DuPage DUI, Room 4015, Case Dismissed Before Trial.
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At hearing, the officer testifed that he smelled a strong smell of alcohol from my client's breath, that my client had blood-shot and glassy eyes and that my client admitted to consuming alcohol earlier in the day. I crossed examined the officer and the Dupage County Sheriff's inexperience really shined through. He admitted that there are other non-alcohol drinks and foods that make someone breath smell like alcohol, that he cannot tell how much alcohol a person consumed by the smell of his breath and that red and blood-shot eyes could be the result of many other reasons other than consuming alcohol, (i.e., contact lenses, staying up late, crying, etc.).
The DuPage County Judge ruled that a reasonable police officer would not have made the arrest based upon the evidence and that the DuPage County Sheriff had was wrong in making the arrest. The Judge ruled that all of the state's evidence was supressed and the DuPage County State's Attorney's Office dismissed the case.


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Posted on October 9, 2016 | 41 Comments
As I mentioned earlier, some denier comments were submitted to the post about Extreme Denial. This blog isn't about spreading denier claims, it's about exposing them, so their comments will get exactly the focus they deserve.
First up was "Owen Suppes," who said:
What is a climate denier. Most deniers I encounter agree the world is warming as well carbons radiative forcing contributes to a warming trend. But where we deniers differ from the CAGW crowd; context. The writer offers us a picture displaying a modern warming, when the pictures takes in a longer view we discover two similar warming events within the same century. The dramatic picture once contextualized looses it's flare. CAGW is tenuous hypothesis at best, losing ground to empirical evidence.
First things first: Mr. Suppes is changing the subject. The post was about how deniers so often pick an extreme as their starting point and leave out the context of what came before so they can misrepresent the underlying trend.
It's worth emphasizing one of the key methods for spotting denier bullshit: that when it's exposed, what they most want to do is change the subject.
He also implies that I left out the early 20th century to conceal a "similar warming event." The reason I started with 1950 is that in the model for exogenous factors I quantified the el Niño effect using the Multivariate el Niño Index (MEI), and those data start at 1950. The MEI has been extended further back, but the "standard" MEI doesn't predate 1950, so that's when I started.
Mr. Suppes tried to pull the wool over your eyes with his talk of a "similar warming event." Let's take a look (some of the "context" he claims deniers are famous for when their specialty is being out of context). Here's NASA temperature data since 1880, which certainly includes the century he flaunts:
We can reduce the noise, and we don't even have to model exogenous factors (like el Niño, volcanic eruptions, and solar variations) to do so, all we have to do is smooth the data — reducing the noise influence is what that does. I'll use two methods: a lowess smooth, and a piecewise-linear model based on changepoint analysis. Together they'll show what we can actually know with confidence about what the trend has been doing, and they look like this:
Let's focus on the trend, by plotting just the smooths:
Notice that I've labelled the two warming "events" since 1900, which Mr. Suppes claims are "similar." How similar are they?
The first, using the piece-wise linear fit, goes from a low of -0.348°C up to +0.012°C, for a net rise of 0.36°C, while according to the lowess smooth ranges from a low of -0.344°C up to +0.011°C for a net rise of 0.355°C. The second, according to the piecewise-linear fit goes from -0.046°C to +0.806°C for a net increase of 0.852°C, according to the lowess smooth from -0.049°C to 0.826°C for a net increase of 0.875°C.
Not only has the second episode shown a net increase 236% or 246% bigger than the first, it has also lasted longer, at least 45 years, some 60% longer. No, sir, they are not "similar" in the sense you imply, despite both being warming episodes.
Perhaps Mr. Suppes thinks he's surprising us with his claim. He's not; we've heard it before many, many times (that's the way zombie arguments are). The only "surprise" is that he and so many of his fellow deniers expect us to believe that a previous warming event, one which is less that half as big as the ongoing one (the one that's not done yet), somehow makes climate science wrong.
True irony about the whole thing is that Mr. Suppes responds to a post which is, among other things, about deniers leaving out context (when they claim "no global warming for XX years), by claiming that his fellow deniers are paragons of context.
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41 responses to "Zombies"
Matthias U | October 9, 2016 at 10:38 pm |
Do we know why the "first event" sopped (temporarily)?
[Response: The likely cause is the dramatic increase in sulfate emissions from industrial activity following world war II.]
Andy Skuce | October 9, 2016 at 11:24 pm |
In the (not-yet-peer-reviewed) paper by Hansen et al, they suggest in Appendix A2 that the ~1940s temperature spike may have been exaggerated by artefacts from measurements in the oceans of the S Hemisphere during the war.
http://www.earth-syst-dynam-discuss.net/esd-2016-42/esd-2016-42.pdf
Timothy (likes zebras) | October 9, 2016 at 11:47 pm |
As well as sulphate emissions other factors that may have contributed are:
1. The early 20th century warming was partly due to natural factors – an increase in solar radiation and a rebound from the cooling caused by the large eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. Once these had worked there way out the earning tend would stabilise.
2. There are data discontinuities due to the effect of WWII on shipping, and consequently sea surface temperature observations. Thus there may be artifacts in the data that do not reflect real trend changes.
hypergeometric | October 11, 2016 at 1:53 pm |
There is also some suspicion that the means of measuring temperatures before "the cooling" affected reports of temperatures. This arose again later in reconciliations of the Argo float fleet. In short, ocean temperatures were often reported by measuring temperature of intake water on ships rather than CTDs and such overboard. This was convenient because otherwise there'd be a dearth of measurements in manu places. Unfortunately it also introduced a bias upwards because the intake tubes themselves, being near engine rooms, warmed the incoming water. I have never read of someone trying to recalibrate these measurements to correct for the effect now that we have Argo. I suspect it's difficult because of varying ship geometries and practices but I don't reallu know.
Mike Roberts | October 9, 2016 at 11:17 pm |
Nice one. Also the end of the first warming episode didn't see a drop back down to where that episode began. Instead, the second warming episode started at a higher level. Yet the deniers still talk about AGW being a belief. Sheesh.
barry | October 9, 2016 at 11:57 pm |
Pre-empting zombies….
AGW does not mean that each year or even each decade will be warmer than the previous one. We expect a long-term rising trend with variability.
Global warming doesn't stop weather happening. There will still be hot and cold and wet and dry days.
Yes, climate changed before the industrial revolution. You can read lots about that in the IPCC reports and in the cited papers that underpin the sections on, for example, paleoclimate.
