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[227 U.S. 308, 310] Messrs. C. W. Howth, Hal W. Greer, T. H. Bowers, and Charles C. Luzenberg for plaintiffs in error.
[227 U.S. 308, 313] Assistant Attorney General Harr for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice McKenna delivered the opinion of the court:
Error to review a judgment of conviction under the act of Congress of June 25, 1910, entitled, 'An Act to [227 U.S. 308, 317] Further Regulate Interstate and Foreign Commerce by Prohibiting the Transportation Therein for Immoral Purposes of Women and Girls, and for Other Purposes.' 36 Stat. at L. 825, chap. 395, U. S. Comp. Stat. Supp. 1911, p. 1343. It is commonly known as the white slave act.
The constitutionality of the act was assailed by demurrer, and as its sufficiency otherwise was not questioned, a brief summary of its allegations is all that is necessary.
The charge against Effie Hoke is that she 'did, on the 14th day of November, A. D. 1910, in the city of New Orleans and state of Louisiana, unlawfully, feloniously, and knowingly persuade, induce, and entice one Annette Baden, alias Annette Hays, a woman, to go from New Orleans, a city in the state of Louisiana, to Beaumont, a city in the state of Texas, in interstate commerce, for the purpose of prostitution,' etc.
The charge against Basile Economides is that he 'did unlawfully, feloniously, and knowingly aid and assist the said Effie Hoke to persuade, induce, and entice the said Annette Baden . . . to go in interstate commerce . . . for the purpose of prostitution,' with the intent and purpose that the said woman 'should engage in the practice of prostitution in the said city of Beaumont, Texas.'
The second and third counts make the same charge against the defendants as to another woman, the one named in the third count being under eighteen years.
The demurrers were overruled, and after trial the defendants were convicted and sentenced, each to two years' imprisonment on each count. 187 Fed. 992.
The indictment was drawn under 2, 3, and 4 of the act, which sections are as follows:
The 3d section is directed against the persuasion, inducement, and enticement of any woman or girl to go from one place to another in interstate or foreign commerce, whether with or without her consent, to engage in the practices and for the purposes stated in the 1st section, and provides that anyone 'who shall thereby knowingly cause, or aid or assist in causing, such woman or girl to go or to be carried or transported as a passenger upon the line or route of any common carrier or carriers in interstate or foreign commerce, or any territory or the District of Columbia,' shall be punished as prescribed in the 1st section.
Section 4 makes criminal persuasion, inducement, and enticement of a woman or girl under the age of eight- [227 U.S. 308, 319] een years from any state or territory or the District of Columbia to any other state or territory or the District of Columbia to engage in the immoral practices enumerated. The person guilty thereof, and who shall, in furtherance thereof, knowingly induce or cause such woman or girl to be carried or transported as a passenger in interstate commerce, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction the offender's punishment may be a fine of $10,000 or imprisonment for ten years, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
The grounds of attack upon the constitutionality of the statute are expressed by counsel as follows:
We shall discuss at length but one of these grounds; the others will be referred to incidentally. The power of Congress under the commerce clause of the Constitution is the ultimate determining question. If the statute be a valid exercise of that power, how it may affect persons or states is not material to be considered. It is the supreme law of the land, and persons and states are subject to it.
Congress is given power 'to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states.' The power is direct; there is no word of limitation in it, and its broad and universal scope has been so often declared as to make repetition unnecessary. And, besides, it has had so much illustration by cases that it would seem as if there could be no instance of its exercise that does not find an admitted example in some one of them. Experience, however, is the other way, and in almost every instance of the exercise of the power differences are asserted from previous exercises of it and made a ground of attack. The present case is an example.
Commerce among the states, we have said, consists of intercourse and traffic between their citizens, and includes the transportation of persons and property. There may be, therefore, a movement of persons as well as of property; that is, a person may move or be moved in interstate commerce. And the act under consideration was drawn in view of that possibility. What the act condemns is transportation obtained or aided, or transportation induced, in interstate commerce, for the immoral purposes mentioned. But an objection is made and urged with earnestness. It is said that it is the right and privilege of a person to move between states, and that such being the right, another cannot be made guilty of the crime of inducing or assisting or aiding in the exercise of it, and 'that the [227 U.S. 308, 321] motive or intention of the passenger, either before beginning the journey, or during or after completing it, is not a matter of interstate commerce.' The contentions confound things important to be distinguished. It urges a right exercised in morality to sustain a right to be exercised in immorality. It is the same right which attacked the law of Congress which prohibits the carrying of obscene literature and articles designed for indecent and immoral use from one state to another. 29 Stat. at L. 512, chap. 172, U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 3180; United States v. Popper, 98 Fed. 423. It is the same right which was excluded as an element as affecting the constitutionality of the act for the suppression of lottery traffic through national and interstate commerce. Lottery Case (Champion v. Ames) 188 U.S. 321, 357 , 47 S. L. ed. 492, 501, 23 Sup. Ct. Rep. 321, 13 Am. Crim. Rep. 561. It is the right given for beneficial exercise which is attempted to be perverted to and justify baneful exercise, as in the instances stated, and which finds further illustration in Reid v. Colorado, 187 U.S. 137 , 47 L. ed. 108, 23 Sup. Ct. Rep. 92, 12 Am. Crim. Rep. 506. This constitutes the supreme fallacy of plaintiffs' error. It pervades and vitiates their contentions.
Plaintiffs in error admit that the states may control the immoralities of its citizens. Indeed, this is their chief insistence; and they especially condemn the act under review as a subterfuge and an attempt to interfere with the police power of the states to regulate the morals of their citizens, and assert that it is in consequence an invasion of the reserved powers of the states. There is unquestionably a control in the states over the morals of their citizens, and, it may be admitted, it extends to making prostitution a crime. It is a control, however, which can be exercised only within the jurisdiction of the states, but there is a domain which the states cannot reach and over which Congress alone has power; and if such power be exerted to control what the states cannot, it is an argument for-not against-its legality. Its exertion does not encroach upon the jurisdiction of the states. We have [227 U.S. 308, 322] examples; others may be adduced. The pure food and drugs act is a conspicuous instance. In all of the instances a clash of national legislation with the power of the states was urged, and in all rejected.
Our dual form of government has its perplexities, state and nation having different spheres of jurisdiction, as we have said; but it must be kept in mind that we are one people; and the powers reserved to the states and those conferred on the nation are adapted to be exercised, whether independently or concurrently, to promote the general welfare, material and moral. This is the effect of the decisions; and surely, if the facility of interstate transportation can be taken away from the demoralization of lotteries, the debasement of obscene literature, the contagion of diseased cattle or persons, the impurity of food and drugs, the like facility can be taken away from the systematic enticement to and the enslavement in prostitution and debauchery of women, and, more insistently, of girls.
