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Justia › US Law › Case Law › Federal Courts › District Courts › Pennsylvania › Middle District of Pennsylvania › 2004 › Allstate Ins. Co. v. Leiter
Allstate Ins. Co. v. Leiter, 306 F. Supp. 2d 488 (M.D. Pa. 2004)
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania - 306 F. Supp. 2d 488 (M.D. Pa. 2004)
306 F. Supp. 2d 488 (2004)
ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff
Pamela E. LEITER, Administratrix of The Estate of Brent A. Leiter, deceased, Defendant.
No. 04:03-CV-0948.
*489 Christopher M. Reeser, Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman and Goggin, Williamsport, PA, for Plaintiff.
John R. Bonner, Joseph F. Orso, III, Casale & Bonner, P.C., Williamsport, PA, for Defendant.
JONES, District Judge.
This is Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings filed by the plaintiff, Allstate Insurance Company ("Plaintiff" or "Allstate"), which seeks a declaratory judgment pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2201 et seq., that it is not obligated to pay underinsured motorist benefits to the Estate of Brent A. Leiter pursuant to an insurance policy issued to Charles D. Leiter.
This Court has jurisdiction based on diversity of citizenship, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1332.
For the reasons that follow, we hold that Allstate is not obligated to pay benefits to the Estate of Brent A. Leiter. Accordingly, we shall grant the motion for judgment on the pleadings.
PROCEDURAL HISTORY:
Allstate initiated this action on June 9, 2003, by filing a declaratory judgment complaint. On July 17, 2003, Allstate filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings and supporting brief. The defendant, Pamela E. Leiter, Administratrix of the *490 Estate of Brent A. Leiter ("Defendant"), filed a brief in opposition to Allstate's motion on July 25, 2003. This matter became ripe for disposition on August 4, 2003, when Allstate filed a reply brief in support of its motion.
"After the pleadings are closed but within such time as not to delay the trial, any party may move for judgment on the pleadings." Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(c). In considering a motion for judgment on the pleadings, we must accept all factual averments as true and must draw all reasonable inferences in favor of the non-moving party. See U.S. Fidelity and Guar. Co. v. Tierney Assoc., Inc., 213 F. Supp. 2d 468, 469(M.D.Pa.2002) (citing Society Hill Civic Association v. Harris, 632 F.2d 1045, 1054(3d Cir. 1980)). "A party moving for judgment on the pleadings under Rule 12(c) must demonstrate that there are no disputed material facts and that judgment should be entered as a matter of law." Id. (citing Jablonski v. Pan American World Airways, Inc., 863 F.2d 289, 290-91 (3d Cir.1988); see also Institute for Scientific Info., Inc. v. Gordon & Breach, Science Publishers, Inc., 931 F.2d 1002, 1005(3d Cir.1991)).
Here, there is no dispute as to the facts alleged within the Complaint and Defendant agrees that no additional facts need be disclosed in order to resolve the issues before us.
STATEMENT OF RELEVANT FACTS:
On March 11, 2001, Brent A. Leiter ("Decedent" or "Leiter") and Andrew J. Guizio ("Guizio") were occupants of a Chevrolet Baretta owned by Brent Leiter which was involved in a one car motor vehicle accident. Both men died as a result of injuries sustained in the accident.
The Chevrolet Baretta, along with three other automobiles, was covered by an insurance policy issued to Charles D. Leiter, Brent Leiter's father, by Allstate. The policy provides for $100,000.00 of bodily injury liability insurance coverage, for $100,000.00 of underinsured motorist coverage and for stacking of the vehicles insured under the policy.
Subsequent to the accident, the Pennsylvania State Police conducted an investigation regarding which occupant of the car was driving at the time of the accident. The investigation was inconclusive. The Administratrixes of the Estates of Brent A. Leiter ("the Estate of Leiter") and Andrew J. Guizio ("the Estate of Guizio") each presented claims of bodily injury liability insurance coverage to Allstate claiming that they were entitled to the proceeds of the policy covering the vehicle. The Estate of Leiter insisted that Guizio was driving at the time of the accident and the Estate Guizio argued that Leiter was driving at the time of the accident.
On April 8, 2002, in light of its position as a mere stakeholder in the dispute between the Estate of Leiter and Estate of Guizio, Allstate filed a complaint in interpleader against both the Estate of Leiter and the Estate of Guizio, tendering its $100,000 bodily injury limit of liability to the Court. The Estates were able to reach a mediated settlement in the action and agreed that the Estate of Leiter would receive $57,500 from the liability insurance policy, and that the Estate of Guizio would receive $42,500 from the policy.
After the settlement was reached, the Estate of Leiter presented a claim to Allstate for underinsured motorist ("UIM") benefits from the same policy that the Estate had received $57,500 in liability insurance benefits. Allstate denied the claim and this lawsuit ensued.
Allstate seeks a judgment from this Court that the Estate of Leiter is not entitled to UIM benefits under the policy it issued to Charles Leiter because the *491 vehicle occupied by Decedent at the time of the accident does not meet the definition of an "underinsured auto." We assume for purposes of this motion, as have the parties, that Guizio was the driver of the vehicle owned by Decedent at the time of the accident and that Guizio was driving the vehicle with Decedent's permission. As such, Guizio was insured for liability as a permissive operator of the vehicle. (See Compl. Ex A at 5).
Because we are exercising diversity jurisdiction over this claim, we must apply the substantive law of the state in which we sit. See Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64, 78, 58 S. Ct. 817, 82 L.Ed. 1188(1938). We will, therefore, apply Pennsylvania law as it applies to insurance coverage. In interpreting the terms of an insurance contract, the court must "attempt to effectuate the intent of the parties as manifested by the language of the written instrument ... [and must] generally enforce the clear, unambiguous terms of the policy." Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co. v. Cosenza, 258 F.3d 197, 206(3d Cir.2001) (internal citations omitted). While the insured bears the burden of establishing coverage under an insurance policy, the insurer carries the burden of "establishing the applicability of an exclusion in an insurance contract." Id.
The relevant provisions of the insurance policy provide as follows:
An underinsured auto is:
A motor vehicle which has bodily injury liability protection in effect at the time of the accident, but its limit for bodily injury liability is less than the damages the insured person is legally entitled to recover.
An underinsured auto is not:
2. A motor vehicle insured for bodily injury liability under Part 1 of this policy.
4. A motor vehicle owned by, or furnished or available for the regular use of you or any resident relative.[1]
(Compl. Ex. A at 14) (emphasis in original). We refer to the exclusions cited above as the "dual recovery exclusion" and the "family car exclusion", respectively.
As to the dual recovery exclusion, Part 1 of the policy refers to coverage for Automobile Liability Insurance, Bodily Injury Liability and Property Damage. There is no dispute that the vehicle that Decedent occupied at the time of the accident was insured for bodily injury liability under Part 1 of the policy. Because this is the case, we hold that the vehicle occupied by Decedent at the time of the accident does not qualify as an underinsured auto under the Allstate policy.
With regard to the family car exclusion within the policy, the parties agree that Decedent was the son of and resided in the same home as the named insured of the Allstate policy. As such, Decedent fit the definition of a resident relative at the time of the accident. Based on the fact that the Chevrolet Baretta was owned by a resident relative, the family car exclusion provision of the policy also precludes a finding that the vehicle involved in the accident qualifies as an underinsured auto.
In the Answer to the Complaint, Defendant asserts that she is not seeking UIM benefits for the vehicle involved in the accident, but is instead seeking benefits for the three remaining vehicles covered by the Allstate policy. (See Def.'s Answ. Compl. ¶ 25). Thus, Defendant appears to *492 concede that under both cited policy exclusions, the Chevrolet Baretta in particular does not qualify as an underinsured vehicle. There is, in other words, no dispute that the clear and unambiguous terms of the policy bar recovery of UIM benefits for the vehicle involved in the accident. Defendant's argument with regard to the entitlement to benefits consists instead of the following: that the Estate of Leiter is entitled to UIM benefits for the three vehicles that were not involved in the one car accident, and alternatively, that even if the terms of the policy preclude a finding that the Estate is entitled to UIM benefits for those vehicles, the exclusions set forth in the Allstate policy are contrary to public policy and should be invalidated.
Initially, we reject Defendant's argument that the terms of the policy entitle Defendant to UIM benefits for the three vehicles which were not involved in the accident. To reiterate, the dual recovery provision of the policy excludes motor vehicles insured for bodily injury liability under Part 1 of the Allstate policy from the definition of underinsured autos. The three vehicles and the Chevrolet Baretta were each insured under the same Allstate policy, and in accordance with the MVFRL, each vehicle was specifically covered for third party liability. See 75 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 1786(a), 1702. Therefore, the three vehicles, like the Baretta, do not qualify as underinsured autos under the clear and unambiguous term of policy.
We turn then to consider Defendant's argument that the dual coverage exclusion within the Allstate policy is void against public policy as expressed by the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law ("MVFRL"), 75 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 1701, et seq."Contract provisions [that] are not in accord with public policy[ ] and are not advantageous to the insured are particularly subject to a finding of invalidity." Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co. v. Cosenza, 258 F.3d 197, 207(3d Cir.2001) (quoting Kmonk-Sullivan v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 746 A.2d 1118, 1123 (Pa.Super.1999)). Even clear and unambiguous contract language may be invalidated if conflicts with an applicable statute. See id. (citing Kmonk-Sullivan, 746 A.2d at 1121). In determining whether an insurance contract provision violates public policy, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has stated the following:
Public policy is to be ascertained by reference to the laws and legal precedents and not from general considerations of supposed public interest. As the term "public policy" is vague, there must be found definite indications in the law of the sovereignty to justify the invalidation of a contract as contrary to that policy ... Only dominant public policy would justify such action. In the absence of a plain indication of that policy through long governmental practice or statutory enactments, or of violations of obvious ethical or moral standards, the Court should not assume to declare contracts ... contrary to public policy. The courts must be content to await legislative action.
