I was introduced to [who is now] one of my best friends in the Denver International Airport. We had mutual friends and were both headed to Nicaragua. In the years to come, we would bond over our opportunity to kill, clean, and cook a chicken, but for the week ahead of us, we were going to be a part of a bicycle repair clinic in Nagarote, Nicaragua.
Considering the main method of transportation for city we visited is bicycles, it was essential that in order to make any practical impact on the community, we bring spare bike parts. Wherever possible, we trimmed our personal belongings checklist and filled checked bags with hundreds, if not over a thousand dollars, of various gears, brakes, seats, clamps, and wheels.
It was a summer volunteer trip in 2013. We set up shop for over a week in a local church. Individuals from the neighborhood quickly heard there was an opportunity to fix their bicycles, which was usually their primary tool for getting to and from work and other commitments. A tangible relief and joy was felt by all when a project was completed and someone was able to ride away on a bike that had inhibited them only days earlier.
Families who would come together typically left their kids outside to play, so we had organized a day care for games and other arts activities. These day care activities allowed people like me (with elementary Spanish speaking abilities) to interact with a younger and less intimidating crowd and actually practice conversation… because, let's be honest, how many adults like to be asked their favorite color or animal or how many siblings they have?
Working with non-profit groups like this has given me marvelous opportunities and also made me value independent travel significantly. There is always the blessing and the curse, is there not? Occasionally there is a thrill in flying by the seat of your pants as you jump from city to city in a new country. Other times it is a relief to have a trip planned for you with each and every detail noted on an itinerary. And other times, you have to fight for a moment to escape from the plan and explore on your own… One day a friend and I went for a sunrise walk before the day's activities. As the city awoke, the sound of bristles swept the sidewalk and water hoses washed the streets. We strolled through alleys and watched metallic garage doors being flung up to reveal tiny bakeries and knickknack shops. Soon our path led us to a set of rainbow stairs… and at their crest a child asked us if we wanted to climb a tour to capture a unique cityscape. We gratefully obliged.
My humility is always checked when I journey as part of a group, and I am thankful for the patience of those who observe how particular I can become when it comes to traveling abroad. It takes a lot of work to organize a trip for an entire group of people. And that "stranger" I met at the airport just minutes before our departure? Perhaps our continuing friendship of four-and-a-half years is attributed, in part, to her lack of judgment when I felt the need to de-tick a puppy who liked to hang out by the church. I heard a year later that a family had adopted the dog… and me and Jamie Lynn, a girl I met at the airport, seemed to have adopted one another as sisters.
Really cool entry. I went to high school in Nicaragua a long, long time ago. Riding bicycles in Nagarote – how cool! I lived outside of Managua on Carretera Sur (Kilo 9) and it was too steep and the traffic too deadly to ride my bike much. Nagarote was a stop on the way to Puerto Sandino (called Puerto Somoza back then, of course). So much has changed and so much is still the same.
Nice! Thanks for reading. I bet you had an phenomenal experience there. What a fun place to adventure during your high school years! I appreciate your comment, thank you for sharing! Best wishes!
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Q: Init javascript Date object I would like to retrieve a Javascript object Date for new year. I want to user new Date(); object and init it to the 2009-01-01 (it's for a countdown).
Thanks

A: The month part of the construct is an enum, so it's always themonthyouwant -1. And are you sure you want to count down to 2009? oh well...
var newYears = new Date(2009, 0, 1);

A: From http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_obj_date.asp, you can init your js date object with
var date= new Date(year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds);

You may also use date.setFullYear(year,month,day) method if your date object has been created before. Please note that month is between 0 and 11 just like what David Hedlund said.

A: use...
dateVariable.setTime(Date.parse('1/1/2009 12:00 AM'));

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Q: Distinguish between touch only and mouse-and-touch devices Right now, I am working on a part of a project which supports drag and drop. Look at the picture for clarification:

Even though it is German, I guess it is straightforward: The User can drag the blue boxes from the top saying "Verfügbare Empfänger" on the gray areas below. This works just fine.
On mobile devices, I just removed the drag and drop and the gray areas and can add the blue boxes by clicking on them.
Now for the actual problem: in order to detect touch, I used the following javascript method I dug up somewhere on StackOverflow:
if (window.matchMedia("(any-pointer: coarse)").matches) {
    vm.touchScreen = true;
}

Depending on the value of vm.touchScreen, drag is enabled/disabled. However, one of our customers has a device which supports BOTH touch and mouse. As you can imagine, because touchScreen is set to true in that case, the user cannot use drag and drop even though he has a mouse.
Therefore, I am looking for something like that:
getInputType=function(){
    if(somecheck1)return 1;/Touch only
    if(somecheck2)return 2;//Mouse only
    if(somecheck3)return 3;//Mouse and Touch
}

I actually have a somewhat functional solution already. However, it relies on the user triggering mouseEvents and touchEvents before even displaying the part which I showed you in the image. By triggering either mouse or touch beforehead, two booleans are set: hasMouse and hasTouch. Naturally, this does not work if the user refreshes the page which displays the part with drag and drops right away.
I would be glad if somebody could help me or provide me with a link to a proper solution!
Best Regards

A: Alright, my mistake. I tried a different google search approach and that way, i found the answer:
How to detect if a device has mouse support?
In order to summarize, this is the code I am using:
if (window.matchMedia("(any-pointer: coarse)").matches) {
    hasTouch = true;
}
if (matchMedia('(pointer:fine)').matches) {
    hasMouse = true;
}

This way, you can detect if:
-The device has touch only (hasTouch&&!hasMouse)
-The device has mouse only (!hasTouch&&hasMouse)
-The device has both touch and mouse (hasTouch&&hasMouse)


