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Pinball played right is an act of violence.
Violence against that steel ball trying to slip past your paddles. Violence against gravity urging that escape along. Violence against the glass top that contains everything happening within and violence against the wooden casket packed with hundreds of moving parts, lights and noise.
You don't play a pinball machine, you fight one; slapping the buttons to knock back balls, bumping and nudging the machine just enough to cheat missed opportunities, but not enough to trigger a "tilt."
Pinball is a piece of play balanced on the disappearing line between the physical and the virtual. Only, maybe that line isn't disappearing so quickly anymore.
For decades Stern Pinball has been the sole guardian of the industry with companies like Sega, Williams, and Midway closing shop, one after the other. In 1999, Stern became the only company in the world making original pinball tables. But that doesn't mean it's dying. Speaking recently with Kotaku, Gary Stern says that the industry is starting to make a comeback.
"Pinball is coming off of a major decline since the coin-op market has declined rapidly," Stern said in an email interview. "We now focus on coin-op as well as the collector and enthusiasts markets. We are excited to see our recent rapid growth thanks to new r&d projects, marketing, and new business ventures."
Among the new projects are impressive new tables. Last week Stern kicked off a month-long roadtrip for their latest table, based on Transformers. The launch party for the $5,600 to $7,500 table coincided with the Pinball Expo held in Chicago each year.
Much of what Stern makes these days are tables tied to licensing deals for movies or television shows. That's because a big license ensures a big market, Stern said. That's especially true with overseas markets which make up more than half of Stern's business these days, he said.
Stern added that his company is also working to modernize the way pinballs are designed and manufactured. The results of that retooling should start showing up early next year, he said.
While Stern's numbers may sound relatively low (they made more than 10,000 tables last year) compared to the millions of people that video games reach, that doesn't mean the business is dying. Stern can even see pinball having a second golden age, though perhaps not one that will influence pop culture as much as the machines did in the 70s and 80s.
"The popularity will return but it will be in a different form than it was back then," he said. "Games are ending up in people's homes and part of bringing it back will be internet connectivity."
That connectivity could go a long way to help reinvigorate the competitive nature of pinball gaming. The same solution for fighting games like Street Fighter, Soulcalibur and Mortal Kombat, went a long way to help revive that genre - one also originally seated in the popularity of coin-op arcades.
Unlike with video games, there is no real alternative to playing the pinball machines that once packed arcades. Pinball is organic. No two games are the same. Turning something as inherently physical into a purely digital experience would change the complete nature of the experience. Stern knows this, he also knows how important the machines are to the history of play. So he keeps up the fight.
"We are the industry," Stern said. "If we stop making games, life will continue but a little fabric of Americana will be gone."
You can contact Brian Crecente, the author of this post, at email@example.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.
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John Nolte @ Big Hollywood:
Blame the movie.
Blame the movie.
Blame the movie.
Even though "the movie" was on YouTube for months prior to the collective indignation of thousands of Middle Eastern Islamists all coming together on the eleventh anniversary of September 11th (through wild coincidence, no doubt), we are being told by our government and our media overlords that we must blame the movie.
You see, if we blame the movie for the burning of our foreign outposts and the brutal murders of four Americans (including our Libyan ambassador who was reportedly raped), we won't blame the burners and the looters and the murderers and the rapists.
You see, if we blame the movie for the Middle East burning, we won't blames the Islamists who are doing the burning and looting and raping and murdering.
Which means we won't further connect the dots and blame Obama's failed Middle East policy; the Obama Doctrine of backing away from the region and allowing events to unfold as America stands idly by — as the Islamists in the Muslim Brotherhood grab hold of power in Egypt, a country that was once our largest and closest ally.
Blame the filmmaker.
Hunt him.
Out him.
Demonize him.
And all at the direction of a president of the United States who has sworn to uphold the Constitution, you know, the same Constitution that treasures the right of free expression and speech above all else.
But no one asks … What about Bill Maher?
Bill Maher?
Bill Maher made a comedy/documentary called "Religulous" that's most famous for mercilessly mocking Christianity. But what people forget is that the last twenty-minutes or so of the film make a damning case against Islam.
Bill Maher made a film that mocked Islam.
Oh, yes, he did.
Bill Maher also contributed $1 million to a pro-Obama super PAC.
And I'm sure that upon being reminded of this, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will tremble with self-righteous indignation and demand Maher take his money back.
After all, if movies create the terrorists who in turn create the terrorism, what about Bill Maher?


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Now that Ricki Lake made it seem empowering and supermodels made it seem chic, home births are experiencing a spike in popularity. But a second look at a previous study—that is often used by home birth advocates to support their claims that the practice is just as safe as hospital births—reveals that the perinatal death rate for home births was almost three times higher than that of low-risk hospital births.
The incidences of home births have increased by about 30 percent since 2004. But it's troubling that there are very few studies that give some definitive statistics about its safety. As the Daily Beast points out:
There's no central registry of home birth deaths, and the studies that exist are mired in controversy. It's clear that some parents have lost babies during home births that could have been saved had they been in a hospital. Whether that means that the risk of home birth is significant depends on which experts you listen to.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, for instance, maintains that home birth is more dangerous than hospital birth, but admits that "high-quality evidence to inform this debate is limited." Home birthing advocates like to cite a 2005 study by Kenneth C. Johnson and his wife, Betty-Anne Daviss, a home birth midwife. They found that there was no difference in the mortality rate of the 5,418 North American women who planned home births in 2000, as compared to low-risk hospital births. However, the death rates of hospital births used for the comparison were taken from date from the 1970s and 1980s. When compared to hospital births in 2000 from the National Center for Health Statistics, the perinatal death rate for home births was nearly three times higher.
With few hard studies being available, anecdotal evidence seems to be the most powerful for pregnant woman. The Business of Being Born, Ricki Lake's documentary about home birth, insinuates that home birth is more empowering and that women who receive medical intervention or C-sections do not bond as well with their babies, which can be a terrifying thought for expectant mothers.
Arguments against home birth can be found at the blog, Hurt by Homebirth, which chronicles first-person accounts of mothers whose babies died during, or shortly after delivery from complications that could've been easily remedied at a hospital. It's a heart-wrenching, difficult read, but enlightening at time when home births are almost exclusively presented in soft focus as a beautiful, natural, empowering experience. One woman, Sara, blames her son's death on her midwives' extreme dedication to home birth and aversion to medical intervention:
Our baby was 10lbs, 4 oz, far exceeding the 8.8lb maximum the research suggests as safe. His cord was wrapped twice around his neck, both factors likely why he couldn't turn into the correct position despite trying. I pushed for a total of 6 hours, almost 4 of which was without progress. The SOGC's research says that a woman should not be pushing for more that 60 minutes without progress with a breech baby before it's a sign of serious trouble. There were maneuvers that should have been performed in the heat of the moment that weren't even attempted…Our attention and effort turned toward accountability. We felt like we had been used as guinea pigs, as part of someone's experiment meant to advance their own agenda, meant to make a statement politically.
We feel so much like this is fraudulent behavior, that they use the professional façade of a business to lure people into feeling comfortable, pretending to have requisite skills that they do not have. We had no understanding of their extremist views and how they would influence our care in the midst of crisis.
