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DOMAIN-BASED EFFORT DISTRIBUTION MODEL FOR SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION by Thomas Tan ________________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMPUTER SCIENCE) August 2012 Copyright 2012 Thomas Tan
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|In software cost estimation, effort allocation is an important and usually challenging task for project management. Due to the Cone of Uncertainty effect on overall effort estimation and lack of representative effort distribution data, project managers often find it difficult to plan for staffing and other team resources. This often leads to risky decisions to assign too few or too many people to complete software lifecycle activities. As a result, projects with inaccurate resource allocation will generally experience serious schedule delay or cost overrun, which has been the outcome of 44% of the projects reported by the Standish Group. ❧ Due to lack of data, most effort estimation models, including COCOMO II, use a one-size-fits-all distribution of effort by phase and activity. The availability of a critical mass of data from U.S. Defense Department software projects on effort distribution has enabled me to test several hypotheses that effort distributions vary by project size, personnel capability, and application domains. This dissertation will summarize the analysis approach, describe the techniques and methodologies used, and report the results. The key results were that size and personnel capability were not significant sources of effort distribution variability, but that analysis of the influence of application domain on effort distribution rejected the null hypothesis that the distributions do not vary by domains, at least for the U.S. Defense Department sector. The results were then used to produce an enhanced version of the COCOMO II model and tool for better estimation of the effort distributions for the data-supported domains.
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|DOMAIN-BASED EFFORT DISTRIBUTION MODEL FOR SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION by Thomas Tan ________________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMPUTER SCIENCE) August 2012 Copyright 2012 Thomas Tan


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Over the past century, the relationship between the Oglala Lakota and the federal government has been uneasy at best. And it looked to stay that way—until a pair of brothers from an enemy tribe helped bring the two sides together, opening the door for a historic accord that could revolutionize how we think of national parks in America.
Author Brendan Borrell Photography Jessyel Ty Gonzalez
AN ELECTRICAL STORM IS BREWING as Trudy Ecoffey and I barrel across the short-grass prairie of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. I expected a rough ride—in addition to being hard country generally, some of this land once served as a bombing range and is to this day littered with unexploded ordnance— but Ecoffey, a biologist with the Oglala Lakota tribe, failed to warn me about our cargo. Which stinks like you can't imagine. When I look to her uncomprehendingly, with pleading eyes, she apologizes. "I didn't think about that last night. I had to put the stink sticks in the vehicle with us."
Stink sticks, Ecoffey tells me as I thrust my head out the passenger-side window and gasp for air, are wooden stakes dipped in a vile concoction that attract swift foxes to the cameras she's set up around the reservation. About the size of a house cat, with big pointy ears and a black-tipped feathery tail, the swift fox saw its population decline dramatically in the Great Plains around the turn of the 20th century. It's a ferocious predator—at least if you're a prairie dog—and is revered by the Lakota, who named an elite class of warriors after the animal. "It's a tough little critter," she says.
In 2009 Ecoffey brought 54 of the foxes to this windswept prairie and fitted them with radio collars, and she's been monitoring their progress ever since. In itself, her mission to help reintroduce the animals to their former territory has been successful. But Trudy Ecoffey represents more than the gradual return of an endangered species. In a way, she's also an olive branch from the U.S. government to the Oglala Lakota, a Sioux Nation tribe it evicted from a swath of the reservation 70 years ago to create the bombing range and, later, Badlands National Park. This land has been a source of dispute and disappointment for decades; now, suddenly, it's grounds for hope.
"Something needed to change between the National Park Service and the tribe," says Ecoffey. Last year it did—and that, in turn, has given rise to something that could change the way we think of national parks in America. As go the foxes, so too go the Lakota.
IT'S LATE AFTERNOON, and the Badlands are painted in a purplish light. The landscape is a labyrinth of ravines, a place of austere beauty and abundant wildlife. In just a few minutes I spot bighorn sheep, pronghorn, bison and even a bobcat, slinking across the road.
But there's always been more to this place than what the paved roads reveal. You can see it right there on the park map: the South Unit, a vast wilderness within the Pine Ridge reservation. And contrary to what the friendly woman at the park gate told me—"Not much to see down there"— there is in fact plenty to see. It just takes perseverance. You need a high-clearance vehicle, and it's best to do some research ahead of time because practically the only signs you'll see are warnings not to "disturb unknown objects" (since, as the signs also say, "they could accidentally explode").
This is Lakota country.
Ask most people what they know about the Lakota tribe, and you'll likely hear about Crazy Horse, the warrior whose likeness is now being carved into the Black Hills southwest of Mount Rushmore. Back in 1868, the Treaty of Fort Laramie granted the Oglala Lakota, along with other closely related Sioux tribes, land from the Black Hills east through much of South Dakota and part of Nebraska, creating the Great Sioux Reservation. Six years later, a military expedition discovered gold in the Black Hills, and Congress reneged on the deal. Crazy Horse took up arms and fought in many legendary battles, including the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 (in which he reputedly shouted, "Hokahey, today is a good day to die!" before charging Custer's troops). In 1877 he surrendered at Fort Robinson, Neb.; four months later he was fatally stabbed in the back by a U.S. soldier and became a martyr for Indian resistance. Thirteen years after his death, the U.S. Army killed more than 150 Lakota—men, women and children—at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota.
The Great Sioux Reservation was eventually split into five separate reservations, the largest being Pine Ridge. In 1942, the U.S. government turned part of the Badlands into an Air Force bombing range and forced more than 100 Lakota families to relocate. "My dad didn't want to move," Florida Jealous Of Him, a Lakota elder with long black hair, tells me in halting English. In fact, she and her brother got a thrill out of watching the planes fly in low over their pine log cabin—at least until a bomb went through a neighbor's roof. (No one was injured.)
In 1968, the federal government and tribal leaders began negotiations over returning the land. The agreement they reached stipulated that a third of the former bombing range would be developed and managed by the National Park Service. This so-called South Unit would be joined to the existing Badlands National Monument (a.k.a. the North Unit), established in 1939, to form a full-fledged national park; proceeds would be shared with the tribe. The rest of the bombing range would be cleared of ordnance and returned to the Lakota.
Unfortunately, the South Unit was never developed as promised, and remained merely a place to poach fossils and graze cattle. Furthermore, the Oglala Lakota resented the federal government's symbolic presence on their sovereign territory. The tensions ignited in April 2002, after the National Park Service wrote to tribal leaders saying that it planned to survey the South Unit and excavate any exposed fossils of the rhino-like mammals known as titanotheres, to protect them from poachers. The tribe refused. As word of the dispute spread across the reservation, it reopened old wounds and led to rumors of Indian graves being disturbed.
Keith Janis, who had been fighting for the return of his family's land from within the park's South Unit, was furious. "I trust our own people to manage those lands better than the National Park Service," he says. He and other protesters set up camp atop Stronghold Table, the same sacred spot where Sioux tribes had gathered in the run-up to Wounded Knee. There, the modern-day warriors performed, as their predecessors had done more than a century ago, a "ghost dance" to scare away the enemy.
For a time, it seemed the situation was intractable. When the resolution did arrive, it came with help from an unlikely quarter: two members of a tribe that was once the Lakota's sworn enemy.
GERARD BAKER, A MOUNTAIN OF A MAN with two long braids and a beadwork belt, sits in the Lakota Prairie Ranch Resort eating a hot beef sandwich. A Mandan-Hidatsa Indian from North Dakota, he spent 35 years working for the National Park Service. "It was tough coming up in the park service as an Indian," he says. Most U.S. national parks, including Yellowstone and Yosemite, were established on lands that once were home to Native Americans; for Baker, his loyalties were often difficult to reconcile.
After getting his start as a janitor, Baker rose through the ranks to eventually become superintendent at Montana's Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. There, he made few friends by emphasizing the Native American version of history over the government one. And things didn't get any easier when he became the superintendent of Mount Rushmore National Memorial in 2004, as the Oglala Lakota were battling for the return of their land nearby.
That's where the story of the Baker brothers really begins. Not long after Gerard took the top spot at Mount Rushmore, his older brother, Paige, became superintendant of Badlands National Park. Paige Baker made it a priority to rebuild trust with the Lakota: Among other gestures of goodwill, his administration began training Ecoffey and other tribal biologists in wildlife management, part of which has involved restoring the swift fox population.
After Paige retired in 2009, it didn't take long for the Lakota to connect with his brother—thinking, correctly, that Gerard would be an ideal bridge between the government and the tribe. He knew how to talk to Indians like an Indian; he knew how to write reports and file paperwork like a bureaucrat; and, as an outsider to the conflict, he could be objective in weighing the disparate voices on the reservation and brokering an agreement.
Last spring the Lakota hired Gerard Baker as interim executive director for the Oglala Sioux Parks and Recreation Authority. It was a timely hire: Three months later, the tribe signed an unprecedented accord with the National Park Service in which the latter agreed to give back the South Unit land—which, at 133,000 acres, makes up more than half of Badlands National Park. The tribe had weighed a number of options for the land, including scrapping the park designation completely or managing it as an independent tribal park, but decided instead to help create an entirely new breed of national park, one that would be run by the tribe but meet federal regulations.
That decision was enthusiastically received by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. "Our National Park System is one of America's greatest storytellers," he said at the time. "As we seek to tell a more inclusive story of America, a tribal national park would help celebrate and honor the history and culture of the Oglala Sioux people."
The next step is for Congress to formally designate the South Unit as an independent park. In the meantime—despite persistent complaints from members who'd rather see the land returned to the families who once lived there—tribal leaders are developing plans for a visitors center and studying the prospect of reintroducing bison (which currently live only in the North Unit). If the Oglala Lakota can prove themselves here, it opens the door to other tribes desiring greater involvement in parks set on former tribal lands.
It all adds up to an ideal situation, says Steve Thede, deputy superintendent at Badlands National Park, who also happens to be white. "Instead of hearing about the Indians from somebody who looks like me, you can hear about what the Indians did—and do—from an Indian."
RANDALL BLAZE LIVES ON the edge of Cuny Table, a lush agricultural plateau that abuts the South Unit. The Indian artist has spent the past 15 years creating his most ambitious sculpture yet: his home, a boxy, glass-fronted structure that's visible for miles in every direction. But the building is not found in any guidebook—at least not yet. Blaze has been warming to the idea of running a bed-and-breakfast, and was willing to put me up for a night.
"When I first came up here, it felt like I had come home," he says over a beer in a sunroom filled with paint-splattered ketchup bottles, glue guns and freshly stretched canvases. Blaze, who grew up in Montana and lived in Oregon for many years, is descended from Adolph Cuny, a French trader who married a Lakota woman in the 1860s. As a member of the Oglala Lakota, Blaze came to the reservation to reclaim 160 acres of his family's land.
After a divorce and some soul searching, he parked a trailer home here. It wasn't long before he started ripping out walls and tearing up the floor; pretty soon, the foundation was the only thing left of the original trailer. A master scavenger, Blaze redid his home with material that was once refuse, from the driftwood in his garden to the polished granite countertops in his kitchen.
Blaze and I hop into his blue pickup to drive out past the old Cuny cemetery and to the edge of the plateau. The grassland drops away, and the canyon in front of us offers the kind of vista you might expect in the desert Southwest. He points to the distant Stronghold Table, where this entire saga began playing out over a century ago. "The ghost dance came about as a way to make the white man disappear," he says.
Now, a new dance of sorts is being choreographed to invite them back. I wonder aloud whether that's necessarily a bad thing. "Well, it is fun to have people up here," Blaze says, grudgingly.
Brendan Borrell, who writes for Smithsonian, Bloomberg Businessweek and other magazines, spent at least one stormy night on the reservation chasing his tent through a horse pasture.