There is a growing need for new and innovative materials that meet the requirements of a low-carbon and circular economy. And while innovations in textiles, construction, packaging and other materials-intensive sectors have been more or less continuous over the years, the challenges of sustainability — being able to provide for a growing global middle class without busting the planetary budget — have accelerated the pace of change.
The past few years have seen a rapid growth of materials innovations, from plant-based plastics to green chemistry breakthroughs to materials recovered from waste, including plastics bobbing in the ocean. Together, these innovations represent a dramatic rethinking of how things are made and a shifting of supply chains toward innovators both large and small.
The need for new materials solutions stems in part from the growing environmental challenges that come from both their manufacture and disposal. Consider plastic. The difficulty of recycling many types of plastics, notably rigid and flexible plastic packaging items comprising various polymer types, is creating significant environmental challenges — and costs. Estimates of the negative externalities of plastic packaging alone reach up to $40 billion per year, exceeding the actual profits that stem from plastic packaging in the first place, according to a 2016 report, "The New Plastics Economy," by the World Economic Forum, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and McKinsey & Company.
The push for plant-based plastics is more than a quarter-century old, beginning in the late 1980s, when ag giant Cargill launched a research project focused on finding ways to use carbohydrates as a base for plastics. In 2003, that effort spawned NatureWorks, which converts cornstarch to polylactic acid (PLA), the first biopolymer to compete head-on with petrochemical plastics and fibers.
Estimates of the negative externalities of plastic packaging alone reach up to $40 billion per year, exceeding the actual profits that stem from plastic packaging in the first place.
In 2009, the beverage industry weighed in with PlantBottle, refreshing the age-old "cola wars," as Coke and Pepsi vied to outdo each other with more bottles of higher-percentage plastic from plants, primarily sugar cane. By mid-2015, the Coca-Cola Company said it had distributed more than 35 billion PlantBottle packages in more than 40 countries, a number the company said will exceed 43 billion by 2020.
Such solutions aren't perfect — for example, biobased plastics often ignore the health and safety profile of biobased materials across their lifecycle — but they have attractive climate benefit: Manufacturing PLA, for example, produces 60 percent fewer greenhouse gases than the petrochemical plastics such as PET and polystyrene.
Plastics are just the beginning. Another concrete example is, well, cement. That industry alone is responsible for more global greenhouse emissions than Japan or Canada, mostly due to the huge amount of energy it takes to heat limestone, cement's key ingredient, and the subsequent chemical process it undergoes. The industry has been slow to change, despite that even a modest price on carbon could have devastating effects on the industry.
New technologies and approaches are being developed to cut down on cement's environmental downsides, such as using industrial byproducts to reduce overall cement usage, or producing self-healing concretes that reduce the need for new cement, or creating entirely new materials. No perfect solution yet exists, but the opportunity is enormous: The global market for concrete was nearly $400 billion, according to Statista. Even a small chunk of that could provide the foundation for a sizeable niche market.
Some of the world's largest chemical companies are seeing paydirt in such materials innovations.
General Motors said that reusing and recycling materials adds $1 billion in annual revenue. Meanwhile, Ford is evaluating the feasibility of turning retired dollar bills into plastic car parts.
Consider Eastman Chemical. In 2011, it committed to ensuring that at least two-thirds of its new product revenue was tied to "sustainably advantaged" materials. Last year, the company reported that it was ahead of its goal, having brought to market such innovations as Tritan copolyester, a polymer that contains no bisphenol A, commonly used in a variety of consumer products and packaging but of concern to health and environmental advocates. Tritan can be for used for products traditionally made out of hard plastics such as small household appliances. Two well-known household brands, Hamilton Beach and Rubbermaid, have put it to use.
Another Eastman innovation is Tenite cellulosics, a series of plastics made with 40 percent renewable wood pulp, used, among other places, by electric guitar maker RKS, a company recognized for its dedication to using alternatives to endangered Indian ebony and Brazilian rosewood.
The success of such innovations is music to the ears of other chemical makers, particularly in light of the growing need for infrastructure investments in the United States and elsewhere in a climate-constrained world.
BASF and Dow, for example, see massive markets taking shape for advanced materials. Both are setting up research and development labs and multisectoral partnerships around the world, such as BASF's Network for Advanced Materials Open Research, a collaboration with Asia Pacific's leading universities and institutes, and the North American Center for Research on Advanced Materials, a partnership with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts.
In late 2016, Dow announced an innovation center at its Midland, Michigan, headquarters, focusing on advancing materials for home and personal care products, energy-saving building technologies, critical infrastructure and lighter-weight automobiles. It joins with similar Dow innovation centers, such as a five-building complex outside Houston.
Nearly one in five barrels of oil is used for advanced materials, specialty chemicals and other non-fuel purposes.
And then there's carpet manufacturer Interface, which last year pledged to "transform dispersed materials into products and goodness" as part of a new set of company goals dubbed "Climate Take Back." The company has set up a program called Net-Works, where residents in coastal villages harvest discarded fishing nets, an ecological blight that destroys coral reefs and mangrove swamps, to create raw materials for Interface's supply chain. The program, currently operating in the Philippines and Cameroon, has harvested nearly 100 tons of discarded nets to turn back into nylon fiber for carpeting.
Together, such efforts can be viewed as the early stages of a feedstock shift, where petroleum is extracted primarily for its valuable hydrocarbons and used for building, not burning, thus avoiding greenhouse gas emissions from burning while still finding uses for the tens of trillions of dollars of oil still in the ground but already on companies' books — so-called "unburnable carbon."
This is no pipe dream: Already, nearly one in five barrels of oil is used for advanced materials, specialty chemicals and other non-fuel purposes, and increasingly is being used to create new materials that substitute for those with higher greenhouse gas emissions, such as steel, aluminum and concrete.
There is a vast potential business opportunity in growing the percentage of oil used for such purposes. For example, thanks to materials such as carbon fiber-reinforced plastics, BMW's i3 electric vehicle uses no structural steel in its passenger module and has increased strength and dramatically reduced weight, reducing the size of the battery needed to move the car the same distance. It won't be that long before most vehicles are made this way.
Can the oil and gas industry become the climate's savior? It may seem farfetched, but when it comes to advanced materials, everything is on the table.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation — works to accelerate the circular economy, including groundbreaking research on "the new plastics economy."
GrafTech International — one of the world's largest manufacturers of natural and synthetic graphite and carbon-based products.
Newlight Technologies — its carbon capture technology combines air with methane-based greenhouse gas emissions to produce a plastic material called AirCarbon.
Novomer — a chemistry company whose technology enables carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide to be used as raw materials in the production of polymers and chemicals.
Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry — works to develop nontoxic, environmentally benign and sustainable technologies, products and processes.


