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August 8th, 2018 in Local News
Moniteau County Prosecuting Attorney Shayne Healea
A long-time resident of Moniteau County, Prosecuting Attorney Shayne Healea is running for a third term.
Healea has been a resident of Moniteau County most of his life. He moved away for about eight years, while working as an undercover narcotics officer. When he left that career to pursue his law degree, he returned.
"California is the only place I refer to as home," he said.
"As prosecuting attorney, it is my job to prosecute all violations of Missouri's Criminal Code," Healea said. "Those offenses cover a broad range from speeding tickets to violations of the wildlife code to homicide. I am also involved in the recently-developed 26th Circuit Drug Court, which focuses on providing intensive supervision and rehabilitation of individuals who suffer drug addiction.
"I enjoy the work I do, seeking justice on behalf of all Moniteau County residents. I am running to continue doing the important work we in the law enforcement community do on a daily basis to make Moniteau County a safer community for families to live and work."
Healea and his wife, Shauna, have two children — Sawyer, 6, and Sydney, 10 months. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Tipton County Club and a member of the California Shooter's Club. As a family, they enjoy fishing, hunting, golf and outdoor activities.
He is running on the Republican ticket and can be contacted on-line at moniteaucounty.org.
"The most important issues facing my office are combating drug addiction and the crimes that accompany that issue and a constantly expanding caseload," Healea said. "We conduct a criminal docket each Tuesday for Associate Circuit Court and every other Friday for Circuit Court.
"When I began this job in 2011, I would average 30-60 cases on my Tuesday criminal docket. Today, each Tuesday docket ranges from 90-130 cases.
"We have also added a drug/alcohol treatment court in the 26th Circuit, which meets once a month in Morgan County. Methamphetamine accounts for a large percentage of our caseload."


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It is the official policy stance of the RNC, re-adopted in 2020, that marriage is strictly between a man and a woman. And that gay marriage should not be legal in the United States.
Here is the official 2016 RNC platform: https://prod-cdn-static.gop.com/media/documents/DRAFT_12_FINAL%5B1%5D-ben_1468872234.pdf
There is no additional platform for 2020 as in 2020 they voted to simply re-adopt the 2016 policies. Here is their specific line on gay marriage.
Defending Marriage Against an Activist Judiciary Traditional marriage and family, based on marriage between one man and one woman, is the foundation for a free society and has for millennia been entrusted with rearing children and instilling cultural values. We condemn the Supreme Court's ruling in United States v. Windsor, which wrongly removed the ability of Congress to define marriage policy in federal law. We also condemn the Supreme Court's lawless ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which in the words of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, was a "judicial Putsch" — full of "silly extravagances" — that reduced "the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Storey to the mystical aphorisms of a fortune cookie." In Obergefell, five unelected lawyers robbed 320 million Americans of their legitimate constitutional authority to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The Court twisted the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment beyond recognition. To echo Scalia, we dissent. We, therefore, support the appointment of justices and judges who respect the constitutional limits on their power and respect the authority of the states to decide such fundamental social questions.
You were saying how the RNC supports gay marriage now?
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Good point! I was wrong.
My point was that the electorate supports gay marriage
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No, the electorate does not. They'd vote for nominees who do if they did.
That's what my original comment said, it was nationwide polling that showed more than 50% of republicans support gay marriage.
But they show 0% support for it when in the voting booth? And in fact show 100% for being against it?

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Q: Which BouncyCastle API-supported Encryption algorithm is fastest for short string encryption in C# .NET and pretty safe? I tried to search stackoverflow for an answer to this particular question but couldn't find a good answer.
The BouncyCastle API offers a ton of different encryption algorithms for .NET. In this case I have to select an encryption algorithm for the following use case:

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*Encrypting several thousand short strings for storage in an unencrypted file, typical length 10-30 characters.

*Encryption needs to be only moderately secure, all strings will be encrypted with the same key but a different initialization vector. Things like authorization (like in AES-GCM) are not needed.
Which encryption algorithm is both fastest and straightforward to apply for encrypting and decrypting such a set of several thousand small strings? I will store the encrypted data of each string as BASE64 in the file.
Thank you for your advice!

A: That processor still has AES-NI, so using that through the AES.Create seems most logical. A higher end solution would be to create CTR mode out of ECB (and cache the key streams).
Otherwise you are looking for a fast stream cipher in software. You could check if Salsa20 is working for you. Unfortunately that's the only eStream-compatible cipher that I can find in Bouncy Castle for C#.
Note that you may want to look into multi-threading and I would certainly check if it is possible to use sequential nonce when using a stream cipher, as generating a 128 bit random value for each encryption seems wasteful.

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Peyman Faratin (born September 16, 1965) is an Iranian/American computer scientist, and the founder of Robust Links, an Internet company building algorithms for creating and processing a knowledge graph.

Background
Peyman completed his PhD in computer science under the supervision of Prof. Nicholas R. Jennings and Prof. Carles Sierra. He made significant contributions in the area of artificial intelligence, particularly to automated negotiation in multi-agent systems. He was then a research scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAIL) laboratory, working with David D. Clark in the Advanced Network Architecture group.

Peyman has over eighteen years of experience in design and implementation of online marketplaces. He graduated from University of London (EECS department) in 2000 completing his doctoral thesis on algorithms for online bargaining and auction mechanisms, with application to business process management and supply chain management in telecommunication domains. Between 2000-2008 he was a researcher at MIT (Computer Science and AI Lab and Sloan School of Management) working with David Clark (the chief Internet protocol architect between 81-89) on design, analysis and implementation of various online market mechanisms for multi-scaled provisioning, control and access problems to IP networks. Work included design of various markets at both layer 3 and 7 applications. Dr. Faratin joined Strands Inc. as VP of innovation in 2008, where he served as SVP of Innovation, responsible for the entire innovation pipeline of the $55 million startup. While at Strands, he envisaged, developed, marketed and sold a prediction market technology to BBVA. He has published over fifty scientific articles in peer reviewed publications, served as reviewer for the NSF and won multiple competitive NSF and DARPA grants.

Current
Peyman is currently the founder of RobustLinks, funded by the National Science Foundation. The mission of RobustLinks is to use state of the art AI, NLP, and ML to compose Knowledge as a Service (KaaS). KaaS takes unstructured (textual) "big data" and reduces it to searchable knowledge. It integrates end-to-end technology stack that continuously gather, summarize and represent the semantics of unstructured text, in real-time and at scale. The derived semantics is then analyzed to condense the big data to a compact and searchable semantic graph.

Associations
Peyman is a board member of number of emerging startups, as well as member of the Association of Computing Machinery, New York Academy of Science, the New York City CTO club and a visiting scholar at Courant Institute of Mathematics at NYU. Dr. Faratin is an active member of the NYC technology community.