Yes, CO2 changes lag temperature changes over ice age transitions. James Hansen (et al) predicted that before it was confirmed.
Yes, climate scientists have noticed the sun/water vapour/clouds/galactic cosmic rays/ocean-atmosphere oscillating systems, and yes, their relative influence is discussed in the IPCC reports.
Like global temperature, Arctic sea ice fluctuates year to year, but the overall trend is in the direction of warming. It 'recovers' every Winter, thanks for your interest.
Yes, climate models include oceans, clouds and convection.
They didn't change "global warming" to "climate change" because of the pause or any of the mocked-up reasons. Hint: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was inaugurated in 1988.
….. etc.
Tadaaa | October 10, 2016 at 5:56 pm |
that very same point came up in a comment thread at the guardian just the other day
and I replied with that point re the IPCC too – plus included several 1970's papers all relating to "Climate Change" in my response
even the standard of denial seems to be getting worse – I mean just how easy is it too check these facts – ffs !!!!!!
these people must need velcro to do up their shoes in the morning, and elasticated waist trousers – jeez
Torsten | October 11, 2016 at 3:26 am |
IIRC, there is a reference to "climate change" in a paper from the 1930's, but I cannot find it at present. Peter Sinclair showed it in one of his Climate Crock videos some years ago.
But extending your list of references back a bit further, we have the November 1965 "Report of the Environmental Pollution Panel President's Science Advisory Committee". They wrote of "climatic change", discussed "possible effects of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide on climate", and noted that "atmospheric warming between 1885 and 1940 was a world-wide phenomenon". I did not see them use the term "global warming". The relevant pages are in this PDF:
https://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/Caldeira%20downloads/PSAC,%201965,%20Restoring%20the%20Quality%20of%20Our%20Environment.pdf
They conclude that "climatic 'noise' from other processes has at least partially masked any effect on climate due to past increases in atmospheric CO2 content" for the period between 1940 and 1960. It's really interesting reading.
jgnfld | October 13, 2016 at 12:43 pm |
Well there's also Broecker's 1975 paper which certainly predates the current name change conspiracy dates.
http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/files/2009/10/broeckerglobalwarming75.pdf
kinimod | October 10, 2016 at 1:01 am |
First, second, third episode . . . the physics doesn't change because one episode more or less. Well, you could say "if you cannot explain this increase and decrease, may be your model is not as good as you say it is" – which has a point. AFAIK the increase / decrease / increase has been mirrored in the models. See e.g. http://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-models-intermediate.htm . And even if not, the basic understanding of the forcing by higher CO2-levels should give us a feeling for what are primary and more secondary effects, and all the wobbles around the general trend appear as of latter kind.
OTOH, is it really so important to debunk each and every denier for the umpteenth time?
Mal Adapted | October 10, 2016 at 6:14 pm |
Out of curiosity, when was the last time any of you encountered an argument against the AGW consensus that you hadn't heard before?
Mike Roberts | October 10, 2016 at 8:38 pm |
It's been a while. I think the last argument that was new to me was that paper a few years ago that offered the reason for warming was a rebound from the last ice age. The paper found that temp always rises after an ice age! That got published, amazingly, but at least it doesn't seem to have become a common argument by deniers.
barry | October 10, 2016 at 9:51 pm |
I've read some new detail going down the rabbit hole with sky-dragon slayers over the last few months, but that's only detail. The general contention – there is no greenhouse effect – is years old to my knowledge. To his credit, Spencer has been trying to correct these people.
alanC | October 11, 2016 at 11:02 am |
That is an odd interesting question. Let me first start by asking the alternate question, have you ever heard an argument against the position of the AGW consensus. If so what was it? Where "argument" requires some level of lets say sanity or better yet evidence that actually rather than is merely purported to support it.Trumps recent "its a Chinese conspiracy/hoax/plot" was new, to me, but I will be dammed if I am going to agree it was an argument. Questions about whats the actual feedback were only valid when we quite some time ago had such short time span of modern instrumental data that the error margins were large. Suggestions that something else could somehow maybe stop water vapor feedback, (The iris thing) were interesting but never crossed the hurdle of also explaining away independent lines of evidence from say the paleo data.
Thus if we don't exclude "brain farts" the last novel one of those I heard was china did/hoaxed it.
JCH | October 11, 2016 at 1:13 pm |
Ocean heat transport… imo, the only "interesting" argument they make.
Al Rodger | October 11, 2016 at 2:36 pm |
Mal Adapted,
By coincidence, it was just today @SKS @comment 338 here..
Apparently, "ALL the big volcano's since the 1600's have occured during solar maximums or solar minimums, with the ones that erupted during solar minimums bigger that the ones during maximums. pinatabo, mtst helens, krakatoa, 1991,1980, 1883 during maximums. Tambora 1815, Laki 1783 dalton and maunder mins. Tambora and Laki were so powerful that they created freezing summers.
So the warming probably isn't 'that' abnormal, it isn't 'that' much-considering the weather and seasons are currently stable, crop production the past few decades has been stellar and food is cheap. There hasn't been a big volcano for a while- a few years from now they probably start going off due to solar minimums.. and the warming is erased. There's no reason to think the greenhouse gas effect is so powerful that it can make warming continue despite such powerful forces."
(It appears the "minimums" refer to the likes of the Maunder & Dalton mins, and the "maximums" refer to the high solar output of, for instance, the late 20th century, so not the max/mins of the 11-year cycle.)
Mind this twaddle was wholly at odds with the rest of this denier's arguments he had previously been presenting. I suppose there may be some merit in bash off on any misguided nonsense that comes to mind, however crazy – if you do it enough, you might just eventually strike lucky and overturn that curséd science underpinning AGW. Why not, if you know you are right!!!
Doc Snow | October 11, 2016 at 8:11 pm |
There's no reason to think the greenhouse gas effect is so powerful that it can make warming continue despite such powerful forces.
Wave those hands fast enough and you can create a powerful cooling breeze…
Jim Eager | October 11, 2016 at 10:28 pm |
"mtst helens" wasn't a "big volcano" by any stretch of the definition. Twaddle is a perfect description for that pink nonsense.
Doc Snow | October 12, 2016 at 3:02 am |
Fair enough. But which is funnier–the idea that solar minima cause more powerful volcanic eruptions, the idea that food prices form a good proxy for multi-decadal warming, or just the spelling "pinatabo", which, unaccountably, I find quite delightful?
Al Rodger | October 12, 2016 at 8:34 am |
Jim Eager,
You actually can stretch the definition "big volcano" quite easily to include Mt St Helens but size is not the whole story.
