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Family Records: Memoirs and Autobiographies
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They Wrote Their Life Stories
[This article first appeared in the now obsolete Discover My Past England 2009]
If your great-grandfather was a commander in the Royal Navy, or your great-great aunt was a suffragette, if he or she did anything noteworthy or of importance during their lifetimes, (and even sometimes when they didn't) it's just possible that they wrote and published a memoir or autobiography. Certainly, thousands of such books were produced - and often by the most unlikely of people - in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and many now lie forgotten on the shelves of libraries or second-hand book shops.
Born Mary Anne Hearn (1834-1909), Farningham took the name of her local village. She was a Sunday school teacher, editor and journalist and published her autobiography in 1907. From A Working Woman's Life: An Autobiography Marianne Farningham, London: James Clarke, 1907
Memoir or autobiography ?
Memoirs (from the Latin 'memoria' meaning 'memories') are characteristically fairly short and focus on part of a life – often the public part.
Autobiographies (from the Greek autos 'self', bios, 'life' and graphein, 'write') tend to be long, well-structured and formal accounts of a whole life.
Who wrote memoirs and autobiographies?
Memoirs and autobiographies were written by all kinds of people from the early nineteenth century onwards. What they had in common was literacy, the time and inclination to write and access to a publisher. That said, some autobiographers were illiterate and dictated their experiences to others; and other books remained in manuscript form until they were discovered in family papers or archives and published posthumously by interested historians.
'I like to write about myself; in fact, there are few things which I like better; it is so delightful to call up old reminiscences.' James Hogg, ' Memoir of the Author's Life,' in The Mountain Bard (1807)
Lords, ladies and bishops often wrote their life histories for publication. So too did politicians, ministers, missionaries, school inspectors and headmistresses, doctors, scientists and social reformers – people who felt that they had contributed something to public life or who had something interesting to say about one aspect of their experience. The novelist Winifred Peck stated in her autobiography, that 'I have never travelled with rod or gun in the far reaches of the Amazon, nor hob-nobbed with head hunters or the vanished courts of the Continent.' Nevertheless, she thought that readers might benefit from a description of her own schooling and university education and her book is entitled A Little Learning in recognition of that.
And don't assume that people further down the social scale didn't write their autobiographies. There are examples by nurses, cabinet makers and railway signalmen - to name but a few. These were people who had - at some point or other – come to the attention of those in the publishing world. Newly literate working class people occasionally ended up practising their new skills by writing down the stories of their lives - sometimes with the help of a middle-class patron. In his book
Bread, Knowledge and Freedom, the historian David Vincent looks at 142 working-class autobiographies written between 1790 and 1850. The majority of these were by men living in London or the Northern industrial towns, but there are also rural examples.
Bear in mind too that some memoirs in the nineteenth-century were written by close relatives of the main subject. There are numerous examples of memoirs of daughters written by fathers and memoirs of wives written by husbands, for example.
How can I find out if my ancestor published his/her life story?
You can search for free through the titles of all the memoirs and autobiographies ever published in Britain at the website www.copac.ac.uk (the academic and national libraries' catalogue). There are over 63,000 entries under the keyword 'autobiography'! Many of them have titles which use the words 'Recollections,' 'Reminiscences,' 'Adventures of..' or 'Life of…' You can can narrow your search down by including the name of your ancestor. You just never know! This site will tell you which libraries in Britain have a copy of the book in question. Alternatively, if you find something that interests you here, type the details into one of the commerical book sites such as www.amazon.co.uk or www.abe.com. Cheap second-hand copies may then be ordered online.
If your ancestor worked in a particular trade or profession it might be worth searching under those keywords to see if you can find an autobiography by someone else who worked in that profession at a similar time. John Smith's The Autobiography of a Chimney Sweep Past and Present By One of the Trade (1877) and The Autobiography of William Farish: The Struggles of a Handloom Weaver (1890) are two such examples. The Copac website is so extensive that you are almost bound to find something relevant there. Such books can give you invaluable first-hand information about what working life was really like for your family member.
