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HomeCommission Meeting MinutesMinutes – January 23, 2017
Minutes – January 23, 2017
Posted on February 10, 2017 (Updated March 7, 2017)
Minutes of the Regular Meeting of
The San Francisco Ethics Commission
Room 400 – City Hall
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
(Approved February 27, 2017)
1. Call to order and roll call.
Chairperson Renne called the meeting to order at 5:32 PM.
COMMISSION MEMBERS PRESENT: Paul Renne, Chairperson; Peter Keane, Vice-Chairperson; Beverly Hayon, Commissioner; Daina Chiu, Commissioner; and Quentin L. Kopp, Commissioner.
STAFF PRESENT: LeeAnn Pelham, Executive Director; Jessica Blome, Deputy Director; Jarrod Flores, Education and Compliance Officer; Steven Massey, Electronic Disclosure & Data Analysis Manager; and Gayathri Thaikkendiyil, Executive Fellow.
OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEY: Josh White, Deputy City Attorney and Andrew Shen, Deputy City Attorney.
OTHERS PRESENT: Milad Dalju, Deputy Director/Chief of Enforcement of Oakland Public Ethics Commission; Jeff Smejkal, Assistant Director, Bureau of Delinquent Revenue; Sheila Robleto, Collection Supervisor, Bureau of Delinquent Revenue; Amanda Fried, Policy & Legislation Manager, Office of the Treasurer-Tax Collector; Larry Bush; David Pilpel; Charles Spencer; Alpha Buie; Ace Washington; Hülda Garfolo; and other unidentified members of the public.
MATERIALS DISTRIBUTED:
December 19, 2016 special meeting draft minutes.
Staff's Administrative Hearing Brief and Exhibits concerning the Hearing on the Merits – In re Alpha Buie, Treasurer and African American Democratic Club, SFEC No. 13-131112.
Staff's Report & Recommendation, SOTF Response, Joel Warne's Response and supporting documents concerning Ethics Commission Complaint Nos. 1516-23 & 1516-24, Joel Warne v. Nancy Sarieh & Sunshine Ordinance Task Force, and SOTF Response.
January 18, 2017 Proposed Enforcement Policy for Investigation Suspension and Parallel Proceedings Policy.
January 18, 2017 New Ethics Commission Website Staff Report.
January 18, 2017 Proposed Budget Framework and Recommendations.
January 18, 2017 Enforcement Program Report and attachments.
Executive Director's Report and attachments for the January 23, 2017 Regular Meeting.
2. Public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda.
3. Discussion and possible action on draft minutes for the Commission's December 19, 2016 special meeting.
Commissioner Kopp requested that the following changes be made: Item 7, 2nd paragraph of the "Discussion for Enforcement Report," the word "Court's" be changed to "BDR." On page 5, change the sentence right above "Public Comment" to read "The individual Commissioners acknowledged and congratulated Executive Director Pelham on her election to the Governing Board of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws. Lastly, the 4th bullet point on page 5, the word "developed" be changed to the present tense "develop."
Motion 170123-01 (Kopp/Chiu): Moved, seconded and passed (5-0) that the Commission approve the minutes for the December 19, 2016 special meeting, as amended.
4. Hearing on the Merits – In re Alpha Buie, Treasurer, African American Democratic Club, SFEC No.13-131112.
Deputy Director Blome introduced Mr. Dalju from the Oakland Public Ethics Commission who represented staff.
Mr. Dalju began his presentation by introducing himself and explained the history of the case. He noted that in the brief Ms. Buie and the African American Democratic Club were listed as respondents, but in the probable cause and the accusation that was issued by the Commission only applied to Ms. Buie.
Mr. Dalju recommended striking the African American Democratic Club from the recommendation by staff for these violations.
Ms. Buie then proceeded with her presentation. Ms. Buie explained that at one point she was working with then-Director John St. Croix to get copies of the committee's bank statements from Wells Fargo Bank, but the bank said it no longer had any records of the committee's account. Ms. Buie responded to individual Commissioners as they asked questions about the matter.
Commissioner Renne asked how staff arrived at the recommended $1,000 per violation.
Deputy Director Blome explained that staff looked at past fines for similar violations, which were about $500. Staff felt that because the case had to go to a hearing, the violation should be double that amount. Staff did have some information from the committee to mitigate the penalty amount, which is why they arrived at the recommended $1,000 per violation.
Commissioner Chiu commented that the $1,000 per violation was excessive and disproportionate to the actions Ms. Buie has taken. Commissioner Chiu proposed to change the violation amount from $1,000 to $1 per violation.
Commissioner Hayon commented on her thoughts about the hearing and supported Commissioner Chiu's amendment to reduce each of the three violations.
Mr. Spencer introduced himself and explained the operation of the African American Democratic Club. He answered each of the Commissioner's questions when asked.
Mr. Pilpel stated that he believed Jo Elias-Jackson was a City employee and may still be and that staff should try to reach out to her. He also mentioned that the committee's identification number, 981276, may be incorrect as it would suggest it was created back in 1998. Mr. Pilpel wanted to know if there was any outreach to the FPPC about similar enforcement matters and protocols about terminating such committees. Lastly, he commented that additional training for such committees is needed.
Motion 170123-02 (Chiu/Hayon): Moved, seconded and passed (5-0) that the Commission approve the finding that Ms. Buie committed three violations of the Campaign Finance Reform Ordinance. The Commission amended the administrative penalty from $1,000 per violation to $1 per violation and ordered Ms. Buie to file missing campaign statements.
5. Presentation and Discussion from the Bureau of Delinquent Revenue (BDR) about its collection processes and status of Ethics Commission referrals.
Mr. Smejkal gave a presentation about how cases are processed in the Bureau of Delinquent Revenue. He answered individual questions from the Commissioners about general processes. Mr. Smejkal also answered specific questions about outstanding matters currently at BDR.
Mr. Bush from Friends of Ethics asked if staff could report the payment plans for those persons who entered into settlement agreements and if those persons are paying according to the agreements.
Mr. Pilpel commented on Mr. Bush's comment. Mr. Pilpel commented on Chris Jackson's cases at BDR.
Mr. Washington introduced himself and his interest about learning more about the Ethics Commission.
6. Re-hearing of Joel Warne v. Sunshine Ordinance Task Force, Nancy Sarieh, SFEC Nos. 1516-23 & 1516-24.
Chair Renne stated the matter will be continued to the Commission's next Regular Meeting in February due to the complainant's health issues and a request for a re-hearing by the complainant because he claimed he did not get timely notified of the re-hearing.
Mr. Pilpel asked that next month's agenda packet include staff's response to the complainant's re-hearing request as mentioned in the email at Exhibit 1.
7. Discussion and possible action on Proposed Enforcement Policy for Investigation Suspension and Parallel Proceedings.
Deputy Director Blome explained the background of the proposal to change the Commission's policy on investigation suspension and parallel proceedings.
Commissioner Kopp requested that on page 4, list item 1 of the "Ethics Commission Investigation Suspension Policy" section of the Policy report be amended to include "and then resume such investigations." at the end of the sentence.
Commission Kopp also requested that the second to last sentence on page 4 be changed to read: "The Executive Director and/or Commission reserves the right…" Commissioner Kopp asked if the Commission has such authority.
Deputy Director Blome explained that the Commission does not have the authority to initiate an investigation and, subsequently, is not informed when an investigation suspension is requested. She advised against Commissioner Kopp's second requested change.
Ms. Blome answered subsequent questions from the Commissioners.
Commissioner Keane commented on the relationship of the Ethics Commission with the City Attorney and District Attorney's offices.
Chair Renne commented and requested that, in addition to Commissioner Kopp's first request, list item number 1 on page 4 should read "At the City Attorney or District Attorney's Request, Staff will suspend its administrative investigations and then resume such investigations unless the Executive Director or Commission determines otherwise."
Director Pelham expressed concern that the Commission should not have a role in directing investigations and suggested the language proposed by Chair Renne regarding list item number 1 not refer to the Commission.
Mr. Bush commented on line item #2 on page 4 of the Policy Proposal.
Mr. Pilpel commented on the policy proposal. He recommended that the investigations policy be posted on the Commission's website.
Mr. Washington expressed his concerns.
Motion 170123-03 (Kopp/Keane): Moved, seconded and passed (5-0) that the Commission approve the Proposed Enforcement Policy for Investigation Suspension and Parallel Proceedings, as amended.
8. Presentation and Discussion on new Ethics Commission website and planned outreach activities.
Mr. Massey presented the new Ethics Commission website, showcasing the new features and webpages designed to make user interaction easier.
Ms. Thaikkendiyil introduced herself as the Commission's FUSE Senior Fellow. She explained her role and future projects designed to redesign and improve website content and user interaction. Ms. Thaikkendiyil explained that the Ethics Commission will participate in the Committee on Information Technology (COIT) San Francisco Public Voice Program, which is a program that encourages San Francisco residents to test websites and offer their feedback to identify improvements. Staff will also receive a professional consultation from the Lighthouse for the Blind to assist and improve website accessibility to the visually impaired.
The Commissioners commended staff on their efforts in creating the new website.
Mr. Bush requested several features be added to the new website.
Mr. Pilpel commented on the new website and thanked staff for their work.
The Commission began a 10-minute recess at 8:01 pm. The Commission returned at 8:11 pm.
9. Discussion and possible action on proposed Ethics Commission budget framework and recommendations for FY18 and FY19.
Executive Director Pelham introduced the item for the Commission's consideration and possible action. Ms. Pelham emphasized the importance of realigning staff positions and increasing resources for staff development. Ms. Pelham answered the Commissioner's questions about salary savings.
Commissioner Chiu expressed her concern about the Mayor's 3% budget cuts and how it would affect the Commission's FY17 budget increase for new positions.
Commissioner Keane expressed his concern over the budget process.
Commissioner Renne expressed his support for the budget proposal.
Motion 170123-04 (Chiu/Hayon): Moved, seconded and passed (5-0) that the Commission endorse staff's proposed budget framework and recommendations.
Ms. Garfolo from Friends of Ethics stated that Friends of Ethics strongly supported the Commission's budget proposal and that the Commission's new website demonstrated funds well spent. She commended staff on their work.
Mr. Bush from Friends of Ethics thanked staff for the budget proposal.
Mr. Pilpel supported the direction of the budget proposal.
10. Discussion of Enforcement Report.
Ms. Blome summarized ongoing policy research, projects, and investigations as outlined in the Enforcement Program Report.
Chair Renne thanked Ms. Blome for the report.
Mr. Bush from Friends of Ethics proposed that there be the option for low-budget committees that have committed violations to satisfy their penalties by doing community service.
Mr. Pilpel commented on the Sunshine Ordinance requirement concerning scheduling items about meeting decorum. He observed that Attachment 1 "Age of Matters in Preliminary Review" chart of Agenda Item 10 has an overlapping date range.
11. Discussion of Executive Director's Report.
Executive Director Pelham announced that Jarrod Flores will become the new Information Systems Business Analyst (1052). He will be working with Steven Massey on the efiling conversion project effective January 30.
Ms. Pelham reviewed the hiring process for open positions, averaging about three months for exempt positions and six months for non-exempt positions. There is no in-house personnel or finance persons who manage the hiring process and that staff are currently multitasking these roles. Ms. Pelham reported that Dorys Lorio from the City's Human Resources Department (DHR) has been working with the department to get these positions filled in a timely manner. She expressed her confidence that the process is on track and they will continue to work with DHR to keep the process moving. Ms. Pelham answered questions from the Commissioners about specific positions.
Ms. Pelham also noted that Catie Hinckley Kelley, the State and Local Reform Program Director of the Campaign Legal Center, will visit to discuss with staff their concerns and insights into administering local campaign finance and lobbying laws. This was also an opportunity for her to share her own insight into what is happening at the federal level.
Mr. Bush commented on the Whistleblower legislation and urged that the Commission to incorporate the suggestions mentioned in his last presentation.
Mr. Pilpel commented on the length of the hiring process. He also mentioned that page 2 of the Memorandum of Understanding was missing from the agenda packet.
12. Closed session to discuss the status of current investigations. This session is closed because complaints and investigations are confidential under SF Charter section C3.699-13, California Government Code section 54956.9, and Sunshine Ordinance section 67.12.
Mr. Pilpel asked if the Commission could disclose if there were any stipulations that have not been agreed to other than questions about the status of enforcement matters. The Commission said there were none this month. Mr. Pilpel asked that there be a way to formalize stipulations that do not require a closed session either in the Executive Director's Report or the Enforcement Report.
Motion 170123-05 (Chiu/Kopp): Moved, seconded and passed (5-0) that the Commission move into closed session.
The Commission entered closed session at 9:17 PM. All Commissioners, Deputy City Attorney Andrew Shen, Executive Director Pelham, Deputy Director Blome, and Staff Person Flores remained in the hearing room. The Commission returned to open session at 9:27 PM.
Motion 170123-06 (Keane/Kopp): Moved, seconded and passed (5-0) that the Commission not disclose closed session discussions.
13. Discussion and possible action on items for future meetings.
14. Additional opportunity for public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda pursuant to the Ethics Commissions Bylaws Article VII Section 2.
Motion 170123-07 (Kopp/Chiu): Moved, seconded, and passed (5-0) that the Commission adjourn.
The Commission adjourned at 9:29 PM.
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Anarchist cell claims Rome embassy attacks
December 24, 2010 CounterVortex
Italian authorities say an anarchist cell has claimed responsibility for parcel bomb attacks on the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome, in which two staff members were injured Dec. 23. A note found at at the scene of the Chilean embassy blast was signed by the "Lambros Fountas Cell" of the Informal Federation of Anarchy (FAI). Lambros Fountas was a Greek anarchist killed in a shoot-out with Athens police in March. "We have decided to make our voice heard with words and deeds," the note read. "We will destroy the dominant system, long live FAI, long live anarchy."
Comparisons were immediately drawn with the string of parcel bombs sent last month to foreign embassies in Athens. A Greek radical network, the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei, was blamed for those attacks, in which small packages detonated at the Swiss and Russian missions. More than a dozen packages were sent, prompting Greece to suspend international mail for two days.
Authorities suggested the Swiss were targeted in the attacks because they had co-operated with Rome, arresting two Italian anarchists in Zurich earlier this year. Reports also noted that an anarchist, named Mauricio Morales Duarte, was killed in Chile in 2009, apparently when a bomb he was carrying exploded.
Dec. 20 saw an improvised bomb attack on an automatic teller machine in Buenos Aires—the latest in a string of such bombings in the Argentine capital this year, some of which were claimed by the "Pandilla Vandálika Teodoro Suarez," a Chilean anarchist cell. (BBC News, ANSA, NYT, Dec. 24; La Nación, Buenos Aires, Dec. 20)
See our last posts on Italy and the global anarchist scare.
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GENE SIMMONS: 'I Believe In Total Honesty'
KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons recently spoke to Blender.com about the women he's loved, bands he's helped break out, his parenting skills, the Kiss Coffeehouse and the "Gene Simmons Family Jewels" reality TV show. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:
Blender.com: So, tell us a secret: How did you get Shannon Tweed to not marry you but still stay around?
Gene: Guys have become such wimps, it just shocks me. My God, what happened to the alpha male? I believe in total honesty. I believe in full disclosure before the fact, before you get with a girl. If you wanna marry her, say, "OK, I wanna marry, but let's talk about if we get divorced," because statistics say you will. So you must ask her the most important question, which is: If you want money, let me know how much. Let me make an educated decision.
Blender.com: You've said, "Women are great housekeepers: They get to keep the house."
Gene: Well, every hotel you've all been to is by definition a cohabitation agreement. You sign on the dotted line, and you agree to abide by the rules of the owner of the hotel. When you leave the hotel, you don't take half the hotel with you.
Blender.com: Have any of your exes ever come back to haunt you?
Gene: The reason you never find out some dark secret about me in those rags that women are addicted to — you know, The Sun and The Star and all the other stuff — is that there really is nothing to tell. The very first thing I did was show Shannon the photos I've taken, thousands of them, before we moved in together. In law that's called full disclosure, before the fact.
Blender.com: Was that a tough night?
Gene: No. It's better to find out there's trouble in paradise before you move into it than after. I like to think that I have the dignity and ethics of a prostitute: Before the blow job, I'm going to tell you it's gonna cost 75 dollars, this is what it is and so on. But women don't seem to have that integrity. If you ask really serious questions, they won't answer it.
Blender.com: Which band would you say you are most proud of offering that honor of opening for you?
Gene: AC/DC. That's my favorite band.
Blender.com: What was it about AC/DC?
Gene: I saw the boys play at a small club first in London with Bon Scott, and I'll never forget. They were starving, there were just 100 people in the club, and the lights went out, and even during the blackout, Angus was still going, doing his little dance step, back and forth. I thought, "Boy, these guys really care," so I cornered Angus, in Los Angeles after a show, and I said, "Do you wanna go grab a bite?" and he says, "Yeah let's go, mate." And when he smiled, I noticed he didn't have any front teeth. Literally. And I took him to a place called Ben Frank's, and he literally had beans and franks, and he had to chew on the side of his mouth. I thought to myself, "This poor little guy's got the heart of a lion," and I said at the table, "You're going out on tour with us." And his eyes were just like, "What?" You know, they thought they were forever gonna be in these little hellholes.
Read the entire interview at Blender.com.