If you rate volcanoes purely on size (see Wikithing) Mt St Helens (1980) wasn't one of the biggest volcanoes like Pinatubo (with a VEI of 6 or more) but it was big (VEI=5) as was El Chi'chon (1982) or Mt Agung (1963).
But while these last two feature in the climate record, Mt St Helens did not because it isn't close
Jim Eager | October 12, 2016 at 2:39 pm |
"but size is not the whole story"
Indeed, Al, but the difference between VEI 5 and 6 is a factor of 10. And then there's location, location, location. Mt St Helens sits at 46° north, more than half way to the pole, while Mt Pinatubo is at 15° north, El Chi'chon at 17° north, Mt Agung at 8° south. Mt St Helens simply wasn't in the same league. It isn't even detectable in the global climate record.
Thank you. You did manage to reconstruct/second-guess much of what disappeared from my truncated comment above.
I would add that some do say the eruptions closer to the poles have more effect on climate because of the tropopause being lower with increasing latitude. Myself, I don't see any evidence pointing to that but rather that it is tropical volcanoes appearing more influential.
As you indicate, the VEI index is logarithmic. While it is SO2 specifically that does the business, I don't see any reason for not considering VEI as a useful indicator of SO2. Also El Chi'chon appears to have been a big VEI-5 while St Helens appears a small VEI-5.
As for size being less than the whole story, I see reports of the SO2 emissions showing Pinatubo 3x bigger than El Chi'chon which was itself 3x bigger than St Helens. This 3-to-1 Pinatubo/El Chi'chon ratiois however not particularly reflected in the climate wobbles which suggests to me that the relative size of St Helens would likely not be the sole reason for there being no St Helens climate wobble in 1980.
And just to put this all in context, I am in full agreement that "Twaddle is a perfect description for that pink nonsense."
Tadaaa | October 12, 2016 at 9:23 am |
I actually developed my own a few years (when my knowledge of the science was a big fat zero)
it was based on the potential amount of methane produced by the now extinct north American bison herd – that apparently was a thousand times larger than it is today
it was a simple case of the DK effect
as soon as I actually engaged with the science I realised I was talking cr$p
"talking" is a figure of speech btw – I just thought it
numerobis | October 13, 2016 at 11:42 pm |
The new ones I've heard this year are:
1. It's a hoax from China trying to gain competitive advantage.
2. The sun will engulf the Earth a few billion years from now, so why worry.
I've noticed an increase in the number of statements made that are clearly, obviously wrong even to the completely oblivious — such as claiming that it hasn't warmed in 15 years.
Mal Adapted | October 14, 2016 at 11:50 pm |
Sure, and the Universe is expanding. Soi disant skeptics still have to do their homework.
Olof R | October 10, 2016 at 8:28 pm |
The two temperature rise events are not comparable.
The second rise starts from a 0.3 C higher temperature, and has to begin with a 1.1 W/m2 larger radiation loss to fight against, according to Stefan-Boltzmanns law. And then it goes much higher..
I don't know if it is a good analog, but it is much easier to climb the first 3000 vertical meters of Mount Everest than the last 5848 m.
Gaz | October 10, 2016 at 11:17 pm |
PS I think you mean "of" rather than "bigger than" in the part comparing the changes in temperature during the events.
I feel there is a certain need to address the "two similar warming events within the same century" as attribution for the first of these isn't straightforward.
The need is driven by the space that is provided to denialist nutters if it isn't addressed. It gives license to the likes of, say, Wu et al (2011) (graphic of the findings here) or more grubbily Tung & Zhou (2013) (graphic of their findings here) the latter certainly overstepping the mark. The argument in both these cases is that there is an AMO signal underlying the global temperature data and thus reducing the size of AGW temperature signal.
Tung & Zhou are guilty of fiddling the ends of their wobbles and (along with Wu et al) ignore the impossible climate that would have to underlie the theoretical wobbles they argue for. What MLR does show is that there has been no sign of a wobble since 1960, a period of 56 years now. If MLR could be used for periods before 1950, it would allow the size and duration of the early 20th century attribution-problem to be demonstrated. This would likely narrow it enough to prevent dodgy analyses like Tung & Zhou from getting a denialist foot in the door of the climate literature.
Jeff Baranchok | October 11, 2016 at 6:07 pm |
Well anyway, temperature increase should be viewed properly in comparison with ln(ppm CO2) and not as a function of time. Compared with ln(CO2) or even ppm CO2, it becomes a "noisy" but single process or "event", more or less a straight (if fat) line from 1850 to present.
Ken Fabian | October 12, 2016 at 4:41 am |
I think climate science denial is rarely about climate science, it's about the economic consequences that come from accepting responsiblity for this climate change. The simplest, most all encompassing means to avoid the near term costs of remaking our energy systems in response to climate change responsibility is to deny the validity of the science that it's based on. Next 'best' is economic alarmism – persuading people that we'll all be economically rooned by attempts to do such remaking – except I think the economic alarmism is the foundation that mainstream, high level support for climate science denial is built on – mostly via the influence of commerce and industry; upward influence on politicians and political decision making and downward via heightening employment uncertainty.
Economic fears have greater immediate impact on our decisionmakers than Environmental ones – only the climate problem is as much a serious long term economic and security one as it is Environmental; but the immediate economic consequences are in mitigation, and pre-emptive action is too widely seen as something optional, that the well honed tools of political influence can be used to prevent.
Bernard J. | October 12, 2016 at 5:23 am |
I know that many above, including Tamino, have effectively said the same thing, but it's worth reiterating… even if one accepts the initial premise of non-'greenhouse' gas warming events being completely (or mostly) responsible for the contemporary trajectory, the Denialati have not produced any evidence for countering cooling events of similar duration and temperature magnitude.
Without consistently-occurring and countering "cooling events", the existence of "warming events" becomes not an issue of mere noise in a centuries- and indeed a millennia-long temperature record, but one of support for the physical theories of 'greenhouse' gases, theories that underpin the existent of human-caused global warming. The "warming events" collectively become an entirely more overarching warming event…
Owen Suppes' own stance destroys his argument before it even starts.
cunudiun | October 12, 2016 at 11:35 pm |
Monckton and Soon,writing in Breitbart, in a masterful display of statistical contortionism go back to 1860 and find three events, all in support of Donald Drumpf.
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/12/monckton-soon-clinton-gore-u-n-profiteers-doom-vs-donald-trump-prophet-freedom/
WARNING: Not for weak stomachs. Comments section as well, particularly those from Gordon J. Fulks, world's stupidest PhD (Physics).