The autobiography of James Chalmers (1841-1901), Scottish missionary and explorer of the Cook islands and New Guinea. Lovett, Richard, ed.James Chalmers: His Autobiography and Letters (The Religious Tract Society, fourth edit., 1903).
Don't forget that even if your ancestor didn't publish his or her own life story, he or she might be mentioned in somebody else's memoir. One of my great uncles, Dick Tyldesley (who was a pretty well-known cricketer playing for Lancashire and England until the 1940s), is mentioned in the autobiography of the journalist and cricket writer, Neville Cardus (Autobiography, 1947). Some nineteenth-century autobiographies mention the name of the town from which the writer came in the title, for example,. The Autobiography of Thomas Wright of Birkenshaw, in the County of York, 1736-1797 (1864). If you find such a volume with the name of your ancestral town – it's worth having a look at it, just to see if your family is mentioned).
Uses of Autobiography in your Family History Research
· New information
Memoirs and autobiographies may alert you to all sorts of other information about your family members, anything from the schools they attended to the names of their cousins and grandparents, from their yearly income to the property they owned, from their public duties to their personal prejudices.
Photographs, Sketches and Signatures
The frontispieces of nineteenth- and early twentieth- century autobiographies often include a portrait photograph or drawing of the author and his or her signature.
· Opening Pages
Look closely at the opening pages of your family memoir or autobiography – this is usually the place to find the most cogent genealogical information. It was customary for authors to begin their life histories by describing where their own ancestors (on both sides) originated. This is how the nineteenth-century writer Harriet Martineau began her autobiography:
Our French name indicates our origins. The first Martineaus that we know of were expatriated Huguenots who came over from Normandy on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
This sort of information can be invaluable since it often involves a record of the distant movements of a family from one part of the country to another (or indeed – as here - from one country to another). Information from so far back in the family tree would be difficult to locate from any other source. Look carefully at the way in which the author tries to draw conclusions from these genealogical pathways. He will often tell you that the fact that his grandfather was Scottish, his great-grandmother a Catholic or his uncle a wayward soldier, has had a bearing on his own progress through life.
· Turning Points
Autobiographies are often structured around one or two important moments in the writer's life: - the time when they fell in love, for example, or the sudden acquisition of a fortune or the death of another family member. Of course, these are also the moments in which you - as a family historian - are likely to be most interested. You may already have the date at which your ancestor emigrated to America or converted to Catholicism, but an autobiography can explain the reasons why your ancestors made these decisions and their consequences.
But be careful….
Try to take what you read in autobiographies and memoirs with a pinch of salt.
Remember that
autobiographers may have a tendency to exaggerate and over-inflate their family connections. Claiming a relationship with royalty or the aristocracy was commonplace in nineteenth-century autobiographies.
the writer's memory may be faulty
memoirists and autobiographers are not – on the whole - interested in drawing up comprehensive family trees, rather they like to give the reader a flavour of their family history by picking out significant ancestors in the past and extrapolating something significant. Their conclusions may not always be correct
writers may have deliberately chosen to gloss over episodes in their family life that are disagreeable or which show them in a bad light – failed marriages or periods in prison, for example
the facts may be somewhat distorted. Details of education, for example, may be described in such a way as to emphasise the writer's social status, intellectual capacity or moral worth. In their memoirs, people try to make themselves look respectable and useful. Be careful of taking statements at face value
memoirs can be distorted because they are emotionally intense. They were often written as a method of consolation after the loss of a family member and had a therapeutic purpose
All memoirs and autobiographies will have been edited before publication. Try to bear in mind what might have been left out or altered to suit the needs of the audience
With these reservations in mind, enjoy your family autobiographies, they are the nearest you will ever get to knowing the whole story of your ancestors' time here on earth.
www.copac.ac.uk The academic and national library catalogue
www.abe.com - American second hand and antiquarian booksite
www.amazon.co.uk - Online book site
John Burnett, ed Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s (Penguin, 1974)
Valerie Sanders, The Private Lives of Victorian Women: Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century England, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989
David Vincent, Bread, Knowledge and Freedom: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiography. Methuen, rpt, 1982.