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import React, { Component } from 'react';
import Balance from './widgets/balance.js';
import Address from './widgets/address.js';
import Send from './widgets/send.js';
import Miner from './widgets/miner.js';
import Power from './widgets/power.js';
import Stake from './widgets/stake.js';
import JobListing from './widgets/job_listing.js';

class Mining extends Component {

  render() {
    return (

            <Miner notify={this.props.notify} />

            <Power socket={this.props.socket}/>

            <Stake wallet={this.props.default_wallet} notify={this.props.notify}/>

          <JobListing notify={this.props.notify}/>

    );
  }
}

export default Mining;

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With Logos4 version 4.5 and higher, Logos4 reports warnings and errors when building your PB. This wiki page contains some documented warning/errors that you might encounter and in some cases ways to fix or avoid these when you are building a PB (Personal Book).
Where do I find the Warning/Error log?
Font ... is specified but not installed or embedded. Is this a valid font name?
TOC Entry length is .... Truncating to 256.
Article 'A_UNKNOWN' has only 1 characters.
Unable to apply topics to article 'A_UNKNOWN_3'. – Article Length is zero.
You will see the Finished button. Don't click on it yet !
Above the Finished button you will see how many Warnings or Errors that Logos4 found when building your PB.
To view the Warnings / Errors, you can click on this link View log file.... The list should appear in a window (depending on which Operating System that you are using).
Note: If you've already clicked Finished but you remember there were some warnings and want to see the log file, you can either rebuild the book, or you can find the PBB log files in your ...\Logos Log Files\PBB Logs folder. The filenames correspond to the resource ID assigned by the PB builder, which you can find in the info panel of your Personal Book, next to "Support Info".
This is caused when you haven't set the Table's Properties to a fixed size.
This can happen often when using Word's default method(s) for building your table. I've discovered L4 wants the Preferred width set for your tables. When it is not set, L4 issues the above warning for each row in your table. Below are ways to check & correct your tables in Word.
Hover your mouse over your table in Word until you see this symbol, then right-click on this symbol. Word will show you a drop-down menu as shown in the above image.
Word will then open the Table Properties window as shown below.
Enter a width value (you can enter the width between your margins [e.g. 7"]).
Clicking the OK, will close and apply your changes.
Now save your Word document.
Then rebuild your PB in Logos4. The warning should be gone.
Note: you may see the Size percentage equal to 100%, but in reality Word has it set to 100.0001%. Its best to change the image's percentage to slightly below 100%.
In Word locate your image, then right-click on it, in the drop-down menu click on Size and Position.
Word opens the Size & Position window. Click on the Size tab if it is not the tab showing.
Check the Scale percentages, one of them should be above 100%.
Change either the height or the width until both percentages are below 100%.
Click the OK to save your changes.
Rigth-click on the picture in Word and click on Copy.
Open Paint or your favorite image editor.
Paste your image from the clipboard as a new image into your image editor.
Copy the whole image in the image editor to the clipboard.
Now go back to Word and delete the image, then paste the image from the clipboard into the same location in Word.
You will get this warning when a reference in your PB is linked to a book which you do not own in your Library. So this is not a warning that should concern you. It is usually found within a hyperlink in your PB, and if you click on that link you will just get a warning window that you do not own the resource.
[Warning] Font 'TimesNewRoman' is specified but not installed or embedded. Is this a valid font name?
This can happen if a font used in the Word document is one that you don't actually have installed on your system.
You can fix this in Word using the Find and Replace dialog to replace the incorrect font with one that you do have installed. Chances are it was only a typo, but you might need to find a font that looks similar to the one that was intended, if you can't find the actual font somewhere to download.
Click in the "Find what" box to bring the focus there, and delete whatever text might be there.
Enter the name of the font to be replaced. It will not match any in the list, and that is fine. Click OK.
Repeat steps 3 and 4 for the "Replace with" box. When you're done it will look like this, and you can click Replace All.
Note: If, after replacing any errant font names and rebuilding the book you still get an error, don't worry about it. It might be just a leftover instruction about font mapping which will be ignored by Logos. For example, I had this remaining error: [Warning] Font '*TimesNewRoman' is specified but not installed or embedded. Is this a valid font name? I couldn't find any text with font name *TimesNewRoman in my document. I was able to eradicate the warning by saving the file as RTF, manually editing the RTF text to remove the lines mentioning *TimesNewRoman (being careful that what I deleted was within matched brackets), then save it back as .docx. But this is dangerous and not necessary, so don't worry about it.
You will get this warning if a font size is extremely small or large, and Logos will assign a normal font size to that text. You might want to go back through the document searching for that font size and change it to something of your choice that is within a valid range of sizes (6 points to 149 points). To change font size, see the instructions above about changing fonts.
This warning happens when one of the Heading level paragraphs in the document is longer than 256 characters. Find the culprit and shorten it if you can, or if that's just the way it has to be, live with the warning. It's pretty harmless. The heading in question will still have the full text, but the TOC pane will only show the first 256 characters of it.
The solution is to find the page milestone in question (in Word, for this example, I'd search for page:9) and fix it. It might require renumbering all your pages if you accidentally duplicated one. Or maybe it was simply a typo.
It is hard to track down where the offending character is, because Word cannot search for unprintable characters. You can scroll through the document looking for anything unusual. But if you can't find it, then narrow down your search by doing what is known as a "binary search": Put in some intentional known problem causing a warning (such as an empty Heading paragraph), about halfway through the document. Rebuild the book and look at the log file to see whether the "bad character in string" error is before or after where you put in the known problem. Keep moving your known problem to the halfway mark of the section of the document you've narrowed down the character error to, and you'll eventually find the problem, in the fewest possible steps.
The fix is to delete or replace the bad character with what was intended.
This is caused sometimes when you paste a picture into Word repeatedly.
The fix is to save the picture as a file and then in Word use the Insert to add your picture. Once you've added your picture, you can copy it in Word and paste it multiple times in other places.
[Warning] Article 'A_UNKNOWN' has only 1 characters.
This is caused when we have our cursor on a Heading styled line in Word and we press Enter on the keyboard to insert a line above our Heading. We probably found that we have a blank heading and converted it's style to Normal. But something in the XML Logos4 compiler doesn't like.
We notice that we have a blank Heading now.
So we think we have fixed the problem.
Then we build our PB.
After building the PB, we see we have a Warning.
Logos4 compiler has some problem with the XML and doesn't properly recognize that we converted this line style to Normal.
Place the cursor on the blank line and press Enter one more time. This inserts another Normal line above our forced blank line.
Don't worry about the new blank line (as long as it has no characters in it). Logos4 compiler remove extra blank line most of the time.
[Warning] closing field heading that is already closed.
This is caused when adding Field tagging around text which you have already marked as a Heading in Word.
Just don't add these field taggings around text in Word in which you have marked with a Heading style.
[Error] Unable to apply topics to article 'A_UNKNOWN_3'. Article Length is zero.
[Error] Article 'A_UNKNOWN_3' has only 0 characters.
The handling of this has been changed by Faithlife over the years: What used to be a warning and could nearly always be ignored without any consequences has changed to an error that breaks the build of the PB. This has hit many users when rebuilding a PB that worked in the past.
You can find this pretty easily in Word by opening the Navigation side panel as shown below. The Navigation side panel shows you all your lines marked with Heading Styles. It is very similar to what you see in your PB when you open the PB's Table of Contents.
This is what the Navigation side panel looks like in Word 2010 and hasn't changed much in later editions. To open the Navigation panel on Windows, press CTRL+F and click Navigation on the side panel. On Mac, open the View menu, point to the Sidebar, then click Navigation.
If you expand all your headings in the Navigation panel, you can visually scan down them looking for and empty heading (as you see in this image). If you click on this heading, Word will move you to where it exist in your doc.
Notice this blank line. I accidentally created it when the cursor was on the heading under it and I pressed Enter to add the blank line.
To remove the blank heading you can either delete the blank line (it should also disappear in the Nav panel). Or you can click on the blank line and change it's Style to Normal.
Especially in long PBs with many of those errors, a quick fix may be to add a space character into every paragraph. You replace all "^p" (i.e. paragraph marks) with " ^p" (space paragraph mark).