Monckton and Soon,writing in Breitbart
Wow. Crank magnetism is approaching the singularity.
If course, with Soon & Monckton repeating their claim made "some years ago, during testimony to the GOP caucus on a House global-warming committee before the full meeting" in which ;one of them' (it doesn't matter which apparently) "displayed this graph from the Fourth Assessment Report of the UN's climate panel, the IPCC," a graph that had been marked up with some hand drawn lines allegedly showing "that from 1860-1880 as well as from 1910-1940 the rate of global warming was the same as from 1980-2005" and so disproving that AGW: the repeating of this claim allows a more grown-up analysis also to be repeated.
If you happen to calculate the trends in temperature for the periods these perverts have cherry-picked (& here I use HadCRUT4, the current version of the data used by IPCC AR4), the trends for the period they cherry-pick (1860-80 +0.11ºC/decade, 1910-40 +0.13ºC) actually lie outside the statistical confidence interal for the trend within their chosen exemplar period of recent AGW (1980-2005) which is +0.193ºC/decade (+0.144ºC to +0.241ºC to 2sd).
So these two perverts are in truth rather inept perverts.
I'm not sure this should come as any surprise. Both Soon & Monckton have long since insisted on a perverse reality which wholly lies outside the confidence interval of any right-thinking person. And those who are minded to give such perverts encouragement by giving them the means to practise their perversion are presumably also complicit in the perverting of reality.
Doc Snow | October 13, 2016 at 12:17 am |
An interesting sidelight on denialism, and how it becomes self-defeating:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/12/media/donald-trump-polls/
You can't correct if you don't believe the instruments.
"You can't correct if you don't believe the instruments"
worryingly this was the cause of the Air France Flight 447 crash into the Atlantic
the pilots simply did not believe what the instalments were telling them
numerobis | October 14, 2016 at 12:30 am |
More complicated than that:
1. An instrument failed.
2. A co-pilot panicked, and pulled back.
3. The other pilots were not aware of the control input.
4. The instruments were tripping sanity checks and turning off.
5. The pilots had only a few minutes to work this out.
The captain learned the one pilot was pulling back near the end. At that point it was too late to recover from the stall. Had they worked it out, recovery would have been straightforward.
There isn't much analogy to the global warming problem. Our instruments are working properly, they're well calibrated, they're telling us a coherent story, and we've had decades to figure it out. Recovery requires a lot of pain.
Chris O'Neill | October 14, 2016 at 3:34 am |
The pilots assumed the instruments were faulty on Air Transat Flight 236 too. When they got a warning they could at least partly understand (fuel imbalance), they followed standard procedure (move fuel to the low tank) which was an abject mistake (they moved fuel toward the large leak). They didn't realise their mistake until after the plane had completely run out of fuel.
Luckily they set the record for the longest glide by a passenger jet in history.
Strategic incompetence combined with tactical (flying) brilliance.
Ric Merritt | October 13, 2016 at 5:23 pm |
As barry pointed out above, "AGW does not mean that each year or even each decade will be warmer than the previous one." However, the record since the 1970's is indeed each decade warmer than the previous. And as Tamino said, we haven't seen the end of this yet. Although this is a site for people able to deal with at least a few technical bits, something close to Tamino's point in this post can be conveyed with simply one surface temp data point per calendar decade, e.g. 2010 – 2019. Just about anybody can understand a period average. This also has the advantage of smoothing the much-mooted pause/slowdown. If it isn't obvious decade by decade, then it doesn't mean much for the century, does it? For quite a while, I used to offer bets on these decadal averages, with escalating amounts for comparisons over longer periods, but strangely enough I never got any takers, although the other side of the bet always *seemed* well represented in blog comments. I guess money doesn't always follow mouths very closely. Regardless, I still think that that small collection of data points constitutes the best reference when talking to those who do not frequent sites like this one, with also a glance at sea level rise. As opposed to the Joe Romm style of squawking about each wiggle, which just invites squawks that sound roughly equal and opposite.
Yes, I like the decadal mean approach, too. As you say, most people 'get' averages reasonably well.
archstanton | October 18, 2016 at 12:29 pm |
I have long grown weary of fighting zombies.
Thank you all for carrying on the good fight.

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Q: keep/copy XMP with libexif I try to add a thumbnail to a JPEG picture using libexif.
For now I'm borrowing the code from exif (the command line tool that is shipped by the libexif team).
However I noticed the XMP tags get deleted from the metadata. There is an old bugreport here.
I tried to see how to achieve this anyway with libexif but I don't really understand how to get the XMP from input file and put it in the output file. I just want to copy all XMP data, I don't need to extract anything of it.
I saw there is a TAG EXIF_TAG_XML_PACKET in exif_tag.h but couldn't figure out how to read/write this tag.
A related solution is in this SO answer but it looks complicated. I'm not familiar coding in C.
Is it actually possible to keep all XMP when using only libexif API? Have things changed in recent years on that? How would you write this in code?
Thanks

A: I believe it should be somewhat straightforward. XMP fields are described in the ISO/Adobe standard. Regular Kotlin/Java/Android file I/O and some string manipulation should be all that is required.
I would start out by becoming intimately familiar with ISO 16684-1:2019. Then, write a method for your jpeg file class that grabs all the XMP fields. Store those fields in a temp file (to prevent difficult to recover data loss in the event of your code or libexif crashing). Hand the file off to libexif. Generate the thumbnail. Finally, when that's done you can restore the XMP fields. If the thumbnail is stored in an XMP field as well (and it sounds like it is), it may be easier to concatenate that field with the other ones which were already grabbed, updating the temp file so that it contains EVERY XMP field, before adding all of the XMP fields back to the jpeg.
Unfortunately, I do not currently have the time to read a 50 page ISO standard, synthesize the information, and then write the code to implement the solution. Here's a link to the standard at least, to get you started.
https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:16684:-1:ed-2:v1:en

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Overcoming The Cycle
by U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Godfrey Ampong
Growing up in Western Kentucky, Liam Brooks learned the value of hard work and dedication from watching his parents create their American dream.
"Where I'm from, we mostly farm tobacco, corn, and beans," Brooks said. "Which is why my family was there."
Brooks's parents were both immigrants who came to America to raise their family.
"My mother is from Mexico and my father is from Eastern Europe," Brooks said. "[She and my father] both escaped poverty and came to America, hoping to seek a future; it was harder than expected. They've worked their entire lives really hard to get where they are now."