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The New York Daily News has a cool story about hanging out at the Manning family's annual summer football camp—which is less of a camp at this point and more of a pilgrimage site for thousands of wannabe NFL players—and there are some entertaining anecdotes in there about Peyton, Eli, and Archie. But none surpass this one in terms of Peyton-Manning-as-a-huffy-dad related hilarity:
Archie doesn't ask his boys to do anything until they arrive, but Peyton punches in for duty immediately. During a press conference on the second morning, a representative of Nicholls State stood at the front of the room and acknowledged the 10 years the camp has been on the site. He spoke quickly, awarded the family a plaque of gratitude and declared the occasion "Manning Day." Twenty college players were sitting in the back of the room, awaiting interviews with reporters, their conversation growing louder. Peyton was perturbed and whispered to media liaison Greg Blackwell. Blackwell requested the quarterbacks quiet down. They did, but a minute later the noise level rose again. Peyton, his face turning red beneath his orange Tennessee visor, slipped out of the camera shot and walked quickly toward the back.
"Ya'll need to stop," Peyton said. "Just stop."
The Manning camp may be a star-studded event that draws the likes of Johnny Manziel and Jameis Winston, but as long as Peyton is around it will still be, at least in part, a typical summer camp where a wooden and overworked counselor will scold campers for not keeping their dang voices down.