This is the aim of the law, expressed in broad generalization; and motives are made of determining consequence. Motives executed by actions may make it the concern of government to exert its powers. Right purpose and fair trading need no restrictive regulation, but let them be transgressed, and penalties and prohibitions must be applied. We may illustrate again by the pure food and drugs act. Let an article be debased by adulteration, let it be misrepresented by false branding, and Congress may exercise its prohibitive power. It may be that Congress could not prohibit the manufacture of the article in a state. It may be that Congress could not prohibit in all of its conditions its sale within a state. But Congress may prohibit its transportation between the states, and by that means defeat the motive and evils of its manufacture. How far- reaching are the power and the [227 U.S. 308, 323] means which may be used to secure its complete exercise we have expressed in Hipolite Egg Co. v. United States, 220 U.S. 45 , 55 L. ed. 364, 31 Sup. Ct. Rep. 364. There, in emphasis of the purpose of the law, are denominated adulterated articles as 'outlaws of commerce,' and said that the confiscation of them enjoined by the law was appropriate to the right to bar them from interstate transportation, and completed the purpose of the law by not merely preventing their physical movement, but preventing trade in them between the states. It was urged in that case, as it is urged here, that the law was an invasion of the power of the states.
Of course it will be said that womem are not articles of merchandise, but this does not affect the analogy of the cases; the substance of the congressional power is the same, only the manner of its exercise must be accommodated to the difference in its objects. It is misleading to say that men and women have rights. Their rights cannot fortify or sanction their wrongs; and if they employ interstate transportation as a facility of their wrongs, it may be forbidden to them to the extent of the act of July 25, 1910, and we need go no farther in the present case.
The principle established by the cases is the simple one, when rid of confusing and distracting considerations, that Congress has power over transportation 'among the several states;' that the power is complete in itself, and that Congress, as an incident to it, may adopt not only means necessary but convenient to its exercise, and the means may have the quality of police regulations. Gloucester Ferry Co. v. Pennsylvania, 114 U.S. 196, 215 , 29 S. L. ed. 158, 166, 1 Inters. Com. Rep. 382, 5 Sup. Ct. Rep. 826; Cooley, Const. Lim. 7th ed. 856. We have no hesitation, therefore, in pronouncing the act of June 25, 1910, a legal exercise of the power of Congress.
There are assignments of error based upon rulings on the admission and rejection of evidence and upon the instructions to the jury and the refusing of instructions. [227 U.S. 308, 324] The asserted errors are set forth in twenty-five bills of exceptions, and the special assignment of errors in this court occupy twenty-eight pages of the record, and present the constitutional objections to the law in all the aspects that counsel's ingenuity can devise. A like ingenuity has been exercised to represent the many ways in which the conduct of the accused can be viewed and shown to be inconsistent with guilty purpose. To discuss them all is unnecessary. We shall pass more or less rapidly over those we consider to be worthy of attention.
1. It is contended that there is variance between the indictment and the proof, in that the indictment charges that the women were transported over the Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company's road, and that the government failed to prove that such road was a line extending from New Orleans to Beaumont, Texas, these places marking the beginning and end of the transportation of the women. Further, that the proof showed that their tickets were purchased over the Southern Pacific Road. The indictment alleges that the Texas & New Orleans Railroad was a part of the Southern Pacific System, and was commonly known as the 'Sunset Route,' and there was through transportation. The variance is not much more than verbal, and that it prejudiced their defense in any way is not shown. If it is error at all, it does not appear to have caused even embarrassment to the defense. But was it error? See Westmoreland v. United States, 155 U.S. 545, 549 , 39 S. L. ed. 255, 256, 15 Sup. Ct. Rep. 243. Also 1025, Rev. Stat ., U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 720.
2. The evidence does not show that the defendants or either of them induced, etc., the women to become passengers in interstate commerce. The particulars are recited wherein it is contended that the evidence is deficient. It is not necessary to review them. It was for the jury to consider and determine the sufficiency of the evidence, and we cannot say they were not justified by it in the judgment they pronounced. [227 U.S. 308, 325] 3. It is contended that Florence Baden persuaded her sister Gertrude to go to Beaumont, and an instruction of the court is attacked on the ground that it declared the charge of the indictment was satisfied against the defendants if Florence acted for them. There was no error in the instruction under the circumstances shown by the record.
4. Error is assigned on the refusal of the court to give certain instructions requested by defendants. To consider them in detail would require a lengthy review of the evidence, for they present arguments on certain phases of it as to the degree of persuasion used or its sufficiency to induce or entice the women. There was no error in refusing the instructions.
5. The court permitted the women to testify as to the acts of Effie Hoke at her house at Beaumont, restraining the liberty of the women, and coercing their stay with her. Such testimony was relevant. The acts illustrated and constituted a completion of what was done at New Orleans. They were part of the same scheme and made clear its purpose.
There were other instructions asked by which the jury was charged that they could not convict Effie Hoke for the character of the house she kept or Economides for the business he conducted. The charge of the court sufficiently excluded both views. It explained the act of Congress and the offenses it condemned and directed the attention of the jury to them.
6. Defendants complain that they were not permitted to show that the women named in the indictment were public prostitutes in New Orleans. Such proof, they contend, was relevant upon the charge of persuasion or enticement. This may be admitted, but there was sufficient evidence, as the court said, of the fact of the immorality of their lives, and explicitly ruled that they could be shown to be public prostitutes. The court, however, excluded [227 U.S. 308, 326] certain details sought to be proved. Under the circumstances there was no error in the ruling.
In conclusion we say, after consideration of all errors assigned, that there was no ruling made which was prejudicial to defendants.
Judgment affirmed.
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Citation: 227 U.S. 308
Docket No: No. 381
Decided: February 24, 1913
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Accessing Primary Keys
When your primary key is not visible as a class property, the documented way to obtain the primary key values is with EOUtilities.primaryKeyForObject(). This works, but in the case where you have a single non-compound primary key, you need a few more lines of code to pull out this pk value. More troubling, the EOUtilities method, when called with a fault, will cause the fault to be resolved. The fault does not really need to be resolved to get the primary key, as the pk value is present even in the fault.
Here's a method that works for EOs which have a single Integer primary key, to pull out that pk value, and without resolving a fault (possibly causing a trip to the db) when called on a fault value:
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public static Integer singleIntegerPrimaryKeyForObject(EOEnterpriseObject eo) { EOEditingContext ec = eo.editingContext(); if (ec == null) { //you don't have an EC! Bad EO. We can do nothing. return null; } EOGlobalID gid = ec.globalIDForObject(eo); if (gid.isTemporary()) { //no pk yet assigned return null; } EOKeyGlobalID kGid = (EOKeyGlobalID) gid; NSArray keyValues = kGid.keyValuesArray(); if (keyValues.count() != 1 || ! (keyValues.objectAtIndex(0) instanceof Integer)) return null; return (Integer) keyValues.objectAtIndex(0); }
You can also use the EOUtilities method but please note that, at least as of WO5, there are two somewhat undesirable aspects of this EOUtilities code:
- If the EO is a fault, calling the EOUtilities method will cause the fault to be resolved, possibly requiring a trip to the db, even though pk info is already present in the fault and the trip to the db is really unneccesary at this point.
- If the EO has just been inserted and not yet committed, it does not have a pk yet, and the EOUtilities code will throw an exception. And it's not a logical exception corresponding to "no pk yet", but rather some uncaught exception thrown by some surprised Apple code.