Our midwives made a conscious decision to take a risk with our baby's life, to adhere to their own philosophy with blatant disregard for our safety, to lie to protect themselves, and then to sell us the regurgitated line, that "some babies aren't meant to live." They hoped we would disappear under the rug of silence and sorrow as many families do. I was screaming inside a glass bottle where no one could hear. We will not be silent.
Giving birth in a hospital instead of at home is actually a relatively new development that didn't become standard until the 20th century. For the past few decades, the philosophy and ideals of home birth faced so much derision from the mainstream as being "wacky" that it makes sense that its advocates would have to be firmly ensconced in their beliefs—home birth has to be their "agenda." Additionally, labor can be so scary for first-time moms that they might need someone to talk them down from a total freak out, and give them a pep talk about their own abilities. If a midwife is doing this at a home birth, that could easily be confused for "advancing their own agenda."
Ultimately, while home births are undoubtedly empowering for those who have had positive experiences, women who question the safety of a particular birthing option should not be made to feel as though they are weak or ignorant chumps who've been conned by the medical profession. A call for more studies on home births does not equate to doubting the amazing capabilities of the female body. After all, what's more empowering than being completely educated when making a choice?
Home Birth: Increasingly Popular, But Dangerous [Daily Beast]
Related: Hurt by Homebirth
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Monday, 30 September 2013
Tablet Computers and Kids
We were very lucky last year to be given an iPad as a family. Having seen other people with them I was keen to get one but hadn't been able to buy one. Since then we have all had so much use out it.
At the time we got it my children were 8 and 5 but it didn't take them long to get the hang of using the tablet technology. Not having to grapple with a mouse and keyboard seems to make it a lot easier to pick up how to use it.
The touch screen technology makes my son's favourite games a lot easier to play as all it takes is a swipe of the finger:
The range of educational apps is also pretty vast. There is something for all ages and stages. We have had a variety of reading, writing and maths ones at various stages. Again these need minimal input from the grown ups to get going on which makes them a lot more fun.
One of the other great things about tablets is that of course they are incredibly portable. Ours has been used to entertain children whilst the child is taking part in an activity. It has also been great on long car journeys.
We had a great stand which was attached to the iPad which meant that we could take advantage of catch up TV and online movies as well! I am really going to have to replace the one that broke as it was very useful to be able to have entertainment on the go.
My daughter loves playing with the camera and all the funky effects it can do:
The only problem with having only one iPad is that sometimes more than one of us wants to use it at once. Sometimes this causes grief so I have been looking at the options on the John Lewis iPad and tablet to get another one! There is certainly a nice variety to choose from though we are big Apple fans in this house. Now I just have to work out how to save up for one or to get Santa to pop one in my stocking this Christmas...
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I'd love one, we have an unbranded tablet and it's great but the apps are quite limited :)
that is the goos thing about iPad just shame they are so pricy..ReplyDelete
- LittleRascalReviews30 September 2013 at 21:56
I'm just worried R would be better at using it than me and he's not even 3!ReplyDelete
he would be fab ;-)ReplyDelete
- LittleRascalReviews30 September 2013 at 22:03
We got him to take some pics of me and OH on hols and scarily he did a mighty good job *again better than mine* xReplyDelete
my daughter took shots on Saturday so good I thought they were mine ;-)ReplyDelete
- MidlifeSinglemum1 October 2013 at 07:20
Various friends let my 4yo play on their pads/tablets/iphones this summer. We don't have one but DD knew instinctively what to do and became quite profficient in a number of games that required a variety of motor and thinking skills. I would love to get one now.ReplyDelete


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Liar, Liar
Are politicians really less honest than the rest of us?
Is there any profession so disliked and distrusted as "politician"? Only 7 percent of poll respondents give U.S. elected officials "high" or "very high" ratings when it comes to honesty and ethical standards, according to the latest Gallup figures. That's on par with those paragons of dishonesty, car salesmen, and a step below telemarketers. The guys who invented credit-default swaps and bundled your home loan into mortgage-backed securities (you know, the friendly bankers at Lehman Brothers et al.)? They rank almost four times as high on the trustworthy scale.
Is there any profession so disliked and distrusted as "politician"? Only 7 percent of poll respondents give U.S. elected officials "high" or "very high" ratings when it comes to honesty and ethical standards, according to the latest Gallup figures. That's on par with those paragons of dishonesty, car salesmen, and a step below telemarketers. The guys who invented credit-default swaps and bundled your home loan into mortgage-backed securities (you know, the friendly bankers at Lehman Brothers et al.)? They rank almost four times as high on the trustworthy scale.
To be fair, it's not as if politicians haven't earned the reputation — from Richard Nixon ("I'm not a crook") to George H.W. Bush ("Read my lips") to Bill Clinton ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman") to Anthony Weiner ("That's not my …"). No wonder, then, that in a U.S. election year with two relatively squeaky-clean men running for the White House, it's still fraught with rumors of hidden offshore bank accounts and fake birth certificates. And in a billion-dollar campaign with both sides spending lavishly on ads that accuse the other of dishonest dealings and spreading lies, it's hardly a surprise that we tend to think of elected officials as professional fabricators.
Yet when my colleagues and I conducted a series of experiments, we found that people on Wall Street were more than twice as likely to lie as those on Capitol Hill. Even after the financial crisis, they get a pass. Why? Are we focusing on the wrong bad guys?
Let's be honest. We all lie. We embellish our accomplishments to impress others and sugarcoat our insults to avoid offending them. We tell our wives they've lost weight, we say we're sorry when we're not, and we claim to be avid recyclers. And we lie to strangers, too, often without realizing it. University of Massachusetts psychologist Robert Feldman found that pairs of strangers meeting each other for the first time were much more inclined to lie to the other person than they realized. After reviewing video of their conversations with strangers, 60 percent of participants admitted that they told two to three lies in the first 10 minutes. Now imagine what a professional politician does on the campaign trail, where he might meet thousands of strangers every day.
In a number of experiments I've conducted over the years, I've found in general that very few people take full advantage of the ability to cheat — mostly we just massage things a bit. We're not awful, immoral people, yet almost all of us want to gain from cheating. We're hard-wired to be competitive, and in experiments that create conditions where there's a presumption that others will fib, people cheat more.
The main culprit is rationalization. Forces that increase our ability to rationalize lying (such as when our peers are doing it, when we think the party we're deceiving is corrupt, or when we think our actions are for a good cause) serve to increase the level of dishonesty that we are comfortable with. But the forces that decrease rationalization (reminders of our moral obligations, realizing the consequences of our actions, and so on) have the reverse effect of decreasing our dishonesty. Funny enough, the fear of getting caught plays almost no role at all.
In other words, a lot of people cheat, at least just a little bit. So why do we expect our politicians to be any different?
Politicians are, by definition, in positions of power. They are elected to represent large groups of people and make important decisions for all these constituents. The problem with power is that it comes with some nasty side effects. When you put people in a position of power, they very quickly assume that position and, whether intentionally or not, start to abuse it. In a 2010 study investigating the moral hypocrisy of the powerful, researchers at Tilburg and Northwestern universities found that when people are assigned to powerful positions, or even if they are merely put in the mindset of having power, they cheat more and think of their own transgressions as less bad. At the same time, they tend to hold their underlings to higher standards.
