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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
A wrap in a snap...
When my family came up last week to see the new house, I made them lunch and also baked them a snack to (hopefully!) enjoy afterwards. Jeff made a comment that we've not done any cupcakes for awhile, so I decided to make these Chocolate Mocha Cupcakes. I didn't tell Jeff before hand that this was a fairly light recipe and he was surprised with how moist and tender they were. Using a good amount of whole-wheat pastry flour to up the nutritional value, along side some all-purpose flour for structure, the batter also has just a few tablespoons of fat for the recipe coming from a mixture of melted butter and canola oil. To keep these cupcakes exceptionally moist, a heaping cup of plain yogurt is added to aide in their tenderness.
Dutch-processed cocoa, colliding with dissolved espresso powder, creates the rich mocha flavor in these dark individual cakes. Because you can't go wrong with more chocolate, a couple ounces of melted dark chocolate is swirled into the finished batter right before these are portioned out into the tins. You could get away with a dusting of confectioners' sugar and call them done, but what is a cupcake without frosting? Softened cream cheese, simply sweetened and flavored with confectioners' sugar, more dissolved espresso and a touch of coffee liqueur just because, creates the velvety frosting that is slathered on top. If you are a chocolate fiend and feeling especially indulgent, shave or grate more of that quality dark chocolate you added to the batter over the top of the cupcakes before digging in.
I've become a big fan of Greek-style yogurt over the last year or so and love the thick, tangy and full-bodied texture it has. I usually top it with blueberries and granola, but we used in a savory fashion with tonight's dinner of Waldorf Chicken Wraps. Inside these wraps is a hearty mixture of shredded chicken breast, crunchy toasted walnuts and crisp Granny Smith apple chunks. Those ingredients are coated in a slick mixture of the creamy yogurt, a couple tablespoons of mayonnaise for richness, fresh lemon juice, Dijon mustard and thyme. The innards are then placed on a leaf of romaine lettuce before adoring the wrap so the tortillas don't get soggy. I loved all of the textures in this wrap - a smooth sauce, chunky crisp filling and a nutty crunch from the walnuts - we put the leftover filling in separate containers and will fill and roll them right before polishing the rest off for lunch tomorrow! You may notice that our wraps have a reddish tinge to them - I used a sun-dried tomato and basil flavored one from a certain brand that we have been using for a few years now.
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Those cupcakes look y-u-m-m-y!!ReplyDelete
I love the greek yogurt as well...it has enough body to really hold up as a sourcream or mayo sub. I like to do exactly what you did...sub the yogurt for most of the mayo, but not all of it...it is the perfect balance!
Joe, both those recipes look really yummy!!!!!!!!And I think are going in the must try file!!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9/19/2007 04:12:00 PM
oooh hello! Those cupcakes look like just the recipe I'm looking for to use up that last bit of chocolate staring at me on my counter! Thanks!ReplyDelete
Hold the cup cakes, I'm heading for the chicken wraps first.ReplyDelete
Dani - It does work well... the mayo adds just enough richness!ReplyDelete
Pat - thank you!
Jenny - enjoy!
Cynthia - Hmm... I could go for that, as long as I'm sure to get the cupcakes afterwards!
Joey - The cupcakes look especially divine. Have you thought of using your Greek yoghurt as in ingredient in cupcakes? It is really good with ones in which citrus plays a key part.ReplyDelete
Shaun - I would have, but didn't have enough to go around!ReplyDelete
What talent you have! the waldorf wraps look delectable! Ill certainly be giving them a go, and perhaps the cup cakes for dessert! harharReplyDelete
The baker - Thank you!ReplyDelete


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Back in October we wowed you with 20 Excellent Ajax Effects You Should Know. The post went on to become one of the most popular ever published at Nettuts+. This time around we have twenty more equally excellent Ajax effects for you to know and love.
1. Image Menu
2. ImageFlow
ImageFlow is an unobtrusive and "user friendly" JavaScript image gallery script. It features an elegant scroll-bar to browse through the images, and all of the images sit on top of a reflection, creating a Mac-like coverflow effect.
3. Instant.js
4. Glassbox
We've all heard of Lightboxes and even Greyboxes, but how about GlassBoxes? GlassBox is an interface library that relies Scriptaculous and Prototype. The nifty library will add lucent borders and other flash-like effects. It's easy to use, skinnable and even has dynamic content loading.
5. Search Field CSS/JS
Auto-completing search fields are highly valuable when it comes user interaction. Sometimes the searcher doesn't know quite what he's looking for, so anything that helps the user find exactly what he wants is a huge benefit.
CSSGlobe has a very nice tutorial on how to enhance your site's searchfield (unobtrusively, no less) with a bit of CSS and Ajax.
6. Protoload
Loading images and fields are important to modern web applications that use Ajax. Protoload gives some built in options to help show the user what's going on while she's waiting. The script gives many options like color overlays for loading elements, custom text, and many other options.
7. jwysiwyg
jwysiwyg is a simple, powerful and extremely lightweight JavaScript jQuery WYSIWYG plugin. The plugin has many of the standard features of WYSIWYG editors, and is only 7kb in total size.
8. jquery.biggerlink 2
Bigger link 2 is really a simple plugin that makes bigger, clickable links easier. It even allows you to embed links inside of linked elements, if that makes sense. (Check out the demos for more clarity.)
Bigger Link 2 runs on the popular jQuery JavaScript framework.
9. jQuery Tag Suggestion
Tag suggestions are a popular usage of Ajax in modern web applications. Much like auto-completing search boxes, the jQuery Tag Suggestion plugin is an easy to use plugin that gives any application that uses tagging a way to quickly find the proper tag. A simple yet effective boost in the user experience.
10. Facebox
Facebox is a unique lightbox script that mimics the lightbox style of Facebook's modal windows. Built on jQuery, Facebox looks and feels almost exactly like Facebook's interface, and it's simple to install as well.
11. Humanized Messages
Humanized Messages is a nifty jQuery plugin that does as the name implies: it creates a friendly messages for the user. The JavaScript plugin does this by creating a translucent message over the screen, and gently fades away over time.
12. LightWindow v2.0
LightWindow is yet another Lightbox plugin, but it adds some functionality that plugins of it's type seem to leave out. For starters, the plugin allows for rending and using multmedia within the lightboxes. Movies, images, even entire galleries can be shown within the LightWindow. Perfect for unobtrusively showcasing multimedia.
13. Unobtrusive Table Actions
Table data is often hard to display effectively, especially when you want to allow sorting of the rows and columns. The Unobtrusive Table Actions is a JavaScript that allows for different effects to be placed on table data. Highlighting rows, columns, sorting data, and much more can be done with the aide of this little script.
14. jQuery checkbox
jQuery checkbox adds a little flair to checkbox fields in forms. It adds a toggle button very similar to that of the iPhone interface, giving a very distinctive on or off. It's great for usability, and the dynamic skin can be turned on or off, on the fly.
15. iCarousel
Carousels are a great way to rotate content such as images or news stories. The iCarousel plugin fits the bill as a simple, tiny script that gives all sorts of configuration options and usages. News tickers, photo carousels or even an ad carousel.