Selected publications
 P. Faratin, D. Clark, P. Gilmore, S. Bauer, A. Berger and W. Lehr (2008). The Growing Complexity of Internet Interconnections: Communications and Strategies, no.72, 4th quarter 2008
 D. D.Clark, W. Lehr, S.J. Bauer, P. Faratin, R. Sami, and J. Wroclawski (2006): Overlay Networks and Future of the Internet. In Journal of Communications and Strategies, 3(63), pp 1–21,2006
 P. Faratin, C. Sierra and N. Jennings (2002): Using Similarity Criteria to Make Negotiation Trade-Offs. In Journal of Artificial Intelligence. 142 (2) 205-237
 P. Faratin, C. Sierra and N. Jennings (1997): Negotiation Decision Functions for Autonomous Agents in Int. Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 24(3-4):159-182

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There's nothing virtual about Howard's spring hitting
DUNEDIN, Fla. -- Although they hired him as the cover boy for the video game "MLB '08 -- The Show," Sony Computer Entertainment hasn't sent a copy to Phillies slugger Ryan Howard yet.The game arrived at stores Tuesday.Instead of testing out the video game with a PlayStation 3 controller, Howard worked on his real game Wednesday in Dunedin. Although he didn't homer, the Phillies first baseman continued his solid start at the plate in Grapefruit League competition.Howard singled in the fourth inning and has hit safely in six of seven games this spring. "Right now it's still a work in progress," Howard said. "I'm just trying to put good at-bats together, get my timing, getting my swing down."Howard is hitting .421 with one home run and a team-high 14 total bases. That's halfway to the 28 total bases he collected in 24 games last spring.Last March, Howard struggled. He battled a quad injury and hit .221 in the Grapefruit League. His sluggish spring carried into the season, when he hit .204 (20-for-98) in his first 29 games before landing on the disabled list with the quad strain.That was a stark contrast to the spring of 2006. During the precursor to his MVP season, Howard hit .341 with 11 home runs and 23 RBIs in 28 games.Still, the 28-year-old wasn't buying into the theory that a strong spring could carry over into the regular season."I don't know ... it's all about your preparation I guess," he said. "In '06, I was healthy. You don't want to use it all up in spring training, though, because it doesn't count."l l l Kris Benson, who signed a minor-league, incentive-laden contract with the Phillies last month, will take the next step in his rehabilitation schedule Saturday.The veteran right-hander will throw in a simulated game Saturday. It will be the first time Benson pitches in a live situation since September 2006. Benson missed the 2007 season while recovering from right shoulder surgery."He's coming along very well. We're very pleased the way he's progressing," Phillies pitching coach Rich Dubee said. Could Benson be ready to join the team in April?"It depends on how quickly he progresses, how many pitches we can get him up to, how his arm bounces back," Dubee said. "There are a lot of variables. When will he be ready? It's still uncertain. But he is progressing."l l l At 6-6, 235, Valentino Pascucci may be the only player among the 63 Phillies in camp who is as physically imposing as Howard.Pascucci showed off his power by socking a solo home run through a tough wind at Knology Park in Dunedin, where the Phillies beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 6-1.The 29-year old Pascucci, a non-roster invitee, hit .284 with 34 home runs and 98 RBI for triple-A Albuqurque in the Florida Marlins system in 2007. "You want to create a little competition, put a good impression on a guy's mind, and (let the organization) know if something ever does happen, that they'll have the confidence to bring you up and fill that position," said Pascucci, who last played in the majors with the Expos in 2004.l l l Brad Lidge is moving along quickly with his rehab. Lidge, who underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee Feb. 24, played long-toss with Dubee Wednesday."He threw, and very, very well," Dubee said. "He's coming along great, his arm's feeling well and his knee is feeling well."Dubee said there's a possibility Lidge could work off a mound this weekend, but cautioned that that team will take its time and not rush Lidge back too soon.l l l The Phillies settled for the split in their only split-squad day of spring training. Brett Myers pitched four shutout innings in the Phillies' 6-1 win over the Blue Jays. In Lakeland, J.D. Durbin surrendered three homers in a 6-2 loss to the Tigers.
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Important Reminders for U.S. Boards of Directors Navigating COVID-19
Deborah Birnbach, Lisa Haddad, John Haggerty, Adam Slutsky
While COVID-19 will affect the operations of different companies in different ways, the boards of directors of every company should think critically about their oversight role in the context of this unprecedented global pandemic. Here are some things to remember based on the intersection of the pandemic with directors' duties.
Risk Oversight. Understandably, management teams are dealing with the crisis in real time, all the time. But the Board is critical to risk oversight. In June 2019, the Delaware Supreme Court revived a stockholder derivative lawsuit against the directors of ice-cream manufacturer Blue Bell Creameries (Marchand v. Barnhill), which was a single-product company with a product that was subject to critical FDA food-safety testing and standards. The decision hinged on the Supreme Court's view that Blue Bell's directors conceivably may have acted in bad faith by not more proactively taking specific and targeted actions to set up a "system of controls" to alert it to food safety compliance issues—an "essential and mission critical" area for the single-product company. One of the action items for boards coming out of this decision, as well as a subsequent related decision from the Delaware Court of Chancery concerning the company Clovis Oncology, was to consider and identify such "essential and mission critical" risks. COVID-19 is unique in that it may present a mission-critical risk to virtually every company. More than ever, directors need to confirm that their companies have protocols and procedures in place to ensure information flow to the board on the state of the company's business and financial condition, no matter how busy the management team is, including through potential committees specifically formed to address risk, as well as setting explicit expectations with management to report regularly on the pandemic's effects on operations.
Disclosure Oversight. On March 4, 2020, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton reminded "all companies to provide investors with insight regarding their assessment of, and plans for addressing, material risks to their business and operations resulting from the coronavirus to the fullest extent practicable to keep investors and markets informed of material developments." The SEC "encourages all companies and other related persons to consider their activities in light of their disclosure obligations under the federal securities laws," such as "refrain[ing] from engaging in securities transactions with the public and to take steps to prevent directors and officers (and other corporate insiders who are aware of these matters) from initiating such transactions until investors have been appropriately informed about the risk." Boards should continue to take steps to ensure that corporate disclosures are accurate and complete against the backdrop of constantly evolving circumstances, including by considering risk factors (e.g., about global macroeconomic uncertainty generally and disruptions to business operations specifically) and earnings guidance (e.g., the accuracy of previously issued guidance and whether and when to issue additional guidance).
Insider Trading. On March 23, 2020, the co-directors of the SEC's Division of Enforcement issued a public statement warning of the potential increased prevalence of insider trading as a result of COVID-19: "Given these unique circumstances, a greater number of people may have access to material nonpublic information than in less challenging times. Those with such access – including, for example, directors, officers, employees, and consultants and other outside professionals – should be mindful of their obligations to keep this information confidential and to comply with the prohibitions on illegal securities trading." While pre-existing Rule 10b5-1 trading plans will provide an affirmative defense against accusations of insider trading, creating or modifying such plans during this turbulent period presents heightened risks, because Rule 10b5-1 plans can be created or modified only when the insider is not aware of material non-public information (MNPI), and the existence of MNPI is far more likely than normal in light of the disruptive force of COVID-19. Similarly, while it is typically best practice to enter into a Rule 10b5-1 plan during an open trading window under a company's insider trading policy, traditionally open trading windows may no longer be open as a result of MNPI relating to COVID-19.
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Q: Plotly,de un DataFrame de 10 columnas, solamente me representa la gráfica de 8 de ellas Dispongo del DataFrame

