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As we speculated a couple of weeks ago, Apple today introduced the iPod Photo. Coming in 40GB and 60GB models priced at US$499 and US$599 respectively, the iPod Photo sports a 2-inch 220x176 16-bit color display. It also includes an A/V cable to connect it to a TV or projector in order to display slideshows. Both Mac and Windows users will be able to manage and sync the iPod Photo library via iTunes 4.7, which will allow users to import images directly from any directory on a PC or Mac. Users will also be able to import libraries from Adobe Album 2.0 or Adobe Elements 3.0 on the PC or via iPhoto on the Mac. Battery life is improved over previous iPod versions as well, with Apple claiming up to 15 hours for music or 5 hours for slideshows with music. According to Apple, the iPod Photo is available immediately, although the Apple Store shows a 1-2 week wait.
As expected, Apple also today introduced its U2 iPod Special Edition. The black 20GB iPod has a red click wheel and autographs of the band members etched into the back side. The US$349 music player (available in mid-November) will also come with an "exclusive" U2 poster and a gift certificate for US$50 off The Complete U2. Priced at US$150, The Complete U2 is being marketed as a "digital boxed set" (like a regular boxed set except without the box, CDs, and inserts, I guess) containing U2's entire library from Boy to the upcoming How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb plus another 25 "rare and unreleased tracks." The set will also mean that the entirety of U2's library will be available on iTMS for the first time. Some tracks from Zooropa and Pop are not currently available.
In addition, the iTunes Music Store continues its march across Europe, as Apple today opened what it calls its European Union iTunes Music Store. The countries included in the latest round of expansion are Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxemborg, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. Pricing remains at 0.99 per track in the new countries. In addition, Apple has announced plans for a Canadian launch of iTMS in November.
Speculation had been mounting that Apple would update the Mini with a larger hard drive as well. However, the Mini and its 4GB capacity was left untouched during today's event. Some analysts (not to mention Mac rumor sites) expect cheaper flash versions of the iPod to be made available. If that were the case, those would likely have been unveiled today, as introducing them after the holiday shopping season does not make much sense.
With the expansion of iTMS into much of Western Europe as well as the upcoming Canadian store, Apple has solidified its position as the number one online music store, both in terms of market share and geographic reach.
Now that the iPod has a color display, will you be able to watch video on it? Steve Jobs says no:
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NEW YORK/WASHINGTON – Bagpipes, bells and a reading of the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed when hijacked jetliners crashed into the World Trade Centre, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field marked the 12th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in 2001.
More than a thousand people gathered Wednesday on a hot and hazy morning at the National September 11 Memorial plaza in Manhattan, for the annual reading of victims' names from both the 1993 and 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre.
Bagpipes and a youth choir ushered in the start of the solemn proceedings, held around two reflecting pools that stand in the footprint of the fallen twin towers.
"To my nephew Michael Joseph Mullin, we miss you and think of you every single day," said one of the 250 people chosen to read names. "You're gone but not forgotten," another woman said of her lost cousin.
In keeping with a tradition that began last year, no public officials spoke at the New York ceremony, though former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, his successor Michael Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, and other city and state leaders were in attendance.
In a memorial service at the Pentagon, President Barack Obama called on Americans to pray for those whose lives had been lost.
"Let us have the strength to face the threats that endure, different though they may be from 12 years ago, so that as long as there are those who would strike our citizens, we will stand vigilant and defend our nation," Obama said.
The morning after a speech in which he urged Americans to support his proposal to use military force against Syria, in retribution for President Bashar al-Assad's poison gas attack on his own people, Obama also reflected on the limits of force.
"Let us have the wisdom to know that, while force is at times necessary, force alone cannot build the world we seek," Obama said.
Americans observed moments of silence at 8:46 a.m. EDT, the time American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower and with a second pause at 9:03 a.m. when United Airlines Flight 175 struck the South Tower.
Further moments of silence were observed at 9:37 a.m., when American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon; at 9:59 a.m. when the South Tower fell; at 10:03 a.m. when United Flight 93 hit the ground near Shanksville, Pennsylvania; and at 10:28 a.m., when the North Tower collapsed.
Nineteen hijackers died in the attacks, later claimed by Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, which led directly to the US war in Afghanistan and indirectly to the invasion of Iraq.
Two skyscrapers are nearly completed on either side of the plaza, including One World Trade Centre, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere at 1,776 feet, a symbolic number chosen to allude to the year of the Declaration of Independence.
At the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania, the National Park Service's memorial service Wednesday included a reading of the names of the Flight 93 passengers and crew, a ringing of bells, a wreath-laying and brief remarks. (Reuters)


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INGLEWOOD — One man has been killed and two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies wounded in a shooting in Inglewood.
City News Service says the incident occurred shortly after midnight Tuesday near Hollywood Park. No details were immediately released about what transpired, but a handgun was found at the scene.
Authorities say a female deputy was struck in the upper leg and she may have had a more serious injury if her phone charger hadn't stopped the bullet. Another deputy was treated at the scene. Neither injury is life-threatening.
A man was taken to a hospital where he died and two others, a man and a woman, have been detained.
It wasn't immediately known why the deputies were involved in a shooting in Inglewood, which has its own police department.


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i think that the elimination position is like THE AMAZING RACE 14
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I understand that this had happened many times, but i think it's a bit funny if you know your production budget is not too big, then the best choice is to have a NEL in the same country,
Hello!Although I have read - and very much appreciated - this forum for some time, I am new to posting here. I am unfamiliar with its software format and not at all certain that I know all that there is to know about your protocols. So I hope that this post comes to rest in the right place and that you'll tell me if I'm guilty of a breach of etiquette. That said ... In your discussion of James' and Abba's impending Synchronized Swimming debut, it seems that the question of location has become centered around Russia or Spain. And - because I don't think that all of the tasks to be performed in Turkey have been identified, yet - I thought that it might be helpful to far better sleuths than I to mention that Turkey boasts a National Synchronized Swimming Team (headquartered in Istanbul) that hosted its first international competition - The Istanbul Open Synchronized Swimming Tournament - in September of 2011. The page - announcing the event - that I've linked also contains a photo of the team. However, I didn't screen print the page or import the image because I'm unsure about your policies regarding those practices. Now, if you wonderfully talented people think that the tidbit is worth pursuing, you've only to track down which "Fatih Olymic Pool in Istanbul" - and I stopped looking when I discovered that there is almost certainly more than one - is home to the team, obtain a photo, etc., etc., etc ...
