D"—make that four types, if you count his wind-up Victrolas—"so I'm in a unique position to come up with something needed and new. I had hoped the uptake would be quicker, but it's working out in the long run."


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The boss of the company which owns Novopay is in Auckland ahead of a planned announcement by Cabinet minister Steven Joyce about how the Government will deal with the payroll system and its string of problems.
Talent2's former physical education teacher turned chief executive John Rawlinson has been in New Zealand this week for meetings with the Ministry of Education, ahead of today's announcement from Steven Joyce.
Mr Joyce's office confirmed the minister - appointed to handle the Novopay debacle - had met with Mr Rawlinson during another visit last week as part of his efforts to resolve the problem.
A spokesman said Mr Joyce was planning to announce progress on resolving the problems with teachers' pay since the system was introduced last year, years after Talent2 was contracted to put the new system in place.
Mr Rawlinson was Talent2's founding chief executive, leading the company from start-up to its current turnover of more than $300 million with 1700 staff in 19 countries.
Green Party education spokeswoman Catherine Delahunty said today Steven Joyce needed to announce an independent investigation into the system to find out if it can be fixed.
"Steven Joyce is meeting with teacher pay stakeholders today, and they need to see that there is a genuine process for resolving payroll issues. Only an independent IT investigation can give teachers the assurance they need that a functioning payroll system is salvageable from the Novopay disaster."
The Office of the Auditor General has said it will monitor the Novopay issue but will not investigate it at this stage.
Mr Joyce has forecast a new wave of problems with the next pay round on February 6.


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By: Mark McGrouther, Category: Science, Date: 09 Dec 2011
Well technically speaking, it hasn't been a week. A few of the images below were added to the site before I went on leave, and a few have been added since I returned. Thank you as always to all who have contributed.
Larval Scaly Damsel specimen
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Adolescents: Pregnancy
Kathleen A. Rounds and Traci L. Wike
Although rates of adolescent pregnancy have exhibited a downward trend since 1991, the United States continues to have a significantly higher rate than other industrialized nations. Adolescent pregnancy, especially in early and middle adolescence, has long-term developmental and economic impact on the teen and her child, in addition to high social costs. This entry describes the current trends in adolescent pregnancy in the United States, and examines factors reported in the research literature as associated with adolescent pregnancy, discusses federal policy directed toward adolescent pregnancy prevention, and identifies various intervention programs.
Adoption: Intercountry
Karen Smith Rotabi
The practice of intercountry adoption is considered from a historical framework, beginning with World War II to other conflicts and the global dynamics of child circulation for adoption. Significant sources of children are presented, including Russia, China, and Guatemala, as well as moratoriums related to poor practice and fraud. Framed from a social justice perspective, the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption is presented with an exploration of child sales and abduction into intercountry adoption. A global market for children creates significant practice challenges for social workers who engage in assessment, both in the country of child origin and in the destination country. Follow-up care includes case management to support families and children in the intercountry adoption process. In conclusion, the significant decline in the practice is reflected upon pragmatically; the need for true reform in the practice is necessary to preserve intercountry adoption for orphaned and vulnerable children.
Adoption: Lesbian and Gay Adoptive Parents
Abbie E. Goldberg and April Moyer
Adoption by lesbian and gay parents is becomingly increasingly common. This entry presents an overview of the limited research that has focused on lesbian and gay adoptive parents. Specifically, this entry addresses the experience of adoptive parenthood for lesbian and gay parents, with emphasis on the decision-making process (that is, choosing adoption, choosing an agency, choosing an adoption type, and specifying child characteristics), the transition to adoptive parenthood, the psychological adjustment of the adoptive parents and their children, and the adoptive parent–child relationship. We end with recommendations for future research and implications for practitioners and policymakers.