Quiero representar en una sola gráfica plotly, la evolución de los valores de esas columnas. Para ello ejecuto este script.
# Columna Close del DataFrame aapl
import plotly.express as px
df = (df_final/df_final.iloc[0])
px.line(df ,y=df.columns ,title="Cotizaciones normalizadas al cierre")

Me devuelve la siguiente gráfica

Se puede ver que no representa la gráfica de las dos últimas columnas. ¿Cuál puede ser la causa?. Agradeceré ayuda.

A: He encontrado ésta solución:
import plotly.express as px
fig = px.line(df_portafolio, y=df_portafolio.columns,
              title="Cotizaciones normalizadas al cierre")

fig.update_layout(width=800, height=600)

# Aumenta los intervalos del eje 'y' a 200
fig.update_yaxes(tick0=0, dtick=200)

fig.show()

La primera línea importa la biblioteca plotly.express con el alias px, para utilizar sus funciones de manera más sencilla.
La siguiente línea crea una figura con el método px.line, que dibuja un gráfico de líneas. El método recibe como primer argumento el DataFrame df_portafolio, que contiene los datos que se desean visualizar.
La opción y=df_portafolio.columns indica que cada columna del DataFrame se representará en una línea diferente en el gráfico.
La opción title establece el título de la figura.
La siguiente línea ajusta el tamaño de la figura a 800x600 píxeles mediante el método update_layout.
Finalmente, se muestra la figura con el método show()


Three Lashkar-e-Toiba militants, including two Pakistani nationals arrested by BSF in 2007 from the Indo-Bangladesh border at Petrapole, were today sentenced to death by a court in Bongaon in West Bengal's North 24-Parganas district in a case of waging war against the Government.
Pakistani militants Moham-med Younus and Abdullah and an Indian, Muzaffar Ahmed Rathod, were sentenced to death by judge Binay Kumar Pathak of Bongaon fast track court-1.
The three have been booked under IPC Sections 120B (punishment of criminal conspiracy), 121 (waging, or attempting to wage war) and 122 (collecting arms with intention of waging war against the Government of India), CID DIG (Operations) Nishad Pervej said.
Abdullah and Younus are residents of Pakistan's Karachi and Haripur respectively, while Rathod hailed from Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district.
They were arrested by BSF while trying to enter India through its International Border with Bangladesh at Petrapole on April 4, 2007.
"They had a plan to attack Army camps in Jammu and Kashmir, but before they could proceed with their plan they were caught by BSF and handed over to Bangaon police station," he said.
The probe found that all the four were well-trained in using AK-47 rifles, hand grenades and manufacturing bombs.
Sheikh Abdullah Nayeem alias Sameer from Maharashtra, another LeT militant who was also arrested along with them, had managed to flee in 2013 when he was being taken to Mumbai.
During investigation, it was found that Abdullah was a teacher while Sheikh Abdullah Nayeem was an engineer by profession. They were involved in an incident of bomb blast in Mumbai.


I just received mt second Shavemac Silvertip brush and it has a strong chemical odor, reminds me of moth balls. Soaked and washed it twice in dish washing soap and tried some shampoo as well. It really stinks. The other Shavemac is great, no odor; a great brush.
Anyone have a suggestion about how to clear the air?
I noticed, a post from a couple of years ago, that some people had a similar issue, just wondering if any solution's were found.
I would recommend using your strongest scented soap to do a few successive palm lathers to see it that mitigates the odd odour.
I'd try vinegar solution followed by baking soda then hand soap, to attack the scent at its origin. Only thing worst than stink is masked stink.
(04-17-2019, 05:20 AM)lloydrm Wrote: I'd try vinegar solution followed by baking soda then hand soap, to attack the scent at its origin. Only thing worst than stink is masked stink.
I disagree, Stink is a lot worst then masked stink. But I do get your point!
I had only one brush that take so much to clean it that I completely discard it as I think that there is nothing to do with it! It always stink like a WET dog and worst.
That exception made, I had no problem after a couple of hand wash!
Thanks all for the replies, an.
Maybe I am unfamiliar with wet badgers, but this really smells like moth balls.
(04-16-2019, 06:56 PM)celestino Wrote: I would recommend using your strongest scented soap to do a few successive palm lathers to see it that mitigates the odd odour.
You might consider soaking the brush overnight in a borax solution followed by another 12 hours (or so) in a shampoo solution. If that doesn't work, I'd suggest reaching out to Bernd for his suggestions.
In that regard, we typically soak our knots overnight in a shampoo solution before drying and setting. Still, we had a batch of knots come through a few years ago that were particularly "stinky;" but a couple long soaks in borax followed by a night swimming in shampoo cleaned things up quite nicely.