Burstein v. Prudential Property & Casualty Ins. Co., 570 Pa. 177, 809 A.2d 204, 207 (2002) (quoting Eichelman v. Nationwide Ins. Co., 551 Pa. 558, 711 A.2d 1006, 1008 (1998)).
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has, on numerous occasions, expressed the public policy underlying the MVFRL as follows:
The repeal of the No-Fault Act and the enactment of the MVFRL reflected a legislative concern for the spiraling consumer cost of automobile insurance and the resultant increase in the number of uninsured motorists driving on the public highways. The legislative concern for the increasing cost of insurance is the public policy that is to be advanced *493 by statutory interpretation of the MVFRL. This reflects the General Assembly's departure from the principle of `maximum feasible restoration' embodied in the now defunct No-Fault Act.
Burstein, 809 A.2d at 207(internal citations omitted). Inasmuch as the overriding concern of the legislature has been identified as that of the addressing the increasing costs of insurance for consumers, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has stated that this concern "functions to protect insurers against forced underwriting of unknown risks that insureds have neither disclosed nor paid to insure. Thus, operationally, insureds are prevented from receiving gratis coverage, and insurers are not compelled to subsidize unknown and uncompensated risks by increasing insurance rates comprehensively." Id. at 208.
With reference to the rationale behind UIM coverage in particular, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has explained that
[t]he purpose of underinsurance motorist coverage is to protect the insured (and his additional insureds) from the risk that a negligent driver of another vehicle will cause injury to the insured (or his additional insureds) and will have inadequate liability coverage to compensate for the injuries caused by his negligence ... The language of the statute itself suggests that underinsurance motorist coverage requires the existence of at least two applicable policies of motor vehicle insurance. See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 1731(c). Thus, the statute contemplated one policy applicable to the vehicle at fault in causing the injury to the claimant and which is the source of liability coverage (which is ultimately insufficient to fully compensate the victim), and a second policy, under which the injured claimant is either an insured or a covered person. It is the second policy which the statute contemplates as the source of underinsured motorist coverage, where the liability coverage provided by the first policy of insurance is insufficient to fully compensate the claimant for his injuries.
Kelly v. Nationwide Ins. Co., 414 Pa.Super. 6, 606 A.2d 470, 474 (1992) (quoting Wolgemuth v. Harleysville Mut. Ins. Co., 370 Pa.Super. 51, 535 A.2d 1145, 1149 (1988)); see also Cosenza, 258 F.3d at 209. Recognizing that liability insurance is the most expensive form of insurance coverage in Pennsylvania and seeking to prevent insureds from converting less expensive UIM insurance into the more expensive liability insurance, Pennsylvania courts have repeatedly held that in cases involving single tortfeasor accidents, dual recovery of UIM benefits and liability benefits under the same contract is impermissible. See Cosenza, 258 F.3d at 211 (citing Pempkowski v. State Farm Mutual Auto. Ins. Co., 451 Pa.Super. 61, 678 A.2d 398, 403 (1996); Wolgemuth, 370 Pa.Super. 51, 535 A.2d 1145 (1988); Newkirk v. USAA, 528 Pa. 624, 597 A.2d 1153 (1990); Sturkie v. Erie, 407 Pa.Super. 117, 595 A.2d 152 (1991); Caldararo v. Keystone Ins. Co., 393 Pa.Super. 103, 573 A.2d 1108 (1990); Cooperstein v. Liberty Mut. Fire Ins. Co., 416 Pa.Super. 488, 611 A.2d 721 (1992)). This is so because "[t]he rationale behind UIM insurance is inapplicable in single tortfeasor cases, where injured parties can ensure that they have adequate coverage simply by purchasing adequate liability insurance." Id. at 212. Indeed, "in single tortfeasor cases the dual recovery exclusion actually promotes the goals of the MVFRL by barring unlawful conversion of UIM coverage to liability coverage." Id. at 214. Here, where Defendant is attempting to recover UIM and liability coverage under the same policy for a single car accident involving a single tortfeasor, we hold that the dual recovery exclusion within the Allstate policy does not violate the public policy of the MVFRL.
*494 Our position is supported by the Pennsylvania Superior Court's holding in Kelly. In Kelly, Clara and Edward Kelly were named policyholders on a single Nationwide policy covering two vehicles. Clara was injured while an occupant in a one car accident when her husband lost control of one of the vehicles covered by the policy. Clara was able to recover the maximum amount of liability coverage on the vehicle involved in the accident. Thereafter, Clara sought to recover benefits under the UIM coverage of the same policy, asserting that the benefits were available on the non-accident vehicle. Nationwide rejected Clara's claim for benefits under a dual recovery exclusion in the insurance contract. The lower court granted Nationwide's motion for judgment on the pleadings and an appeal to the Superior Court followed.
In challenging the lower court's holding that the dual recovery exclusion provision of the policy did not violate public policy, Clara Kelly argued that the provision should be invalidated because "in substantive terms her factual position is identical to that of a separate policyholder." Kelly, 606 A.2d at 474(internal quotation marks omitted). The Superior Court rejected Clara Kelly's argument and found that because the claimant and her tortfeasor husband had the ability to purchase that amount of liability coverage they thought was appropriate, "[t]he exclusion in the ... policy [was] in perfect accord with the purpose of underinsured coverage as elucidated in Wolgemuth: to protect the injured claimant against the risk that a tortfeasor over whom the claimant has no control purchases an inadequate amount of liability coverage." Id. at 476.
We believe that the facts before us are on point with those in Kelly: Decedent "was injured in a single vehicle accident while a passenger in a car driven by a person also insured under the policy, and [Decedent's Estate] seeks to recover UIM benefits under the same policy from which [it has already] received liability benefits." Id. at 476(emphasis omitted).
Defendant attempts to distinguish the Kelly case by arguing that here, neither Decedent nor the named insured had control over the amount of insurance coverage purchased by Guizio, the professed tortfeasor.[2] We agree with Plaintiff that this argument is without merit. Charles Leiter, the named insured, had control over the amount of liability coverage purchased for vehicles covered under the Allstate policy. As a resident of the same household as the named insured, Decedent met the definition of an insured person under the Allstate policy. (See Compl. Ex. A at 5). Guizio, a permissible operator of the insured vehicle, likewise qualified as an insured person under the policy. (See Compl. Ex. A at 5). The effect of the foregoing is that in having control over the amount of liability coverage purchased for the vehicle involved in the accident, Charles Leiter also had control over the liability insurance available to Guizio and Decedent at the time of the accident. In insuring the vehicle he owned under his father's policy, Decedent must, at a minimum, be charged with constructive knowledge of the amount of liability insurance recoverable under the policy. Had the bodily injury coverage been unsatisfactory to Decedent, he certainly could have elected to insure his vehicle under a separate policy.[3] This, he did not do.
*495 The fact that both Decedent, the injured party, and Guizio, the presumed tortfeasor, did not have direct control over the amount of liability coverage available under the Allstate policy for the subject vehicle therefore operates as a distinction without a difference in this case. It was certainly foreseeable and within the reasonable contemplation of Charles Leiter, the named insured, and Decedent, the owner of the subject vehicle, that injuries or death could befall individuals by reason of the operation of a vehicle insured under the subject Allstate policy via the negligence of a third-party authorized user. Charles Leiter and Decedent had the ability to assess that risk and purchase the amount of liability coverage they believed to be adequate. We believe it would be against the public policy goals of the MVFRL for either the Leiter's or Decedent's Estate to declare Guizio underinsured under circumstances clearly demonstrating that they themselves placed Guizio in that category. The Estate seeks to convert the more cheaply obtained underinsured benefits provided under the Allstate policy to more expensive liability coverage also provided therein. This violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the MVFRL.
Because we find that the dual recovery exclusion operates to prevent Defendant from recovering UIM benefits under the Allstate policy, and because we hold that the exclusion does not violate the public policy expressed in the MVFRL, we need not reach the issue of whether the family car exclusion violates public policy. We conclude then that Estate of Brent A. Leiter is not entitled to receive underinsured motorist benefits under the policy of insurance issued to Charles D. Leiter and shall accordingly grant Plaintiff's motion for judgment on the pleadings.
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED THAT:
1. Plaintiff's Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings (doc. 6) is granted. The Estate of Brent A. Leiter is not entitled to receive underinsured motorist benefits under the policy of insurance issued to Charles D. Leiter.
2. The Clerk is directed to close the file on this case.
[1] "Resident" is defined as "a person who physically resides in your household with the intention of continuing residence there. Your unmarried dependent children temporarily living away form home will be considered residents if they intend to resume residing in your household." (Compl. Ex. A at 16) (emphasis in original).
[2] In this regard, Defendant argues that dual recovery exclusion operates "not only to eliminate coverage or the vehicle involved but also the damages an insured is legally entitled to receive from an underinsured operator, i.e., Mr. Guzio." (Def.'s Br. Opp. Pl.'s Br. Supp. Pl.'s Mot. Judg. Plead. at 2).
[3] We note that the automobile policy written by Allstate in this case is somewhat unusual, in that it insures an automobile (the Decedent's) owned by someone other than the named insured (Charles Leiter). We presume that this was accomplished for the purpose of cost saving, recognizing that it was undoubtedly less expensive to pick up the Decedent's automobile on the Leiter policy than to issue two separate policies. However, the Estate of Leiter now seeks in effect to have it both ways. Having joined the Leiter policy, the Estate nonetheless argues that we should treat the Decedent as being a separate policyholder with respect to the underinsured coverage.