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I so rarely bake, but I came across this simple enough recipe that I thought even I couldn't mess it up. It's a classic French recipe for kids, that uses yogurt and then the container to measure out the rest of the ingredients. Brilliant, easy, and delicious.
1 to 2 containers of chocolate chips, berries, etc. Instead of those options I used the zest of one lemon, and then squeezed the juice into the wet ingredients. Loved it and would do that again.
Preheat oven to 375. Mix the wet ingredients in a large bowl (yogurt, eggs, sugar, vanilla, oil, lemon juice and lemon zest). Mix the dry ingredients in a separate bowl (flour and baking powder). Pour the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and stir until just combined. Bake for 35 minutes. Enjoy!


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Q: converting dictionary to binary in python I have a dictionary with keys as my customer ID and values as my movie id. Though the customer has watched the same movie many times, I want it to make as one.
Here I need to convert my dictionary to binary data.
In all the rows I need the customers ID's and  columns as movie id's, where if the customer has watched the movie, it gives 1 else 0.
d = {'121212121' : 111, 222, 333, 333,444, 444, '212121212' : 222, 555, 555, 666, '212123322' : 555, 666, 666, 666, 777}

Desired output :
customer ID 111 222 333 444 555 666 777
121212121   1   1   1   1   0   0   0
212121212   0   1   0   0   1   1   0
121323231   0   0   0   0   1   1   1

I have tried using count vectorizer()
code :
cv = CountVectorizer()
movies = cv.fit_transform(cust['movies_list'])
cols = cv.vocabulary_
movies_ = pd.DataFrame(movies.toarray(), columns = cols, index =
cust['customer_id'])
movies_

output :
customer ID 111 222 333 444 555 666 777
212121212   1   1   2   2   0   0   0
121212121   0   1   0   0   2   1   0
121323231   0   0   0   0   1   3   1

The customer Id's dint match and I got a count on how many times he watched the movie.

A: It looks like you can just use clip_upper to clip positive values to 1.
movies_.clip_upper(1)

           111  222  333  444  555  666  777
121212121    1    1    1    1    0    0    0
212121212    0    1    0    0    1    1    0
212123322    0    0    0    0    1    1    1

Here's an alternative solution starting with d. You can use pd.get_dummies, followed by clip_upper.
import pandas as pd
df = pd.concat([
          pd.Series(v, name=k).astype(str) for k, v in d.items()  # `d` is your dict
     ],
     axis=1
)
pd.get_dummies(df.stack()).sum(level=1).clip_upper(1)

           111  222  333  444  555  666  777
121212121    1    1    1    1    0    0    0
212121212    0    1    0    0    1    1    0
212123322    0    0    0    0    1    1    1

