Larry Page is backing Silicon Valley start-up Opener, which has joined the growing number of companies attempting to bring "flying cars" to the masses.
Opener's vehicle, called BlackFly, is a single-passenger electric aircraft capable of operating autonomously.
While BlackFly can't actually drive on roads, operators don't need a pilot's license to fly one.
Inside a cluster of unmarked buildings in Palo Alto, a small team backed by Google co-founder Larry Page is building a vehicle that they believe will revolutionize personal transportation.
It's a single-passenger aerial craft that doesn't require a pilot's license to fly and could eventually cost about the same as an SUV.
Opener is one of a growing number of companies taking on the challenge of "flying cars." Or, more accurately, vertical take-off and landing vehicles, since most function more like drones or helicopters than road-worthy automobiles also capable of flight.
The company emerged from secrecy in July and joins the ranks of Uber, Joby, Airbus, Boeing and KittyHawk — another flying-car start-up that has received millions from Page.
Opener invited CNBC inside its headquarters to chat with Alan Eustace, a former Google exec who is the company's technical advisor, to learn how it's tackling its aerial ambitions.
Alan Eustace at Opener's Silicon Valley headquarters.
Recent advances in battery density, propulsion systems and sense-and-avoid technology are driving the current investment frenzy into flying cars. The overarching idea is that electric VTOLs will be smaller, quieter, safer, easier to fly and cheaper than traditional helicopters or private planes.
Opener's particular vision of the future hinges on the idea that these vehicles will ultimately be cheap enough for regular families to afford.
"It could solve a huge transportation crisis," Eustace said. He imagines a world where people use these vehicles to zoom from Palo Alto to San Francisco in 11 minutes, a journey that currently takes 90 minutes or more during rush hour.
The Opener team after a test flight.
Opener's BlackFly can travel for 40 miles at 72 miles per hour in Canada, where it was originally headquartered and still conducts test flights, or for 25 miles at 62 miles per hour in the United States. The discrepancy comes down to how the vehicle is classified in each country and the resulting regulations. Ultimately, Eustace says that regulation will be the biggest challenge to getting these vehicles out into the world.
The first BlackFly crafts will start selling next year, but current rules would restrict them to rural areas. They're classified as ultra-light aircraft in the United States, so they don't require a license to fly. They can operate only over uncongested terrain.
Before any VTOL can actually take to the skies in a real way, federal and local regulations and infrastructure will need to adapt to this new transportation category. Analysts and experts say this will take at least five years.
"I think they have an interesting and fun concept, but I do not see this design doing any real personal transport anytime within the next five years," said Missy Cummings, director of the Humans and Autonomy Laboratory at Duke University, who has researched personal air transport for NASA.
BlackFly has one advantage: the deep-pockets of a tech billionaire to buoy it. While Eustace declined to share details of Page's investment, Opener describes itself as a well-funded private company without need for new investors "for the foreseeable future."
The company was founded by Canadian engineer Marcus Leng, who made his own fortune when he sold a manufacturing company in 1996. Leng became fascinated by the idea of personal aviation and "flew" his first proof-of-concept eVTOL aircraft in 2011 in his front yard (it lifted about 3 feet off the ground). From there, he decided to turn his hobby into a business, with his progressive iterations eventually attracting the attention of Page.
Eustace remembers when Page came into his office about five years ago "bubbling over" about how impressed he was with Leng's technology. Eustace, a pilot who holds the world record for the highest-altitude free-fall jump from space, knew that he wanted to be a part of those efforts to transform transportation.
The company now has about 25 employees, many of whom were hired fresh out of school. Frank Perkins, a mechanical engineer, says he discovered the company through a campus job website in 2016. At the time, Opener was so secretive that he signed his employment contract before even knowing what exactly he'd be working on.
"When I actually did find out what they were doing, my mind was blown," he said. "But I had also just signed a nondisclosure agreement, so I had to be quiet about this amazingly cool job for months and months and months."
The latest model of BlackFly will actually be made to fit a person of Perkins' dimensions: up to 6-feet-6 and 250 pounds.
CNBC's Jillian D'Onfro talks to Opener engineer Frank Perkins in front of the company's nondescript headquarters.
Although Perkins hasn't actually flown one of the vehicles yet, seven other people have, ranging from age 25 to 75, and including both pilots and nonpilots.
Eleanor Li, an Opener mechanical engineer, says that even though she had no previous piloting experience, she felt totally safe during her flight.
The vehicle can be operated via a simple joystick and has a "go-home" button that will tell it to return to where it started and land on its own. It also has redundant motors and batteries so it can stay in the air if one fails. For an absolute worst-case scenario, it comes with a ballistic parachute.
"It's like nothing I've ever felt before," Li says, "The acceleration, ... it's exhilarating."
Eustace hasn't tested the vehicle himself, but he's looking forward to his chance. Although he's cautious about making predictions for when BlackFly could ever gain mainstream adoption, he thinks the concept is inevitable instead of impossible.
"The regulatory system has to catch up with the capabilities that are actually in the vehicle right now," he said. "It's a magical future."


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A friend of mine introduced this game (demo version) to me when we were kids. The funny thing actually was that when we were playing Z, he was always playing (I was too afraid to try!:D). Many years later, my friend had bought the full version (DOS). At that time, I had nearly forgotten the whole game and didn't consider it particularly interesting anymore.
Around 2001, I downloaded the demo version and tried it out, believe or not, this was actually the first time I was playing the game even I had known it for years! I immediately fell in love with it, and I felt that I need to find the full version.
About one year later, I got lucky. I bought the full version cd from local internet action, it cost about 10 euros. Since then, I just started to get more and more hooked up with this game. Today, I don't play Z too often (maybe like few times in a year), but when I do, I play it a lot.
Fell free to tell your own "Z stories" if you want!
Now I play the game in fits and starts, though in net mode I never had a chance to play, although now thanks to Antares TCP/IP is supported.
I sure didn't expect to get a reply from anyone this quickly!
Yeah, I myself heard complains from friend of mine to whom I tried to introduce the game. He said he can't play it because it requires you to be quick, agile in giving the orders especially in very first minutes and if you fail to do it, the battle is lost. In part he is right, indeed it has acute, stuggling nature at the outset and then there is little that can be changed.
Maybe for those guys I should make a mod which will dynamically limit the number of units that CPU can have - for example, no more the human player have. What do make of it?
I have to admit that I get pissed off sometimes because of the difficulty, but then again, there is always something that will motivate me to try again.
A good example was when I once got totally beaten on Level 17 (Car Park). I had saved the game when me and CPU were capturing the hardware at the bottom of the map. I wasn't fast enough, and AI rolled over to my side of the map and crushed me completely. I tried to reload the savegame many times and tried to make the difference but no.
So, restarting the level was inevitable, and I got off to a quick and good start, and in the end I was victorius. Just few minor adjustments considering the robot production (and moving units properly), and I had the edge I needed to win!
Hi BallWin! Thanks for wishing me welcome!
2. The second version is different: either the player or the CPU has no Heavy Tank at the start, and there are two unmanned Heavys on both sides of the map. NOTE: I downloaded this version of Z from the internet nearly ten years ago, and it didn't have any movies, so it's a bit different from the CD version that I own.
I've beaten both versions, but the official version (your screenshot) was more harder. It's been nearly a year since I played the CD version. I'll try to get it back from my dad's place ASAP.