African Americans: Practice Interventions
Sharon E. Moore
African Americans number about 35 million or 12% of the U.S. population. Their life expectancy is lower than that of White Americans, and despite the educational gains made since mid-1980s, the unemployment gap between African Americans and Whites has increased. Similarly, although the number of African Americans working in white-collar occupations has increased, the disparity in wage earnings between African American and White workers continues. Regardless of social class African Americans are made to be cognizant of their race at all times. Today they are still at risk for social issues such as substance abuse, teen pregnancy, incarceration, poverty, high rates of female headed households, infant mortality that is twice as high as Whites, residential segregation, racism, and discrimination. As daunting as these problems are, the strengths of the African American community have allowed it to thrive even amid arduous circumstances.
Child Abuse and Neglect
Susan J. Wells and Geoff Johnson
The true extent of child abuse and neglect is unknown but reports to state agencies indicate over 3 million reports concerning maltreatment of over 6 million children are made each year. Confirmed reports involved over 679,000 children in 2013. Yet, only 32% of the children known to be harmed by maltreatment in the community are investigated by child protective services. The perplexing dilemma in surveillance and service delivery is how to identify those who need help without spuriously including those who do not. This entry focuses on the definition of maltreatment and provides an overview of the history, etiology, and consequences of child abuse and neglect as well as the current trends and dilemmas in the field. To afford some perspective for the reader, some international data and information are provided.
Child Care Services
Laura Lein
Child care services, enabling parents to commit themselves to paid employment while providing a supervised environment for their children, have a long and complex history in the United States. Child care services can provide children with educational and other advantages, as well as custodial care. In fact, the United States has multiple kinds of services providing child care and early childhood education. Publicly funded services have concentrated on care for impoverished children and those facing other risks or disadvantages, but many of these children and their families remain unserved because of gaps in programs and lack of support for subsidies, while other families purchase the services they need.
Child Support
Delanie P. Pope and Joseph Kozakiewicz
Child support is the legal mechanism requiring parents to share in the economic support of their children. Under the law, parents are obligated to support their children regardless of whether they reside with them. Support calculations for noncustodial parents are based on many different factors, which vary from state to state. Enforcement is the single biggest challenge in the area of child support. The federal government continues to pass laws enhancing states' enforcement capabilities. Recipients of child support differ by race and ethnic group. Child support obligations are distinct from alimony and are usually independent of parenting time.
Karen Kayser and Jessica K. M. Johnson
This entry presents the demographic trends of divorce and the social changes that have impacted the divorce rate. A cultural perspective of divorce is provided by analyzing divorce in the context of race and gender and across nations. Current explanatory theories of divorce are described. Research on the consequences of divorce on adults and children is presented followed by the practice implications for social workers. Future directions for policy and research are discussed.
Early Childhood Home Visiting
Melissa Lim Brodowski, Jacqueline Counts, and Aislinn Conrad-Hiebner
This chapter provides an overview of early-childhood home-visiting programs and offers a brief summary of the research, policy, and practice issues. The first section defines home visiting and the funding available to support it. The next section summarizes common characteristics of home-visiting programs and describes the features of several evidence-based home-visiting programs. The outcomes from home visiting for parents and children, including relevant cost-benefit studies, are briefly reviewed. The chapter concludes with implementation issues and future directions for home visiting.
Family: Overview
Sadye L. M. Logan
Families in almost all societies are viewed as the basic unit for coordinating personal reproduction and the redistribution of goals within the larger societal context of production and exchange. They are vulnerable to the rapidly changing economics of the environments in which they live. Universals regarding families worldwide include a delay in marriage, an increase in divorce rates, a decrease in household size and fertility rates, and nontraditional living arrangements. The most studied aspect of families continues to be family diversity, with greater emphasis on an interdisciplinary framework. There is also a movement toward more effective ways of treating families. Placing families in an historical context, this entry discusses evidence-based family interventions, the latest research on families, family diversity, and implications for social work practice and education.
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It was about a week before Halloween when I started feeling as if I were running late for Christmas. We were in the mall, picking up trick-or-treat candy, and the place was already getting decorated for the holidays.
It was about a week before Halloween when I started feeling as if I were running late for Christmas. We were in the mall, picking up trick-or-treat candy, and the place was already getting decorated for the holidays.