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The new Barkhane Task Force Takuba is due to settle at the military base in Gao in eastern Mali © AFP / Daphné BENOIT
Elite European anti-jihadist force takes first steps in Sahel
Gao, Mali, Nov 5 – Inside a military base in northern Mali, a concrete bollard emblazoned with French, Estonian and Swedish flags marks a zone reserved for a new anti-jihadist unit of elite European troops.
Dubbed Task Force Takuba, the new joint deployment marks a coup for France, which has sought partners in its long fight against Islamist militants in Africa's vast Sahel region.
French troops first deployed to Mali in 2013 after a jihadist insurgency broke out in the country the previous year.
But despite their presence, jihadist violence has spread to neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger.
Thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed in the conflict, and hundreds of thousands more have had to flee their homes.
Anger at the seemingly endless insurgency in Mali also fuelled protests against president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, culminating in his ouster in a military coup on August 18.
At the base in the city of Gao, about a dozen French and Estonian soldiers from Takuba sit under an awning, surrounded by storage containers and light military vehicles.
An Islamist insurgency has raged in Mali since 2012, killing thousands of soldiers and civilians. © AFP/File / Souleymane Ag Anara
They discuss their first mission: A sweep operation conducted in the lawless Mali-Burkina Faso border region last month, alongside local troops and French regulars.
Takuba troops are tasked with supporting elite Malian soldiers, who use motorbikes and pick-up trucks to zip into territory lost to jihadists at high speed.
"Malian armed forces arrived alone in the villages, so that the population could see them," said the commander of the Franco-Estonian unit, who gave his name as Aurelien, while the Europeans worked "discreetly".
Despite their different backgrounds, the polyglot force had little trouble working together.
"For our unit, it's the first time we work with the French," said an Estonian soldier. "So far there is no problem of interoperability".
45 French soldiers have died since the country first intervened in Mali in 2013 © AFP/File / Laurent DARD
Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom all made a political commitment to send special forces to Mali in March. French special forces will also participate.
But Takuba is still in its initial stages, and it is not yet clear when the different countries will deploy their troops — with many countries requiring prior parliamentary approval.
– 'Other Europeans will join us' –
France currently has 5,100 soldiers spread across the Sahel as part of its Operation Barkhane — and has lost some 45 soldiers since first intervening in Mali in 2013.
At a French forward base in Menaka, a town about an hour's drive east from Gao, engineers are preparing for the arrival of more European special-forces units.
A French commander who gave his name as Cedric said he expected Czech counterparts to arrive soon. The Czech parliament approved their deployment last month.
A successful beginning for Takuba is considered crucial to its longterm success.
And for France, which is hoping to eventually drawn down its own military commitment in the region, the stakes are high.
A 150-strong Swedish unit is also scheduled to deploy early next year, along with three Blackhawk helicopters.
French troops have ranged into Mali's neighbour Burkina Faso as part of the Barkhane mission © AFP/File / MICHELE CATTANI
This unit — unlike other European contingents in Takuba — will carry out rapid-response missions instead of shadowing local troops.
Italy too has authorised the deployment of up to 200 soldiers, but it is not yet clear when they will arrive.
"We hope that other Europeans will join us," said Commander Aurelien, pointing to the need for extra support in securing the lawless border region in Mali and Burkina Faso.
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Spring garden road is the spirit of Halifax, is the life of Halifax and the downtown. It includes about 5 to 6 malls in addition to lots of stores for men women and kids clothes. It is the area where you would like just to walk, have fun and enjoy the sight of Halifax. Consisting of nine city blocks, the area has over 200 retail shops, most independently owned, served by ample convenient parking.
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Objective: Extrapyramidal adverse effects of antipsychotic drugs are more reported in children. Biperiden is an anticholinergic agent to treat the adverse effects of antipsychotic drugs. The drug has the potential to induce delirium at toxic doses. However, data are scarce about delirium associated with biperiden in children. Thus far, a case of delirium has been associated with biperiden in an adolescent patient. We report the first case of delirium associated with the use of biperiden in a preadolescent patient.
Case Report: A boy aged five years and weighing 20 kilograms had been diagnosed as having oppositional defiant disorder and separation anxiety disorder in the previous treatment center. Ten milligrams fluoxetine and 0.25 milligrams risperidone had been initiated. On the third day of treatment, dystonia developed and he was administered with biperiden. An hour later, he was brought to our emergency clinic due to disorganized speech and behavior. His vital signs were stable. There were no findings in blood and urine tests. No electrolyte imbalance, liver, kidney, and thyroid dysfunction have been observed. His neurologic examination was unremarkable and no abnormal findings were shown on cranial magnetic resonance imaging. No other system findings or findings pointing out to infectious diseases have been observed. One milligram physostigmine was administered with intravenous infusion. However, symptoms did not resolve and he was diagnosed with delirium. Naranjo Adverse Drug Reaction Probability Scale score was seven, indicating a "Probable" Adverse Drug Reaction. Half milligram haloperidol was administered bid for three days and he was discharged with complete recovery.
Conclusion: Clinicians must be aware of the risk of delirium when using non-toxic doses of biperiden in young children.
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Q: Are these three dots part of a filesystem path? When running apt-get install, I noticed this:
Preparing to unpack .../PACKAGENAME_VERSION.deb ...
Unpacking PACKAGENAME (VERSION) ...

Note the 3 dots before /PACKAGENAME_VERSION.
Do those dots mean anything? Are they part of a filesystem path, like ./ and ../?

A: No, that's just an ellipsis. The actual path, in case you're wondering, is more like /var/cache/apt/archives/foo.deb. Apparently dpkg adds it whenever you supply a path to a package:
$ sudo dpkg -i vim-gnome_2%3a7.4.1529-1\~ppa1\~t_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 757002 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack vim-gnome_2%3a7.4.1529-1~ppa1~t_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking vim-gnome (2:7.4.1529-1~ppa1~t) over (2:7.4.1529-1~ppa1~t) ...
Setting up vim-gnome (2:7.4.1529-1~ppa1~t) ...

$ sudo dpkg -i ./vim-gnome_2%3a7.4.1529-1\~ppa1\~t_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 757002 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../vim-gnome_2%3a7.4.1529-1~ppa1~t_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking vim-gnome (2:7.4.1529-1~ppa1~t) over (2:7.4.1529-1~ppa1~t) ...
Setting up vim-gnome (2:7.4.1529-1~ppa1~t) ...


