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Saugatuck Michigan, Sherwood Forest Bed and Breakfast offers luxury. Hardwood floors, leaded-glass windows and wraparound porch add to ideal surroundings. Two suites are available with Jacuzzi-fireplace. One room sports a hand-painted mural that transforms the room into a canopied tree loft complemented by gas fireplace. Outside is a heated pool adorned with a hand painted mural of a sunken Greek ship embedded in a coral reef. Walk 1/2 block to a Lake Michigan beach and beautiful sunsets.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Today in West Michigan: Last night we had about 3 inches of fresh powder, today will have temps in the low 30's. Northeast wind between 11 and 17 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total daytime snow accumulation of around 3 inches.
Here at Sherwood Forest Bed and Breakfast, love is still in the air folks, we're almost full for this weekend, so if your looking to get away with your significant other and gaze lovingly into each others eye (we can also place some awesome chocolates, roses or champaign in your room and recommend a great romantic restaurant too). Give us a call and we can help make sure you get the downtime you desire.
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before-Mignon McLaughlin
Here's an indoor and a few outdoor suggestions.
Here at Sherwood Forest Bed and Breakfast, here's some suggestions for you to do today. You can hit the Antique Mall and see all you grandparents old stuff, wander over the Lakeside Lanes in Douglas, they have 8 lanes. Then you can head to the The Holland Museum it's located at 31 W. 10th Street in downtown Holland, an awesome place to spend a few Hours! The current exhibit is ARCHIPELAGO: Indigenous Art of Indonesia & Melanesia
Take a long walk along the beach and wonder at the marvel of the ice on the lake, there are some winter birds on the water too, such as Greater and Lesser Scaup, Common Goldeneye and Oldsquaws, which inhabit Lake Michigan's near and offshore waters as long as the lake remains ice-free.
With today's fresh snow and the temps right around freezing, you can go ice skating, either in downtown Douglas or Saugatuck, Michigan. Cross country ski at the state park (you can rent skis at Landsharks). Do some sledding at Westshore Golf Course (2nd hole is the best! and we have sleds). Take a long walk along the beach and wonder at the marvel of the ice on the lake, there are some winter birds on the water too, such as Greater and Lesser Scaup, Common Goldeneye and Oldsquaws, which inhabit Lake Michigan's near and offshore waters as long as the lake remains ice-free.
Head to Kalico Kitchen for lunch, your pocket book will be happy?
Don't forget to check out our calendar of events for February at Sherwood Forest B & B Monthly Newsletter and if you wish to see some of our accolades check out our Sherwood Forest B & B Awards and Reviews Page.
You also might wish to give a thought to booking one of our Sherwood Forest Bed and Breakfasr Gourmet Dinners, November through April. Please feel free to check out our website. Sherwood Forest B & B Gourmet Dinners
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> California plan may kill black cars
> China kills people in vans, harvests organs
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April 3, 2009
Mercury News reported last week that California is considering requiring automakers to use more reflective paint in an effort to battle global warming. Car companies say this means the color black may end up banned in the state. And the Daily Mail reported last week that China is using numerous "death van's" to carry out executions around the country, and high-tech equipment preserves the victim's organs for sale on the black market. Meanwhile, the Metro reported earlier this week that a 30-year-old blonde who stole £8,000 worth of cosmetic surgery procedures was finally busted by police in California. Pundits are debating the benefits of fake boobs, organ traffiking and banning the color black.
"The only real way to save the world from the dangers of global warming and flat-chested women, is to ban all dark colors and harvest the organs of people we don't like and sell them to fund breast implants," said Hu Yu-Kiddn, an unemployed philosopher and fruitopian, currently Al Gore's biggest fan. "Most of the problems we will face in the future will be due to the end of the ice age and the decline in the size of women's breasts in the industrialized countries. If we will detonate nuclear devises in earth's atmosphere in such a way that the sun is blocked out, we may be able to save the earth by returning it to the ice age when humankind didn't exist. Lacking that, it's important that the size of women's breasts expand so we can keep our minds off our problems. It may seem like a small thing, but let's face it, the fate of the planet hangs in the balance."
Not everyone buys what Yu-Kiddn is selling. "I won't argue about the benefits of breast size, because I control most men within the tri-state area since I bumped my knockers up to double-D's, but blocking out the sun to save the earth is completely nuts," said Alicia Ann Maidrite, a buxom blond rocket scientist and part-time hooker, whose book 'The Power of Silicon' has been translated into 50 languages. "And whether it's okay to harvest organs in the back of vans for sale in the black market, I'm not sure. I've done shit in the backs of vans of questionable legality involving human organs and selling a service, but I didn't actually chop off any organs, at least not most of the time."
Mecury News reported that California's Air Resources Board (ARB) has been mulling the relationship between automobile color and greenhouse gases. This started a rumor that California was about to ban cars painted black. The board considered requiring reflective car paints and windshields. The premise was that a cooler car would require a driver to use less air conditioning, which would require less gasoline, which would mean fewer greenhouse-gas emissions. Several groups, including the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which lobbies for the big automakers, complained that a draft proposal to change the car-painting process to make vehicles more reflective would "eliminate a significant number of vehicle colors" because darker colors absorb more heat. Even the ARB itself, in a PowerPoint presentation on the paint proposal, stated, "Jet black remains an issue," though it never said the color should be banned. The board will vote at its June meeting on making car windshields and other glass surfaces more reflective. The new regulations would add up to $50 to the price of new car.