Another byproduct of being a politician has to do with the fact that politicians make decisions that influence the well-being of others. As such, they're actually more inclined to tell half-truths or even outright lies because they believe it will ultimately serve others. I've examined this sort of "altruistic cheating" and found that while people will cheat a bit to help themselves, they cheat more when someone else also benefits. In fact, as the number of beneficiaries increases, so does the level of cheating. Study participants also experience less guilt when cheating for others, as compared with when they are just cheating for themselves.
Washington itself is undoubtedly part of the problem — because politicians are social animals, and lying, it turns out, is very much a social disease. When a rookie politician looks around and sees that his peers are behaving dishonestly, he determines that this behavior is acceptable and will be likely to follow suit. Party affiliation may also play a big role. In a study that my colleagues and I ran at Carnegie Mellon University, we planted a fake participant who looked like either a fellow student (wearing Carnegie Mellon attire) or a student from a rival university (wearing a University of Pittsburgh sweatshirt). We then asked the plant to make clear that he was cheating. When the student was wearing the Carnegie Mellon sweatshirt, his behavior signaled to his peers that it was OK to cheat — and their cheating increased. But when he was wearing the Pittsburgh sweatshirt, his dishonesty made cheating appear less acceptable, and it thus decreased. This applies to politicians as well: When a senator sees her fellow party members lying or misrepresenting the truth, it becomes the moral standard.
With all these forces combined, is it any wonder that politicians are deemed the most untrustworthy characters? Still, the question remains: Do politicians cheat more in their professional lives than the rest of us? Given their position of power, the easy justification that fibbing has an altruistic end, and the prevailing norm of dishonest behavior that is so commonplace in the halls of politics, I suspect that the answer is a resounding "yea."
But there's a wrinkle here that I feel compelled to admit. In that study in which folks on Wall Street cheated twice as much as those on Capitol Hill, we ran the experiment at bars in New York where bankers hang out and similar haunts in Washington. And anyone who has been to a happy hour on Capitol Hill knows these places are packed with bright-eyed, bushy-tailed young congressional staffers. Most probably haven't been on the job long enough to learn to lie yet. So maybe the bankers aren't so much worse after all.
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The impending crisis that is Windows XP and IE 8 by Troy Hunt
A good explanation of the litany of woes that comes from Internet Explorer 8 being the highest that users of Windows XP can upgrade to. It's a particularly woeful situation if you are a web developer attempting to provide parity. But there is hope on the horizon:
2013 will see the culmination of all these issues; support for IE 8 will drop of rapidly, users of XP will find an increasingly broken web, the cost of building software in XP organisations will increase.


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Alice B. Lyster
DeForest – Alice B. Lyster, age 97, the former Alice Belva Fry, passed away Sunday, January 6, 2013 at Amelia Manor Nursing Home in Lafayette.
Ms. Lyster was born on November 15, 1915 in Sextonville, WI to David and Lydia Carter Fry. Alice grew up in the small town of Sextonville, where her parents ran a small hotel. As a young girl, Alice helped her parents until she left home. One of her most memorable experiences during this time was a trip to Cuba with one of her girlfriends. She also worked at the Capitol Hotel on the Square and at the Wisconsin Dells.
She met Elmer during this time. They were married on November 15, 1941. Less than a month later while stationed in Bangor, Maine, war was declared. During this time Alice came back to Madison and worked at Prange's Department Store until Elmer's return after the war. They moved to Selma, Alabama and on Christmas Eve, they welcomed their twin baby girls, Judith and Joan. In the 50's Elmer was sent to Korea and Alice returned to Mineral Point, Wisconsin. Being in the Air Force, they moved frequently. Their third daughter, Carol, was born in Riverside, CA. Their last move was to Big Spring, TX, where Elmer retired. They lived there until Elmer's death on September 4, 1970.
Soon after his death, Alice moved back to Madison, WI where she joined the Lake Edge Lutheran Church and has been a member since 1971. She enjoyed her church activities, gardening, and visiting with her friends and family that lived in the area. In 2006, Alice decided on another move to be near her daughter, Carol, who lived near Lafayette, LA. She enjoyed the warm weather and made many friends. Alice loved life, God and her family. She always had a positive outlook and made friends wherever she lived. Alice loved Madison, WI and the people of Louisiana loved their "Ms. Alice". One of the most memorable things about Alice is her beautiful smile.
Survivors include three daughters, Joan Selby of Ocean City, NJ, Judith Pursell and husband, Paul, of Souderton, PA and Carol Sue Derouen and husband, Ronald, of Carencro; nine grandchildren, Christina Selby, Rebecca Selby, Robert Berry and wife, Cheryl, David Berry and wife, Theresa, Mark Berry and wife, Flurry, Cindy Stuhlman and husband, Chris, Juliana Derouen Francois and husband, Aaron, Lindsey Derouen Spence and husband, Elvis, and Garrett Derouen and wife, Tonya; eight great grandchildren, Aubrey and Alaina Francois, Jayden Spence, Erin and David Berry, Steven Berry, Kristen Berry Maciejewski and husband, Johnie, Heather Heacock, Zander Derouen (due March 13); and one great great grandchild, Bobbi Maciejewski.
She was preceded in death by two brothers, Grant Fry and Clifford Fry; two sisters, Grace Williams and Ella Reinke; and many nieces and nephews.
Funeral service will be held on Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at CHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH, 220 S. Main Street, DeForest, with Pastor Jerry A. Olson officiating. Visitation will be held from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Friday, January 11, 2013 at RYAN FUNERAL HOME, 6924 Lake Road, DeForest, and 10:00 a.m. until service time on Saturday at the church. Burial will follow at Norway Grove Church Cemetery, DeForest.
Memorial contributions in the name of Alice B. Lyster may be made to any of the following organizations: Lake Edge Lutheran Church, 4032 Monona Drive, Madison, WI 53716, (608) 222-7339; Christ Lutheran Church, 220 S. Main St., DeForest WI 53532, 608-846-4718; and St. Joseph Hospice, 1003 Hugh Wallis Rd. South, Lafayette, LA 70508, (337) 233-1131.
Ms. Alice's family wishes to extend their deepest appreciation for the tender loving care given by the staff at Amelia Manor Nursing Home in these last few weeks and to the staff of St. Joseph Hospice of Lafayette.
To view and sign this guestbook please visit www.ryanfuneralservice.com.


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Writer Ramin Zahed is back with his next dive behind the scenes of the latest animated films (including Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Missing Link, The Little Prince, and Klaus), this time exploring this year's CGI version of The Addams Family in The Addams Family: The Art of the Animated Movie. You might have thought you'd seen it all when it comes to the creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky (and ooky) family that became a classic to two generations, first as a 1960s television series and later as a 1990s movie series. What you might not have known was the Addams Family dates back to a New Yorker cartoon from the 1930s.
For the 2019 movie The Addams Family, co-directors Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan didn't want to make another version of the TV or film versions in animated form. So they went back to the source, creator Charles Addams. In interviews with executives and animators, Zahed explores the source material and concept artwork that inspired the new film. It turns out Charles Addams created character descriptions for each of the famous characters, Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Grandma, Thing, and It–it was these descriptions that the character designers used to guide the personality of the new animated version of the characters.