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import android.annotation.TargetApi;
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import android.media.AudioManager;
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import android.media.MediaFormat;
import android.media.MediaPlayer;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Build;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.os.HandlerThread;
import android.os.Message;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.util.Log;
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                    if(SHOW_LOGS) Log.i(TAG, "<< handleMessage init");
                    openVideo();
                    if(SHOW_LOGS) Log.i(TAG, ">> handleMessage init");
                    break;

                case MSG_PAUSE:
                    if(SHOW_LOGS) Log.i(TAG, "<< handleMessage pause");
                    if(mMediaPlayer != null) {
                        mMediaPlayer.pause();
                    }
                    mCurrentState = STATE_PAUSED;
                    if(SHOW_LOGS) Log.i(TAG, ">> handleMessage pause");
                    break;

                case MSG_STOP:
                    if(SHOW_LOGS) Log.i(TAG, "<< handleMessage stop");
                    mHandler.post(new Runnable() {
                        @Override
                        public void run() {
                            if(mMediaPlayerCallback != null) {
                                mMediaPlayerCallback.onStoped(mMediaPlayer);
                            }
                        }
                    });
                    release(true);
                    if(SHOW_LOGS) Log.i(TAG, ">> handleMessage stop");
                    break;

            }
        }
        return true;
    }

    private void init() {
        mContext = getContext();
        mCurrentState = STATE_IDLE;
        mTargetState  = STATE_IDLE;
        mHandler = new Handler();
        mVideoHandler = new Handler(sThread.getLooper(), this);
        setSurfaceTextureListener(this);
    }

    // release the media player in any state
    private void release(boolean cleartargetstate) {
        if (mMediaPlayer != null) {
            mMediaPlayer.reset();
            mMediaPlayer.release();
            mMediaPlayer = null;
            mCurrentState = STATE_IDLE;
            if (cleartargetstate) {
                mTargetState  = STATE_IDLE;
            }
//            AudioManager am = (AudioManager) mContext.getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE);
//            am.abandonAudioFocus(null);
        }
    }

    private void openVideo() {
        if (mUri == null || mSurface == null || mTargetState != STATE_PLAYING) {
            // not ready for playback just yet, will try again later
            return;
        }

        mAudioManager = (AudioManager) mContext.getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE);
        mAudioManager.requestAudioFocus(null, AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC, AudioManager.AUDIOFOCUS_GAIN);

        // we shouldn't clear the target state, because somebody might have
        // called start() previously
        release(false);

        try {
            mMediaPlayer = new MediaPlayer();
            mMediaPlayer.setOnPreparedListener(this);
            mMediaPlayer.setOnVideoSizeChangedListener(this);
            mMediaPlayer.setOnCompletionListener(this);
            mMediaPlayer.setOnErrorListener(this);
            mMediaPlayer.setOnInfoListener(this);
            mMediaPlayer.setOnBufferingUpdateListener(this);
            mMediaPlayer.setDataSource(mContext, mUri);
            mMediaPlayer.setSurface(mSurface);
            mMediaPlayer.setAudioStreamType(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
            mMediaPlayer.setLooping(false);
            mMediaPlayer.prepareAsync();

            // we don't set the target state here either, but preserve the
            // target state that was there before.
            mCurrentState = STATE_PREPARING;
            mTargetState = STATE_PREPARING;

            if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN) {
                MediaExtractor mediaExtractor = new MediaExtractor();
                mediaExtractor.setDataSource(mContext, mUri, null);
                MediaFormat format;
                mHasAudio = false;
                for (int i = 0; i < mediaExtractor.getTrackCount(); i++) {
                    format = mediaExtractor.getTrackFormat(i);
                    String mime = format.getString(MediaFormat.KEY_MIME);
                    if (mime.startsWith("audio/")) {
                        mHasAudio = true;
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }
            else {
                mHasAudio = true;
            }

        } catch (IOException ex) {
            if(SHOW_LOGS) Log.w(TAG, "Unable to open content: " + mUri, ex);
            mCurrentState = STATE_ERROR;
            mTargetState = STATE_ERROR;
            if (mMediaPlayerCallback != null) {
                mHandler.post(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        if(mMediaPlayerCallback != null) {
                            mMediaPlayerCallback.onError(mMediaPlayer, MediaPlayer.MEDIA_ERROR_UNKNOWN, 0);
                        }
                    }
                });
            }
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException ex) {
            if(SHOW_LOGS) Log.w(TAG, "Unable to open content: " + mUri, ex);
            mCurrentState = STATE_ERROR;
            mTargetState = STATE_ERROR;
            if (mMediaPlayerCallback != null) {
                mHandler.post(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        if(mMediaPlayerCallback != null) {
                            mMediaPlayerCallback.onError(mMediaPlayer, MediaPlayer.MEDIA_ERROR_UNKNOWN, 0);
                        }
                    }
                });
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onSurfaceTextureAvailable(SurfaceTexture surface, int width, int height) {
        mSurface = new Surface(surface);
        if(mTargetState == STATE_PLAYING) {
            if(SHOW_LOGS) Log.i(TAG, "onSurfaceTextureAvailable start");
            start();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onSurfaceTextureSizeChanged(SurfaceTexture surface, int width, int height) {

    }

    @Override
    public boolean onSurfaceTextureDestroyed(SurfaceTexture surface) {
        mSurface = null;
        stop();
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public void onSurfaceTextureUpdated(SurfaceTexture surface) {