The Daily Mail reported that after trials of a mobile execution service were launched quietly three years ago – then hushed up to prevent an international row about the abuse of human rights before the Olympics last summer – these vehicles are now being deployed across China. The number of executions is expected to rise to a staggering 10,000 people this year (not an impossible figure given that at least 68 crimes – including tax evasion and fraud – are punishable by death in China). According to undercover investigations by human rights' groups, the police, judiciary and doctors are all involved in making millions from China's huge trade in human body parts.
Developed by Jinguan Auto, which also makes bullet-proof limousines for the new rich in this vast country of 1.3 billion people, the vans appear unremarkable. They cost £60,000, can reach top speeds of 80mph and look like a police vehicle on patrol. Inside, however, the 'death vans' look more like operating theatres. Inside each 'death van' there is a dedicated team of doctors to 'harvest' the organs of the deceased. The injections leave the body intact and in pristine condition for such lucrative work. After checking that the victim is dead, the medical team first remove the eyes. Then, wearing surgical gowns and masks, they remove the kidney, liver, pancreas and lungs. Little goes to waste, though the heart cannot be used, having been poisoned by the drugs. The bodies cannot be examined. Corpses are driven to a crematorium and burned before independent witnesses can view them.
The Nazis used adapted vans as mobile gas chambers from 1940 until the end of World War II. With the 'cargo' dead, all that remained was for gold fillings to be hacked from the victims' mouths, before the bodies were tipped into the graves. Now, six decades later, just like the Nazis, China insists these death vans are 'progress'. The vans save money on building execution facilities in prisons or courts.
The Metro reported that a serial 'Boob-Job Bandit' has surrendered in court after being caught stealing cosmetic surgery procedures totaling more than £8,000. The 30-year-old blonde was tracked down by police using a serial number on her removed breast implants. Yvonne Jean Pampellonne allegedly replaced her breast implants and received liposuction at a clinic in California using a false identity to pay for the operations. She reportedly had the procedures but failed to show up to any follow up appointments. Her old breast implants were crucial to the investigation, meaning a surgeon at the Pacific Center For Plastic Surgery could track down her real identity from her previous surgeon. The boob-job thief will face court in Orange County, Southern California in May on charges of commercial burglary, grand theft and identity theft.
In other news, Reuters reported this week that obese men who undergo gastric bypass surgery will not only lose weight; their sex lives are likely to improve, too, new research shows. Dr. Ahmad Hammoud of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who led the study said obesity in men has been linked to low testosterone levels, high levels of estrogen, impaired fertility, and worse sexual quality of life. In the study Hammound found that two years after the men who'd had weight loss surgery had dropped an average of nearly 17 points from their BMI. Their estrogen levels had fallen significantly, while their testosterone levels had gone up. And all showed improvements on each of the four measures of sexual quality of life the researchers looked at: they were less likely to avoid sexual encounters, have difficulty with sexual performance, have little sexual desire, or report not enjoying sex. No word on how they feel about organ traffiking, stolen boobs or the return of the ice age, but at least they're having fun now. And for many people, now is what it's all about.
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New iPad Pro 2018 LEAKED – Apple's iOS 12 update makes surprise mention of secret tablet
Apple may be building its best slate ever, and we've tracked down the hottest rumours you need to know about
LATER this year, apple is expected to show off a brand new tablet – a new iPad Pro, possibly called iPad X.
We've put together a quick guide on all the latest iPad 2018 release date rumours, plus all the news and leaks.
New iPad Pro 2018 release date – when is it out?
Every September, Apple hosts a major event in California to reveal new iPhones.
But the company also uses the occasion to refresh other product lines, including the iPad series of tablets.
Apple already revamped its entry-level iPad earlier this year, with a cheap new £319 model.
That leaves the pricier iPad Pro range in need of an update.
This year's September 12 event went by without any mentions of a new iPad.
But the latest iOS 12.1 software beta version has given us a big hint.
Digging into the assets of Apple's Setup app, tech blog 9to5Mac uncovered a reference to a "2018 fall" iPad.
That means Apple, as rumoured, may be plotting a special launch event in October.
Of course, Apple hasn't confirmed any details about a new iPad, so take these rumours with a pinch of salt for now.
New iPad Pro design, specs, features and more
The big change we're expecting to see from the iPad Pro is the addition of Face ID.
That's Apple's facial recognition system, which uses sensors and lasers to unlock your device – by scanning your face.
It's a replacement for the Touch ID fingerprint scanner, which usually lives inside the Home button on your iPhone or iPad.
With last year's iPhone X, Apple ditched the Home button so it could fill more of the phone's front with screen.
Now it's rumoured that Apple is following that same design strategy with the iPad Pro – or iPad X, as it may now be called.
That means we could see a swanky iPad with a front face that's filled almost entirely by display.
Adding fuel to this rumour fire is a major spoiler for Face ID on the iPad, which was spotted in Apple's own code.
A developer named Guilherme Rambo dug into the beta code for Apple's new iOS 12 update for the iPhone and iPad.
In it, Apple made reference to Face ID on the iPad, including a set-up page and a relevant settings menu.
So what else could change with a new model?
We'd expect to see the introduction of a brand new chip to replace last year's Apple A11 Bionic processor.
It's likely to be called the Apple A12, and rumour has it that we're going to see major performance improvements with the new chipset.
A processor in a computer or mobile phone uses transistors – tiny electronic switches.
These switches open and close, allowing electricity to pass through. This switching process is how computing works, at its most basic level.
The more transistors you can squeeze onto a chip, the more computing you can get done.
Tech firms are constantly trying to squeeze more of these transistors onto chips, to boost computing power.
Last year's A11 iPhone chip was built using a 10nm manufacturing process – that means the distance between each transistor was 10 nanometres.
This year, we're expecting Apple to use a 7nm process – meaning a smaller 7-nanometre gap between transistors.