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Revlon's collection for Autumn/Winter is Suede Rhapsody Collection is by Gucci Westman and I have the eye quad, Silver Fox and two of the matte lipsticks to show you!
The quad, I have to say screamed at me – I LOVE my green and grey combo palettes – I love any palette with a stand out green! The two lip shades are matte and quite neutral to go with the bright eye.
The quad is a mixture of grey, green, white and a deep plum:
Does it remind you of a fox? I guess….maybe? I love the combination anyway…
The pigmentation and formula is decent – it has a light shimmer to it, and it's certainly soft although some of the shades (like the green and grey) aren't as vivid as I like. Used wet, it packs more punch.
On the eye:
White on the browbone, green in the creese, plum underneath and a bit of grey above the green. God I love my lash perm although I must admit, they're a bit frazzled.
The matte lipsticks also looked very promising.
The Smoked Peach looks just like that – a peach which has been under a lighter (that's how my mind works!) and the pink isn't very stormy but it looks very wearable!
Excuse the bumps on my hand – I got prickly heat whilst on holiday and it's taken 12 days just for the bumps to go down.
I always worry about mattes; my lips are easily dry and mattes can make things worse.
I'd say this formula is medium creamy, medium to full in terms of coverage and well pigmented. It's not Rouge Volupte in terms of creamy but it's decent. Reminds me of Nars's Semi Matte formula (but a little less drying):
It looks like I'm wearing lip liner, I'm not, my mouth does that if I've eaten something spicy, hehe.
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I LOVE peaches and I do like this lipstick although I'm not sure if it's a tad pale for me.
Stormy pink looks like a cute bubblegum matte pink. This made my lips look a little dry – hydrate hydrate hydrate girls! (I should be lecturing myself..hmmm…):
Argh I'm so fussy, but I think there's a bit too much blue in this pink for me, I'd like it more yellow based or candy like, this shade on me borders on lavender which I don't like, it reminds me of severed Barbie heads.
HOWEVER, I think this is a seriously cute shade for fairer blondes.
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Overall this collection is fun, I like that the shades are a little different from the obvious and there is definitely repeat wear in the products although I probably would wear a beige nude with the shadow and the lipstick with a different eye quad.
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Double act for Hawke and Howard
Former prime ministers John Howard and Bob Hawke shared a stage on Tuesday for only the second time since the end of their political careers, wowing a 900-strong business crowd in Sydney with anecdotes, jokes, arguments and the odd area of agreement.
Mr Hawke surprised many with a shot across the bows of the Gillard government's defence policy, declaring scepticism about the decision to allow US marines to rotate through Darwin.
"I don't think [the marine deployment] was necessary, myself," he told compere Ray Martin. "They would deny it's a base ... but that's just playing with the words."
He also rejected suggestions that China's rise should be a cause for alarm, saying "historically, China has not been hegemonistic".
Mr Howard also spoke up strongly for the relationship with China, welcoming Chinese foreign investment.
Both former leaders said Australia should not see itself as having to choose between its alliance ties with the US and its deepening economic relationship with Beijing.
The former political titans were speaking at a fund-raising lunch for Lifeline at Sydney's Westin Hotel, both having previously rebuffed many requests to appear on a stage together.
Asked by Martin why the leaders of the major federal parties were "on the nose" with the public , Mr Hawke suggested lack of "outstanding" political leadership was a problem worldwide, and that the media were part of the problem.
"There hasn't been a point before the present time, since the end of the Second World War, when there hasn't been at least one outstanding political leader in the world," he said.
"Why is this so? One of the reasons, I think, is that ... the media in general [ has ] become much more intrusive into the personal and private lives of people in politics."
"People of talent ... say, 'Why the hell, why should I subject myself to this?'"
Mr Howard disagreed, saying the media had always been intrusive, it was just that now they had "more devices" to be intrusive with.
He said Australian politics had a dead heat for the first time since 1940, and that there was a difference between popularity and authority.
Both he and Mr Hawke had experienced ups and downs in popularity but had never lost authority.
He said Prime Minister Julia Gillard's authority had suffered because she had "unusually" replaced an elected prime minister and had not won the last election in her own right.
"There is a sense in the community that she does not have the authority of an elected prime minister," he said. "When there is an election, I promise you this ... it will be a clear-cut result. We won't get another hung parliament."
On the outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Hamas, Mr Howard spoke strongly in support of Israel's right to defend itself, but said the world wanted a two-state solution.
Mr Hawke said not all blame could be laid at the feet of the Palestinians.
"The Israeli government has been less than responsible to its own self-interest in the way it has encouraged settlements [ on the West Bank]," he said.
He said the US had missed a great opportunity to pour money into the Palestinian economy to make it viable and create hope, which would "change the mindset of the Muslim and the Arab world".
Asked about the prospects of war in the Middle East, he said he hoped Israel would understand that all-out war was against its interests.
"That would spell the death warrant of Israel. If they attacked Iran, there is no doubt in my mind that Iran ... would get a nuclear device and put it into Israel."
The pair agreed on the dismal outlook for Europe and the hopes of an economic resurgence in the US.
Both expressed some disappointment with Barack Obama, Mr Howard saying that the election of the first black American president had been a "magnificent thing" but that Mr Obama hadn't fully delivered.
Mr Hawke said Mr Obama had come in with little experience and had not been helped by inheriting what he described as a "very significantly buggered-up economy".
"Is the world ... better off because it was him, rather than [Mitt] Romney? I would say marginally."
Mostly their old rivalry lay well buried beneath good-humoured banter, though Mr Hawke couldn't resist a dig when Mr Howard stated his flat opposition to gay marriage.
"He's not a bad bloke but he's a real bloody conservative" Mr Hawke declared, to laughter.
Mr Hawke said Mr Abbott was "not a plus" for the conservative side of politics in Australia and that he hoped the Coalition did not replace him.
Mr Howard leapt to the defence of his former protege, saying Mr Abbott's elevation to the leadership had set in train the course of events that led to Kevin Rudd being deposed.
Had Mr Abbott "not become the leader of the party before the last election, Rudd would never have been thrown out by the Labor Party and Rudd would have won the last election with a majority in his own right", Mr Howard said.


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Darwin's Insights Continue to Inspire the Academy's Work
The ideas of Charles Darwin and the concept of evolution by natural selection continue to have a profound influence on modern biology – they permeate almost every area of scientific exploration. The Academies have long been involved in educational activities and publications on many aspects of evolution. For example, in 2008 the Academies published Science, Evolution, and Creationism, to help people who are interested in evolution better understand its underlying principles and how evolution is an integral component of scientific research and thinking.
In 2009 the National Academy of Sciences joined many other organizations in the international scientific community to celebrate the 'Year of Science,' which commemorated Darwin's 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his masterwork On the Origin of Species. Information about some of the events we hosted as part of this celebration can be accessed through our event archive.
In 2010, the National Academy of Sciences awarded its most prestigious award, the Public Welfare Medal, to Dr. Eugenie Scott, Director of the National Center for Science Education, for her distinguished work to "…improve public understanding of both the nature of science and the science of evolution" (from comments by Dr. Ralph Cicerone, President, National Academy of Sciences during the presentation of the Public Welfare Medal).
In 2011, the Academies organized a convocation to bring together people from the life sciences community to explore ways to infuse concepts of evolution into all areas of biology education. Thinking Evolutionarily: Evolution Education Across the Life Sciences (2012) explains the major themes that recurred throughout the convocation held in Washington, D.C. They include the structure and content of curricula, the processes of teaching and learning about evolution, the tensions that can arise in the classroom, and the target audiences for evolution education. Videos from plenary sessions, interviews with participants, and resources from the convocation that led to this report may be accessed here.
In 2012 the Academies also released the report A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas as a first step toward developing the next generation of K-12 science education standards. The study of evolution is one of the themes running throughout this report with section LS4 focusing specifically on biological evolution. The Next Generation Science Standards were published in April 2013.
Research about evolution also has served as the basis for technical reports and research conferences that have been hosted by the National Academy of Sciences in past years. They include:


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Our 2013 partnership with the Student Conservation Association (SCA) won the Golden Halo Award at the 12th annual Cause Marketing Forum Conference in Chicago, IL. yesterday. The recipient of this award holds North America's most prestigious honor in the field of cause marketing. The 12-week "AEO + SCA + You" campaign that caught the attention of the award givers, featured hundreds of college students serving in two national parks, a fundraising component that raised $500,000 to support future conservation efforts, and a combination of in-store, online and social media activity that spread SCA's youth conservation movement to millions nationwide. "This exciting campaign allowed us to extend conservation from national parks to hundreds of American Eagle stores and communities nationwide," said SCA President Dale Penny. "Environmental sustainability is one of the most important issues among our customers," added American Eagle Outfitters Foundation Director Marcie Eberhart. "Our customers stepped up to serve and lend their voice and support to SCA. That's what 'Live Your Life' is all about."
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While the War of 1812 might be known as "America's Forgotten War" elsewhere, that's definitely not the case in Baltimore and Maryland. Our obsession with all things 1812 is one of the regional characteristics so pronounced that it is lampooned in "The Second City Does Baltimore" satire now running at Center Stage.
And Monday night, area viewers will have the chance to feed that appetite with two hours of a carefully researched documentary about the war from the husband-and-wife team of Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey.
"The War of 1812," which was produced in association with Washington's WETA, will air at 9 p.m. Monday on Maryland Public Television and other PBS stations nationwide. Its premiere is one of the first major events celebrating the bicentennial of the conflict among British, American, Canadian and Native American combatants.
But as nice as it is to have a large, hungry, Mid-Atlantic audience for the subject, that doesn't make the task of bringing to life on television a sprawling conflict that happened two centuries any easier, says co-producer and director Hott.
And it's even tougher when you have a budget of less than $1 million for two hours and you are forced to compete with prime-time football and new fall shows for the attention of the media-saturated American TV audience of today. The average cost of an hour of prime-time network television is about $3.5 million.
"There were two big challenges," Hott says. "How do you present the perspectives of the four combatants, and then, what do you show? We're filmmakers, and we want visual variety in the film. And we want verisimilitude. It's a documentary, so it should be true to reality."
But he and Garey were extremely limited in what visuals were available. When Ken Burns made "The Civil War," for example, at least he had photographs with which to work.
"This is 27 years before the invention of photography, 81 years before the invention of motion pictures," says Hott, who was once part of Burns' Florentine Films production company and is still in partnership with it. "And so, we decided we had to rely on re-enactments. But re-enactments are frequently cringe-worthy. They can be embarrassing,"
Hoping to avoid that, he and Garey made an early decision to spend whatever they had on getting the re-enactments right.
"We actually moved great portions of the budget that we were going to use for things like aerials and travel to doing re-enactments, because we wanted that to show up on the screen," Hott says.
"We basically went Hollywood without a Hollywood budget," the Emmy and Peabody Award winner explains. "We couldn't afford to show heads being blown up and bullets ripping through bodies. But what we could afford is smoke and muskets and musket fire and shooting in the evening — even after dark. In fact, some of my favorite shots in the film are of the tough, dirty-looking faces of the men, which we basically did by shining flashlights in their faces."
Hott and Garey use re-enactors as well I have ever seen them used. And I would urge anyone who categorically rejects re-enactments, a hotly contested issue for folks who take their history seriously, to check out the deft use of them in "The War of 1812." Hott has thought long and hard about the matter.
"I want to tell you a revelation I had about this," says Hott, who has been making documentaries since leaving the practice of law to join Florentine Films in 1978. "I've used a lot of photographs and motion pictures in the 33 years I've been doing this. I've looked at every archive that's ever been made. And, you know, there's a famous film expression that says, 'Every cut is a lie.' But also, every archive is a lie."
The "every cut" expression is a reminder to those who accept the images onscreen as reality or truth that directors and editors are constantly making decisions about what part of a scene gets filmed and shown — and what gets left out or cut. In other words, they are continually intruding on the reality that finally finds it way onto the screen.
Hott, who has produced 24 films for broadcast on PBS, believes the gap between the reality of the War of 1812 and what can be found in archives is even greater.
"None of the images about the War of 1812 are contemporaneous," he says. "Nobody was sitting out on the battlefield drawing images while the battle was happening. In fact, most of the images you see in the film that are paintings or engravings were made 80 or 90 years later."
And even if there had been photographs of the warfare, how much could those be trusted in rendering an accurate representation of the war in a documentary made today, he asks rhetorically.
"Just imagine that there was a photograph that was taken at a battlefield or someone did a contemporaneous drawing," he adds. "OK, what does the filmmaker of today do? The filmmaker homes in on a part of it. You know, you pan across something or you concentrate on one part of it or something."
In other words, the two-time Academy Award nominee says, you're choosing your frame.
"So, why are such images any more valid than a re-enactment that has been researched to within a hair's breadth of accuracy?" Hott concludes.
Hott knows that if there are inaccuracies in his and Garey's take on the "The War of 1812" that viewers in Baltimore and Maryland will likely be among the first to notice, given the way the war lives on here.
"Every expert in the country thinks his or her part of the country had the most important role in the war," Hott says, rattling off four other regions that make the same kind of claims historians in these parts do.
But, he allows, Baltimore's claim may be "more equal" because of the suffering and heroism here.
"The Battle of Baltimore really was important, because 15,000 militia and soldiers massed at North Point to back up Fort McHenry — and no other city did that," he says.
Furthermore, he says, "The fort withstood a 48-hour bombardment, and the city made a sacrifice by sinking its ships in the harbor to prevent the British from getting any closer. Plus, two heroic teenage snipers killed [British army] General [Robert] Ross, and then lost their life as a result. And the death of General Ross was humiliating and defeating to the British."
Finally, there was the suffering that Maryland residents endured.
"Maryland suffered more than most with [British Adm. George] Cockburn burning towns up and down the Chesapeake for more than year." Hott says.
"So, given the suffering and the heroic victory, yes, Baltimore and Maryland might edge out some of the other areas — just by a nose."
On TV
"The War of 1812" airs at 9 p.m. Monday on MPT, Channels 22 and 67, and other PBS stations.
While the War of 1812 might be known as "America's Forgotten War" elsewhere, that's definitely not the case in Baltimore and Maryland. Our obsession with all things 1812 is one of the regional characteristics so pronounced that it is lampooned in "The Second City Does Baltimore" satire now running at Center Stage.


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The government has finally started to listen to local corporations and show some flexibility. The polices unveiled last week to boost funding for the ailing LCD, DRAM, LED and solar industries will provide many companies with a much-needed lifeline and signal a reversal of the government's previous insistence on consolidation.
In addition, the Bankers Association of the Republic of China passed a proposal on Friday to extend loan periods for borrowers that the Ministry of Economic Affairs designates as qualified. This provisional regulation is aimed at helping firms weather the economic slumps in the eurozone and the US — two of the nation's major export destinations — by allowing firms to receive payment extensions after securing approval from banks that account for two-thirds of their credit, as opposed to the previous practice of a unanimous decision.
The relaxed loan extension rule, which will remain in effect until June, is a more practical way to rescue companies; relying on growth potential, rather than mergers and acquisitions.
It also ensures that lenders avoid the accumulation of bad loans because borrowers are expected to generate more cash from their operations with which to repay their debts after regaining strength, particularly as the global economy picks up next year.
However, LCD and DRAM companies will only remain good investments if they are able to focus on developing new technologies and better identify niche products.
Another encouraging development last week was the Ministry of Economic Affairs' announcement on Tuesday that it would inject US$5 million into a joint project between Intel and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) to develop next-generation DRAM technologies.
ITRI's Information and Communications Research Laboratories general-director Wu Cheng-wen (吳誠文) said the project would enable Taiwanese PC DRAM chipmakers to produce more value-added chips utilizing existing technologies and would not require a major investment in new equipment.
With its strong research team and financial support, ITRI plays a key role in developing cutting-edge technologies and transferring them to private firms. This project, with a total investment of US$15 million, seeks to find an optimal structure for so-called 3D chips, which integrate logic chips with memory chips on a substrate. The 3D chips will be mostly used in ultra-thin mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, sales of which are expected to continue to surge over the next few years.
This could explain why local memorychip company Powerchip Technology is reluctant to give up its PC DRAM chip business, despite shifting its focus to niche NAND and DRAM chips.
"Powerchip will continue to manufacture DRAM memory chips for certain customers because the technology is very important in developing 3D ICs [integrated circuits]," Powerchip chairman Frank Huang (黃崇仁) said last month.
In addition to Intel, a number of global heavyweights in the chip industry, including the world's No. 1 contract chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC), are developing 3D IC technology to produce smaller chips.
TSMC said during the past two years it has collaborated with a global DRAM company to develop 3D chips, while local rival United Microelectronics is working with Japanese memory company Elpida Memory and local memory chip packager Powertech Technology.