Episode 6 Title - "Get Your Sexy On"
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Lol i like the title.I think Chippendales will say it! Perhaps a dancing challenge?
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The South Australian Museum is strengthening cultural links with remote or fragmented Australian Aboriginal communities through a new digitisation project, supported by Newmont Asia Pacific and the Department for Manufacturing, Innovation, Trade Resources and Energy (DMITRE).
The Aboriginal Material Culture Collection held at the South Australian Museum is recognised as the world's largest and most comprehensive, as it includes objects from all regions of Australia across history. These include many artefacts collected during the mid-19th century, as well as the Norman Barnett Tindale Collection archives, which were recently inscribed onto UNESCO's Australian Memory of the World Register.
For the first time, a digital record of every object will be made within the Museum's Aboriginal Material Culture Collection. This will provide open, global access to the stories of Aboriginal Australians and give families a chance to know their ancestors' histories. With tens of thousands of objects to record and photograph, it is an ambitious project with local, national and international significance.
South Australian Museum Acting Director, Professor Andrew Lowe says "This project illustrates the significant achievements that can be made when the Museum creates strong partnerships with corporate and government sponsors. It will provide an essential historical record for Aboriginal Australians that will be easily accessible to them. This project will also broaden the possibilities of research and new discoveries for scientists around the world."
Museum Anthropologist Professor Peter Sutton says "This important project is not just about spreading knowledge more effectively. It also offers connection. Relatives and descendants of those who originally made so many of the artefacts will be able to see these works by family or group members and download images of them. They will be able to do this no matter how remotely they live from Adelaide."
Researchers and the general public will be able to search the digital database by object type, language group or region and view photos and object information online.
Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy Tom Koutsantonis said that the digitisation project was an example of how mining benefits South Australian communities in different ways.
"This project allows us to preserve the history of Aboriginal Australians and make it available to the regional communities to which it is most significant," Mr Koutsantonis said.
"This important historic and cultural work would not be possible without the support of the mining industry and in this case Newmont Asia Pacific."
Newmont Asia Pacific Group Executive Environment and Social Responsibility, Ken Ramsey, said the digitisation project was an innovative leveraged research and learning initiative opening doors to a global audience keen to discover the richness of Australia's Aboriginal heritage.
"Digitisation of the Australian Aboriginal Cultures Collection is one of five key projects that form the foundation of Newmont's renewed partnership with the South Australian Museum. We are delighted to see the Museum's longstanding commitment to Aboriginal culture enabling new levels of learning, and more importantly, providing local Aboriginal communities greater access to their cultural heritage."
Project Officer Eleanor Adams is leading a team of Museum staff and volunteers to digitally photograph and database each item in the collection.
"Thanks to the sponsorship, we've been able to purchase top-of-the-line photography equipment and dedicate a full-time staff member to coordinate this important project. This would not have been possible without that financial support," said Ms Adams.
The size and diversity of the collection represents a significant challenge for the enthusiastic team, which is tasked with recording everything from bark paintings and wood carvings to canoes, sound recordings and emu feather plumes.
"Our team of 20 volunteers provide a day of their time each week and help us to catalogue up to 40 objects each time. Pieces that are fragile or large – like weapons – take longer, as we need to take multiple photos and then piece them together," said Ms Adams.
As part of the Museum's commitment to sharing its collections, the digitisation project will help reinforce Australian Aboriginal identity in communities that have been fragmented since European contact. Interaction with knowledgeable elders will undoubtedly result in new documentation for the collection, enhancing the long-term value of Australia's cultural heritage.
"We started with objects from the Yuendumu region of the Northern Territory and are now expanding into photographing objects from the APY lands and the Western Desert areas.
"The Museum already has strong relationships with communities like Yuendumu to preserve their cultural history and this project will strengthen those relationships as well as help us to build new ones," Ms Adams said.
Through digital repatriation, the South Australian Museum can take images of objects back to communities as a record, while preserving valuable cultural materials for communities who are unable to protect the items themselves.
The digitisation project will make collating and accessing the collection more efficient.
Cultural sensitivities will continue to be respected throughout the digitisation project. The Collection contains culturally sensitive objects like ceremonial objects to which access is restricted. The Museum holds the license to software which will enable them to manage how sacred objects and information are shared to ensure cultural sensitivities are preserved at all times.
The South Australian Museum is a trusted and respected guardian of Australia's natural and cultural heritage. It is committed to working in partnership with Aboriginal communities and industry to preserve the story of Aboriginal Australia and share it with the world.
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We officially launched the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities yesterday! James Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of News Corporation gave a brilliant speech with strong opinions on creativity, culture, and online content.
