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Jens C Brynildsen / Flash Magazine:
FLASH FOR THE IPHONE CONFIRMED AT FOTB — At the Flash On The Beach (FOTB) conference in Brighton, Sr. Director of Engineering at Adobe Systems Paul Betlem, confirmed that Adobe is indeed developing a Flash Player for the iPhone. However, Apple calls the shots as to when it'll be available.
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Adobe Flash player for iPhone due 'soon' if Apple approves — Adobe is nearly done with a version of its Flash Player for the iPhone that could be released 'in a very short time' if it passes Apple's App Store screening process, an Adobe official said this week.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Flash Seems To Be Coming To The iPhone. But Is That A Good Thing? — When the iPhone was first released, there was an abundance of speculation over whether the phone's lack of Flash support would cripple its browser and give us something less than "the real web" that Apple had promised.
Devin Leonard / Fortune:
Apple's digital music showdown — A ruling this week could force online music sellers to pay publishers more money - as an Apple threat to close iTunes looms. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — For five years, Apple's iTunes Music Store has been the Internet's most successful music store.
AppleInsider, MacRumors, WebProNews, TECH.BLORGE.com, Podcasting News, The Apple Blog, MacBlogz and Macsimum News
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Could a digital music royalty price hike force iTunes into subscriptions?
Could a digital music royalty price hike force iTunes into subscriptions?
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Stock Falls $200 As Market Closes — Apparently more than a few traders had heart palpitations today. As the market closed, Google's share price appeared to fall apart, falling to $200 from an opening price of $396. At least that's what the Nasdaq ticker showed.
Nasdaq probing possibly "erroneous" Google trades — NEW YORK (Reuters) - The operator of the Nasdaq Stock Market said it was investigating "potentially erroneous transactions" involving shares of Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), which appeared to plunge as low …
The Official Google Blog:
Your YouTube video: Hot or Not? — YouTube Insight has helped millions of you learn more about your YouTube videos and figure out when, where, and why your videos are popular. But what if you could learn not just which of your videos are hot on the site, but which specific parts of those videos are hotter than others?
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
YouTube Hot Spots Shows Publishers When Their Viewers Jump Ship
YouTube Hot Spots Shows Publishers When Their Viewers Jump Ship
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Ballmer sees global crisis hitting Microsoft — OSLO (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O) Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday the global financial crisis will sap consumer and business spending, affecting all companies, including his own. — "Financial issues are going to affect …
Digital Daily, Silicon Valley Watcher, ZDNet Government, Technologizer, VentureBeat, Tom Foremski: IMHO, CNET News and Portfolio
David Chartier / Infinite Loop:
AOL releases AIM for Mac 1.0 beta; world asks, "why?" — AOL hasn't really been a household name on the Mac for quite a while. Since the ISP-cum-media-company's Mac download section began collecting dust long ago, Apple took up the task of building its own (great) AIM client that became …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
The survey that squashed Apple — When RBC Capital analyst Mike Abramsky downgraded his Apple rating on Monday — helping spark the sharpest selloff in the company's shares in eight years — he cited a survey that RBC conducted with ChangeWave that suggested that sales of Apple's hot-selling computers were cooling off.
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch:
SocialText 3.0 blends Facebook, Twitter, and the Enterprise — SocialText 3.0 is (or will be in the near term) an enterprise mashup of Facebook, FriendFeed, enterprise microblogging, and the wiki. If you were to take any one of these constituencies - social networking, conversation aggregation …
Ross Mayfield / Ross Mayfield's Weblog:
Hello Socialtext 3.0! — This morning Socialtext launched Socialtext 3 …
Hello Socialtext 3.0! — This morning Socialtext launched Socialtext 3 …
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Andrew Wallenstein / Hollywood Reporter:
Superhero support available at Dell — 'Iron Man' can be preloaded on newly purchased PCs — PC manufacturer Dell and Paramount Pictures are opening a new front in digital distribution Tuesday with an offering allowing consumers to order "Iron Man" preloaded into newly purchased computers.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
GigaOM White Paper: The Facts & Fiction of Bandwidth Caps — Beginning on Wednesday, Comcast, the largest broadband service provider in the U.S., is going to start capping the total amount of data you can transfer using their broadband connection — to 250GB per month.