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A: There are a couple possibilities, but the first one to check is that the output file actually contains what you think it does.  Are you sure you're not viewing the file with the wrong encoding?  Some editors have an option to choose what encoding you're viewing the file in.  The editor needs to know the file's encoding, and if it interprets the file as being in some other encoding than UTF-8, it will display the wrong thing even though the contents of the file are correct.
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Static Analysis for the Build Machine?
Static analysis and its advantages matter far too much not to use it on the build machine. Today, I'd like to expand on that a bit.
Erik Dietrich
I remember my earliest experiences with static analysis. Probably a decade ago, I started to read about it during grad school and poke around with it at work. Immediately, I knew I had discovered a powerful advantage for programmers. These tools automated knowledge!
While I felt happy to share the knowledge with coworkers, their lack of interest didn't disappoint me. After all, it felt as though I had some sort of trade secret. If those around me chose not to take advantage, I would shine by comparison. (I have since, I'd like to think, matured a bit.) Static analysis became my private competitive advantage — Sabermetrics for programmers.
So as you can imagine, running it on the build machine would not have occurred to me. And that assumes a sophisticated enough setup that doing so made sense (not really the case back then). Static analysis was my ace in the hole for writing good code — a personal choice and technique.
Fast forward a decade. I have now grown up, worked with many more teams, and played many more roles. And, of course, the technological landscape has changed. All of that combined to cause a complete reversal of my opinion. Static analysis and its advantages matter far too much not to use it on the build machine. Today, I'd like to expand on that a bit.
What Does It Mean to Have Static Analysis on the Build Machine?
The first point of expansion should be to mention what this means. In the general sense, this means that the machine responsible for assembling your code into something deployable executes static analysis on said code. Back when I first discovered static analysis, this would have meant pulling the code from source on that machine, running the analysis, and building it. These days, hopefully, your build involves more automation than this.
To get a bit more detailed, a commit may trigger your build machine to kick off a build. That could just mean compiling your code and packing it into a deployable format. However, shops commonly do other things, such as execute automated unit tests and check on code coverage. And you can add static analysis to the mix.
You can certainly get creative with how you do this. But two common (and not mutually exclusive) approaches include having the build generate a code health report and failing the build on egregious violations.
Big and Visible
You might reasonably wonder at this point, "why should I care?" I'll talk a bit about the value added by each approach to static analysis. First up, let's consider why building a report automatically matters.
The world of management consulting offers an interesting way to reason about team improvement. Before you can meaningfully improve something, you need to figure out how to measure it. That way, you know where you started and how far you've come.
Creating big and visible displays of such measures takes advantage of a form of the observer effect to move things along. Simply being watched can spur behavior change and improvement. I can recall a powerful example of this occurring with a team that had insufficient access to its product owner for making judgment calls. They simply drew a graph of the hours each day that he spent around the team and took no other action. Just seeing that presumably triggered the PO's sense of gamification. Whatever happened, he started spending more time with the team.
By having your build generate a code quality and metric report, you can expect similar trends in your group's codebase. If you pick a few strategic metrics or charts to display prominently, look for some movement in the right direction. Frankly, this dovetails nicely into the radiators and dashboards that many teams have already.
Build Failures
Once you have introduced a code quality dashboard and thus socialized the idea of static analysis, you might want to go one step further. By that, I mean you might want to add some teeth to static analysis checks and fail the build on egregious violations.
Coming in cold, this may seem excessive. But don't forget that by the time you implement this, the team has become familiar with the analysis reports. That means that folks discuss the metric and their significance. It means that you've realized benefits from the observer effect and from those conversations and it means that static analysis has become part of your culture.