    }

    public void setVideoPath(String path) {
        setVideoURI(Uri.parse(path));
    }

    public void setVideoURI(Uri uri) {
        if(SHOW_LOGS) Log.i(TAG, "setVideoURI " + uri.toString());
        mUri = uri;
    }

    public void start() {
        mTargetState = STATE_PLAYING;

        if (isInPlaybackState()) {
            mVideoHandler.obtainMessage(MSG_STOP).sendToTarget();
        }

        if(mUri != null && mSurface != null) {
            mVideoHandler.obtainMessage(MSG_START).sendToTarget();
        }
    }

    public void pause() {
        mTargetState = STATE_PAUSED;

        if (isPlaying()) {
            mVideoHandler.obtainMessage(MSG_PAUSE).sendToTarget();
        }
    }

    public void resume() {
        mTargetState = STATE_PLAYING;

        if (!isPlaying()) {
            mVideoHandler.obtainMessage(MSG_START).sendToTarget();
        }
    }

    public void stop() {
        mTargetState = STATE_PLAYBACK_COMPLETED;

        if(isInPlaybackState()) {
            mVideoHandler.obtainMessage(MSG_STOP).sendToTarget();
        }
    }

    public boolean isPlaying() {
        return isInPlaybackState() && mMediaPlayer.isPlaying();
    }

    public void mute() {
        if(mMediaPlayer != null) {
            mMediaPlayer.setVolume(0, 0);
            mSoundMute = true;
        }
    }

    public void unMute() {
        if (mAudioManager != null && mMediaPlayer != null) {
            int max = 100;
            int audioVolume = 100;
            double numerator = max - audioVolume > 0 ? Math.log(max - audioVolume) : 0;
            float volume = (float) (1 - (numerator / Math.log(max)));
            mMediaPlayer.setVolume(volume, volume);
            mSoundMute = false;
        }
    }

    public boolean isMute() {
        return mSoundMute;
    }

    public boolean isHasAudio() {
        return mHasAudio;
    }

    private boolean isInPlaybackState() {
        return (mMediaPlayer != null &&
                mCurrentState != STATE_ERROR &&
                mCurrentState != STATE_IDLE &&
                mCurrentState != STATE_PREPARING);
    }

    @Override
    public void onCompletion(final MediaPlayer mp) {
        mCurrentState = STATE_PLAYBACK_COMPLETED;
        mTargetState = STATE_PLAYBACK_COMPLETED;
        if (mMediaPlayerCallback != null) {
            mHandler.post(new Runnable() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    if(mMediaPlayerCallback != null) {
                        mMediaPlayerCallback.onCompletion(mp);
                    }
                }
            });
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onError(final MediaPlayer mp, final int what, final int extra) {
        if(SHOW_LOGS) Log.e(TAG, "onError() called with " + "mp = [" + mp + "], what = [" + what + "], extra = [" + extra + "]");
        mCurrentState = STATE_ERROR;
        mTargetState = STATE_ERROR;
        if (mMediaPlayerCallback != null) {
            mHandler.post(new Runnable() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    if(mMediaPlayerCallback != null) {
                        mMediaPlayerCallback.onError(mp, what, extra);
                    }
                }
            });
        }
        return true ;
    }

    @Override
    public void onPrepared(final MediaPlayer mp) {
        if(SHOW_LOGS) Log.i(TAG, "onPrepared " + mUri.toString());
        if (mTargetState != STATE_PREPARING || mCurrentState != STATE_PREPARING) {
            return;
        }

        mCurrentState = STATE_PREPARED;

        if (isInPlaybackState()) {
//            mute();
            mMediaPlayer.start();
            mCurrentState = STATE_PLAYING;
            mTargetState = STATE_PLAYING;
        }

        if (mMediaPlayerCallback != null) {
            mHandler.post(new Runnable() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    if(mMediaPlayerCallback != null) {
                        mMediaPlayerCallback.onPrepared(mp);
                    }
                }
            });
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onVideoSizeChanged(final MediaPlayer mp, final int width, final int height) {
        if (mMediaPlayerCallback != null) {
            mHandler.post(new Runnable() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    if(mMediaPlayerCallback != null) {
                        mMediaPlayerCallback.onVideoSizeChanged(mp, width, height);
                    }
                }
            });
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onBufferingUpdate(final MediaPlayer mp, final int percent) {
        if (mMediaPlayerCallback != null) {
            mHandler.post(new Runnable() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    if(mMediaPlayerCallback != null) {
                        mMediaPlayerCallback.onBufferingUpdate(mp, percent);
                    }
                }
            });
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onInfo(final MediaPlayer mp, final int what, final int extra) {
        if (mMediaPlayerCallback != null) {
            mHandler.post(new Runnable() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    if(mMediaPlayerCallback != null) {
                        mMediaPlayerCallback.onInfo(mp, what, extra);
                    }
                }
            });
        }
        return true;
    }
}

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In response to complaints from neighbors, a Woodside, California homeowner installed a combination of Acoustifence and QuietFiber noise barrier materials in the large housing unit that contains a bevy of pumps, pipes, and electrical equipment necessary to run the many features of his mountainside infinity pool.
Fig. 1: Pool pump housing unit and operational equipment before Acoustifence and QuietFIbre Installation.
Fig. 2: Pool pump housing unit and operational equipment after Acoustifence and QuietFIber Installation.
WOODSIDE, California, July 21, 2011 – An elaborate infinity pool offers a striking visual in any yard, particularly one with the scenic mountainous backdrop that property owners in Woodside, California enjoy.
However, along with such an intricate pool is a complex system of plumbing, pumps, and electrical boxes that can be noisy, particularly in a canyon setting that acts as an echo chamber.
When homeowner Arnon Rosenthal began receiving complaints from his neighbors over the noise emanating from his infinity pool's extensive pump and maintenance system, he contacted Acoustiblok, Inc. to design a noise deadening solution that could be installed in the slatted wood enclosure surrounding the pumps, plumbing and electrical hardware that kept his pool's many features running smoothly.
After discussing his options with Jay Boland, an acoustical consultant with Acoustiblok, Rosenthal chose to layer Acoustifence sound barrier material, which was easily hung on the inside of the existing wood structure, with Quietfiber noise absorbing material to block sound escaping to the outside and absorb sound energy within the enclosure. The QuietFiber was sealed around the individual electrical boxes, pipes and pumps for maximum noise reduction.
"It worked very well," Rosenthal said of the decision to layer Acoustifence and QuietFiber inside the structure. "The pool has many features, and that's why it requires such a large (pump) system.
"I'm very happy with the results, I'd say the noise is reduced 65- to 70-percent, and it's no longer a distraction to the neighbors."
Lahnie Johnson, founder and president of Acoustiblok, Inc., said the decision to layer the Acoustifence and QuietFiber within the pool's plumbing structure is a perfect example of addressing an unusual noise problem creatively.
Fig. 3: This mountainside infinity pool in Woodside, California is now as serene as its setting after Acoustifence and QuietFiber noise abatement materials were installed in the enclosure housing the pool's elaborate and noisy pump, plumbing, and electrical systems.
"The noise emanating from the structure needed to be blocked to keep it from distracting the neighbors, but the noise within the structure would have been unbearably loud without the absorption qualities of QuietFiber," Johnson said.
"Combining the two created a noise deadening solution that suited the project perfectly by addressing both problems."
Originally designed for industrial noise, Acoustifence is a 1/8-inch (3mm) thick unique sound deadening material measuring 6-feet (1.82 meters) high by 30-feet (9.14 meters) long with black anodized brass eyelets along the top and bottom edge for easy attachment. Heavy-duty nylon ties are included with each roll.
Easily installed or removed in less than one hour, impervious to mold, mildew, and UV, Acoustifence is virtually indestructible. The soundproofing material in Acoustifence is a proprietary formula of the Acoustiblok Corporation, developed and refined over a 10-year period.
Unlike fiberglass, QuietFiber is not only UV tolerant, but also totally hydrophobic (will not absorb water or moisture), and specifically designed for maximum (NRC 1.00) noise absorption. In addition, it will not support mold or mildew, and can work in temperatures above 180-degrees.
Quietfiber is UL fire rated for floor, wall and ceiling applications, and like all Acoustiblok products, 100-percent recyclable and 100-percent made in the U.S.A.
For more information or to view a video of Acoustiblok's noise reduction capabilities, visit the website (www.acoustiblok.com), email sales@acoustiblok.com, or call 813-980-1400.
TAMPA, Florida – As any landscape professional already knows, installing trees and vegetation as a visual berm between roadway traffic and residences may be aesthetically pleasing, but these elements are not effective noise control barriers. Acoustiblok Inc., a leader in noise abatement for both inside and outside installations, has announced the release of Acoustifence, a revolutionary new defense against outdoor noise pollution.
The fact is, foliage or trees on earth berms can actually increase noise. Since sound is dispersed in much the same way as light, it will penetrate and reflect off the foliage in all directions, including that side of the berm that is meant to be peaceful and quiet.
Although the higher the berm, the better the sound deflection, it is far more affordable and more practical to increase the berm height by installing Acoustifence than it is to add fill to the berm.
Adding just a six- foot high Acoustifence to the berm not only drastically increases the berm's blocking protection, it eliminates the sound reflecting off the foliage and into those outdoor spaces that are meant to be serene.
The all-weather Acoustifence can be hung from any substantial structure, such as a chain link or wood fence, or from a pipe frame structure.
A simple and economical noise abatement solution for both residential and industrial usage, Acoustifence is a 1/8-inch (3mm) thick material measuring 6-feet (1.82 meters) high by 30-feet (9.14 meters) long with brass eyelets along the top and bottom edge for easy attachment to any chain link fence or other framework.
removed in less than one hour, entirely impervious to mold and mildew and UV tolerant, Acoustifence is virtually indestructible, making it a one-time purchase that never needs replacing.
Acoustifence has proven performance in highway environments, construction sites, offshore oil rigs and waste-to-energy plants. Acoustifence can accommodate any height fence or structure by simply overlapping the Acoustifence panels.
At a construction site, it can be attached to scaffolding or the building structure itself. To store, the Acoustifence panels simply roll up like carpet.
Independent lab tests of the Acoustifence material shows an STC of 28, which represents to the human ear an approximately 85-percent reduction in sound. However, results will vary relative to surrounding sound-reflective objects such as buildings, machinery, and industry equipment, and the amount of Acoustifence installed.
Acoustifence is 100% recyclable, an environmentally friendly answer to the problem of outdoor noise pollution.
Acoustiblok, Inc. President Lahnie Johnson believes the application potential of Acoustifence to landscaping projects is endless.