That means Apple can fit more transistors onto its chip, reportedly boosting performance by 20%.
It also means we'll see efficiency gains: it's believed that the new chip will use 40% less power, boosting your battery life overall.
Apple is also expected to kit out its new iPad Pro with its new iOS 12 software.
This major update will almost certainly be available on any new mobile device revealed by Apple in September.
iOS 12 improves app loading times, introduces new animated Memoji emoji that look like you, and makes it easier to manage (and delete) your Home screen notifications.
There's also a new Screen Time feature that lets you track (and limit) the amount of time you spend in apps.
New iPad Pro price – how much will it cost in the UK?
Apple's cheapest iPad Pro costs just £319, but a new iPad Pro or iPad X will likely cost much more.
Buying an iPad Pro directly from Apple today will set you back anywhere from £619 to £1,249.
A new model will probably cost the exact same amount of money, although there haven't been any pricing leaks to confirm this just yet.
It's worth noting that Apple is supposedly going to drop the price of some iPhone models this year.
If that's the case, Apple may also be open to reducing the cost of an iPad Pro by a small amount.
However, we're largely in the dark when it comes to new iPad Pro pricing, so don't get too excited just yet.
Would you be tempted by Apple's rumoured iPad? Let us know in the comments!
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National Survey Shows Americans Broadly Support Investments in Public Transit, Walking, and Biking
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Time to Go From Words to Actions
A national poll by Transportation for America (T4A), a policy organization mostly focused on "public transportation, smart growth, and environmentalism", has found that a majority of voters in the U.S. favor more investments in public transit and safe walking and biking. T4A puts it this way: "If Americans were crafting the transportation bill, we would see a doubling of the share for public transportation."
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More than four-in-five voters (82 percent) say that "the United States would benefit from an expanded and improved transportation system, such as rail and buses" and a solid majority (56 percent) "strongly agree" with that statement. This is a widely held view with overwhelming majorities of voters in every region of the country and in every type of community. Fully 79 percent of rural voters agreed with the statement, despite much lower use of public transportation compared to Americans in urban areas.
When asked about reducing traffic congestion, three-in-five voters choose improving public transportation and making it easier to walk and bike over building more roads and expanding existing roads (59% to 38%). [...]
These same respondents would prefer to almost double the allocation to public transportation, saying that 37 cents of every federal transportation dollar is what they think should be the norm. Fully 59% of the electorate cite some amount that is greater than what the federal government currently spends (18 cents or greater). (source)
Grain of Salt
Of course, surveys conducted by organisations that favor one thing or another tend to come out in favor of what the organisation wants (there's selection bias going on - they probably wouldn't publish a survey that said the opposite), so it must be taken with a grain of salt. But even if the numbers are a bit higher than they would otherwise be for one reason or another, they're still very encouraging. It could be a sign that voters want something that politicians just never really offered them (so far).
Another problem is to help people go from words to actions. People might say they want something, but that doesn't mean that they'll all go out and do it. Still, it's a lot easier to bridge that gap when people are at least receptive to the idea. If most people were totally opposed to more transit/walking/bikes, building infrastructure for them would probably have a much smaller effect than for people who want to do it. As we've seen in cities that have invested in greener transportation, the investments pay off.
Via T4A
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A 20-month-old girl drowned in her family's pool in Woodbridge, Virginia, Tuesday afternoon.
Officers were called to the 15400 block of Ohio Avenue at 2:38 p.m. Tuesday for a report of a drowning.
Nichole Moran's family told police that they lost track of her and thought she was inside the home. But after checking inside and outside, they found the toddler unresponsive in the pool.
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Join Ryan Kittleson for an in-depth discussion in this video Making wrinkles in the pants, part of Modeling a Character in 3ds Max.
Making wrinkles in clothing is a very unique challenge. It's a different kind of modeling from what we've done so far. It's also an artistic challenge that painters and sculptors have been struggling with since the caveman days. In digital art there's many ways to make clothing and wrinkles. Dynamic cloth effects is a common solution, but this being a modeling course and a cartoony character, let's find a modeling solution to the problem. Modeled wrinkles are still commonly used in video games, because it's hard to calculate dynamic cloth in real-time game engines.
The skills you learn here can help not only with modeling cloth, but also with all kinds organic irregular shapes. Our exercise file contains the basic pants as we made them in the last movie. Since wrinkles happen asymmetrically, let's delete the Symmetry modifier. Let me go in here and select the pants. And they have a Symmetry modifier on them, so I'll just get rid of that. I'm also going to add a TurboSmooth modifier, so I can what a smoothed version of the pants looks like while being able to work on a lower-density version of them.
I'll just turn on Isoline Display so it's easier to see what I'm doing. Go back to Editable Poly and turn on Final Result. A lot of times you can think of wrinkles as forming like mountain ranges and valleys. I'm going to use the Cut tool to define certain chunks of the pants as being valleys and other parts as being mountains. Then I can tweak vertices to push in the valleys and pull out the folds around them. So let's zoom in on the pants, and I'm going to go full screen with Alt+W. A common place for wrinkles to happen is around the pant's cuff.
Let's say that I want a fold to happen right around here. I'll just push in a little row of vertices. So I'll go into Vert mode, and I just have Ctrl held down so I can select multiple vertices. Now let's go down to the Edit Geometry section of this. Here, Edit Geometry. We want to turn on Normal because I want to push and pull these different vertices relative to the facing direction of the geometry. All right, let's hit W to go into Move mode and see what happens. So we can push in and out relative to the surface.