By the time all of this takes place, the team will likely find this a natural progression. They will want the build to fail on something like a dependency cycle or a high-risk code change. A failing build represents an early warning signal for a problem. You want to fail fast rather than have some mistake like this work its way in and become entrenched.
If you put this in place, you may find that it becomes as indispensable as running the unit test suite. Unit tests guard against regressions and unexpected behavior at runtime. Static analysis guards against possible runtime problems and definite code quality problems.
The NDepend Build Machine Edition
A the beginning of this post, I mentioned that I initially viewed static analysis as my private, professional advantage. I remember the same thing when I discovered NDepend. I relentlessly applied its wisdom to my code and learned from its guidance. I delighted in how I impressed at code review time, both with what I had done and with my knowledge of architectural best practices.
Then I grew and matured and started to occupy leadership roles. I became less focused on my own personal improvement and more focused on leveling up those around me and helping organizations. As my mindset shifted, I desperately wanted to get the static analysis wisdom out of my head and tool chest and to somewhere that it could benefit the team.
When the build machine version of NDepend came along, I recall feeling legitimately excited. Now I had a guaranteed way to start conversations about code quality. Implementing automatically generated reports and build failures came almost immediately afterward.
If you have yet to apply the guidance of static analysis to your team's codebase, you should go do that as soon as possible. And if you have yet to get that wisdom out of the individuals' IDEs and onto your build machine, you should also do that as soon as possible.
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I can still dominate, says Federer
By John Weaver
October 7, 2010 — 9.47pm
Sixteen-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer insisted Thursday he can still be dominant on the tennis court despite losing his number one ranking to a rampant Rafael Nadal.
Federer is currently in the shadow of his Spanish rival, who has won the past three Grand Slams to reach a career total of nine, but the Swiss said he was still motivated and had no intention of quitting the sport.
The world number three started the year on a high, winning a fourth Australian Open crown, but lost his French Open and Wimbledon titles and missed out on the US Open final for the first time since 2003.
"I think I played some of the best tennis of my life at the Australian Open and then after that I got unlucky with a few matches where I lost with match points," said Federer.
"The biggest disappointment for me was Wimbledon," added the 29-year-old. The six-time champion crashed out to Tomas Berdych in the quarter-finals.
Federer and Nadal have shared 25 out of the past 30 Grand Slams in an unprecedented spell of dominance and Nadal's win at the US Open completed a career Grand Slam for the Spaniard.
But the Swiss, although acknowledging Nadal was currently the top man, said the Spaniard, who has a 14-7 winning record against Federer, remains beatable.
"The world number one spot takes more time and it happens if you play well. He (Nadal) is the best player in the world right now. He's won the last three Grand Slams so he completely deserves to be at world number one."
But Federer said before his recent run, Nadal endured a long title drought. "People then wrote him off as well," he added.
"Stories in tennis move around very quickly. I went through a bad patch as well and I got back to world number one by winning last year's French and Wimbledon and playing really well through the American summer as well," Federer said.
"I'm a strong believer that when I'm at my best I can beat anyone, I can even dominate anyone but there's many guys around that play really, really well and Rafa, being the number one guy, is a tough guy to beat," he added.
Federer, who holds the record for most Grand Slam wins, said Nadal was a stronger player than a few years ago but he had also improved.
"Players don't always want the result and the ranking but to also improve as a player. That sometimes is also a work in progress. I've just started with a new coach (Paul Annacone) as well and that sometimes takes some time to settle," he added.
Federer, who has already qualified for the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals in London, said he had no intention of ending his career and he still felt he had more to achieve.
"This is exactly the time I've worked so hard for, to enjoy now. That's why I have no intentions of quitting the game and I'm looking forward to the future," said Federer, in Hong Kong in his capacity as a global ambassador for Credit Suisse.