Don Reisinger / TechCrunch:
RealNetworks Files Suit Against Hollywood Over RealDVD — RealDVD hasn't even been available for more than an hour and already Hollywood studios are upset about the ramifications it could have on the industry. — According to a statement released by RealNetworks, it has filed suit …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
MPAA to request injunction against RealDVD
MPAA to request injunction against RealDVD
Techdirt, Technologizer, Crave, NewTeeVee, PR Newswire, InformationWeek, Portfolio and Beet.TV
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
The State of iPhone Satisfaction — The agony (occasionally) and ecstacy (frequently) of using an iPhone, as reported by 2150+ respondents to our exclusive survey. — It's one of the most popular phones in history. It's also one of the most controversial.
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
AMD says new 'Shanghai' chip is ready to go — AMD said Monday it is set to roll out its next-generation "Shanghai" chip—minus the mistakes of the last generation. — The No. 2 processor maker wants to make one thing crystal clear: Shanghai is not Barcelona.
Royal Pingdom:
Facebook set to overtake MySpace in the US within a month — Facebook passed MySpace in worldwide traffic a while ago, but MySpace has kept dominating the US market. Well, it looks like that is about to change really soon. — Within a month (or two at the most), if the current trend holds …
Spiegel Online:
German Towns Saying 'Nein' to Google 'Street View' — Google's corporate slogan might be "don't be evil," but some communities in northwestern Germany see something nefarious in the company's photographing all their streets and houses. If they get their way, they will remain black holes in Google's ambitious mapping of the universe.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Why Stallman is wrong when he calls cloud computing stupid — Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman spent yesterday condemning cloud computing and is calling for users to reject popular web applications. He insists that reliance on web-based software poses a serious risk to freedom and privacy.
The Open Road, rand($thoughts);, webmonkey, Xconomy, BroadDev, Cult of Mac, CloudAve and autonomo.us
Dell bows new-look S1909WX, S1709W LCDs — Dell brought the newer, rounded designs of its larger displays to the entry level on Tuesday by introducing the 19-inch S1909WX and the 17-inch S1709W. In contrast to the 16:9 ratio S2409W, the new LCDs use a more traditional 16:10 …
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The view from Silicon Valley — While Wall Street writhes in agony, how are things in the land of tech? Well, maybe not business as usual. But there are certainly worse places to be. — (Fortune Magazine) — The heads-down, can-do entrepreneurs, and libertarian-minded financiers …
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Microsoft's Hotmail hybrid struggles to life — 'Classic' meets 'full,' fails to show — The long-awaited merger of Microsoft "classic" and "full" Hotmail services has got off to spotty and painful start. — Hotmail users are complaining of confusing layouts and cumbersome features …
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple executives awarded $122 million in stock grants — Apple last week granted more than $122 million in restricted stock-based compensation to members of its executive team for their current and future efforts in driving the company's success, regulatory filings with Securities and Exchange Commission show.
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"Last Mile" applications — Ray Wang, one of the analysts at Forrester I respect because he speaks his mind on the over-priced maintenance of large software vendors, writes at Sandhill.com about growing ISV ecosystems around the major vendors — "Consequently, major software vendors like IBM …
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Sheaf theory is a subfield of topology that generalizes the notion of gluing continuous functions together and specializes in describing objects by their local data on open sets. Above all, it's a tool, usable to define connectedness, manifolds, the fundamental group, and several other concepts in algebraic topology and differential geometry.
Its history may be more interesting than the subject itself: the French topologist Jean Leray developed it in the oodles of free time he had as a prisoner of the Nazis in Edelbach, Austria. This was part of a general trend that my topology teacher described as "the Nazis' biggest blunder" — while German minds fled as the political climate changed, the imprisoned French did tons of research in prison, so that by the war's end France was the new math hotbed. "The Nazis wanted to preserve German culture, and they ended up destroying it. It's totally ridiculous."
One of the advantages of Sheaf theory is that you really don't need that much topology to study it. We define a topological space as a set X along with a set of subsets of X that we consider "open," such that any union or finite intersection of open sets is also open. (In particular, both X itself — the intersection of no sets — and the empty set — the union of no sets — are open.)
The delightful agricultural terminology is there in the French, too. I have no idea why.
A presheaf is a map assigning to each open set U in X a set F(U). (The "F" stands for "faisceau" — that means "sheaf"!) F(U) is just an arbitrary set, not necessarily related to the structure of X. We call its elements "sections" because of one particular example below. We do require it to restrict properly — for every open set U, and every open subset V of U, there must be a map ρV,U that carries each element of F(U) to an element of F(V), such that ρU,U is the identity map for any U, and such that, for any for any W subset of V subset of U, ρW,V ° ρV,U = ρW,U.
So we have a set for every open set, and we can restrict them properly. Here are a few examples.
If you know any category theory, you can more concisely define the category of presheaves on X with values in some category S as the category of contravariant functors from Op(X) to S.