The Mystery Writers of America has announced the Edgar Award winners! And unlike last year, where my taste totally reflected the taste of the judges… we are not in synch. In fact, 180 degrees difference.
I picked Tana French's Faithful Place for Best Novel. MWA picked Steve Hamilton's The Lock Artist. I placed this one… dead last in the running. Augh. A revisit of my review reveals that I still agree with my comments. Hamilton is a great author – I've loved his previous series – and The Lock Artist was very creative and a fun read, but I didn't find it to be my preference.
Similarly, for Best First Novel, my pick was Nic Pizzolatto's Galveston. MWA's choice: Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva. Again, this book was at the bottom of my list. I looked back over my review. Yep, still agree with it. The book has sheer verve going for it, but it's not as edgy as I prefer.
Bottom line: If you haven't read all the nominees, do so! They're all excellent and well worth your time. You can't go wrong with the established authors nominated for Best Novel, including Tana French, Harlen Coben, Tom Franklin, Timothy Hallinan and Laura Lippman.
For the debut novels, you may find that Rogue Island is your favorite, or perhaps the humor and quirky characterizations of David Gordon's The Serialist will float your boat. All five nominees are an opportunity to expand your "must read" list.
My final take on being so wrong? No biggie. It's like the Oscars. "Predict the Oscars" contests reward those critics who are best are predicting what nominees will be selected by the Oscar voters. I am more like the critics who pen "who should win" columns. But even with that perspective, this undertaking is all very subjective! Still, it's terrifically fun, so 2012 will find me doing the same thing. Maybe I'll even go to the ceremony!
Edgar Rankings: Who the heck is Poke Rafferty?
I had never read anything by Timothy Hallinan prior to my instantaneous purchase-by-Kindle of the Edgar-nominated The Queen of Patpong. With nothing to hold in my hand – no blurb on the back of the book, no book jacket bio – I plunged into the the underbelly of Bangkok. Bar girls, tough guys, and plenty of bought-and-sold. In the first chapter, a predatory American circles and pulls in a 16-year-old bar girl, only to be stopped by a corrupt Thai policeman who is ready to let the girl go to certain torture and death – for a price. Between the two of them, they scare the cr*p out of the girl, who takes off in a big hurry for the farm she left behind. In the final paragraphs, it becomes obvious that the policeman and the tall American are in cahoots, with the goal of saving the girl. And that was it. I was hooked.
It turns out that this is the fourth Poke Rafferty novel, Poke being the tall American and Arthit his policeman friend. Poke's evidently a travel writer, although we don't see much traveling or much writing in this book. He's married to a former bar girl, Rose, and they've adopted a 13-year-old named Miaow (but she wants to go by Mia). Life gets exciting and scary when a man from Rose's past – a seductive mercenary who has left a trail of murdered young women behind him – finds her again. Fortunately, he's the kind of sociopath who likes to play with his prey, because if he had just gone for the kill right off the bat, the book would have been maybe 50 pages long.
If you're noticing, this is the fourth book out of the six nominated that hinges on action from the past. If the trend continues and we end up six-for-six, that'll really be something unusual.
For sheer engagement, The Queen of Patpong is tops. The reader sees the love between Poke and Rose, the family the three of them have made together, and their friendship with Arthit. The backstory is well-told and is doled out over time, ratcheting up the suspense. By the time I was reading about Rose's encounter with Howard Horner on the rocks – he has plans to kill her, but she outwits him – I couldn't read fast enough. It reminded me Tom Hanks in Apollo 13 – you know the astronauts survive, but you're on the edge of your seat anyway.
Also good about the book – the bad guys were not just believable, but real, and the meta-message – that the U.S. government would protect black ops mercenaries who killed civilians for fun – was chilling, but in today's world, also believable.
The downside to The Queen of Patpong is pretty minor: if you haven't read about these characters before, it takes a little catching up. The world of Bangkok is not readily familiar, so that takes a little catching up, too.
This is quite a different novel, some mystery but mostly thriller, and Rose fills the pages. It's a tough call, but it doesn't quite edge out Laura Lippman's book, although it's definitely ahead of Harlan Coben's Caught. I "amazoned" Hallinan, and I see he has quite a backlist… guess I know what I'll be reading when the Edgar countdown is over!
Harlan Coben's a best-selling author, and deservedly so. I started reading his Myron Bolitar series (a frequently-funny series featuring a short-time pro basketball player turned sports agent) with Deal Breaker in the mid-90s. Myron's best friend is Windsor Horne Lockwood III… a very handy guy to know when you need an incredibly rich, incredibly connected, and basically all-around incredible guy. Win shows up in Caught in a minor role – a cameo, if you will.
Coben's also a prolific producer of standalone thrillers, and Caught is a good example of the bunch. It's told from multiple perspectives, but the whole plot hinges on a "caught on camera" reality TV show that purports to reveal pedophiles. You've seen the shows… the guys are amazingly stupid, showing up with a pocket full of condoms and a six-pack under one arm for a rendezvous with a 13-year-old girl in her parents' hot tub, only to be greeted by a reporter in a flashy suit with a camera crew. The guy never runs for the hills, they always stick around to explain themselves before being handcuffed and shoved into the back of a police car.
Only in this case, the predator who is caught, Dan Mercer, seems like a true-blue guy. There are some questions about his past – it's a little murky – but no warning signs, ever, even though the case seems all locked up. Even cynical reporter Wendy Tynes is beginning to have her doubts when he is suddenly murdered – right in front of her eyes – by a masked man she's sure is the father of one of Mercer's victims.
But Wendy's a better investigative journalist than her schlock-TV producers know, and as she pulls on the threads that make up the evidence against Mercer, she finds they unravel… and in the unravelling, she uncovers an alarming pattern: Mercer is just one of a group of college room-mates whose professional lives have been ruined, often by no more than internet-chat-room rumors and innuendo.
Excellent things about this novel: Twisty plot and I didn't figure it out in advance (which I frequently do!). Believable single mom main character with great mother-son interaction.
Not so great: Backstory with tragically hidden-from-life character seemed a little gothic to me. Especially with a first-person prologue, I never felt that Mercer was dead and kept expecting him to pop back up… which, of course, he did.
Still, Coben's a skilled writer and Caught stacks up well.
Like a lot of places, New York City doesn't have as many bookstores as it used to have. On the other hand, the number of Starbucks outlets has increased exponentially in the last ten years. And it continues to have plenty of guys selling handbags and watches, as well as helpful folks wanting to make sure you don't miss an opportunity to go to a comedy club.
But mystery lovers who make an effort will be rewarded. A short subway ride to Greenwich Village will bring you to the doorstep of Partners & Crime. What's great about this bookstore is the many hand-lettered signs, helping you find the books you'll most enjoy reading. I discovered a Kate Atkinson, When Will There be Good News?, that I am currently enjoying. Atkinson's book interweaves several perspectives and backstories in a way that reminds me that there's more to mysteries than clomping through a chronology in first person. (I can diss this style because that's what I do.) Good News is out in paperback and a heck of a bargain, so go buy it. I also bought a thriller, Close-Up, by Esther Verhoef and translated from the Dutch. I read a couple of chapters in the store to be sure, and its got me hooked already. Margot's just getting over a rough break-up when she meets a mesmerizing man… he opens new doors for her, she's spreading her wings. Only the reader suspects he's a killer. But is he?
Also worth visiting is Otto Penzler's Mysterious Bookshop in Tribeca, especially when accompanied by lunch at the Kitchenette, a thrift store stop, and less than 30 minutes in line at the TKTS booth to snag two tickets to Billy Elliott at half-price. I was lured into a signed copy of Caught by Harlan Coben (always a favorite) as well as Linwood Barclay's Never Look Away, after reading a comparison of the two books in today's New York Times. I've read both authors before and am interested in reading them back to back.
The Mysterious Bookshop's allure is burnished by its owner, Otto Penzler, well-known on the mystery scene for decades and editor of the Best American Mystery Stories and the Best American Crime Writing series for years. So well-known is he that he was tapped to write Robert B. Parker's obituary in Time magazine.
Both mystery bookstores are comfortable, ready for browsing, and feature comfortable chairs and nearby coffee shops. Both are stuffed to the gills with autographed books. And both are well-worth visiting, so bring your credit cards and a canvas bookbag!