November 5, 2021 - U.S. Marine Corps Pvt. Liam Brooks, with Papa Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, with his mother after graduating from recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, SC. He decided to better himself by becoming a Marine. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Godfrey Ampong)
Brooks said his family struggled with homelessness and other hardships while growing up in Kentucky.
"I would always notice my parents coming home from work just beaten and exhausted," Brooks said. "I'd see my mother cry and my father not eat for a day, and then go back into another harsh day just so we could survive."
When Brooks was eight years old, his family lost their house due to being unable to pay for it and they were homeless for a year.
"We would go from sleeping in a car for a week to spending three days at a Super 8, or any cheap motel that they could get," Brooks said.
After a year of struggling to make ends meet, the Brooks family was able to buy a house in Mayfield, Kentucky.
"We got a small house but there were only two bedrooms [for me and my four siblings], so for most of the time it was a very cramped space," Brooks said. "My sisters got one bedroom and my parents had the other. My brothers and I would sleep in the living room."
Brooks and his family did what they could to put food on the table and make money to pay the bills. As soon as he turned twelve, Brooks began working to help support the family.
"I did whatever I could, and neighbors would pay me something down the road," Brooks said. "A family would want their yard raked. I'd do that with my brothers and I would also bring home food from school so we could eat."
In 2016 an Enhanced Fujita 3 tornado with winds up to 140 mph struck Mayfield. The tornado injured many people and destroyed homes and businesses, including the Brooks's home.
"[The tornado] flipped our house; we lost everything all over again – things that couldn't be replaced were shattered and destroyed," Brooks said. "It really hurt, after being homeless for a year then finally getting a house and then going day by day; skipping meals, working hard and then there's always that hope the next day or a week later it will be better. Then for it to all be taken away, it destroys any optimism you have."
Brooks didn't want his life to continue this way so he planned on finding a solution to a better life; after graduating high school he made the decision to join the Marine Corps.
October 21, 2021 - U.S. Marine Corps recruit Liam Brooks, with Papa Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion conducts combat training with fellow recruits at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, SC with a goal to better himself. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Godfrey Ampong)
"I first found out about the Marine Corps through my grandpa's past, then my older brother would talk about it though he never followed through with it," Brooks said. "I never thought of myself joining until one day I looked around and realized if I didn't do something to better myself I'm going to be like the people in the situation around me and continue the cycle."
With the memories of his past and circumstances Brooks pushed on to join the Marine Corps for a better life for himself and to help those around him.
"I always keep it in my mind to keep pushing because it's not for me it's for those you care about," Brooks said.
Even while in boot camp Brooks thought more of the people he was doing this for than himself. Despite the obstacles Brooks graduated recruit training and became a United States Marine.
"I thought very little of myself when I came to boot camp," Brooks said. "I didn't care how much it hurt or how much stress I was under making it on time, pushing up through shortness of breath…I didn't care, I just thought, "I can make it better for those that I left behind." So, when I go back home [to Kentucky], I can give my family something back for everything that they've given me."


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REVIEW: Super Broken Games
April 19, 2014 Tim Hurley	17 Comments
Besides a casual glance at it on the marketplace, my first experience with Super Broken Games ($1.00) came with a tweet from the always-lovely Cathy at Indie Gamer Chick, who could not play the game due to epilepsy concerns with the pulsating menu and in-game effects. After booting up the game for myself, I could understand why, but thankfully developer Feel Good Seal included an option to turn off the effects and issued a patch to fix another potential issue.
With backstory out of the way, Super Broken Games is a series of deliberately-broken minigames, with each based around a particular failed idea or controller caveat. Using varying forms to go about this (sometimes you're a snake in a maze, other times a bouncing ball, a seemingly-drunken flying ball, etc.), it all amounts to 37 ways to die and / or frustrate yourself.
Granted, a few take the legitimate approach, giving you somewhat normal controls and a straightforward objective (collect all the items, reach the exit), with numerous hazards in place. Challenging, but achievable once you've determined the correct path and gotten a handle on whatever controls you've been dealt. The vast majority, however, take a more dastardly route, flipping the schemes entirely, or adding a second snake to control, forcing you to watch two screens and babysit two characters, etc.
These minigames revel in playing the jerk, and seem to be there purely to set you off in a rage. So the obvious question would be: Why would anyone want to get pissed off playing a bunch of busted setups? I'm not sure. Maybe you're a masochist. Or maybe your parents didn't love you enough and you're living a transient lifestyle, seeking out painful experiences as a way to feel alive and fill the hole in your heart that never quite healed (…that last bit may be a stretch).
More than likely, you do it because you appreciate a good dare, which is what most of Super Broken Games feels like. Much as people choose to climb Mt. Everest because 'it's there', so too will gamers play ridiculously-hard or unfair games to prove a point to themselves or others. 'Others' might end up being the key word, as the game allows for local multiplayer up to four. Turning 'constant failure' into a party game sure beats going solo.
Ultimately though, the novelty of being 'broken' may not be enough. Super Broken Games opts for a playful sort of fun with its controls, but it lacks the artistry and addictive qualities of other masochist titles like Super Meat Boy or N+. Mean is always mean, but being mean on purpose? That's just mean.
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REVIEW: Bitcoin Tycoon
Though popular culture (and the jokes it spawns) doesn't always translate well to videogame form when it's the 'whole game', Bitcoin Tycoon ($1.00) had me at 'breeding alpacas'. That says more about me than it does in making it a thrilling feature in a videogame, but I digress. Yes, the screenshots are true. The game is a SimCity-lite, allowing you to build your own metropolis, to be financed entirely by using the trendy, scam-happy digital currency known as Bitcoin.
It all starts with a hot dog stand, but the building mechanics are incredibly-simple, letting you place (but not edit or remove, bizarrely) different structures wherever there is a open space. The map is decent-sized, and so long as you are not trying to lay down Alpaca farms directly on top of each other, you can cram quite a few buildings / objects in one area. From your humble beginnings, a town will slowly begin to emerge.
Pieces run the gamut of your typical city builder, including restaurants (people need to eat), hydroelectric dams (people need power), advertising billboards (people need to buy things), and sketchy government buildings (people need to be spied on). Of course, each piece comes with a custom description of its properties, often skewering the Bitcoin currency, pop culture icons (the Winklevoss twins?), and political realities for jokes, and it does a fine job at that.