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you can read some of the press coverage:
- Why James Murdoch was wrong to attack the British Library, in the Guardian
- "British Library newspaper archive plan riles Murdoch" in the Independent
- Google knows internet can no longer be free, says News Corp's James Murdoch
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THE BRITISH INVASION OF AMERICAN TELEVISION by Deborah Starr Seibel ______________________________________________________________ A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (SPECIALIZED JOURNALISM - THE ARTS) May 2010 Copyright 2010 Deborah Starr Seibel
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|The British invasion of American television is a takeover of startling proportions. Consider the top ten highest-rated prime time television series of the past decade: American Idol (Tuesday and Wednesday nights) 2004-2007, Survivor 1999-2001, and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire 2000. All of them were run by Brits.; In ten years, that amounts to a complete coup of the Top Ten. It used to be that American producers such as Steven Bochco and David Milch (Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue), John Wells (ER), Diane English (Murphy Brown), and the Charles brothers, Glen and Les (Cheers), set TV's gold standard. But ever since the turn of the 21st century, U.S. television has opened its doors to a steady influx of hit-makers from the U.K. The new captains of industry include names like Mark Burnett, Simon Cowell, Simon Fuller, Conrad Green, Mark Koops, Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick. And they run shows as familiar to us today as Hill Street Blues and Cheers were in their heydays: American Idol, America's Got Talent, The Apprentice, The Biggest Loser, Celebrity Apprentice, Dancing With The Stars, Hell's Kitchen, Nashville Star, Supernanny, So You Think You Can Dance and Survivor, to name just a few.; By their own estimate, roughly two dozen Brits are managing these "reality" or unscripted series, and occupying some of the priciest real estate in prime time. And in doing so, they have set the American paradigm of prime time comedy and drama on its ear. British producers have found ways to reinvigorate the kind of television where ordinary people become stars. Masters of a reinvented genre that saw its humble beginnings in such classic American television series as Ted Mack and The Original Amateur Hour (1948) and Candid Camera (1948), the Brits have succeeded in taking over American living rooms, altering the way we are entertained and, very often, how we interact with that entertainment.; The question is, how did this happen, and why? What is it about the British sensibility, training, culture and style that translate so well here? And why haven't Hollywood producers -- never shy about copying or stealing from the best -- been able to pull off the same kind of ratings monopoly? Partly, it is because the Brits have imported a fresh take -- albeit edgier and meaner -- on television's formerly polite manners. Partly it's because they have exposed flaws in the American television production model, which favors TV specialists over well-rounded craftsmen. And perhaps most importantly, the British invasion is an indictment of the American work ethic, especially in Hollywood.
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Bahraini State Terror
by Stephen Lendman
Al-Khalifa despots run Bahrain. State terror is official policy. Washington supports it. Generous aid is provided. King Hamad remains a close US ally. Double standard hypocrisy defines America's foreign and domestic agenda.
Bahrainis want democratic change. They want popularly elected leaders. They want despotic monarchal rule, ruthless persecution, widespread corruption, and Shia discrimination ended.
For many months, they've braved tear gas, beatings, rubber bullets, live fire, arrests, torture, imprisonments, and disappearances. They won't quit. The price of freedom is high.
King Hamad calls peaceful protests "foreign plots." He banned them earlier. Unauthorized public meetings and seminars were prohibited.
On October 30, public gatherings were again banned. Authorities call them illegal. Participants face severe harshness. That's how police states operate.
Fundamental rights are criminalized. Daily nonviolent protests still continue. Participants brave severe repression. Some end up dead.
The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) works for "a prosperous democratic country free of discrimination and other violations of human rights."
It "encourage(s) and support(s) individuals and groups to be proactive in the protection of their own and others' rights; and to struggle to promote democracy and human rights in accordance with international norms."
Its four objectives include:
(1) Promoting civil, political, and economic freedom.
(2) Ending racial discrimination.
(3) Disseminating human rights culture.
(4) Supporting and protecting victims' rights.
Bahraini human rights activists risk life and limb. Pro-democracy supporters are terrorized. Some have their citizenship revoked. Others face arrests, beatings, imprisonment, torture, and at times death.
On December 24, BCHR headlined, "Bahrain: Escalating state violence against peaceful protesters in lack of international accountability and using western arms."
BCHR expressed grave concern about about ruthless state terror. It documents those affected. It discusses injuries from rubber bullets, shotgun pellets, tear gas, toxic chemicals, sound grenades, beatings, and live fire.
Injured victims avoid public hospitals. They're militarized. Arrival for treatment risks arrest and imprisonment.
Collaboratively with doctors, BCHR discussed recent examples of injuries sustained. It did so "to present the most thorough and accurate description" of serious human rights violations.
On December 16, King Hamad called Bahrain "a country of law and freedom." Repression is official policy. On December 17, BCHR's acting vice president, Sayed Yousi, said authorities made 27 arbitrary arrests.
Mass protests occurred. Bahrain's Martyrs Day was commemorated. Excessive force was used. Numerous injuries followed.
A one kg tear gas canister struck a young woman. She sustained a three-bone foot fracture. Urgent treatment was needed.
She feared arrest. Doctors operated on her at an undisclosed location. Her prognosis is poor. She's expected to endure long-term pain. Her foot will remain deformed.
Security forces open fire at point blank range. A tear gas canister struck a young man. His forearm was fractured. Severe bone damage resulted. He required secret surgery. Doing so involves unsanitary conditions. Infection risks are high.
BCHR discussed a protester injured by multiple shotgun pellets. Many remain lodged in his body. He's in pain. His injuries are severe.
"Several teenagers were shot in the face with shotguns and are at risk of blindness in one or both eyes."
One remains in serious condition. He'll possibly go blind. He's seeking private medical care. Three other protesters sustained eye injuries. They're in critical condition. Their prognosis is unclear.
Illegal weapons are used. Excessive force targets all protesters. Bahrainis brave state terror. They demonstrate actively anyway. They risk injuries, arrests, imprisonment and death.
Many protesters sustain serious chest, head and face wounds. Pellets penetrate lungs. Breathing problems result. Medical care is sought secretly in private homes.
Anyone seen injured in public risks detention. Some seek hospital treatment anyway. Doing so assures arrest. BCHR discussed Shamsan Mohammed.
On November 2, he was outside his home. Twenty people gathered nearby. Riot police attacked them. Metal shotgun pellets were fired.
They're 2.2 - 3.8mm in diameter. They're fired at point blank range. They cause serious injuries. Multiple ones occur. Chests, heads, and faces are most vulnerable.
Shamsan sustained eyes, chest, waist and leg injuries. He sought hospital care. On arrival, he was arrested and detained. He disappeared for four days.
Family members learned he was at Dry Docks prison. He was given a choice. Provide information about protesters or face torture and imprisonment. He explained he was unable to help.