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Let's focus on some of the movies we expect to break out as hits for 2021. We've selected 10 that have a shot at box office blockbuster success. If you're anything like the rest of us you've been starving to see films in theaters. Yeah, seeing it on Netflix, HBO, Hulu and Amazon is awesome. Getting to sit in your living room taking in some amazing films is a real treat but nothing beats the big screen experience with surround sound and a big bag of popcorn. Let's jump into our list of highly anticipated action films of 2021.
1. Black widow - directed by Cate Shortland
Black widow is among the most mysterious and deceptively dangerous members of The Avengers and looks so good putting her foot in people's ass. Knowing that there's a movie dedicated to her is exciting and we know that our actor can carry the weight. It should be a fun time for this film and we expect it to be one of the top films of the year action wise and otherwise.
2. Mortal Kombat directed by Simon McQuoid Speaking of action, how can you not include mortal Kombat to this list. With new technologies, an amazing array of characters and a very talented production team and writing team, it's hard to see how Mortal Kombat won't make its mark among the top films of 2021. It even includes a few backstories that help it gain additional new fans.
3. Army of the Dead directed by Zack Snyder Army of the Dead just looks like a flat out classic. And with the assembled cast it should be a popcorn munching all out zombie fest with a nice story twisted into it. Can't wait for this one and we totally expect it to be among the top films of the year.
4. The Hitman's wife's bodyguard directed by Patrick Hughes The hitman's bodyguard was a smash and now we get to see all the more Salma Hayek with the hitman's wife's bodyguard. The fun thing about this kick butt blood fest is it doesn't take itself too seriously. It will be fun to go along for the ride and expect it to be one of the top films of the year.
5. Space jam a new legacy directed by Malcolm Lee Space jam a new legacy will be directed by Malcolm Lee and Star global Superstar LeBron James. The original starring Michael Jordan was a lot of fun and as silly as it needed to be. The new one will grab old and new generations and is sure to be a success considering all the funny characters and a very charismatic and movie ready LeBron James.
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Efforts to engineer antibody-based therapeutics, to date, have encountered technical limitations due to the relatively large fragment size and short fragment half-life. Antibody fragments are emerging as promising biopharmaceuticals because of their relatively small size and other unique properties. However, compared with full-size antibodies, these antibody fragments lack the ability to bind to some Fc receptor and have reduced half-lives.
NCI scientists have developed small (∼27 kDa) antibody fragments that are potentially useful for therapeutic development. These are monomeric IgG fragment (mFc) compositions; they have long half-lives, are functional (pH dependent binders of neonatal Fc receptor - FcRn); soluble, and they express in E. coli efficiently. The molecules may serve as a platform for development of engineered mFc-based antibodies and fusion proteins with therapeutic applications: the smaller size may allow for superior access to targets and tissues compared to full sized mAbs and larger fragment-based therapeutics, while also retaining important functional characteristics. The IgG Fc is a dimer of two constant domains (CH2-CH3 chains). The Fc has a long half-life, which makes it promising as a candidate for engineering antibody therapeutics.
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The 400 passenger capacity luxury passenger vessel M/S/Europa called at the Port of Hambantota today 15th December 2015. The vessel is expected to leave the port to Ko Phi Phi Islands in Thailand this evening. The current voyages of the vessel include a 154 days world cruise from Dubai to Hamburg and a 19 day Asia voyage from Dubai to Singapore. The vessel also called at the Port of Colombo prior to her call today at the Port of Hambantota carrying 327 passengers on board. The luxury cruise ship MS Europa is owned by German operator Hapag-Lloyd.
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Hapag- Lloyd Lanka / Aitken Spence, has made arrangements to bring more passenger vessels to Sri Lanka with the long term vision of promoting the island, one of the best tour and travel destinations in the region and will bring more callers at the Ports of Colombo, Galle, Hambantota and Trincomalee during the year 2016.
M/S/Europa is the 08th passenger vessel to call at the Port of Hambantota this year.
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Segarini: The Majority Rules – Mainstream Mediocrity
You hear and see it everywhere. People constantly complaining about today's music, radio, television, and movies. And it doesn't stop there. They complain about their politicians, their Governments, the lack of decent service, and the dearth of knowledgeable salespeople in most of the big box stores that have replaced locally owned shops and retail outlets. They rail against all these things, but nothing seems to change. Some people even start asking questions, but the questions that need to be asked never are. Why are so many people disgruntled? What happened to creativity and quality? Why don't things get better? Well, the first thing we need to understand is this; as vocal as we are about the terrible state we perceive things to be in, we are not the Majority. Apparently, the Majority are perfectly happy…at least, they think they are…and the Majority rules.
My father tried to impart a lot of wisdom to me when I was growing up. Most of the time, what he said didn't make sense to me the first time I heard it. For example, I didn't realize what "Get your appetite up on the street, but eat at home" meant until I got married. My dad was a very wise man.
Lately, one of his bon mots pops into my head frequently. I hear his voice, and sometimes it is so clear, I look around to see if he's standing there holding a crate of asparagus, dressed in a Pendleton shirt, brown slacks, a pair of scuffed brown wingtips, and a yellow apron with the green lettering stitched on it in cursive that said "Segarini's Supermarkets" across the front. He is never there, of course, but his words hang in the air smelling of Bay Rum and Old Spice, and ring truer and truer as time goes by.
"The more people you put in a room, the lower the I.Q goes."
And THAT, my dear disgruntled friends, is a BIG part of our problem.
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We suffer 'Majority Rules' on both sides of the fence. Let's take, for example, contemporary popular music. On the creative side, the Artist with vision surrounded by people who share that vision and strive to present it to the world unencumbered and with its brilliance intact, have been replaced by committees of 'experts', reams of statistics, and financial projections, and using the resources and information generated by those people and that research, use it to create an 'Artist' who is photogenic, youthful, and desirous of both fame and fortune and who will be the delivery system for their carefully constructed product. Okay. That sounds a little cynical and tin-foil-hat-y for even me, so let's say this instead; Neil Young has been replaced by Nicki Minaj.
Because that's what contemporary popular music radio stations demand.
Because they have used their format to create demand for this type of product.
Because this kind of product is what the MAJORITY of their listeners want to hear.
So, clearly…we are not the majority.
We all have friends who pooh-pooh the idea that a lot of this current music is not good. They look at us with a world-weary squint and in a reverse of the Father Knows Best dinner table speech to Bud, Kitten, and Princess about how they'll 'understand when they get older,' say knowledgeably, "You're too old to get it. This is today's music, not yours. You had your turn and now it's theirs. You are too old to understand it."
A lot of it is crap, and just to be fair, a lot of 'our' stuff was crap too…but at least our crap was human, not Cylon. This generation has its share of Minajs and Ga Gas, and Pitbulls and Drakes, but older generations had Liberaces and Village Peoples and Tony Orlando and Dawns…but they made music, and played and sang songs, even as bad as some of them were. The big difference was we could change the channel and find something different, something new, something we liked.
There are just as many young kids that can't stand contemporary popular 'music' that's played on the radio any more than us decrepit old farts. I talk to them all the time, see them at the clubs, and run into them in the used record stores.
They aren't in the majority either…but some Spanish scientists (of undetermined age) have come up with some interesting information.
LONDON | Thu Jul 26, 2012 3:24pm EDT
(Reuters) – Comforting news for anyone over the age of 35, scientists have worked out that modern pop music really is louder and does all sound the same.
Researchers in Spain used a huge archive known as the Million Song Dataset, which breaks down audio and lyrical content into data that can be crunched, to study pop songs from 1955 to 2010.
A team led by artificial intelligence specialist Joan Serra at the Spanish National Research Council ran music from the last 50 years through some complex algorithms and found that pop songs have become intrinsically louder and more bland in terms of the chords, melodies and types of sound used.
"We found evidence of a progressive homogenization of the musical discourse," Serra told Reuters. "In particular, we obtained numerical indicators that the diversity of transitions between note combinations – roughly speaking chords plus melodies – has consistently diminished in the last 50 years."
They also found the so-called timbre palette has become poorer. The same note played at the same volume on, say, a piano and a guitar is said to have a different timbre, so the researchers found modern pop has a more limited variety of sounds.
Intrinsic loudness is the volume baked into a song when it is recorded, which can make it sound louder than others even at the same volume setting on an amplifier.
The music industry has long been accused of ramping up the volume at which songs are recorded in a 'loudness war' but Serra says this is the first time it has been properly measured using a large database.
The study, which appears in the journal Scientific Reports, offers a handy recipe for musicians in a creative drought.
Old tunes re-recorded with increased loudness, simpler chord progressions and different instruments could sound new and fashionable. The Rolling Stones in their 50th anniversary year should take note.