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116th AIR CONTROL WING – MORALE
116th AIR CONTROL WING - MORALE quantity
SKU: ACW-116-1016-B Categories: AIRBORNE AIR CONTROL & AIRBORNE COMMAND AND CONTROL, USAF INSIGNIA, WINGS, GROUPS & OSS
116th AIR CONTROL WING
Lineage. Established as 116th Bomb Wing on 28 Sep 1942. Redesignated 353rd Fighter Group on 1 Oct 1942. Inactivated on 18 Oct 1945. Redesignated 116th Fighter Group and allotted to the GA ANG on 24 May 1946. Extended federal recognition on 9 Sep 1946. Redesignated: 116th Fighter Bomber Group on 25 Oct 1950;116th Fighter Interceptor Group on 1 Jul 1955; 116th Air Transport Group on 1 June 1961; 116th Tactical Fighter Group on 4 Apr 1973; 116th Tactical Fighter Wing on 10 Dec 1974; 116th Fighter Wing on 15 Mar 1992; 116th Bomb Wing on 1996; 116th Air Control Wing on 1 Oct 2002-.
Assignments. Eighth Air Force, 1 Oct 1942-18 Oct 1945. 54th Fighter Wing, 9 Sep 1946; GA ANG, 9 Sep 1946-Nov 1950, 10 Jul 1952; Air Defense Command, 1 Jul 1960; Military Air Transport Service (later Military Airlift Command), 1 Apr 1961;Tactical Air Command, 4 Apr 1973; Air Combat Command, 1 Jun 1992-.
Components. Groups. 116th Operations Group, 1 Oct 2002-. 116th Mission Support, 1 Oct 2002-. Squadrons. 350th Fighter Squadron, 1942-1945; 351st Fighter Squadron, 1942-1945; 352nd Fighter Squadron, 1942-1945. 12th Airborne Command and Control, 1 Oct 2002; 16th Airborne Command and Control, 1 Oct 2002; 116th Aircraft Maintenance, 1 Oct 2002; 116th Communications, 1 Oct 2002; 116th Computer Systems, 1 Oct 2002; 116th Logistics Readiness, 1 Oct 2002; 116th Maintenance, 1 Oct 2002; 116th Maintenance Operations, 1 Oct 2002; 116th Operations Support, 1 Oct 2002; 128th Airborne Command and Control, 1 Oct 2002; 129th Combat Training, 15 Oct 2011; 330th Combat Training, 1 Oct 2002-1 Oct 2011.
Stations. Mitchell Field, NY, 28 Sep 1942; Richmond AAB, VA, 7 Oct 1942; Baltimore, MD, 26 Oct 1942- 27 May 1943; Goxhill, England, Jun 1943; Metfield, England, 3 Aug 1943; Raydon, England, Apr 1944-Oct 1945; Camp Kilmer, NJ, 16-18 Oct 1945. Marietta (later-Dobbins) AFB, 9 Sep 1946; Robins AFB, GA, 1996-. (Operated from: George AFB, CA, 25 Oct 1950; Misawa Air Base, Japan, 25 Jul 1951-10 Jul 1952)
Aircraft. P-47, 1942- 1945. F-47N, 1946-1950; F-84D, 1950-1952, 1952-1955; F-51H, 1952; F-84F, 1955-1960; F-86L, 1960-1961; C-97F, 1961-1965; C-124C, 1965-1973; F-100D/F, 1973-1979; F-105G/F, 1979-1983; F-4D, 1982-1987; F-15A/B, 1987-1996; B-1B, 1996-2002; E-8C, 2002-.
Operations. WWII – Flew missions in support of the D-Day landings in Normandy and participated in the Ardennes, Northern France, Central Europe, and Rhineland Campaigns. Ordered to active duty on 10 Oct 1950 as part of the Korean War call-up. Moved to Japan in Jul 1951 and attached to Far East Air Forces for operations in the Korean War. Flew interdictory and close-support missions as well as provided air defense for the northern portion of Japan. Called to active duty as part of the Korean War call-up, 1950-1952. Flew combat support airlift missions worldwide, 1961-1974. Tactical fighter operations, 1974-1996.
Participated in deployments and exercises around the world in the B-1B, 1996-2002. Became the first "blended wing" USAF wing when combined with the 93rd Air Control Wing. Operates E-8C Joint STARS providing battlefield surveillance, 2002-. Now working directly with the 461st Air Control Wing which was activated on 7 Oct 2011 under Total Force Integration.
Campaign Streamers. WW-II: Air Offensive, Europe; Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland; Ardennes-Alsace; Central Europe. Korean War: UN Summer-Fall Offensive; Second Korean Winter; Korea Summer-Fall, 1952.
Decorations. Distinguished Unit Citation: Holland, 17-23 Sep 1944. Air Force Outstanding Unit Award: 9 awards, 1996-.
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Entrepreneurship is a lonely sport. At times, it feels like it's just you out there trying to tackle insurmountable problems, challenges, obstacles and opportunities. The entrepreneurs who find massive success are the ones who are part of communities that encourage them, help them and give them an edge. As the old adage goes, you are the product of your environment and your success, or lack thereof, speaks volumes about your community. That is why we have packed our bags and traveled to La Crosse, Wis., a small river town, to see how entrepreneurs in this city have used the power of community to turn their ideas into thriving businesses.
In this video, Greg Rollett and Brandon T. Adams meet Andrew Londre, their community ambassador, who introduces them to three companies that have used the power of the community to start and grow their business, as well as give back to their community for the current and future generations. During this adventure, you'll meet Josh and Mary Larson from Full Circle Supply, Wyatt Hrudka from Wyatt Bicycles as well as Joe and Tami from Pearl Street Brewery. Along the way Rollett and Adams will put out the key advantage points from each business that you can use to find and embrace a community to bring your entrepreneurial dreams to life.