Assigning Primary Keys
Usually EOF doesn't get around to generating/inserting primary keys until you actually saveChanges() on an EOEditingContext containing newly created about-to-be saved EOEnterpriseObjects.
But sometimes you want to assign a permanent pk as soon as you create the EOEnterpriseObject, not wait until it's actually committed to the db. Here's some code to do that, which, in a given situation, will generate the pk in the same way that EOF would have generated it later, but do it right away. [WO:Thanks to Pierre Barnard]
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public void _insertObjectWithGlobalID(EOEnterpriseObject eo, EOGlobalID globalID) { EOEntity entity = EOUtilities.entityNamed(this, eo.entityName()); EODatabaseContext dbContext = EOUtilities.databaseContextForModelNamed(this, entity.model().name()); NSDictionary pkDict = primaryKeyDictionaryForDatabaseContextAndEntity(dbContext, entity); if (pkDict == null || pkDict.count() != 1) { NSLog.err.appendln("Failed to generate primary key for entity " + entity.name() + ", or pk is compound."); } else { Object pk = pkDict.allValues().lastObject(); globalID = EOKeyGlobalID.globalIDWithEntityName(entity.name(), new Object[] { pk }); } super._insertObjectWithGlobalID(eo, globalID); } public static NSDictionary primaryKeyDictionaryForDatabaseContextAndEntity(EODatabaseContext dbContext, EOEntity entity) { NSDictionary pk = null; try { dbContext.lock(); EOAdaptorChannel adaptorChannel = dbContext.availableChannel().adaptorChannel(); if (!adaptorChannel.isOpen()) { adaptorChannel.openChannel(); } pk = (NSDictionary) adaptorChannel.primaryKeysForNewRowsWithEntity(1, entity).lastObject(); } catch (Exception e) { NSLog.err.appendln("Can't get primary keys for entity " + entity.name() + " " + e); } finally { dbContext.unlock(); return pk; } }
There are 2 insertObjectWithGlobalID methods in EOEditingContext. One has a name prefixed by an underscore. The regular one seems to call that one. For most uses overriding the regular one should be sufficient. With JavaClient however, the regular one is not called. On the server side only the one with the underscore is called. You'll have to override the method with the underscore in the server side context as the above will work only on the server.
If you use nested ECs in a standard WO application you might have to override the same semi-private method should you want the parent EC to handle PK creation.
BTW, I believe EOF does some optimization by retrieving PKs in batches rather than one by one. You lose that when using the above code.

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INDIANAPOLIS -- On tap to make more than $18 million next season, Julius Peppers stands out as a financial headache for the Chicago Bears.
I asked coach Marc Trestman on Thursday if the veteran pass rusher has played his final down in the Windy City.
"Julius Peppers is under contract and he's been very important to our football team," Trestman said. "I don't think anything more needs to be said."
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In its ongoing bid to push users from Windows XP to Windows 7 or Windows 8, Microsoft will push a popup to their machines on March 8. But the company has also partnered with LapLink for a free migration tool to assist with the transition.
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Talking About Disclosure - A Social Media Club Roundtable — I think about disclosure or talk about it with someone almost every day. Often it is in regards to whether or not I am able to disclose something because it has to do with advice I am giving clients, which happens all the time if you write about the field in which you work.
Discussion: hyku | blog and Web Strategy
Josh Hallett / hyku | blog: Post Edelman & Wal-Mart: The Rules of PR in Blogs
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy: Disclosure on the Blogosphere
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Social Media Club Initiative on Blogging Ethics — I am a blogger with a lot of opinions, and because of that I've been involved in a number of heated discussions around journalistic integrity and ethics. Mainstream media defines journalistic integrity as a lack of financial interest in the subject matter of their reporting.
Discussion: Social Media Club and The Blog Herald
Chris Heuer / Social Media Club: Talking About Disclosure Round Table Recap
Tony Hung / The Blog Herald: Bloggers Code of Ethics Imminent?
vanderwal.net Off the Top:
Yahoo! Bookmarks Beta (or Alpha) — Yahoo! has released it fourth or fifth public bookmarking site, Yahoo! Bookmarks Beta to go along with Yahoo! Bookmarks, del.icio.us, and two versions of Yahoo! MyWeb. This new version seems aimed at being a long needed replacement for the relatively ancient Yahoo! Bookmarks.
Discussion: Monkey Bites, Ajaxian and Download Squad
Chris Price / Download Squad: Yahoo unveils new Bookmarks site to replace MyWeb
Yahoo serves up new bookmarking tools — Yahoo Bookmarks is like an upscale Del.icio.us, allowing you to store, share, tag, and organize your bookmarks within an attractive interface. Currently in beta, the new version of the online bookmark service offers drag-and-drop organization …
Discussion: CNNMoney.com and Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Spending the Day With Getty Images, the Largest Stock Photography Company in the World — Kristopher Tate and I are here up in Seattle today in all day meetings with Getty Images as part of a blogger junket put on by Edelman PR with help arranged by Steve Rubel.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Getty images: a photo business under pressure
Getty images: a photo business under pressure
Discussion: Mathew Ingram, blackrimglasses.com and Smalltalk Tidbits …
James A. Robertson / Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants: Rage against the future — Scoble quotes Jonathan Klein …
Ernesto / Torrentfreak:
A "Napster Moment" for TV Downloads — The "Tape it off the Internet" project is currently in the final stages of the closed Beta program. TIOTI might very well be a realistic representation of what the future of TV will look like. — The TIOTI project approach to socialize and optimize your TV Download experience.
Discussion: TechCrunch, alarm:clock, Valleywag and What Will You See Next?
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: TIOTI To Combine Legitimate TV, Bittorent Feeds
Msrcteam / the Microsoft Security Response Center Blog:
IE Address Bar Issue — This is Christopher Budd. I wanted to take a moment and let people know some information about a new public report about a possible vulnerability in Internet Explorer we've received today. As soon as we learned of the report we started an investigation into the issue …
Discussion: Windows-Now.com and Bink.nu
Robert McLaws / Windows-Now.com: Secunia and Irresponsibility
Oliver / MobileCrunch:
Veeker Launches Today- Mobile Video Will Be Changed Forever: a MobileCrunch Exclusive — Veeker, the San Francisco based company that has been in high profile stealth mode for some time finally launches today and promises to change the way we use the video capability in our camera phones.
Discussion: Beet.TV, TechCrunch, What Will You See Next? and Slashdot
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch: Veeker: An Embedded Player for Mobile Video
Haydn / What Will You See Next?: Veeker and the Mobile Crunch's Sneek Peek - But More Uploading, Really?
ScuttleMonkey / Slashdot: Veeker Makes Video Instant Messaging a Reality
Cingular Rolls Out TeleNav GPS Navigator Service — Along with its shiny new HP iPAQ hw6920 it launched today, Cingular also rolled out its version of the TeleNav GPS navigation service, barking out turn-by-turn directions without requiring you to buy a separate receiver.