So I'm just going to push these in, and you can actually push them farther than you think they should be, because we're actually going to do a technique that makes them come back out again. So I want to push them in pretty far. Now let's go up to Grow. So I want to grow this selection, and now I want to push them the other way. You can always tweak it later if it's too far or not far enough. Now we're starting to get a valley surrounded by mountains. Now this is looking okay, but I think we could define the shape a little bit better. Notice how these corners are getting kind of soft and undefined.
We can reinforce the wrinkle shape by cutting some more edges here. So I'm going to get out of Vertex mode and go up to Graphite Modeling Tools and let's go to Edit > Cut. What I want to do is cut some diagonal edges that will help reinforce the shape of this wrinkle. So you want the Move tool here so that it forms this little X shape. If it's kind of like this shape, that means it's going to cut through an edge, but I actually want to cut starting at the vertex here.
So just cut from vertex to vertex. It kind of gives you a little preview of what the cut is going to be before you finish it. Cut from there to there. Now I'm going to right-click to lock that in, and let's do another cut from up here. Actually, there's a bug sometimes with Max where it accidentally cuts where it's not supposed to, so we're going to have to clean that up manually. So right-click and let's go back to Vertex mode and see what happened here.
Let's turn off TurboSmooth for now. So what did it is it accidentally created all these extra vertices, and they're causing some problems. I'm going to hit Z to zoom in on that. Yeah. Let's fix that up. Let's just go down to Target Weld, and let's make sure we can weld all these stray verts together. And let's turn TurboSmooth back on. Okay, that's looking a lot better. Let me zoom out and evaluate this.
Let's turn off Edged Faces so that we can see what's going on without those edges in the way. We'll also need to get out of Vertex mode. That's pretty nice. It's a little bit neat, however. Clothing and wrinkles tend to form a little bit more messy shapes. So we can go in and mess this up. I'm going to go into Editable Poly, go into Vertex mode. And you just can select individual vertices and turn on Soft Selection and just push things around a little bit. I'm going to drop the Falloff down a little bit more. So you can just move things around a bit.
I'm also going to the go down to Edit Geometry and set it to None, so that we can move in certain directions that aren't the normal facing direction of the polygons. When you like the result, go ahead and make another wrinkle. Folds in clothing tend to happen in patterns next to each other. I'll start making another one to the side of this one. I want to offset it little bit so that it's not right at the same level as this existing one. So I'll just come in here and maybe select this vertex.
And let's set it to Normal so that we're pulling and pushing according to the facing direction of the geometry. And also, I want to turn of Soft Selection again. I'm just Ctrl+Clicking a few more vertices here. And let's push these in. Again, like I did before, I'll just grow the selection a bit and pull it out. And let's get out of Vertex mode, and actually let's bring back Edged Faces.
I know it's a lot of going back and forth between a lot of things that you have to turn off and on. Let's go back to Editable Poly, and let's just cut some more angles here into this. It looks like the TurboSmooth might be conflicting with how we're viewing this, so I'm going to turn that off really quick so I can cut this without that getting in the way. Okay, and just right-click to lock that in.
The challenge with cloth folds is that you want to maintain a pattern while at the same time randomizing it enough so that it doesn't look artificial. You want to add variation to the size, placement, length, depth, and shape of all the folds. Also be sure to leave some parts of the clothing without any folds, or at least less folds than other parts. Be sure to examine a real-world reference to see the patterns and chaos in reality. I'm going to open up the other exercise file where I have gone through and completed all of these wrinkles.
Notice how I localized the wrinkles in specific places. Not only does it help it look more natural, it also adds to the stylization of the character. So for example, there's a lot of baggy wrinkles down here at the pants where they bunch up at the bottom of the cuff. Then there's less around the knees where pants tend to stretch and smooth out. There's one more step to do to the pants at this point. Right now, the pants are just one single polygon thin, but I want to give them a certain amount of thickness. One way to do that is by extruding the border edge inwards.
So let's go into the pants here and go to Editable Poly and select Border Edge, and I just want to select this Border Edge at the top. Let's turn on Edged Faces so we can see that more easily. And I'll go into Scale mode by hitting R, and I'll hold down Shift while I scale this. So I'm just scaling this new extrusion inwards, and this is going to add some thickness for the pants. Then I'll go into Move mode and do the same thing. I'm just going to Shift+Move downwards.
Let's go out of Border mode and turn on TurboSmooth to actually show the end result here. So now we've got some thickness to the top of the pants. Go ahead and repeat that same thing for the bottom of the pants as well. Select the border edge and Shift+Scale it in and then Shift+Move it up, just like we did up above. There is the foundation for the pants. This way of doing it is far from the only way, but it's a straightforward method that also works well for modeling all kinds of other things that are based on the shape of something else. Feel free to experiment with your own techniques for making wrinkles, as my way is not the only way.
- Extruding edges and faces
- Working symmetrically
- Setting up the image planes
- Creating the basic facial structure and features
- Modeling and fleshing out the body
- Creating the hair with extruded NURBS curves
- Modeling clothes
- Putting on finishing touches
- Understanding UVW maps and seams
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GRIMM UP NORTH, 5th-7th October, 2012Sam Stone and David Howe will be attending Grimm Up North Festival this year as guests. More information to follow on this.
David and Sam will be at the event from 12pm - 11pm on Saturday. They will be hosting the viewing and Q & A of Lobos De Arga/ Attack of the Werewolves at 6.45pm.
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A $1,070,000.00 verdict in a Mexican real estate fraud case on behalf of 15 plaintiffs. The case involved lost deposits on condominiums when a development near Rosarito Beach in Baja lost financing. The victims had been told it was an American development by an experienced developer when in fact the developer had no experience in large scale developments and the escrow accounts were not protected, but were used to pay construction costs, salaries, sales commissions, and to repay a line of credit. By the time the bank pulled financing the purchasers' deposits were depleted.