Sheaves attach to the properties of presheaves the ability to paste together sections on different domains. Take an open cover of an open set U by {Va} for a in some index set A. Choose a section sa in F(Va), for each a, such that whenever Vb and Vc intersect, ρVb∩Vc,Vb(sb) =ρVb∩Vc,Vc(sc). F is a sheaf if there exists a unique s in F(U) such that ρVa,U(s)=sa for each a.
That seems like a mouthful. In essence, we want our sheaves to have a good local-to-global property. This is a generalization of the statement, sometimes known as the pasting lemma, that given continuous functions that agree on the intersections of their domains, one can define a continuous function on the union of their domains that restricts to each of the original functions. The best way to think of this property is to look at the places where it fails. The presheaf of bounded functions is a good example: one can cover R with open intervals and take a section on each interval equal to, say, the restriction of y=x. Then the sections all agree, and they are each bounded, but the obvious global extension - the function y=x on R - is not a section of the presheaf because it is not bounded (and there is no section that does work). So the presheaf of bounded functions is not a sheaf.
Another counterexample in the opposite direction is the constant presheaf at a set S with more than two elements. Cover Ø, the empty set, with the empty collection. Then the "section for each element of the cover" is in fact a tuple containing no sections - it is therefore the empty tuple (). Vacuously, its elements agree on intersections. But there are sections on Ø: every element of S is a section. And if a and b are two such sections, then they both restrict to nothing on no sets, so that they both satisfy the sheaf property. So the constant presheaf is not a sheaf, because no unique section exists in this case.
Here are some sheaves:
As noted above, presheaves (and sheaves) over a space form a category. The corresponding morphism is, well, the sheaf morphism. A morphism from a presheaf F to a presheaf G on X is a morphism φU from F(U) to G(U) for every open set U in X. We require these morphisms to commute with restrictions. In other words, for every open U and open V included in U, the following diagram must commute:
φU F(U)----------------->G(U) | | | | | | FρV,U | | GρV,U | | | | | | V V F(V)----------------->G(V) φV
Morphisms can be composed by defining the new morphism's member functions F(U) -> G(U) to be the composition of the old ones from F(U) to G(U). We say that a morphism is an isomorphism if it has an inverse, or equivalently, if each of its member functions is a bijection.
Stalks reduce sheaves and presheaves to their most local information. Surprisingly, this is enough to capture most of the information about a sheaf or presheaf, though it cannot account for everything.
We start by forming the disjoint union of each section over each open set containing some x. This is most easily described as the set of ordered pairs (U,s) where s is a section in F(U). The stalk at x, Fx, is this set modulo the following equivalence relation: (U,s) ~ (V,t) if, for some W in U∩V containing x, ρW, U(s) = ρW, V(t). What we are left with is each section "around x" in its "simplest form." We call this the germ of a section.
In the format of the sheaf of sections described above, you can visualize this pretty easily: the sections of X sit above the space, they restrict to become sections on smaller sets, and then each stalk is the intersections of the vertical line above each point with the section above. If p actually is a projection, then the stalk at x is p-1(x). We can compute other stalks similarly: for the constant presheaf, for instance, the stalk over any point is S, and for the skyscraper sheaf, the stalk over x is S and the stalk over any other point is *. (Hence the name "skyscraper.")
As I said above, you can capture information about a presheaf through its stalks. In particular, you can define an induced map on stalks based on a morphism on presheaves: if φ is a morphism from F to G and φU is its component map on U, let φx carry each (U,s) to (U,φU(s)). Because of the way the stalk is defined and the way morphisms commute with restrictions, this is actually well-defined. Moreover, a few convenient facts make this induced map useful: if the induced maps of two morphisms are equal for every x, then the morphisms are equal. If a morphism's induced map is a bijection for every x, the morphism is an isomorphism, and similarly, if the induced map is injective or surjective, the morphism has the respective property.
One seeming "fact" is the following: if a bijection exists between the stalks of two spaces, they are isomorphic. But this isn't true, and here is a counter example. On the unit circle S1 in the complex plane, let p2 be the map taking z to z2, and let D be the fold map taking two copies of the circle to itself. We can form the sheaf of sections of both these maps. Then the stalk of each point in Γ(p2) is two points (one for each square root), and that of Γ(D) is two points (one in each circle). In fact, for any open set not equal to the entire circle, the sections are isomorphic - simply two copies of the open set. But S1 has no global section under Γ(p2), while it does (it has two) under Γ(D). So there is no morphism from Γ(D) to Γ(p2), even though their stalks are isomorphic.