So, just to be clear, not ALL of contemporary popular music is feeble compared to what the nostalgia-ists call 'classic'…but the vast 'majority' of it is, and that brings us to the other side of the fence and THAT majority.
The single biggest reason that everything seems to have been dumbed down to monosyllabic drivel…is because the majority are okay with it. The public.
We are the reason.
We are the enemy.
Well, not us specifically, Dear Readers, but we, the consumers of goods and services.
Network television and Terrestrial radio have discovered, over the years that the majority of their consumers like bright shiny objects, loud noises, and pretty baubles. They have also discovered that people LOVE to watch other people make fools of themselves, or people overcome the odds in a way that is both heartwarming and hopeful. They love to watch people just like them compete for vast wealth or fame, and they like to shake their heads in unison over the hoarders, and the fat people trying to lose weight, and the pretty boys and girls they used to be or want to be, who have made it onto the radio or television…a dream come true…to the majority. The bonus to all of this is that this type of programming doesn't even come close to costing what a well written, acted, and filmed hour of entertainment costs the networks. It is a win/win.
Over the years, radio has created a replaceable audience, and the record industry, in turn, has created the disposable artist. As long as there are young girls and the mothers who live through them, contemporary popular 'music' radio and radio friendly product will always exist and be financially successful. Good for them.
The Majority rules. And as long as they do, the rest of us will have to do what we always have done. Look for what we want.
The big difference these days is that we can't just change the station and hear something new or different like we used to be able to do. No…we actually have to work at finding what we want to hear. Most of us know where to look, but who has the time, all the time, to do that? Luckily, there ARE radio stations who, like us, are dissatisfied with what they have been doing, or realize that sounding like everyone else is a dead end, and they are starting to take chances and play outside the box. There is certainly enough great, new music being made to feed the demand side once it's created. There will be more of this as time goes by, and more radio stations will pursue the audience that has abandoned radio over the last 25 years, and the young people who are looking for new music all the time. If you are in a major market, a big city, look just outside the city…you will find something more akin to the music radio of yore. Inventive. Creative. Into the music…and leading the way to an alternative to what much of radio has become.
Television is easier. There is so much great TV, even though some of the best is cancelled prematurely because the majority don't watch it, a lot of it survives because of the devout following of the people who want more than just a dog and pony show, and advertisers and management who realize that their audience might not be the biggest, but is comprised of the trend setters, early adapters, and loyal fans who spread the word to more and more people.
Movies, Politics, services, and everything else…ALL sanctioned by the 'Majority'. And how often in recorded history, have the Majority chosen the right path?
Think about that for a while.
None of this is new. The majority has always been…shall we say…misused and misguided by the more unscrupulous of the entrepreneurs out there. By definition, Majority, median, (average), middle, mediocre; that which appeals to the most people. Like my dad said, the more people (majority) in a room, the lower the (overall) I.Q. It's just simple math.
In 1979 I wrote a song that was recorded by The Segarini Band and released in 1980. To say the album it was on was mishandled by the label and the distributor would be an understatement. This is the opening cut from 'Vox Populi!', the Segarini Band's last LP and just one of the songs on it that still rings true today. Good luck finding a copy. I've included the lyrics so you can sing along. Just right click on the title and open the song in another window unless you want to see the back of the album cover.
Voice of the People
Everybody talkin' on the TV and the radio
I don't hear too much I like
I guess my I.Q just isn't that low
Maybe I'm crazy maybe I'm lame
But I just don't like what the people been sayin'
I hear it at the nightclub when I'm playin' my guitar
The kids say 'play some rock and roll'
And I say 'that's exactly what we are doin'
What are you hearin'?'
Maybe they're loaded
Maybe they're high
Maybe they're stupid
I don't know why
It's just the Voice of the People
It's the Voice of the People
Instrumental Break
Now two girls and a guy they live together on this show
And they all try so very hard to prove the guy's not Hetero
And then the girls they bounce and wiggle
And pause to lick their lips
And if Neilson says it's Number One
Then I suppose it is
But it's so sad
Don't it make you so mad?
That there's a little black box on some TVs
Say it's Number One
But you can't fool me
Now every now and then my friends and I go have a beer
We overhear a conversation based on politics and fear
And they discuss the daily issues 'till it turns to argument
Then they beat each other senseless
On the parking lot cement
And it's so loud
Always talkin' so proud
And I find myself wishing that they'd go away
'Cause I hate to see the issues gettin' settled that way
But that's the Voice of the People
Oh wooh wooh wooh
(Voice of the People)
Well it's the Voice of the People
Ooh it's the Voice of the People
God Please save us from the Voice of the People
Segarini's regular column appears here every Monday
Bob "The Iceman" Segarini was in the bands The Family Tree, Roxy, The Wackers, The Dudes, and The Segarini Band and nominated for a Juno for production in 1978. He also hosted "Late Great Movies" on CITY TV, was a producer of Much Music, and an on-air personality on CHUM FM, Q107, SIRIUS Sat/Rad's Iceberg 95, (now 85), and now publishes, edits, and writes for DBAWIS, continues to write music, make music, and record.
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WHAT the hell? Is it really you Bob?
Long long time! Sheri
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Yesterday came the shocking news that Buzzcocks leader Pete Shelley had died from a heart attack. Obviously, this great influence on so much of my favorite music needed to be celebrated so the first hour of tonight's show is devoted to many of his greatest songs.
As this show was originally intended to be a new release show, the rest of the broadcast saw new tunes by Sarah Shook, Holly Golightly, Laura Jane Grace, and lots and lots of newly discovered bands.
As always, I hope everybody discovers a band or two they've never heard before! You can find this show at almost any podcast site, including iTunes and Stitcher.
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Agustinia and Other Dinosaurs of Central and South America
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Children's Literature Comprehensive Database Newsletter
"Millions of years ago, South America was not joined to Central and North America, with very different dinosaurs living in each area. These dinosaurs ranged in size from one that was as small as a chicken to one that was larger than an elephant. Eight of them are briefly described, with the focus on size, habitat, diet, and/or defenses, including Eoraptor, one of the first dinosaurs. Short, simple sentences and large type, along with the easy reading level, are just right for the intended audience. Several features helpful for young readers are included: a red or green square by the name of the dinosaur to indicate if it was a meat- or plant-eater, a graphic comparison to an adult human or an elephant, and pictures and text comparing the dinosaur to a modern-day animal with some similar characteristics. Occasional sidebars, such as the one comparing Alvarezsaurus to a modern ostrich, provide additional information as well as introducing the concepts of adaptation and evolution. Pronunciation guides, a short glossary, an index, and a link to a website featuring more information about the dinosaurs covered in the book are included. (Two of the three sites are excellent; one is not appropriate for this age reader.) Like others in the "Dinosaur World" series, the first page is an overview of the habitat, and the last discusses why they are extinct. While the information presented is brief, the geographic presentation and the emphasis on comparisons make these valuable for young paleontologists." - Children's Literature Comprehensive Database Newsletter
Dougal Dixon has written more than 120 books, including many on dinosaurs, fossils, and Earth science subjects. Since 1980, Dougal has been a full-time freelance writer and editor. He enjoys researching out in the field. In 2004, he spent time in Montana excavating a Stegosaurus skeleton. His books have won the Times Educational Supplement, Primary School Book Award for Science in 1996, the Helen Roney Sattler Award from the Dinosaur Society in 1993, and the Educational Press Association of America Distinguished Achievement Award in 1993. Dougal lives in Wareham in Dorset, England, with his wife Jean. He has two children, Gavin and Lindsay.
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With convention season in full swing Ten Ton Hammer has you covered. The annual meeting of The Syndicate Guild was held just this past weekend and our very own Reuben Waters was there.
Now in its 10th year, the conference is lower key than other conventions, but there was still some heavy hitters from the industry in attendance.
In fact, Waters got the chance to sit down and speak to the creative director for Star Wars: The Old Republic, James Ohlen himself. Topics discussed include the banking system, companion customization, and what the response has been like since the initial pre-order rush following the announcements during SDCC last month.
Ten Ton Hammer: Will companions have an advancement tree similar to what player characters have, or some other means of advancing and distinguishing them from those controlled by other players?
Creative Director James Ohlen: Once you get a companion character he has a set role, and he does level up and gets new abilities as he levels up, but that's all set. The reason we went that direction is because we felt that companion characters are not you; you don't really control them, and they are their own character. So we didn't want you to decide which way they went. That's the 'story' reason, but there are also a gameplay reasons.