He was electroshocked and severely beaten. He received constant threats. Many others are persecuted the same way.
Ahmed Aoun is a seventeen-year old student. A shotgun pellet remains lodged in his eye. He sustained it while peacefully protesting. He received private hospital treatment.
Police arrested him. He needs follow-up surgery. He's denied. He's been beaten and sexually harassed. He's in severe pain. He's expected to be tried and imprisoned.
On December 19, armed police in civilian clothes attacked a young Al Duraz resident. They raided his home pre-dawn. He sustained multiple deep forearm wounds. His left hand remains numb.
Excessive force is standard policy. Bahranis are ruthlessly terrorized. Peaceful protesters are targeted. "BCHR regularly receives a large number of reports of injuries." Many are serious. Seeking treatment is hazardous.
BCHR expressed deep concern and disappointment about international community silence. It holds America and other Western countries most responsible.
It urged all nations stop supplying Bahrain with arms, ammunition, and political support. It demands long overdue condemnation and isolation of a rogue regime.
Zainab Alkhawaja is a prominent Bahraini human rights activist. She's Abdulhadi Alkhawaja's daughter. He co-founded BCHR. He was its first president.
He served as Front Line Defenders' Middle East and North Africa Protection Coordinator. He worked as a member of the International Advisory Network of the Business and Human Rights Resource Center.
He's one of Bahrain's best. He remains imprisoned for life. He risked everything courageously supporting human rights.
Zainab was arrested. She protested outside Abdulhadi's prison hospital. She wouldn't leave. She called out her father's name. She demanded he be released. Other protesters with her were also arrested.
She was lawlessly detained. She was sentenced to one month imprisonment and fined. She was denied counsel and family contacts. She was accused of "inciting hatred against the regime through chanting political slogans."
She was arrested numerous times before. Thirteen cases remain active against her. She spent months in prison earlier. She's vulnerable to rearrest any time.
Current BCHR president Nabeel Rajab was imprisoned numerous times for supporting human rights. He was targeted again after being interviewed on Russia Today.
On December 25, The New York Times provided rare op-ed space. Truth got a rare opportunity. Zainab's commentary was featured. Her outspokenness leaves her vulnerable. She may face arrest like Nabeel.
She headlined "Bahrain, a Brutal Ally," saying:
In early December, nineteen-year old Aqeel Abudul Mohsen protested peacefully. Security forces shot him in the face.
"He was covered with blood, with the lower side of his face blown open, his jaw shattered, and a broken hand hanging awkwardly from his wrist."
"It's one of those images that you wish you had never seen, and can never forget."
He needed 10 hours of surgery. Police stood guard. Until he regained consciousness, he couldn't be interrogated.
"Others have lain bleeding without medical attention while government security agents asked questions like: "Were you participating in a protest? Who else was with you?"
Al Khalifa monarchs ruled Bahrain for over two centuries. It's home to America's Fifth Fleet. Oppressed Bahrainis began protesting after Mubarak's ouster.
"With newfound hope, (they) took to the streets. Rich and poor, Shiite and Sunni, liberal and religious, they felt what it was like to speak freely for the first time."
Manama's Pearl Roundabout symbolized Bahraini activism. Freedom expressions "didn't last long." Security forces cracked down. The Pearl monument was demolished.
In March 2011, Saudi troops entered guns blazing. UAE ones joined them. Pro-democracy supporters were attacked.
"Going out on the streets, carrying nothing but a flag and calling for democracy could cost you your life," said Zainab.
"Chanting 'down with the dictator' could lead to your being subjected to electric shocks."
"Giving a speech about human rights and democracy can lead to life imprisonment."
"Infants died after suffocating from toxic gases used by riot police."
"Teenage protesters have been shot and killed."
Many Bahraini families have multiple members imprisoned.
"My father, Abdulhadi, was beaten unconscious in my apartment in front of my family."
"He was taken away with my husband and brother-in-law. They were all tortured" and imprisoned.
"My husband was released in January. My brother-in-law was released after a six-month sentence in late 2011. My father was sentenced to life in prison."
"He staged four hunger strikes." One lasted 110 days. He almost died. He was painfully force-fed.
Despite enormous sacrifices, freedom struggles face long odds. Al Khalifa despots have powerful allies. Washington, Britain, Saudi Arabia, and others provide support.
Bahrainis see little difference between American and Saudi brutes. They're concerned only about their own self-interest. They deplore democracy. They crush it when emerges.
American double standards are especially galling. Washington abhors human rights it claims to support. It condemns regional violence. It turns a blind eye to horrific Bahraini crimes against humanity.
It fully supports its regional ally. Double standard duplicity "cost(s) America its credibility across the region." It's understood that "if you are an ally of America, then you can get away" with murder and other human rights abuses.
Al Khalifa despots believe they have international immunity. They commit "widespread human rights violations." They conduct business as usual.
They buy arms and negotiate lucrative deals. They govern with impunity. Bahrain's best languish in prison. Change remains a distant hope.
Bahrainis struggle courageously anyway. Freedom is too important to sacrifice. It's outrageous "that America continues to back a regime" it should condemn. It's official US policy.
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Plotting Spatial Derivatives of the Magnetic Field
Being able to compute the spatial gradients of the magnetic field or magnetic flux density is needed in areas such as radiology, magnetophoresis, and geophysics. One of the most important applications is in the design of magnetic resonance imaging machines, where it's important to analyze not only the field strength, but also the spatial variation of the field. Today's blog post demonstrates how to compute and plot the gradients of the magnetic field in 3D electromagnetic simulations in COMSOL Multiphysics.
Background and Objective
Whenever you are computing the magnetic fields induced by currents or currents induced by time-varying magnetic fields, as well as 3D electromagnetic wave problems, COMSOL Multiphysics uses so-called vector (or curl, or Nedelec) elements. The vector element is also used in 2D and 2D axisymmetric magnetic field simulations that involve in-plane current distribution. In these cases, the vector element computes the magnetic vector potential, \mathbf{A}. However, the vector element can only compute the first derivative of the field.