Finally, at long last, we had a chance to sow our wheat field. But not without a lot of work!
First things first. Our tractor has been down all summer, so some wonderful friends of ours (hi Mike and Judy!) loaned us their tractor. These are the kinds of people who would literally give you the shirt off their backs, and we're honored to be among their friends.
Mike drove his tractor to our house (a distance of - what - four miles?) from his house.
Don had disked the pasture several times over the summer to kill weeds, but there was still some growth.
So this time he decided to dig deeper and use the cultivator rather than the disker.
This loosened the soil much deeper than the disker had.
Next he disked once again.
Ready to plant? Not quite.
But first we had to get the seed wheat. We got one hundred pounds of treated hard red winter wheat (type: Paladin), resistant to the Hessian fly, and non-hybrid. Cost: $18.
This wheat is treated with a fungicide to maximize the potential for germination. For this reason, it is not suitable for human or animal consumption. The fungicide dyes the wheat red so it can't be mistaken for regular untreated wheat (which, of course, is brown).
Before sowing, though, Don wanted to run over the field one more time with another neighbor's chain-drag-thingy, which smooths everything out. I tell ya, with all the stuff we're borrowing from everybody, this wheat field is truly a neighborhood endeavor.
The chain-drag-thingy was pretty heavy, so we sort of draped it over the tractor bucket in order to bring it over to our wheat field.
But boy what a difference it made in how smooth the field was!
Finally, at long last, we were ready to plant! I found an old photograph of a farmer sowing seed by hand. This was the technique we needed to emulate.
...then we spaced ourselves across the pasture and prepared to sow.
It was a little trickier than it looked, trying to fling the seed evenly across the ground.
Sure, the wheat won't grow as pretty and uniform and weed-free as the professional farmers, but what the heck - if all goes well, we'll have enough wheat to feed our family for a year as well as share some with the kind friends who loaned us their implements and equipment. North Idaho is wheat country, so there's no reason ours shouldn't grow at least moderately well.
Don took one last pass over the field with the chain-drag-thingy. This buries the seed very shallow, and keeps the birds from eating it.
And that's it. In theory, with the possible exception of adding some fertilizer in the spring, we don't have to do a thing to this field until next August.
Winter wheat is planted in the fall. It starts to grow, then goes dormant over the winter, buried in a blanket of snow. In the spring, it comes up lush and impossibly green. It starts to head in July, and by August it should be ready to harvest. We'll see what happens!
I'm a little confused. The seed is "treated with a fungicide to maximize the potential for germination. For this reason, it is not suitable for human or animal consumption." But,"if all goes well, we'll have enough wheat to feed our family for a year..." Could you please clarify?
Oops!...Sorry, Jessica, I should have explained better. What I meant was, the SEED WHEAT is not for consumption, because it's been treated with the fungicide. The fungicide is merely to protect the seed during its early germination phase, because wheat is vulnerable to fungal attacks at this tender stage.
However once it grows and produces heads, and once those heads are harvested (nearly a year after planting), the wheat is perfectly suitable for consumption.
Do you have a friend with a combine? How do you plan to harvest?
So, come next August, we'll be sharpening the scythe and using that to harvest the wheat. Obviously it won't all get harvested in one day, but instead over about a week or so. Then we'll have to flail the wheat heads to loosen the seeds. Then we'll have to separate the wheat from the chaff (using the services of a windy day). Yup, the old-fashioned way.
Just an FYI, the chain-drag-thingy is called a harrow. My grandpa used to make them and he would hire my cousin and I to weld the drawbars.
Awesome Patrice! Loved the photos and the details. Can't wait to see the results next summer. Would love to help the in the harvesting process! Miss ya, already!
Living in Kansas wheat.corn, soybean country I was familiar with the basics. But a narrative on the nuts and bolts changed my perceptions, I am just imagining our ancestors and a bunch of horse drawn implements. What you portrayed as a one day job would have been a few. No wonder farm communities were tight knit and willing to help a friend but strangers would have a hard time until they had proved their worth by pitching in.
i did the same process last fall and harvested about 8 bushels of wheat from a smaller plot. For what it's worth, I hand broadcasted red clover seed in the wheat while the ground was still freezing nights last spring. (It's called frost seeding.) The clover sprouted in the wheat and took off pretty well after I cut the wheat in early July. I could cut the clover for hay now and plow the stubble down for green manure, but I plan to leave it all next summer and plow it down a year from now. I will get a full year's hay, then plow down and plant corn there the year after. My intent is to have a 4 year rotation of Corn - Beans - Wheat/Clover - Clover on 1 1/2 acres total. Should go a long way toward feeding the family and the animals.
And yes, I know I could buy the grain for a price that leaves me working for about $1 per hour. I am convinced that that situation will change catastrophically soon enough.
Patrice, like Ottar,my first thoughts on harvesting this field also went to draft animals. Are there farms nearby that work them? We have a few here, and they also train folks to drive and care for teams. Precious skills and knowledge, indeed.
Tickmeister...(love that handle)...I like your approach and agree it's well worth the time invested for the same reason you stated. I hope you'll keep us posted on the outcome.
May you have a bountiful harvest, Patrice!


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Benno Heune wrote what is considered to be the best introductory book on engraving ever..."Basic Engraving".
This book presents the basics in an easy-to-understand format. Every engraver will gain important knowledge from this useful book. Spiral bound, 45 pages.
Ben Heune was a member of the Firearms Engravers of America (FEGA), and lived in Bridgeport, CA.
His first foray into engraving came in 1944, while he was convalescing at a military hospital at Pearl Harbor. He engraved knives and guns for fellow servicemen, charging .25/word.
After WW II, Heune returned to Modesto, CA, where he worked as a firefighter.
In 1955, he left the fire service to buy a sporting goods store and marina in Bridgeport. Ben studied under Jack Morris in their saddle and silver shop, and he did some contract engraving work for silver shops in Reno, NV.
20 years after buying the sporting goods store, Heune sold it and took up the practice of engraving with (and teaching classes on) the 'Gravermeister, hand-engraving machine.
The 'Gravermesiter' is best likened to a miniature air-hammer, in that it is a compressed-air-powered graver, and allows the complex engraving of very hard materials (like guns).
Heune eventually sold Gravermeisters, conducted class on both manual ('graving') and Gravermeister engraving. His students ranged in age from the very young to the elderly, and there are still folks active in the profession who remember him and his classes.
He taught NRA engraving classes at Lassen College in California, and for Rio Grande in Tucson, Arizona.