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AEP reorganizes into regional utility divisions; Dana Waldo named president and COO of Appalachian Power
American Electric Power is reorganizing its distribution and customer service operations into seven regional utility divisions, placing operational authority in the hands of division presidents and their support staffs.
Appalachian Power, led by president and chief operating officer Dana Waldo, will serve approximately 975,000 AEP customers in West Virginia, Virginia and Tennessee, except those in the Wheeling, W.Va., area. Appalachian Power will have headquarters in Charleston, W.Va., with external affairs and regulatory services offices in Charleston and Richmond, Va.
"We are creating strong regional utilities to move decision-making responsibility closer to the customers and other external stakeholders," said Michael G. Morris, AEP chairman, president and chief executive officer. "Dana and his staff will have first-hand knowledge of distribution system conditions and any customer concerns in West Virginia, Virginia and Tennessee. They will have full authority to make decisions on operation and maintenance of the distribution system to address those concerns."
Prior to the reorganization, both distribution and customer service functioned on a centralized basis, reporting to AEP management in Columbus. State presidents focused primarily on legislative and regulatory issues.
In the new organizational structure, Waldo will have authority for distribution operations and a wide range of customer and regulatory relationships. Generation, transmission, distribution dispatch, call centers and support services will continue to operate on a centralized basis.
"Creating regional organizations for distribution operations and customer service but keeping other operations centralized will strengthen our ties to the local communities while retaining the efficiencies and low costs that are important to our customers and regulators," Morris said.
Appalachian Power will have management and staff responsible for distribution operations (including engineering, design and safety), customer services (including customer account management and meter operations), external affairs (including state government relations, environmental affairs, community affairs and communications), regulatory services (including regulatory filings administration and interface with public service commission staffs), and financial (including budgeting and analysis activities and tracking financial performance).
The Appalachian Power utility division will include areas served by two legal public utility subsidiaries of AEP: Appalachian Power Co. and Kingsport Power Co. Each public utility subsidiary will still exist for legal and regulatory purposes.
Organizational changes are effective June 1.
Waldo will report to Holly Koeppel, executive vice president – AEP Utilities-East. He will be joining AEP in early June.
Waldo currently is president and CEO of the West Virginia Roundtable, a private, non-profit, non-partisan association whose members include the chief executive officers of West Virginia´s leading business, education and economic development organizations.
Prior to joining the Roundtable, Waldo was AEP's state president in West Virginia. In that capacity, he was responsible for AEP´s external affairs and public policy activities in West Virginia, including liaison with customers, regulators, legislators and members of the public. With AEP for 25 years, Waldo held various accounting, financial forecasting and operational positions, including vice president of Appalachian Power and president and COO of Wheeling Power Co., an AEP public utility subsidiary.
Waldo has served on the board of directors of Advantage Valley, the Business and Industrial Development Corporation of Kanawha Valley, the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, the West Virginia Manufacturers Association and the West Virginia Roundtable. He also served as a trustee of the University of Charleston and as a member of the visiting committee of the College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University. In 1998, Governor Underwood appointed him to the West Virginia Council for Community and Economic Development.
Waldo received a bachelor's of science in Business Administration with a major in accounting from Franklin University and a master's of business administration from Ohio University. He also attended management development programs at the Ohio State University and the University of Virginia´s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.
Other AEP regional utility divisions will be:
· AEP-Ohio, headquartered in Columbus, will include all of AEP's customers in Ohio and the northern West Virginia panhandle near Wheeling, W.Va. AEP-Ohio will serve approximately 1.44 million customers.
· Indiana-Michigan Power will include all AEP customers in Indiana and Michigan. Operations will have headquarters in Fort Wayne, Ind., with external affairs offices in Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, and Lansing, Mich. Indiana-Michigan Power will serve approximately 575,000 customers.
· Kentucky Power will include all of AEP's Kentucky customers and have headquarters in Frankfort, Ky. Kentucky Power will serve approximately 175,000 customers.
· AEP-Texas will include all customers currently served by AEP´s Texas Central and Texas North subsidiaries. Operations will have headquarters in Corpus Christi, Texas, but external affairs and regulatory services offices will remain in Austin. AEP Texas will serve approximately 901,000 customers.
· Public Service Company of Oklahoma, or PSO, will include all of AEP´s Oklahoma customers. Operations will have headquarters in Tulsa. External affairs and regulatory services offices will be in Oklahoma City. PSO will serve approximately 505,000 customers.
· Southwestern Electric Power, or SWEPCO, will include all AEP customers in Louisiana, Arkansas and northeast Texas. SWEPCO headquarters will be in Shreveport, La. SWEPCO will serve approximately 439,000 customers.
American Electric Power owns and operates more than 42,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the United States and select international markets and is the largest electricity generator in the U.S. AEP is also one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, with more than 5 million customers linked to AEP's 11-state electricity transmission and distribution grid. The company is based in Columbus, Ohio.
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Amir Khan ends Kell Brook fight talk: He's broken and slurring – I'll hurt him!
World Boxing News 14/08/2019
📸 Lawrence Lustig
Amir Khan has finally ended any slim chances of a future fight with Kell Brook, offering his advice to the Sheffield man about taking any further fights.
The former super-lightweight king believes Brook should retire following just two bouts in over two years since back-to-back losses.
Brook suffered broken orbital bones on either side of his face against Gennady Golovkin in 2016 and Errol Spence in 2017.
As WBN reported first earlier this year, Brook has been considering his future for some time now.
Khan has now all but ruled out a long-talked-about meeting with his British rival.
"He should get in line. Kell Brook, I really feel he should retire," Khan told Curran Bhatia on his Ask The Experts Podcast.
"I don't want to fight him, give him a beating and hurt him.
"He should retire because he's had two eye sockets broken, he's already slurring. He's been beaten up basically.
"Kell has nothing exciting going for him that's why he keeps calling my name out and living off the back of that.
Amir Khan (@amirkingkhan): "Kell Brook, I feel he should retire. I don't want to fight him, give him a beating and hurt him. If my name wasn't connected then everyone would have forgotten about Kell Brook a long time ago."
FULL INTERVIEW: https://t.co/XqXbq3SN2k@SpecialKBrook pic.twitter.com/lmYcKpmmo2
— Ask The Experts Podcast with Curran Bhatia (@ATE_Podcast) August 14, 2019
"So I just feel that if the fight happens, it happens and he would get hurt.
"Boxing is a tough sport, especially when someone is already broken. I don't want to be giving any more punishment to him.
"If he does fight me, there's only one winner."
Asked why Brook's name keeps popping up his conversations regarding Khan, the 32 year-old added: "It happens in boxing that boxers use other big names to give themselves a big name or keep them relevant.
If my name wasn't connected then everyone would have forgotten about Kell Brook a long time ago. I don't know why people keep mentioning him to me.
"I know myself, we are different levels apart and I can't see it happening. The only advice I can give him is to retire," he concluded.
Issuing a denial to WBN's original report on the possibility he's fought for the last time, Brook is adamant he'll carry on.
'The Special One' has a lot of weight to shift in order to make it back to fighting condition, which may take at least another six months.
Kell Brook addresses retirement, confirms he WILL return for BIG FIGHTS
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At its northern distribution limits, growth of Scots pine is generally driven by summer temperature. However, some studies found a decoupling of tree growth and summer temperature in certain parts of boreal Eurasia and propose reduced water availability as a possible explanation (e.g. Wilmking et al. 2005). Moreover, Düthorn et al. (e.g. 2016) demonstrated that differing micro-site conditions influence Scots pine growth in Fennoscandia.
To investigate the effect of differing micro-site conditions on a broader spatial scale, we analyzed tree-ring width (TRW) and maximum latewood density (MXD) over six sites, spanning three latitudinal gradients in Eurasia (Finland, Western and Central Russia), and included dry and wet micro-site conditions at each site. Per site and proxy we performed a Principal Component Gradient Analysis (PCGA) to explore the existence of sub-populations with different growth patterns. For each identified sub-population proxy, climate-growth relationships were calculated.
At five out of six sites, PCGA showed a clear distinction between dry and wet micro-sites. Corresponding climate correlations were stronger on dry than on wet sites with more pronounced effects for TRW in comparison to MXD. Concluding, our preliminary results corroborate the assumption that Scots pine growth might be affected by micro-site conditions, which certainly has implications for dendroecological and –climatological studies.


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Clear up underway as large car-sized boulders land on A83
A clear up operation is underway following a large landslide which blocked the A83 and Old Military Road at multiple locations on Tuesday (August 4).
BEAR Scotland said that its operations teams have been mobilised at both ends of the A83 and Old Military Road to begin work to clear the debris with specialist equipment.
The firm said that approximately 1,500 tonnes of debris is thought to have reached the A83, with 2,000 tonnes of material washed onto Old Military Road. BEAR added that the debris included 'large car-sized' boulders. In total, the firm said that 6,000 tonnes of debris was moved with the weather.
The debris fell from around 200 metres above the carriageway, after up to 100mm of rain fell in Argyll – resulting in what BEAR said was a 'fan effect' down multiple water channels.
BEAR added that recently installed landslip mitigation catch-pits, built to prevent such landslips, caught around 2,000 tonnes of debris material from one of the areas affected by the landslip.
All traffic is currently being diverted via the standard diversion route via the A83, A82, A85 and A819 while clear up works continue.
Eddie Ross, BEAR Scotland's north west representative said, "Yesterday's heavy rain caused a large landslip high above the road which reached the A83 and OMR roadside at multiple points, bringing significant amounts of debris. Our teams have mobilised at both ends of the A83 at the Rest and OMR and have begun the initial clear-up of the debris.
"Further assessments need to be completed by geotechnical specialists of the hillside and both roads to check for any further concerns, and until these checks and the clear-up is complete the A83 and OMR will remain closed. In the meantime, Argyll remains open for business and we encourage road users to follow the diversion route in place for motorists. Western Ferries are also running additional sailings for their Gourock to Dunoon crossing to accommodate road users.
"Please check Traffic Scotland for most up to date travel information."
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As a lawyer, adjusting your practice can be difficult. Different practice groups, new clients, and other unfamiliar procedures can throw off even the most experienced lawyer. For Danielle Bird, a workers' compensation attorney at SiebenCarey, her career change caused her to see things from the other side, literally. After eight years as defense counsel for an insurance company, she moved to doing plaintiff's workers' comp about two years ago.
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Paul and Astra Marriott started using their 83-year-old neighbour's debit card for personal purchases in 2016 and spent up to the £6000 limit on her credit card in a matter of weeks.
Paul, 48, made himself the victim's carer without her knowledge, meaning he received a monthly carer allowance. Post in the victim's name, including bank and credit card statements, was found at their home.
After concerns were raised by the victim's son, police discovered Astra, 37 and her husband had used the victim's credit card to purchase food, heroin, cannabis, alcohol and electrical items. In total they spent £14,000.
The Huntingdon couple of Tennyson Close denied the offences and went on trial at Peterborough Crown Court; however they changed their pleas to guilty after the victim's video interview with police was shown to the jury.
On Tuesday (27 November), they were each jailed for three years at the same court, for two counts of fraud each – one for the use of the victim's current account and one for the use of the victim's credit card.