"Espace étalé" means, in French, a space that is "spread out" or "displayed." It is formed by "bundling" the stalks back into a meaningful global structure. Along the way, though, we manage to acquire the sheaf property in a very unexpected way. We define Ét(F) to be the disjoint union of the stalks of F on X, Ét(F)={(U,s,x)}. Along with this come two maps: for any (U,s) a map ~s : U → Ét(F) taking x to (U,s,x); and a projection map p : Ét(F) → X taking (U,s,x) to x. We topologize Ét(F) with the finest possible topology such that ~s is continuous for each (U,s). Then V is open in Ét(F) iff ~s^{-1}(V) is open in U for every (U,s).
This topology makes p a local homeomorphism - it is continuous and open, and injective on a neighborhood of every x. Surprisingly, if any p : Y → X is a local homeomorphism, then Y is homeomorphic to Ét(Γ(p)). This gives a correspondence — a category equivalence, actually — between sheaves and local homeomorphisms.
Now the set of all maps ~s from a set U forms Γ(Ét(F)/X)(U), and we can combine all of these together to get the sheaf Γ(Ét(F)/X). But F didn't need to be a sheaf, just a presheaf. And the set of maps s → ~s actually forms a sheaf morphism between these two structures. We call this the unit morphism, and the sheaf Γ(Ét(F)/X) the sheafification of F, or aF for short. It is the closest approximation to F with the sheaf property. We can also prove that for any x, there is a stalk isomorphism between Fx and aFx. Also, for any morphism φ : F → G, there is a unique morphism ~φ : G -> aF such that φ ° ~φ = unit.
Finally, as you may have guessed, if F is a sheaf, the unit morphism is an isomorphism. So every sheaf is really a sheaf of sections. This interpretation might not always be convenient, as the espace étalé is often hard to conceptualize, but it's there if needed, and it explains why we use the word "section" for members of any presheaf or sheaf.
There are two ways we can move sheaves between spaces, both ideas from category theory made more specific.
If f : X → Y is continuous, F is a sheaf on X, and G is a sheaf on Y, the direct image of F under f is the sheaf (f*F)(V)=F(f-1(V)). The inverse image of G under f is the sheaf (f*G)(U)=Γ((Ét(G) xY X)/X)(U). In this case, A xC B is the fiber product of A and B over C, defined from maps f : A → C, g : B → C as the set {(a,b) in A x B : f(a)=g(b)}.
Though interesting as a category, there isn't too much more to do with sheaves than that described in this article. Here are a few of the ways to extend sheaf theory.
In general topology and covering space theory, the correspondence between sheaves and local homeomorphisms demonstrated above is only a piece of the puzzle. Constant sheaves are the sheaves of sections of fold maps, that is, projections X x Sδ → X. In between these two, we have the locally constant sheaves, which are sheaves that are locally equal to a constant sheaf. These are the sheaves of sections of covering maps, maps p : E → X such that every x in X has a neighborhood U such that p-1(U) is homeomorphic to U x p-1(x).
In algebraic topology, we can define loop homotopy and the fundamental group using the above covering spaces. We can also define connectedness of a space: X is connected if there is a bijection between S and the constant sheaf FS at X for any S. This is tantamount to saying that the only continuous maps from X to any Sδ are constant. If X is not connected, we can define its π0 to be the set, with an associated global section s in Fπ0X(X), such that for any other global section t of another constant sheaf FS(X), there is a unique morphism φ : Fπ0X → FS such that φX(s)=t.
Perhaps most far-reachingly, Alexander Grothendieck made large strides in algebraic geometry in the 1950's by abstracting the idea of covering and replacing all the data about the points of the space with data about its open sets. This gave categories very similar to the category of the sheaves on the space. Nowadays, these categories are studied in their own right as topoi (singular topos), with connections not only to algebraic geometry and category theory, but also mathematical logic.
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fleshy intestine tents by andrea hasler recognize nuclear consequences
(above) 'matriarch'
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andrea hasler: embrace the base
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bearing in mind the political, social and cultural context of greenham common, swiss artist andrea hasler presents a location-specific body of work for the exhibition within the army barack situated on site. the former american nuclear airbase hosted the longest women's protest in history in the early 1980s, where a staged demonstration of 30,000 women joined hands around the perimeter of the base, in objection of nuclear weapons being held there. 'embrace the base', the exhibition of which takes its namesake from the historic event, builds upon this context through the sculptures' medium and methodology. 'metaphorically, I am taking the notion of the tents which were on site during the women's peace camp, as the container for emotions and 'humanize' these elements to create emotional surfaces.' hasler explains.
hasler has used an intestine modelling technique in the creation of two tents and three new humanoid figures. exploded or exposed wax lines the outside of the pair od tents, creatively exploring the consequences of a nuclear explosion, while retaining the notion of container, nurturing the concerns of the peace camps.