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Making a Splash: Cool Contents
No, they're not really splash pages, but during DC's experiment with making several of their titles 100 page mags, they would often give the first page over to a table of contents. Most of the time the art on the contents page was some cut and paste job featuring older, reworked art from random sources. Sometimes, though, a wise editor would commission a brand new piece of art from a fave artist like Walt Simonson, Sal Amendola, or Howard Chaykin (not 100% sure on that one, though...). Once in a while a hot up-and-coming artist like Pat Broderick (often inked by yet another newcomer, Terry Austin) got a shot at creating contents page art. Here are some of Ol' Groove's faves from Brave and the Bold, Detective Comics, and World's Finest!
Throughout the remainder of the Groovy Age, DC would commission some cool contents page art for their sixty-cent and Dollar Comic mags. We'll look at some of those masterpieces in a future post. Sound good to ya, Groove-ophiles?
Labels: 100 page super spectacular, 1970s comic books, 1970s comicbooks, brave and the bold, DC Comics, detective comics, making a splash, pat broderick, sal amendola, walt simonson, world's finest
Unca Jeffy March 20, 2010 at 12:30 AM
These WERE cool. I remember them well...and sometimes they were the best drawn (certainly best laid out) pages in the books.
Dave Ryan April 1, 2019 at 7:09 PM
In order (some credited, some not) BRAVE & THE BOLD 114 title page is by Pat Broderick.
DETECTIVE COMICS 440 title page by Howard Chaykin (and the first story as well).
DETECTIVE COMICS 439 contents page by Sal Almendola (credited on one of the gravestones, a very cool page).
Title page for DETECTIVE 443 with Manhunter by Simonson.
DETECTIVE COMICS 442, with Batman standing by a circus banner containing the issues story contents, by Pat Broderick.
WORLD'S FINEST 225 contents page by Broderick, Oct 1974 in the indica at the bottom.
WORLD'S FINEST 226, also by Broderick.
As I understand it, doing the contents pages and other special new 2 or 3 page features in the 100-page issues were Pat Broderick's first pro work in comics.
After that, his first actual stories were for the Seaboard-Atlas comics in 1975, such as PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES 1 and 2, BLAZING BATTLE TALES 1 (pencils, inked by Sparling, 12p), and a backup in PHOENIX 3 (a street-fighting Batman-like character, The Dark Avenger, inked by Austin, 8p).
From there I think Broderick's first series work was on CAPTAIN MARVEL in the last few issues before that title was cancelled (issues 55-62, and continued after cancellation in 1979 in MARVEL SPOTLIGHT 1-3)
And then where I first heard of him on MICRONAUTS 19-34 in 1980-1981.
Plus a "Creature Commandos" story or two by Broderick for WEIRD WAR TALES around the same time.
But Broderick had already done fantastic work on his CAPTAIN MARVEL run, back before he rose to stardom.
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This is the sixth post in the West Coast! A Week in San Francisco and Sonoma Series. Other posts in this series include Sonoma Starlight at Francis Ford Coppola Winery, Sonoma Wine Country Weekend – Taste of Sonoma 2015, Glen Ellen Star Sonoma, Santé Restaurant at the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa, and Russian River Brewing Company.
I've been curious about Kin Khao for ages.
I first really fell in love with Thai food about two years ago when I visited Thailand for the first time. I was blown away by the sights, sounds, and most importantly, the tastes, that Thailand had to offer. I sampled all sorts of street foods, devoured the local tropical fruits, and tasted some phenomenal noodle dishes from open air restaurants. I took multiple cooking classes, and came away with a wealth of recipes.
I've been hankering for authentic Thai food ever since coming back to Boston.
And you know what? It's surprisingly difficult to find.
This is why I was so excited when I first heard of Kin Khao. Kin Khao is the creative inspiration of Pim Techamuanvivit. Pim first became well-known through her immensely popular food blog Chez Pim. Pim started blogging well before food blogging became a thing. I also felt a connection to Pim because she was one of the three judges for Project Food Blog, a national blogging competition I poured my heart into (and won first place!) in 2010.
In 2014, Pim partnered with Michael Gaines (Manresa) to open a Thai restaurant. Pim's vision was to serve the type of Thai food she grew up eating – dishes that used herbs and spices to enhance ingredients, not cover up their inferior quality. It would be Thai home cooking dishes, executed through the lens of chefs with refined palates.
The menu is divided into multiple sections, including Bites (smaller dishes that serve well as appetizers), Meats, Fish & Seafood, Greens, Curries, Sides, and Dessert. There's even a section called Namprik Relish, which includes an "umami-bomb" shrimp paste relish served with pork jowl, crispy catfish, and seasonal vegetables.
Our table of four decided it made most sense to order a bunch of food family-style from all different sections of the menu.
Mushroom Hor Mok Terrine (vegetarian) was a very rich curry mousse-in-a-jar "terrine" served alongside crispy rice cakes. The rice cakes were very similar (if not identical) to the ones that I've had in Chinese sizzling rice soup. Here, we used them as "crackers" to eat with the rich, mushroom terrine. It was very rich, full of umami, and tasty.
One of my favorite dishes of the evening was the Nam Tok Beans (V), a dish made of scarlet runner beans tossed Isaan-style with lime, chili, rice powder, light soy, shallots, scallions, mint, and cilantro. I loved the complex mix of flavors, which were both smoky, spicy, and full of umami while at the same time being bright, herbaceous, and fragrant. It was excellent.
Another favorite was the Plah Pla Muek, charred Monterey Bay squid served with a tangy, spicy seafood sauce topped with generous amounts of peanuts and cilantro. The squid was perfectly cooked here (not too rubbery!), and I loved the bold flavors of the dish, which included tartness from lime, floral fragrance from the cilantro, umami from fish sauce, and tasty nuttiness from the peanuts. It's very flavorful and quite addictive.
The dish is on the saltier side, so it's best enjoyed with some rice!
The only real miss of the evening was the Blistered Chinese Long Beans, deep fried long beans served in XO sauce made from dried scallops, dried shrimp, dried ham, ginger, and garlic. Although the flavors could have been decent, the overall dish was just way too salty and hard to enjoy.
I was curious to try the Pad Kee Mao (drunken noodles), a dish I fell in love with in Thailand after trying it at an amazing streetside stall. Pad kee mao is a stir fried dish that includes meat, flat rice noodles, and a variety of fragrant herbs. Key attributes to a really good pad kee mao include a super hot wok (to achieve that smoky wok-fired flavor), boldly flavored fresh ingredients, and mad wok skills.
The pad kee mao here was quite good. The flavors of the the fragrant ingredients (garlic, birds eye chili, onions, bell peppers, and holy basil) definitely came through. However, it was missing that characteristic wok smoke that I remember so distinctly in Thailand.
Despite the lack of wok smoke, the pad kee mao here is still a very solid dish and enjoyable to eat. It's still authentic in its flavor profile and refreshingly not too sweet (something that happens way too often in American Thai restaurants).
Our final course was the Khun Yai's Rabbit Green Curry, a larger dish (great for sharing!) made from Kiew Wan curry paste, rabbit leg and saddle, rabbit meatballs, apple eggplants, and Thai basil. This was also a tasty dish, with a flavorful curry sauce and tender meat.
I've always loved how Thai desserts mix sweet and salty so elegantly (that salty coconut cream they put on everything is so addictive!). Our table shared a Warm Black Rice Pudding, which came with several "toppings" that we could mix and match with the rice pudding: burnt coconut sugar caramel sauce, salty coconut cream, and puffed rice, peanut, and sesame praline.
They call it a "make-it-yourself Thai Sundae", which is not far from the truth. My favorite combination was the black rice with the salty coconut cream (love that stuff!) and the puffed rice mixture, which added a fun crunch to the dish.
I personally really enjoyed this dish, and I think anyone who loves Thai desserts would feel the same way.
We had the opportunity to briefly say hi to Pim. She was very warm and friendly. Unfortunately, she had to dash out to pick up a friend from the airport, so we didn't have a chance to really chat.
All in all, we had a very enjoyable meal at Kin Khao. Standouts were Nam Tok Beans and Plah Pla Muek (squid). I also really enjoyed the Pad Kee Mao and the simple Black Rice Pudding dessert. I would have loved to try the rest of the menu. Alas, our stomachs would not have been able to handle it.
Kin Khao is definitely one of the best Thai restaurants I've visited in the U.S. (Though to be fair, I have not been to that many, and only a handful of really good ones). The dishes are much more authentic than what you would find at your typical Thai restaurant. They highlight bold flavors in a way that balances the four pillars of Thai cooking: sweet, salty, sour, and spicy. It's a place that has started out quite nicely, and fills a much needed void, not only for San Francisco, but really for the entire U.S.
Here's to more authentic Thai food!