Digitalgopher / digg: Cingular Rolls Out GPS Navigator Service
Seán Captain / New York Times:
Need a Tuneup? Become a Hacker — BRAWN beat brains in the old days of automobiles. To make cars faster, people bolted bigger air intakes, carburetors and exhaust pipes onto giant muscle car engines. Tuning adjustments were simple, requiring only screwdrivers and wrenches.
Discussion: digg
Charbarred / digg: Need a Tuneup? Become a Hacker
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
My So-called Second Life event — I had the good fortune to be invited by NMK to put together a half-day seminar on the phenomena of the new 3D worlds of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPGs) and Virtual Worlds (the main one being Second Life of course).
Discussion: 3pointD.com, Steve Sloan …, Robin Good's Latest News and Tom Hume
Mark Wallace / 3pointD.com: Buyout For Second Life Search Site
John Blossom / Robin Good's Latest News: Virtual Reality Worlds: Content Distribution Grows In Virtual …
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Happy Vox Launch Day! — It's been a long time in the making, but the day of the official Vox launch is here. — Drawing Vox by Marc John — In anticipation for this event, we asked all of you guys to share what aspect you most appreciate or like about Vox.
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Channel Beta — Welcome to Channel Beta, the weekly address of all things beta! Tune in each week to get a status update of all current and near-future beta programs at Sling Media, directly from the source. — Mac Public Beta Countdown — Wow, my very first corporate blog. I feel so...21st century.
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David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog: SlingPlayer for Mac OS X (beta) lands 10/31
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Crittenton agrees to return to Atlanta
Former NBA player Javaris Crittenton waived California extradition proceedings Wednesday and will be returned to Georgia in connection with his arrest in a murder case in Atlanta.
Crittenton appeared before Superior Court Judge Upinder Kalra and said he had voluntarily signed the waiver.
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office had charged Crittenton with being a fugitive from justice for the purpose of holding the extradition-waiver hearing.
Crittenton, who wore civilian clothes, appeared calm and answered, ''Yes,'' in a soft voice when the judge asked if he had signed the waiver papers.
Defense attorney Brian Steel said outside court that Crittenton had earlier agreed to return to Atlanta voluntarily and had even bought a plane ticket, but law enforcement authorities decided to arrest him anyway.
Steel said he wants to get his client back to Atlanta to clear up the matter.
''Crittenton wants to do everything lawful because he did nothing,'' the attorney said.
Steel said his client is being falsely accused and the facts will come out at the preliminary hearing.
The judge said Crittenton will be returned to Atlanta between Sept. 15 and Sept. 30, but Steel said he would seek to have him returned sooner.
Asked why Crittenton had flown to California, Steel said that would come out at the preliminary hearing.
Crittenton was taken into custody Monday night at John Wayne Airport in Orange County.
Police in Atlanta had obtained a murder warrant for Crittenton in the Aug. 19 shooting of Jullian Jones, 23, a mother of four young children, as she was walking with two men.
Crittenton, 23, was wanted on a federal arrest warrant after the FBI learned that he traveled on a one-way ticket to Los Angeles, where he was known to have family and friends, several days after the shooting.
Jones was outside her house with 18-year-old Trontavious Stephens when a black Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid pulled up and gunfire erupted. Authorities have said they don't believe Jones was the intended target, but they haven't said whom they think the assailant was after.
Crittenton was with the Washington Wizards in December 2009 when he and teammate Gilbert Arenas had a dispute over a card game. Two days later, Arenas brought four guns to the locker room and set them in front of Crittenton's locker with a sign telling him to ''PICK 1.'' Crittenton then took out his own gun.
Crittenton pleaded guilty in January 2010 to a misdemeanor gun charge and received a year of unsupervised probation. Arenas entered his guilty plea on Jan. 15, 2010. He served a short time in a halfway house.
Crittenton was the 19th overall pick of the 2007 NBA draft, selected by the Los Angeles Lakers. He played little with Los Angeles and was sent to Memphis in the Pau Gasol deal his rookie year. He was traded to Washington in December 2008. Crittenton is on the roster of the NBA developmental league's Dakota Wizards.


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Awakening and Sleep–Wake Cycle Across Development
Sleep and wakefulness undergo important changes with age. Awakening, a crucial event in the sleep-wake rhythm, is a transition implying complex physiological mechanisms. Its involvement in sleep disturbances is also well known. This collective volume is the first attempt to systematically approach awakening across development.A methodological section considers criteria to define awakening in a developmental perspective. Theoretical considerations on development of wakefulness and on its relation to consciousness are included and provide a vigorous impulse to go beyond present criteria and classifications.
Age changes are the core of studies on development: a section of the book examines old and new data from preterm to infants up to children, underscoring the main turning points along this developmental path. As for other aspects of development, awakening and the sleep-wake cycle are also influenced by external factors, both physical and human. Several contributions deal with this topic, in particular focusing on the parent-infant interaction and the influences of culture.
Clinical contexts offer an opportunity to show both quantitative and qualitative changes of awakening and arousals in different pathological conditions. Either partial changes of one physiological variable or global and massive changes can be observed. (Series B)


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Conservatives Made It Up: Harry Reid Didn't Dismiss Funding Treatment For Children With Cancer
Conservative media are selectively and deceptively quoting from an exchange between CNN's Dana Bash Senate and Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to make it appear as if he dismissed the plight of cancer-stricken children being denied access to clinical trials due to the shutdown of the federal government. In fact, Reid said that legislators should fully fund the government, rather than force different groups to fight over funding.
Specifically, conservatives are claiming that Reid replied to a reporter's question, "If you can help one child with cancer, why wouldn't you?" by saying "why would we want to do that?" In fact, Reid was responding to Sen. Chuck Schumer, who had interjected, saying "why pit one against the other?"
On October 1, the federal government was shut down after conservative Republicans refused to pass legislation funding operations unless that funding was tied to the defunding or delay of Obamacare. As part of an effort to avoid political damage from that unpopular decision, House Republicans have called for piecemeal bills that would fund some parts of the federal government, including the National Institutes of Health and national parks.
During a Senate press conference today, CNN's Dana Bash asked Reid if he would support a bill that would reinstate funding to the National Institutes of Health, including a program providing access to clinical trials for children with cancer.
In response, Reid decried the idea that legislators can "pick and choose" which parts of the government should be funded, reiterating his desire for legislation to fully fund the federal government without strings attached.
After that Bash asked, "if you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldn't you do it?"
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) responded to her question by asking "why pit one against the other?" and Reid chimed in, "why would we want to do that? I have 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force base that are sitting home. They have a few problems of their own."
In the conservative Free Beacon's write up of the exchange, Schumer's question has not been included, leaving the false impression that Reid is responding to Bash's question about helping a child with cancer. House Speaker John Boehner's website has provided a similarly false transcript of the exchange, including only Bash's question and Reid replying, "Why would we do that?"
Several media conservatives have repeated the Beacon's false version of events.