'matriarch' (detail)
'matriarch' (detail)
'matriarch' (detail)
'next of kin'
polystyrene, wax, zipper, blood
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I think another batch of strawberry scones will have to be made, seeing as they are all missing from my kitchen 🙂
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I'm also really into lemons this week, seeing as my mom gave me bunches of lemons off her tree, I must be on a scone kick as well, I think I will be making some lemon scones with them.
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The Rocky Balboa of Criminal Defense Law: Joseph Tacopina
by Mary Waldron
Tacopina, who has been a fan of debate since middle school, showed signs that he was destined to be an attorney from a young age.
"I always seemed to be getting into trouble and arguing my way out of it, so I learned on the job," he said.
However, it was not until Tacopina read the book Fatal Vision by Joe McGinniss that he knew he wanted to be an attorney. Fatal Vision tells the true story of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, a Princeton-educated doctor in the Green Berets who was convicted of murdering his pregnant wife and two small children.
"The way the whole trial played out and the investigation was something that fascinated me, and I decided that really was my calling. So I pursued that," he said.
Tacopina also inherited a workhorse work ethic from his Italian-immigrant parents. "What their experience instilled in me was that if you work hard enough in this country, you can get what you want," he said. "I gained a real dedication and work ethic."
Putting his work ethic to good use, Tacopina put himself through college and law school, working two jobs during and after law school. He attended the University of Bridgeport School of Law in Connecticut (now Quinnipiac University School of Law) while simultaneously working at several law firms in New York.
One of the firms that Tacopina was able to work at during law school was that of James La Rossa, one of New York's best defense lawyers. Tacopina even offered to work for free in order to get experience and exposure, which he did.
Tacopina began working in the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office as a prosecutor after he graduated from law school. As he had a wife and child before he even graduated from law school, Tacopina had responsibilities, so he made sure his family was taken care of by working two jobs during those early years. At one point, in 1995, Tacopina found himself working as a defense trial attorney by day and a coat-check guy by night.
Tacopina won 39 of his 40 cases while at the D.A.'s office. His hard work was starting to pay off, so he decided to start his own firm and go back to his first love: criminal defense.
"I love the argument of trying to persuade people from convicting based on what I think is a good legal argument," he said. "I love to cross-examine; that's my forte. It is a little more exciting to be a defense attorney."
Launching his private practice in 1995 with no clients and without an office was not easy at first, but once Tacopina got through this rough beginning, he began building a tremendous reputation.
One of Tacopina's first breakthrough cases was a case in which he represented Richard Sanfilippo, one of five New York policemen also known as the "Morgue Boys" who were accused of putting their acquired "loot" to use in an abandoned morgue-refrigerator factory in Brooklyn in 1995. Although the accused men confessed to snorting cocaine, firing guns, and associating with prostitutes, Tacopina was still able to get Sanfilippo an acquittal.
Throughout his career, Tacopina has gained a reputation for tackling the most difficult cases. Critics often say "he'll never win," but Tacopina keeps on proving them wrong.
"I don't worry about what people say," he said. "I take cases that people say I can't win, and I win them. I work hard. I think I do well on my feet in the courtroom. I talk to people on their level...because I am. I don't try to be something that I'm not."
In his latest and hottest case, Tacopina is representing fertility nurse Melanie McGuire, who was accused of killing her husband, packing his remains in suitcases, and tossing them into the Atlantic Ocean. In spite of some substantial evidence against her, roaring critics, and widespread media attention, Tacopina seems calm and collected about winning the case.
"It's going very well for us," he said. "We know that a lot of people have presumed her guilty based on some circumstantial evidence, but in opposition, there is circumstantial evidence that is easily explainable because she was married to the guy."
In the criminal defense field of law, the following question comes up again and again: How can attorneys represent alleged brutal murderers and ruthless criminals who very well might be guilty?
Does Tacopina believe that all of his former clients have been 100% innocent? Although there are certain cases that Tacopina would not take for personal reasons, he said the answer to that question does not matter.
"The system would break if defense attorneys made the decision of the judge and the jury. Everyone is entitled to representation," he said. "No matter whether the client is innocent or guilty, the bottom line is the state has to prove their case."
"There are many, many people that believe that O.J. [Simpson] was guilty of murder, and I certainly wouldn't disagree with those people, but I still think the criminal jury verdict was the right verdict because the state miserably failed in their proof. Despite what everyone believes in the court of public opinion, it's a different standard in the court of law," Tacopina added.