This beautiful stone house particularly spacious, south facing, fully renovated, is ideally located on a green field of more than one hectare in a quiet and pleasant location close to the forest of St Sever environment.
The friendly design and very stylish decor provide a comfortable stay for 14 people.
A "spa " Enhance your outdoor relaxation.
Easy access between the Mont St Michel and the D-Day beaches you have many visits or sporting activities 18 hole golf course near Lake Dathée, bungee jumping Viaduct Souleuvre and cultural according to your convenience.
o fishing and pleasure ports.
o Docks for the Chausey Islands and the Channel Islands.
o Possibility of farm visits.
We had a nice weekend in this house where all the comfort is present. I recommend this rental. The owner is very friendly.
Thank you for your kindness. Looking forward to welcoming you again!
Very well-kept and comfortable property with everything available.
We were a group of 9 with 6 cars and 1 car and they could be stolen without problems in the garage.
The location is top if you like to rest and the landlord is a very friendly lady.
Clean and maintain these neatly on a regular basis. To hygiene so no complaints.
In short, we will appreciate this property to our friends and can be repeated.
Certainly for the bikers among us a must.
Nice, neat house. Very quiet yet uitvalbabis ideal for many visits.
Thank you for your appreciation, our first wish is to satisfy our guests and we are ready to welcome you again.
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Towels: 4 ? / pers.
* End of stay cleaning fee: 150 ?
* SPA package: weekend 60 ?, week 100 ?


My "sinner" this week is again from the political arena. I suspect already that it usually will be – there is so much about people within politics to criticize! Besides, until November 2016 we have the US presidential primaries, followed by their election. It's already shaping up to be a doozy especially with seventeen candidates on the Republican side, a majority of whom have, in my opinion, completely untenable positions on several issues.
Once again I've struggled to find a "saint". I think of myself as a pretty optimistic person who's usually able to find a silver lining, so I'm a bit disappointed in my lack. So I've reverted to full Kiwi mode and turned to the All Blacks, New Zealand's world champion rugby team for inspiration.
There has been widespread condemnation of Russia's use of their veto power in this case, led by Australia. Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop called it, "an affront to the memory of the 298 victims of MH17 and their families and friends." She went on to say, "the anticipated excuses and obfuscation by the Russian Federation should be treated with the utmost disdain," and that it was "inconceivable the security council would now walk away from holding to account those who brought down a commercial aeroplane". The Labour opposition in Australia has fully supported the position of the government in this.
US Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, gave a speech invoking the names of those killed in support of the resolution.
Failure of a body charged with upholding international peace and security on such an issue was a "serious indictment".
That the outcome had been achieved by use of the veto was of "special regret" to New Zealand, McCully said.
It's clear the security council fails far too often. … It should have been a simple matter of saying we're [the security council] in favour of accountability because there's only one alternative and that's impunity for those who carried out this act.
Speaking in Vietnam, the latest leg of his trip to south-east Asia, Cameron responded to the Russian veto of the resolution saying: "I think it is infuriating and completely wrong. Let us not forget: British people died on this flight. Hundreds of people died on this flight.
Julie Bishop has also said Australia is determined to find another way to have this matter investigated. This is problematic in that the main reason Vladimir Putin says he opposes the investigation is that it is politically motivated, and just another attack on Russia. If he is unable to accept the United Nations as able to conduct a fair investigation, it is unlikely there will he any other investigator acceptable to both sides.
In my opinion the reason Russia opposes this investigation is that it would uncover its own role in the tragedy. The evidence that is already in the public arena is that Flight MH17 was shot down using a Buk missile system by the Ukrainian separatists. This is a Russian system and there is no way the sepratists could have obtained it without the knowledge and cooperation of Russia. Further, it apparently requires extensive knowledge and training to use. Therefore the operator was very likely from, or trained by, the Russian military.
Early last Sunday morning New Zealand time, the All Blacks played a test against the South African national team, the Springboks, on Ellis Park, Johannesburg. With just a few minutes to go, the score was All Blacks 17, Springboks 20. The Springboks are one of a very few teams in the world capable of beating the All Blacks, so it was vital we beat them to retain our psychological dominance ahead of the World Cup later this year. A win on enemy turf compounds the mental hit, especially against a country that is as passionate about rugby as we are. Further, it was the Springboks that ended the All Blacks 2 year winning streak in October last year. The All Blacks haven't lost since, and this was the first time we'd come up against South Africa again. A back to back loss heading into the World Cup would have been significant.
With just seven minutes to go, the All Blacks pulled off a planned move that saw captain Richie McCaw score a try (5 points), which was then converted (2 points) by Lima Sopoaga. Shortly afterwards, Sopoaga kicked a penalty (3 points) for a final 27-20 score. This was a never before seen move by any team, and worked perfectly. Every player involved executed their part exactly as planned, and the Springboks defence was caught completely off guard. What we didn't know at the time was that the move was thought up by Kieran Reid. You can see in the video that Reid is the first person McCaw goes to in his celebration of the try, and the joy on Reid's face is indescribable. It was finding out a couple of days later that it was Reid who came up with the idea that explained the look, and earned him my bouquet of the week.
BBC Sport put the All Blacks win down to "a mixture of cool heads and supreme fitness." All Blacks coach Steve Hansen hinted they had a few more moves up their sleeves for the World Cup. This one was brought out early because of the importance of beating South Africa, especially at home.
Next Saturday night New Zealand time I'll be sitting down with Fish 'n' Chips for another All Blacks test in the lead up to the World Cup. The match will be against the Wallabies (Australia) on their home turf. It'll be tough game, but my money (well it would be if I bet 🙂 ) is, as always, on the All Blacks. The Wallabies are another team we need to retain a psychological edge over, as well as a physical one. If we don't need to use any of the currently secret new moves to beat them, that'll be a talking point in itself. Roll on Saturday!
Yes, terrible of Russia, but not surprising. We need to get rid of the veto of course, though that won't be easy as although the other four veto states will complain about Russia this time, they'll use it themselves again as soon as it suits them. Since 1972, the US is actually the worst, having used the veto more than any other state and mostly to protect the actions of Israel in Palestine and Lebanon.
Yes. During the Cold War it was Russia, but more recently it has been the US in the circumstances you state. France has apparently offered to voluntarily give up their veto power in circumstances where there is potential for mass atrocities, and they hardly ever use it anyway. McCully says the United Kingdom has a "fairly moderate" view on its use too, but I don't know what that means.
A few years ago New Zealand (I think under Helen Clark but it might have been the previous National government) came up with a formula about the use of the veto. I remember at the time thinking that it sounded like a good compromise that the P5 might agree to, but I can't remember what it was! Very annoying – I've been trying to recall it for months. Perhaps while we're on the Security Council it will come up again, as McCully seems determined to address the issue.