Virtually all aspects of society are in some way driven by data collected, stored and analyzed to glean insights and guide decision-making, and a new field — data science — has emerged to study and advance those activities. Data science builds on computer science, statistics, mathematics, e-science and other disciplines to develop principles, algorithms and best practices for the generation, processing and use of data.
A large proportion of data science research has focused on the data analysis step, this project focuses expertise on improving data preparation — the complex extracting, cleaning, matching and integrating step that comes before data analysis can be carried out. Preparation has become a bottleneck preventing wide and effective adoption of data science techniques, and improvements would benefit almost any data science users.
This project seeks to make transformative impacts on the data preparation step, by charting new research directions and translating them into tools that will be integrated with the widely adopted HTCondor software. The project turbocharges data science effort at UW–Madison by working toward setting up a campus-wide Data Science Institute and extending the Center for High Throughput Computing with data science services. Partnering with the Core Computational Technology activity at MIR and WID, the project will enable campus scientists to perform data science tasks far more effectively.
To evaluate and drive the research and development work, the project will help the science policy research community clean and extend their large data repository, UMETRICS, to aid their work studying the impact of investment in university research.


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After a recent bout of illness my doctor put me on a course of steroids and as anyone who's been on steroids will admit, it skews your relationship with food. You literally become an eating machine or atleast think about food a lot! I found myself obsessing about eating bananas, many of them.
Now, I'm traveling in Himachal so I had resigned myself to having a pallid version of this hot-weather fruit- bananas get better the more south you go – but I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of bananas available here – more mellow than the regular ones but on the whole flavorful, fibrous and very satisfying.
As someone who's into yoga and fitness I'm often asked all kinds of questions abut diet and how often to eat and what to eat and it made me realize what a veritable godsend the banana is. I have decided that if there were a penultimate breakfast or a snack- the banana is it! It's healthy, loaded with vitamins and very easily accessible.
I cringe to remember a classmate of mine who ate pop-tarts for breakfast. Even with my steroid induced munchies the thought of eating processed wheat, preservatives and sugar on an empty stomach makes me ill. There are a tonne of breakfast bars that have proliferated the Indian market , supposedly 'natural' but really just synthetic crap with sugar and preservative and devoid of nutrition ; I compare those with the humble banana and it's a no brainer! It's like comparing flowers- real and synthetic ones-not that I'd eat flowers.
Also did you know that body builders, the old-school hatta katta ones suggest bananas and milk as a breakfast food (drink)?
I look back to my student days and remember mornings sitting in the back rows surreptitiously peeling a banana. Even today when I have a tight morning schedule I find myself sitting in a car quelching the morning hunger pangs with this personable fruit.
Compared to other fruit the unpretentious banana wins hands down. First things first,most fruit is expensive the banana isn't. Second they're availableeverywhere. They're easy to store, no chopping required and unlike other fruit they don't leave you feeling like you haven't eaten. They can be carried around without worrying about spilling or spoiling- atleast for the day and you can eat them at anytime- breakfast, post-breakfast snack, pre-lunch and especially in the afternoon when you have that dangerous gap between lunch and dinner – which most people break eating junk like samosas and sweetened vending machine tea. The only time you shouldn't eat a banana is after the sun sets or if you haven't paid for it.
Also people who don't eat breakfast won't get this eulogy to a fruit.
I forgot to mention yogically, bananas because they're a primary source of nutrition (plants) are packed with energy or prana which is a good thing.
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SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The Rangers have been cautious in how they have been using their top relievers early in Spring Training, but that hasn't kept right-hander Keone Kela from standing out.
Kela made his first Cactus League appearance on Tuesday and pitched a scoreless inning in the Rangers' 3-2 loss to the Rockies. Kela needed only 14 pitches to retire three straight hitters, striking out two and getting the other out on a popup.
Kela's previous outings were in two simulated games, during which he threw a combined 2 1/3 scoreless innings without allowing a hit, walking one and striking out three.
"He has been plus, plus, plus all the way," Rangers manager Jeff Banister said. "Strike one and serious in everything he does. There's a mission."
Kela missed almost three months last season recovering from elbow surgery and was 5-1 with a 6.09 ERA in 35 games.
Right-hander Tanner Scheppers, who has been dealing with injuries for the past three years, also did well in his first Cactus League outing on Tuesday. The right-hander pitched a scoreless fifth inning, allowing one hit and striking out two.
If Kela and Scheppers are past their injury woes, they could help form a power-packed right-handed bullpen that also includes Sam Dyson, Matt Bush, Jeremy Jeffress and Tony Barnette. The Rangers have limited options from the left side beyond Alex Claudio, so the more power arms they have from the right side, the better they can offset that.
"After three years of injuries, I'm just grateful to be out there on the mound," said Scheppers, who has made 60 appearances over the past three seasons. "It's all about getting out there, getting in the swing of things and getting the feel of the game."
Right-hander Mike Hauschild, a Rule 5 pick from the Astros, gave the Rangers two scoreless innings on Tuesday, as well. The only stumble from the bullpen came from Jeffress, who allowed the winning run to score in the ninth. The run was unearned because of right fielder Jared Hoying's throwing error, but Jeffress started the rally issuing a two-out walk.
"An unnecessary walk," Banister said.


The Philippines' law enforcement agency has put a stop to its anti-narcotics campaign until its ranks have been cleansed of rogue officers.
"To all the rogue cops, beware! We no longer have a war on drugs. We now have a war on scalawags," the Philippine National Police (PNP)'s Director-General Ronald dela Rosa told a news conference on Sunday.
"We will cleanse our ranks... then maybe after that, we can resume our war on drugs. The president told us to clean the organization first," Dela Rosa said.
Dela Rosa's announcement came following the kidnapping and killing of South Korean businessman Jee Ick-joo by rogue officers in the Philippines.
President Rodrigo Duterte said he was "embarrassed" that anti-drugs officers had abused their power to engage in kidnapping, leading to the death by strangulation of Jee on the grounds of the national police headquarters.
"You policemen are the most corrupt. You are corrupt to the core. It's in your system," Duterte told reporters on Monday.
Duterte said nearly 40 percent of the police force engaged in illegal activities.
During his presidential election campaign in mid-2016, Duterte ran mainly on a platform of fighting drugs and crime. Back then, he promised to eradicate illicit drugs until March 2017.
In his Monday remarks, however, he said that timeline did not apply anymore.
"I will extend it to the last day of my term," Duterte said.
His term ends in 2022.
The anti-drug campaign in the Philippines has been a source of global alarm.
Rights groups accused Duterte of turning a blind eye to a wave of alleged extrajudicial killings by police, mostly of low-level peddlers. Police denied having carried out such killings.
Thousands of people have been killed in the campaign against drugs since it started on June 30 last year. According to police figures, about 2,000 drug suspects have been killed in security operations, while nearly 4,000 others have died in unexplained circumstances linked to the crackdown, according to media.