Obviously, an attorney of Tacopina's caliber must work well under pressure, but the truth of the matter is that he works even better that way. Since he was in high school and college, Tacopina has always been able to "bring it" when the pressure rises.
"For some reason, I buckle down when the stakes are higher. Pressure is something that I thrive on. The adrenaline and the pressure of having your every move watched is something that I do thrive on, and I enjoy it," he said.
Tacopina admits that he did not reach success all on his own—he has honed his skills as a lawyer by learning only from the best. From Ron Fischetti to Gerry Shargel, Tacopina admires and has learned volumes from many lawyers he worked for during his early years in law. He gained much of his courtroom confidence while working with and learning from Fischetti and Shargel. Much of Tacopina's courtroom grace can be attributed to Denver lawyer Larry Pozner. Pozner wrote Cross-Examination: Science and Techniques, a book on cross-examination that shaped Tacopina's style and perspective.
"It was about the art of cross-examination, and that it's actually not an art at all—it's about the science of it," he said.
He also picked up a few pointers on dealing with the media as a lawyer from Mickey Sherman, who "taught [him] not to alienate them and treat them as your enemy and to really be comfortable with them. They're just doing their job."
Today, Tacopina is still learning from and being inspired by other lawyers. His partners, Rosemarie Arnold (at Tacopina & Arnold) and Chad Seigel (at Tacopina & Seigel), are two powerful and hardworking lawyers from whom he learns all the time.
"It's all about surrounding yourself with great people," he said. "Rosemarie is one of the most respected lawyers in New York. She stands on her own two feet. Chad is one of the greatest legal writers that I know."
"When I started out in law, I was literally working around the clock," Tacopina said. But he does not recommend that all young attorneys and law students do so. He spent a lot of time analyzing court transcripts while he was young, examining which techniques worked in the courtroom and which ones did not.
"Don't be dissuaded," he said. "Believe me, on the way up, as I was getting these big cases, people would try to discourage me, saying, 'Don't go into criminal law, don't be on TV, don't be in the newspaper, don't do this, and don't do that.' But looking back, I think a lot of what I did was out of the box. Lawyers used to shun the media, and I think that was a mistake. High-profile cases are debates in the public opinion, and you're doing your client a disservice if you don't respond."
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Nitin Gupta, as we know him, recently managed to lay his hands on the Ducati Hypermotard 1100S. Here's an account of what he thought the bike felt like.
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Superstuff there LP as always. I feel you are one of those lucky guys who get to do lot of thing without ownership 😉 the pics are a treat…look forward to many more eye candies like these from you. All the very best. Btw I see Ohlins at the rear, what are Sachs then…am slightly confused.
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My name is Richard. I'm from Puerto Rico and I'm a brand new bentoer. :D I half-finished my first bento a couple hours ago.
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USA - Where to start?
27 Apr 2013 Shay_AussieGirl asked
Hi guys, I'm looking at a couple tours of the USA, not sure where to begin, looking at the Best of USA tour, Southern Adventure and Western Highlights. Has anyone been on these tours and could suggest which one i should go with? Also, how much spending money should i be looking at?
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1 May 2013 B_87 said
Im doing best of USA starting September 2nd this year
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5 May 2013 Shay_AussieGirl said
How much money are you planning to take if you don't mind be asking? I have no idea how much i should save! I'm looking at doing it next year though
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5 May 2013 Lauren said
Hi! So I am answering this from the point of view of an American, not having done any of the tours.
Western Highlights looks great, I have been to all of those cities and I have to say, Arizona may be my favorite state to explore. I was in Pheonix, Sedona, and the Grand Canyon for a family vacation last August, and be prepared for some intense heat in some places (110°F) and some cooler temps as well near the grand canyon (60-70°F). Vegas is a must if you are in the area, and San Diego is beautiful.
Best of USA also looks pretty awesome. I'm from New York City so I always suggest visiting, and San Francisco is where I will be moving soon. You see some more interesting cities on this tour, and there is definitely more time to really explore each of the cities. Definitely see less of the landscape though, its a lot more city-centric.
I can't comment on the Southern tour, I haven't been to many of the cities on it but I have heard great things about most of them. Seems like a lot of time will be spent traveling though…
And in terms of money, the average meal here will run you $6-$10, but can get much more expensive if you go somewhere fancy, plus 15-20% tip. The average alcoholic beverage will run you $5-$10. In Vegas you can spend as much or as little money as you choose, its all about how much you care to gamble. New York is expensive purely because of the shopping (6.5% sales tax on clothes) and transportation (use the subway unless it is late, then take a cab). For any of these vacations I would personally budget around $1500, but only you know how much money you will spend (as in, if you tend to prefer expensive food, it may be more).