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Q: How to download data from web? Need to skip and move to next item if data doesn't exist I'm trying to modify a script that I found online.  I want to get the script to skip a ticker if no results are found, kind of like Try…Catch.  Now, the code just falls down if a ticker isn't found.  How can I get this to skip any/all missing tickers and finish without crashing?
require(XML)
require(plyr)

getKeyStats_xpath <- function(symbol) {
  yahoo.URL <- "http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s="
  html_text <- htmlParse(paste(yahoo.URL, symbol, sep = ""), encoding="UTF-8")

  #search for <td> nodes anywhere that have class 'yfnc_tablehead1'
  nodes <- getNodeSet(html_text, "/*//td[@class='yfnc_tablehead1']")

  if(length(nodes) > 0 ) {
    measures <- sapply(nodes, xmlValue)

    #Clean up the column name
    measures <- gsub(" *[0-9]*:", "", gsub(" \\(.*?\\)[0-9]*:","", measures))

    #Remove dups
    dups <- which(duplicated(measures))
    #print(dups)
    for(i in 1:length(dups))
      measures[dups[i]] = paste(measures[dups[i]], i, sep=" ")

    #use siblings function to get value
    values <- sapply(nodes, function(x)  xmlValue(getSibling(x)))

    df <- data.frame(t(values))
    colnames(df) <- measures
    return(df)
  } else {
    break
  }
}

setwd("C:/Users/rshuell001/Desktop/downloads/")

tickers <- c("OREX",
"OSIR",
"PACB",
"PCRX",
"PCYC",
"PDLI",
"PETX",
"PGNX",
"POZN",
"PRTA",
"PTCT",
"PTLA",
"PTX",
"QGEN",
"QLTI",
"RARE",
"RCPT",
"RDUS",
"REGN",
"RGEN",
"RGLS",
"RLYP",
"RPTP",
"RTRX",
"RVNC",
"SAGE")

stats <- ldply(tickers, getKeyStats_xpath)
rownames(stats) <- tickers
write.csv(t(stats), "FinancialStats_updated.csv",row.names=TRUE)

I posted here about a week ago and a couple people suggested I try this.
stats <- llply(tickers, function(t) tryCatch(getKeyStats_xpath(t), error=function(x) {cat("error occurred, skipping this ticker\n")}))
rownames(stats) <- tickers
write.csv(t(stats), "FinancialStats_updated.csv",row.names=TRUE)

That never worked.  I messed around with it for a while, but couldn't get it to write the data to a CSV file.  Although, the code looks like it's pretty close to what I want.
Can someone help me get this straightened out?
Thanks!!

A: Here is the error your code produces:

Error in FUN(X[[i]], ...) :
no loop for break/next, jumping to top level

Let's look at help(break):

break breaks out of a for, while or repeat loop; control is transferred to the first statement outside the inner-most loop

So, break() may only be used in a for, while or repeat loop, and you are using it in an if else statement... We could just replace that break in getKeyStats_xpath by something else. Plus return something to mark that there was a symbol not found.
...
  } else {
    cat("Could not find",symbol,"\n")
    return(data.frame(NA))
  }
...

It now works fine. You can remove the rows that are all NAs, after you have assigned names to stats, with:
stats <- stats[!rowSums(is.na(stats)) == length(stats),]