Ten Ton Hammer: Outside of directly controlling their advancement path, will there be other way for players to customize them in some way? It's logical to give those characters a distinct path to follow, but at the same time I know a lot of players will want their companions to feel like they are unique to their story, and not just a carbon copy of the person next to them.
James: The one big thing you can do is equip different weapons and armor to them just like you can on your main character. One of the ways I play is that if you have a companion character that's similar to your main character you can give them hand-me-downs.
But a way to customize them is you can customize their appearance with kits. So for example, if you have a blue twi'lek maybe you want her to be green skinned, and you would like her to have a different-shaped face. You will actually have kits that will allow you to make her look different essentially.
They'll still have the same name and personality, and everything else, but you will essentially be able to customize their look entirely. We wouldn't do that in a single-player game, but the reason we're doing that in a multiplayer game is that it presents an immersion issue. We don't want people running around with identical looking companion characters.
Ten Ton Hammer: That brings up a very good point in terms of how things will work if I group with another player who opts to bring along the same companion character. Will there be some form of naming convention employed in those cases so you don't have one companion named Vette in the group, and another named 'Twi'lek Pirate #2002' or even 'Vette2'?
James: When you view them in the world, their name doesn't show up. Instead it will be more like 'James' Companion'. We decided to do that because it's less immersion breaking. That's much better than having you both see Vette and thinking, "That's kind of lame." It's amazing what kind of difference something as simple as a name can make though.
So instead it will be like, that's Rich's companion and she's a red skinned Twi'lek, and mine is a blue skinned Twi'lek. That way I can totally get over the fact that I know he's also playing a Sith Warrior, and that he's also on the same story, and that he met the same character. We want to do enough hand-wavery to make it so that it's not an issue for players.
Ten Ton Hammer: We are also curious about the banking system. Will players be able to share items between their own characters through the bank on the same server, or even across factions so long as it's on the same account?
James: Currently no, you have to do it the old fashioned way through the mailbox, but only if they're the same faction. There are multiple reasons why we don't want the different factions to communicate with each other.
We had the big argument that this isn't like Horde and Alliance, we all speak Galactic Standard so we should just allow it. So we actually did allow it for a little while. The argument against it was that, what happens is people start saying inappropriate things to the other side. That's just the way it is when you're on a different side and you gank each other, people tend to say inappropriate things.
So we thought that maybe it won't be so bad, but then when we started doing testing with external people, and then we'd look at the chat logs and say, OK, that's gone. And it wasn't the swear words that were bad, let's just say that lots of inappropriate things get said. Usually our testers are more mature, and if this is what was happening with them, imagine what will happen when we go out into the wild.
We just wanted to get rid of that, so that's another reason why you can't mail your incredibly dirty messages to members of the opposite faction. The unfortunate thing is that's just human nature. Suddenly Empire players would start sending horrific messages – and I mean horrific – so that's what we want to avoid.
James: *Laughter* I don't think we want any systems connected to the things that would be said, that's the thing.
Ten Ton Hammer: How does that translate to something like a PvP environment then? Is it a case where you'll only see chat from other players of your own faction, and don't see the other faction's chat at all?
James: You won't see the other faction's chat at all, so they can't chat with you and you can't chat with them.
Ten Ton Hammer: Speaking of the mail system, will you be able to check your mail while on your ship along with things like storage?
James: You can definitely use your ship for storage. The thing about ship functionality is that we've actually been adjusting it throughout game testing. For example, the ship was a 'rest zone' for a little while, then it was not one, and right now we're considering turning it into a rest zone in-game again. But that's based off of feedback we get from players.
There are lots of different reasons to do it either way. Fictionally it makes sense, but one of the things you want to do in massively multiplayer games is to create areas where players are likely to gather. So the thing about player ships that we're always struggling against is that if we make everything available in the player ships, everyone will become anti-social. Players will just stay in their ships and do everything there. At the same time, the player ship has to be really cool.
So there are things that you'll only be able to do on a player ship. So accessing the galaxy map, play space battles, talk to your companion characters and advance their stories. Then we also have the banks there and the ability to do crafting table stuff. So there's a lot of stuff that you can do on your ships right now.
Currently though, I'm pretty sure that mail is not on the ships. But, again, that's something that's not technically unfeasible; it's a game design decision.
Ten Ton Hammer: Speaking of the ships, are there any updates on whether we'll see pazaak or holo-chess in-game?
James: Unfortunately we're currently not talking about that.
Ten Ton Hammer: Can you maybe tell us a little bit about other mini-game activities that players can find in-game?
James: We have the most advanced mini-game of any BioWare game which is the space mini-game. So that's our 'big' mini-game, and it is our most in-depth and interesting mini-game we've ever done. There's the whole upgrade mechanic on your ship, the actual space game itself has a lot of tactics within it, and there are a bunch of different space levels and they look really beautiful.
Out of all the mini-games we've done, I think it's the one players will enjoy the most. However, we have looked at all of the other possible mini-games, like in KotOR there was pazaak but currently we're not planning on having that for ships. Not because we don't want it; we can't put everything in the game since we don't have unlimited resources.
Ten Ton Hammer: Will players be able to shift alignment from light side to dark side or vice versa even once you've reached the level cap?
James: Yep, you will be able to shift your alignment even at the level cap. That was a design question where we don't want players to reach level 50 and realize they're gimped because maybe they didn't end up with as many dark side points as they thought they would by that point. So yes, you'll be able to make those adjustments even at the highest level.
Ten Ton Hammer: What kind of content will players be able to play through that would allow them to make that shift at the level cap?
James: We're going to have Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Quests, and those are all things that have conversations which allow for dark side / light side choices.
Ten Ton Hammer: Kind of paired with that, just to clarify, say I prefer to walk the middle path and remain as neutral as possible rather than shifting to either the light or dark side. Would I still have access to the same kind of rewards that you'd get for shifting fully in one direction or the other?
James: In the light side / dark side system you can either go all the way light or dark, or you can stay in the center. We're doing some changes to the item system now, including how some of the light side / dark side systems work, but you'll get different artifacts that will only work if you're light side or dark side, or the same thing if you're gray. Then we also have items as well. So you might have a specific lightsaber crafted that's just for the Sith, that you'll have to be dark side to be able to use.
Ten Ton Hammer: I was lucky enough to be able to attend the SWTOR panel during Comic-Con last month, and even though it was only a few hours after the initial pre-order announcement, there was obviously an incredibly positive response from fans. In the weeks since the announcement, has the response continued to meet or exceed expectations?
James: We've shattered all of the previous EA records by like a factor of 10. So it did very well, but then expectations were also very high. This game has been under development for a long time, and there's obviously a lot of hype so we knew that we were going to get a lot of interest.
We're at a stage right now where we know there are a lot of people interested in the game and a lot of people who are going to try it out, so we don't want to end up launching a game that falls down. Otherwise it would be a wasted opportunity for us personally, and for EA.
Ten Ton Hammer: It seems like you've also paid pretty close attention to what has and hasn't worked for major MMO launches while developing SWTOR. Things like massive queue times or even unstable servers due to concurrent user counts have certainly marred the launch day experience for some gamers. Did those things directly influence the concept of staggering early access?
James: The early access is based on when you redeem your code, so the earlier you redeem your code the earlier you get in. We're not talking about specific timing for that, but that is the goal; to roll them in slowly so they don't overwhelm the server by letting everyone in at once.
When I went online I saw that there are a lot of people who were like, BioWare is just trying to create artificial demand. The thing is, we're already trying to fit in more players in a shorter period of time than has ever been done in the history of not just online games, but anything online because we have so much interest. So this isn't about trying to create artificial demand. So that's why we're doing it, because there's never been this kind of technical challenge before.
It's a huge challenge and we want it to be smooth. We're going to pull it off and when we do pull it off it's going to be pretty amazing. The guys who are responsible for that, we're going to be very proud of them.
Update: Georg Zoeller has just clarified Jame's Ohlens statement regarding cross-faction chat. You will be able to communicate with another faction via /s(local chat), it is the planet wide general chat channels that are restricted. See the full post Here.