The magnetic flux density, \mathbf{B}, magnetic field, \mathbf{H}, and the magnetic vector potential can be related via the magnetic permeability, \mathbf{\mu}, using the following equations:
The equations show that the magnetic flux density and the magnetic field are functions of the first derivative of the magnetic vector potential. Since the second derivative is not defined on vector (curl) elements, the spatial gradients of \mathbf{B} and \mathbf{H} cannot be computed.
The technique demonstrated here shows how each component of the magnetic field \mathbf{H}=[Hx,Hy,Hz] can be mapped to a separate variable by adding an extra equation that has three unknown variables. These new variables use the Lagrange element. Since both first and second order spatial derivatives are defined on Lagrange elements, it now becomes possible to obtain the spatial gradients of the \mathbf{B} and \mathbf{H} fields.
Note that, when solving for 2D or 2D-axisymmetric magnetic field problems involving out of plane currents, or static magnetic field problems without any current flow within the model, the Lagrange elements are used to solve the governing equations, and these do make the second spatial derivative available. The method shown in this post applies only to cases where the vector elements are used to compute the fields.
Step-by-Step Tutorial Using a Helmholtz coil
Next, let's look at an example where we can demonstrate the technique introduced above. We will see how you can compute and plot the spatial derivatives of the magnetic field produced by a Helmholtz coil. A detailed description of this model along with step-by-step instructions to simulate the coil can be found in the Model Gallery. A Helmholtz coil is a pair of parallel circular coils separated by a distance of one radius where the current flows through both the coils in the same direction. Some known applications of this kind of coil are used for canceling the earth's magnetic field and generating controlled magnetic fields for experiments.
Geometry of the coils together with the air domain.
This model uses the Magnetic fields physics interface and the Multiturn coil domain feature to model the two coils. Each coil has 10 turns and 0.25 mA current circulating through it.
Plot of the magnitude of the magnetic field (A/m) and an arrow plot showing the direction of the magnetic field vector.
Plotting the Gradients of the Magnetic Field
We will start with the solved example from the Model Gallery and see how we can compute the derivatives of the magnetic field.
The first step is to map the results of the magnetic field on Lagrange elements. For that, we add the Coefficient Form, PDE interface with three dependent variables (one per component), which uses the Lagrange element by default. We also set the right units for the dependent variables.
Definition of the units and number of variables.
The second step is to correctly set up the coefficients of the PDE, in order to get the right expression for mapping the results.
Definition of the PDE settings.
Here we set all coefficients other than \text{a} and \mathbf{f} to 0, thereby creating an equation with the following form:
Where \text{a} = 1, \mathbf{u} is the vector field, and \mathbf{f} represents the components of the magnetic field. Hence we can directly relate these new variables to the components of the magnetic field vector, that is:
u1 = mf.Hx
u2 = mf.Hy
u3 = mf.Hz
Concerning the study setup, we first compute only the Magnetic fields problem in Study 1, and in the second study we compute the variables u1, u2, and u3. In order to take the values from the electromagnetic solution, we activate the feature "Values of variables not solved for" using the study settings shown below.
Definition of the study steps.
In order to compute the gradients of the magnetic field, we append to the variable name the spatial direction in which we want to to compute the partial derivative. For example, u1x would compute the gradient of the x-component of the magnetic field with respect to the x-direction.
Plot of the gradient (with respect to the x-direction) of the x-component of the magnetic field.
Line plot on the centerline along y-coordinate of the gradient (with respect to the y-direction) of the y-component of the magnetic field
Further Reading
- Download the Magnetic Field of a Helmholtz Coil model
- Check out the software used in this example:
Comments (8)
Tuan-Anh LeJuly 2, 2016
But when I checked it, I see u1 and mf.x is different. Plz expain it. Thank you
Tuan-Anh LeJuly 2, 2016
But when I checked it, I see u1 and mf.Hx is different. Plz expain it. Thank you
Rahmetullah CagilOctober 2, 2017
I applied a similar procedure for magnetic flux density and just like Tuan-Anh, I see that mf.Bx and u1 are different, they are almost identical in shape but u1 is scaled down by three orders of magnitude. What could be the cause for this error?
Tijani Aziz FekiOctober 10, 2017
Hi all
I did all steps about mf.Bx but the results from second study is different from what we can obtain from first study, what is the reason and how should I fix this problem?
Caty FaircloughOctober 13, 2017
Hi Tuan-Anh, Rahmetullah, and Tijani
Thanks for your comments!
For your questions, please contact our Support team.
Online Support Center: https://www.comsol.com/support
Email: email@example.com
kai zhangNovember 9, 2017
We alse can select the "dode" interface and set "f=u1-mf.Hx" and so on. It seemed this way will be more accurate for "u1" in the result for the transient study, such as "ecore transformer.mph" in the library.
Simon HouisAugust 7, 2018
Thank you very much for this interesting post. I managed to compute the gradient of a stationary study (1 single current applied). Now I would like to do the same but for a frequency sweep. I computed a model over 10 frequencies and I 'd like now to compute spatial gradients for each frequency. The idea is vizualize on a single plot the magn gradient over x for all frequencies. Nonetheless when I applied the method you described, I am only able to vizualise results for the last frequency and not all of them.
Could you tell me how to proceed to compute gradient for all frequencies?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Caty FaircloughAugust 7, 2018
Hi Simon,
Thanks for your interest in this blog post!
For your questions, I would suggest contacting our Support team.
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Rival hackers are duking it out on the site of Matrix actor Harry Lennix.
Lennix, who played Commander Lock in the second two films of the Matrix trilogy and more recently played Boyd in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, maintains the site harrylennix.com. The site was defaced last week, and just a few days later was sprayed with digital graffiti by another rascal.
The second hacker posted claims that the first (SnazzyG) had bought access to the compromised site without actually doing any hacking.
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"Cue Defacer B reclaiming their territory and making sure everybody knew about it at the same time."