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Photo: Bob Zimmer stands with his family after he officially announced he would run to represent the federal Conservatives in the next election./Kimberley Molina
Bob Zimmer has officially announced he will be running for the federal Conservative candidacy.
The current CEO of the Conservative Prince George-Peace River Electoral District Association and North Peace Secondary School teacher made the announcement at the Pomeroy Hotel, Wednesday.
Zimmer says he has lived and worked in various communities in the riding and feels he understands what the needs are of the people within the region.
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He has announced five key points to his platform. One part of the platform addresses the economy, including making the area more attractive for businesses.
Some of his other points include getting rid of wasteful government spending, justice reform, democratic reform – including having an elected senate – and to continue to build a strong military.
Zimmer was born in Dawson Creek and has lived in Fort St. John for most of his life. He attended Trinity Western University and the University of British Columbia and has been involved with politics since 1987, when he signed up with the Reform Party.
The competition for the candidate nomination is anticipated to become difficult as more people are also expected to announce their candidacy but Zimmer says he hopes to work hard to gain the nomination.
He is currently the second person to have officially announced his candidacy after Don Irwin, Fort St. John city councillor and principal for the Christian Life School, made an announcement nearly two weeks ago.
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The free media: a price worth paying
The free media:
a price worth paying
by John Wilkins
from The Tablet, November 1st., 2003; republished here with permission
The Catholic Church has undergone trial by media over the clerical sexual abuse crisis. Some saw it as persecution.
Writing in The Tablet's monthly stablemate some years back, the columnist Paul Vallely wondered whether it would ever be possible to get the essence of religious life into the media. "In the end", Vallely wrote, "there is a fundamental incompatibility between much of the work of the Church and that of the media. The Church should not waste too much time on what is fundamentally a tainted process."
Vallely was, of course, pushing his argument in order to make his point, in the way that journalists do. He would be the first to acknowledge that if the Church opted out in that way, it would be omitting to communicate with millions of viewers and readers in a media-driven age.
The uneasiness between the Church and the free media surfaced again in Britain in the week of the Pope's silver jubilee. Objecting to the BBC's decision to kick off its schedule in that week with a Panorama programme called "Sex and the Holy City", followed by an edition of Kenyon Confronts looking at clerical sexual abuse cases in the archdiocese of Birmingham, Archbishop Vincent Nichols called a press conference. "Enough is enough", he told the journalists. He took his protest all the way up to the director general of the BBC, Greg Dyke, and the director of news, Richard Sambrook. "The Catholic community is patient and long-suffering", said Archbishop Nichols to the journalists, "but I sense that it is time to say No."
The two sides find it hard to understand each other. Church perspectives on the media often seem to reflect a make-believe world. By common consent, Vatican II's document on the means of social communication (Vaticanspeak for media) was the weakest text that the council produced. A later pastoral instruction sought to develop the council's work. It said, of the media: "Such means of communication serve to build new relationships, and to fashion a new language which permits people to know themselves better and to understand one another more easily. By this, they are led to a mutual understanding and shared ambition, and this, in turn, inclines them to justice and peace, to goodwill and an active charity, to mutual help, love and, in the end, to communion."
Tell that to Rupert Murdoch and Conrad Black, and they might be somewhat sceptical.
Another person who would be somewhat sceptical would be the late Hugo Young, the Guardian columnist. He gave a lecture to mark the centenary of the founding of Westminster Cathedral in London. When the Church talks about values in the media, said Young, "the implication is that it is the values of the worldly, in this case the media world, that stand in constant need of testing by reference to Christian values. It is the newspapers and television that do not measure up to some higher ideal that Christianity and its prophets, both the ancient and modern, lay down." In fact, though, Hugo Young argued, "we should be clear that the values expressed and acted on by the Church are not always congruent with the kind of media that are of the greatest social importance. There is a clear disjunction between Christian values, at least as expressed by the Roman Church, and those of good journalism". This, Hugo Young concluded, "is decidedly not an area where we can say with confidence that if only Christian qualities were more evident, the media would be doing a better job".
So in this respect, Hugo Young did not count himself as being of the Pope's party. What would the Pope himself have to say? He is, after all, a superb media communicator. In December last year he addressed the International Catholic Union of the Press. Journalists, said the Pope, should have the courage to seek and report the truth, however inconvenient the truth may be. They should look for moral, religious and spiritual aspects to stories, and report "uplifting actions", performed on behalf of "the poor, the sick, the handicapped, the weak, those who are otherwise forgotten by society". The secular media can indeed be very good at that. Fergal Keane's remarkable reports on television about the Ethiopian famine, for example, had a dramatic effect on the late Cardinal Hume. Or think of the stories, so beloved of the Daily Mail, of ordinary people who have shown themselves in a crisis to be heroes and heroines.
On the other hand, the secular media are also very good at doing the opposite. In his biography of Rupert Murdoch, William Shawcross has a section about the Sun under its famous and notorious editor Kelvin McKenzie, whose motto was, "Shock and amaze on every page". Shawcross quotes a history of the Sun which gave a list of the sort of people whom Kelvin McKenzie thought were fair game: "Prisoners, criminals, drug takers, football hooligans, most blacks, homosexuals, militant trade unionists, muggers, students, peace campaigners, demonstrators, hippies, dossers, tramps, beggars, social security scroungers, terrorists, especially the IRA, vandals, graffiti artists, prostitutes, gypsies, winos, various foreign groups en masse and all deviants, particularly sex offenders." It does not jell with what the Pope thinks the media should be doing. The gap is wide.
The Pope gave a second address, this time for World Communications Day this year. In this second text he was looking at the pressures on journalists.
Catholic editors and journalists are themselves very accustomed to coming under pressure. When Cardinal Hume went to receive his red hat in Rome, he was approached by a very high official in the Roman Curia. "And now, Basil", said the official, "you can do something about those Catholic papers of yours." Cardinal Hume was able to reply, "No censorship please, we're British."
One remark the Pope made in his address for World Communications Day goes to the heart of the matter. In order to serve freedom, the Pope said, "the media must be free and correctly use that freedom". But who judges what that correct use of freedom is? If the press is free, the authorities do not have the last word; on the contrary, the free media specialise in publishing the things that the authorities want to keep quiet.
The Austrian bishop Kurt Krenn has one solution. He has suggested that religious journalists should be issued with licences, like dogs, which would be withdrawn if a journalist misbehaved. There are those in the secular world who might have a sneaking sympathy with that suggestion.
In the 1970s a battle royal took place at Unesco in Paris. The chief protagonist against the free press was Sean MacBride, the mercurial former Irish foreign minister, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Lenin Peace Prize. He headed a commission charged to bring in a New Information Order. If he had succeeded, Western journalists covering Third World subjects would have needed some sort of authorisation or licence -shades of Bishop Krenn.
Sean MacBride's commission argued that the Western media were selling the Third World short. They were not even attempting to give a rounded picture of Third World development. Instead, they swooped in to cover earthquakes, wars and scandals, provided saturation reporting which was sensational from beginning to end, and then went home until the next time. The Third World must have more control, MacBride's commission insisted, and irresponsible journalists must be banned.
In the end the supporters of the free media won a vital victory. For all its glaring deformities and deficiencies, the free media can invigilate power. They are the Fourth Estate. They can call to account governments, the police, those who are corrupt, they can give a voice to the voiceless. In winning the battle in Unesco, the free secular media won a battle for all journalists. Freedom of the press is basic to any free society. Secular journalists need it, religious journalists need it. Public opinion in the Church, Pius XII said, is "essential" to the Church's life.
Nevertheless, church authorities tend to be suspicious of the free media, and not infrequently to fear them. In consequence, most church media are to some degree controlled. L'Osservatore Romano, for example, gives the official line - that's what it's for. Diocesan newspapers tend to do the same. To a greater or lesser extent, they act as a transmission belt for information from the authorities. Controlled media like these can ignore the pressures of the marketplace. If they pay for themselves, good, but they do not need to, and they probably won't.
In the last two years, the greatest clash between the Church and the free media has been over the clerical sexual abuse crisis. The media coverage in the United States, Cardinal Rodriguez de Maradiaga said, could be likened to the persecution of the Church launched by the ancient Roman emperors, Hitler or Stalin.
The crisis has been worst in Boston, where Cardinal Law eventually had to go, but it was replicated in varying degrees elsewhere. In Ireland the cardinal in Dublin was embattled for months. In Britain the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, had to face his own ordeal at the hands of the media.
The cardinal made it clear that he thought there was a media campaign against him. He went public about this in two letters last November, one to The Times and one to the Catholic people as a whole.
The cardinal told The Times in his letter to them dated 20 November: "You suggest that some may feel a sense of betrayal arising from mistakes the Church has made in the past, including in relation to paedophilia. I suggest in turn that many others feel deeply concerned by the apparently relentless attacks by parts of the media on their faith, and on the Church in which they continue to believe."
On 22 November the cardinal wrote to the Catholics of England and Wales: "As you know, not only I personally but the whole Catholic Church in England and Wales has been under attack from some quarters during these past days ... I have every confidence that the Catholic community will meet the difficulties and the pressures of the present time with its traditional faith and courage."
Last December, the cardinal called a press conference at short notice. He had asked a solicitor in Leeds to look at all the cases he had dealt with as Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, and in every case the judgement was that the cardinal had acted correctly. Cormac Murphy-O'Connor thought he now had good news to tell the media. But the solicitor was a Catholic who had acted for the diocese. The atmosphere in that press conference was reminiscent almost of a lynch mob.
Stephen Bates, the religious correspondent of the Guardian, described the event afterwards in the paper's media section. He related how "a BBC journalist rang the Guardian three times to ensure we would be attending to hear the latest allegations. Outside, the press conference, BBC and Times representatives congratulated each other on their coverage, with the newspaper's representative thanking the broadcasters for their help with her latest story."
The media, Bates thought, had been "justifiably outraged" by the church cover-up, but he thought nevertheless that if the cardinal was feeling a sense of persecution, that would be "increasingly well-founded". He went on: "The Times and sections of the BBC, notably the Today programme, have been hounding Murphy-O'Connor for months in a campaign which has at times verged on the hysterical."
Some of the media coverage was very nasty. But would it have been any less nasty if, for example, it had been the Royal Family who were involved in the saga? Or if it had been the Church of England? Or if it had been the social services or the police?