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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: 'Nothing like' Surface tablet
Microsoft, a company that until recently dominated the computing world, is experiencing what its boss Steve Ballmer is calling an "epic" moment.
It is preparing to put its first tablet computer, the Surface, on sale to the public on Friday 26 October, as well as its latest operating system, Windows 8.
Rory Cellan-Jones caught up with Mr Ballmer in Seattle, to find out what is at stake with this launch.
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Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Bivens Action Based upon Improper Service of Process
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Filed under: Civil Procedure, Service. Location: New York.
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By Derek Gilna
In a case decided in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on August 30, 2010, the court affirmed the district court decision dismissing a Bivens action on the grounds that plaintiffs failed to properly serve process on the United States through service on the Attorney General of the United States by registered or certified mail, as required under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(i). They also held that the district court's obligation to allow the plaintiffs a reasonable time to cure a service failure was satisfied by the defendants notifying plaintiffs of the defective service, which did not constitute waiver of service, and that plaintiffs failed to cure said defect.
Upon a motion for reconsideration by the plaintiffs, the court rejected the plaintiff's argument that the action should not have been dismissed against those defendants who had failed to raise an improper service defense by motion or pleading, concluding that since these defendants did not have the power to waive the requirement of service on the United States, they did not in fact do so. See: Kurzberg v. Ashcroft, 619 F. 3d 176 (2010).
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