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CC committee approves changing Columbus Day name, solar tax credit solution
UPPER MARLBORO — The Prince George's County Council Government Operations and Fiscal Policy Committee (GOFP) voted on an act that would change the name of Columbus Day to Native American Day and a real property tax credit for people with solar panels at the meeting on June 27.
During the meeting, the Government Operations and Fiscal Policy Committee first took a look at their agenda item titled CB-008-2019, which seeks to recognize the history, culture and accomplishments of Native Americans in Prince George's County and across the nation. It would change the name of Columbus Day to Native American Day in Prince George's County.
All committee members voted to favorably recommend that the full county council approve the agenda item. Before the meeting, the board had also received input in a letter from the Piscataway Conoy Tribe advocating for the item to pass.
"This legislation is pretty straightforward. It is to elevate the recognition of the Native American community and Native American people who have a history of thousands of years in this region and regions across this country," said Councilmember Mel Franklin (At-Large) who sponsored the bill.
Seal of Prince George's County. (File Photo)
"It will recognize the need to change Columbus Day to Native American Day to more properly represent the legacy that we should be celebrating."
During the meeting, the committee heard from Rico Newman, a representative of the Piscataway Convoy Tribe and a former historian with Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
Newman has done a lot of research with the museum on Christopher Columbus and said, "a lot of things we were taught in school as kids were fake, false and need to be corrected. By starting by changing the name is this day, it's one of the things that will start getting the ball rolling."
"I'm glad to see this done," Newman said. "I think that it's the tip of the iceberg in getting information out about a lot of the things that need to be changed."
The committee's approval also included a legal amendment to the section of the county code that gives county employees the day off for the Columbus Day holiday to ensure that county employees have the day off for Native American Day as well.
Following the favorable vote, Councilmember and Committee Chair Derrick Leon Davis (District 6) commended the council for their decision calling it a "long overdue" decision.
The second bill that the committee considered serves to have the county provide more money for the solar tax credit program.
Legislation for the solar tax credit program was passed back in 2008 and provided a maximum of $250,000 out of the county budget to go towards tax credits granted for solar or geothermal energy conservation devices, such as solar panels that people put on their houses.
As the country was in a recession during that time, the maximum was placed at only $250,000 and was never changed. Currently, there is a backlog of applicants, and if the amount of money were to remain at $250,000, the backlog would not be paid off until fiscal year 2030, provided the number of applicants does not increase, according to the Office of Finance.
Also, according to the Office of Finance, the county receives an average of 147 applicants for the solar tax credit program per year.
The new legislation would raise the maximum that the county can provide to $500,000.
That would reduce the time the backlog would be paid off from fiscal year 2030 to fiscal year 2025. However, the backlog would continue to grow if more than 100 applicants were approved annually.
According to county documents, an analysis concluded that it would take $27 million for the entire waitlist to be paid off in fiscal year 2020.
For the rest of the meeting, the committee debated on what to do about the issue and whether keeping the program was worth it in the first place.
"This has been something that we have been looking at for the last six years, what our tax credit portfolio does, what it doesn't do, what we should continue to do and what maybe we should discontinue doing in the future," Davis said.
Solar panels (File photo).
The committee received input from Joseph Hamlin, a member of the County Charter Review Commission, who said the problem with the bill as it stands is that although the increased annual maximum will address the existing backlog, it will not eliminate a new waitlist that will continue to grow beyond that.
"The bill as presented deals with the existing backlog but a new one is going to come along right behind it," Hamlin said. "I think there is a decision both on whether to approve the proposal, but also whether now is the time to deal with what might come after by either reducing that per credit cap or phasing it out all together as different jurisdictions have done."
Councilmember Tom Dernoga (District 1) said that investing in solar power is a good thing as it is essential to the county's commitment to investing in clean energy in the future.
The amount of backlog says that this is something that people want, so it is a great investment in the future, Dernoga added.
"We have a backlog not because the program is failing but because the program is successful," he said. "Why would we want to stop a successful program?"
Councilmember Dannielle Glaros (District 3), the bill's sponsor, agreed that having a lot of people put solar panels on their home is wonderful. However, she said she saw it as a fairness issue wondering if the long wait time for residents to get their tax credit is worth it.
"I think most importantly we've got to be fair to our residents who expect a tax credit," she said. "So this backlog, in my opinion, is just not acceptable. It doesn't feel fair to the resident who purchased this and thought that they would be getting a tax credit in a reasonable length of time and now they're hearing it might not be until 2030."
In the end, the committee unanimously voted to move forward with the agenda item but also seek advice from County Executive Angela Alsobrooks on further financial enhancements over and above $500,000.
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Full title:FARMERS INSURANCE EXCHANGE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. JOHN A. RUIZ et…
Court:Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division Five
Date published: May 5, 1967
250 Cal.App.2d 741 (Cal. Ct. App. 1967)
59 Cal. Rptr. 13
Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division Five
In Ruiz, the disputed issue was the status of the claimant as an insured, and the appellate court ruled that exclusive jurisdiction to make that determination lay with the trial court.
Summary of this case from Felner v. Meritplan Ins. Co.
Docket No. 29700.
Appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County granting preliminary injunction enjoining defendants from continuing an arbitration on an insurance policy. Stevens Fargo, Judge. Affirmed in part and reversed in part.
Richard de Bro for Defendants and Appellants.
Kenneth H. Wechsler and Early, Maslach, Foran Williams for Plaintiff and Respondent.
HUFSTEDLER, J.
This is an appeal from an order granting respondent's motion for a preliminary injunction enjoining appellants from continuing an arbitration filed by appellant John Ruiz, one of the heirs at law of decedent John Ruiz, to recover damages pursuant to an uninsured motorist's endorsement in a policy issued by respondent.
Farmers Insurance Exchange ("Farmers") issued an automobile liability policy to John A. Ruiz containing the uninsured motorist endorsement required by section 11580.2 of the Insurance Code. John Ruiz, the brother of John A. Ruiz, was pushing a stalled vehicle when he was struck and fatally injured by an automobile driven by an uninsured motorist. Appellant John A. Ruiz filed a demand for arbitration with the American Arbitration Association requesting arbitration under the terms of the policy which Farmers issued to John A. Ruiz.