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At Evo 2009, Capcom community-mans Seth Killian gets cornered about the final undiscovered secret in Mega Man 9 but vows it does indeed exist, and that it is still out there.
"People have found a ton of amazing stuff in the game that I didn't think would have been dug up for a long time," Killian says. But the "final secret" isn't among that. His questioners try to coax more details out of him, but Seth doesn't budge.
Last October, someone on the Capcom-Unity boards speculated that the last secret was a weapon, specifically a throwing weapon. S-Kill put the splat on that.
What the hell could it be? After nearly a year, we probably stand a better chance of, collectively, blindly guessing what it is rather than actually finding it. I say it's a Ghosts N Goblins Easter egg.
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PHOENIX -- An instructor pilot is to blame for the June crash of an F-16 fighter at Luke Air Force Base west of Phoenix because he made a rapid climbing turn after hitting several birds while taking off, robbing the plane of airspeed and the ability to recover, according to an Air Force investigation report released Thursday.
The report released by the Air Force Air Education and Training Command at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph in Texas said the instructor should have kept climbing straight ahead until the F-16 had enough airspeed to recover and return to the base. There was likely enough engine power to safely land despite a series of engines stalls, the report said.
The instructor pilot had taken over the controls from a student for a touch-and-go practice maneuver at the base when the engine lost performance after hitting the birds. The climbing turn meant the nearly $23 million jet lost airspeed and could not maintain altitude, and the two pilots had to eject.
The pilot was trying to reach a pre-determined point that would have positioned the fighter for a return to the runway.
The plane crashed in a farm field, and the pilots were unhurt. They were not identified.
The accident board blamed the instructor for not monitoring airspeed and engine performance while looking outside the jet during the climbing turn. That limited the time available to realize the aircraft's speed had dropped to dangerous levels and prevented recovery from the bird strike.
The accident board report also noted that the engine had not failed and was producing enough power when the plane crashed that the pilot should have been able to successfully recover if proper procedures had been followed.
The pilot has been grounded during the investigation, but is going through retraining and should return to flight status soon, said Lt. Col. Mike Cowan, the safety officer for the 56th Fighter Wing at Luke.
"This is a difficult business, and as much training as we go through and rigorously go through our processes, humans make mistakes," Cowan said in an interview.
The instructor pilot had more than 1,000 hours of flight time, including nearly 800 hours in the F-16. The student pilot was actually more experienced, with nearly 2,200 hours of flight time and 1,931 in F-16s. That pilot was going through a re-qualification course because he had been on non-flying assignments for nearly four years and hadn't flown an F-16 since November 2009, the report said. He has since completed re-qualification and has moved on to his new assignment, Cowan said.
The student pilot told investigators he was taken by surprise by the emergency and believed he couldn't tell the instructor pilot he should not have started the turn. That pilot also didn't scan the flight instruments, blaming the mistake on lack of recent experience.
The base 15 miles west of Phoenix in Glendale trains fighter pilots in the F-16 and had 138 of the jets before the June 26 crash. The base is getting ready to transition to the military's new F-35 fighter and is expected to have 144 of the jets within about 10 years.
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You wouldn't think it possible for a commissioner of a sports organization who does not represent money-grubbing owners to be more supercilious than the NHL's Gary Bettman, more holier-than-thou than the NFL's Roger Goodell, more boring than baseball's Bud Selig.
[np_storybar title="'No overriding reason to go down that road': PGA opposes proposed ban on long putters" link="http://sports.nationalpost.com/2013/02/24/no-overriding-reason-to-go-down-that-road-pga-opposes-proposed-ban-on-long-putters/"%5DPGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem threw a big wrinkle into the plan to outlaw the anchored putting stroke when he said Sunday the tour opposed the ban because there was not enough evidence to suggest players had an advantage by using a long putter.
"We hold the USGA in highest regard as a key part of the game of golf," Finchem said. "We don't attempt to denigrate that position in any way whatsoever. It's just on this issue, we think if they were to move forward they would be making a mistake."
But somehow, without even really trying, Tim Finchem manages the trifecta.
Maybe it's because the old political tub-thumper from Jimmy Carter days speaks in rambling, wordy lawyer-ese. Maybe it's because he's so buttoned-down bankerly, he looks like the football coach of whom a colleague once said: "You couldn't drive an inflation pin up his butt with a jackhammer."
But more than likely, it's all of the above, plus the fact that he represents money-grubbing players who, on the PGA Tour, are the de facto owners. So maybe it's not so different, after all.
What's best for the game of golf, among such a self-interested, venal group, is not even a secondary consideration.
In theory, that's the province of the sport's two governing bodies, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews and the United States Golf Association, who determine the rules of play, and debate interpretations from time to time, but always based on a code of core principles established hundred of years ago.
But Sunday, during the telecast of the Accenture Match Play final, Finchem made it clear that there is in fact a third governing body — his — which can accept the USGA/R&A rules or reject one or two, according to how the players feel about them.
So three months after the USGA and R&A announced a forthcoming ban on the anchored putting stroke — serving notice that starting in 2016, the practice of anchoring broomstick or belly putters to the body would be illegal — Finchem essentially told reporters, "We say: not so fast."
Granted, this is not as sexy a topic as Matt Kuchar beating Hunter Mahan in the Accenture final — on second thought, scratch that — but for golfers, the PGA Tour's objection raises serious questions about whether the rules of golf are really, you know, that important.
If the pros can toss one of them overboard, why can't the rest of us?
Finchem said it's not just Tour players, and cited the thousands of amateur players who have now taken up the long putter, and the unfairness of making them go back.
The truth is that the percentage of amateurs using anchored putters is minuscule compared to the near 20% who do so on the PGA Tour, and you don't need to be Einstein to figure out why. Because anchoring, with a lot of work and patience, helps take nerves and jumpy hands out of putting.
Europe's former Ryder Cup captain and team stalwart Colin Montgomerie says Finchem is opening up a "can of worms" by seeming to provoke a showdown with the rules makers in order to protect a minority of Tour pros.