Unfortunately, for a SimCity-type, there is dreadfully little in the way of strategy or challenge. Although structures rise in price and materials the more you place, you don't have any of the everyday concerns that running a real city entails. No public opinion to bow down to, no traffic jams to unclog (although a Tesla dealership is available), no server issues and / or always-online requirements (my small jab at EA), and no natural disasters to rain on your Bitcoin parade.
Bottom line, you simply build however you please, and then build some more. Even without paying attention to which structures do what and how they affect the economy (certain objects require a set amount of electricity or people), you'll be reasonably on your way to building the more expensive pieces in under twenty minutes. Under an hour, and you'll likely build the final piece, a monument to the founder of Bitcoin.
After that, well, you've got nothing. You could always continue construction, but with no progress being saved or extras to concern yourself with, Bitcoin Tycoon is a largely-empty experience. Once you've had a 'lulz' or two at the one-liners, and maybe surrounded the Winklevosses with ill-tempered alpacas (…I may have a problem), it's purely superficial from then on. The game is totally worth its weight in fake currency, but real money? Maybe not so much.
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REVIEW: Battle For Demon City
April 12, 2014 Tim Hurley	6 Comments
Starring a PS1-era Lara Croft lookalike named Alice, Battle For Demon City ($1.00) is about as campy as you can get. Like 'B Movie' campy. It dresses up and sounds the part, and it probably doesn't hurt that everyone in the game is very… chesty, shall we say. Well, except for the dudes, but it can be hard to determine which is which. Nor is its visage very 'demonic', as the enemies look more like humans cosplaying as cats than the hellspawn they're supposed to be.
The tale it spins is equally cheesy, with a student demon named Thalia (playing like a petulant schoolgirl, of course) sending her minions to take over the city and turn it into a giant maze of same-y streets and buildings. Alice is left to fend for herself against the horny hordes that come in several waves per level, while simultaneously being forced to navigate the randomly-generated maze without a mapping function or a change of scenery, like, ever (…a true Hell on Earth indeed).
To make matters more compelling (i.e. worse), your progress is intermittently-blocked by gates that require keys, leading to some backtracking and fetching. Otherwise, it's a straightforward shooter, with you moving from police station to police station, albeit one that functions as a marketplace instead of a bastion of law and order, selling you the occasional weapon upgrade and / or ammunition. Because Capitalism!
Stages end with a rush of enemies or a boss fight that introduces a new foot solider, and sometimes you're treated with short cutscenes that do their exposition thing and / or briefly break the fourth wall. Oddly, these moments are the best part of Battle For Demon City, making it all the more painful once you return to the actual gameplay.
Catfight!
Combat loses its zeal quickly, and mowing down the same enemies a hundred times over (there's a joke for this) doesn't help. Occasionally they will grapple Alice, leading to a button-mashing QTE that ends with her popping a round into her attacker's dome (which is kinda neat), but fights can only really be lost when they gang up on you in numbers. Even then, it's hard to take these threats seriously when they're coming from demons named 'Gregg' and 'Carl', and their damage output is slightly above a slap. The game is generous with both health drops and continues, so there's little chance of danger sidelining you.
Battle For Demon City walks the line between tedium and strangely-fascinating most of the way. In the end, tedium wins out. You could almost categorize it as one of those 'So Bad it's Good' guilty pleasures, were it not for the repetitive cityscapes and mostly-soundless gunplay (I get music for the last thirty seconds of a level and that's it?). It's not without some merit. The game rests on an obligatory cliffhanger, and so help me, I'd actually play Round Two of wherever the hell this 'Lara Croft vs. The Cat Demons' thing is going. Is that bad?
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REVIEW: CastleMiner Warfare
April 9, 2014 Tim Hurley	2 Comments
One of XBLIG's great, and unfortunately, rare, success stories, developer DigitalDNA Games is bidding farewell to the service with one final game, CastleMiner Warfare ($1.00). The first part of that title should sound familiar. I'm surprised it took this long for the Dev to make the no-brainer move of pairing its best-selling crafter (it made him a millionaire) with the developer's penchant for building enjoyable first-person shooters (CastleMiner Z doesn't quite count because it's not inherently competitive). The resulting title sounds like a kind of mythical superhero, destined to bring peace to the galaxy, or something akin to it.
It doesn't, though. I want you to know it brings me no pleasure to say this, but, for a last hurrah, the game is a buggy mess. CastleMiner Warfare brings with it the typical Call of Duty trappings that DigitalDNA has sampled twice before; you kill guys and / or complete certain gameplay challenges, for which you earn experience to level up / unlock new items, and cash to purchase a host of building block goodies. Perks and killstreaks are back as well, featuring mostly returning favorites, like sleight of hand, temporary armor, and a rocket launcher for your secondary.
Four maps are available from the start, with varying environments (Forest, City, etc.) designed to showcase what the game can do with its blocks, while the CastleMiner hook naturally allows players to take and edit those pre-existing maps, or build their own to then share in online battle. You are automatically equipped with a mining pick to alter the landscape, but in a twist, you'll have to first unlock, then buy, the various block styles on tap. Once you do, you're free to place them in-match, presumably to build fortifications (not advisable, since people are jerks and will shoot you) or play the troll and drop water blocks everywhere, like me.
Of course, this ability to flex your artistic muscle while simultaneously gunning down fools is all dependent on the online aspect being solid, which it isn't. Granted, most online games have their share of connectivity issues, but more often than I liked, I was unceremoniously dropped from matches, while other games returned in search didn't even permit me to join. I was even met with a pair of game-ending error screens, forcing me to return to the dashboard and reboot the game. Respawning caused some issues as well, placing me in the dark(!), underground(!), with no easy way to determine a route back to the surface. There's probably a good 'Six Feet Under' joke in there somewhere.
When all its parts are in working order (that's currently about 60% of the time), CastleMiner Warfare is a fun (but definitely familiar) shooter that plays it a little loose for a farewell. The new creative licence is a welcome addition, though you're fine to pass on this and stick to something more stable in the 'crafter / shooter' genre. The game may leave a somewhat sour taste behind, but it doesn't diminish what DigitalDNA was able to do on XBLIG. Here's to hoping the developer does great things for Indies on Xbox One and beyond.
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REVIEW: ApocZ
April 5, 2014 Tim Hurley	33 Comments
Though I haven't played it, DayZ has been an enlightening watch on the various YouTubes and Twitches dedicated to it's unique brand of zombie slaying. Or should I say human slaying? The zombies have pretty much been forgotten, and instead, it's the human versus human fight that's been the primary antagonism. Often hilarious (and always sad), it's been interesting to watch players team up and kill weaker players, loot their corpses, and have a terrific laugh about it (no wonder I've lost faith in Humanity). That social experiment now comes to XBLIG as ApocZ ($1.00).