Josh and I found the pumpkin way out on 412, a little country crossroads I couldn't locate again with a map. We were just cruising on the sunny fall day, our first afternoon away from teaching in six weeks, stunned at the larger world after the pressure of the semester at Kelldon, and when we saw the spill of pumpkins and the roadside stand, Josh pulled over. It was too big for his car; I knew that before we even asked about it. There was no way we were going to get it into his Jetta. We strolled around among the gourds for a while, checking out the monster squash and the bins of bright tomatoes. It was fun being away, and we were a little beery from the roadhouse lunch we'd had in Hanley, and it felt good to stretch our legs and look at all this stuff. But we kept coming back to the pumpkin. I had a little one picked out, something like a tall basketball, which would have carved up nicely into Ichabod Crane for the guys in my cottage, but I knew now we were spoken for. We both wanted to get that giant pumpkin and show it to Sarah Milford, who also was a new teacher at Kelldon, who'd graduated from Yale five months before, and whom we were both crazy for, crazy to show off for, determined to win. She taught German.
The guy who ran the place was about forty, khakis, cabin oxfords, and an arresting silver watch. He was filling a crate with sweet potatoes, pulling them from a bag. Josh had his hand on the pumpkin.
"There's a few pies in that," I said to the man.
"What do you get for these?" Josh asked him.
"Give the man nine dollars," Josh said to me.
"It won't fit in the car, Josh," I told him.
"It's going to make a fabulous project," the man said. He folded the empty burlap bag and tamped it into a stack of the things.
Standing by the pumpkin, Josh would have looked good in a photograph. "What do you want to do?" I asked him. It was a drill we'd gone through five or six times in the three years I'd known him. We'd been roommates at Virginia, paired there by an experiment that put a group of radical underachievers on one hallway. I was a self-described nothing from nowhere, that is a vacant Protestant from Hoboken, and he was a non-practicing Jew from Ithaca, but we ran into these situations. Sometimes it was just a dorm discussion, an offhand remark about a rabbi or some Jew in a joke, and I learned to ask him, knee-jerk really, what he wanted to do: fight or walk, and he took it up and usually rose to the insult, above it, with a withering remark of his own, an extended and beautiful sentence which burned its way through the moment so obviously that our housemates learned to make little searing hisses even before he finished speaking.
A new Ford pickup pulled up and two women got out, both in plaid shirts with their hair in bandanas.
"We're not fighting this fine American farmer," Josh said. He was speaking very slowly. "And we're not going to try to jew him anywhere. He's wary of being jewed. And we're not going to sneak back here under the cover of darkness and do anything anytime, such as kidnap his many melons, though we might have considered it before you explained so kindly where we lived and where he might be looking for jumbo here. Since we need to have this pumpkin, let's do this: give the gent some money and take legal possession. Eighty dollars." Josh handed me two twenties and I put it with mine and handed the cash to the guy.
I moved over and spoke to the two women who had picked out a basket of squash; if they were going back the way they came anytime soon, we needed them.
We kept the pumpkin the only place we could: on the little porch of Josh's apartment in the basement of Quaille, where he kept his bicycle, hibachi, and the boxes his stereo came in. The boxes were ruined, had been ruined for weeks. His porch, which faced the lake, was a private place for us where Monday nights after the marathon faculty meetings we could have a couple beers and wonder what we were doing. Across the lake we could see two or three lights of the village. The big orange pumpkin looked good there out of the rain, by his back door.
The two squash women had taken the pumpkin in their truck back to New Hephron, and we unloaded it there and left it behind the closed Sunoco with a note on it that said: Property of Sarah Milford, Kelldon Academy. We love her very much and one of us will have her before finals.
"You've said it now," Josh told me, when I read the note to him. "One of us." I felt okay about it; he'd had no better luck at Virginia with women, the few we had both known, than I had. We borrowed DuMann's flatbed truck; he was the manager of the food service and we'd had lots of coffee together. When we finally backed around Quaille Cottage, and got out to unload the pumpkin, there were two people out by the gingko tree standing there like actors. It was a little old woman and a man her age; she was in a yellow traveling dress and he was in a pressed blue work shirt. We unloaded the pumpkin, again taking too much care which is the way we'd handled it all day. We were trying to out care each other. I was a little nervous about leaving it with Josh, but there was no way we were getting up to my little place on the top floor of Clair Cottage. We both patted it and while we were standing there like two fools, the man called hello to us.
"I've seen it," I told her.
"We're on a bit of a memory tour," the man said to us, stepping closer. "Could you take our picture?" He handed me his camera. The late afternoon light had turned the lake gray, the day had hazed up, softening.
We all moved over in front of the ten-story gingko, and they held hands, and while I focused, they looked at each other.
"Well, I'm going to stay out of the way," Josh said looking up at the heavy green and yellow tiers of the tree. All over campus the trees had been shaking out for a couple of weeks, and many already stood in golden circles of their fallen leaves.
The woman took the man's hand again, and they walked around the cottage and up toward the quad.
"Who'd you meet when you were sixteen?" I asked him.
School grabbed us again that night, and forced us under, crushed us all week, wrecked us, dragged me from composition to club soccer back to the dorm and four kids smoking cigarettes (my favorite kids!) which rates a lecture from me, a short speech from the head, and a letter home (a second infraction and they're out). The week presses on, back to comp through the dirty clothes piling up in my little apartment toward club soccer in the light rain, gray skies pushing toward dinner, some guest speaker on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, and home again to the eight guys I lived with in my cottage, nobody smoking, lights out at 11:30. Through the days, as always, I saw Josh for five minutes at lunch which was cafeteria style, how you doing?, and then a hurried beer on his porch late after lights out, leaning against that pumpkin, time a slipstream, talking with our eyes simply closed in fatigue. Whenever in this dream I saw the light of the days, Sarah Milford, it was never lovely, me emerging from the boys' room outside the library or finding her at my shoulder as I bussed my sloppy tray after dinner.
She was anomalous in my experience, that is, a young woman who was not athletic and all jocked up, a woman who wore dresses and had a kind of sensuality that was provocative. She was our age, but seemed older, always walking down the corridor of Main, surrounded by three or four students, smiling, chatting, and if you watched for a minute or two, you could see her open her mouth and laugh. There had been no time to court her, to get her away for a dinner at the Slow Brown Fox, the one inn in town, or even a drink, though we'd talked about those things—vaguely—when the three of us, Josh, Sarah, and me, would find ourselves dawdling over a last cup of coffee before study hall.
This was the first time I ever thought in those terms: courting. All the dating I'd done, girls I'd known, it just happened. We were all together in class or some summer job, and you went out. You were never in love, exactly, and you never said so. But now all the intensity of Kelldon, the forced march of boarding school, and we were the only three unmarried faculty who were under forty, and nothing was going to happen unless something happened on purpose. Invitations were going to have to be extended.
I think I said, "Yeah," or "Right," but for the first time it bothered me that Josh and I were seen as a package.
"She has a wonderful neck," I said.
"It goes like this," I said, taking the new beer from him when he sat back down. "Do you—as you enter first those arms we both aspire toward, look out the window down to where I struggle with my troops in the bitter wind?" It was stupid to ask, because he was waxing and would wax further. I'd seen him hold entire wing meetings in our dorm hostage with filigreed orations about the plumbing.
"You've told me, you've told me…" I tried.
But Josh was moving now and he stood out on the dark lawn that sloped away to the still plate of the lake, a muted silver in the night. His arms were out in the fashion of a nightclub singer as he continued. "The business of loving a woman, especially this woman, for the first time is not a business done with one hand on the wheel. It would require a special focus, energy, and single-minded purpose. To be true to the moment would mean being absent for all others, even an old friend, a guy you knew at college, a guy who was willing to fight for you every time some slacker—and slackers abound!—slighted his heritage. Yes, I would look down through the window for a moment at my old friend, and then I would move with delicious certainty toward the destiny in Ms. Sarah Milford's arms." Josh bowed and trotted over to the porch, sat beside me, looked out at the lake.
Since there was no way our great pumpkin was going to rise over the corn stubble behind the football practice field without the use of more machinery than we could procure, we decided that he would appear at midnight in the middle of Kelldon Lake. It seemed possible. I mean we did have a school canoe. We noodled the plan forty ways, making our first mistake out of impatience: we carved our pumpkin too soon. Three days before Halloween we spent the afternoon carving it into a clear jack-o'-lantern, with a standard three-toothed smile and angry, arched eyes. We'd used my camping shovel to clean it out, getting pumpkined above our elbows. It was huge and started drying out immediately. We loaded it with a fist-size candle Josh had gotten from his mother and two large emergency flares from my trunk. We were ready.
On the very day, Halloween, we found Sarah hanging out with three of her students after lunch in the cafeteria, and we took our coffee cups and went over there and Josh took a chair on one side of her and she acknowledged him, and then I took a chair on her other side and she smiled at me too. "Well, it is the English department, come to say hello," she said.
"Exactly," Josh said. "And more." He leaned down over the table to take the group into his confidence, and I followed his lead, looking left and right, so we wouldn't be overheard. "But what about this?" He raised and lowered his eyebrows and nodded the ball to me.
"Is this a date?" Bitsy Trumble said.
We misjudged everything. The wind was rattling and rerattling the leaves by the lake that night, and we unloaded our pumpkin off DuMann's truck in the chilly park. We chose the wrong canoe. There were four, and three were aluminum which we decided against because of visibility. As soon as we balanced the great pumpkin on the sides of the green wooden canoe, and I stepped into the front, I could feel the wobble. Then when Josh pushed us out and climbed in the stern, it was terrifying. We were utterly high-centered, and every second we tipped right, left, right. "Don't move," Josh said. I hadn't. We couldn't even reach the paddles, and now his push had us out twenty then thirty feet, and the water already ten feet deep. We drifted like that, holding on, using every muscle and all of its little muscles to keep balanced in the lake.
"Shall we dump it?" I asked him.
So we sat there vibrating. It would have been a good picture, both of us in black sweaters in the breezy night, frozen in position at each end of the pretty green canoe with our masterpiece between us. It would be a lot of work down the drain. The face had dried and shrunken and the whole twisted deal looked scary now. "If we go over, are you going to stay with the canoe or swim for it?" I asked him.
"I'll come up with the canoe and then we'll decide." Sarah and her girls were going to stand on the deck of the boathouse in their long nightgowns and sweaters at midnight and not see any pumpkin, great or otherwise.
"Get down in the canoe, James," Josh said. He was talking to my back.
"Say it again," I said.
The wind seemed more contentious out on the water and it was working us toward town. After several moments, I slid into the bottom of the canoe. It was worse. There was a rattling flutter and I held on and worked to steady us. "There," Josh said. He now sat in the bottom too. "This is going to work," he said.
He was now paddling with more force. "It's a beautiful night." And for one minute then late on Halloween night, it was beautiful being out on the dark lake in a canoe. I took a deep breath and looked up the hill at old Kelldon. I could see the tiny glow of Alumni Light up in the cupola of Old Main. It was on twenty-four hours a day and eventually all the graduates came back from their big lives to see the old school.
"Hold us," I told him. Backhand, I snaked my arm out and reached up and around the front of the face, and I could just get my hand into the mouth. With two fingers I pinched one of the flares and extracted it, and then I reached in again and got hold of the second flare. I could not feel the candle.
"Pull that plastic cap off," Josh said. "Hold it up, and away from your face." When I extended my arms straight out and pulled the cap, the flare hissed a second and then fired. I quickly lit the second. The edge of everything was pink in the brittle light. Turning as far as I dared, I poked both through the mouth opening, flipping them in as far as I could with my fingers.
"That's plenty bright," he said. Our movements had allowed more water to splash in, enough that I was cold. We heard the girls call: "Rise O Great Pumpkin!" On the wind you could hear the laughter in their voices.
"We're too far out," Josh said, and he was paddling against the wind. Water came over the sides alternately as he stroked.
Now I could smell our smoke and I sensed our giant pumpkin warm behind me. I put my hand on its side; there was one soft spot too hot to touch for very long. The flares were torching our dry vegetable in the stiff wind. And there was something wrong in what Josh had just said.
"Rise O Great Pumpkin!" The girls' voices were urgent and thrilling and distant.
Tilting my head, I could see the hot spot on the bottom glowing, about to melt through. The whole creation had sagged into the canoe a little. I was sitting in an inch of water, maybe two.
"Rise O Great Pumpkin!" the far away voices sang.
"They can't see it," I said.
"We're a mile out. We're on fire." Now I could smell something else, woodsmoke: the canoe was burning. We were being blown around and tipping heavily.
"Throw some water in there," I said. "Throw water!" I had swiveled with my paddle and was trying to pry the pumpkin off the canoe whether it tipped us or not, but it was too heavy and it had settled in.
"We've got a fire here," he said. Josh was on his knees cupping water at the thing and we were certainly now going to tip absolutely over.
"Shut up, James." Flames ripped from the eyes, nose and mouth of the great pumpkin like glowing rags. As we drifted in the rocky water, the fire licked at me sometimes and then at Josh. We tried to stay across the wind, presenting something that must have seemed at least a little scary to Miss Sarah Milford and her eighteen girls. We had wanted a Halloween they'd remember.
The water we'd taken on stabilized us, and we both sat up leaning as far away from the flame as possible. Though we splashed water at the fire, there was no way we were going to put it out. Those emergency flares were all business. It burned and burned, a bona fide pumpkin inferno, as we were drawn by the wind toward town. I kept my hands over my face most of the time, but when the wind snapped the flames my way I could feel them take hair.
By the time we stepped into the shallows at the Grove and pulled the smoking canoe up the greasy bank, two great bites had been burned out of each side. "I guess you want to fight," I said to him. We were both wet.
A car swung through the Grove gate and approached along the gravel drive.
I wanted to hit him then, hearing my name taken like that, but as I swung I knew he wanted to hit me too. My fist missed low and I caught him below the ear plenty hard, harder than either of us understood, and his head jerked hard and he went down. The concussion ignited me, a guy without a temper, and I'd hurt my arm somehow. I dived on him and we rolled, punching. I had a good handful of his hair. I felt good, warm, strong; I could fight all night.
Then a hand on my shoulder tore me up and away from Josh. It was Roger Dove, the township sheriff. He'd given a talk at school the first week on water safety. "Okay, gentlemen, it's late here. Let's stand up." Josh unfolded and stood up pulling his shirt from the sheriff's hand. "Are we drinking?" the sheriff asked.
"Our pumpkin burned up," I told him.
"Your canoe did too," the deputy said.
"Sheriff," Josh said. "Call it fighting, but if you must know the truth, if the truth would help…" Roger Dove looked at the deputy. Josh looked ready to launch an oration; his arm was out and then he let it drop. "Could you instead drive us back," he said. "We're friends." I sat down in my wet clothes.
On the drive home, Josh talked the deputy into telling us the exact number of phone calls our fire had inspired: eighty-four. It made it hard not to feel good.
On the hill the cottages were all dark, except for the second floor corner suite in my cottage. Josh and I stood on the walkway and watched Cooper and Despain move back and forth before the window. They were smoking cigarettes.
"You going up there, bust them?" Josh asked me.
"You sure slugged me," Josh said.
"We sure burned the eighty dollar pumpkin," I said, walking back toward my cottage. It was way too early to apologize for anything said or done. I could still taste smoke.
"Eighty-four phone calls," he said.
"Hey, it's not funny," he said. He said that again. I was tired. I could feel a cold coming on and I didn't have time for one. A cold would be a bad deal my first fall term at the Kelldon School.