A flash of panic struck me. Christmas is almost here, and here I am, with no plan, no pile of cookie recipes, no shopping list, no schematic to decorate our tree or, for that matter, a tree. After the panic came an urge to get started, maybe pick up wrapping paper. Cards. A keepsake ornament. Then came guilt, that here it was, almost Christmas, and I was clearly about to blow it. I mean, I haven't even asked my kid what she wants. I haven't even figured out who's coming for Thanksgiving.
This happens to me every year, and always right about now. Last year I swore it would never happen again. Sure, it might be too late to save Holiday 2011 (or 2010, or 2009) what with Christmas only two months away. So I'd promise myself that next year I would:
Begin holiday planning way, way ahead, with a brand new calendar in January in which I'd plot out Holiday 2012 with surgical precision. I will compose this calendar while on a treadmill, since I will embark on a new fitness regime. You know, in January. Address Christmas cards and plan menus in August, while keeping on eye on Bella and Donald as they swim in the pool. Pick up gifts at all those great outdoor craft fairs. Make stockings, a tree skirt and a Pinterest-y wreath maybe in early September, and stock up on baking supplies. Wrap everything on Veterans Day. Put the tree up on Black Friday.
It's a great plan. It even has a time-slot to research Boxing Day and get ready for that, too.
And yet, here we are. Nothing is trimmed. Nothing is decked. Nothing's even close. The aforementioned plan has flopped, deflated in a humiliating puddle like one of those giant blow-up lawn ornaments in the harsh light of Judgment Day.
This has me rethinking the plan and, with it, my overall ability to plan. I even failed at my plan to make plans.
This year, though, I think I have solved the problem:
I will not make a plan. Instead, I am making myself a promise. A few, actually. I promise I won't feel bad about myself if I don't make cookies for everyone I know, if my presents don't look professionally wrapped, and if some elements of Christmas dinner aren't from scratch. I promise that I won't get stressed out and cranky if the house isn't perfect, if the dog refuses to wear a Santa hat, or if a strand of little white twinkle lights on the tree goes dark and nobody can figure out how to get it to light up again.
There will be a tree, a special meal or two, and we will get together with people we love.
I promise to get the jack-o-lantern off the front porch before Thanksgiving, to see Eggbert, and to watch "A Christmas Story" with Bella and Chris, maybe twice.
And I promise not to panic, no matter how hard the mall tries to make me.


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(g) Ethics Enforcement Procedure
(1) Introduction
The purpose of the Code of Mediation Ethics, Appendix A, is to provide standards of ethical conduct to guide mediators who provide mediation services, to inform and protect consumers of mediation services, and to ensure the integrity of the mediation process. In order for mediation to be effective, there must be broad public confidence in the integrity of the process. Mediators have a responsibility not only to the parties and the legal system, but also to the continuing improvement of the process. They must observe high standards of ethical conduct. These provisions should be construed to advance these objectives.
Failure to comply with any provision in the Code of Ethics may be the basis for removal from the roster of mediators maintained by the State Court Administrator and for such other action as may be taken by the North Dakota Supreme Court or the State Bar Association of North Dakota, or other professional organizations. Violation of a provision of the Code should not itself give rise to a cause of action nor should it create any presumption that a legal duty has been breached. Nevertheless, since the rules do establish standards of conduct for mediators, a mediator's violation of a rule may be evidence of breach of the applicable standard of conduct.
(2) Scope
This procedure applies to complaints against any individual mediator or mediation organization listed on the statewide mediation roster pursuant to this rule.
Advisory Comment
A mediator is subject to this complaint procedure when providing any mediation services. The complaint procedure applies whether the services are court ordered or not, and whether the services are or are not pursuant to North Dakota Rules of Court. The Alternative Dispute Resolution Review Board will consider the fullcontext of the alleged misconduct, including whether the mediator was subject to other applicable codes of ethics, or was representing a mediation organization at the time of the alleged misconduct.