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ISHR, the International Society for Human Rights, launched a campaign to advocate the rights of Muslim women. "Stop the oppression of women in the Islamic world." What do you think? Do you interpret this as advancing human rights? Or is it perpetuating prejudice?
The campaign was developed at Grabarz & Partner, Germany, by creative directors Ralf Heuel and Dirk Siebenhaar, copywriter Bent Harmann and art director Julia Ebers, with photographer Veronika Faustmann.
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The easiest way to begin organizing your storage is to begin at the beginning. When you drop off an item, write it down. Some of us like the motto, "Why do today what can be done tomorrow?" But procrastinating certainly won't help you organize your storage. And it won't put you in a good position to plan and be ready for unexpected events.
Categorize different items you put in storage. Then create a map of your unit's layout. If you need something in a bind, you'll at least know the general area in which to look. To go further, if you're using boxes, number them, and take note of the contents of each box. Don't be looking for that replica quill James Madison used to sign the constitution at one in the morning. Especially if you collect replica feathers. And you have thirty boxes of them.
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Monday, July 5, 2010
Amanuensis Monday- More News Clippings
22 May 1891, Essex Echo
"Mrs. Joseph G. Allen has recently returned from a long visit to her son in South Boston."
This line refers to my 2x great grandmother, Sarah Burnham (Mears) Allen (1844 – 1913), and the son who lived in Boston was Warren Sherman Allen (1864 – 1927), a pipefitter and plumber, who lived in Dorchester.
22 May 1903, Essex Echo
"Mr. Elmer Allen and his brother, Mr. Charles Batchelder of Cambridge, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. Allen on Sunday."
Elmer refers to my great grandfather, Joseph Elmer Allen (1870 – 1932), and Charles Albert Batchelder (1879 – 1963) was actually his brother-in-law. Elmer married Charles's sister, Carrie Maude Batchelder (1872 – 1963) in 1892. At this time period they lived in the Boston area, and so they probably took the train to Essex to pay a visit.
13 May 1910, Essex Echo
"Mrs. Sarah B. Allen has been quite ill with indigestion at the residence of Mrs. Zebo at Lakeville. She was somewhat improved at last reports."
20 May 1910, Essex Echo
"Mrs. Sarah B. Allen has recovered from her recent illness."
This is my 2x great grandmother again, the wife of Joseph Gilman Allen seen above. She died only three years later. The Mrs. Zebo is actually spelled Tebo or Thebaud, a corruption of the name French name Thibault. Her daughter in law, Carrie Allen, (above) had a brother who married into this family in Essex. William Batchelder married Maud Frances Tebo. Her brother Howard Tebo had a wife named Gertrude. The famous schooner, Gertrude Thebaud, was built in 1930 at the Story shipyard in Essex. It was built to beat the equally famous Bluenose of Nova Scotia. It also made a trip to the Arctic Circle with the explorer Donald MacMillan. The Gertrude Thebaud sank in 1948. We always thought that the ship was named for this Gertrude Tebo. The schooner was named for the wife of her owner, Louis Thebaud, a wealthy summer resident of Gloucester, and cousin of Howard Tebo.
What a gossip sheet this newspaper was for its time!
Copyright 2010, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
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Thumbs-up for $15-an-hour minimum wage in new S.F. poll
New survey finds majority in favor of minimum wage boost to $15 an hour in city
Raising San Francisco's minimum wage to a nation-topping $15 an hour has broad support in a new poll obtained by The Chronicle - a strong sign that voters will have a chance to weigh in on the city's widening wealth disparity gap in November.
One reason, according to the poll, is because skyrocketing housing costs are reshaping the city's face: 45 percent of respondents in the new survey say friends or family have moved out of the city in the past two years because they could no longer afford to live there. Nearly a third said they were likely to leave in the next five years. Sixty-one percent of the LGBT respondents said family or friends have been priced out over the past two years.
The survey of 400 likely November voters found that 59 percent of respondents support raising the minimum wage from its current $10.74, which is adjusted with the regional rate of inflation. San Francisco already has the highest big-city starting wage in the country. SeaTac, a small city near Seattle's airport, recently approved a $15 an hour floor.
The new poll found that 36 percent of the respondents opposed a jump to $15, and 5 percent were undecided. The survey, which was funded by several unions that support raising the minium wage, has a margin of error of 4.9 percentage points.
Advocates and pollsters were thrilled - and somewhat stunned - at the level of support, especially considering that San Francisco's electorate in off-year elections is older (62 percent are over 50 years old) and whiter (63 percent) than in presidential years, which analysts say makes it comparatively conservative, at least by San Francisco standards.
Plus, the low level of undecided voters indicates that most people have made up their minds about the issue.
Big change in 11 years
The national attitude toward the minimum wage was different 11 years ago, when San Francisco voters last approved raising the minimum wage.
President Obama now talks about raising the federal level from $7.25 an hour. Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation last fall to raise California's minimum wage, currently at $8 an hour, to $10 by 2016. Even former California GOP gubernatorial candidate Ron Unz wants to boost the state level - he is currently gathering signatures to up it to $12 in 2016.
In the Bay Area, the public has become more attuned to wealth inequality over the past two years as San Francisco has become the national case study on the haves and have-nots. According to a recent study by the Brookings Institution, the gap between San Francisco's wealthy residents and its poor ones is growing faster than in any other city in the nation.
"We have never seen numbers this high" on concerns over the cost of living and the "availability of housing for people like you," said Shanan Alper, a pollster with David Binder Research, a San Francisco-based firm that has done polling for Obama.
Alper had little doubt that a $15-an-hour measure would pass in November, though it falls just short of the magic number of 60 percent support that pollsters prefer to see before an election.
Mayor Lee's position
Mayor Ed Lee supports a "significant" increase, but has not settled on what it should be, said spokeswoman Christine Falvey. He is working with a group of small-business owners, labor and community leaders on crafting a measure to put before voters in November.
Meanwhile, $15-an-hour advocates will huddle this week to discuss their next move in light of the poll results.
Likely standing in their way will be some small-business leaders and the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, who say that raising the minimum wage would cause collateral damage. They predict that businesses would raise prices and shed employees. And some would close.
"Most small businesses in the city would oppose it," said Henry Karnilowicz, president of the San Francisco Council of District Merchant Associations. "Thirteen (dollars an hour) they could tolerate, maybe, but more in the range of $11 or $12 an hour."
A $15-an-hour mark "would have a huge impact" on the city's restaurants, said Gwyneth Borden, executive director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association. "Restaurants would raise their prices. There's no other way to remediate out of it."
Plus, Borden said, when San Franciscans voted in 2003 on the minimum wage, they supported a 26 percent increase. Bumping it to $15 an hour now would be a 40 percent jump.
According to national economic research, a 10 percent increase in the minimum wage leads to price increases in restaurants of about 0.8 percent, said Michael Reich, a professor of economics and director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UC Berkeley.
But the city's last minimum wage bump didn't cause prices or the unemployment rate to spike.
Even though San Francisco has also mandated universal health care and paid sick leave in addition to its higher minimum wage, private-sector employment grew 5.6 percent from 2004-11, according to a recent study by UC Berkeley economists. Employers absorbed the higher wage costs largely through reduced turnover, lower absenteeism and fewer grievances. The study found a 2.8 percent increase in restaurant prices due to the minimum wage increase.
Meanwhile, advocates for low-income workers say boosting the minimum wage to $15 an hour would put an additional $8,861 annually in the hands of each full-time minimum wage worker in San Francisco.
Many need public aid
Now, many working people need public assistance. A national study by the UC Berkeley Labor Center in October found that 52 percent of the families of fast food workers are enrolled in one or more public assistance programs, compared with 25 percent of the workforce as a whole.
In California, researchers estimate that low-paid fast food workers cost taxpayers $717 million a year in state and federal assistance, according to the UC center's study, which was co-authored by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
"People are busting their butts now, working two or three jobs and they're not making it," said Andrea Bell, an organizer with the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, which has helped to organize fast food workers. "This would help."
By the numbers
59% Respondents who say they support raising the minimum wage.
36% Respondents who say they oppose an increase.
$10.74 Current hourly minimum wage.
$15 Proposed minimum wage.
Joe Garofoli is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @joegarofoli