We are playing Russian Roulette with the game
Finchem says there is no data to prove that anchoring helps, though three of the past five major championship winners were belly putters.
The governing bodies — who twice before debated the long putter question and in the end declared them legal — finally ruled on the crux of it: that anchoring the putter is contrary to the essential nature of what is a golf stroke, i.e., a freely-swung club held in the hands.
"To now go against that and say 'my players aren't going to go by that' … what happens when you come to USGA events or the British Open? Does that mean you have to use a different club?" Montgomerie said. "It's a very dangerous situation we are getting ourselves into."
"We are playing Russian Roulette with the game," says Frank Nobilo, the former Tour player, now Golf Channel analyst.
Yes, it's an issue that ought to have been nipped in the bud 40 years ago, but it wasn't. Yes, a whole generation of golfers has had the opportunity to use the long putters, and there are young touring pros who have never known any other way.
But if the PGA Tour — and the PGA of America, which has also registered its disapproval of the ban, on different grounds — force a test of wills over who sets the rules, and the USGA and R&A are forced to let them have their way, then we will know who really runs the sport: the professionals.
And that will be a sorry day for golf. We've already seen what the "leadership" of Tour players has done to pace of play. Even TV commentators, who have grown numb to the absurd pre-shot routines of the players, couldn't help but remark on Korean LPGA star Jiyai Shin's dithering at the Australian Women's Open, and Jason (All) Day's prowling and visualizing at the Accenture.
The interminable preliminary pacing and circling and rehearsing is now so ingrained, the mannerisms have crept into club play, and the amount of time a round of golf takes is now listed as one of the biggest factors in the game's struggle to attract new players.
What else have pros wrought? Well, the Tour, aided and abetted by equipment manufacturers, has driven a monkey-see, monkey-do trend to longer, more difficult, more time- and water- and real estate-consuming golf courses because of the distances the ball now travels. More maintenance means more staff and higher costs, another deterrent to taking up an already very expensive game.
Courses are going out of business everywhere. Fewer are being built.
We hold the USGA in highest regard as a key part of the game of golf. … It's just on this issue, we think if they were to move forward they would be making a mistake
Finchem said 13 of 15 members of his Player Advisory Council voted against the anchoring ban, meaning the majority of pros don't fear the belly or broomstick guys. He also said he isn't trying to start a "donnybrook" over the rules, but it's difficult to interpret the PGA's stance as anything but a declaration that it doesn't want the amateur blazer-and-school-tie crowd telling it how to conduct its business.
"We hold the USGA in highest regard as a key part of the game of golf," Finchem said. "We don't attempt to denigrate that position in any way. It's just on this issue, we think if they were to move forward they would be making a mistake.
"There's no reason to assume that everybody is going to go down different paths. I think we ought to be able to have a discussion about this and come to conclusions without negativity."
As long as they're the right conclusions, he means.


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From April 25 Thursday to April 26, Friday, 2013, the consortium offered a workshop on the effects of impurities on fuel cell performance at Morehouse College at Atlanta, GA site. The workshop was given by LANL Staff Scientist Tommy Rockward (Co-PI).
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Scope and Contents of the Records
Texas Secretary of State, Elections Division:
An Inventory of Elections Materials (Part II) at the Texas State Archives, 1909, 1913, 1936, 1940-1984
Agency History
The Texas Secretary of State is a constitutional officer of the executive branch of state government, appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate for a term concurrent with the governor's (a two-year term at first, a four-year term since 1974). The office was first created by the Constitution of the Republic of Texas in 1836, and has been continued by each succeeding Constitution.
The Secretary of State has an enormous number of duties and responsibilities, including the following: authenticating the publication of all laws passed by the state legislature; approving comptroller's accounts against the state prior to payment; maintaining a register of all official acts and proceedings of the governor, and all appointments to state boards and commissions; interpreting and enforcing the Texas Election Code, as the state's chief election officer; keeping the Seal of the State of Texas; maintaining many business-related filings, including corporation and Uniform Commercial Code filings.
The office of the Secretary of State is divided into five divisions: Executive, Elections, Business and Public Filings, Administrative Services, and Information Services.
The Elections Division assists the Secretary in interpreting and applying the Election Code and other election laws, and in carrying out his duties as the state's chief election officer. This involves the following tasks: receiving, examining, and filing the official certified returns of all general elections, special elections for members of the legislature, and constitutional amendment elections; preparing detailed and comprehensive written instructions on election laws and distributing them to state and local authorities who administer the laws; receiving official filings of election-related lists, records, and petitions; maintaining a registration service master file containing voter registration information for each registered voter in the state; providing for the training of election judges and clerks; certifying (in writing) the name of each candidate for U.S. president and vice-president and each candidate nominated at a primary election or party convention for a statewide or district office that will appear on the general election ballot.
In 1992, the functions of the Elections Division's Disclosure Filings Section were transferred to the newly created Texas Ethics Commission. Those duties had included the administration of certain ethics filings, created during the 1970s: statements of campaign contributions and expenditures for individuals and for political action committees (PACs), personal financial disclosure statements required of candidates and certain elected and appointed state officials, speaker's race reports, registration and reports of lobbyists.
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These records include certificates of election, canvasses of votes, election returns (mostly county returns, but also some precinct returns), correspondence, office memoranda, proclamations, clippings, presidential electors reports, minutes of the electoral college, Attorney General opinions concerning elections, precinct maps, lists of candidates, copies of relevant legislation, sample ballots, applications for a place on the ballot, election inspection reports, election schools materials, handbooks, voter registration reports, records of political parties (including minutes of party conventions, rules, and party primary expense statements), lists of officials prepared by the Secretary of State, election working files, and constitutional amendment working files. They comprise election materials created and/or maintained by the Elections Division of the Texas Secretary of State, dating 1909, 1913, 1936, 1940-1984. These materials document most general and special elections dating 1909, 1913, 1936, 1940-1984; and most primary elections dating 1950-1984. Files are not present for all elections. Most files reflect statewide or district races, although local races (e.g. for municipal offices) are also occasionally represented, especially in the case of special or contested elections. Parties represented include the Democratic and Republican parties, as well as independent candidates and third parties (Libertarian, Socialist Workers, La Raza Unida, American, Constitutional, Independent, New, Citizen, Whig, Confederate, American Family, Communist, and Populist Parties). Constitutional amendment elections are well-represented.