(3) Board
The Alternative Dispute Resolution Review Board will consist of three (3) experienced mediators appointed by the Chief Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court after consultation with the President of the State Bar Association of North Dakota. At least one member appointed must be a non-lawyer mediator. Each member will serve for a term not to exceed three years; however, at the time of the creation of the Board one member will serve one year before being eligible for reappointment, one member will serve two years before being eligible for reappointment and one member will serve three years before being eligible for reappointment. No member may serve more than two consecutive three year terms. The Chief Justice shall designate a Chair of the Board.
(4) Procedure
(A) A complaint must be in writing, signed by the complainant, and mailed or delivered to the Alternative Dispute Resolution Review Board. The complaint must identify the mediator and make a short and plain statement of the conduct forming the basis of the complaint.
(B) The Board shall review the complaint to determine whether the allegations(s), if true, constitute a violation of the Code of Ethics.
(C) If the allegations(s) of the complaint do not constitute a violation of the Code of Ethics, the complaint must be dismissed and the complainant and the mediator must be notified in writing.
(D) If the Board concludes that the allegations of the complaint, if true, constitute a violation of the Code of Ethics, the Board will undertake such review, investigation, and action it deems appropriate. In all such cases, the Board shall send to the mediator, by certified mail, a copy of the complaint, a list identifying the ethical rules that may have been violated, and a request for a written response to the allegations and to any specific questions posed by the Board. It may not be considered a violation of the Code of Ethics for the mediator to disclose notes, records, or recollections of the mediation process complained of as part of the complaint procedure. Confidentiality will be upheld by the Board and only the records and notes relevant to the complaint will be considered in order to protect the parties and the integrity of the mediation process. Except for good cause shown, if the mediator fails to respond to the complaint in writing within thirty (30) days, the allegations(s) shall will be considered admitted.
(E) The Board, at its discretion, may refer the complainant and mediator to mediation conducted by a neutral and qualified mediator to resolve the issues raised by the complainant. Mediation may proceed only if both the complainant and mediator consent. If the complaint is resolved through mediation, the Board shall dismiss the complaint, unless the resolution includes sanctions to be imposed by the Board. If no agreement is reached in mediation, the Board shall determine whether to proceed further.
(F) After review and investigation, the Board shall advise the complainant and mediator of the Board's action in writing by certified mail sent to their respective last known addresses. Upon request within 14 days from receipt of the Board's action on the complaint, the mediator and the complainant are entitled to a hearing before the Board to contest proposed sanctions or findings, and have the right to bring or defend against all charges, to be represented by an attorney, and to examine and cross-examine witnesses. The Board shall receive evidence that the Board considers necessary to understand and determine the dispute. Relevancy must be liberally construed in favor of admission. The Board shall make an electronic recording of the proceedings. The Board at its own initiative, or by request of the complainant or mediator, may issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents and other evidentiary matter. The Board's decision is final.
(5) Sanctions
(A) The Board may impose sanctions, including but not limited to:
(i) issuing a private reprimand;
(ii) designating the corrective action necessary for the mediator to remain on the statewide roster;
(iii) notifying the appointing court and any professional licensing authority with which the mediator is affiliated of the complaint and its disposition;
(iv) publishing the mediator's name, a summary of the violation, and any sanctions imposed;
(v) removing the mediator from the roster of qualified mediators and setting conditions for reinstatement; and
(vi) assessing costs and expenses of proceedings against the mediator, including without limitation, the costs of investigations, service of process, witness fees, and a court reporter's services.
(B) Sanctions may only be imposed if supported by clear and convincing evidence. Conduct considered in previous or concurrent ethical complaints against the mediator is admissible to show a pattern of related conduct, the cumulative effect of which constitutes an ethical violation, and in consideration of appropriate sanctions.
(6) Confidentiality
(A) Unless and until sanctions are imposed, all files, records, and proceedings of the Board that relate to or arise out of any complaint shall be confidential, except:
(i) as between Board members and staff;
(ii) on request of the mediator, the file maintained by the Board, excluding its work product, must be provided to the mediator;
(iii) as otherwise required or permitted by rule or statute; and
(iv) to the extent that the mediator and complainant both waive confidentiality.