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough:
Commentary editor John Podhoretz:
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt:
Washington Examiner columnist David Freddoso:
Townhall political editor and Fox News contributor Guy Benson:
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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls
major: a subject or field of study chosen by a student to represent his or her principal interest and upon which a large share of his or her efforts are concentrated
minor: a subject or a course of study pursued by a student, especially a candidate for a degree, subordinately or supplementary to a major or principal subject or course
option: something that may be or is chosen; choice. A major may offer more than one option or choice that provides focus in a particular area.
certificate: a document attesting to the fact that a person has completed an educational course
interdisciplinary: combining or involving two or more academic disciplines or fields of study
pre-professional: preparatory to the practice of a profession or to its specialized field of study
university: an institution of learning of the highest level, having a college of liberal arts and a program of graduate studies together with several professional schools, as of agriculture, business, and education, and authorized to confer both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
college: a constituent unit of a university, furnishing courses of instruction in the liberal arts and sciences, usually leading to a bachelor's degree.
general education: general education is a series of courses required in all majors designed to develop essential academic skills, to acquaint students with their cultural heritage, and to provide them with a broad base of liberal studies in the humanities, mathematics, and in the social and physical sciences.
university requirements: two university requirements, American Cultural Diversity (ACD) and Global Perspectives (GP), need to be completed in any degree program and are not General Education requirements.


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Robert G. Bristow, MD, PhD, right, chats - General Session 1
San Francisco, CA - 2016 GU Cancers Symposium - Robert G. Bristow, MD, PhD, right, chats during General Session 1 at the 2016 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium here today, Thursday January 7, 2016. The conference is the premier meeting on the science and treatment of genitourinary cancers from basic research to patient-based studies to larger clinical trials and population analyses in the United States. More than 3,100 experts from around the world are attending the meeting which is sponsored by the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Society of Radiation Oncology and the Society of Urologic Oncology. Photo by © ASCO/Todd Buchanan 2016


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MICRON Brand Tep-3 Fastener Attaching Machine
Why do Professionals prefer the Micron TEP-3 Grommet Press?
Why is the TEP-3 a great deal for the hobbyists?
The hobbyists can benefit from the knowledge and experience of the professionals. They can get a high quality durable and reliable European built grommet press that will last a life time and produce professional results. They will have the peace of mind of knowing that Micron is there for them when they need dies for all of the various types and sizes of fasteners the TEP-3 is capable of attaching. They will feel secure in the knowledge that they can call or email Grommet Mart for expert help and advice.
The Micron TEP-3 is perhaps the most imitated grommet press in the industry. We receive telephone calls from people who have purchased one of these imitations online and are looking for support and advice because either the imitation does not perform well or they are unable to find the dies they need. The online sellers of these imitation machines often do not have the expertise to offer support nor do they stock the dies needed to attach all of the fasteners the users need to use. The Customers who buy one of these cheap imitations are often left to fend for themselves. Please note that Micron dies are not compatible with these imitation machines. Most of the callers end up buying Micron quality and reliability after their experience with these imitation grommet presses.


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Neal Boyd, an opera singer who won NBC's America's Got Talent and dabbled in Missouri politics, has died.
County Coroner Scott Amick says Boyd died around 6 p.m. Sunday at his mother's house in Sikeston, MO. He was 42.
Amick says Boyd had a number of medical problems, including heart failure, kidney failure and liver problems. He was seriously injured in a car crash in 2017.
Boyd won the network TV show and its $1 million prize in 2008. He released the album My American Dream in 2009 and performed at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.
Boyd also ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for a southeast Missouri House of Representatives seat, losing in the general election in 2012 and in the primary in 2014.


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Talk to an open source evangelist and chances are he or she will tell you that software developed using the open source model is the only way to go.
The benefits of open source software are many, varied and, by now, well-known. It's free to use. You can customize it as much as you want. Having many sets of eyes on the source code means security problems can be spotted quickly. Anyone can fix bugs; you're not reliant on a vendor. You're not locked in to proprietary standards. Finally, you're not left with an orphaned product if the vendor goes out of business or simply decides that the product is no longer profitable.
[ How-to: Run Your Small Business With Free Open Source Software ]
However, the open-source evangelist probably won't tell you that, despite all these very real benefits, there are times when using closed-sourced, proprietary software actually makes far more business sense.
Here are some of the circumstances when old-fashioned proprietary products are a better business choice than open source software.
1. When It's Easier for Unskilled Users
Linux has made a huge impact on the server market, but the same can't be said for the desktop market - and for good reason. Despite making strides in the last several years, it's still tricky for the uninitiated to use, and the user interfaces of the various distributions remain far inferior to those of Windows or Mac OS X.
While Linux very well may be technically superior to these proprietary operating systems, its weaknesses mean that most users will find it more difficult and less appealing to work with. That means lower productivity, which will likely cost far more than purchasing a proprietary operating system with which your staff is familiar.
2. When It's the De Facto Standard
Most knowledge workers are familiar with, and use, Microsoft Word and Excel. Even though there are some excellent open source alternatives to Office, such as LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice, they aren't identical in terms of functionality or user interface, performance, plugins and APIs for integration with third-party products. They are probably close enough as much as 90 percent of the time, but on rare occasions there's a risk that these differences will cause problems - especially when exchanging documents with suppliers or customers.
[ Study: Despite Bright, Shiny Rivals, Microsoft Office Still Rules at Work ]
It also makes sense to use proprietary software in specialist fields where vendors are likely to have gone into universities and trained students on their software. "The software may not necessarily be better, but it may be selected by a university before an open source solution gets a big enough community around it," says Chris Mattman, an Apache Software Foundation member and a senior computer scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
"When that happens, the students will then know the software better and be more productive with it," Mattman says. When the students then move into a business environment, it makes sense for them to continue with the software they are used to.
3. When Proprietary Software Offers Better Support
Business-class support is sometimes available for open source software, either from the company leading the project or a separate third-party. This isn't the case often, though - and that can be a problem, according to Tony Wasserman, professor of software management practice at Carnegie Mellon University.
[ Related: 6 Reasons to Pay for Open Source Software ]
"Some customers prefer to have someone outside the company to call for product support on a 24/7 basis and are willing to pay for a service level agreement that will provide a timely response," he says. "People often respond very quickly to queries posted on the forum pages of widely-used open source projects, but that's not the same thing as a guaranteed vendor response in response to a toll-free telephone call."
4. When You Want Software as a Service
Cloud software is slightly different than conventional software. As a general rule, you don't get access to the source code, even if the hosted software is built entirely on open source software. That may not make the software proprietary, strictly speaking, but it doesn't give you all the benefits of open source. In that sense, the benefits of using the "pay for what you use" software as a service model may outweigh the disadvantage of not having access to the source code.
5. When Proprietary Software Works Better With Your Hardware
Many types of proprietary hardware require specialized drivers; these are often closed source and available only from the equipment manufacturer. Even when an open source driver exists, it may not be the best choice. "Open source developers may not be able to 'see' the hardware, so the proprietary driver may well work better," Mattman says.