16. MochaUI
17. jTip
jTip is a simple concept, yet very effective for improving hovertip functionality. Based on jQuery, jTip simply adds an elegant hoverbox to pre-configured links on a page, all with the help of some Ajax.
Forms have long been the troublespot for many web developers over the years, and technologies like Ajax have greatly helped the user experience. With Ajax, you can process forms in real-time, validate them and send responses without requiring a reload of the page. Uni-Form is a little Ajax script that is a plug-in-play concept that tries to standardize form markup with XHTML and modularize the form, so that individual elements can be easily added or removed.
19. Validation Hints
Validation Hints is a simple script that aides in form validation. It makes sure that password and username fields are the specified length, and can even validate against regular expressions. Small and handy.
20. Control Tabs
Control Tabs, (part of the robust LivePipe UI), is a sweet script that gives many different ways to configure tabs on a page. You can use the standard tabbed interface, or even use something like images to show tabs as well. Control Tabs is a robust script, and even has an API that you can use to fine-tune your tabbed interfaces.

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T3 Commandline Scanner Crack & Serial Key
T3 Commandline Scanner is a straightforward piece of software that can be used to check the computer for malware using the IKARUS antivirus engine. It can be easily operated from the console environment by users experienced with command-line utilities.
Before proceeding any further, you should know that T3 Commandline Scanner does not offer real-time protection against malware like IKARUS anti.virus. Although it can find and remove already infected files, it cannot keep you safe from future infections so it can only be used as a second line of defense.
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Ikarus Software
1055 2.5
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Installing this program is not required since you can just unzip the downloaded archive and call T3 Commandline Scanner's process from a Command Prompt window to perform a scan.
However, it cannot work without the IKARUS virus definitions, which can be separately installed and copied to the same location as the command-line tool (the definitions are autodetected). Also, it's best to run the command-line scanner with administrative rights to avoid errors related to file access permissions.
Having to download another file might seem like a tedious task to some users, but this ensures that the virus removal utility is updated with the latest virus definitions, making it capable of identifying the newest malware threats.
The syntax is t3scan [options]
As far as options are concerned, you can ask the tool to read input files from a newline-separated file (-filelist or -f file_name), create a log file with the scanning activity (-logfile or -l file_name), and limit the file size in megabytes (-maxfilesize or -m number, default number is 64MB).
By default, T3 Commandline Scanner doesn't act upon identified malware but only runs scans. You can exit simulation mode with -n. It's also possible to exclude subdirectories from scans (-nosubdirs or -d), prevent the tool from scanning archive contents (-noarchives or -na), and stop recursive file scans within archives after a specified number of seconds (-rtimeout seconds).
Furthermore, it can summarize archives to report only the final archive result (-sa), stop scanning a single file after a specified number of seconds if it takes too long (-timeout seconds), increase the output level (-verbose or -v), and hide the adware and spyware signatures used to detect threats (-noaware). If the IKARUS virus definitions are in a different location than the CLI scanner, you can point it out with -vdbpath or -vp path.
Scanning operations may take a while. However, T3 Commandline Scanner remained light on system resources usage in our tests. Thanks to its straightforward commands, it can be used a second line of defense against malware for users who trust the IKARUS virus definitions.
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## Advanced notes on the Lambda Calculus ##
Hankin uses the symbol
→ for one-step contraction,
and the symbol
↠ for
zero-or-more step reduction. Hindley and Seldin use
⊳1 and
As we said in the main notes, when `M` and `N` are such that there's some `P` that `M` reduces to by zero or more steps, and that `N` also reduces to by zero or more steps, then we say that `M` and `N` are **beta-convertible**. We write that like this:
This is what plays the role of equality in the lambda calculus. Hankin
uses the symbol `=` for this. So too do Hindley and
Seldin. Personally, we keep confusing that with the relation to be
described next, so let's use the `<~~>` notation instead. Note that
`M <~~> N` doesn't mean that each of `M` and `N` are reducible to each other;
that only holds when `M` and `N` are the same expression. (Or, with
our convention of only saying "reducible" for one or more reduction
steps, it never holds.)
In the metatheory, it's also sometimes useful to talk about formulas
that are syntactically equivalent *before any reductions take
place*. Hankin uses the symbol
≡ for this. So too
do Hindley and Seldin. We'll use that too, and will avoid using `=`
when discussing the metatheory. Instead we'll use `<~~>` as we said
above. When we want to introduce a stipulative definition, we'll write
it out longhand, as in:
> `T` is defined to be `(M N)`.
> Let `T` be `(M N)`.
We'll regard the following two expressions:
(\x (x y))
(\z (z y))
as syntactically equivalent, since they only involve a typographic
change of a bound variable. Read Hankin Section 2.3 for discussion of
different attitudes one can take about this.
Note that neither of the above expressions are identical to:
(\x (x w))
because here it's a free variable that's been changed. Nor are they identical to:
(\y (y y))
because here the second occurrence of `y` is no longer free.
There is plenty of discussion of this, and the fine points of how
substitution works, in Hankin and in various of the tutorials we'll
link to about the lambda calculus. We expect you have a good
intuitive understanding of what to do already, though, even if you're
not able to articulate it rigorously.
## Substitution and Alpha-Conversion ##
Intuitively, (a) and (b) express the application of the same function to the argument `y`:
(\x. \z. z x) y
(\x. \y. y x) y
(\z. (\z. z z) y
Here there are no bound variables, but *bound positions* remain. We can
regard formula like (a) and (b) as just helpfully readable ways to designate
these abstract structures.
A version of this last approach is known as [de Bruijn notation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_index) for the lambda calculus.
It doesn't seem to matter which of these approaches one takes; the logical
properties of the systems are exactly the same. It just affects the particulars
of how one states the rules for substitution, and so on. And whether one talks
about expressions being literally "syntactically identical," or whether one
instead counts them as "equivalent modulu alpha-conversion."
(Linguistic trivia: some linguistic discussions do suppose that
alphabetic variance has important linguistic consequences; see Ivan Sag's
Next week, we'll discuss other systems that lack variables. Those systems will
not just lack variables in the sense that de Bruijn notation does; they will
furthermore lack any notion of a bound position.
## Review: syntactic equality, reduction, convertibility ##
Define `N` to be `(\x. x y) z`. Then `N` and `(\x. x y) z` are syntactically equal,
and we're counting them as syntactically equal to `(\z. z y) z` as well. We'll express
all these claims in our metalanguage as:
(λ. λ. _ _) y
^ ^ | |
| |__| |
N ~~> z y
means that `N` beta-reduces to `z y`. This:
means that `M` and `N` are beta-convertible, that is, that there's something they both reduce to in zero or more steps.
The symbols `~~>` and `<~~>` aren't part of what we're calling "the Lambda
Calculus". In our mouths, they're just part of our metatheory for talking about it. In the uses of
the Lambda Calculus as a formal proof theory, one or the other of these
symbols (or some notational variant of them) is added to the object language. But only in outermost contexts. It's like the "sequent" symbol (written `=>` or
N ≡ (\x. x y) z ≡ (\z. z y) z
⊢) in [Gentzen-style proof systems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequent_calculus) for logic. You can't embed the `~~>` or `<~~>` symbol inside lambda terms.