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The entire country, at least everyone who cares enough to be informed, is worrying about a government shutdown; except me. I'm worried about how many babies Planned Parenthood and America's abortion industry will kill today, tomorrow, and the next day. I'm worried about the culture of death that's permeating the world; a world where Islamic radical nut jobs routinely torture and behead anyone they consider to be an infidel, a world where politicians pursue an agenda that's best for them, not their constituents, and a world teetering on the edge of moral and financial collapse because honor and integrity have been relegated to alphabetized words in a dictionary rather than the foundational basis for all our lives. A government shutdown will result in all non-essential personnel being furloughed. Maybe it's only me, but if they are non-essential, why is the government employing them in the first place? Hopefully, a government shutdown will result in a suspension of the $1.5 million Planned Parenthood gets every day from the U.S. government; courtesy of unwilling taxpayers like me.
Ms. Richards, the children being killed by your organization at a rate of 1 every 94 seconds are our last great hope. Unless you kill them, they will enter the world free of hate, bias, and negativity. They will enter the world as pure, unlimited potential; ready and willing to fix our broken societies and mend the fences of hatred and mistrust that continue to embroil our world in constant war and human suffering. All we have to do is let them be born, just like all of us were.
Ms. Richards, infanticide, aside from lining your pockets, serves no useful purpose. Killing innocent, unborn children for money flies against any conceivable concept of rational human behavior, and calling it women's reproductive health care confirms that you know what you are doing is wrong. 3,300 unborn American children will die today in the name of women's reproductive health care. We will never know which one of these children would have been the next Jonas Salk, Michelangelo, or Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every child killed by abortion becomes an angel, much too early. Abortion does more than just kill innocent children. Every mother who has an abortion is still a mother; she just becomes the mother of a dead child. Every worker in an abortion clinic dies a little more inside, every time they end another human life; for nothing more than a paycheck. The unintended consequences of abortion drag a society ever closer to the abyss of moral oblivion. If America continues to kill over a million of its children every year we all deserve the consequences of our actions or inaction.
As a pro-life blogger my goals are simple. Allow every child the opportunity to be born. There are no guarantees in life and it's up to every human being to make the most of the life they've been given. It's also up to the parents and grandparents of the world to insure that our children have access to an educational system that allows them to discover and express their universally unique abilities in an educational environment that recognizes and nurtures their individual strengths and weaknesses. Common Core, pretty much like everything else the government gets involved in, fails our children miserably by forcing educators to teach to a test rather than tailoring their instruction to fit the individual needs and capabilities of their students.
Mr. President, a country that allows nearly a third of its children to be killed before they can be born, is now intent on imposing a 'one size fits all' educational curriculum on our remaining children; creating a generation of mind-numbed robots. Apparently, in the minds of government bureaucrats, mediocre is the new normal. I have no problem with setting achievement standards and performance criteria for America's students, but forcing education professionals to funnel all their students through an instructional template designed to herd the maximum number of kids to a magic number is not the way to go.
Sir, Planned Parenthood and America's abortion mills have killed 56,000,000 of our children since 1973. We can't afford to deny today's children the opportunity to realize their full potential. We can't afford to hold back the best and brightest so a bunch of politicians can pat themselves on the back while they point to a meaningless number on a meaningless bar graph with the only measurable result being the dumbing down of our children.
Mr. President, saving the world's children from the scourge of abortion is my number one priority. Insuring that they are able to reach their full potential is next. Common Core will do nothing other than create a generation of automatons who all got a gold star, a piece of paper telling them they were the best, and a total lack of knowledge in the power of critical thinking.
Here are a couple suggestions. Scrap Common Core, scrap the Dept. of Education, let the states decide how to educate their children, and resign the Presidency immediately. Tell you what; I'll settle for 3 out of 4. You pick.
Your mission to turn America into a third-world nation is accelerating at a breakneck pace. Spineless politicians on both sides of the aisle are rolling over and playing dead now that they have a real chance to abort ObamaCare. That's OK. 2014 is right around the corner and 2016 isn't that far away; and Americans of conscience have a long memory. I know this is a pro-life blog, but speaking out against ObamaCare is speaking out for life.
ObamaCare will force every American to involuntarily fund abortion. We are already forced to send Planned Parenthood over $500 million a year, but this will take it to another level. I have no problem with a government shutdown if that's what it takes to get rid of ObamaCare. Essential functions will continue and essential personnel will still have to report to work. I guess that means you and Congress will be getting some time off.
The Affordable Care Act is anything but affordable. You sold this Rube Goldberg affair to a low information public with your promise that it would cost less than $900 billion. The CBO is now reporting that it will cost at least 3 times that much, and it hasn't even been implemented yet. It will further bankrupt an already bankrupt America and serve as the last nail in the coffin of the greatest country in the history of the world. You haven't even figured out how to implement it yet and it takes effect on October 1. What could possibly go wrong?
Mr. President, over 70% of the country you swore to serve doesn't want what you're trying to give them. When you have to pay a sleazy organization like Planned Parenthood to promote an albatross like ObamaCare you know it's really bad. Just think about it. Hiring an organization that kills babies for a living to promote your health care plan is not only the ultimate in hypocrisy, but just plain stupid.
Sir, if ObamaCare is such a great idea, why was it designed so the most onerous provisions of it won't take effect until after the 2014 elections, and why did Congress exempt themselves from it? You know why, and so do most Americans.
My letters to you are published on my pro-life blog at www.prolifepoppop.com. Take a step back from ruining my country and write back. I'll publish your reply, unedited.
Where to begin? The tweets themselves both have merit and make a lot of sense. The tweeter, on the other hand, has no credibility and her, your words ring hollow. I believe you can judge a person by the company they keep. Hanging out with the likes of Hillary Clinton and Valerie Jarrett pretty much says it all for you. And 'feel good tweets' from a woman who runs an organization that kills hundreds of thousands of American babies every year don't quite pass the sniff test. Ms. Richards, do you think killing babies is a form of discrimination? If you didn't discriminate against them and kill them wouldn't they begin their lives free of violence?
With all due respect, if you really believe your tweet 'free workplace from discrimination and free lives from violence' do the world a favor and close the doors of every Planned Parenthood clinic today and never open them again. You'll save millions of lives; you'll stop having to pay someone to read my letters, and I'll get to spend my nights and weekends doing something other than writing letters to corrupt politicians and child killers.
Ms. Richards, may I suggest that you live by the words you tweet. 'One person with one good idea can change lives.' Here's an idea; let's all respect every human being's right to life. Ms. Richards, one good idea can not only change lives, it can save them.
All my letters to you are published on my pro-life blog at www.prolifepoppop.com. Should you ever choose to reply, I'll publish it, unedited.