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The case deals with a non-solicitation clause. There was no non-dealing/non-acting clause. You will probably find one of those in your law firm employment contract/partnership agreement so you may not find this case as helpful as it might otherwise be, especially as the judge says, albeit obiter in paragraph 383, that these may still be reasonable.
There is not a lot of law in the decision, and the Honorable Mrs Cox deals with it briefly, mainly relying on the text books and concludes:
"In my judgment a contractual, non-solicitation clause of the kind in this case means that ex-employees must not directly or indirectly request, persuade or encourage clients of their former employer to transfer their business to their new employer. Employers are entitled to prevent ex-employees from exerting influence of this kind over their clients. The question in this case is therefore whether Towry has demonstrated to the civil standard on all the evidence that an individual Defendant's communications with Towry's clients, as they became, contained a material element of persuasion, with a view to gaining the business of those clients. Whether there has been persuasion or encouragement will depend, in each case, on all the circumstances. Determination of this issue is clearly fact specific".(paragraph 440 - my emphasis)It was accepted that solicitation and canvassing were the same thing (paragraph 434).
The other important point to note is that the burden of proof to the civil standard lay firmly with Towry and the stories show that even with cross-examination they could not get that evidence before the Judge.
The value of this judgement to those in the real world it gives us the facts and story line for each of the individual defendants.
In this case the leavers were not motivated by personal greed - their original employer Edward Jones had failed to make its US model work in the UK and sold out in financial difficulties to Towry, so their employees were being ported across with new contracts that did contain a non-dealing clause (as well as many other changes to their working practices and environment) and some chose to go to Raymond James after resigning and/or having their employment terminated when they refused the new terms. The covenant issue loomed large from the beginning and all parties had taken advice. As it transpires that initial advice was worthwhile.
Since the clients all knew there was a hiatus, it is not surprising that many contacted their former advisers without being contacted first. Google Ads from other advisers are still suggesting that clients transfer away from Towry.
The evidence of what was done after the former clients had made contact and expressed a desire to transfer was not taken into account as solicitation. See for example:
"Making particular recommendations, explaining fees and costs, or giving information or advice as to how to give effect to their decision to transfer and move forward, after those clients had already made their decision to stay with Mr Bennett and to do what was necessary to bring that about, does not in my judgment evidence solicitation." (paragraph 635)
It is likely that the judge was much influenced by the evidence of the individuals who said they had delete, removed or disposed of client contact details and waited for their clients to contact them. It seems that they kept their mobile phone numbers. It was clear that the clients would have had little difficulty finding and contacting their former advisers as they were mainly living in the same local communities so no Internet social networks were required. The clients also had good factual reasons to transfer their work away from Towry so there was no need for the advisers to exercise any persuasion on them. They had made their decisions before they went through the new client care procedures prescribed by their regulator.
Any case is limited by its facts, but the stories here show the virtues of having good client relationships and your own mobile phone number. If your clients contact you and demand service you can talk to them if you have no non-dealing covenant. Otherwise you are sitting it out, unless the clients have the wits to demand your former employer release them and brook no denial. It is pretty sad that employers demand such covenants but equally they have a business to run and sustain. Here the loss of business was on such a large scale that Towry must have felt obliged to try and recover their losses on the acquisition.
I don't know whether there will be an appeal. It seems unlikely that the evaluation of the evidence by the judge can be changed. For more information read the judgement.


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If you already know what I'm talking about, the good news is that the California DWR plans to preserve the Jose vineyard when it renovates the surrounding marshland. If that didn't make sense to you, keep reading.
This past March, a small hullaballoo arose in response to a California Department of Water Resources plan to reconstruct a tidal marsh in Eastern Contra Costa County in the general, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta area. The project, while an otherwise lovely effort to protect and maintain verdant wetland habitat, would have destroyed a historic and utterly irreplaceable 14-acre Carignane vineyard ("the Jose vineyard") originally planted in the 1880's. I wrote about the project and reasons for saving the vineyard here: Let's stop a bad thing from happening for a good reason: saving a historic California vineyard.
This morning, the Dept. of Water Resources released their final plan and recommendations for the project, revised after a comment period during which 115 people (including me), and the city of Oakland, voiced concerns about losing the vineyard and supported changing the project to preserve it. The good news: the revised plan keeps the vineyard in place, along with a perimeter access road and an adjoining "buffer area."
The original plan read: "The proposed project will result in the removal of the Jose Vineyard in order to achieve proper elevation and vegetation consistent with the tidal marsh restoration, which would be considered a substantial adverse change to the property under CEQA. Project redesign in order to avoid this impact while still meeting restoration goals has been determined infeasible." Well, somehow they found the will to make it feasible, mostly by looking for soil fill elsewhere.
.6 acres of obviously newer, replanted vines at the vineyard's edge will be ripped out and replanted with native dune vegetation, but the remaining 13.4 acres will stay put. This seems entirely sensible. While I think an argument could be made for keeping the whole vineyard intact as a historic site, the old vines are the most important concern here. It's hard for me to argue for why we should value .6 acres of newish vines over .6 acres of good native habitat without intimately knowing the vineyard.
The project report recommends restrictions on what vineyard management techniques can be used in the interest of protecting the surrounding flora and fauna which, again, seems entirely sensible unless and until some deadly disease threatens the whole vineyard with salvation available only by drastic chemical means. I don't know how significant the restriction is for this specific vineyard or if it changes anything about the way the vineyard is currently managed. But, again, it's hard for me to argue in favor of using environmentally-damaging chemicals in agriculture ever, period.
In short, I feel comfortable calling this good news: for the herons and frogs, for the wine industry, and for however we represent the general interests of California history. And if you need to spend more time thinking about good news today, or if dense legislative language gives you thrills, you can find the full revised report here along with a summary of comments and the Department's replies here.