See Hankin Sections 2.2 and 2.4 for the proof theory using `<~~>` (which he
writes as `=`). He discusses the proof theory using `~~>` in his Chapter 3.
This material is covered in slightly different ways (different organization and
some differences in terminology and notation) in Chapters 1, 6, and 7 of the
Hindley & Seldin.


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- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:31:18 -0800
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A bit of back story: when designing and iterating the API, we focused heavily on use cases. We were unable to come up with a compelling (enough) use case for handling progress notifications, though the use cases we did have allowed us to think of ways to modify the API to support those use cases (not added to the current API). What use cases are you envisioning will require progress events? Thanks, James On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Charles Pritchard <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > So, to make things difficult again -- how do we monitor progress? > When I'm saving to the cloud, I want my XHR onprogress. > > I don't need high-fidelity progress events -- they don't even make sense > when one server is copying to another, > but I do need something, otherwise we're back in the dark ages of polling on > a separate channel. > > This is an area where a MessageChannel could be handy; even an EventSource > would work out, > though it feels a little awkward. It's only one way, which is all that's > needed, so maybe it's the right place to be looking. > > http://dev.w3.org/html5/eventsource/ > > > -Charles > > > On 11/13/11 3:24 PM, Paul Kinlan wrote: > > On the subject of FileSaver, specifically window.saveAs, I have demos that > show use of "http://webintents.org/save" intent which fits work very well > and it would be up to the UA to decide if they want to offer an interface > for access to the local fileSystem. So it could either be a cloud or local > FS that the user chooses. >> >> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Charles Pritchard <firstname.lastname@example.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 11/10/11 3:10 PM, Greg Billock wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I think the Web-page-in-a-separate tab is also an optional aspect of >>>>> Web >>>>> intents; the browser could serve as a broker between the local-network >>>>> service and the Web page. >>>> >>>> This is unclear but I hope we end up with something that provides >>>> non-tabbed (direct) interaction also. In some cases it may be superfluous to >>>> have a separate window open that denotes the service endpoint. >>> >>> The proposal we're working from uses "disposition=inline" to denote this >>> -- that is, services can be placed within the visual context of the calling >>> page. Our prototype uses an expansion of the service picker dialog to host >>> that service page. >>> >>> It seems like the anchor download attribute fills another need. Should >>> these proposals be wrapped up into an omnibus package? >>> In my opinion, they're an extension to the very-old "target" attribute. >>> >>> In the new Web Apps world, we're targeting FileSaver and iframe sandbox. > >
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Song written by Kate Bush. Recorded as a demo, presumably in 1976. The song has never been released officially, but it did end up on various bootlegs. The song is also known as 'Dali'.
The demo appears on the bootleg 7" single 'Cathy Demos Volume Three' and various bootleg CD's.


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"Miller Banner takes Matthew Carter's popular Miller series to new heights: 100 points and up, beyond any examples among the Scotch Roman's historic antecedents. Optimized for very large settings, hairlines have been sharpened and the contrast sweetened, lending grace and crisp elegance to banner headlines and titles. Richard Lipton prepared these styles, adding a seductive new Black weight for Glamour magazine." [Font Bureau, 2010]
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Qualcomm may be best known as the company that makes the processors inside many smartphones and tablets, but its ambitions go far beyond eeking out a few extra megahertz with each new device. At its Developer and Analyst event last week, I saw the company's vision of a vastly more mobile world. Qualcomm even showcased the best ad for a processor (A Dragon is Coming) since Intel's epic Bunny Man series of the 1990s.
Let's connect the dots and paint the world five years from now as Qualcomm appears to be imagining it.
One device does it all
In the future Qualcomm imagines, you won't need a Blu-ray player anymore, and you probably won't need a TV tuner. The company showcased a 4K TV – the next generation in HD – running off of a tablet with 7.1 sound. That's a center speaker in front of you, along with two speakers for stereo facing you, two speakers beside you, and two speakers behind you. A single tablet fed the entire system. But Qualcomm is also working with the cellular carriers like Verizon to broadcast live TV over cellular networks. This would allow large numbers of users to watch the same show, all using the same video stream and sharing the same signal, both providing real-time HD TV and preserving the wireless network.
The future that Qualcomm is imagining takes the wireless world we know today even further.
You'll still need a wired amp for the speakers and a large screen running on AC power, but you could use your device to program both, and take content from room to room. You could, for instance, easily start the kids on a Disney cartoon at home, switch to in-car displays while you drove them around, and while waiting for them to get out of school, use your dash screen to catch up on the latest episode of Defiance.
Home automation
This market has been struggling to get off the ground since the late 1980s. Qualcomm's vision is to move the ecosystem to Wi-Fi, then link all the lights into the true "Internet of things." The result would be a sharp reduction in the cost of implementing home automation, and the ability to better use your smartphone or tablet to control your house through automated lights, heating and cooling, entertainment, and security.
Your phone knows where you are, so it could turn off all your electronics and temperature control when you left the house, then have the lights come on, the temperature of the home adjusted, and even you favorite music or TV show ready for you when you entered the house. Coupled with voice-command technology, you could adjust lights and change stations just by talking at your phone.
1000x wireless network improvement
Qualcomm plans to increase your wireless data bandwidth by one thousand times. Yes, one thousand times. They'll do it by building little cell sites into Wi-Fi routers, then tying each of them into a network of micro-sites. This would allow folks to more easily connect to faster wired networks and increase the number of places you can connect to massively. The cost for the additional technology to be placed into a Wi-Fi router is apparently marginal, and people could be motivated to buy the new routers by promising better voice reception in their homes.
This would be a future with virtually no dropped calls, and as long as you were near wired homes, businesses, or hotels, you'd have data rates you can't even imagine now and on a sustained basis.
No wires
The future that Qualcomm is imagining takes the wireless world we know today even further. You plug in a device to the wall and it connects to some wireless network and just works. Connecting to a device thousands of miles away is as easy as it is in your home. In this world, anything you can see on your phone, from movies and TV to games, can be pushed to much larger screens. Your home and car can be controlled by your phone or tablet. It is a world of amazing performance, amazing experiences, and yes, some really amazing devices. Let's check back in five years, that's 2018, and see how close we get to Qualcomm's future.


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Bruck is internationally recognized as a leader in the development of innovative lighting systems with particular emphasis in the application of low voltage, halogen light sources. The pioneer of a new approach to design, Bruck places three-dimensional technology at the forefront.
Since the beginning, Bruck has been a developer and promoter of new standards in aesthetics, product quality and safety. Low voltage halogen light has evolved into one of the most highly demanded forms of lighting, finding extensive and varied applications in most styles of architecture. Much of the interior architecture of our living, working, and leisure spaces would be difficult to conceive without this brilliant, versatile, and stable light.
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Trigonometric Functions
Cornell University
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Norm was 4th at the 2004 USA Weightlifting Nationals! He still trains and competes occasionally, despite his busy schedule.