Visually, the game is a stunner. Developer Sick Kreations has always been able to craft superb-looking XBLIGs with their custom engine, and ApocZ is no exception. Excellent shadowing that changes with the day / night cycle, rippling water, and a large, impressive world of various buildings and houses (purely for a pretty show; you can't enter most). Oh, also a couple thousand zombies, set in four square miles of the Black Sea area in Ukraine. And in light of the recent events there, a zombie apocalypse is probably the last thing they need.
The theme is survival. Much like DayZ… No, exactly like DayZ, the game drops you into the world equipped with the bare minimum (in ApocZ, it's the clothes on your back, an axe, and a flashlight). From there, it's on you to combat the dead while foraging for survival gear and weapons. It's more than just finding a gun, too; it's the necessities. You'll have to monitor your food and water, and, if you find yourself in a scrape, you'll have to patch yourself up to avoid bleeding out.
And with both supplies and zombies clustered around the buildings and houses, you won't have much of a choice but to get in there and fight. You'll start small and underpowered, but you can eventually build up to bigger and better, finding guns at abandoned military barracks, backpacks to carry more gear in, even a car / truck to drive between the towns, provided you can find the tires and the fuel to get them up and running.
Zombies have violated the Ukraine's territorial integrity.
Like any end-of-world scenario, there is a finite amount of ammunition, guns, and supplies available on the map. Offline, you won't face any competition, but if you're online, and on a full server (up to 16 players), some 'sacrifices' will have to be made. And by 'sacrifices', I mean many people will die in the rat race towards the rifles. If you've jumped into a world, and see dozens of axes and flashlights just laying in the streets, it's safe to say you've joined the wrong party. ApocZ is a game best enjoyed with friends, not randoms, if for no other reason than to have somebody watching your back.
Be forewarned: even with friends and optimal conditions, the online portion isn't perfect. Though the majority of the initial launch issues have been sorted out, connections and syncing with other players can still be sketchy. Plenty of games I joined saw players popping in and out, zombies just standing around without attacking, floating / disappearing supplies, etc. The developers are keen to work out those issues, though, and along with the budget price tag, it's hard to find enough viable reasons this wouldn't be an immediate buy for most.
That puts this game almost on the same level with DayZ— a form of acceptable murder, more about the 'survival of the fittest' than a zombie game with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Something you can join in, have fun with, and repeat as desired. ApocZ might not be as involved or offer as large a world as its inspiration, but it's a very solid alternative for console gamers looking to get in on the action.
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Scott Baker doesn't make videos to accompany his songs; he makes both at once. The visuals are in mind when the music is made, and vice versa. This makes his work as Abre Ojos flow with intention and grace. The music itself may contain rough edges, but the marriage between music and image is seamless. Baker's new CD/DVD Gates is a mesmerizing meld of sight and sound that hypnotizes and unsettles in equal measure. In so doing, it reflects the meaning of abre ojos, a saying among the Spanish and Portuguese sailors navigating Australia's coastal reefs: watch out.
Baker expands his idea of threat to include distortions, conspiracies, false friends and lies. There's something in the closet. There's something under the bed. Your spouse is hiding something from you. What does that stranger want? WHAT IS THAT SOUND? As the modern era unravels, the general public learns more about crime than ever before. The media dwells on the negative, from scandal to celebrity sound byte. What was once rumor has become fact. The government IS spying on you. That product DOES contain carcinogens. When conspiracy theories turn out to be true, the slope of truth seems covered in oil. The irony: although we are more informed than ever, we are not better informed; for example, in the United States, crime is down, although coverage of crime is up, providing a false image. But Abre Ojos is not concerned with the bright side. In fact, this project seems to say (in ironic fashion), "You want to get paranoid? Fine, let's get paranoid." The drones wind around the room in which they are played like creeping fears, the synthesized injections like suspicions, the vocal warbles like whispers of doubt. "Did God really tell you not to eat of any fruit in the Garden?"
The titles imply a movement away from religion and toward illumination: "Light On Our Foreheads", "The Knowing of Truth", "The Priests Dethroned", "The Gates Are Open". One can make a religion of just about anything, from traditional figures (Jesus, Buddha) to modern idols (money, image). Still, one cannot change truth; in the modern vernacular, "it is what it is". And while Abre Ojos, like the rest of us, has no corner on the ultimate, he would love to reduce hypocrisy, and the first step is to expose it. If shining a light on what is traditionally ugly (in this case, dissonant noise and unclear image) helps to illuminate the beautiful (the flow of color and sound), then he has played his part. Listening to Gates is a dark experience, but watching Gates is bright, kaleidoscopic and pure, a distortion of a distortion that by default may be seen as clear. (Richard Allen)
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Presently before the Court is Defendants 200 Christian Street Partner's, Arthur Elwood's, and Virgil Procaccino's Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff's Amended Complaint Pursuant To Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6). (ECF No. 18.) For the following reasons, Defendants' Motion will be DENIED.
This action arises from the sale of a house. Defendants Virgil Procaccino ("Procaccino") and Arthur Elwood ("Elwood") are partners in the Defendant company 200 Christian Street Partners ("200 CSP"), which built and then sold a house ("the Home") to Plaintiff MILO, LLC ("MILO"). MILO now asserts claims against Defendants, all related to Defendants' alleged defective construction of the Home.
MILO's Complaint alleges the following claims against all Defendants: Count I - violation of the Pennsylvania Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law ("UTPCPL") 73 Pa. Stat. and Cons. Stat. Ann. § 201-2(4)(v), (vii), and (xii)(2017); Count II - breach of contract; Count III - breach of implied warranty; Count IV - negligence; Count V - negligent supervision claim; Count VI - civil conspiracy; and Count VII - violation of the Pennsylvania Real Estate Seller Disclosure Law ("RESDL"), 68 Pa. Stat. and Cons. Stat. Ann. § 7303. Procaccino and Elwood seek dismissal of all of MILO's claims. 200 CSP seeks dismissal of Count V, the negligent supervision claim, Count VI, the civil conspiracy claim, and Count VII, the RESDL claim.
Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)(2), "[a] pleading that states a claim for relief must contain a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief." Rule 12(b)(6) provides for the dismissal of a complaint, in whole or in part, for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. A motion under Rule 12(b)(6) tests the sufficiency of the complaint against the pleading requirements of Rule 8(a). "To survive a motion to dismiss, a complaint must contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to 'state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face.'" Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678 (2009) (quoting Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544, 570 (2007)).