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There are not too many people who have not heard of the beloved childhood books "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900), and the sequel that followed, "The Marvelous Land of Oz" (1904), both written by a man named L. Frank Baum.
Before L. Frank Baum wrote the book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", he held the editors chair at a weekly newspaper called "The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer" in South Dakota in the early 1890's, during the time of the "Indian Wars." Baum filled the pages of his newspaper with passionate essays, political poetry, satirical humor, and some of the most exuberant and inventive local reporting ever seen during that time period.
When L. Frank Baum learned of the killing of Sitting Bull and the massacre at Wounded Knee, his editorials took a severe turn, revealing his true character and he began filling his pages with editorials calling for the "killing each and every last Native American."
"The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possessions, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull. With Sitting Bull's fall, the nobility of the Redskin has been extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them. The Whites, by the law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians. Just why not annihilation? Their glory has already fled, their spirits are broken, their manhood effaced; it is better that they die than live the miserable wretches that they are."
This is not an isolated opinion of L. Frank Baum. This is who Baum was. A cold blooded monster, a highly racist white supremacist who also just so happened to also write beloved children's books! Most of us have either heard of or read these childhood books. Many have passed them down to their own children. Maybe it's time for some of us to re-evaluate our true feelings of what we thought we knew about the person writing these "beloved children's books". The truth is, Mr. L. Frank Baum is DISGUSTING and a true DISGRACE to all Native & Indigenous People!!


Rob: Hello! I'm Rob and this is 6 Minute English. I'm joined today by Alice. Hi Alice.
Rob: Today, we're talking about universities around the world, and a new list that shows the top two hundred. I'm going to start by asking you a question Alice – which university has come number one in this list?
Alice: There are so many famous universities around the World – let me guess – is it Cambridge?
Rob: Well, Cambridge University, in England, is certainly on the list but you'll have to wait until the end of the programme to see if you are right.
Rob: This new list is called the London Times Higher Education List. It ranks universities on a number of factors. These include its quality of teaching, the influence of its research and the income it gets for research.
Alice: So, if these factors are higher, the university gets a higher ranking.
Rob: That's right. Of course, funding is very important.
Alice: Funding…that's money in other words. Is a university more successful if it gets more funding?
Rob: Well, that is what Professor Steve Smith thinks. He is President of Universities UK which represents all British universities. He says the US puts two-and-ahalf times the amount of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) into its universities than we do in the UK.
The US puts two-and-a-half times the amount of GDP into its universities than we do and therefore, surprisingly, they get two-and-a-half times the number of universities in the top two hundred. I think this is all about the investment that countries put in the future - all about the investment they put in their universities.
Rob: Professor Steve Smith says it's all about the investment the country puts into their universities that makes them successful.
Alice: OK. So he says the US invests more money in universities than the UK so they have more of them on this list. Can I change my answer now?!
Rob: No Alice. You may still be right. Fourteen British institutions are on the list including Oxford and Cambridge. It's interesting that the institutions which dominate the top of the list are English speaking ones as BBC reporter Jonny Hogg explains….
It's English speaking universities, and particularly those in America, that dominate the top spots in this list. You have to go down to number fifteen to find the first non Anglophone establishment, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and surprisingly, France's renowned Ecole Polytechnique only comes in thirty ninth.
Alice: Ah, so American universities dominate the top of the list, but what does he mean about the first non-Anglophone establishment being at number fifteen?
Rob: Well, Anglophone means English speaking. So the first non-Anglophone university in the list was?
Alice: The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. But come on Rob, who was number one?
Elsewhere, Asia has done well, with Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and China all having universities in the top forty. Only two African institutions, one, the university of Capetown in South Africa, the other, the University of Alexandria in Egypt, make the top two hundred.
Rob: So Jonny Hogg said universities in Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and China were in the top forty.
Alice: Yes, mainland China has six universities on the list and there are two in Africa.


Extension has a rich history in urban, suburban, and rural communities. This library archives comprehensive resources from urban Extension events, publications, and milestones.
View the National Urban Extension Interactive Historical Timeline online.
-The Journal of Human Sciences and Extension (JHSE) published an urban-themed issue (June 2017).
-The Journal of Extension (JOE) is a rigorous, peer-reviewed journal that brings the scholarship of university outreach and engagement to educators and practitioners around the world.
• Here are the results of a search based on the keywords urban, metro, city, and diversity of pertinent articles in JOE.
WCMER research fellow Marie Ruemenapp (Michigan State University) conducted an extensive search of existing published literature relevant to metropolitan Extension.
-The Metropolitan Universities Journal (MUJ) is the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities' (CUMU) quarterly online journal. This journal disseminates scholarship on topics impacting urban and metropolitan colleges and universities.


Cheyanne Sinatra has purchased 2 orders (4 items) tonight. It says it is IM'g her but she is not seeing any im's. I did a re-delivery on all items and got the same "IM" message but she is not seeing anything at all. Yesterday she tells me things came right away.
Can we check if there is anything we can do on our end other than what i have already done?
We haven't done any site update earlier today, we have a site update planned for tomorrow (after midnight PDT). Is it possible she's referring to GCG having done some core maintenance today?
Please ask Cheyanne to check her viewer settings to make sure she hasn't blocked getting IMs from people who aren't in her friends list (in Firestorm: Preferences > Privacy > General). She should also check her Block / Mute list to make sure she hasn't added Kitely Market by accident.
i should mention that i tried delivering to myself as well and got messages that the items were in my inventory and they aren't....so guessing it is an issue on their end? And yes she did say they did some sort of maintenance on GCG today. She has posted to their forum as well.
What were the order IDs of your delivery attempts beverly?
i sent tests, do those have order id's?
Test Delivery delivers to your Kitely avatar, you should be able to find the items you checked in your Kitely avatar's "# Kitely Market" inventory folder.
Last edited by beverly Zauberflote on Tue Apr 12, 2016 3:13 am, edited 1 time in total.
When you try to Test Delivery and have the Deliver To setting in your shopping cart set to Other Avatar (instead of to My Kitely Avatar) you're asked whether to Continue (and deliver to that Other Avatar) or to change the delivery "To Me". Did you make sure to click Continue?
We sent the avatar Ilan Tochner @ OSGrid the item "Some Item Name (Test)".
Switch to the viewer and click Accept or Keep to keep the item. The item is now in the avatar's inventory, either in the folder "Objects" or in the folder "My Suitcase > Objects".
If you don't see the item, or you got the error "Can't find item to give. Nothing given.", then restart the viewer and then check your inventory again. If you still don't see the item then visit Kitely Market Delivery to Other Grids for additional help.
Did you get that message inside Kitely Market?
Before an order can be delivered to an avatar's inventory on a third-party grid that avatar needs to get an IM from Kitely Market that contains a link that completes the delivery process. If GCG is no longer delivering the IMs our system sends then you won't be able to click the links they contain to get the items.
Are you able to send her GCG avatar an IM from your Kitely avatar? Is she able to reply to it?