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The tangent identity is tan(theta)=sin(theta)/cos(theta), which means that whenever sin(theta)=0, tan(theta)=0, and whenever cos(theta)=0, tan(theta) is undefined (dividing by zero). When the tangent function is zero, it crosses the x-axis. Therefore, to find the intercepts, find when sin(theta)=0. To find the vertical asymptotes determine when cos(theta)=0.
Sometimes a homework or problem will ask you about the intercepts and asymptotes of a tangent function. Well let's investigate that. We start with the identity tangent theta equals sine theta over cosine theta. Let's first find the zeroes of tangent. Because of that identity, the zeroes of tangent will be exactly the same as the zeroes of sine. That is tangent theta equals zero and sine theta equals zero. Now sine theta equals zero at the integer multiples of pi. So theta equals for example 0, pi 2pi and so on.
Now one way to say this a little more compactly, is to call it n pi where n is a n integer so integer multiples of pi. Now what does this have to do with x intercepts? Well, the zeros become x intercepts when you graph. So the x intercepts, I'll abbreviate this way would be 0 0, pi 0, 2 pi 0 and so on. these are the zeroes of tangent and of course the second coordinate of an x intercept is going to be 0. Those are the x intercepts. What about the asymptotes?
Well, tangent theta is undefined when cosine theta equals zero. Remember that identity. Cosine theta equals 0 when theta equals pi over 2 plus n pi. Again where n is any integer. So, this would be for example pi over 2, 3 pi over 2, 5 pi over 2 and so on. Now what does this have to do with asymptotes? Well these are the places where our tangent is going to be undefined. So there will be vertical asymptotes at these places. Vertical asymptotes are x equals pi over 2, 3 pi over 2, 5 pi over 2 and so on. And of course it goes in the negative direction too. x equals negative pi over 2,. negative 3 pi over 2, negative 5 pi over 2 and so on.
If you're ever asked about the domain of the tangent function, since these are the places where tangent's undefined you'd say all real numbers except these. If you're ever asked about the range of the tangent function this it's all real numbers. You can get any number out of the tangent function because remember tangent represents the slope of the terminal side of an angle on the unit circle, that can be anything.
So once again the zeroes of tangents and the x intercepts, integer multiples of pi. Tangent's undefined, vertical asymptotes these are pi over 2 plus integer multiples of pi.


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7501.0 - Value of Principal Agricultural Commodities Produced, Australia, Preliminary, 2010-11 Quality Declaration
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 17/11/2011
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Value of Australian crops and livestock increases in 2010-11
Australia's largest single commodity, wheat, rose in value by 60% to $7.6 billion in 2010-11, according to preliminary figures from the Agricultural Census released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today.
The value of principal agricultural commodities increased by 19% in 2010-11.
The total value of crops rose by 26%, livestock slaughterings by 8% and livestock products by 25%.
The value of livestock products increased to $7.2 billion in the same period, a rise of 25%, due to significant increases to the value of wool.
The value of livestock slaughtered rose by 8%, with increases in the value of sheep, lambs, cattle, calves and poultry offsetting decreases in the value of pigs.
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Kate Flora here, filling in for Dorothy who is nursing a terrible, brain-crushing cold caught from her beloved grandchildren.
I used to go crazy in February. Short-tempered, unfocused, chocolate-gobbling crazy. This was before people knew they suffered from SAD, or seasonal affect disorder. Indeed, being from New England, the very idea that being unable to endure winter was a disorder was unthinkable. The only proper solution was endurance. With children in school, getting away was out of the question, except for an occasional quick school vacation trip to warmer climes. Far too often, those escapes were truncated by bad weather and flight cancellations.
But years have passed, and the children have grown up and left home. It is no longer necessary to be in New England during the long, dark months of January, February, and March and I have beaten back the guilt that required so much endurance. So about eight years ago, when my husband started working half time, we started escaping to the West Coast in January. This year that took the form of hiking in Sedona, Arizona, visiting the left coast child in LA, and then heading up to San Francisco to visit with old friends.
Also, this year, for the first time in many years, I did not have a book deadline and left my laptop behind. Instead, I did a different kind of work.
Julia Cameron, in her book, The Artist's Way, talks about the importance of having dates with oneself to refill the creative well. As described on juliacameronlive.com, these are "a once-weekly, festive, solo expedition to explore something that interest you. The Artist Date need not be overtly "artistic"–think mischief more than mastery, Artist dates fire up the imagination. They spark whimsey. They encourage play. Since art is about the play of ideas, they feed our creative work by replenishing our inner well of images and inspiration. When choosing an Artist Date, it is good to ask yourself, "what sounds fun"–and then allow yourself to try it."
It is not part of my New England upbringing to have fun, but I'm working on it. So this January, while I've been on the road, I've been having dates with myself and playing with my camera. These photographs illustrate some of the ways I've been having fun observing new places.
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|November 18, 2013
Last year I read an article in Chess Life Online by Dr. WIM Alexey Root that suggested placing chess among the games offered on International Games Day @ your Library. The article mentioned that November 16, 2013 would be this year's event day.
Since my wife, Susan, is the manager in charge of the online services of the Alameda County Library System (California) and I love organizing chess events, I suggested she pass information on to the library powers informing them that I would be happy to volunteer my services to provide chess game activities at the Fremont Main Branch of their library system on November 16.
I am excited to report that the initial outing of chess on International Games Day on Saturday, November 16 proved very popular. Karen Pacheco the librarian in charge of organizing the event provided me with one large room and a small conference room. Along with the help of FIDE Arbitrator Gaurang Mehta, who is one of the coaches at Weibel Elementary and until coming to this country six years ago ran a chess school for young players in India, I set up chess boards and pieces on twelve five foot tables. Gaurang created a section of the room to teach raw beginners chess. Kevin Moy, a young National Expert, set aside a section to teach more advanced players endgame techniques. Louis Law, a third grade student and one of Weibel's chess elites, played a small simul.
I even talked my son Micah out of retirement to play blitz one minute against five minute against all comers. This proved the most popular event of the day. In the small conference room I set up a computer to project a few chess movies during the day. I spent my time directing interested chess players to open boards where they might get a game with someone at or near their own chess skill level. I think my favorite pairings was getting some of the mothers of the younger chess players into games.
Over the course of five hours over 120 people participated in the chess activities. Many asked me if I could do a similar chess event every Saturday. I, regretfully, had to inform them of my time limitations and direct the interested parties to some of the chess clubs in our area. I did say that I hoped the Fremont Main Library Branch would consider making chess an annual part of International Games Day.
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"There has to be a national conversation" about gun control, says Nancy Pelosi. The killing of school children and teachers in Newtown, Connecticut and other shootings since have turned up the heat.
If, after Newtown, it's all talk and no action, the former House Speaker said this week, "it'll amount to a dereliction of duty on the part of us in public office."
Too right. Pelosi wants to see action. The president's demanding it too. So are state leaders. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has his sights set on the presidency (if you'll excuse the expression), has proposed not only rewriting the state's existing assault weapons ban but also more expansive mental health checks and background checks of gun buyers, lower limits on how many bullets a single gun magazine can fire and a new requirement that gun buyers be periodically recertified.