The Addams Family: The Art of the Animated Movie walks readers through each of the above characters, supporting character art designs, a portrait gallery from the mansion, props, vehicles, and setting locations, providing images of the designs artists went through before deciding on the final, with concept art, storyboards, and production art, and inspiration from Charles Addams' original cartoons. Contributors from the film include producers Gail Berman, Alison O'Brien, Alex Schwartz, and Danielle Sterling, character designer Craig Kellman, production designer Patricia Atchison, story lead Todd Demong, animation director Mike Linton, and animation creators Rav Grewal, Casey Kirkpatrick, Marie-Eve Kirkpatrick, Laura Brusseau, and Yiqun Chen.
The final chapter takes a detailed look at the creation of an entire scene from the film from idea to execution. Zahed also includes how the production came up with the voice styles and accents used by key voice actors Charlize Theron, Oscar Isaac, Chloe Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard, Nick Kroll, Snoop Dogg, and Bette Midler.
Artwork showcased in the book was created by film designers and artists Negar Ahmadi, Jake Collinge, Fran Delgado, Florian Fiebig, Nicole Garber, Alex Juhasz, Damien Labonte, Michelle Lannen, Jeannie Lee, Maisha Moore, Bastien Pourchier, Alfonzo Salazar, Chris Souza, James Tohill, Jack Yu, and others.
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Backed by 100 tech companies, the three largest memory makers announced the final specifications for three-dimensional DRAM, which is aimed at increasing performance for networking and high-performance computing markets.
Micron, Samsung and Hynix are leading the technology development efforts backed by the Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium (HMC). The technology, called a Hybrid Memory Cube, will stack multiple volatile memory dies on top of a DRAM controller.
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The DRAM is connected to the controller by way of the relatively new silicon VIA (Vertical Interconnect Access) technology, a method of passing an electrical wire vertically through a silicon wafer.
Mike Black, chief technology strategist for Micron's Hybrid Memory Cube team, said what the developers did was change the basic structure of DRAM.
"We took the logic portion of the DRAM functionality out of it and dropped that into the logic chip that sits at the base of that 3D stack," Black said. "That logic process allows us to take advantage of higher performance transistors ... to not only interact up through the DRAM on top of it, but in a high-performance, efficient manner across a channel to a host processor.
"So that logic layer serves both as the host interface connection as well as the memory controller for the DRAM sitting on top of it," he added.
The DRAM is broken into 16 partitions, each one with two I/O channels back to the controller. Each Hybrid Memory Cube -- there are two prototypes -- has either 128 or 256 memory banks available to the host system.
The first Hybrid Memory Cube specification will deliver 2GB and 4GB of capacity, providing aggregate bi-directional bandwidth of up to 160GBps compared with DDR3's 11GBps of aggregate bandwidth and DDR4, with 18GB to 20GB of aggregate bandwidth, Black said.
Jim Handy, director of research firm Objective Analysis, said the Hybrid Memory Cube technology solves some significant memory issues. Today's DRAM chips are burdened with having to drive circuit board traces or copper electrical connections, and the I/O pins of numerous other chips to force data down the bus at gigahertz speeds, which consumes a lot of energy.
The Hybrid Memory Cube technology reduces this task to make the DRAM drive only tiny TSVs which are connected to much lower loads over shorter distances," he said. A logic chip at the bottom is the only one burdened with driving the circuit board traces and the processor's I/O pins.
"The interface is 15 times as fast as standard DRAMs ... while reducing power by 70 percent," Handy said "Basically, the beauty of it is that it gets rid of all the issues that were keeping DDR3 and DDR4 from going as fast as they could."
For example, Handy said, instead of having multiple DIMMS (which can range from one to four) on a motherboard, you would need only one Hybrid Memory Cube, cutting down on the number of interfaces to the CPU.
The HMC has defined two physical interfaces back to a host system processor: a short reach and an ultra-short reach. The short reach is similar to most motherboard technologies today where the DRAM is within eight to 10 inches of the CPU. That technology is aimed mainly for use in network applications and has the goal of boosting throughput from as much as 15Gbps to 28Gbps per lane in a four-lane configuration.
"The first package we're going to launch commercially in the second half of this year is in a fairly large package because fundamentally the networking base doesn't want package pitch lower than 1 millimeter on the ball pitch for the bottom of the ball grid array," Black said. "So physically the logic chip and the DRAM die are in the 100 square-millimeter size sitting on a bigger package to accommodate the ball-out requirements for a short reach design in a networking platform."
The ultra short-reach interconnection definition is focused on a low energy, close-proximity memory design support of FPGAs, ASICs and ASSPs, such as high-performance networking, and test and measurement applications. That will have a one to three-inch channel back to the CPU, and it has the throughput goal of 15Gbps per lane.
"It's optimized at very low energy signaling for multi-chip modules," Black said. "That's where you'll see a very small package form factor where you're sub-300 micron ball pitch."
While 3D DRAM will cost more to make than its predecessor, Black pointed out that it would cost more to gain the aggregate bandwidth using standard DRAM modules.
"If you look at the total cost of offering a cube, versus trying to get to that kind of bandwidth with traditional DRAM technology, we can in many cases show the total system cost as being much better with Hybrid Memory Cube," he said.
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This recipe from Quick from Scratch Herbs & Spices Cookbook will definitely enter the rotation as an easy to make, fast weeknight dinner. Dill highlights both the salmon and the orzo salad here; this was a great combo!
Chris says:
Whoa, this is dill-icious.
Lisa says:
Oh no, not a pun night…
Chris says:
What's the dill-i-o? What's wrong with puns?
Lisa says:
Nothing; I'd just rather talk about this awesome salmon. Fresh off the grill and covered with lemon zest and dill… so good!
Chris says:
It is pretty yummy. I got a good dill on the salmon, too… it was on sale.
Lisa says:
Really? … The puns?
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Can't han-dill it?
Lisa says:
Oh. My. God.
Chris says:
I can do this un-dill the cows come home.
Lisa says:
Oh, dill-ightful.
Grilled Salmon with Orzo Salad
1 cucumber, peeled, halved, seeded, and cut into 1/2″ dice
4 plum tomatoes, cut into 1/2″ dice
1 tsp salt
1/2 lb orzo
1/3 cup plus 1 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp plus 1 tsp lemon juice
1/3 cup plus 1 tbsp chopped fresh dill
Freshly ground black pepper
1 1/2 lbs salmon fillet, about 1″ thick, cut into 4 pieces
Grated zest of 1/2 lemon
In a strainer set over a medium bowl, toss the cucumber, tomatoes, and 1/2 teaspoon of the salt and let drain for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, in a large pot of boiling, salted water, cook the orzo until just done, about 12 minutes. Drain, rinse with cold water and drain thoroughly. Toss the orzo with the 1/3 cup oil, the lemon juice, the 1/3 cup dill, 1/4 teaspoon of the salt, and 1/8 teaspoon pepper.
Light the grill. Coat the salmon with the 1 tablespoon oil, the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Grill the salmon, skin-side up, for 4 minutes. Turn and sprinkle with the 1 tablespoon dill and the lemon zest. Cook the fish until golden brown and just barely done (the fish should still be translucent in the center), about 3 minutes longer. Serve the fish on the salad.