A claim is plausible "when the plaintiff pleads factual content that allows the court to draw the reasonable inference that the defendant is liable for the misconduct alleged." Id. A complaint that merely alleges entitlement to relief, without alleging facts that show entitlement, must be dismissed. See Fowler v. UPMC Shadyside, 578 F.3d 203, 211 (3d Cir. 2009). Courts need not accept "[t]hreadbare recitals of the elements of a cause of action, supported by mere conclusory statements . . . ." Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 678. "While legal conclusions can provide the framework of a complaint, they must be supported by factual allegations." Id. at 679. This '"does not impose a probability requirement at the pleading stage, ' but instead 'simply calls for enough facts to raise a reasonable expectation that discovery will reveal evidence of' the necessary element." Phillips v. Cty. of Allegheny, 515 F.3d 224, 234 (3d Cir. 2008) (quoting Twombly, 550 U.S. at 556).
In determining whether dismissal of the complaint is appropriate, courts use a two-part analysis. Fowler, 578 F.3d at 210. First, courts separate the factual and legal elements of the claim and accept all of the complaint's well-pleaded facts as true. Id. at 210-11. Next, courts determine whether the facts alleged in the complaint are sufficient to show that the plaintiff has a "'plausible claim for relief.'" Id. at 211 (quoting Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 679). Given the nature of the two-part analysis, "'[d]etermining whether a complaint states a plausible claim for relief will . . . be a context-specific task that requires the reviewing court to draw on its judicial experience and common sense.'" McTernan v. City of York, 577 F.3d 521, 530 (3d Cir. 2009) (quoting Iqbal, 556 U.S. at 679).
Elwood and Procaccino contend that MILO's breach of contract claim against them must fail because 200 CSP, the corporation which built and sold the Home, is the only proper defendant in this case. They argue that only MILO and 200 CSP were bound by the contract and that MILO has not alleged sufficient reasons to pierce the corporate veil. MILO contends that it has alleged sufficient justification to pierce the corporate veil and to go after Elwood and Procaccino as individuals for their role in the breach of contract. MILO also contends that Defendants violated the RESDL by failing to disclose material defects to the Ferreiras. MILO argues that because Defendants were obligated to comply with the RESDL as provided in the Agreement of Sale, the RESDL violation resulted in a breach of the Agreement.
To state a claim for breach of contract, a plaintiff must establish: (1) the existence of a contract, including its essential terms; (2) a breach of duty imposed by the contract; and (3) resulting damages. Chemtech Int'l, Inc. v Chemical Injection Techs., Inc., 170 F. App'x 805, 807 (3d Cir. 2006) (internal quotation omitted). It is fundamental to the law of contracts that one cannot be liable for a breach of contract unless one is a party to the contract. Accurso v. InfraRed Servs., Inc., 23 F.Supp.3d 494, 503 (E.D. Pa. May 28, 2014) (internal quotation omitted). When a corporate agent signs a contract on behalf of the principal corporation, it is the corporate principal that is alone liable for any breach of the contract. Id. (citing Daniel Adams Assoc., Inc. v. Rimbach Pub., Inc., 519 A.2s 997, 1000-01 (Pa. Super. Ct. Jan. 9, 1987)).
Here, the contract for the sale of the Home lists the buyer as "David Ferreira or assignee" and the seller as "200 Christian Street Partners." (Am. Compl. Ex. B at 37.) We must therefore determine whether MILO's Complaint alleges facts sufficient to justify the imposition of liability on Elwood and Procaccino as individuals for breach of contract.


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A new art festival is coming to Flagstaff
Flagstaff is getting a new, interactive festival celebrating the convergence of art and ideas. It's the brainchild of the folks at Creative Flagstaff and Coconino Center for the Arts — an innovative public art experience that will invite artists and community members to engage with ideas outside of a gallery setting. It's called ARTx.
Creative Flagstaff kicked off planning in earnest in December, when they hired Julie Sokol to lead the project.
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In her role, Sokol will be gathering and organizing ideas submitted by community artists — then bringing those ideas to life, fully formed and funded on the streets of Flagstaff.
Sokol grew up in Austin, Texas. Festivals like South by Southwest shaped her youth and helped her fall in love with her city. Now she said she's excited to be on the ground floor of a progressive and interactive art festival in Arizona.
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"I've spent about the past 15 years, pretty much all of my adult life and experience in hospitality. Mine is a spreadsheet-loving brain," Sokol said. "I get to help be this in-between person that helps balance the artists' needs, connects them with the venues, and then we get to pay them. These artists are getting paid what they deem is the value of their work, and to me that's a huge piece, so it's fair and reasonable.
"My background is an appreciator of the arts, but not really a participant. It's really been a way for me personally to learn how to participate in art."
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ARTx will take place over two days, primarily in downtown Flagstaff this year. Eventually, organizers are hoping to have installations and interactive art experiences set up all over the city during a week-long event.
"In full capacity, it will be a community-wide festival with a lot of public art, either installations (temporary or permanent) or interactive opportunities. … My most basic way to say it is that it is a gallery show throughout the city. There are pop-ups and installations in different neighborhoods that reflect and tell the story of this place," Sokol explained. "For 2023, we're really focusing on the core downtown footprint, whatever comes to be with different venues and partners. At full force, it's meant to be throughout the entire community, so that we can meet people where they are and sort of bring art to the streets."
In the future, Sokol would like to see installations in Sunnyside, Southside and across the community, but downtown felt like the most organic place to start a new art-based endeavor. After this year, Sokol hopes Creative Flagstaff will be able to expand and secure more funding because she believes ARTx can play an important role in helping people navigate an uncertain post-COVID world.
"After COVID we have had these additional challenges that definitely affect Flagstaff. … Everybody needs therapy. Art is a way to get us to a healing place. Looking at art as this driver and way to create new ideas and conversations, so it is an art and ideas festival," Sokol said. "We're going to have TEDx-style speaker series and installations and ways to engage and participate. I think it's a physical manifestation of the inclusive nature of Flagstaff. We are still aligned with those core values that we have as a community, as we come back into community and back into relationship with each other."
Artists have until this Friday, January 13, to submit their projects for entry. ARTx itself is scheduled in the spring: May 25-27.
"We don't have a firm grasp on what it is as it continues to evolve, but I think Flagstaff is ready for it, and I know that it will be received really well. I'm just so excited for May," Sokol said.
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