How do we get to the point where we say to someone, "I will do anything and everything I can for you"? Only pure, altruistic, unconditional love makes that possible, love that we are invited to contemplate, recognize, and remember every time we make the sign of the cross. What Jesus has done and continues to do for us, He calls and invites us to do for and with one another. How simple it sounds but how challenging it is to live out His words from John 13:34: "I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another." Sacrifice is an integral part of this love. We know the joy and peace He is talking about when we give ourselves totally to those we love. Todays Gospel passage continues what Jesus started saying in last Sunday's Gospel where we have St. Luke's account of the Beatitudes. Today we hear Jesus speaking words that are not easy to follow and go against our inner sense of justice at times: "To you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you." The last thing we want to do is to love those who are our "enemies." At times people annoy us, hurt us, criticize us unfairly, or give us a hard time. Forgiving enemies is not something we or people in history have been so willing to do. We want them to be punished, berated, or suffer in some way that we think will bring us satisfaction. Here are some words from Psalm 109 where the Jewish people express their anger at the enemy and ask God to punish them: "O God, whom I praise, do not be silent, for wicked and treacherous mouths attack me. They speak against me with lying tongues; with hateful words they surround me, attacking me without cause. In return for my love they slander me, even though I prayed for them. They repay me evil for good, hatred for my love. Appoint an evil one over him, an accuser to stand at his right hand, That he may be judged and found guilty, that his plea may be in vain. May his days be few; may another take his office. May his children be fatherless, his wife, a widow. May his children wander and beg, driven from their hovels. May the usurer snare all he owns, strangers plunder all he earns." (Psalm 109:2-11) Not only does this express anger and vengeance, it is a prayer that God will take care of injustice for them. Anger and vengeance can seem like sources of consolation but in the end there is no real peace in our hearts or peace with one another.
Seventeen days from today is Ash Wednesday, a day when we proclaim our resolve to rise above sin and evil by having blessed ashes placed on our foreheads. Rising above evil is far more than just avoiding temptation in our personal lives. Truly rising above evil calls us to be beacons of faith, hope, and love in our world, and in particular, in our daily lives. In our parish we will offer two very concrete ways to join together as a parish family to enrich the lives of one another as life-giving members of the Body of Christ, the Church in the world. They will offer what we hear in the Gospel for Ash Wednesday (Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18) which is from the Sermon on the Mount. This powerful sermon by Jesus is presented in chapters 5, 6, and 7 of Matthew's Gospel and spells out in very practical ways how to live the Beatitudes which begin this Sermon. The Gospel for Ash Wednesday invites us to take seriously three very important practices for our spiritual lives: prayer, fasting, and good works.
"I hear you knocking, but you can't come in." These words are from a 1970 song by Dave Edmunds and in many ways these words describe the feelings we have when we are challenged to allow others into our lives or to do something that is different, difficult, or controversial. These past weeks I have been writing about the evil of abortion and the challenges we face as people of faith with this issue. What has brought abortion to the forefront was the passage in our New York State legislature of the Reproductive Act a few weeks ago that allows abortion up until the very day of birth. In a sense, children in the womb get ready for birth by knocking on the door of their mother's womb to come to birth, that is, to come physically into our world, and most importantly, into our lives. How did we become so barbaric, insensitive, and evil? What continues to push us over the edge of love, decency, truth, and common sense in this area? There is someone else knocking to come in and the door has been opened wide to him - the devil!!!
"How can you be so obtuse?" These were the words of Andy Dufresne, the main character in the movie Shawshank Redemption. He was imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. When a new prisoner came to where he was imprisoned, that prisoner told him someone else in another jail where he had been bragged that he killed Andy's wife and lover and got away with it. Andy eagerly brought this information to the warden who refused to act on it and even plotted and had that new prisoner killed. He had Andy put in the "hole," a place of solitary confinement for two months. He was using Andy and his banking knowledge to hide money. It was not how he could be so obtuse, but why he was obtuse. To be obtuse is to be totally insensitive to others or their situation.