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Before she became one of the most important African-American authors, orators and civil rights activists of the 20th century, Maya Angelou broke barriers working as San Francisco's first female black street car conductor.
Angelou -- who died Wednesday in Winston-Salem, North Carolina at age 86 -- started the job when she was just 16 years old.
Her mother, Vivian Baxter, encouraged her to pursue the position in the 1940s, Angelou told her dear friend, Oprah Winfrey, in a May 2013 "Super Soul Sunday" interview. Her mom told her that if she wanted her "dream job," she would need to arrive earlier than the secretaries and work harder than anyone else. Angelou wanted the job so badly, adding: "I loved the uniforms."
- Photos: Maya Angelou's Life And Times
"I saw women on the street cars with their little changer belts... And they had caps with bills on them and they had form-fitting jackets," Angelou recalled.
She got the job. Her route, she said, ran from the beach to the Ferry Building.
Angelou also wrote about her street car experiences in a book, "Mom & Me & Mom ," one of seven autobiographies penned by the prolific author, who also wrote three books of essays, several compilations of poetry, plays, movies and TV shows. In her most famed book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou described standing on the black platform of a 7-Haight streetcar collecting nickels from passengers.
According to Market Street Railway, which employed Angelou, there is evidence to suggest a few black street car operators were hired before her, but she was the first female African-American conductor.Memorial to Maya Angelou at the San Francisco Railway Museum.
This year, she received a lifetime-achievement award from the Washington, D.C.-based Conference of Minority Transportation Officials during a program celebrating "Women Who Move the Nation." She was asked to be the keynote speaker in March. But in a phone interview Wednesday, spokesman Bill Carney said that she canceled the day before because of health reasons, and Jesse Jackson stepped in to replace her.
But most don't know about Angelou's street car experience. What the world remembers about Angelou are the words she spoke and wrote.
In her vast body of work, Angelou became a leading voice for the African-American community, and has been long regarded as an American civil rights leader.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1928, Angelou later moved to Oakland, California, where a sculpture is dedicated to her at a park near the Fox Theater. During World War II, she studied dance and drama on a scholarship at the California Labor School in San Francisco.
Glide Memorial Church Co-Founder Rev. Cecil Williams told NBC Bay Area on Wednesday that he met Angelou - whom he called "sister" - at a party he hosted at his San Francisco home 40 years ago. "She was so inclusive, a great activist, a sage, and a creator of song and dance," Williams said, rattling off a list of wonderful attributes. "She did so much to bring people together. She was just one of the most human persons I have ever met."
Angelou spoke at Williams' church more than 100 times. Since she was ill in December, one of those times was speaking by video to honor Glide's 50th holiday festival to pay tribute to Williams and his wife, Janice Mirikitani, also a poet. Williams also officiated at Angelou's three weddings - and even held one "divorce ceremony" for her, he said.
Maya Angelou at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco. Undated.
When Williams found out about his friend's death, he said he was "so moved, I just had to break down for a short time."
Though he met Angelou much later in life, he does remember her telling him about her driving a street car.
"Yes," Williams said. "We had a laugh about that."
NBC Bay Area's Christie Smith and Shelby Hansen contributed to this report.


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TORONTO, March 9 (UPI) -- James Neal and Sidney Crosby each nailed shootout goals Saturday, propelling the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 5-4 win over Toronto.
Neal beat Toronto's James Reimer in the first round of the tiebreaker, and after Marc-Andre Fleury stopped Nazem Kadri, Crosby sealed the victory with another Penguins tally.
Neal and Crosby also scored in regulation, as did Beau Bennett and Pascal Dupuis as Pittsburgh notched its fourth straight win.
Fleury finished with 22 saves for the Penguins, who improved to 11-4-0 on the road.
The Maple Leafs dropped their second straight despite a goal and two assists from Phil Kessel.
Cody Franson, Clarke MacArthur and James van Riemsdyk also scored and Reimer ended with 37 stops.
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Last summer, the Economist published a letter from hawkish Arizona Senator John Kyl (currently neck deep in the springtime of his state's immigrant shame). Cole Harvey of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies reports that Kyl wrote: "Every nuclear weapons power — with the exception of the US — is currently modernising its nuclear weapons and weapons delivery systems…Yet the US continues to permit its nuclear forces to atrophy and decline."
Harvey continued [emphasis added]: "Later in 2009, all 40 Republican senators at the time. … wrote that the further reductions in the U.S. nuclear arsenal would be acceptable only if accompanied by…'funding for a modern warhead…involving replacement, or possibly, component reuse.'" Since President Obama would need some of their votes to ratify the new START treaty, an increase in nuclear funding for the administration's proposed 2011 budget was apparently perceived as necessary. [See below for how much. — RW]
Meanwhile, what's italicized above provides a glimpse into how confusing the concept of nuclear modernization can be, as well as the degree to which it can be manipulated. According to an Arms Control Association (ACA) Fact Sheet, "This distinction between 'rebuilt' and 'new' has led some to reach the mistaken conclusion that the U.S. strategic weapon systems are not being 'modernized.' …These systems are in many cases being completely rebuilt with essentially all new parts, although they are not technically 'new' systems."
The questions this raises might be familiar to those who restore classic cars. At what point does the identity of the car on which you're working run the risk of being lost and metamorphosing into a new one? For example, can the power train be replaced?
The author is scarcely equipped to answer that question. Still, it might prove helpful to acquaint ourselves with these three nuclear programs: Stockpile Stewardship, the Reliable Replacement Warhead, and Life Extension. You're right to be suspicious if they sound a little too reassuring — "stewardship, "reliable," "life extension."
The Stockpile Stewardship Program, reports the ACA, "monitors weapons for signs of aging . . . conducts computer simulations [to verify they'll still detonate] . . . replaces aging components of weapons [and] adheres as closely as possible to the original design specifications of tested weapons."
Life Extension (LEP), Harvey writes, is the program in which, "Weapon refurbishment is carried out . . . for individual systems." For example LEP for one warhead is expected to extend its "life" [the span of time it's capable of dealing death, that is — RW] for 30 years. The process includes "refurbishing the nuclear explosive package, the arming, firing, and fusing system . . . associated cables . . . valves, pads." You know — the same way they keep airplanes flying for 50 years.
When it comes to the Reliable Replacement Warhead, though, Harvey explains: "Rather than rely exclusively on long-term life extension for existing warheads, the program called for the design and production of a new nuclear warhead" though "without the resumption of underground testing."
In a show of rare good sense, Congress terminated that program. But the current senior White House coordinator for WMD counterterrorism and arms control, Gary Samore, was recently quoted by Martin Matishak at GSN: "From what I understand … refurbishment and reuse will be perfectly fine for the foreseeable future. But if I'm wrong, and replacement becomes necessary, the president has the option to do that." Matishak continues: "The approach to renovation of each warhead type will be determined [as it] comes up for its periodic overhaul, and will be 'consistent with the congressionally mandated Stockpile Management Program,' according to" the new Nuclear Posture Review.
Wait a minute — Stockpile Management Program? What's the difference between that and the Stockpile Stewardship Program?