The scandals have done terrible harm to the Church's good name. At The Tablet those sexual abuse cases tested us to the uttermost. We had to tell the truth - and since people trusted us, they gave us inside information. We investigated all the Arundel and Brighton cases that came to our attention, publishing full details week by week, while defending the cardinal editorially from the assassination attempts against him. But we pointed to obvious failings, in particular the Church's apparent reluctance to identify fully with the plight of the victims.
In the investigation of clerical sexual abuse, all the vices of the free media have been on abundant display - competitive market values, sensationalism, exaggeration, the cruel willingness to destroy people's careers and reputations, vulgarity and insinuation. But it was the free media that exposed a deep corruption inside the Church that had persisted for many years. The free media dragged the Church, resisting every step of the way, to admit the facts, and brought it to a mood that can fairly be described as one of repentance. Without the free media, would Catholics in Britain ever have had the Nolan Report and the establishment of a Catholic Office for the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Adults? Without the free media in the United States, would Cardinal Law ever have had to face the consequences of his actions and step down? Rather, it is overwhelmingly probable that serial clerical sexual abuse in the United States and elsewhere would be continuing to this day. In the end, the work of the free media in this affair, despite all its distasteful aspects, comes out as a plus rather than as a minus.
This has been a time of great pressure on the Catholic Church. But the Church has only itself to blame for that. There is no alternative but to take the punishment, while waiting until the measures that have been taken show the public that the Catholic Church is now part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Archbishop Nichols was not wrong to complain the other day about the BBC's programming during the week of the Pope's twenty-fifth anniversary. There is always a danger, however, of asking for special treatment. The bishops of England and Wales were surely most unwise, gathered in Rome later, to repeat their broadside through the Vatican press office. The Catholic Church is not beyond criticism, whether in the secular or the religious press, and the free media are not to be regarded simply as devils with horns. There is a heavy price to pay for their freedom, but it is worth it - just.
John Wilkins
* * The material in this article is extracted from the Dora Turbin lecture delivered by the editor of The Tablet in Oxford last Saturday.
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North Carolina Introduces Bill to Legalize Crowdfunding in North Carolina.
As the parlor game surrounding the question as to when the SEC will release their thoughts on regulating crowdfunding, some states are looking to move forward without the guidance of our federal government.
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There is something to be said for allowing crowdfunding to evolve while limiting the potential for specious lawsuits, something this country happens to be known to tolerate quite extensively.
North Carolina is not the first state to file their own legislation. Washington filed a similar bill earlier this month.
The legislature finds that start-up companies play a critical role in creating new jobs and revenues Crowdfunding, or raising money through small contributions from a large number of investors, allows smaller enterprises in Washington to have access to the capital they need to get new businesses off the ground. However, state securities registration can be prohibitively expensive for the small offerings that crowdfunding facilitates, and the use of crowdfunding for business financing in Washington is unnecessarily restricted by state securities laws.
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Attacks on Tennessee's EPB Municipal Broadband Fall Flat in Light of Facts
Phillip Dampier March 28, 2016 Astroturf, AT&T, Broadband Speed, Comcast/Xfinity, Community Networks, Competition, Consumer News, Data Caps, Editorial & Site News, EPB Fiber, Public Policy & Gov't, Rural Broadband, Wireless Broadband No Comments
The worst enemy of some advocacy groups writing guest editorial hit pieces against municipal broadband is: facts.
Raul Lopez is the founder and executive director for Latinos for Tennessee, a 501C advocacy group that reported $0 in assets, $0 in income, and is not required to file a Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service as of 2014. Lopez claims the group is dedicated to providing "Latinos in Tennessee with information and resources grounded on faith, family and freedom."
But his views on telecom issues are grounded in AT&T and Comcast's tiresome and false talking points about publicly owned broadband. His "opinion piece" in the Knoxville News Sentinel was almost entirely fact-free:
It is not the role of the government to use taxpayer resources to compete with private industry. Government is highly inefficient — usually creating an inferior product at a higher price — and is always slower to respond to market changes. Do we really want government providing our Internet service? Government-run health care hasn't worked so well, so why would we promote government-run Internet?
Phillip Dampier: Corporate talking point nonsense regurgitated by Mr. Lopez isn't for the good of anyone.
Lopez's claim that only private providers are good at identifying what customers want falls to pieces when we're talking about AT&T and Comcast. Public utility EPB was the first to deliver gigabit fiber to the home service in Chattanooga, first to deliver honest everyday pricing, still offers unlimited service without data caps and usage billing that customers despise, and has a customer approval and reliability rating Comcast and AT&T can only dream about.
Do the people of Chattanooga want "the government" (EPB is actually a public utility) to provide Internet service? Apparently so. Last fall, EPB achieved the status of being the #1 telecom provider in Chattanooga, with nearly half of all households EPB serves signed up for at least one EPB service — TV, broadband, or phone service. Comcast used to be #1 until real competition arrived. That "paragon of virtue's" biggest private sector innovation of late? Rolling out its 300GB usage cap (with overlimit fees) in Chattanooga. That's the same cap that inspired more than 13,000 Americans to file written complaints with the FCC about Comcast's broadband pricing practices. EPB advertises no such data caps and has delivered the service residents actually want. Lopez calls that "hurting competition in our state and putting vital services at risk."
Remarkably, other so-called "small government" advocates (usually well-funded by the telecom industry) immediately began beating a drum for Big Government protectionism to stop EPB by pushing for a state law to ban or restrict publicly owned networks.
Lopez appears to be on board:
Our Legislature considered a bill this session that would repeal a state municipal broadband law that prohibits government-owned networks from expanding across their municipal borders. Thankfully, it failed in the House Business and Utilities Subcommittee, but it will undoubtedly be back again in future legislative sessions. The legislation is troubling because it will harm taxpayers and stifle private-sector competition and innovation.
Or more accurately, it will make sure Comcast and AT&T can ram usage caps and higher prices for worse service down the throats of Tennessee customers.
EPB's broadband pricing. Higher discounts possible with bundling.
Lopez also plays fast and loose with the truth suggesting the Obama Administration handed EPB a $111.7 million federal grant to compete with Comcast and AT&T. In reality, that grant was for EPB to build a smart grid for its electricity network. That fiber-based grid is estimated to have avoided 124.7 million customer minutes of interruptions by better detection of power faults and better methods of rerouting power to restore service more quickly than in the past.
EPB provides municipal power, broadband, television, and telephone service for residents in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Public utilities can run smart grids and not sell television, broadband, and phone service, leaving that fiber network underutilized. EPB decided it could put that network to good use, and a recent study by University of Tennessee economist Bento Lobo found EPB's fiber services helped generate between 2,800 and 5,200 new jobs and added $865.3 million to $1.3 billion to the local economy. That translates into $2,832-$3,762 per Hamilton County resident. That's quite a return on a $111.7 million investment that was originally intended just to help keep the lights on.
So EPB's presence in Chattanooga has not harmed taxpayers and has not driven either of its two largest competitors out of the city.
Lopez then wanders into an equally ridiculous premise – that minority communities want mobile Internet access, not the fiber to the home service EPB offers:
Not all consumers access the Internet the same way. According to the Pew Research Center, Hispanics and African-Americans are more likely to rely on mobile broadband than traditional wire-line service. Indeed, minority communities are even more likely than the population as a whole to use their smartphones to apply for jobs online.
[…] Additionally, just like people are getting rid of basic at-home telephone service, Americans, especially minorities, are getting rid of at-home broadband. In 2013, 70 percent of Americans had broadband at home. Just two years later, only 67 percent did. The decline was true across almost the entire demographic board, regardless of race, income category, education level or location. Indeed, in 2013, 16 percent of Hispanics said they relied only on their smartphones for Internet access, and by 2015 that figure was up to 23 percent.
That drop in at-home broadband isn't because fewer Americans have access to wireless broadband, it's because more are moving to a wireless-only model. The bureaucracy of government has trouble adapting to changes like these, which is why government-owned broadband systems are often technologically out of date before they're finished.
But Lopez ignores a key finding of Pew's research:
In some form, cost is the chief reason that non-adopters cite when permitted to identify more than one reason they do not have a home high-speed subscription. Overall, 66% of non-adopters point toward either the monthly service fee or the cost of the computer as a barrier to adoption.
So it isn't that customers want to exclusively access Internet services over a smartphone, they don't have much of a choice at the prices providers like Comcast and AT&T charge. Wireless-only broadband is also typically usage capped and so expensive that average families with both wired broadband and a smartphone still do most of their data-intensive usage from home or over Wi-Fi to protect their usage allowance.
EPB runs a true fiber to the home network, Comcast runs a hybrid fiber-coax network, and AT&T mostly relies on a hybrid fiber-copper phone wire network. Comcast and AT&T are technically out of date, not EPB.
Not one of Lopez's arguments has withstood the scrutiny of checking his claims against the facts, and here is another fact-finding failure on his part:
Top EPB officials argue that residents in Bradley County are clambering for EPB-offered Internet service, but the truth is Bradley County is already served by multiple private Internet service providers. Indeed, statewide only 215,000 Tennesseans, or approximately 4 percent, don't have broadband access. We must find ways to address the needs of those residents, but that's not what this bill would do. This bill would promote government providers over private providers, harming taxpayers and consumers along the way.
Outlined section shows Bradley County, Tenn., east of Chattanooga.
The Chattanoogan reported it far differently, talking with residents and local elected officials on the ground in the broadband-challenged county:
The legislation would remove territorial restrictions and provide the clearest path possible for EPB to serve customers and for customers to receive high-speed internet.
State Rep. Dan Howell, the former executive assistant to the county mayor of Bradley County, was in attendance and called broadband a "necessity" as he offered his full support to helping EPB, as did Tennessee State Senator Todd Gardenhire.
"We can finally get something done," Senator Gardenhire said. "The major carriers, Charter, Comcast and AT&T, have an exclusive right to the area and they haven't done anything about it."
So while EPB's proposed expansion threatened Comcast and AT&T sufficiently to bring out their lobbyists demanding a ban on such expansions in the state legislature, neither company has specific plans to offer service to unserved locations in the area. Only EPB has shown interest in expansion, and without taxpayer funds.
The facts just don't tell the same story Lopez, AT&T, and Comcast tell and would like you to believe. EPB has demonstrated it is the best provider in Chattanooga, provides service customers want at a fair price, and represents the interests of the community, not Wall Street and investors Comcast and AT&T listen to almost exclusively. Lopez would do a better job for his group's membership by telling the truth and not redistributing stale, disproven Big Telecom talking points.