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Abstract. We present a dynamic equilibrium simulation of the ice sheet-shelf system on Antarctica with the Potsdam Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM-PIK). The simulation is initialized with present-day conditions for bed topography and ice thickness and then run to steady state with constant present-day surface mass balance. Surface temperature and sub-shelf basal melt distribution are parameterized. Grounding lines and calving fronts are free to evolve, and their modeled equilibrium state is compared to observational data. A physically-motivated calving law based on horizontal spreading rates allows for realistic calving fronts for various types of shelves. Steady-state dynamics including surface velocity and ice flux are analyzed for whole Antarctica and the Ronne-Filchner and Ross ice shelf areas in particular. The results show that the different flow regimes in sheet and shelves, and the transition zone between them, are captured reasonably well, supporting the approach of superposition of SIA and SSA for the representation of fast motion of grounded ice. This approach also leads to a natural emergence of sliding-dominated flow in stream-like features in this new 3-D marine ice sheet model.
How to cite: Martin, M. A., Winkelmann, R., Haseloff, M., Albrecht, T., Bueler, E., Khroulev, C., and Levermann, A.: The Potsdam Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM-PIK) – Part 2: Dynamic equilibrium simulation of the Antarctic ice sheet, The Cryosphere, 5, 727-740, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-727-2011, 2011.


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Citroen C5 Aircross 2021 India launch and other details
By Alok Singh on December 17, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )
Citroën India has begun assembly of its first product for our market, the C5 Aircross SUV, Citroën announced earlier this year that the India launch of its C5 Aircross will be delayed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and will now happen sometime in January-March 2021, instead of late 2020. Here's what's new about it
The C5 Aircross will take on the likes of the Jeep Compass, Hyundai Tucson and Skoda Karoq. Measuring 4500 mm in length, the SUV boasts of a compact appearance with a wide grille up front and sleek looking split headlamp design complete with LED daytime running lights. The SUV also gets black lower body cladding for a rugged look. At the rear, the C5 Aircross gets flamboyant taillights with twin exhaust tips and a black bumper. There are roof rails added too for more practicality and butch appeal on the SUV.
Inside, the Citroen C5 Aircross SUV is a five-seater and comes with a host of creature comforts. The SUV gets a 12.3-inch TFT-digital instrument screen and gets 20 new-age driver assistance features including Highway Driver Assist, a level-two autonomous driving system, as well as six advanced connectivity technologies. Safety tech on the C5 Aircross includes multiple airbags, smart headlamps with an auto high beam feature, attention assist, cross-traffic detection, blind spot assist, hill-hold assist and more. The SUV also gets a digital instrument console.
Citroen C5 Aircross to be locally assembled from CKD kits.
Will be sold in a single, fully-loaded trim, costing upwards of Rs 30 lakh.
Citroen to launch made-for-India compact SUV and other models in future.
The SUV is being assembled at CK Birla's plant in Thiruvallur, Tamil Nadu
What's new on Citroen's India-bound C5 Aircross SUV?
the French automaker has also started testing the car here and that too sans camouflage. This news, which comes after a seemingly long gap from the house of Citroen, indicates that the car is getting ready for its formal arrival in the market. But please note that Citroen C5 Aircross SUV's India launch will happen between January 2021 – March 2021. While test mules of the C5 Aircross SUVs have already been seen in India, those were fully-imported units.
Citroen C5 Aircross 2021: India launch and expected pricing?
Sources tell us that, since the C5 Aircross will be "locally assembled" and not "locally made", prices are expected to start upwards of Rs 29 lakhs (ex-showroom).
The SUV will be sold in a single trim and is expected to come with features like an electronic parking brake, dual-zone climate control, a hands-free tailgate, split-LED headlamps with DRLs, a panoramic sunroof, a powered driver's seat, an 8.0-inch touchscreen infotainment system, and a 12.3-inch digital instrument screen.
The C5 Aircross 2020 SUV may be offered with either a choice between a 1.2-litre petrol engine and a 2.0-litre diesel engine. As for transmission options, the new Citroen car in India may be available with a choice between two options: A six-speed manual and an eight-speed torque converter automatic.
What else is Citroen planning for India?
Citroen doesn't plan on selling large numbers of the C5 Aircross SUV in India SUV. Instead, the French brand is betting big on its future made-in-India models from its 'C-Cubed' programme, which should be the volume sellers. These models will have a high level of local content – the C21 compact SUV is expected to achieve 90% – 95% localisation, which could mean a starting price of about Rs 7 lakh.
How many Citroen India showrooms are expected in first phase?
The first showroom in Ahmedabad for the Citroen brand is almost ready. 10-15 outlets – all of which will be based on the brand's 'La Maison Citroen' concept – are expected to be introduced in the first phase.
Citroen has begun trial production of the C5 Aircross at its Thiruvallur plant in Tamil Nadu. The C5 Aircross is a premium midsize SUV that will take on the likes of Skoda's Karoq, Hyundai Tucson and the Jeep Compass. It'll be sold in India via the CKD (completely knocked down) route. The C5 Aircross was expected to reach showrooms by mid-2020. However, the nationwide lockdown halted proceedings, pushing the launch of the upcoming SUV to early 2021. Prices for this upcoming SUV are expected to start from Rs 29 lakh (ex-showroom).
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Q: 2D array of struct in c I am trying to make a 2D array there every spot in will contain three integers in C.
this is my code:
typedef struct node
{
    int path;
    int y;
    int z;
}node;

typedef struct graph
{
    node *matrix[10][10];
}graph;

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    graph*map=malloc(sizeof(graph));
    map->matrix[0][0]->path=1;
    printf("%d",map->matrix[0][0]->path);
}

when I run it I get an seglation fault, is it something I missing?

A: [using the definitions before the OP edit]
the code you give cannot compile because matrix is defined as

node *matrix[10][10];

non compatible with

matrix[0].path

but having

graph*map=malloc(sizeof(graph));

does not allocate the memory for the elements in matrix, so doing something like that (to be compatible with your definitions) :

map->matrix[0][0]->x=1;

you dereference a non initialized pointer with an undefined behavior (your segmentation fault)
you also need to initialize the pointers in matrix, a priori allocating memory like (at least) :
map->matrix[0][0] = malloc(sizeof(node));

or do not use pointers having :
node matrix[10][10];

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