6. When Warranties and Liability Indemnity Matter
Some open source software companies, such as Red Hat, are structured to look like proprietary software vendors. They accordingly offer warranties and liability indemnity for their products, just like proprietary vendors do. "These companies are exactly the same as proprietary software companies, except that they won't take you out to play golf," Wasserman says.
For every Red Hat, though, there are many open source projects that aren't backed by a commercial organization. While you may get warranties and liability from a third-party, in many cases you won't. If that doesn't suit you or your company's software procurement policies, then you're advised to find a proprietary vendor.
7. When You Need a Vendor That Will Stick Around
Yes, there's no guarantee that a commercial software vendor will stick with a product if demand drops to such an extent that it's no longer profitable to develop it. The company itself may even go out of business. But if an open source project is small, there's also a danger that the person behind it may lose interest. If that happens, it may not be easy to find another open source developer to step in.
[ How-to: Protect Your Company from Vendors Who Don't Deliver ][ Tips: Getting More Business Value Out of Vendors ]
(This may be more of an argument against small open source projects than an argument for proprietary software - but at least you can look into the books of large software companies and make an informed decision as to whether they're likely to be around in a few years to honor any commitments they give you.)
Don't Be Too Dogmatic About Open Source Software
The lesson here: While open source software may often - and even usually - be a better choice than functionally similar proprietary offerings, it doesn't make sense to be too dogmatic about it.
"As a practical matter, I think that many people would prefer to have everything open, especially in light of the recent revelation about the NSA spying on machines through USB chips," Wasserman says. At the same time, though, many of those who prefer open source will make exceptions when there are no practical alternatives - not to mention their use of Mac and iOS devices ... "
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text: [Scott Harden] came across a few posts about QR code matrix barcodes coming through on the 40m baud radio band. A few operators had captured the signals and assembled them into the code block seen above but they weren't able to get a clear enough shot for a smartphone to decode the image. [Scott] took on the challenge and decoded the mysterious message himself. He tried some graphic editing to separate and enhance the color channels in order to up the contrasts of the image. This helped, but still couldn't be read automatically. In a move similar to those seen in Hackaday's own barcode challenges he dropped the image into Inkscape so that he could manually clean it up. Once it was overlaid on a grid the job was pretty simple. the left side did require some more image manipulation and precision"squinting" to eliminate interference from the vertical banding, but he managed to get the message. We won't spoil it here in case you want to take on the challenge yourself. Good luck!


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I've been thinking what Gary Vaynerchuk says: Facebook is too slow. Twitter has spoiled me. I want a constant feed of stuff and Facebook is a trickle. It wouldn't be at all hard to fix. Facebook should let me both increase the flow of information about my friends and to include external feeds in it (Facebook should have done Friendfeed).
I've been talking with lots of news organizations about following the feed model. Sometimes, I may want a packaged, prioritized presentation of news. But mostly, to quote Dave Winer, I want a river of news. Facebook did a brilliant job bringing an algorithmic presentation of a feed but now it's falling behind in feed wars. They'd better catch up fast.
: Meanwhile, here's ReadWriteWeb summing up various fears about feed OD and how to cure it.


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LG Electronics Selects Jungo for In-Car Infotainment Systems
LG Electronics Selects Jungo for In-Car Infotainment Systems
Jungo middleware to power LG's next-generation infotainment systems as 4th joint project; Jungo's Automotive Multimedia Middleware to be demonstrated at CES
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Jungo, now part of Cisco, a leading supplier of automotive multimedia middleware and connectivity software solutions, has been selected by South Korean consumer electronics giant LG Electronics to provide multimedia middleware that will power next-generation infotainment systems to be installed in new automobiles from various carmakers.
Jungo's automotive multimedia middleware, MediaCore, enables rapid development of feature-rich, embedded multimedia players for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems. The operating system and hardware-independent, middleware meets both user demand for sophisticated in-car technologies and the escalating need of OEMs for scalable and affordable solutions.
The current agreement is the fourth such project between Jungo and the LG Electronics Car R&D laboratory, underlining the long-term strategic partnership between the two companies. Through LG Electronics, Jungo has previously provided media playback solutions for both South Korean and global car manufacturers.
The functionality provided by the Jungo middleware includes comprehensive multimedia management, ranging from support for playback from iPod/iPhone/iPad, Android Smartphones and storage devices, to metadata parsing and management, intelligent indexing, connectivity protocols, a simple, unified API for IVI application development and a plug-in framework for custom extensions.
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"This additional agreement with the LG Electronics Car R&D laboratory is an important milestone for Jungo and highlights the strategic nature of the relationship," said Jungo Connectivity General Manager Ophir Herbst. "Jungo is thrilled at the prospect of providing its cutting-edge infotainment technology for additional cars with LG Electronics."
To meet with Jungo at CES, please contact Daphna Weiss or visit booth MP25454, LVCC, South Hall 2.
About Jungo
Jungo, now part of Cisco, is a provider of connectivity and multimedia software solutions. Jungo's products enable semiconductor companies, device manufacturers and OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) to easily develop products that intelligently connect with any portable device over various protocols for any application. Jungo solutions have been deployed in global markets throughout various industries including the automotive industry, mobile communications, digital TV, point-of-sale, medical equipment and defense industries.
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Chapter 22: Vectors and MatricesIn this chapter we look at built-in functions which support computation with vectors and matrices.
22.1 The Dot Product ConjunctionRecall the composition of verbs, from Chapter 08. A sum-of-products verb can be composed from sum and product with the @: conjunction.
There is a conjunction . (dot, called "Dot Product"). It can be used instead of @: to compute the sum-of-products of two lists.
Evidently, the . conjunction is a form of composition, a variation of @: or @. We will see below that it is more convenient for working with vectors and matrices.
22.2 Scalar Product of VectorsRecall that P is a list of 3 numbers. If we interpret these numbers as coordinates of a point in 3-dimensional space, then P can be regarded as defining a vector, a line-segment with length and direction, from the origin at 0 0 0 to the point P. We can refer to the vector P.
With P and Q interpreted as vectors, then the expression P (+/ . *) Q gives what is called the "scalar product" of P and Q. Other names for the same thing are "dot product", or "inner product", or "matrix product", depending on context. In this chapter let us stick to the neutral term "dot product", for which we define a function dot:
A textbook definition of scalar product of vectors P and Q may appear in the form:
(magnitude P) * (magnitude Q) * (cos alpha)where the magnitude (or length) of a vector is the square root of sum of squares of components, and alpha is the smallest non-negative angle between P and Q. To show the equivalence of this form with P dot Q, we can define utility-verbs ma for magnitude-of-a-vector and ca for cos-of-angle-between-vectors.
ma =: %: @: (+/ @: *:) ca =: 4 : '(-/ *: b,(ma x-y), c) % (2*(b=.ma x)*(c=. ma y))'We expect the magnitude of vector 3 4 to be 5, and expect the angle between P and itself to be zero, and thus cosine to be 1.
then we see that the dot verb is equivalent to the textbook form above
22.3 Matrix ProductThe verb we called dot is "matrix product" for vectors and matrices.
To compute Z =: A dot B the last dimension of A must equal the first dimension of B.