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6 May 2013 Shay_AussieGirl said
Oh that's awesome! Thanks heaps!
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6 May 2013 Shay_AussieGirl said
I was pretty confused about the whole tipping thing, we don't do that here. That clarified that too! Thanks so much!
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6 May 2013 Lauren said
real fast, I figured I should clarify a bit more on tipping. You tip when you get waiter service (like, when you order and have someone bring food to your table) and no other time. if there is a tip jar out at food places I normally put my change in it but keep the dollars. And on drinks I tip $1 per drink no matter how much the drink costs.
Waiters and bartenders can be paid under minimum wage in the US because it is assumed that they will make money off of tips, and you should try and tip between 15%-20% if it is good service. I tip 10% with bad service, but always leave some cash on the table. Having worked in the food service industry, it is appreciated.
And the money I suggested comes out to ~$100/day, which is definitely what I would suggest in New York and probably in other cities too if you want to do some tourist-y things. I've done the tourist things in New York and it will add up to ~$100/day, but totally worth it.
Happy exploring!!
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6 May 2013 Shay_AussieGirl said
Oh thats awesome, i understand it now! Thanks!
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9 May 2013 Sally and Bunt said
im doing best of usa tour october 14th cant wait :) you should def book one going to be amazing
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11 May 2013 Stephey88 said
There are so many amazing places to see and things to do you will enjoy any of the trips you book! I'm doing the Grand Northern in October and can't wait. I have also been to New York previously and it is my favourite place to visit.
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11 May 2013 Shay_AussieGirl said
I can't wait! Think i'll do the best of USA first
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12 May 2013 hayleyhorowitz said
I am doing the best of USA starting in New York leaving August 7 :) I can't wait
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14 May 2013 Kelsey said
i did the southern adventure jan 31 – feb 13. it was the best time of my life! my one regret would have to be not doing the full grand southern and continuing on to NY with everyone – I did Washington, NYC and boston by myself afterwards and san Francisco beforehand. I didn't spend as much as some people but I definitely bought a lot – I came back with another suitcase. I think my spending money would have been about $3,000 -3,500 total if i'm including optionals. I definitely recommend the southern adventure cause it's just so diverse, you see so much of the US from the desert to the snow to texas to new Orleans (we were there for mardi gras so it was party central). definitely start in LA though cause if you start in new Orleans, it might be awkward to become friends with everyone seeing as they will have already travelled from NY together :)
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awesome thanks :) Soo much i want to see!
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The official word on Derek Dooley came down Sunday morning in the aftermath of the Vols' worst beating by Vanderbilt in nearly 60 years.
He is out as Tennessee's head football coach.
In reality, though, Dooley might as well have been out after losing his team and then the game to Kentucky to end last season, when the Wildcats beat a lifeless Tennessee team with a receiver filling in at quarterback.
From that point on, Dooley was on his way to his football funeral. It was just a matter of how long it was going to take him to get there.
Tennessee is a proud program with a proud history, but there's never been another time when the Vols were this irrelevant and this broken.
There's no question that Dooley inherited a mess, and the best thing that he did was to upgrade the roster. But when you lose 19 of the 23 SEC games in which you coach, including 14 of the past 15, and drop games to Kentucky and Vanderbilt along the way, you're simply not going to survive.
It doesn't matter what shape the program was in when you arrived.
History will not be kind to Dooley and his three years on the job, which produced three straight losing seasons.
The alarms were already sounding after the embarrassing defeat at Kentucky last season, especially when Dooley never seemed to fully grasp just how damaging that loss was and how some of his key players laid down in that game.
Soon after that debacle in the Bluegrass State, the mass exodus on his staff began, and the Vols entered the 2012 season with seven new assistants. It was almost as if somebody yelled, "Fire."
The hiring of Sal Sunseri as defensive coordinator has been an utter disaster. The Vols tried to jam a square peg into a round hole by transitioning from a 4-3 to a 3-4 scheme, and the result was a defense that will go down as the worst in school history. Tennessee has given up at least 37 points in all seven SEC losses this season, and the confusion on the field has been mind-numbing at times.
Consider this: The Vols gave up 48 points and a school-worst 721 yards in total offense to Troy two weeks ago in a 55-48 win, and Troy has a losing record in the Sun Belt Conference.
In that same Troy game, there were more than 40,000 empty seats at Neyland Stadium.