Farmers filed a complaint for declaratory relief and for an injunction to prevent the arbitrators from continuing with the arbitration proceedings until the court decided the action for declaratory relief. Farmers in its complaint for declaratory relief alleged a controversy between itself and the heirs of the decedent over the question whether the decedent was an insured under the policy which it had written in favor of John A. Ruiz. Farmers took the position that the decedent was not an insured within the meaning of the policy because at the time of his injury and death the decedent was not residing in John A. Ruiz's household and was therefore excluded from the policy provision defining the insured to include "relatives of the named insured who are residents of the same household." It is undisputed that the automobile which struck and killed the decedent was owned and operated by an uninsured motorist.
An order to show cause why a preliminary injunction should not be granted was issued. Appellants filed points and authorities in opposition to the motion and affidavits from some of the Ruiz heirs stating that the decedent was a resident of John A. Ruiz's household at the time of the accident and at the time of his death. No evidence in addition to the verified complaint and the affidavits was offered at the hearing of the order to show cause. An order was granted enjoining appellants from continuing the arbitration during the pendency of the proceedings upon the declaratory relief complaint.
[1] The first issue presented on the appeal is: Does jurisdiction to decide the question whether the decedent was an insured under the policy reside solely in the court, or is that question referrable to arbitration? We hold that the court had exclusive jurisdiction to decide the preliminary question whether the claimant was an insured within the meaning of the policy.
The fact that appellant John A. Ruiz was an "insured" in the sense that he took out the policy is irrelevant to this controversy. Arbitration was commenced in Ruiz's capacity as an heir of the decedent seeking recovery for the decedent's wrongful death. If the decedent is not an insured, appellant Ruiz is not an insured for the purpose of this action. Subdivision (b) of section 11580.2 of the Insurance Code defines "insured" as "the named insured and the spouse of the named insured and relatives of either while residents of the same household while occupants of a motor vehicle or otherwise, heirs and any other person while in or upon or entering into or alighting from an insured motor vehicle and any person with respect to damages he is entitled to recover for care or loss of services because of bodily injury to which the policy provisions or endorsement apply."
The critical clause in the Ruiz policy states: "In the event the insured and the Company do not agree that the insured is legally entitled to recover damages from the owner or operator of an uninsured motor vehicle under this Part II or do not agree as to the amount of payment which may be owing hereunder, then, upon written demand of either, the matter or matters upon which the insured and the Company do not agree shall be settled by arbitration in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association." [Italics added.] The language of the Ruiz policy, excepting the italicized language, is a substantial repetition of the provisions of subdivision (e) of section 11580.2 of the Insurance Code, which provides, in pertinent part: "The policy or an endorsement added thereto shall provide that the determination as to whether the insured shall be legally entitled to recover damages, and if so entitled, the amount thereof, shall be made by agreement between the insured and the insurer or, in the event of disagreement, by arbitration."
[2] An insurance clause which repeats the language of subdivision (e) of section 11580.2 without material change requires arbitration solely of the issues relating to the liability of the uninsured motorist to the insured, and it excludes therefrom the determination of the amount of money which the insurance company must pay to its insured and likewise excludes the preliminary question whether there is a valid and subsisting agreement to arbitrate. ( Commercial Ins. Co. of Newark, N.J. v. Copeland (1967) 248 Cal.App.2d 561, 564-565 [ 56 Cal.Rptr. 794]; cf. Aetna Cas. Surety Co. v. Superior Court (1965) 233 Cal.App.2d 333, 337 [ 43 Cal.Rptr. 476] ; Pacific Indem. Co. v. Superior Court (1966) 246 Cal.App.2d 63, 67-68 [ 54 Cal.Rptr. 470].)
[3] If the claimant is conceded to be an insured within the meaning of the policy and the controversy between the insured and his insurance company concerns the amount payable from the insurance company to the claimant, the italicized words of the Ruiz clause constitute an agreement to submit that controversy to arbitration. ( Fisher v. State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. Co. (1966) 243 Cal.App.2d 749, 750, 751-753 [ 52 Cal.Rptr. 721].) The existence of the italicized phrase, construed in Fisher, however, does not render arbitrable the question whether the claimant is an insured. [4] The Ruiz clause does not purport to add anything in this respect to subdivision (e) of section 11580.2 of the Insurance Code. The conclusion follows that the trial court was correct in withdrawing from arbitration the preliminary issue of the claimant's status as an insured.
In Fisher v. State Farm Mutual Auto Ins. Co., supra, the claimant was concededly an insured. We have no reason to decide whether the clause in Fisher which refers to an agreement between the company and "any person making claim hereunder" rather than to an agreement between the company and its "insured" renders arbitrable a dispute about whether the claimant is an insured.
Jordan v. Pacific Auto Ins. Co. (1965) 232 Cal.App.2d 127 [ 42 Cal.Rptr. 556], is not to the contrary. In Jordan the "insurance question" was the status of the tortfeasor as an uninsured motorist; there was no question about the status of the claimant as an insured.
In Federal Mut. Ins. Co. v. Schermerhorn (1965) 238 Cal.App.2d 900 [ 48 Cal.Rptr. 325], as in Jordan, the status of the tortfeasor as an uninsured motorist was challenged, not the status of the claimant.
[5] The appellant complains that the record before the trial court was not adequate to warrant the issuance of a preliminary injunction restraining the pending arbitration because Farmers did not establish by competent evidence that the decedent was not a resident of the Ruiz household at the time of his death. The trial court in issuing a preventive preliminary injunction was not called upon to decide the merits of the insurance company's claim that there was no coverage. ( Miller Lux v. Madera Canal Irr. Co. (1909) 155 Cal. 59, 62-63 [ 99 P. 502, 22 L.R.A.N.S. 391]; Bo Kay Chan v. Gerdon Land Co. (1951) 103 Cal.App.2d 724, 727, 728 [ 230 P.2d 1].) The existence of a justiciable controversy concerning the coverage issue and the exclusive jurisdiction of the court to decide it was ascertainable from the face of the pleadings and the exhibits appended thereto. The purpose of the preliminary injunction was to maintain the status quo until the merits of that controversy could be decided. ( Cf. Curl v. Pacific Home (1952) 108 Cal.App.2d 655, 661 [ 239 P.2d 481]; Harvey Machine Co., Inc. v. Alvarez (1946) 76 Cal.App.2d 427, 429-430 [ 173 P.2d 65].) Once the court decided that jurisdiction to adjudicate the coverage issue vested solely in the court, it properly issued a preliminary injunction to prevent submission of that issue to arbitration. ( Cf. Pacific Indem. Co. v. Superior Court, supra, 246 Cal.App.2d at p. 72 [ 54 Cal.Rptr. 470]; Curl v. Pacific Home, supra, 108 Cal.App. 2 d at p. 661.)
The Pacific Indemnity case, which held that exclusive jurisdiction was in the court to decide whether limitations barred arbitration, did not consider the possibility of issuing a limited preliminary injunction.