At the level of congress and the states, all sights (if you'll excuse the expression again) are set on gun control. State district attorneys are joining the call for reform and almost 100 lawmakers have signed onto a proposal to limit handgun purchases to just one gun a month. (Apparently one a month is too strict a diet for the other 435.)
There's just one piece of the picture missing. Now that lawmakers, DAs, governors and the White House have all agreed that gun violence is wrong, when are we going to start talking about troops and bombs and drones? You think American weapons are a problem in the US? Take a look at what American weapons are dong outside the country.
In Newtown, shooter Adam Lanza's weapons killed twenty kids, six teachers and his mom and shocked the nation. As Robert Dreyfuss recently pointed out here, American weapons have killed hundreds, probably thousands of kids in Afghanistan. In that one country alone, all sorts of people have US weapons. (The sales are good for the US economy, even if the weapons are used with some regularity against Americans.) Afghan soldiers carry US guns. So do some of the former Mujahadeen "freedom fighters" the Army's up against. (The United States sold them guns when the freedom they were fighting for was from Soviet, rather than US occupation.)
US troops carry US guns too, of course. Last March, an army sergeant used his to methodically slaughter sixteen civilians, including at least nine kids in their homes in southern Afghanistan one Sunday morning.
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For all the droning on about violence, it would be good to hear someone drone on just a bit about drones.
The good news is surely this. We're finally taking aim at gun violence (as the headline writers say). The powerful gun lobby the National Rifle Association has taken some hits. Thanks to Lee Fang, we know all about their corporate backers, and NRA President Wayne LaPierre came in for no end of grief when he finally broke his post-Newtwon silence and suggested stationing more shooters in more schools. Arm schools to protect schools? Ridiculous.
Except that's exactly US foreign policy. The NRA works for its corporate partners no harder than the State Department works for theirs. US government-brokered arms sales tripled to a record high in 2011: $66.43 billion dollars, more than three-quarters of the global arms market, driven by major arms deals with Persian Gulf states. For all the talk of background checks stateside, when the US approved a $30 billion deal with the authoritarian state of Saudi Arabia, it wasn't the background, only the size of the check that got much attention. (President Obama said the sale would be good for jobs and the State Department said that in such an insecure region, the arms deal would be good for sercurity.) And when was the last time we periodically recertified Israel?
The United States last year did its best to keep ammunition out of a new treaty on small arms, and the Land of the Free won't even sign the international ban on land-mines. If the president really wants action on high-capacity killing, how about a deal: gun owners give up Bushmasters when the US agrees absolutely to ban cluster bombs?
It may be I'm getting ahead of myself. Perhaps we should aim a little lower. One step at a time. Set our sights on just one handgun a month. And how about just one shooting metaphor? At least that would be a start.
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Kraut, Heinz (d. 1536)
Heinz Kraut, an Anabaptist martyr, was a tailor in Esperstedt near Frankenhausen in Thuringia, Germany. He was baptized by Alexander, the Anabaptist leader of Thuringia, whose position he fell heir to when Alexander was put to death. In 1530 he was seized, purchased his freedom by recanting, but immediately joined them again, becoming a very successful "apostle." He traveled as far as Moravia to visit the believers (Jacobs, 440). On 20 November 1535 he was captured in the home of Hans Peisker, a miller. Peisker, Kraut, and Jobst Möller were given several hearings before Cruciger and Melanchthon, and were beheaded at Jena on 26 January 1536.
See Möller, Jobst, for extended account
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. II, 558.
Jacobs, E. "Die Wiedertäufer am Harz." Zeitschrift des Harzvereins 32 (1899): 445 f.
Wappler, Paul. Die Täuferbewegung in Thüringen von 1526-1584. Jena: Gustav Fisher, 1913.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Likeness Outtakes
37 comments:
Oh Finn why do our peeps always want us to pose for the flashy box? I see you were checking if that magnet was edible first! Woofs and licks from Magic xxReplyDelete
Finn, its such hard work being a model. You need to train your humans to leave you alone hahahaha. Great pics though!!ReplyDelete
We need to get working on our likeness posing too - we just know the Momster is itching to start snapping away. Very cute, Finn. You did a good job for Rubie.ReplyDelete
Woos - Phantom, Thunder, Ciara, and Lightning
Ha!Ha! Finn looks like she's losing her patience in that last pic! LOL!ReplyDelete
She looks like a happy golden to me!ReplyDelete
Love the magnet, Finn!ReplyDelete
Super Magnet, Finn. I think you look LOVELY with it. I can't wait to see the WHOLE Pack of Us all together to celebrate with Rubie!ReplyDelete
Love the photos! You are such a handsome dog!ReplyDelete
Awww - those were great outtakes, Finn!ReplyDelete
Good job posing!
Woof! Woof! Outtakes photos are usually the best photos. Lots of Golden ALOHA n Woofs, SugarReplyDelete
Why do you want to take photos of me with a magnet when a picture of JUST ME would be so much better?ReplyDelete
Hahaha we always have tons of outtakes but Finn is good at posing! The perfect model!ReplyDelete
You should see my outtakes :-)ReplyDelete
Love these, hey Finn keep that smile
:-) Luvs Freya Rose Blossom X
I love picture number four.... Your face is so expressive!! Like my Rose's.... ;op
Dolcissimo :))ReplyDelete
Cute! I like number 1ReplyDelete
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I love your very intellectual look there in Picture 3 as you peruse the scenario of it all - you sortta look to be saying "Hmmmm, can I eat it?" - made us smile xReplyDelete
Happiness IS golden! :)ReplyDelete
Woofs & huggies! <3
~Bailey (Yep, I'm a girl!)
Your outtakes are pretty nice. :)ReplyDelete
Pawesome outtakes!ReplyDelete
Sure you had lots of fun!
Kisses and hugs
The outtakes are fun, aren't they?? This is why I love digital cameras--How'd we ever do it with film? :-)ReplyDelete
She's looking a bit impatient in the last one!ReplyDelete
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Hi. I am new to blogging about my dog (cavoodle) and came across your blog! I love it!ReplyDelete
I would be honoured if you checked out my blog and followed it :)
We agree...cards are good for eating :DReplyDelete
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NO body does and Outake like a good lookin golden.ReplyDelete
Finn, you are a golden boy for sure. Loved the photos. No worries, and love, Stella and RoryReplyDelete
We love all your photos...but Bert is correct...nobody does an out take quite like a golden!ReplyDelete
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Outtakes are the best. Sniffs, The HoundDogsReplyDelete
So sweet! Dog-centered fridge magnets are the best.ReplyDelete
Fabulous out takes!ReplyDelete
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your photos are so beautiful, you're such a super dog-model!
I want your autograph next time :D :D
Have a nice day.
Woof, woof,
Well I think your Mom is a good collector ~ she got you and that is what counts.ReplyDelete
Sweet William The Scot
Looks just like ya Finn!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 26, 2012 at 5:04 AM
k, where's the treats?! No wonder you were nibblin on that magnet. You were starvin! Next time Finn put your paw down! No treats no pose! ;) Fun photos :D Great choice for the look-a-like contest :DReplyDelete
Waggin at ya,
If it weren't fur outtakes, I would haff no takes at all! Yeurs are seuperb, Finn!!!ReplyDelete
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Hi there Finn Howard!ReplyDelete
I am writing on behalf of my little husky puppy Finn (named after Finn McCool - the legendary Irish fair giant):)
Just wanted to stop by and say hi, it´s not often that I come across another "Finn" :)
You are one beautiful dog who lives a happy life.