Manis et al v. Hassan Yarpezeshkan and Dr. Arthur Laffer
A $3,200,000.00 settlement after the Jury reached a verdict, but prior to the reading of the verdict. An interesting case of alleged fraud involving patents and high technology. Plaintiffs alleged that they were told that the company had already developed and held multiple patents for the holy grail of alternative energy storage – a battery-less power supply. In order to get the plaintiffs to invest in their company, they alleged that the defendant said that they had already marketed this new product to huge customers like Microsoft and ATT. Some months later the defendant introduced the plaintiffs to their "business advisor" and board member, Dr. Arthur B. Laffer, author of the Laffer Curve. After meeting such a celebrity the plaintiffs invested in the company. In reality, at the time the plaintiffs invested in the company, it had only one patent, only a prototype product, no customers, and in fact the plaintiffs were the only other investors beyond the founders of the company. Summary only available. Read more about this case in The San Diego Reader's article.
La Jolla Alta Master Council v. City of San Diego
This complex case handled by partner Mickey McGuire was an inverse condemnation action with elements of land subsidence involving an improperly maintained storm drain system in a La Jolla Canyon that threatened the homeowners living in on and in the area of Alta La Jolla Drive. In a La Jolla neighborhood near Soledad Mountain Road, the City of San Diego created and operated a storm drainage system that incorporated property owned by Plaintiff. The operation of this storm drainage system by the City over several years created a massive ravine across Plaintiff's property, threatening citizens, homes, and Alta La Jolla Drive, a public road. The homeowners brought an inverse condemnation action against the City to force repairs and prevent a landslide. After the verdict a settlement of $4,500,000.00 plus over $5,000,000.00 in repairs was reached for damage caused by the operation of its storm drain system.
State of California v. Anderprises, Inc.
Caltrans contended that the Andersons had never intended to develop the property and that the property was, at best, valued as a speculative investment that would probably always be open space.
Filmwest Productions v. Arizona Department of Commerce
An unusual case in Arizona involving denial of tax incentives for a movie picture production company. The Arizona Department of Commerce, in violation of Arizona law, denied our client the tax incentives they were entitled to even though our client met all the legal requirements and that the incentives were mandatory. A bench verdict for our clients. Lead attorney was partner Karen R. Frostrom.
Walter F. Sweeney v. Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Plan
Sweeney alleged that his chronic drug addiction and consequent inability to maintain the requisite mental state for employment was caused by the indiscriminate drug practices of the NFL. By Sweeney's own account, team personnel with the Chargers and Redskins recommended and supplied to him a plethora of prescription strength controlled substances. The Court's opinion noted the careful administration of amphetamines by trainers before Sunday games and important practice sessions followed by post contest barbiturates of various sorts, also administered by trainers, was Sweeney's typical regimen for approximately the last 10 years of his football career. Plaintiff awarded $4,000 a month in benefits for the rest of his life, with retroactivity to 1976, the year he left football. Judge also awarded plaintiff's attorney fees and costs. Case reversed on appeal.
Ahmad, et al. v. Foodmaker, Inc.; Hamburger Patty Cases (Foodmaker v. Vons)
$58,000,000.00 settlement in the Jack In The Box food poisoning case on behalf of Foodmaker Corp, the parent corporation of Jack In The Box.
County of San Diego v. RanchoVista Del Mar (De La Fuente)
A $55,000,000.00 verdict at the first trial which was the largest condemnation verdict in the history of the state at that time. Ordered on appeal for retrial, the case eventually settled for $40,000,000.00.
U.S.A./Colunga v. Hercules, Inc., et al.
The largest settlement ($55,000,000) in the history of the False Claims Act where the Government did not intervene in the action, and was larger than all the prior such settlements combined. This Qui Tam action filed in the U.S. District Court in Utah involved an action in the name of the U.S. Government for damages arising from the falsification of manufacturing and inspection records on nine solid fuel motor rocket systems [Trident I, C-4; Trident II, C-5; Titan IV, Delta, Pershing II, Sram, MX – Peacekeeper; Pegasus, and ICBM] over a ten year period.
Border Business Park v. City of San Diego
A breach of contract and inverse condemnation action against the city of San Diego resulting in a $94,500,000.00 jury verdict. Post verdict the judge granted fees and interest bringing the result for our client to above $136,000,000.00
Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Diego v. Ahmad Mesdaq (SDSC Case No. GIC 829293)(condemnation), consolidated with Ahmad Mesdaq v. Centre City Development Corporation (SDSC Case No. 828361)(inverse condemnation)
A $7,785,131.83 jury verdict for an inverse condemnation case involving an Afghan refugee who owned the Gran Havana Cigar Company in the Gas Lamp district of San Diego. After a rags-to-riches success story following Ahmad Mesdaq's family's fleeing Afghanistan in the 1980's, the City of San Diego at the behest of developers condemned his business. A complicated case involving consolidated actions, the City actually allowed the developers to pay for the attorneys used to enforce the condemnation action. A fascinating and relevant case that illustrates just how far local government will go to pacify big money developers in the light of the recent Kelo v. New London Supreme Court ruling.