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Q: Android 2.2 app on HTC Hero running Android 1.5 I have an application developed using Android 2.2 SDK. Can i port it on HTC Hero running Android 1.5?
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A: In theory yes, but you haven't given us enough information.  Most of the API is largely the same so it may work simply by changing the "target" to whatever the 1.5 API level is.  But it also may require hours upon hours of work if it relies heavily on API calls that are new to any version of Android after 1.5.  It depends entirely on what the application does and how it does it.
We simply don't have enough information to give you an answer that is worth anything.
My suggestion would be to just change the compile target to Android 1.5 (I think the API level is 3...but I'm not sure) and see what happens.  You can then go about fixing the errors that are reported.  I would suggest looking through the errors though to make sure it isn't some fundamental problem with the calls you're using.


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Did Yung Joc and Khadiyah have a baby?
Their son, King Cairo Stevenson, was born on Oct. 16 that same year. The two got engaged two months later, but things weren't as happy as they seemed because Tyga broke off the engagement in August. The two are trying to keep things amicable for the sake of their son.
How much does YUNG JOC pay in child support?
"We came up with an agreement: I was paying $2000 a month, I would take care of all his medical issues, expenses, extracurricular activities, anything to do with my son. And that was the agreement, and I never missed a payment."
Did Jasmine and Kirk have baby?
The issues reached a new level when a mistress of Kirk's, Jasmine Washington, gave birth to his child. Kirk and Rasheeda separated for a period of time but they ultimately ended up getting back together.
Is Kirk really the father of Jasmine's baby?
"Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta" actress Jasmine Washington confirmed to fans that her former love interest Kirk Frost still sees their 2-year-old son. Kirk, 49, took a paternity test which confirmed that he was indeed the father of Washington's son Kannon.
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Taking What Comes: The Ever Adaptable Warren Pulley
Children of military members transferred from station to station through highly mobile childhoods often reflect on the difficulties presented by such a migratory early life. Problems of resistance to change, feelings of rootlessness, hesitation to commit to friendships they fear will be gone with the parent's next duty transfer.
Boxer & Gerson Associate Attorney Warren Pulley, son of a career naval chief, reports no such feelings.
Born in the naval town of Annapolis, Maryland, Pulley went to 10 different schools before he graduated from high school in San Diego. That was his father's last stop on a 25-year career, where he then retired during his youngest son's senior year. (Pulley has an older brother and sister and a younger sister.) The multiple youthful locales (Maryland, Florida, South Carolina, California) left Pulley with no scars, psychic or otherwise, he reports. "Mostly, I just learned to make the best of every situation, and adapt to what is in front of me."
That skill set seems to have served him well throughout his life, including a legal career that now sees him solidly rooted with his third firm over three decades.
Braving an Annapolis winter
Pulley joined Boxer & Gerson on New Year's Day, 2016, an occasion he marked by leaving the football games to others while he came into the firm's home office at a nearly deserted Ogawa Plaza in Oakland to get himself oriented to his new post. The day before, he officially ended his 15-year partnership in the well-regarded Pulley & Cohen, a workers' compensation firm working the defense side of the table, where he occasionally squared off against Boxer & Gerson attorneys.
Those attorneys had long noted Pulley's preparation and work ethic, and the workers' comp community being small and collegial as it is, they would sometimes only half-jokingly tell him over lunch or a chance meeting at the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, "You should come over to our side."
Pulley, however, was secure as a founder of his own firm who had been named the State Bar Workers' Compensation Defense Attorney of the Year in 2012. Having carved out a reputation and huge swath of business for his firm with school districts and other public agencies by winning a landmark 2008 case, he would not have been considered ripe for being lured away.
So for years, Boxer & Gerson attorneys mostly limited their invitations to occasional banter.
What they weren't so much aware of was Pulley's growing unease with defending against workers' comp claims from individuals he could clearly see were not in the best of circumstances. And then there were the administrative burdens of running a small firm with some half dozen or so attorneys.
I had all the headaches of running a business, but I really just wanted to be an attorney.
"I was carrying a full caseload but also dealing with employee benefits, which health insurance to go with, payroll services, 401K programs, you name it," he says. "I had all the headaches of running a business, but I really just wanted to be an attorney."
Cue forward to a day when Pulley was enjoying a lunch with Boxer & Gerson Partners Gary Lee and Julius Young, the talk momentarily turning again to how Pulley should consider swinging over to the applicant side. Instead of the usual demurrals, Pulley remembers asking, "So O.K.—what would that look like? Let's talk about this."
Eyebrows shot up.
"I think I kind of shocked them," Pulley chuckles. "But we talked some, then I went to visit John Harrigan (managing partner at the time) to see what it would take. The firm was very accommodating. After a meeting with my partner Marc Cohen, we hammered out the details of our split and left on good terms."
Diploma time, USF, 1986
It's not that Pulley grew up with visions of prowling a courtroom stirring his imagination. His earliest career goal followed from a part-time job in high school job assisting a San Diego dentist in whatever needed doing around the office and adjacent lab.
"I didn't like dentistry all that much; I just liked the dentist I worked for," he remembers. "He was a cool dude, so when I graduated from high school and headed north to USF, I decided to major in biology and then go to dental school."
Things were proceeding on that track when Pulley came to a revelation in his senior year: "I realized I didn't like science all that much."
Knowing that would pose something of a problem through dental school and a subsequent career in the field, he began considering alternatives. Then something else appeared in front of him: a casual group conversation with other students discussing post-graduate plans.
"One guy said he was going to law school. I thought to myself, 'Hey, that sounds fine.' I'd had an English teacher who really encouraged my writing, and I knew there would be plenty of that in the law."
So within a few figurative blinks of an eye, he started applying to law schools near and far, with Creighton University in Nebraska, a noted Jesuit school like USF, offering him a scholarship package that was "just too good to pass up."
With Julius Young
As it happened, he had also grown to like San Francisco just fine during his undergrad years, so during his second year of law school be began searching for internship opportunities in the Bay Area. He landed one with Mullen & Fillippi, a large national firm specializing in worker's compensation defense, with an office in San Francisco.
A year later, law degree in hand, he accepted a job offer from the firm, contingent upon his passing the bar exam, which he did a few months later.
Pulley stayed just over a decade with the firm, ascending to associate partner after only two years, senior partner after five, and crossing the bay to help open the firm's Oakland office in 1995. By the time the new millennium came around, however, he and his colleague Marc Cohen saw no reason why they shouldn't hang a shingle bearing their names and explore the merits of running their own firm.
The rest is the history that eventually led Pulley to Boxer & Gerson.
At law school graduation, having spent more time in the library than the gym; he subsequently lost 100 pounds via diet and exercise
"I tell people I didn't find workers' comp—workers' comp found me," Pulley muses during an interview from his office where he usually spends at least a part of most Saturdays trying to clear his desk and keep up with the 200+ cases on his docket at any given time.
"What I did find is that I had a passion for the law. And one of the great things about being on the applicant side is that when you're working for the defense, you might touch five files in a day. But here, I can dip in and out of 20 files a day. I like being busy."
Once he does manage to look up from those files, Pulley can often be found prowling music stores to feed an acknowledged weakness for adding to his ever-growing CD collection. (Fellow music aficionados may be sympathetic to his continuing grief over the closure of the Tower Records store on Bay and Columbus, a San Francisco fixture from 1968-2006, where Pulley was known to spend many a Friday evening.)
He collects across all genres, he says, though more of it is shaded toward '80s and '90s R&B, hip hop, and new wave. He was pleased recently to be alighting for a Janet Jackson concert at the Warriors' new arena in San Francisco after his Saturday stint at the office.
"Boxer & Gerson is a much more collegial environment than I have ever experienced before," he relates. "My door here is always open, and I enjoy the atmosphere of being able to discuss different strategies in handling a case. It's nice to be talking about those things rather than having employees walk in to complain about someone else having a bigger desk. It adds up to this being a very cool gig."
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NORTH STONINGTON -- Connecticut state police have arrested two men and are looking for a third in connection with the shooting of two cows at a North Stonington farm.
Troopers charged Max Urso, 18, of North Stonington on Tuesday with cruelty to animals and other crimes. Henry Williamson, 21, of Stonington was charged with hindering prosecution and making a false statement to authorities.
State police say they're also seeking Todd Caswell, 23, of North Stonington on animal cruelty and other charges.
The two cows were shot last month at the Palmer family's dairy farm. One cow had to be euthanized and the other is expected to survive.
It's not clear if the three men have lawyers. Urso and Williamson are detained on bond pending arraignments Wednesday in New London Superior Court.