text:
MARILLO v. BENJAMIN MOORE CO
Gary MARILLO, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. BENJAMIN MOORE & CO. and Benjamin Moore & Co., Ltd., Defendants-Appellants.
PRESENT: HURLBUTT, J.P., SCUDDER, GORSKI, AND GREEN, JJ. Carter, Conboy, Case, Blackmore, Maloney & Laird, P.C., Albany (Louis U. Gasparini of Counsel), for Defendants-Appellants. Smith, Sovik, Kendrick & Sugnet, P.C., Syracuse (Steven Ward Williams of Counsel), for Plaintiff-Respondent.
Plaintiff commenced this action to recover damages for injuries he sustained when he was unloading a tanker truck at a manufacturing facility operated by defendant Benjamin Moore & Co., Ltd. in Ontario, Canada. Defendant Benjamin Moore & Co. is the parent company of defendant Benjamin Moore & Co., Ltd. Supreme Court properly denied that part of defendants' motion seeking an order determining that the law of Ontario applies to this action and granted that part of plaintiff's cross motion seeking an order determining that the law of New York applies to this action. "[T]here is a conflict between the law of New York and the law of Ontario, Canada with respect to the cap on the amount of noneconomic damages recoverable by plaintiff, and thus the conflicting laws relate to the allocation of losses among the parties rather than the regulation of conduct" (Cunningham v. Williams, 28 A.D.3d 1211, 1212, 814 N.Y.S.2d 467). Because, as the parties agree, the conflicting laws are loss-allocating rather than substantive, one of the three Neumeier rules applies (Neumeier v. Kuehner, 31 N.Y.2d 121, 128, 335 N.Y.S.2d 64, 286 N.E.2d 454; see Cooney v. Osgood Mach., 81 N.Y.2d 66, 72, 595 N.Y.S.2d 919, 612 N.E.2d 277; Dorsey v. Yantambwe, 276 A.D.2d 108, 110, 715 N.Y.S.2d 566, lv. denied 96 N.Y.2d 712, 729 N.Y.S.2d 439, 754 N.E.2d 199). The determination of which rule applies depends, in the first instance, on the domiciles of the parties (see Cooney, 81 N.Y.2d at 73-74, 595 N.Y.S.2d 919, 612 N.E.2d 277).
Here, the domicile of both defendants is New Jersey because they both maintain their principal place of business there (see Dorsey, 276 A.D.2d at 111, 715 N.Y.S.2d 566), and it is undisputed that plaintiff's domicile is New York and that the laws of New York and New Jersey are not in conflict with respect to the cap on the amount of noneconomic damages recoverable by plaintiff. Pursuant to the third rule set forth in Neumeier, where, as here, "the parties are domiciled in different states with conflicting laws, the law of the place of the tort normally applies, unless displacing it will advance the relevant substantive law purposes without impairing the smooth working of the multi-state system or producing great uncertainty for litigants" (Cunningham, 28 A.D.3d at 1212, 814 N.Y.S.2d 467 [internal quotation marks omitted] ). As the court properly concluded, "the relative interest[s] of the domicile and locus jurisdictions in having their laws apply" weigh in favor of the application of New York law (Schultz v. Boy Scouts of Am., 65 N.Y.2d 189, 198, 491 N.Y.S.2d 90, 480 N.E.2d 679). Ontario has no interest in the application of its limitation on the recovery of noneconomic damages in an action between nondomiciliaries (see King v. Car Rentals, Inc., 29 A.D.3d 205, 214, 813 N.Y.S.2d 448), but New York has "an important interest in protecting its own residents injured in a foreign [jurisdiction]" by ensuring that they may receive full compensation for their injuries (Schultz, 65 N.Y.2d at 199, 491 N.Y.S.2d 90, 480 N.E.2d 679). Thus, the court properly concluded that New York law applies.
It is hereby ORDERED that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously affirmed with costs.


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The press release introducing RITES, the Edinburgh-born artist Peter Davies' fourth exhibition in The Approach, made much of the notion that while these new monochromatic abstract paintings had a "graphic appearance in reproduction", they were more "tactile" when viewed first-hand.
This wasn't a declaration backed up by my own first inspection, visible brushstrokes - even at the closest quarters - being at a premium. It all meant that as intrigued as I was by the distinctive process of making these paintings initially by collage conveyed onto blank canvas via a projector, such was their outward appearance from afar that simple screen printing would have affected a barely different outcome.
However, I certainly hadn't anticipated the sheer, unadulterated blankness of these blank canvasses - utterly raw and unprimed beneath the painted grey, albeit faultlessly stretched. The aforementioned 'tactility' also becomes more evident on witnessing certain pieces across the space - all mysterious thrown shapes and dark, protruding shadows.
There are no wall labels or captions identifying the images, their lack of even names of their own further accentuating that this is a group to be appreciated as one, its constituent members unable to be fully appreciated separately.
The association to be made by many observers will be with Henri Matisse's '50s cut-outs, only for their greyscaled palette to render them the black sheep of that particular family - or a murkier underbelly. Nonetheless, all manner of associations can be made here with wider Modernism, formalism and conceptualism, in which Davies has shown ample proficiency in his career to date.
Although the setting for RITES - above a humble pub in a still slightly rough-around-the-edges Bethnal Green - might speak of a certain 'salt of the earth' warmth and distance from the contemporary art elite, the space is nonetheless a fairly nondescript white cube.
Some of the squarer graphics here give the sense of the ghosts of Tectonic plates, rubbing along uneasily. Among the more jagged of these shapes, it is tumult and even violence that are principally communicated. These qualities could have their origins just as easily in 'nature' as in the human hand - if such a distinction can even be made.
For all of the claims of 'tactility', Davies has seemingly aimed for the utmost flatness in his application of paint, even as bobbles and bumps do show up as a seemingly inevitable part of the process. Nor are the bare canvasses a continuous, immaculate shade, with apparent little dots and nooks appearing amid the grain. Not-altogether-intended dust, dirt or even paint? It's hard to tell.
Much emphasis on contrast prevails - some pieces seeming to be dominated by the canvas, others by the paint. A couple of the pieces seem to relate to their counterparts in closest proximity - or do they? Am I the chief participant at this point, teasing out similarities only discerned or cared about by me? Perhaps Davies took a resolutely unplanned approach to the positioning of canvases?
And yet, even the most minor background details of these pieces' production seem to beg for interpretation at the centre stage. The collage-projector method of working, for instance, points to a dimension of respectively blocking out or allowing light. It is also possible to see hints of the pen outline where Davies has traced the projected images onto the canvas, prior to painting them in.
Sure, there may be much about RITES that appears to say very little - right down to the nonplussed exhibition space and the manner of the pieces' installation. But perhaps by saying very little about some things, art can actually communicate more.