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Newtown victim Charlotte Bacon, 6, remembered as 'gift of love, excitement'
NEWTOWN -- There were pink ties, tops and scarves. Little girls wore magenta skirts and shirts, carnation-colored barrettes and headbands.
Even the church's support beams seemed to take on a pinkish hue for the funeral of Charlotte Bacon, a six-year-old who was wearing her new pink dress when she was killed in Friday's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
It was a Christmas gift worn early by a girl who loved adored color.
"For some little girls, pink is just something pretty, but for Charlotte, it was a passion," her uncle said Wednesday during a Wednesday service at Christ the King Lutheran Church. "And by a passion, I mean an addiction."
Pink buttons with her bright-eyed, smiling face were handed out on the way in.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, U.S. Rep.-elect Elizabeth Etsy, U.S. Sen.-elect Chris Murphy and U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal were among the hundreds that filed into the red-brick Church. A Christmas wreath hung above the doors.
Hundreds of cars lined up to park in the lot and parked on the grass when there was no space left. Among them was a small red car, with a "Hokies" Virginia Tech license plate holder -- a solemn reminder of similar tragedies in years past.
Mourners walked in, some holding hands in groups, and wearing green and white ribbons -- the colors of Sandy Hook Elementary School, where Charlotte was a student.
During the funeral, she was remembered as an independent, rambunctious little girl.
"She was a gift of love, she was a gift of excitement, she was a gift of adventure, and we can admit, she was a gift of mischief," said Pastor Rob Morris.
Morris recalled that Charlotte referred to the church's hymnals as the "Jesus opera."
Her favorite movie was "Brave," which features a rebellious, adventurous young girl, with long red hair, much like Charlotte's.
Some friends and her performed a song from the film on the last day of a musical theater camp this past summer.
Amid pink and purple bouquets and menagerie of stuffed animals surrounding the closed casket was a poster Charlotte had drawn, with the words "Charlotte's friends" across the top and drawings of animals with names like "Lollipop" and "Snowy."
Charlotte had wanted to be a veterinarian since she was 2 years old and loved to visit the zoo, as she had done with her family two weeks prior.
Her aunt pleaded with the crowd to remember the bright girl with the beautiful face, and not the way she was taken away from her family.
Charlotte's cousin Jill said "she'll be greatly missed, but because of Jesus, we know we'll see her again."
The funeral opened with 26 strikes of a gong in remembrance of all those murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and Pastor Rob Morris reminded the nearly 300 attendees that the families would need them to be there to help in the months of grieving to come. "A lot of people have asked me how they can help me through this time," Morris said.
"If you want to help me, promise me that."
Morris also took time to recognize the volunteer funeral directors, as well as the state trooper assigned to look after the family. He also asked for people to send notes to the state medical examiner's office, thanking three men who worked the crime scene for all they had to endure.
A family friend spoke about a Facebook posting by Charlotte's father, Joel Bacon, about how much she liked the song "Home" by Phillip Phillips. She said she was astounded a few hours later to be talking with Phillips, who was desperately looking for ways to help. "It's Charlotte's song," he told her. "It was meant for her. I realize that now."
Charlotte had been riding in the car with her mother the day before the shootings when the song came on. The family friend said Charlotte declared her love for the song and asked for it to be turned up, then began singing it at the top of her lungs. As they drove down the road with the music blasting, Charlotte said "are you singing Mommy? Sing louder!"
"Just know you're not alone, 'cause I'm gonna make this place your home."
Jennifer Swift contributed to this story.


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BRAINERD, Minn. – In this week's Northland Outdoors TV episode, we feature northeast South Dakota veteran trapper John Almquist who for 50 years, regardless of the weather conditions, has walked his prairie trapline, not for the money, but to connect with the outdoors on a very personal basis.
Join the crew as they travel to the southwestern Minnesota town of Hendricks to see how Bank Brewing Co., a successful private craft beer business, is working to preserve quality wildlife management areas and create new, premiere wildlife habitat by serving up beer.
See it all in this weekend's episode of "Northland Outdoors TV."
Northland Outdoors TV debuted on Fox Sports North and many other local ABC affiliates across North Dakota in July. The show is hosted by veteran outdoors radio host Brett Amundson.
The 30-minute show airs weekly at 7 a.m. on Fox Sports North, which airs in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and upper Iowa. Addition, the show will air at 10 a.m. Central (9 a.m. Mountain) on Channel 6 WDAY TV in Fargo-Moorhead; Channel 8 WDAZ TV in Grand Forks and Winnipeg; Channel 17 KBMY in Bismarck and Dickinson; and Channel 14 KMCY in Minot, Williston and reaching Fort Peck.
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tphss wrote an interesting review; however, I have to say his three star review for the product is not a good description of this detector, and here's why:
(I'll negate his cons first, then I'll talk about the pluses of the detector)
1. While the display does show the speed for a few seconds when it first receives a signal, it makes a UNIQUE sound for each band that you'll encounter. You'll learn these sounds while driving, and the speed is very useful as it shows the exact speed you are going (the speed on my detector has been far more accurate than the actual speedometer - the speedometer is 3 MPH under what the car does)
2. He's right about the sounds, though I find this more useful than a display. When you receive an alert, it's best to be able to respond before getting distracted. In other words, when I hear an alert, I immediately slow and start scanning for cops on the road. (or other radar source)
3. Yes, I'll give him this, setting overspeed limit is annoying. Can't argue on that one.
4. I don't see how this is a con, but I could see how this could be troublesome for some.
5 & 6. Escort does give you updates for free for a trail time. I think that's really all you need, as the updates usually update false signals and cameras. Some people may consider this a deal breaker... I don't. Also, I feel bad to those who have Apple products (for getting ripped off, I kid)... But, you can easily install boot camp to the mac and install a copy of windows. This is not something that should be a deal breaker.
7. Yes, this is true too. The only thing you can do is turn down the volume so she doesn't yell so loud.


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McNeese Spring Late Registration Set
Late registration begins at 7:45 a.m. Monday, Jan. 9, and closes at 11:59 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12. To late register, students can go online to www.mcneese.edu and click on the "Current Students" tab and then select Banner Self-Service under Registration to begin the process
Students who late register must pay fees by 4:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13, or all courses will be dropped. Fee bills will not be mailed to late registrants.
Students may pay fees online using a check or bank draft, MasterCard or Discover credit card or in person at the McNeese Cashier's Office using cash, check or money order. Payment can also be mailed along with a copy of the fee bill remittance stub to McNeese Administrative Accounting, Box 92935, Lake Charles, LA 70609.
A $50 late fee will be charged for those who participate in late registration. First-time freshmen and students who sign up for three hours or less will not be charged late registration fees.
Students who wish to drop or add classes can do so online during late registration. Additional fees for added classes must also be paid by 4:30 p.m. Jan. 13 or all courses will be dropped. For more information on fee payment, contact the McNeese Accounting Office at 337- 475-5107.
For more information on McNeese's late spring registration, contact the McNeese Registrar's Office at 337-475-5356. McNeese offices will be closed Dec. 19-Jan. 2 and will reopen Jan. 3.