Stop by and say hi to the huskies sometime :)
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Windows Mobile 6.5 may still be weeks away from its release, but Microsoft is already leaking clues about its successor. Windows Mobile 7 will directly integrate social networking functionality into a phone's "core experience," according to a job posted Thursday on Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices jobs site.
Windows Mobile 7 and Social Networking
Little official information is known about Windows Mobile 7 so far (though there's no shortage of unconfirmed speculation). The mobile operating system is expected to debut sometime next fall, about a year after next month's Windows Mobile 6.5 release. Some blog postings suggest as many as 1,000 Microsoft employees may already be working on the system's development.
Perhaps the most concrete company-endorsed clue to date, however, is what's revealed in the newly published Microsoft job description. The position, called senior program manager for Windows Mobile, is one of about a hundred Windows Mobile-related jobs that come up on a search of Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices job site. Per the posting:
" 'Social networks' and 'mobile phones' are two rapidly evolving socio-cultural phenomena that deeply impact the way in which people interact with each other. How would you like to be at the confluence of these phenomena, not as an observer but as someone who is defining the course?
"The Windows Mobile 7 Communications group is building experiences on the phone that present your content -- friends, pictures, messages, events -- to you in immersive and engaging ways. Our vision is to bring social networks to life by integrating them into the core experience of the phone. For example, imagine seeing all the newsfeeds from all the networks you care about in a single hub on the phone. Or imagine the phone instantly telling you what your friend is doing and where he is when you get a call from him."
Microsoft's Social-Mobile Goals
The job posting goes on to explain that Microsoft wants to build a "mobile social platform" that'll encourage developers to create socially focused applications for the system. It states that the company has "just begun drawing the first lines" of the platform and hints at the lofty goals surrounding the Windows Mobile 7 release.
"The vision of WM7 and especially the communications team is ambitious," the posting says. "We are not building yet another cool phone, but one that is truly personal and relevant. Yes, the competition is stiff, but it's exceeded only by our desire to win. Come help us build this epic phone."
Building an epic phone -- one that could prove analysts wrong and actually compete with the mobile market giants -- would be one epic feat, indeed.
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There are many ways that you as a member of the community can get involved and contribute to the Platform Ant project.
The first step is to let us know you are out there. Sign up for our mailing lists and chat with us about your problems and interests. You should also sign up for a Bugzilla account and add firstname.lastname@example.com to your watch list.
Here are some ways you can contribute:
- Participate in Bug Day.
- Write code, developing source artifacts and patches for the Ant projects.
- File bug reports in Bugzilla for defects you find.
- Participate in a milestone test pass.
- Assist in bug triage by checking if reports are duplicates, out of date, missing fields, etc. Read up on filing bugs and then take a peek at our Inbox.
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Writing Code for Ant
All development on platform Ant is done using Eclipse. Code is checked out of the Eclipse CVS repository, edited using JDT, and then run by launching a second instance of Eclipse from within Eclipse.
Note that any contributed code must follow the Eclipse coding guidelines. When working on Ant code, you should set your compiler compliance and source level to 1.4 (Java > Compiler Preference Page).
Your first step is to download an Eclipse build. You can download a the Eclipse platform here. New users are best off downloading the latest stream stable build. Once you have the platform downloaded, setup and launched, you can connect to the CVS repository.
Connect to the Eclipse Repository
The easiest way to download the correct projects from CVS is to use our Ant project set file. Download the psf file for non-committers then in Eclipse go to File > Import... and select Team > Team Project Set. If you have not done so already, you will have to define a repository connection which can be done using the information below. The project set file will checkout the Ant projects from CVS. More information about project set files can be found on the PSF Wiki Page.
Create a CVS Repository Location with the following information:
|Attribute name
|Repository Path
|Connection Type
|Use Default Port
You can check projects out of the HEAD stream of the newly created repository location by selecting them, then Right Click > Check Out.
Check out the Ant projects:
org.eclipse.ant.core org.eclipse.ant.launching org.eclipse.ant.ui org.eclipse.ant.tests.core org.eclipse.ant.tests.ui org.eclipse.core.externaltools org.eclipse.ui.externaltools
Your workspace setup is now complete. The Platform Ant projects are set up to compile against your installed Eclipse plug-ins (the plug-ins that are being used by your currently running instance of Eclipse). This works because the Platform Ant projects have the "Plug-in Dependencies" library on their Java build path.
When you upgrade your Eclipse install, the Platform Ant projects will automatically compile against the new plugins. To compile against a different set of plug-ins, you can change the location in the preferences under Window > Preferences > Plug-in Development > Target Platform.
Launching the Run-time Workbench
Once your workspace is set up, it's time to launch Eclipse from within Eclipse. To do this, select Debug As (or Run As) > Run-time Workbench from the Debug (or Run) menu. This will launch a second instance of Eclipse (which we refer to as the "target") running the code in your workspace.
Any changes you make in your first workspace (which we refer to as the "host") will be reflected in the target. Test changes made in your host workspace by running and debugging programs in the target.
Creating Patches
So now you have the code to fix a bug in your host workspace and have tested it in your target. The next step is to get that code committed to CVS. However, only committers have the permission to do that. Instead, contributors are expected to create a patch file containing their changes and post it to the bug report they are working on. The patch will be reviewed by one or more committers. Once the patch is accepted, a committer will apply it to CVS and resolve the bug as fixed.
To create a patch, select all of the changed projects in the Package Explorer view. Right click and go to Team > Synchronize, this should open up the Synchronize View. In the Synchronize View, make sure there are no conflicting changes and that all of your changes follow the coding guidelines. Then select your outgoing changes, right click and go to Create Patch... In the dialog, select a destination for the patch (it is best to include the bug number in the file name and use the extension .patch), double check all your changes are included, then hit OK. Attach the created patch to the bug report.
Creating Bug Reports
When filing bugs against the Debug Project, we ask that you use your better judgment, and most importantly common sense before filing a bug. Specifically:
- Search bugzilla for existing bugs like yours BEFORE you file it. Resolving duplicates is time consuming.
- Be sure that what happened is really a bug. For example if all you see is an entry in the log files that mentions Ant try to reproduce it, find out how it happened, or better yet come up with a test case. Some log entries are NOT bugs, and can be caused by incorrect workspace configuration, etc.
- Bugzilla is not a forum. Do not ask questions on bugzilla like "how do I create a buildfile?". This is not a bug.
- Bugs should be filed against the PLATFORM-ANT component. New feature requests should be filed with a severity of "enhancement".
By default, bugs filed against an Ant component will be assigned to an inbox account. Interested parties watch this inbox user to see incoming bugs. Committers or the Ant team lead move bugs from the inbox account when someone is actively working on a bug.