(B) If sanctions are imposed against any mediator under Section III A (2)-(5), the sanction must be of public record, and the Board file must remain confidential.
(C) Nothing in this rule may be construed to require the disclosure of the mental processes or communications of the Board or staff.
(7) Privilege; Immunity
(A) Privilege. A statement made in these proceedings is absolutely privileged and may not serve as a basis for liability in any civil lawsuit brought against the person who made the statement.
(B) Immunity. Board members and staff are immune from suit for any conduct in the course of their official duties.
Rule 8.9 was adopted, effective March 1, 2002; amended effective August 1, 2009.
A neutral is an individual or an organization offering an alternative dispute resolution process.
Arbitration is the process through which each party presents its case before a neutral third party who renders a binding or non-binding decision.
Mediation is an informal, non-adversarial process through which a neutral third party facilitates communication between the parties to promote settlement. Decision-making authority remains with the parties; the mediator has no authority to render a judgment on any issue of the dispute.
Subdivision (g) was added, effective August 1, 2009, to provide an enforcement procedure for the Code of Mediation Ethics attached to this rule as Appendix A.
SOURCES: Joint Procedure Committee Minutes of January 28-29, 1999, pages 7-12; May 6-7, 1999, pages 7-11.
REPEALED: N.D. Sup. Ct. Admin. R. 28, effective March 1, 2001.
CROSS-REFERENCE: N.D.R.Ct. 8.8 (Alternative Dispute Resolution).


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Clarkson University Again Slated for Largest Career Fair
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Representatives from 150 companies will be on the Clarkson University campus recruiting students this Thursday, September 18, at the annual fall Career Fair. The event will be the University's largest fair ever, with eight more companies on the waiting list.
"Once again we are seeing a record number of employers coming to Clarkson to recruit our students," said Career Center and International Study Director Marty Ford. "The number of employers attending this fall's Career Fair is a true testament to how Clarkson prepares its students, both in and out of the classroom, for their professional careers. Employers know that they will interact with engaged, intelligent, highly motivated students and that our students will, from day one, be productive members of their organizations."
Clarkson students will fill the Cheel Campus Center, looking for internships, co-ops and permanent positions. Students from all majors will get the opportunity to speak with corporate recruiters, as this is the second consecutive year that the Career Center has signed up companies representing every discipline taught at Clarkson. Companies like General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, IBM, Procter & Gamble, Pratt & Whitney and UBS will be there, among many others.
The event is open to Clarkson University students only.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in six alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
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How to Find Relevant Electronic Evidence: A Nuts-and-Bolts Guide to Search Methods
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How to Find Relevant Electronic Evidence: A Nuts-and-Bolts Guide to Search Methods
The most costly part of any case dealing with electronic evidence is the attorney review time. So naturally, reducing the amount of information reduces the time and money that has to be expended on the case. In large part, it comes down to the search methods that are involved.
There are many ways to search for relevant information in electronic data discovery (EDD), and a qualified, reputable EDD expert will help steer you -toward the right ones. If you are very new to the handling of electronic evidence, your first question might be, do you really need an expert? Sorry, but yes. Federal Judge John Facciola's opinion in United States v. O'Keefe (D.D.C. Feb. 18, 2008), stating that lawyers and judges are not capable of properly searching without using an expert, woke up a lot of attorneys—and it also made them resolve to "get smarter" so they can ask probing questions to make sure they're getting good advice. So for those who want to get smart, here's your guide to the nuts and bolts of searching.
Software Constraints
To begin, let's look at some of the restrictions and requirements for searching. No matter what data you are analyzing, the first limitation is the capabilities of the search software. Some questions to ask: What file types can the search software handle? Can it search the internals of an Outlook PST file? What if your case involves e-mail messages stored in a Notes NSF file? Can the software search for particular terms in a Word document, even if it is an attachment to a message? Can you search the information contained in compound files such as ZIP files? These are the types of questions that must be answered to understand what limitations may exist in the software. Not all search software is created equal—and the use of inferior software may make deep inroads into your client's wallet.