Sarka Southern, Ph.D. v. Regents of the University of California
A $1,502,106.00 jury verdict in a Third Party Beneficiary/Breach of Contract trial. Our client was Dr. Sarka Southern, Phd. A Czech immigrant, Dr. Southern was accepted at UCSD as a post-doctoral fellow in microbiology. After raising two children and studying fishing stress on dolphins and whales she realized that the stress factors she discovered could be useful in the detection and treatment of HIV/AIDS. After presenting her theories to UCSD they agreed to assign her a mentor so that she could receive a short-term developmental grant related to research leading to a NIMH Re-entry grant intended to help scientists who had been away from academia. Inexplicably, on May 9, 2004 Ð only four months after the grant award Ð Dr. Ellis returned the money to the NIH and informed Dr. Southern that he had done so. The given reason was that he had determined that her project was not feasible. For a month, Dr. Southern worked to reinstate the grant or find an explanation. Then, on June 10, 2004, the dean of the medical school informed Dr. Southern that neither he nor anyone else at UCSD intended to provide any further assistance. Dr. Southern was left with a year and a half of her work wasted.
North San Diego Transit Development Board v. Bivin, et al. and related cases North San Diego Transit Development Board v. Pribil, North San Diego Transit Development Board v. Buffone; and North San Diego Transit Development Board v. Cline
A $1,187,250.00 eminent domain settlement on behalf of 26 San Marcos area homeowners. The Walnut Hills area of San Marcos is a rustic community with a country lifestyle. The North County Transit District wanted to expand rail service in the area, running a diesel train past their homes every six minutes and offered them an insulting total of $34,000.00 for ruining their rustic way of life.
People of the State of California v. Grigory Zubkis and Rimma Zubkis, et al.
$2,750,000.00 plus interest totalling $2,790,711.00 settlement for an eminent domain case involving the taking of a private residence for road expansion.
Morton J. Carlile and Morton J. Carlile Insurance Agency, Inc. V. Farmers Group, Inc., et al.
A $328,000.00 jury verdict in a Breach of Contract, Breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing suit brought by an insurance agent against Farmers Insurance. Lead attorney was partner Mickey McGuire with former associate James Atkins.
Mary Lynn and Warren Reichelt v. California Department of Transportation
An $89,000.00 price differential settlement on a writ of mandamus action resolving an issue where our client was relocated to an inferior neighborhood by CalTrans. Lead attorney partner Vincent J. Bartolotta with associate Karen Frostrom.
The County of San Diego v. National Quarries, Inc.
Plaintiff County of San Diego alleged that National Quarries was operating in excess of its vested rights and that its operations must be reduced.
Nastich v. City of Escondido
An inverse condemnation case involving a road expansion that caused flooding and toxic mold contamination, The case eventually settled for $525,000. Lead attorney was Vincent J. Bartolotta, Jr with partner Karen R. Frostrom.
A condemnation case against CalTrans involving just compensation and damages to property that diminished its fair market value. Lead attorney Vincent J. Bartolotta, Jr with partner Karen R. Frostrom.
Passante v. Upper Deck
$33,000,000.00 – Verdict. Fraud/Breach of Contract action by Upper Deck Baseball Card Company.
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"There is no doubt that the political decision has been made and the political parties are all preparing for elections," Knesset Speaker MK Reuven Rivlin (Likud) estimated Thursday, at an event honoring the community of Migron.
"If, indeed, we are headed for elections, the Knesset had better pass the law and dissolve immediately, in the first days or even the first hours of the winter term, and not drag out the decision for weeks on end," he explained.
"We are in the midst of a global economic crisis that threatens to engulf Israel, and without a budget for 2013, and this has ruinous implications for the socio-economic situation and the weaker population. The economic situation makes it impossible for the state to exist without an approved budget, therefore elections should be held as soon as possible."
Rivlin estimated that elections will be held in the second or third week of February.


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The alert reader will have noticed two slip faults in the jellyfish cookie cutter:
Look closely…
- Above the wide lip, to the right (+X)
- Below the top edge, to the front (-Y)
Those failures came from two separate cable snags that stalled the X and Y stepper motors for about 1 mm of travel. Fortunately, I wasn't paying attention and, by the time I figured this out, the thing was nearly built, so I let it run to completion. The thick base plate accounts for most of the plastic, anyway.
First, the cable bundle on the right snagged on the socket-head cap screw just in front of the X axis limit switch (hidden behind the bundle here). This picture, taken after the +12 V pin in the HBP connector burned through, shows the typical snarl of wires inside a Thing-O-Matic:
The rewired thermistor cable snagged on the bulldog clip holding the top aluminum plate. This picture, taken after the thermistor pads fell off the HBP, shows the filler plate I put in place to prevent the cable (entering from the top and passing below the white cable on the HBP) from jamming in the gap between the Y axis stage and the case, but you can see how the bulldog clip handle could snag it when the platform moves rearward from the front left corner (+X +Y):
The fat gray cable flat against the case in that picture carries the X axis stepper drive signals up-and-over the Y axis. The thinner gray thermistor cable emerges from the electronics bay inside the case corner, then arches in from thetop.
My buddy Aitch recently gave me a few meters of corrugated wire loom, so I moved the bulldog clip rearward and bundled all those loose HBP wires in one tidy snood:
I'm sure something else will go wrong, but the machinery looks marginally less haphazard and the cables don't snag while I'm watching…


text: Part of the "Bioinformatics & Biomedical Imaging" series, the book High-Throughput Image Reconstruction and Analysis discusses bioimaging technologies, the vast amounts of data they generate and the high-performance computing techniques used to analyze the data. The 351-page volume provides methods and algorithms for building complex models from large biological data sets and for solving data analysis and interpretation problems. A. Ravishankar Rao and Guillermo A. Cecchi, eds., !%Artech House Inc.%!, Norwood, Mass., 2009; $139.


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Folsom Median Home Price for November 2010
Folsom's median home price continues to be under $360,000. While the median home price is up from last month 8.3%, it is down 6.4% from the same time last year. The lowest single family home sold in Folsom in November sold for $150,000, and the highest sold at $660,000.