According to Matishak, the former replaced the Reliable Replacement Warhead program. "The stockpile management program [enables] modernizing the U.S. nuclear stockpile along a spectrum of options ranging from…refurbishment to the manufacture of 'new' weapons. [But any new design should] adhere to well known designs and components, and be undertaken only in support of further reductions in the stockpile and the continued moratorium on nuclear tests. [Emphasis added.] In other words, we're supposedly pursuing these programs to advance our progress on the path to disarmament. But, for 2011, "the Obama administration is requesting $7 billion, a 10 percent increase, in funding for weapons activities in the…National Nuclear Security Administration."
Besides the Life Extension Program, this money would help fund, among other things:
[L]arge increases for the. . . plutonium facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory, N.M., which would see its budget increased from $97 million [in 2010] to $225 million in [2011] … complete rebuilds of the Minuteman III ICBM and Trident II [submarine]. … Additionally, a new submarine, the SSBN-X, is undergoing development in an effort that is expected to cost $85 billion. The B-2 strategic bomber, a relatively new system, is being upgraded, as is the B-52H bomber.
Disarmament in Name Only
You can be forgiven for wondering if these programs don't cancel out the token reductions in the START treaty and then some. In fact, it's hard to deny that START and the Nuclear Posture Review give every appearance of functioning as covers for the perpetuation of what's been called the nuclear-industrial complex. As disarmament authors Darwin Bond-Graham, Nicholas Robinson, and Will Parrish made abundantly clear at ZComm:
Rather than allowing a neat policy process carried out at the executive level to determine the future of the nuclear weapons complex, forces with financial . . . stakes in nuclear weaponry, working through think tanks like [the Hoover Institute], or corporate entities like Bechtel and the University of California [which together manage Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore nuclear weapons laboratories], are actively attempting to lock in a de-facto set of policies by building a new research, design, and production infrastructure that will ensure nuclear weapons are a centerpiece of the US military empire far into the future. [Emphasis added.]
This is exemplified by the "Four Horsemen," as Henry Kissinger, former Senator Sam Nunn, former Secretary of Defense William Perry (now a senior fellow at Hoover), George Schultz (president of Bechtel for eight years before he became Secretary of State; also now a senior fellow at Hoover) became known after they wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal in 2008 calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons. They solidified their position — newfound for Kissinger and Perry — with another such WSJ piece a year later.
Their third op-ed in the series, though, published earlier this year, was titled "How to Protect Our Nuclear Deterrent." The phrase "nuclear deterrent" is a tell that its user seeks to keep disarmament relegated to the slow lane, if not stalled out on the shoulder of the road. As the ZComm trio cited above (as opposed to the Four Horsemen…the Three Musketeers?) explained: "The Four Horsemen endorse the view…that 'investments are urgently needed…in the laboratories' budgets for the science, technology, and engineering programs that support and underwrite the nation's nuclear deterrent.'"
In fact, the three maintained: "With their direct links to the corporations that manage the weapons labs…the Four Horsemen are the chief negotiators working through public forums to limit the extent of arms control treaties and extract the biggest pro-nuclear lab concessions." The Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, they wrote, "have long been known as powerful bulwarks against international treaties that limit nuclear arms development."
In other words, "statements of politicians and elder statesmen about a world free of nuclear weapons…has served to fix the attention of disarmament and antiwar activists on 'policy making,' which has 'blinded them to the political deal-making process at hand.'"
Or as disarmament sage Jonathan Schell, less than thrilled by the new START, wrote in the Nation:
If this trend continues, it is entirely possible that the ultimate mockery will occur: nuclear arsenals will march forward into the future under a banner that reads Ban the Bomb.
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People who spend more than six hours in front of the television every day are at greater risk of dying, a new study reveals.
Even two hours of television a day has a marked effect on health, according to a Harvard study. It can cause premature death or, at least, lead to diabetes and heart disease.
But using the internet does NOT cause death, diabetes or disease.
Every day, U.S. residents spend an average of 5 hours watching television, while Australians and some Europeans log 3.5 to 4 hours a day, said researchers led by Frank Hu, at the Harvard School of Public Health.
The study found that people who watch Jersey Shore, American Idol or reruns of Cheers were the most likely to die from watching television. If you watch The View – you have a greater chance of having a bowel disorder.
Dr Iain Frame, said the findings should be a wake-up call about the risk of leading a sedentary television lifestyle. He said evidence suggests physical activity can reduce the risk of type-2 diabetes and heart disease by over 60%.
Maureen Talbot, of the British Heart Foundation, said: "I'm sure we've all unintentionally lost evenings slumped on the sofa in front of the TV snacking on crisps and biscuits and drinking sugary drinks or alcohol. But it's important that this doesn't become a regular activity, according to BBC News.
The study was confirmed by a similar study at the Diabetes Institute in Australia.
The human body evolved to move, not sit still for extended periods of time, says David Dunstan, PhD, lead author of the study and head of the Physical Activity Laboratory. So sitting in front of a TV or a computer screen for too long poses serious risks to health, and to life, the researchers say.
"What has happened is that a lot of the normal activities of daily living that involved standing up and moving the muscles in the body have been converted to sitting," Dunstan says in a news release. "Technological, social, and economic changes mean that people don't move their muscles as much as they used to — consequently the levels of energy expenditure as people go about their lives continue to shrink. For many people, on a daily basis, they simply shift from one chair to another, from the chair in the car to the chair in the office to the chair in front of the television."
Dunstan and his team of researchers looked at 3,846 men and 4,954 women ages 25 and older to find out what happens to people who sit too much. They were asked about their TV viewing habits and were grouped into one of three categories: people who watched less than two hours of TV daily, those who watched between two and four hours of television daily, and those who spent more than four hours in front of the tube.
The researchers excluded people with a history of cardiovascular disease, and the entire group was then followed for more than six years. During the study period, 284 of the people died, 125 from cancer and 87 because of cardiovascular disease.
Dunstan and his colleagues write that the link between cancer and TV viewing was only modest, but that there was a direct association between television time and elevated cardiovascular death, as well as death from all causes. This was true, they say, even after accounting for typical cardiovascular disease risk factors and other lifestyle practices.
People who spend more than six hours in front of the television every day are at greater risk of dying, a new study reveals.


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[262 U.S. 151, 152] Messrs. W. M. K. Olcott and A. A. Silberberg, both of New York City, for plaintiffs in error and appellants.
Messrs. Solicitor General Beck, of Washington, D. C., C. H. Byrnes, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Francis A. McGurk, of New York City, for the United States.
Mr. Chief Justice TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.
These are appeals and writs of error to review the action of the District Court in denying petitions of the two companies, the Essgee Company of China and the Hanclaire Trading Corporation, praying that the books and papers produced by an officer of the two companies, in response to a duces tecum issued to them by order of the federal grand jury, be returned to the petitioners, on the ground that the process issued and the detention of the books by the government were and are in violation of their rights under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the federal Constitution.