And there's the question of foreign-language capabilities. Is all of the information in English, or do you need searching done in some other language? This may present a particular challenge, especially if your expert has to use a foreign alphabet to search the data. Foreign language searching is just beginning to come into its own, and it can add considerable expense.
Handling of e-mail is also a great concern. Many search applications will not search the attachments as part of the native file, so you may have to extract the attachments from the messages prior to their being searched. But no matter what method you are faced with, you want to know if all the data is being searched.
Basic Types of Searches
Now let's get to the various ways that data can be searched. Certainly the most common method is through the use of keywords. Generally speaking, keywords are words or sections of words that would be contained within the relevant data. For example, searching on "pot" could return the words spot and potential. You may be able to narrow the results, though, by using the search engine's operators, which instruct the engine how to handle the keyword and any variants. One example is the use of the wildcard symbol (*): Selecting the keyword as "pot*" would return the word potential but not spot, because the wildcard appears at the end of the word and not the beginning. Make sure you know what operators are available for the search engines being used in your cases.
Searching with phrases can also help reduce the amount of "noise results," which is industry jargon for unintended search results. Reducing noise hits means less review time—and less money expended in attorney review time.
Another type of method is Boolean searching. Boolean operators are terms such as AND, OR, NOT and NEAR. As an example, you can construct a Boolean search as "Everett AND Washington" to ensure the results include both words. The NEAR operator means that the words are not in the exact order as listed, but are fairly close to each other. In some search engines, using quotation marks around the words indicates that an exact order is required.
Proximity searching is another common method. Many search engines use the operator WITHIN or the plus (+) symbol to denote a proximity search. An example of this would be "apple +5 pie." This means the word "pie" has to appear within five words or less of the word "apple."
Another advanced search engine capability is stemming—finding variations in the endings of a selected search word. Stemming using the word "metal," for example, would return metalized and metallic. This is the same as putting a wildcard operator at the end of the keyword.
Grep Searching
Grep (which loosely stands for global regular expression print) is a command-line search program originally written for UNIX. Grep uses a complicated and daunting syntax to search for specific character-string patterns within data. There are wildcard and placeholder values in Grep along with several other operators. As an example, the use of brackets means that the search should include any character inside the brackets. So, [a-f] means to include the lowercase letters a through f in the character position. You'll normally see GREP used in forensic analysis searches and not in typical electronic data processing. After reading this paragraph, you're probably glad you won't have to deal with it often.
Fuzzy Searching
Some search engines also support fuzzy searching, which can be particularly effective for finding results containing words that are often misspelled. Spelling errors are pretty common in cases involving technical terms. The degree of "fuzziness" is normally adjusted via a numeric value, and many search engines use that number to determine the amount of letters that can be wrong in the misspelling. As an example, a fuzzy value of 1 would mean that only one letter can be wrong in the word.
Fuzzy searching is very valuable when dealing with sophisticated terms, where the proper spelling isn't widely known. However, while fuzzy searching can find data that would normally be missed, it can also generate a lot of noise results. And since some
e-discovery vendors charge based on the number of search hits, the addition of noise results can add to the invoice. Fuzzy searching is like casting a wide net to gather much more information than a direct keyword search.
Conceptual Searching
Conceptual searching takes the input term and returns results that are related in meaning. For example, if a search uses the term "car," then results with the terms "automobile" and "vehicle" will also be in the returned hits. This is an extremely -powerful (and expensive) capability.
One of the most well-known concept search engines is Attenex. The Attenex engine is very effective, but it is not for the faint of heart and its cost is quite high. It is typically used in large, high-profile cases where there is a large volume of electronic information. The key issue to be aware of with conceptual search engines is that they are only as good as the programming logic. Because there's an element of artificial intelligence when doing conceptual searches, you are dependent on the programmer's view of what term has a related meaning. However, certain engines allow you to modify your own thesaurus file so that there's some element of control in the results.