If you would like to see this report as soon as it is available, contact me.


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Guest Review: Eleven from njoy
Author: by AlwaysArousedGirl of Jane's GuideEleven since I first caught a glimpse of it in a photograph some eighteen months ago. Dying. Literally. Just a tiny fraction of my soul slipped away each and every day that the Eleven was not in my home.
I've adored all the other njoy toys I've had the opportunity to try. The Pure Wand is priceless. The Fun Wand is fabulous. The Pure Plugs are perfection. I keep all my cherished njoys in a special box where no possible harm can come to them.
Now that box has gotten 2.75 pounds heavier due to the addition of the Eleven. And after using the Eleven (many, many times) my soul gradually is coming back to life.
While all the other njoy toys come packaged in sumptuous pink lined boxes, the Eleven arrives in something even more gorgeous. It's a leather clutch-like bag with hidden magnetic closures. See?
It's really classy, and if I were a braver woman, I might be tempted to carry the clutch (sans toy) out for a nice dinner. Except that the leather is emblazoned with a tiny imprint of the manufacturer's name. Maybe some day I'll screw up my courage and try.
I presented it to my pal one night during play-time. After he finished testing its weight ("Damn this is heavy," quoth he) and marveling over its surface ("So shiny!"), he added some lube and came at me with it. Because I was slightly terrified of the larger end — it's 2″ across — I had him start with the thinner end. It was absolutely perfect.
See the ridges in the picture? Wow. So intense on the G-spot! There was much writhing, much gushing, and oh very much screaming. I didn't expect such an explosive reaction from the ridges.
After enjoying excellent results with the smaller end, my friend flipped the toy over, lubed it up once again and slid it home. I'd expected at least some degree of discomfort from this end — it's 2″ across! — but had none at all. The stainless steel is so very smooth that with proper preparation and lots of lube, it worked great for me.
My friend found that the groves provided an excellent hand-grip when he was using the larger end on me. When he switched back to my preferred smaller end, things got a little slippery for him, but it wasn't anything that a quick wipe-down with a washcloth couldn't handle.
Stainless steel is a wonderful material for temperature play. Dip it in warm or cool water for a thrilling extra sensation. Even with no additional temperature variation, I found that the Eleven grew oh-so-hot once it had been in me for a while. My pal took it out and the toy rolled against my leg. It was burning up. The idea that my body and the toy had together generated that much raw heat got me wound up all over again.
Cleanup is always easy with a non-porous toy like the Eleven. Soap and water, an anti-bacterial cleanser, boiling or a trip through the dishwasher will leave the toy ready for its next use. Don't use abrasives, and be sure to store the Eleven in a place where it won't get scratched. If the surface is roughed up, the toy's beauty will be dimmed, but its functionality will remain intact.
To the designer of the Eleven, I say THANK YOU. Thank you very much. May I make you a batch of my almost famous gingerbread cookies to express my gratitude? Or maybe a couple batches?
It's the least I could do.
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When it comes to interior design, there are a wide variety of factors that can contribute to or detract from your perfect dream home. In fact, while there's a lot of hard work involved in transforming your home into its penultimate form, it could be said by some that the planning phase is even harder than the manual labor portion of this Herculean task. After all, we don't really know what perfect looks like, as conventional wisdom tells us that perfection doesn't exist in this world.When you add to that fact that we're talking about a very personal and subjective experience, we can be at a loss for ideas on how to get the house of our dreams to come to life. Here are some suggestions on how to make your dream home a reality.
First and foremost, consider giving your home a personal touch. Creative hobbies are great for us in a variety of ways. They're therapeutic, for one thing, allowing us to express ourselves in a constructive way, and they allow us to develop skills that could one day result in a job. Another facet of creative hobbies you may not have considered is that ability to use your creations to decorate your home. For example, if you're a painter, you can hang some of your best pieces on your walls to create a feast for the eyes that will also impress onlookers. Or, if you're a photographer, you can have some of your best shots blown up via Vistaprint to adorn your walls. You could even paint the walls, themselves, into murals. The sky's the limit, and this idea also fits really well into the following.
Another way to create your dream home is to build your home around a theme. A theme can really bring your home to life and give it a nice cohesive feeling. One such example is an oceanic theme. This theme starts with a color palette evocative of the ocean, and you want to add to it some thematically appropriate decor, suc has fish tanks, retro diving gear, and anchors, as well as paintings, posters, and photos to fully capture that feeling of the ocean.


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Aviation has long been a mainstay of watchmaking. This should be no surprise as the first wristwatch – the Cartier Santos – was made especially for pilot Alberto Santos Dumont in 1904. Since then, the likes of Breitling and IWC, have brought pilot-specific watches into the mainstream.
Aviation watches
C65 Cranwell Series 1Officially licensed by the UK Ministry of Defence to bear the Royal Air Force's Heraldic badge, the C65 Cranwell shares elements with two famous '6B/346' watches. Initially created by Jaeger-LeCoultre and IWC to help assist with greater accuracy during RAF operations, this ever-constant need for precision is reflected by the chronometer-certified automatic movement present inside the C65 Cranwell.
C8 Power Reserve ChronometerPrecise. Legible. Beautiful: the C8 Power Reserve Chronometer is a watch firmly rooted in the tradition of British aviation timepieces like the Smith's Mk II A clock. But its looks are just part of the story: powered by a new complication of Calibre SH21, the watch can run for an incredible five days on just one charge.