The example shows that the last-and-first dimensions disappear from the result. If these two dimensions are not equal then an error is signalled.
22.4 Generalizations
22.4.1 Various VerbsThe "Dot Product" conjunction forms the dot-product verb with (+/ . *). Other verbs can be formed on the pattern (u . v).
For example, consider a relationship between people: person i is a child of person j, represented by a square boolean matrix true at row i column j. Using verbs +. (logical-or) and *. (logical-and) we can compute a grandchild relationship with the verb (+./ . *.).
g =: +. / . *.Taking the "child" relationship to be the matrix C:
C =: 4 4 $ 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0Then the grandchild relationship is, so to speak, the child relationship squared.
We can see from C that person 3 is a child of person 1, and person 1 is a child of person 0. Hence, as we see in G person 3 is a grandchild of person 0.
22.4.2 Symbolic ArithmeticBy 'symbolic arithmetic' is meant, for example, symbolically adding the strings 'a' and 'b' to get the string 'a+b'. Here is a small collection of utility functions to do some limited symbolic arithmetic on (boxed) strings.
pa =: ('('&,) @: (,&')') cp =: [ ` pa @. (+./ @: ('+-*' & e.)) symbol =: (1 : (':';'< (cp > x), u, (cp > y)'))(" 0 0) splus =: '+' symbol sminus =: '-' symbol sprod =: '*' symbol a =: <'a' b =: <'b' c =: <'c'
As a variant of the symbolic product, we could elide the multiplication symbol to give an effect more like conventional notation:
sprodc =: '' symbol
As arguments to the "Dot Product" conjunction we could supply verbs to perform symbolic arithmetic. For the dot verb, which we recall is (+/ . *), a symbolic version is:
sdot =: splus / . sprodcTo illustrate:
S =: 3 2 $ < "0 'abcdef' T =: 2 3 $ < "0 'pqrstu'
22.4.3 Matrix Product in More than 2 DimensionsAn example in 3 dimensions will be sufficiently general. Symbolically:
A =: 1 2 3 $ <"0 'abcdef' B =: 3 2 2 $ <"0 'mnopqrstuvwx'
The last dimension of A must equal the first dimension of B. The shape of the result Z is the leading dimensions of A followed by the trailing dimensions of B.
The last-and-first dimension of A and B have disappeared, because each dimensionless scalar in Z combines a "row" of A with a "column" of B. We see in the result Z that each row of A is combined separately with the whole of B.
22.4.4 Dot Compared With @:Recall from Chapter 07 that a dyadic verb v has a left and right rank. Here are some utility functions to extract the ranks from a given verb.
RANKS =: 1 : 'u b. 0' LRANK =: 1 : '1 { (u RANKS)' NB. left rank only
The general scheme defining dyadic verbs of the form (u . v) is:
u . v means u @ (v " (1+L, _)) where L = (v LRANK)or equivalently,
u . v means (u @: v) " (1+L, _)
and hence
+/.* means (+/ @: *)" 1 _and so we see the difference between . and @:. For simple vector arguments they are the same, in which case the dimensions of the arguments must be the same, but this is not the condition we require for matrix multiplication in general, where (in the example above) each row of A is combined with the whole of B.
22.5 DeterminantThe monadic verb (- / . *) computes the determinant of a matrix.
det =: - / . *
sdet =: sminus / . sprodc
22.5.1 Singular MatricesA matrix is said to be singular if the rows (or columns) are not linearly independent, that is, if one row (or column) can be obtained from another by multiplying by a constant. A singular matrix has a zero determinant.
In the following example A is a (symbolic) singular matrix, with m the constant multiplier.
We see that the resulting term (amb-mab) must be zero for all a, b and m.
22.6 Matrix Divide
22.6.1 Simultaneous EquationsThe built-in verb %. (percent dot) is called "Matrix Divide". It can be used to find solutions to systems of simultaneous linear equations. For example, consider the equations written conventionally as:
3x + 4y = 11
2x + 3y = 8Rewriting as a matrix equation, we have, informally,
M dot U = Rwhere M is the matrix of coefficients U is the vector of unknowns x,y and R is the vector of right-hand-side values:
The vector of unknowns U (that is, x,y) can be found by dividing R by matrix M.
We see that M dot U equals R, that is, U solves the equations.
22.6.2 Complex, Rational and Vector VariablesThe equations to be solved may be in complex variables. For example:
or in rationals. In this case both M and R must be rationals to give a rational result.
M =: 2 2 $ 3x 4x 2x 3x R =: 15r22 11r16
In the previous examples the unknowns in U were scalars. Now suppose the unknowns are vectors and our equations for solving are:
3x + 4y = 15 22
2x + 3y = 11 16so we write:
The unknowns x and y are the rows of U, that is, vectors.
22.6.3 Curve FittingSuppose we aim to plot the best straight line fitting a set of data points. If the data points are x,y pairs given as:
x =: 10 20 30 y =: 31 49 70we aim to find a and b for the equation:
y = a + bxThe 3 data points give us 3 equations in the 2 unknowns a and b. Conventionally:
1 . a + 10 . b = 31
1 . a + 20 . b = 49
1 . a + 30 . b = 70so we take the matrix of coefficients M to be
M =: 3 2 $ 1 10 1 20 1 30and divide y by matrix M to get the vector of unknowns U, (that is, a,b)
Here we have more equations than unknowns, (more rows than columns in M) and so the solutions U are the best fit to all the equations together. We see that M dot U is close to, but not exactly equal to, y.
"Best fit" means that the sum of the squares of the errors is minimized, where the errors are given by y - M dot U. If the sum of squares is minimized, then we expect that by perturbing U slightly, the sum of squares is increased.
The method extends straightforwardly to fitting a polynomial to a set of data points. Suppose we aim to fit
y = a + bx + cx2to the data points:
x =: 0 1 2 3 y =: 1 6 17 34.1The four equations to be solved are:
1.a + bx0 + cx02 = y0 1 a + bx1 + cx12 = y1 1.a + bx2 + cx22 = y2 1.a + bx3 + cx32 = y3and so the columns of matrix M are 1, x, x^2, conveniently given by: x ^/ 0 1 2
M =: x ^/ 0 1 2and the unknowns a, b, c are given by vector U as follows:
There may be more equations than unknowns, as this example shows, but evidently there cannot be fewer. That is, in R %. M matrix M must have no more columns than rows.
22.6.4 Dividing by Higher-Rank ArraysHere is an example of U =: R %. M, in which the divisor M is of rank 3.
The dyadic rank of %. is _ 2,
%. b. 0 2 _ 2and so in this example the whole of R is combined separately with each of the 3 matrices in M. That is, we have 3 separate sets of equations, each with the same right-hand-side R Thus we have 3 separate solutions (the rows of U).
The condition R=M dot U evidently does not hold (because the last dimension of M is not equal to the first of U), but it does hold separately for each matrix in M with corresponding row of U.
22.7 Identity MatrixA (non-singular) square matrix M divided by itself yields an "identity matrix", I say, such that (M dot I) = M.