Leverage Your Know-How
An exhaustive look at electronic data searching would require a small book, but today's savvy lawyer should have some knowledge of the subject. If you're a knowledgeable consumer in this area, you can save your clients money—and grateful clients usually return to give you more work!
About the Authors
Sharon D. Nelson and John W. Simek are President and Vice President, respectively, of Sensei Enterprises, Inc., a computer forensics and legal technology firm based in Fairfax, VA. They are coauthors of The Electronic Evidence and Discovery Handbook: Forms, Checklists, and Guidelines (ABA, 2006).


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Biodiversity, Conservation and Ecosystem Services in Managed Landscapes
Data-driven Review of Ecosystem-based Management Efforts
Economic Impact of Non-native Forest Pests and Pathogens in North America
Habitat Conservation Planning for Endangered Species | A Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity |
Prospectus for an Analysis of Recovery Plans and Delisting
Ushering in a New Era of Functional Ecology: Dynamics in a Changing Environment
Recent Distributed Graduate Seminars
Habitat Conservation Planning for Endangered Species
Final Report
Using Science in Habitat Conservation Plans
Additional Publications
NCEAS collaborated with the American Institute of Biological Sciences to examine the scientific basis of Habitat Conservation Plans prepared under the Endangered Species Act. This one-year Working Group project included a Distributed Graduate Seminar held at eight universities. The seminars included 119 researches, including 106 students and 13 faculty members.
The group reviewed Habitat Conservation Plans to evaluate the extent to which scientific data and methods were used in developing and justifying the agreements, and also recommended ways to strengthen the role of science in conservation planning.
In addition to multiple scientific publications the research prompted wide coverage in the popular press.
Participating Universities
Fall 1997
Florida State University
Prospectus for an Analysis of Recovery Plans and Delisting
Boersma, Dee
Project Web Site (Archived)
NCEAS, In collaboration with the Society for Conservation Biology, developed a Distributed Graduate Seminar involving 19 universities, 23 faculty and over 200 graduate students who together evaluated the effectiveness of recovery plans for endangered species. Graduate students gathered data and developed a large database of a representative sample of recovery plans. Recovery plans for 181 species were reviewed during the project. Using only the information presented in the recovery plan and the original listing document for the species, seminar participants recorded more than 2600 specific data about each recovery plan. Student representatives from each school came to NCEAS to participate in analyzing the data and developing scientific publications and policy recommendations to the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, based on this analysis.
The project provided a unique opportunity to undertake a large collaboration among graduate students and faculty at multiple universities, and to facilitate communication between academic scientists and USFWS policy makers and resource managers.
The project successfully accomplished the most detailed and comprehensive review of endangered species recovery plans yet conducted, and produced a rich database of information on the content and characteristics of these planning documents. Analyses of the database have identified many positive aspects of recovery plans, and also suggested specific ways in which the recovery planning process could be improved.
Participating Universities
A Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity
Andelman, Sandy
Data Sets
|Understanding biocomplexity and other dimensions of ecological systems necessitates a holistic approach that can be achieved only by identifying, retrieving, and synthesizing diverse data from distributed sources and by collaboration among scientists from a broad range of disciplines, investigating many different systems.
In a series of multi-campus graduate seminars, students in ecology, natural resource management, informatics, and statistics explored a variety of topics related to biocomplexity research and ecological synthesis. Participants used newly developed ecoinformatics tools and principles to investigate the relationship between species richness and productivity, and to test the efficacy of the tools. Data were derived from local LTER sites and student representatives from each university participated at NCEAS in comparing results across sites.