Both appeals and writs of error were allowed in these case . This was unnecessary. The review sought is of an order of the District Court in a special proceeding in [262 U.S. 151, 153] which no jury can intervene. It likens itself in its appellate character to a review of cases in equity or in admiralty or of an order upon a writ of habeas corpus in which issues of facts are triable to the court, and in which the review may properly involve a re-examination by the reviewing court of the whole record and of the findings of the court upon both the law and the evidence therein. Since the passage of the Act of September 6, 1916, entitled an act to amend the Judicial Code (39 Stat. 726, c. 448, 4 [Comp. St. 1649a]), which provides that no court having power to review a judgment or decree passed by another shall dismiss a writ of error solely because an appeal should have been taken, or dismiss an appeal because a writ should have been sued out, but that when such mistake of error occurs, it shall disregard the same and take the action which would be appropriate if the proper appellate procedure had been followed, the distinction is not important from the standpoint of the jurisdiction of this court. In the interest, however, of orderly procedure, economy in time of both courts, and in the making up and printing of the record, counsel should make every effort to select the proper procedure in review and not duplicate methods out of an abundant caution which the act of 1916 makes unnecessary.
The Hanclaire Trading Corporation and the Essgee Company of China were organized under the laws of New York and were doing an importing business in New York City. Schratter was an officer in both companies and Kramer was an officer of one and attorney for both. The federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York was investigating charges of frauds in importations by these two companies whose interests and transactions were intermingled. On October 14, 1921, a subpoena duces tecum was served upon each of the corporations by personal service upon Schratter as a chief officer thereof. Schratter then directed Kramer to gather together the [262 U.S. 151, 154] books and papers called for and produce them at the federal court house. The subpoena was served by the United States marshal for the District. He was accompanied by three other government officials, who, it was charged, without authority examined and took away to the court house other books and papers not included in the list set forth in the duces tecum. This incident was made an issue in the affidavits; but it is evident from reading the record and the admission of counsel that we are not concerned with any such records and papers, but only with those which were produced by Kramer for the two companies in response to the duces tecum. Schratter in his affidavit and petition claims that under the subpoena some papers belonging to him individually were taken, but an examination of the list of records and papers produced, shows that the only personal paper produced by Kramer was the personal tax return of Schratter, which he does not assert was in any way relevant to the charges, or in any degree incriminating as to him. Kramer and Schratter brought the records and papers called for by the subpoena to a room in the court house and deposited them on a table where the district attorney found them and took charge of them. Neither Schratter nor Kramer was then called before the grand jury, but they were both at once arrested upon warrants for violation of the importing laws. They testified that they did not see the district attorney when he took the records and papers and that Kramer demanded a return of them and protested against their detention. Evidence to the contrary is offered by the government witnesses, cut we do not regard the issue as material.
The next day, October 15, 1921, Schratter appeared before Judge Knox and applied for permission to go abroad in order to attend to business of vital personal importance. Schratter remained abroad until June, 1922, and on the 9th of that month appeared to plead to an indictment [262 U.S. 151, 155] which had in the meantime been found against the two corporations and himself. Meantime, Kramer, after much solicitation on his part, was given an opportunity to testify to the grand jury and to present to them other records and papers which he voluntarily produced. He was not indicted. After Schratter's return and Kramer's escape from indictment, the two corporations and Schratter filed the petition, denial of which by the District Court is now before us for review.
The books and papers brought before the grand jury and the court in this case were the books, records and papers of corporations of the state of New York. Such corporations do not enjoy the same immunity that individuals have, under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, from being compelled by due and lawful process to produce them for examination by the state or Federal Government. Referring to the books and papers of a corporation, Mr. Justice Hughes speaking for this court in Wilson v. United States, 221 U.S. 361, 382 , 31 S. Sup. Ct. 538, 545 (55 L. Ed. 771, Ann. Cas. 1912D, 558), said:
Hale v. Henkel, 201 U.S. 43 , 26 Sup. Ct. 370, and Wheeler v. United States, 226 U.S. 478 , 33 Sup. Ct. 158, are to the same point.
Counsel for appellants rely upon Silverthorne Lumber Co., Inc., v. United States, 251 U.S. 385 , 40 Sup. Ct. 182, but it has no application to the case before us. The Silverthorne Case was a writ of error to reverse a judgment for contempt against a corporation for refusal to obey an order of the court to produce books and documents of the company to be used to show violation of law by the officers of the company. This court found that without a shadow of authority and under color of an invalid writ, the marshal and other government officers had made a clean sweep of all the books, papers and documents in the office of the company while its officers were under arrest. These documents were copied and photographed and then the court ordered their return to the company. A subpoena was then issued to compel the production of the originals. The company refused to obey the subpoena. The court made an order requiring obedience and refusal to obey the order was the contempt alleged. This court held that the government could not, while in form repudiating the illegal seizure, maintain its right to avail itself of the knowledge obtained by that means which otherwise it would not have had. In other words, we held that the search thus made was an unreasonable one against which the corporation was protected by the Fourth Amendment and which vitiated all the subsequent proceedings to compel production. There was nothing inconsistent with the Wilson Case in this ruling for, as we have seen in the passage quoted from the opinion in that case, a corporation can only be compelled to produce its records against itself by the demand of the government expressed in lawful process, confining i requirements within limits which reason imposes in the circumstances of the case. It is to submit its books and [262 U.S. 151, 157] papers only to 'duly constituted authority when demand is suitably made.' In the case before us the demand was suitably made by duly constituted authority. In the Silverthorne Case it was not. Here it was expressed in lawful process, confining its requirements to certain described documents and papers easily distinguished and clearly described. Their relevancy to the subject of investigation was not denied. As said in the Wilson Case ( 221 U.S. 376 , 31 Sup. Ct. 542, Ann. Cas. 1912D, 558):
Objection is made that neither Kramer nor Schratter was called before the grand jury when they produced the books and papers in response to the duces tecum. That was not necessary. The subpoena only summoned the corporations to appear and produce the named documents and papers. There was no real ad testificandum clause in the subpoena because a corporation could not testify. It was expressly ruled in the Wilson Case, that the failure to put officers of the corporation on the stand in such a case did not in any way invalidate or destroy the lawful effect of the duces tecum.
Kramer says that he protested against the retention of the documents he had produced at the time because he was not called before the grand jury. At his own solicitation he was thereafter called before that body and testified and voluntarily produced other documents and papers, and never renewed his demand for the documents produced under subpoena until after the grand jury ignored the charge against him some eight months later. Schratter, against the opposition of the district attorney, but with the consent of the court absented himself from the country for eight months and took no steps in respect to the produced documents and papers. Judge Knox [262 U.S. 151, 158] held that such conduct constituted a waiver of any irregularities in not calling these witnesses before the grand jury when the documents and papers were produced. If a waiver were needed, as we do not think it was under the Wilson Case, this clearly would have been sufficient.
Schratter joined with each corporation in asking a return of the documents and papers of that corporation on the ground that they might incriminate him. But the cases of Hale v. Henkel, 201 U.S. 43 , 26 Sup. Ct. 370; Wilson v. United States, 221 U.S. 361 , 31 Sup. Ct. 538, Ann. Cas. 1912D, 558, and Wheeler v. United States, 226 U.S. 478 , 33 Sup. Ct. 158, show clearly that an officer of a corporation in whose custody are its books and papers is given no right to object to the production of the corporate records because they may disclose his guilt. He does not hold them in his private capacity and is not, therefore, protected against their production or against a writ requiring him as agent of the corporation to produce them.