[6] The second question presented on appeal is: Did the court err in granting a general, rather than a limited, preliminary injunction? The real basis of appellant's complaint is not that the court enjoined arbitration of the coverage issue, but that the preliminary injunction restrained arbitration in its entirety, including those issues which were clearly arbitrable. The trial court was fully aware of the competing considerations which must be taken into account in framing a preliminary injunction in this situation. If, after a trial on the merits of the coverage issue, it were determined that there was no coverage, an arbitration of the other issues during the interim would be nugatory. On the other hand, if arbitration of the issues relating to liability of the uninsured motorist to the claimant could be delayed for months or even years simply by the insurance company's filing an action to declare that no coverage existed, the benefits which the Legislature envisioned in enacting the uninsured motorist legislation may be illusory. The court asked counsel whether or not there was some way to shape an injunction to prevent the claimant's being "whipsawed." Counsel were unable to supply the court with any authority to issue a limited injunction, and the court concluded that it had no power to do so.
Although we are aware of no authority which states expressly that the court may restrain the arbitration of a single issue which is outside the jurisdiction of the arbitrator, we believe that the court does have that power. There is no remedy at law to prevent an arbitrator from deciding an issue outside his jurisdiction. It is true that after an award has been made, an aggrieved party may move to vacate the award on the ground that the arbitrator exceeded his powers, if he can produce a record showing that the issue was decided by the arbitrator over the moving party's timely objection and if he can further demonstrate that "the award cannot be corrected without affecting the merits of the decision upon the controversy submitted." (Code Civ. Proc., § 1286.2, subd. (d).) The possibility of overturning an award in its entirety because the arbitrator wrongfully assumed jurisdiction over a single issue is not an attractive prospect for any of the litigants, and it can hardly be described as an adequate legal remedy to prevent an arbitrator's assertion of jurisdiction over an issue which is solely within the court's province. The court's power to restrain an arbitration in its entirety is established. ( Pacific Indem. Co. v. Superior Court, supra, 246 Cal.App.2d at p. 72 [ 54 Cal.Rptr. 470].) That power includes the lesser power to enjoin arbitration of a single issue. The severance of one issue from a controversy which is the subject of proceedings both in the court and in arbitration by the use of a stay is not a novelty. If a court has ordered arbitration of a controversy which is an issue involved in a pending court proceeding, the court has power to stay the court proceeding until arbitration is concluded "or until such earlier time as the court specifies," and if "the issue which is the controversy subject to arbitration is severable, the stay may be with respect to that issue only." (Code Civ. Proc., § 1281.4 ) There is no convincing reason why the power to stay adjudication of a single issue in a court proceeding should be substantially different from the power to stay a single issue in a pending arbitration. The decision to enjoin a pending arbitration in its entirety, or to enjoin arbitration of a single issue of which exclusive jurisdiction rests in the court, is committed to the trial court's sound discretion. [7] In exercising that discretion the court shall take into account those equitable considerations which have traditionally affected the granting or denial of a preliminary injunction, such as the effectiveness of the relief sought, the nature of the harm which may result if relief be denied and the appropriate balancing of the conveniences of the parties (see, e.g., 27 Cal.Jur.2d, Preliminary Injunctions, § 8, p. 109 et seq.), and those considerations which are peculiarly applicable in staying an arbitration pending adjudication of a severed issue, such as the amount of delay which may be occasioned by a stay pending adjudication of the severed issue, the effect of delay upon the availability of evidence on the issues to be arbitrated, the extent to which the severed issue may make the arbitration unnecessary and the extent to which concurrent arbitration may render adjudication of the severed issue unnecessary.
If jurisdiction to decide jurisdiction is itself submitted to the arbitrator, the jurisdictional question cannot be raised thereafter to attack the award. ( Fidelity Cas. Co. v. Dennis (1964) 229 Cal.App.2d 541, 543-544 [ 40 Cal.Rptr. 418]; see also Jordan v. Pacific Auto Ins. Co., supra, 232 Cal.App. 2 d at pp. 131-132.
It is frequently difficult or impossible to produce a record from an arbitration which will support a motion to vacate because arbitrators are not required to find facts or to give reasons for their award, and the award itself will rarely show on its face the disposition of the jurisdictional issue. (See, e.g., Ulene v. Murray Millman of Cal. (1959) 175 Cal.App.2d 655, 661, 662 [ 346 P.2d 494].)
Section 1281.4 provides: "If a court of competent jurisdiction, whether in this State or not, has ordered arbitration of a controversy which is an issue involved in an action or proceeding pending before a court of this State, the court in which such action or proceeding is pending shall, upon motion of a party to such action or proceeding, stay the action or proceeding until an arbitration is had in accordance with the order to arbitrate or until such earlier time as the court specifies.
"If an application has been made to a court of competent jurisdiction, whether in this State or not, for an order to arbitrate a controversy which is an issue involved in an action or proceeding pending before a court of this State and such application is undetermined, the court in which such action or proceeding is pending shall, upon motion of a party to such action or proceeding, stay the action or proceeding until the application for an order to arbitrate is determined and, if arbitration of such controversy is ordered, until an arbitration is had in accordance with the order to arbitrate or until such earlier time as the court specifies.
"If the issue which is the controversy subject to arbitration is severable, the stay may be with respect to that issue only. (Added Stats. 1961, ch. 461, p. 1541, § 2.)"
See also § 1281.2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the final paragraph of which states: "If the court determines that there are other issues between the petitioner [the party seeking an order compelling arbitration] and the respondent which are not subject to arbitration and which are the subject of a pending action or special proceeding between the petitioner and the respondent and that a determination of such issues may make the arbitration unnecessary, the court may delay its order to arbitrate until the determination of such other issues or until such earlier time as the court specifies."
It would of course be desirable to have the entire matter adjudicated in one tribunal. The parties may avoid a bifurcated proceeding by agreeing to submit the entire matter to arbitration. ( Fidelity Cas. Co. v. Dennis, supra, 229 Cal.App. 2 d at pp. 543-544.) But if they do not agree and if therefore no tribunal has jurisdiction to decide all of the issues, separate proceedings are inevitable. Indeed, the present statutory procedure for the adjudication of claims submitted to arbitration contemplates both arbitration and subsequent court proceedings to confirm, vacate or modify an award.
Because the trial court believed it had no power to grant a limited injunction, it did not exercise the discretion thus committed to it.
Insofar as the order restrained the parties from arbitrating the coverage issue, the order is affirmed. In all other respects, the order is reversed.
Kaus, P.J., and Stephens, J., concurred.