Participating Universities
Data-driven Review of Ecosystem-based Management Efforts
Andelman, Sandy
Data Sets
Over the last decade there have been a wide range of efforts to implement ecosystem management in various systems (e.g., the Everglades, Greater Yellowstone, the Interior Columbia Basin, Serengeti-Mara, and the Great Barrier Reef). Although there have been several recent reviews of ecosystem management, these have not been quantitative or deeply analytical. This project used a distributed graduate seminar model to examine information regarding past ecosystem-based management efforts. Participants considered factors such as explicit goals, key elements and sequencing of the process, institutional attributes, implementation, degree of integration of science and decision-making, and outcomes. Faculty and graduate students from seven universities collaborated to assess successes and failures. They evaluated why particular efforts succeeded and failed, and identified lessons learned for management of coastal-marine systems. Locally, participants in each seminar collaborated to synthesize data for a particular example of ecosystem-based management and to develop a database of EBM activities and attributes. Participants in each seminar collaborated to synthesize data for a particular example of ecosystem-based management and to develop a database of EBM activities and attributes. A final working group meeting, involving 43 graduate students and faculty members from all participating universities, was held at NCEAS in February of 2005 to synthesize information from all case studies.
Participating Universities
Biodiversity, Conservation and Ecosystem Services in Managed Landscapes
De Clerck, Fabrice
Loss of functional diversity under land use intensification across multiple taxa
Functional richness and ecosystem services: bird predation on arthropods in tropical agroecosystems
Beyond yield: plant disease in the context of ecosystem services
Fabrice De Clerk from Turrialba, Costa Rica, is based at the Centro Agronónomico Tropical de Investigación Enseñanza (CATIE). He teamed up with 7 other scientists from the East Coast, Midwest and West Coast of the United States to conduct a seminar for graduate students on the role of biodiversity in the landscapes that humans manage intensively. They reviewed the evidence for and against the idea that biodiversity can enhance the value humans receive from heavily managed landscapes, such as agriculture or cattle production. and then came to NCEAS to synthesize their findings.
Participating Universities
Aukema, Juliann
We are conducting a distributed graduate seminar to determine the extent to which ecological and economic impacts of non-native forest pests and pathogens can be quantified. The seminar involves groups of students at seven universities: Northern Arizona University, Colorado State University, University of Minnesota, University of Montana, State University of New York, North Carolina State University, and Oregon State University. Each university-based seminar has two leaders, an ecologist and an economist. Each university has selected one to several forest pests or pathogens of local to regional concern. They are gathering key data and evaluating ecological and economic impacts. We will bring together representatives from each university for a comparison and synthesis of results, modeling approaches, and data gaps.
Participating Universities
Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Winter 2008
Ushering in a New Era of Functional Ecology: Dynamics in a Changing Environment
Cleland, Elsa E.
Human activities are increasingly altering the environment in ways that impact plant communities and ecosystems. Climate change, invasive species, and nutrient enrichment of natural ecosystems are all examples of such environmental changes. The seminar will focus on emerging areas of research that are advancing functional ecology. A major goal of the DGS is to develop approaches to help predict how plant species and communities will shift in response to environmental changes. In particular the team will seek to connect plant traits, which reflect both ecological function and evolutionary history, to species responses to altered environmental conditions. To accomplish this goal they will bring together datasets from numerous locations throughout North America, including experimental manipulations of nitrogen, water, temperature and species composition, as well as observational datasets along existing environmental gradients. The capstone NCEAS meeting will combine analyses and techniques from each institution to generate predictions regarding national-level responses of plant communities to environmental change such as invasive species and nitrogen enrichment.
Participating Universities
Columbia University
Fall 2007


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Legoland Florida will give police officers, firefighters and EMS employees single-day admission free to the Winter Haven theme park throughout May.
Eligible people can also buy up to four guest tickets for $40 apiece on that day.
Active and retired personnel with identification are eligible. They must present employee ID or professional organization membership card at Legoland's ticket window on the day they plan to visit to receive the free ticket and to purchase guest tickets.
Legoland Florida is closed to all guests on May 1, 7, 8, 14, 15, 21 and 22. The water park is operating on Saturdays and Sundays only until May 27, when it resumes daily operation.
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Bank of America to Pay $3.6 Billion to Fannie Mae
Bank of America will pay $3.6 billion to Fannie Mae as well as repurchase certain mortgage loans made from 2000 through 2008 for $6.75 billion, a move it said would cut its fourth-quarter pretax income by about $2.7 billion. David Benoit reports on Markets Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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