Appellants cite the cases of Boyd v. The United States, 116 U.S. 616 , 6 Sup. Ct. 524; Weeks v. United States, 232 U.S. 383 , 34 Sup. Ct. 341, L. R. A. 1915B, 834, Ann. Cas. 1915C, 1177, and Gouled v. United States, 255 U.S. 298 , 41 Sup. Ct. 261, to support their contention that the proceedings complained of herein violate their rights under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. Those cases were all unreasonable searches of documents and records belonging to individuals. The distinction between the cases before us and those cases lies in the more limited application of the amendments to the compulsory production of corporate documents and papers as shown in the Henkel, Wilson, and Wheeler Cases.
The order of the District Court is affirmed.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
This was the early beginnings of it.
It is also their go to place when they need to hide from the vacuum cleaner.
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THE number one reason I got a platform bed with no underneath. When my Scarlett was a kitten, she did that to my bed and hid everything and anything in there. Went two weeks without my glasses because she hid them!ReplyDelete
Wowww! Kittys burrowing...ReplyDelete
- BioSonataMarch 20, 2012 at 8:27 PM
Yaaaa my cats to but then they started trying to pee under there so I just filled up under my bed with a ton of shoe boxes. So no more kitty playground. :/ReplyDelete
I made a long board out of 2 plywood boards secured together w/ a piece that looks like a hinge since 1 wasn't enough. Then I put that between the frame and the bed to help with support. That could also be a relatively inexpensive solution to that problem, too.ReplyDelete
Mine do this with a chair in the living room...you can be sitting there for hours, reading a good book, and out of nowhere the seat comes alive and starts attacking your feet :/ReplyDelete
Mine was torn out sooo long ago lol but I have 3 that hide and one that chases the vacuum.ReplyDelete
Ack! Now I have to go check. They did it to my sofa chair, but I didn't even think about the box spring!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2012 at 8:39 PM
Oh my gosh! my cats are doing this right now!!! At 5AM!!!ReplyDelete
This happens all the time!! bed, sofa, chairs.. sometimes the noise is scary! but having my Cleo compensate everythingReplyDelete
i absolutely love your drawings!! my boyfriend's kitties are just like yours and i get a kick out of showing him these. thanks :)ReplyDelete
Our dog started doing this too. Cat was clearly a bad influence. They did it to both of our couches as well. Brats. <3ReplyDelete
The bottom of my couch look exactly like that. My cat Miso is getting too big to go under but he'll still try as hard as he can to squeeze through.ReplyDelete
That looks like our last bed - the humans got a new one eventually.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2012 at 9:35 PM
I'm so relieved that I'm not the only person this happens to.ReplyDelete
Why do people have box springs? Is there something there I'm missing?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2012 at 10:55 PM
I like when cats do their upside-down running under the bed.ReplyDelete
My kitty also does this to our bed :( We ended up having to remove the material part as it was just making it more fun for him and less fun for us.ReplyDelete
Silly spelunking kitties!
- AnonymousMarch 21, 2012 at 1:04 AM
My cats did this to my lounge. I was worried about sitting on them and hurting them, so i sealed it up with strong fabric and staples. They are now trying to dig a hole through the armsReplyDelete
Haha, aw! Mine mostly demolishes chair or tables. She's pretty mellow though;)ReplyDelete
EVERYTHING is a cat tree.ReplyDelete
Our couch looks just like your bed! ;-)ReplyDelete
My cat only liked to tear the material. Climbing in the boxspring was boring. Better to go out the window and on the roof.ReplyDelete
Ahah one of mine did the same under the sofaReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 21, 2012 at 8:10 AM
I remember getting my first room, all to myself when I was five years old, and not long after there was a hole, and later holes, for the kitties to hide in. I learned quickly as cute, cuddly and fluffy cats are, to close my bedroom at all times.ReplyDelete
First mattress -- shredded. Second bed...bottom drawers with no access, haHA - outsmarted! Then we found the futon...ReplyDelete
One of my cats did this to a chair and hid out from a house sitter for over a week.ReplyDelete
My male cat is notorious for doing this just about every night around 2AM. I've tried closing my bedroom door to him, but he still scratches at the carpet and door frame. I think a platform bed is the next step to go.ReplyDelete
Another platform bed afficionado here, and the sofa is low and leather. Also, the entire house is fully outfitted with a plethora of cat furnishings, scratching pads, scratching posts, and toys, so the general-purpose furniture stays nice. :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 21, 2012 at 1:36 PM
My cat almost died in there last weekend... got a string stuck around her neck, then freaked out, hid in the box spring, and the string got tangled up in there. Thank god we were home to rescue her. :(ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 21, 2012 at 3:28 PM
this totally happened to me too! i couldnt sleep cause there was a kitten running around in my box spring. i had to get a new one.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2012 at 12:10 AM
I get an extra fitted sheet and put it on the box spring so that it covers the thin fabric stuff. No more kitty playground.ReplyDelete
i might just try that fitted sheet idea...ReplyDelete
A couple I know has a blowdrier under the bed. In the middle of the night, if the cats do what they're doing on the comic, they plug the blowdrier for one or two seconds and the cats are already as far as possible.ReplyDelete
No!!! Ha ha ha!!! It really happened to me. Especially in winter time. My male cat play with himself, running here and there, all alone. Do your kitties do the same? Sometimes I think he has an invisible friend, or that he is under the devil powers, ha ha!ReplyDelete
I just found your blog and love it! Great, funny 'toons.ReplyDelete
Good. I thought my cats were the only ones who did this!ReplyDelete
Haha I didn't realise cats can be so cheeky!ReplyDelete
This same thing happened with my cat. Once my fiancee and I removed all the fabric under the box spring, he got bored. Next bed is going to be a platform bed.ReplyDelete
His new hobby is throwing himself at the window when a bird flies by our third floor apartment window. He never climbed curtains before until just this morning (he's 3 years old).
I like to think of this as "Kitty Narnia". my cat disappears for hours under my bed.ReplyDelete
My cats did that to our first sofa!! So annoying!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 5, 2012 at 10:02 AM
My first cat burrowed under the mattress as a kitten, and one day, when she was older, after a bath she went into the mattress again and strangled herself to death. I will never let another cat of mine burrow into furniture again.ReplyDelete
When my cat had kittens, she brought them under my bed on the fabric to live. I would take them out at night and play with them =)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 8, 2012 at 11:41 PM
holy crap, i thought my kittys were the only ones that did this.ReplyDelete
OMG. I have had two different cats who have done this. It's not just me!!!ReplyDelete
LOL! It's so true!!! My black cat started doing it randomly a few years ago and now the rest of the cats use that space to hide whenever I have a party. So ridiculous :PReplyDelete
That's my cat Jill, it's also her place to hide. It's the crawl space for cats!ReplyDelete
This is SO true blood!!!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 10, 2013 at 2:08 PM
A vinyl box springs cover takes care of this. It's pretty inexpensive ($8-20), and keeps in/out bedbugs and dustmites, too.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 5, 2015 at 8:03 AM
Kitty is harmful for Bed,ReplyDelete
dangerous cats torn bed =)