C8 'Al Deere' TMB Limited EditionIt is fitting that on the 100th Anniversary of the RAF this 100-piece limited edition explores the courage of one of its most celebrated pilots, Alan 'Al' Deere. While a hand-wound version of Calibre SH21, complete with small seconds complication, acknowledges vintage aviation watch design, the real history lies within: a piece of engine metal from Deere's personal Spitfire, X4276, is visible through the C8's backplate.
C9 Me 109 SPCThe C9 Me 109 SPC is a watch that stands unique in our Collection. Not only does its Junghans-influenced dial contrast against the British influences of our other aviation watches, but this 100 piece limited edition also contains our in-house single pusher chronograph, Calibre JJ02 - a high-end complication you won't find elsewhere for anywhere near this price.


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Wicked Witches: An Anthology by the New England Horror Writers
Edited by Scott Goudsward, David Price, and Daniel Keohane
NEHW Press
October 16, 2016
Reviewed by Elaine Pascale
While the weather and prohibitive cost of living make life in New England a daily struggle, there are a few indigenous gems: Wellfleet Oysters, The Patriots, and New England Horror Writers (NEHW). The latter—a group of extraordinary writers and truly wonderful human beings, has recently released its latest anthology: Wicked Witches. The cover, illustrated by Mikio Murakami, is designed to stand apart from the pack and to match the quality of work within.
While enjoying the anthology as a whole, here are the favorites:
Catherine Grant's "White Witch:" If Ryan Murphy had known what he was doing (and he rarely does), he would have hired Grant to write for American Horror Story: Coven. This story is heartbreaking and thoughtful, with sympathetic characters and a vivid historical setting within the world of Haitian Voodoo. The story applies the redemptive edit to the famous White Witch of Rose Hall, Annie Palmer, perhaps finally putting her duppy to rest.
Paul McMahon's "Baskets:" Grandma Shawl, the haggish hoarder, has many, many baskets, and her grandson, Tommy, has enough rage to fill all of them. Is there a connection between the two? While the plot is supernatural, the distrust and hostility between family members is very realistic.
K.H. Vaughan's "Run in the Widow's Hell:" Anyone who has spent any time in Appalachia knows of the nearly hallowed spookiness and the belief in superstition that borders on religious. Vaughan has captured that feeling, along with the sing-song dialect of the inhabitants. The setting is so vivid in the story, that I had to keep reminding myself that I have never driven through Widow's Hell.
Peter N. Dudar's "Portrait of an Old Woman with Crows:" A young mother's conflict over self-improvement is met with the type of dark magic that Wiccans dread. As a parent, there is nothing more upsetting than believing that you brought harm to your family, and Dudar frames the paranormal within that construct of guilt. This story gives new meaning to a "murder of crows," and is creepy enough to make you avoid people in the park.
Finally, Rob Smales lured me into fandom with his offering from NEHW's Wicked Seasons anthology, and he has entranced me yet again. "Moving House" is an entertaining read about the newest member of Crystal Street: Barbara Yeager. Say her name quickly with the New England accent and you just might figure out who she really is. While fulling admitting that I am walking into a pun, Smales's writing is magical. There is humor where humor is needed and plenty of fright.
Wicked Witches is another delightful and eclectic anthology from NEHW!
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And yet we skipped the Black Intelligence Test of Cultural Homogeneity (BITCH)
Everyone seems to have missed the advent of Copper Nano-Tubes, which utilised copper's elemental symbol.
Or you dedicate your whole career to it
I pushed hard to officially name a method SqADAFUIJ (Semi-quantitative Assessment of Disease on Arabidopsis Flats Using ImageJ – pronounced 'ska da fweedge') last year but I was overruled by my co-authors. Sad!
This is the most helpful comment section on the Internet.
Another cracker here from the Australsian Quaternary Society: The Last Glacial Maximum in the Southern Hemisphere (SHeMax)


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Our Thanksgiving yesterday was a nice quiet day. We had a good dinner and just spent the day together watching TV and playing with Jeff. I never ever go out on Black Friday it is just too crazy for me to deal with and usually I work retail at this time of year, so yeah. I am always working with the crazy people who are shopping. Ugh. So, it is three years that I have been in Kentucky today. My how time flies!
Michael went out early this morning to go to the place that was interviewing for the Amazon jobs. It is now 3pm and I have not seen him since 6am when he left. I am hoping everything is okay. Jeff finally went down for a nap and now I have a few minutes to actually eat something for the first time today and just relax for a few minutes. He wore his Thanksgiving jammies yesterday, I have not found my camera yet and I have no time left on my phone. So as soon as I can I will post a pic of him in them.
I can hardly believe that Jeff is 8 month old already! It seems like yesterday that he was just born. Time has a way of getting away from us. On another note, my RL stalker ( no joke) made a new Facebook page and tried to friend me and start a conversation the other day. I blocked him yet again. Actually I looked and it was for the 3rd time. Since it only takes about 5 minutes to get anew free email, he can literally have unlimited new facebook pages when he wants.
I have thought about ditching facebook totally, but I use it to keep in touch with people I care about and honestly I am not letting him run me off. I tell Michael when he pops up again and he just is like, seriously? No he has not gotten the hint yet. It was in the teens over night for temperature here last night and will be about 60ish tomorrow. Ugh. Horrible headaches from the crazy swing in temperatures. Wish it would make up it's mind, warm or cool. Not both in like a day.
There is a lot going on right now. Mom Gardner, neither Mike or I can call you right now, so we have to communicate through email. Life is tough for us now, but I am hoping we can come through the tunnel soon. I am honestly tired of all the hard times and would love some easy ones for a change. So, if you could please pray for us. We desperately need them! I am going to run,need to get a couple of things finished before Jeff wakes from his nap.