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Anglers can fish for free in New Mexico on Saturday, Sept. 28, as the state celebrates National Hunting and Fishing Day.
Anyone can fish for free in public fishing waters throughout the state Saturday, Sept. 28, but everyone must observe bag limits and all other rules and regulations. For more information, please visit www.wildlife.state.nm.us.
For information about where to fish and what to use, consult the department's weekly fishing and stocking report. Maps of public fishing waters, lists of where to find family-friendly fishing and tips on how to fish also can be found on the department website.
Fish for free in New Mexico on National Hunting and Fishing Day Saturday, Sept. 28
Come to the Gallinas Riverfest in Las Vegas Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Department staff will join Hermit's Peak Watershed Alliance, Trout Unlimited, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and community partners to help you learn how to cast, tie knots, identify the best fishing holes and how to care for a fly rod. Beginners are welcome and all equipment is provided for the workshop. View the Gallinas Riverfest Facebook page for more information.
Join the Sandia Mountain Bear Collaborative for this festive event which will feature lectures on living with Bears, and Bear behavior. Children's events and booths about wildlife from local organizations will be there!
Department of Game and Fish staff will be assisting Project Healing Waters as they take approximately 7 veterans fishing in northern NM.
This will be a fishing event for invited media at Fenton Lake to learn basic fishing skills, attend a tour of Seven Springs Fish Hatchery and discuss restoration efforts of the Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout and the importance of hunting and fishing in tourism and local economies.
The Department of Game and Fish is seeking public comment on proposed revisions to the furbearer rule.
See also Furbearer rule changes topic of public meetings and the Proposals Under Consideration page.
The Department will be participating at the Festival of Cranes in San Antonio, NM. Come see our backyard bass program, focusing on casting skills, and a wildlife information trunk at this event.


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Big, fist-in-the-air rock from Jared Leto's Thirty Seconds To Mars, 'From Yesterday' is quite clearly the Kerrang! Award-winners' (best single, for their last, 'The Kill') most boldly mainstream standalone yet. Massive chorus, yep; the rest, kind of floats by without ever engaging its audience.
But that chorus, man: winner. U2 don't even make 'em like this any more. Make of that remark what you will on your way to scanning downward to that mark out of ten based on me not giving one solitary fuck about hollow but glossy mall-rock like this.
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Coding Conventions
The golden rule is to follow whatever conventions are already being used in the module you're editing. If you're creating a new module then follow the conventions used in existing modules. If you're not sure what the conventions are, then ask.
We don't want multiple coding styles in DDC. Having different styles creates "accidental complexity", that is, syntactic differences in the source that don't equate to real functional differences.
General Rules for all Languages
- Tabs are 8 spaces. The reason being that when you cat a text file to a unix console they come out as 8 spaces. Keep your editor set to tabs-as-8-spaces or you'll end up committing misaligned code. No further discussion will be entered into on this point.
- We prefer literal tabs at the start of lines instead of hard spaces.
- Each top-level definition should have a comment explaining what it is for. One liners are fine.
- Running comments in the bodies of functions are encouraged. Write down what you were expecting the code to do when you wrote it, so it reads like a story. Aim for 1 comment line every 5-10 code lines, depending on how complex the code is. This level of commenting would be overkill for a cookie-cutter program like a database GUI, but compilers are a completely different beast. For n lines of code there are potentially n^2 bugs (at least), so we want to know exactly what each line is trying to achieve.
- All top-level bindings should have a type signature. Exceptions can be made for functions that are continuations of others, as they will never need to be called from outside the module they are defined in.
- Feel free to add dividers like:
-- Optimiser Monad -----------------------------------------------------------------
Such dividers increase the structure of the code and help the reader find things, especially with syntax highlighting editors. Most dividers should be 100 chars wide. If you want sub dividers then use 80 or 40 columns. If you have more than a few dividers in a module then consider breaking it up into smaller modules.
- If a function does several things in a regular way, then it should look like that in the source code. This means you should line up arguments to similar function calls. For example, use this:
= do someFunction "Monday" (23, 23) (Just 'a') someOtherFunction "Tuesday" ("this", "that") Nothing anotherFunction "Wednesday" ('a', 'b')
instead of this:= do someFunction "Monday" (23, 23) (Just 'a') someOtherFunction "Tuesday" ("this", "that") Nothing anotherFunction "Wednesday" ('a', 'b')
- For the same reason, line up the '=' signs in groups of bindings. For example, use this:
let thing = some stuff someOtherThing = some more stuff oneLastThing = still more stuff in ...
instead of this:let thing = some stuff someOtherThing = some more stuff oneLastThing = still more stuff in ...
- Most names should use camel case style, but it's ok to use underscores in a postfix when naming different "versions" of a value. For example:
let pastaSalad = initialSalad pastaSalad_spiced = addSpice pastaSalad "Oregano" pastaSalad_baked = bakeThing 100 pastaSalad_spiced ... in ... pastaSalad_baked ...Avoid using names like pastaSalad' and pastaSalad'', because the prime doesn't provide any additional documentation.
- Name conversion functions like globOfTops :: [Top] -> Glob instead of topsToGlob :: [Top] -> Glob. The type may be the opposite way around compared to the name, but it makes the source code easier to read. Consider (globOfTops someTops) vs (topsToGlob someTops).
- If part of a variable name reflects its type, then put that part out the front. For example, source code variables of type Shared.Var should be named something like vThing, with a v out the front. Sets or lists of variables should be named vsThing with vs out the front. Avoid using names like thingVar and thingVars. We're not mandating Hungarian Notation, but if you're going to name a variable after a type anyway, then put the type part out the front.
- Keep the sizes of the modules small. If a module has more than about 400 lines then consider breaking it up. Modules with just 100 lines are fine. Using small modules makes them easier to digest, forces you to think about the overall structure of the code, and helps parallel builds.
Haskell / Disciple Specifics
Module signatures
Like the this, with the commas on the left:
module Thing ( someFunction , someOtherFunction , moreStuff ) where ...
Try to put the do on the same line as the =
Use this:
fun x = do y <- thing return (x + y)
Instead of this:
fun x = do y <- thing return (x + y)
The second version creates extra visual noise. As function names have different lengths, the column position of the top-level do will tend to be different between functions.
Put the $ on the left
Like this:
foo x = bar cheeze $ whatever baz $ thingo
Instead of this:
foo x = bar cheeze $ whatever baz $ thingo
This is also to reduce visual noise. Notice how in the first version all the symbols line up.
Avoid nested functions
Only define nested functions when the nested one is a small worker function, such as something you want to map across a list.
Functions that are continuations of other functions should be written like this:
mainFun | checkBadness = error "fails" | otherwise = do x <- someSetupThing y <- someSetupThing2 mainFun_good x y mainFun_good x y = do restOfThing1 restOfThing2
Note that the continuation is named after the initial one, with a "_good" suffix that identifies the preconditions that the initial one sets up.
Prefer let over where
Prefer this:
niceFunction x = let dude = thingo x epic = goodness dude in baz epic dude
Instead of this:
niceFunction x = baz epic dude where dude = thingo x epic = goodness dude
Using a "where" is ok when baz does something trivial, like initialise a loop. However, any time "baz" does something interesting you should use a let, otherwise the conceptual flow of the code is ruined. Using let over where also makes it easier to convert to strict Disciple code.


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