Bug Lifecycle
All bugs for the Platform Ant component follow the same lifecycle. All committers and contributors must adhere to this lifecycle to ensure all defects are tracked and handled accordingly.
- NEW - All newly filed bugs start out in the NEW state.
- DUPLICATE/INVALID/WORKSFORME/WONTFIX - If a bug is a duplicate of another bug or if an Ant committer decides that no code changes will be made for the bug, the bug is resolved immediately with an explanation. Unless the bug is REOPENED for some reason, this is the end of the road.
- ASSIGNED - Once a bug has been validated by an Ant committer, it is moved to the ASSIGNED state. When a committer is going to work on a bug, they typically reassign it to themselves.
- RESOLVED-FIXED - Bugs are marked as RESOLVED-FIXED once code that solves the issue has been checked into CVS. When requesting that someone verify a bug, we include a list of all affected files with a brief explanation of the changes. This makes the verifier's work easier and also provides valuable information if a change needs to be reviewed in the future.
Bugzilla is picky about the state changes it allows, so we follow these steps to maximize efficiency:
- Reassign the bug to the Ant committer who will fix the bug.
- Create a patch of the proposed fixes for the bug.
- Commit the code changes to CVS.
- Using the REVIEW flags add the other committer(s) who are to verify the bug (with the '?' flag).
- Add the committer(s) involved in the review to the CC list - to ensure they are notified of a review request.
- Mark the bug RESOLVED-FIXED with a request to verify.
- VERIFIED-FIXED - Bugs are marked as VERIFIED-FIXED once someone verifies the fix that was checked into CVS. Bugs are always verified by an Ant committer other than the person who checked in the fix. The verifier makes sure that the original problem is fixed and also looks at the code for any obvious errors. This verification step ensures that all code changes are looked at by at least two pairs of eyes.
Test Passes
Before every milestone release the Ant team does an intense one-day test pass where we test all of the functionality of the Ant components. We try to check everything to make sure 100% of the functionality is available in every major release. In addition, we try odd use cases and unusual code to ensure our code is as robust as possible.
To organize the test pass, we follow a test script. The script defines a basic overview of what must be tested in each section.
If you would like to help out during a test pass, contact us via our mailing lists. Before the test pass, let us know what platform you are going to test on and what sections you are planning to test. If you have any questions about how to test some area, we would be happy to help explain.


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1. The scope of the word "seaman," as used in the Jones Act, was not extended by the 1939 Amendment to the Federal Employers' Liability Act to include one who was not a "seaman" before Pp. 189-190.
2. Whether an injured person was a "seaman" entitled to the benefits of the Jones Act depends largely on the facts of the particular case and the activity in which he was engaged at the time of injury. P. 190.
3. Decedent had been employed as an operator of one of a fleet of motorboats carrying sightseers on a river during the summer months only. His employment had terminated in December, after he had helped to lay the boats up for the winter. He was reemployed the next March and injured in April while helping to paint, clean and waterproof the boats, preparing them for navigation. At that time, none of the boats was afloat, none had a captain or crew, and the work being done was of the kind that, in the case of larger vessels, would customarily be done exclusively by shorebased personnel. Held: At the time of his injury, decedent was not a "seaman" within the purview of the Jones Act. Pp. 188-192.
4. The fact that decedent had been, or expected in the future to be, a seaman did not render maritime work which was not maritime in its nature. P. 191.
188 F.2d 177, affirmed.
The District Court awarded petitioner a judgment under the Jones Act for the death of her son from injuries sustained in his employment by respondent. The Court of Appeals reversed. 188 F.2d 177. This Court granted certiorari. 342 U.S. 847 . Affirmed, p. 192.
Joseph D. Ryan argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner.
Charles T. Shanner argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Charles Wolff. [342 U.S. 187, 188]
MR. JUSTICE JACKSON delivered the opinion of the Court.
Petitioner brought suit under the Jones Act 1 to recover damages for the death of her intestate son from injuries sustained during the course of his employment by respondent. The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed the judgment of the District Court entered on a jury's verdict in petitioner's favor. 2 This Court granted certiorari. 3
Respondent operates a small fleet of sightseeing motorboats on the Illinois River in the vicinity of Starved Rock. The boats are navigated under Coast Guard regulations by personnel licensed by the Department of Commerce. Operations are necessarily restricted to summer months. Each fall the boats are beached and put up on blocks for the winter. In the spring each is overhauled before being launched for the season. The decedent, Thomas J. Desper, Jr., was first employed by respondent in April, 1947, to help prepare the boats for their seasonal launching. In June of the same year he acquired the necessary operator's license from the Department of Commerce and, for the remainder of that season, he was employed as a boat operator. When the season closed, he helped take the boats out of the water and block them up for the winter. His employment terminated December 19, 1947.
Desper was re-employed March 15, 1948. There was testimony that he was then engaged for the season and was to resume his operator's duties when the boats were back in the water. For the time being, however, he was put to cleaning, painting, and waterproofing the boats, preparing them for navigation. On the date of the accident, [342 U.S. 187, 189] April 26th, the boats were still blocked up on land. Several men, Desper among them, were on board a moored barge, maintained by respondent as a machine shop, warehouse, waiting room and ticket office, engaged in painting life preservers for use on the boats. One man was working on a fire extinguisher. It exploded, killing him and Desper.
The Jones Act confers a cause of action on "any seaman." 4 In opposition to petitioner's suit under the Act, respondent contended that Desper, at the time of his death, was not a "seaman" within the meaning of the Act. Whether he was such a "seaman" is the critical issue in the case which reached this Court.
Petitioner contends that the 1939 Amendment to the Federal Employers' Liability Act 5 extended the scope of the word "seaman," as used in the Jones Act, to include those whose work "substantially affects" navigation. The Amendment provides that:
The next question is whether, without reference to this 1939 Amendment, decedent was a "seaman" at the time of his death. The many cases turning upon the question whether an individual was a "seaman" demonstrate that the matter depends largely on the facts of the particular case and the activity in which he was engaged at the time of injury. The facts in this case are unique. The work in which the decedent was engaged at the time of his death quite clearly was not that usually done by a "seaman." The boats were not afloat and had neither captain nor crew. They were undergoing seasonal repairs, the work being of the kind that, in the case of larger vessels, would customarily be done by exclusively shore-based personnel. For a number of reasons the ships might not be launched, or he might not operate one. To be sure, [342 U.S. 187, 191] he was a probable navigator in the near future, but the law does not cover probable or expectant seamen but seamen in being. It is our conclusion that while engaged in such seasonal repair work Desper was not a "seaman" within the purview of the Jones Act. The distinct nature of the work is emphasized by the fact that there was no vessel engaged in navigation at the time of the decedent's death. All had been "laid up for the winter." Hawn v. American S. S. Co., 107 F.2d 999, 1000 (C. A. 2d Cir.); cf. Seneca Washed Gravel Corp. v. McManigal, 65 F.2d 779, 780 (C. A. 2d Cir.). In the words of the court in Antus v. Interocean S. S. Co., 108 F.2d 185, 187 (C. A. 6th Cir.), where it was held that one who had been a member of a ship's crew and was injured while preparing it for winter quarters could not maintain a Jones Act suit for his injuries: "The fact that he had been, or expected in the future to be, a seaman does not render maritime work which was not maritime in its nature."