And then the next week, Tennessee lost 51-48 in four overtimes to Missouri at home after Dooley chose to let the clock run out at the end of regulation despite having two timeouts. As one longtime Tennessee athletics employee told me, he's never heard boos that thunderous inside Neyland Stadium that were directed at somebody on the home sideline.
Dooley, who walks away with a $5 million buyout, will not coach the Vols' final game against Kentucky. It was his choice to step aside and let offensive coordinator Jim Chaney handle those duties. Dooley didn't want to be a distraction to the seniors playing in their final home game, and he didn't want to put his family through another week of torture.
Even though Dooley will be the main culprit for this massive crash, he's not the one who started the fire.
The fire was started long ago on Tennessee's campus, and it goes back to poor leadership at the top. Following Joe Johnson's retirement as president, the university went through one bad hire after another at president, and then Mike Hamilton's tenure as athletic director was wrought with the kind of turmoil, mismanagement and general lack of leadership that the entire athletic department is still paying for.
Once a model of stability, Tennessee is now seeking what will be its fourth head coach in the past six years.
When Hamilton, with the backing of key boosters, ran Phillip Fulmer out of town following the 2008 season, the fear was that the program was skidding dangerously close to mediocrity.
And there's no question that the program had dipped under Fulmer with losing seasons in two of his last four years and some blowout losses to key rivals such as Alabama and Florida. But he also went to five SEC championship games in his last 11 years and was a year removed from playing eventual national champion LSU to a narrow loss in the 2007 SEC championship game.
Compared to where the program is now, those seem like the glory days.
Tennessee athletic director Dave Hart, in announcing Dooley's firing Sunday at his news conference, reminded everyone that Tennessee is a great place, but acknowledged that the program is at a crossroads.
The translation: The Vols need to score big with this next hire or they could be looking at the kind of football wasteland that takes a decade or more to fix.


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To graph a linear inequality, start by putting it into slope-intercept form; in other words, solve the inequality for y. Once it is in slope-intercept form, graph the inequality as you would a line in slope-intercept form y=mx+b. This means to first plot the y intercept (the "b" value) on the y-axis. Then use the slope (the "m" value) to plot a second point. If the inequality is "greater than" or "less than" (but not equal to), then the line connecting the points should be a dotted line. This means that the possible solutions to the inequality do not have values on the line. If the inequality is "greater than or equal to" or "less than or equal to", then the line connecting the points should be a solid line. This means that the possible solutions include the values on the line. Lastly, shade the appropriate region. For values that are "greater than" or "greater than or equal to" the line, shade the region above the line. For values that are "less than" or "less than or equal to", shade the region below the line.
I want to graph this inequality that has two variables but before I can approach it, I want to put this line into y equals mx plus b form so it's easier to graph. You don't have to, you could make a table, you could use y intercepts those are a couple other options that you guys are already know about. For me personally I prefer y equals mx plus b form.
So first thing I'm going to do is subtract 3x from both sides so that I have 2y is greater than or equal to -3x plus 8. Then I want y all by itself so I need to divide everything by two. Y is now greater than or equal to -3/2x plus 4, 8 divided by 2 is 4. Okay now that my line's in y equals mx plus b form I know how to graph it.
My first dot goes on the y axis at 4; from there I'm going to count the slope. So here we go my first dot goes on the graph on the y axis at 4, one, two, three, four. From there I want to count the slope which is down 3, right 2. So from there I'm going to go down 3, right 2 and then connect it. Okay, that's the first step, is to get my line on the graph.
Next thing I want to do is decide if this should be a solid line or dashy line and so the way I can tell it is looking at the inequality symbol. Since it says greater than or equal to I'm going to leave it as a solid line that's easy. Step two, check.
Next thing I need to do to finish my graph is to do some shading. I'm going to be shading half of the plane, either the half above the line or the half below the plane like that, you can make sound effects if you want to.
So I'm going to pick any point I want to that's not on the line. I usually use (0,0) then I'm going to substitute in those values for x and y see if I get a true statement. Let me go back to the original problem. Is it true that when I plug in (0,0) for x and y I get a true inequality 0 is bigger than 8? No that's okay, what that means is that don't shade here this tells me don't shade that half of the plane but instead shade the other half.
If this half gave me no that means that this half on top of the line will give me the yeses meaning every point above the line, above meaning out here, will be a solution to this inequality when I plug it in the x and y values.
This problem is a little tricky because you need to get it into y equals mx plus b form before you can graph it but once you do that it's pretty straight forward. So don't be intimidated if your homework problems look like this, where it's not already in y equals mx plus b form.