22.8 Matrix InverseThe monadic verb %. computes the inverse of a matrix That is, %. M is equivalent to I %. M for a suitable identity matrix I:
For a vector V, the inverse W has the reciprocal magnitude and the same direction. Thus the product of the magnitudes is 1 and the cosine of the angle between is 1.
This is the end of Chapter 22.
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Sweden is now "okay" with public masturbation. On June 6, a 65-year-old man took off his shorts at a beach near Stockholm and began masturbating into the ocean. The man was charged with sexual assault, but was acquitted last week after a judge ruled he was not targeting a specific person.
Even though the Södertörn District Court's judgment stated it "may be proven that the man exposed himself and masturbated on this occasion," the court decided the man had not committed a crime, a decision the public prosecutor agreed with, though he said in the future public masturbation might be considered disorderly conduct.
"For this to be a criminal offence it's required that the sexual molestation was directed towards one or more people," Olof Vrethammar said. "I think the court's judgement is reasonable. With that we can conclude that it is okay to masturbate on the beach."
The ruling in the case comes just three months after Sweden's last major sex scandal, when police in Stockholm announced that a man who fucks bicycles was on the loose.


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Skip to comments.U.S. to host Saudi warplane training at Idaho base
Posted on 12/14/2010 8:05:38 PM PST by sukhoi-30mki
U.S. to host Saudi warplane training at Idaho base
WASHINGTON The U.S. Air Force plans to host Saudi air combat training.
The Air Force has selected a preferred site for the training of the Royal Saudi Air Force over the next decade. The training, expected to take place in Mountain Home, Idaho, would focus on the new Saudi fleet of F-15 fighter-jets.
"Saudi Arabia is a valuable long-term U.S. partner in the Gulf," Heidi Grant, a deputy Air Force undersecretary, said. "Facilitating the modernization of Royal Saudi Air Force aircraft, as well as providing enhanced air crew and maintenance training, would build partner capacity and contribute to stability in the region."
Officials said the Saudis have sought a minimum deployment from 2014 through 2019. They said Riyad would consider a longer-term presence in the United States at a later stage.
The Saudi Air Force specified a training ground that would resemble the Gulf environment, officials said. Mountain Home already hosts training by 250 members of the Singaporean Air Force.
"Our thorough analysis has led us to select Mountain Home AFB as the preferred alternative to potentially host our Saudi partners and to build both their capacity and interoperability with the U.S. Air Force," Ms. Grant said.
Officials said the Saudi training was part of a U.S. project to supply $60 billion worth of F-15s and attack helicopters to the military of the Gulf Cooperation Council kingdom. The arms package, approved by Congress in November 2010, included 84 F-15Es as well as more than 130 Apache attack and Black Hawk utility helicopters.
Under the plan, the Saudi Air Force would deploy an F-15 squadron at Mountain Home by 2014. They said this would include 12 Saudi F-15s, 50 pilots and up to 200 maintenance personnel. Accommodations for the Saudis could cost up to $500 million.
"The proposed training squadron would receive its first four aircraft in early to mid-2014, with the remaining eight aircraft delivered by the end of 2014," the U.S. Air Force said. "The aircraft would facilitate primary air crew and flight instructor training as well as maintenance training."
The Saudi deployment would require approval by Congress. Officials said a final decision was not expected until late 2011.
"Air Force professionals will conduct an initial site survey in December and initiate an environmental impact analysis process in early 2011, which will provide opportunities for public comment, in preparation for the possible basing arrangement," the U.S. Air Force said.
/s; kinda.
Training our future enemies, wonderful.
For no identifiable reason, this feels like a really bad idea to me.
How many 9/11 hijackers from Saudi Arabia were trained military?
I imagine that's still secret.
There is an "Eternal Friendship" between the United States and Saudi Arabia.
U.S. to host Saudi warplane training at IDunno base
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The duplicitous wahabbi saudis should have been the first enemy taken down in the WOT.
I guess from there they could fly their jets into buildings in Salt Lake City, Portland, maybe Seattle.
Who would be surprised if it happened?
Oh, that's right. The Pentagon would be surprised.
We are so screwed.
And OPEC has pushed the cost of oil purchased by the U.S. to around $91 a barrel. These are the same mega-trillionaires who back the U.S. environmentalist movement through laundered dollars and are behind all of the anti-drilling and anti-nuclear rhetoric we have been domestically assaulted with for generations, all in the name of keeping the United States forever dependent upon these towel-headed fifth century neanderthals for all its energy needs.
Will Americans be insisting that any religious Muslim symbols be hidden from view here as in the case where Christian/Jewish symbols of Americans must be hidden while in Saudi Arabia?
They kept it away from Las Vegas or the pilots of the religion of peace would never show up as they would all be heavily practicing their islamic purity over craps tables and hooker hotel room fests at the MGM.
What, you don't think they can fly down there on the weekends?
Muzzies flying armed F-15s over American soil. If I was Alaska Airlines flying out of Seattle, I would be afraid...very afraid.
Allah Akbar, MoFo
Ah, Mtn. Home AFB, my old home sweet home. When I was there we had F-111As.
The 366th currently fly the F-15E, and already hosts a training squadron of F-15SEs for training the Singapore AF, so having another training squadron for Saudis makes sense. All of the training and facilities are already in place.
Worked the F-111's at Cannon, sheesh, they were loud!
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Forming Young Catholic Leaders
Peter Blute
Franciscan University
Counting the Cost: Scott Hahn Reflects on the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Wisdom 9:13-18
Psalm 90:3-6, 12-17
Philemon 1:9-10, 12-17
Luke 14:25-33
Like a king making ready for battle or a contractor about to build a tower, we have to count the cost as we set out to follow Jesus.
Our Lord today is telling us upfront the sacrifice it will take. His words aren't addressed to His chosen few, the Twelve, but rather to the "great crowds" – to "anyone," to "whoever" wishes to be His disciple.
That only makes His call all the more stark and uncompromising. We are to "hate" our old lives, renounce all the earthly things we rely upon, to choose Him above every person and possession. Again He tells us that the things we have – even our family ties and obligations – can become an excuse, an obstacle that keeps us from giving ourselves completely to Him (see Luke 9:23-26, 57-62).
Jesus brings us the saving Wisdom we are promised in today's First Reading. He is that saving Wisdom.
Weighed down by many earthly concerns, the burdens of our body and its needs, we could never see beyond the things of this world, could never detect God's heavenly design and intention. So in His mercy He sent us His Spirit, His Wisdom from on High, to make straight our path to Him.
Jesus himself paid the price for to free us from the sentence imposed on Adam, which we recall in today's Psalm (see Genesis 2:7; 2:19). No more will the work of our hands be an affliction, no more are we destined to turn back to dust.
Like Onesimus in today's Epistle, we have been redeemed, given a new family and a new inheritance, made children of the father, brothers and sisters in the Lord.
We are free now to come after Him, to serve Him – no longer slaves to the ties of our past lives. In Christ, all our yesterdays have passed. We live in what the Psalm today beautifully describes as the daybreak of His kindness. For He has given us wisdom of heart, taught us to number our days aright.
Originally Posted: Salvation History.