Last week, our paper on robust regression was presented at ECCV'18 in Munich . This paper presents a methodological framework for robust regression combining the representation power of deep architectures with the outlier detection capabilities of probabilistic models, in particular of a Gaussian-Uniform mixture (GUM). I am really proud of this piece of work that humbly contributes to science at the cross-roads of machine learning, pattern recognition and computer vision. The code will soon be available at https://github.com/Stephlat.
Abstract:In this paper we address the problem of how to robustly train a ConvNet for regression, or deep robust regression. Traditionally, deep regression employ the L2 loss function, known to be sensitive to outliers, i.e. samples that either lie at an abnormal distance away from the majority of the training samples, or that correspond to wrongly annotated targets. This means that, during back-propagation, outliers may bias the training process due to the high magnitude of their gradient. In this paper, we propose DeepGUM: a deep regression model that is robust to outliers thanks to the use of a Gaussian-uniform mixture model. We derive an optimization algorithm that alternates between the unsupervised detection of outliers using expectation-maximization, and the supervised training with cleaned samples using stochastic gradient descent. DeepGUM is able to adapt to a continuously evolving outlier distribution, avoiding to manually impose any threshold on the proportion of outliers in the training set. Extensive experimental evaluations on four different tasks (facial and fashion landmark detection, age and head pose estimation) lead us to conclude that our novel robust technique provides reliability in the presence of various types of noise and protection against a high percentage of outliers.


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Steakhouse traditional with lost of beef, poultry, and seafood options.
Not bad but certainly not as good as you'd expect at these prices.
Pricey but not the most expensive steakhouse on The Strip.
Go late and maybe the crowded layout will ease a bit.
There are better steakhouses in Vegas.
Steakhouses are a dime a dozen in Las Vegas so my opinion is that if you want to stand out above the crowd you have to do something different or do the same thing better than anyone else. Gallagher's at New York-New York does neither, but that doesn't necessarily make it a bad place to eat.
The menu is steakhouse traditional with a selection of beef, poultry, and seafood options accompanying the typical appetizers (mostly seafood based), salads, soups, and side dishes. The steaks we sampled were really good, done exactly as we had ordered them and full of flavor. But these are just regular steaks – the kind you enjoy but forget about an hour after you ate them. It's the difference between telling the neighbors "We had a good meal last night" and "We had the most amazing meal last night" if that makes any sense at all.
And that would okay if the prices weren't so high. This is the kind of place where you're looking at least $75 per person once you add in tax, tip, and extras.
But the biggest disappointment still remains the dining room. Granted, you could call it lively but I just called it loud, making conversation in the jam packed restaurant nearly impossible. And by jam-packed I mean waiters bumping into the chairs because there isn't enough space for them to maneuver type of jam-packed. I wish I had requested a table in the overflow room, which looked more spacious and less noisy.
If you like steak and you're at the hotel and you either can't or don't feel like going someplace else, you can eat at Gallagher's and have a really good meal. Just not a great one.


OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma City Blue (34-16) caught fire from the three-point line to defeat the Austin Spurs (20-30), 138-107, on Saturday night, tying the best regular-season record in franchise history.
Oklahoma City's three-point shooting heated up in the second half, with 10 makes, including two apiece for two-way player Donte Grantham, Devon Hall and Justin Leon. The Blue finished with 19 three-point field goals, a season high, en route to its second-highest point total in a game this year.
"That was a great win," Head Coach Mark Daigneault said. "I thought we showed a lot of mental toughness on the back-to-back and went out and played a pretty complete 48-minute game on both ends of the floor. I'm really happy with our regular season, and our team is looking forward to our opportunity in the playoffs."
The Blue held a seven-point lead after the first quarter, but the Spurs opened the second quarter on a 9-2 run, with a three-point basket from Travis Bader tying the game at 35-all. Oklahoma City's Kevin Hervey responded with seven points in the quarter, as the Blue took a 69-56 lead into the locker room at halftime.
Oklahoma City's playoff matchup will be announced at a later date.


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