Both petitioner and respondent filed applications with the Industrial Commission of Illinois seeking the benefits provided by the Workmen's Compensation Act of that State. The Commission rendered an award in petitioner's favor, but she states that she has taken an appeal to the appropriate state court on the ground that the Commission was "without jurisdiction." She does not specify why she thinks so, but we surmise that her reason is to avoid conflict with her contention that exclusive jurisdiction in the premises is vested in the federal courts by the Jones Act. We do not understand her to have taken the position that if the Jones Act is not applicable the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act 6 is, and that the state Commission, therefore, is without jurisdiction in any event. The question of the applicability of the Longshoremen's Act [342 U.S. 187, 192] does not appear from the record to have been raised by either party in the courts below. 7 Neither has raised it in this Court. We, therefore, find it inappropriate to resolve the conflict, if any, between the Illinois Compensation Act and the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act. Cf. Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen, 244 U.S. 205 ; Parker v. Motor Boat Sales, 314 U.S. 244 ; Davis v. Department of Labor, 317 U.S. 249 .
We think the court below properly disposed of the question presented. Accordingly, its judgment is
[ Footnote 2 ] 188 F.2d 177.
[ Footnote 3 ] 342 U.S. 847 .
[ Footnote 4 ] 38 Stat. 1185, 41 Stat. 1007, 46 U.S.C. 688, entitled "Recovery for injury to or death of seaman" provides that:
[ Footnote 5 ] 53 Stat. 1404, 45 U.S.C. 51.
[ Footnote 6 ] 44 Stat. 1424 as amended, 33 U.S.C. 901 et seq.
[ Footnote 7 ] The Court of Appeals, however, in phrasing the question presented in the case, advanced the proposition that if petitioner was not entitled to recovery under the Jones Act she "is restricted to the remedy afforded by the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act . . . ." We take that as meaning that petitioner's only federal remedy, if she cannot prevail under the Jones Act, is in the Longshoremen's Act. It was not intended to decide whether she could proceed under the state compensation act. [342 U.S. 187, 193]
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The Senate battle over Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee is off to a fiery start — even before the president makes his choice. Republican and Democratic leaders traded accusations and barbed comments Thursday on the new vacancy, abortion rights and the debate to come.
Both sides are quickly mobilizing after Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose votes have been key in deciding cases on abortion, affirmative action, gay rights, guns, campaign finance and voting rights, sent shockwaves through Washington Wednesday by announcing his retirement plans.
Republicans are pressing for speedy action — assuming Trump makes a quick announcement of his pick — but Democrats argue that the confirmation action should be put on hold until after the November midterm elections. The Democrats are citing Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell's successful block of President Barack Obama's nominee to the court, Merrick Garland, in 2016. Republicans argued the seat should be left open because it was a presidential election year.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Thursday it would be the "height of hypocrisy" to vote before this year's election on Trump's nominee.
A day after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, Democratic senators joined demonstrators outside the Supreme Court, promising a spirited fight as President Trump prepares to make his second Supreme Court nomination. (June 28)
"If the Senate's constitutional duty to advise and consent is just as important as the president's right to nominate, which the Constitution says it is, why should a midterm election be any less important that a presidential election?" Schumer said.
Majority Leader McConnell, R-Ky., fired back, saying the situations are not the same.
"This is not 2016. There aren't the final months of a second-term constitutionally lame duck presidency with a presidential election fast approaching. We're right in the middle of this president's very first term," McConnell said
Trump said he would start the effort to replace Kennedy "immediately" and would pick from a list of 25 names that he updated last year. McConnell declared that the Senate "will vote to confirm Justice Kennedy's successor this fall."
With Kennedy's departure, Republicans have a longed-for opportunity to tip the balance of the court. It already has four justices picked by Democratic presidents and four picked by Republicans, so Trump's pick could shift the ideological balance toward conservatives for years to come.
Several Democratic senators considering 2020 presidential runs jumped into the debate Thursday morning rallying from the steps of the Supreme Court.
Sen. Cory Booker pledged a long-term battle to prevent Trump from rushing a conservative judge onto the court, even as he acknowledged it will be difficult for Democrats to block any nominee since Republicans control the Senate.
"We now must fight," the New Jersey Democrat said.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said Kennedy's retirement sets up a situation where "women's lives are at risk."
The New York Democrat said that giving Trump the chance to pick Kennedy's replacement threatens abortion rights and raises the question of "whether we are going to be arresting women for making decisions about their bodies."
If Republicans unite behind Trump's selection, there's little that Democrats can do to stop it. Republicans changed the Senate rules last year so that Supreme Court nominees cannot be filibustered, meaning only 51 votes will be required to confirm.
Last year, Trump's first nominee to the court, Neil Gorsuch, was confirmed 54-45, with three Democrats voting in favor. Those Democrats — Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Sen. Joe Donnelly of Indiana and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota— are facing difficult re-election races and could find it difficult to oppose the president's second pick.
A flashpoint in the court debate will be abortion rights, which puts a spotlight on key female Republican senators, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. Both have supported abortion access. The abortion issue could also prove difficult for Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada, the most endangered Senate Republican running for re-election this fall, whose views have shifted against abortion rights.
Murkowski vowed a careful vetting of the pick, saying she has "extremely high" standards for the Supreme Court.
"There is no doubt that the President's nominee to succeed Justice Kennedy can expect exacting scrutiny from the Senate and that is the standard I will apply in evaluating the nominee," she said.
Collins, meanwhile, said the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that codified abortion rights is "settled law."
"I always look for judges who respect precedent," she said Wednesday to reporters.
Schumer said the Senate should reject "on a bipartisan basis any justice who would overturn Roe v. Wade or undermine key health care protections."
Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump deflected a question on whether he should wait until after the midterm elections to announce a successor to Kennedy, saying he hasn't "really thought about that. I think you want to go as quickly as possible."
The president stressed his confidence in the picks on his list, saying, "You see the kind of quality we're looking at when you look at that list."
Some possible nominees being eyed include Thomas Hardiman, who serves alongside Trump's sister on the Philadelphia-based 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals, and Raymond Kethledge, a federal appeals court judge who clerked for Kennedy. Also of interest are Amul Thapar, a federal appeals court judge from Kentucky who is close to McConnell; Brett Kavanaugh, a former clerk for Kennedy who serves on the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C.; and Amy Coney Barrett, who serves on the federal appeals court in Chicago.
Among Trump's counselors is Leonard Leo, who is taking a leave of absence as executive vice president of the Federalist Society to serve as an outside adviser to the process. Leo said Wednesday that it was important to first focus on Kennedy's legacy and demonstrate appreciation. From there, he said, the "White House will begin to winnow the president's list to a manageable short list."
"The president has been very clear over and over what his standards are," Leo said.
Senators were bracing for the tough days ahead.
Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, a member of the Judiciary Committee, bluntly talked of the "blood sport" likely to be triggered by the nomination fight.
"Americans ought to aim higher," he said.