These records document the full gamut of election-related activities in Texas, including ordering and notification of elections, voter registration, political party rules, conducting primary elections, primary financing, political party conventions, application for a place on the ballot, preparation of the ballot, training and conduct of election judges and clerks, poll watching and election inspection, voting procedures, counting of ballots and preparation of returns, canvassing of election results, early voting, management of different voting systems, management of the presidential electoral college, election recounts, contested elections, bilingual requirements, and management of constitutional amendment elections.
Of particular note are voter registration reports dating 1967-1980. Arranged alphabetically by county and then in reverse chronological order within each folder, these reports give the number of registered voters precinct by precinct, with a county total. Reports dating 1967-1973 give a further breakdown (precinct by precinct) of number of voter registration certificates issued, and number cancelled.
Although some election returns are present in these files, the vast majority of election returns (county-by-county and precinct-by-precinct) have been described in three separate inventories (see Related Material).
This finding aid has been split into two separate finding aids due to electronic file size limitations imposed by TARO. Click here for Part I (mainly 1909, 1913, 1936, 1940-1975). If you are reading this in paper, that finding aid is found at a separate divider within the binder.
To prepare this inventory, the described materials were cursorily reviewed to delineate series, to confirm the accuracy of contents lists, to provide an estimate of dates covered, and to determine record types.
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Restrictions on Access
Restrictions on Use
Most records created by Texas state agencies are not copyrighted and may be freely used in any way. State records also include materials received by, not created by, state agencies. Copyright remains with the creator. The researcher is responsible for complying with U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.).
To view the videotapes or listen to the audiocassettes please contact the Archives' Preservation Officer.
Technical Requirements
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
(Identify the item), Election materials, Elections Division, Texas Secretary of State. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Accession Information
Accession numbers: 1979/195, 1989/064, 1989/092, 1995/041
These records were transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Elections Division of the Texas Secretary of State on June 1, 1979; and January 13, 1989; by the Administrative Division of the Texas Secretary of State on December 6, 1988; and by the Statutory Documents Section of the Texas Secretary of State on December 22, 1994.
Processing Information
Laura K. Saegert, September 1989
Tony Black, October 2003, February 2005
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SANDY, Utah – Real Salt Lake signed DF/MF Lovel Palmer to a contract on Thursday, nearly three weeks after selecting him in the first round of Stage 2 of the MLS Re-Entry Draft on Dec. 14. Per league and club policy, terms of the deal will not be disclosed.
"Lovel is a versatile player who we're excited to add to our roster," Real Salt Lake General Manager Garth Lagerwey said. "He's a proven player on both the MLS and international levels and we believe he'll be a good fit in our system."
Palmer, 28, last played for the Portland Timbers, making 19 MLS appearances – including 15 starts – for the Cascadia club in 2012. He signed with MLS in 2010, joining the Houston Dynamo from Jamaican club Harbour View. Palmer, who was traded from Houston to Portland in the middle of the 2011 season, has three goals and two assists in 79 career MLS appearances.
Palmer has a decent amount of international experience, earning 24 caps for the Jamaican national team since first joining the senior side in 2005. Palmer – who played on the national team with RSL head scout Andy Williams – does not have a goal for his country.
Palmer first played against RSL on Aug. 24, 2005, captaining Harbour View and scoring a goal against the Claret-and-Cobalt in a 1-1 draw in a friendly match at Rice-Eccles Stadium.
Player: Lovel Palmer
Position: Defender/Midfielder
Height: 5-foot-10
Date of Birth: Aug. 30, 1984
Birthplace: Mandeville, Jamaica
Citizenship: Jamaica
How acquired: Signed on Jan. 3, 2013; Selected in Stage 2 of the Re-Entry Draft on Dec.14, 2012


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Democrat Jared Huffman was leading with 70.4 percent of the vote over Republican Daniel Roberts in the race to represent Mendocino County in California"s newly drawn congressional District 2 at press time Tuesday.
Huffman, a sitting state assemblyman, commanded the lead with 125,262 of the votes in District 2, which includes Mendocino, Del Norte, Humboldt, Trinity, Sonoma and part of Marin counties. That included 65.82 percent of Mendocino County"s votes.
"For Mendocino County the good news there is that I intend to keep Congressman (Mike) Thompson"s operation in place, so it"s going to be a very seamless transition there," Huffman said. "I think it"s a great advantage up and down the coast that I"m inheriting a very experienced staff."
Tuesday night was still too early to start planning legislation, he said, although he has a reputation as a prolific legislator on the state Assembly.
"I"m going to see how the numbers shake out across the country," he said. "Right now it looks like I will be in the minority. If that"s the case, the bills you introduce and whether you"re allowed to have hearings on those bills could be out of your control
"The issues I intend to focus on are the economy, the fiscal cliff and the fiscal consequences. We need to see if the lame duck session takes action on these issues. If not, what I would like to see in January is a balanced approach focused on spending cuts on the military budget and things like subsidies to dig oil, and also include investments that will grow our economy by targeting education and infrastructure."
Huffman said he is optimistic about the two years of his term and the two years beyond it.
"Fortunately I see a second term for President Obama that should set up much better than the last four years," Huffman said. "I think we got a mandate tonight. Those who sought to define themselves by causing the president to fail are going to have to find a different strategy. I think anyone who, in the last two years, has chosen a path of obstruction got a big wake-up call tonight."
Huffman was elected to represent District 6, including southern Sonoma County and all of Marin County, on the state Assembly in 2006.
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