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Patriot: Amazon Drama Series About Intelligence Officer to Launch in February
by Jessica Pena, January 27, 2017
Amazon is going undercover. Today, the streaming platform announced their new TV show Patriot will launch in February.
The drama follows intelligence officer John Tavner (Michael Dorman), whose "latest assignment is to prevent Iran from going nuclear, requiring him to forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous 'non-official cover'—that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm." The cast also includes Kurtwood Smith, Terry O'Quinn, and Michael Chernus.
All 10 episodes of Patriot will be available to watch on Amazon beginning February 24th.
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 27, 2017– (NASDAQ: AMZN)–Amazon today announced its new original one hour series Patriot is slated to premiere on Friday, February 24 exclusively on Prime Video in the US, UK, Germany and Austria. Starring Michael Dorman (Wonderland), Emmy winner Terry O'Quinn (Lost), Kurtwood Smith (That 70's Show) and Michael Chernus (Orange is the New Black), Patriot follows the complicated life of intelligence officer John Tavner (Dorman). His latest assignment is to prevent Iran from going nuclear, requiring him to forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous "non-official cover"–that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm. A bout with PTSD, the Federal government's incompetence and the intricacies of keeping a day job in the "front" industrial piping company cause a barrage of ever-escalating fiascos that jeopardize Tavner's mission. The series, recently selected to have its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival Berlinale, is executive produced by Steven Conrad (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), who also writes and directs on the series, James Parriott (Grey's Anatomy), Glenn Ficarra (This Is Us), John Requa (Crazy Stupid Love, Focus), Charles Gogolak (Focus), and Gil Bellows (Temple Grandin). Customers can watch the pilot episode online at Amazon.com/PatriotTV before the full season's remaining nine episodes air on February 24.
Patriot explores the lesser known, unglamorous aspects of life as an intelligence officer. While the future of the world is at stake, it's often the idiosyncrasies of those around John Tavner that force him to have to choose between bad alternatives. Those characters include Tom Tavner (O'Quinn), John's State Department Director of Intelligence father; John's older brother Edward Tavner (Chernus), a young Texas congressman; John's wife Alice, played by Kathleen Munroe (Call Me Fitz); Agathe, played by Aliette Opheim (Sandor slash Ida), a brilliant young homicide detective from Luxembourg hot on John's trail; and Mr. Claret (Smith), John's stickler of a new "boss" at the piping firm where John is "employed."
Prime members will be able to stream the series exclusively via the Amazon Prime Video app for TVs, connected devices including Fire TV, mobile devices and online. Members can also download the series to mobile devices for offline viewing at no additional cost to their membership. Patriot will be a global release and available exclusively on Amazon Prime Video for members to watch via the Prime Video app for popular smart TVs, Fire TV, Fire Tablets and Android and iOS phones and tablets. The show will also be available later this year on PrimeVideo.com for Prime Video members in more than 200 countries and territories.
"As smart, compelling and contradictory as the world it portrays, Steve Conrad's Patriot is an incredible comedic drama about the world of modern intelligence," said Joe Lewis, Head of Comedy and Drama, Amazon Studios. "Told skillfully and artfully, Steve and the incredible cast have made something truly unique and we can't wait to bring it to customers soon."
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No Hard Disk Drive for Wii – Nintendo
Despite of the fact that a hard disk drive (HDD) designed for Nintendo Wii might ease life of certain customers and boost sales of outdated video games, Nintendo currently has no plans for such an add-on item. Moreover, the company believes that it is simply not needed by customers.
Nintendo Wii has become the world's most popular game console presently not only because of the unique motion-sensitive game controller, but also because of compatibility with "old-school" games that can be acquired via a special online store. But one of the issues with games bought from Nintendo's store is that they need storage space, which is limited in case of Wii with the capacity of SD memory cards.
"The way that we look at it is, we really don't want people storing every single game they buy on their drive. When you buy a game, it's yours forever, so you can delete it, and go back and get it at any time you want. In a way, we liken it to putting music on your iPod: you listen to it for a while, and then you get tired of it, and you pull it off, and you put some new stuff on," said Nintendo public relations manager Eric Walter in an interview with Gamasutra web-site.
Even though even 2GB Secure Digital memory cards are hardly expensive nowadays, the necessity to buy a number of them to keep games playable even when Wii is offline may not seem as a comfortable option for many consumers.
Nintendo's Wii does not feature a hard disk drive, instead, it boasts with 512MB of flash memory, but the console will also has a card reader, which allows installing more memory.
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Vivaldi 2.0 browser brings sync, themes and new Chrome-conquering ambitions – CNET
by Stephen Shankland · 26th September 2018
Vivaldi 2.0 themes can mimic the color scheme of the website you're visiting -- in this case Flickr -- while web panels on the left can give you a quick look at websites like Google Translate, Twitter or whatever else you like.
Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET
If you want to step back from Chrome, the Vivaldi alternative browser just grew up a notch with the addition of cross-computer sync and other improvements in version 2.0.
Vivaldi, with about 1 million people using it each month, doesn't have anything like the visibility or clout of Google's Chrome, Mozilla's Firefox or Apple's Safari. But if you're looking for something different -- especially lots of customization -- it can be worth a look.
Vivaldi lets you fine-tune tabs, set mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts, peer at the details of images, and eventually will even have built-in email software.
"Anyone who spends a lot of time on the internet will have a significant benefit from using Vivaldi," said Chief Executive Jon von Tetzchner, who helped launch another alternative browser, Opera, in the 1990s.
When Chrome launched a decade ago, the idea of making a competitor to incumbent powers like Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Mozilla's Firefox was pretty radical. With Chrome now dominant, though, new browsers are springing up like mushrooms after rain -- and doing so with direct help from Chrome's own open-source software.
Besides Vivaldi, browsers from Brave, Baidu, Samsung, Opera, Yandex and DuckDuckGo are built atop Chrome's underpinnings. Even Microsoft reuses Chrome for its Android browser.
New in Vivaldi 2.0
Vivaldi arrived first as a test version in 2015 and reached version 1.0 in 2016. Among the features in Vivaldi 2.0:
Sync to keep your browsing history and passwords linked across multiple computers, although mobile versions for Android phones or iPhones still aren't available. Sync was the top-requested improvement.
A new theme tool to change the browser's look, including customization tools. Themes can be set to reflect the color scheme of the website you're using.
An updated "web panels" strip down the side of the browser that offers quick access to things like downloads, notes, browsing history and websites you've pinned to it. The browser will suggest adding new entries for websites you visit often, too.
And performance improvements under the hood, especially for people with lots of personal information like bookmarks and downloads, von Tetzchner said.
Vivaldi already offered lots of other interface differences from most browsers, including a split-screen view so you can see two tabs at once; a calendar-like interface to see what websites you visited on what days; the ability to put tabs on the top, bottom, or either side; and some privacy-focused features.
"I don't really think the building of profiles is a good idea. We do not engage in that," von Tetzchner said. He'd like to see regulations curtailing the tracking of our behavior online. "The internet was working just fine before the creation of superprofiles and using big data and AI to target individuals or groups of people."
Growing business, mobile delays
Vivaldi has grown to 44 employees. The company has surpassed its goal of generating $1 per user per year, von Tetzchner said. At that revenue rate, the company needs 3 million to 5 million people using it to become profitable.
Vivaldi's browser logo.
"It's looking good," von Tetzchner said.
However, the number of Vivaldi users hasn't changed much since mid-2016, when he said there were nearly 1 million. And another new alternative browser, Brave, is at 4 million monthly users.
Vivaldi makes money from deals with search engines that share a portion of ad revenue and from promotional placement of websites on the default new-tab page. That page can be customized to show what you want.
Vivaldi wanted to release a mobile version of its browser in 2017 but missed that deadline. "We definitely were hoping we would be moving faster, but sometimes it takes longer than expected," he said.
Vivaldi's email service is live -- indeed, you need an account to use Vivaldi's new sync tool so the browser can encrypt data without the company itself being able to see it -- but Vivaldi's email software isn't yet done. Von Tetzchner uses the prototype version himself, but it still has some "loose ends," he said. When it's done, it'll be much better than conventional web-based email, especially for people who wrestle with multiple email accounts, he said.
But for now, he's counting on Vivaldi 2.0 to attract new fans.
"This is our second big release. It's a big deal," von Tetzchner said. "Every time we do releases it gets more users, and the bigger releases do more."
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