Federer said he felt mentally fresh ahead of the final part of the season, starting with next week's Shanghai Masters, where he expects a strong challenge from a powerful field including Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray.


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Multimillionaire Bulldozes Slum He Grew Up In – Then Does Something Amazing
Self-made millionaire spent around £4m providing luxury housing and free meals for villagers because he says they were kind to him when he grew up in the poor area.
A rags-to-riches millionaire returned to the slum where he grew up and bulldozed the place.
But then the kindly philanthropist built new £4m apartments for the locals to live and is paying for the elderly to be fed every day.
Xiong Shuihua grew up in a shanty town that was little more than wooden huts and dirt roads but through grafting away in the steel industry he has become a multi-millionaire.
(Multimillionaire former resident Xiong Shuihua built luxury houses for everyone in the village.)
Now the tycoon has housed 76 families, given villas to 18 families and is funding three meals a day for the elderly.
Mr Xiong says it's the least he can do because the locals were so kind to him when he was growing up.
He said: "I earned more money than I knew what to do with it, and I didn't want to forget my roots. I always pay my debts, and wanted to make sure the people helped me when I was younger and my family were paid back."
Shuihua was born in the Xiongkeng village in the city of Xinyu in southern China's Jiangxi province and said that his family had always been well looked after, and helped and supported by the other villagers.
(The luxury accomodation built by multimillionaire former resident Xiong Shuihua for everyone in the village.)
So when 54-year-old Shuihua ended up becoming a multimillionaire he decided to repay their kindness, by returning to the village and giving everybody a place of their own to live.
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The multimillionaire made his money first of all in the construction industry and later by getting involved in the steel trade.
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A general method to solve the integral equations of stereology
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The scope of stereology is to infer characteristics of features of a three-dimensional structure from measurements on two-dimensional (usually planar) sections. A feature is characterized by one or more variables, x, with a probability distribution function X(x). In a two-dimensional section one observes "prints" of the three-dimensional features intersected, which are characterized by variables, y, with a measurable distribution Y(y). Provided that the variables, x, completely define the features, it is possible to derive a relation between the two distributions, in the form of an integral equation giving explicity Y(y) as an integral containing X(x). The integral equation is usually unsolvable for X(x) by analytical means.
In the paper, a general method is developed to solve equations of this type. The basis of the method is the discretization of the two distributions in classes, or intervals, and the linearization of the relation between them, which can then be solved for X(x) by standard matrix methods. The linear relation between the two distributions involves coefficients which can be calculated with any degree of accuracy but depend on the chosen amplitudes of the intervals.
The stability of the solutions can easily be assessed through the method developed, and various parameters are introduced with which the stability can be evaluated.
The method is applied to the determination of the length distribution of oriented lines in a plane from the measurement of the number of points of intersection with test lines of various orientations.
Keywords : integral equations, stability of solutions, stereology
Manuel Amaral Fortes, «A general method to solve the integral equations of stereology», Acta Stereologica [En ligne], Volume 10 (1991), Number 2 - Stermat '90 (part II) - Dec. 1991, 193-202 URL : https://popups.ulg.ac.be/0351-580x/index.php?id=2008.
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April 21, 2009 — Former DeKalb Police Chief Terrell Bolton told a subordinate to falsify police records to hide two luxury cars that the chief took home for personal use, investigative records show.
Bolton kept the cars – a $32,000 Range Rover and a $55,000 Mercedes Benz – at home for much of 2008, investigators with the DeKalb Sheriff's Department said. Tip Green, an officer overseeing the motor office, told investigators he "hid" the cars on the Police Department's books, at Bolton's direction, by placing them in two unrelated cost centers.
Green said he visited Bolton's home periodically to service the cars and took them out every other week for detailing. Once, the county paid for a $110 detailing, Green said.
Green told investigators he questioned Bolton about his use of the cars. "He said that Bolton would tell him, 'I am the chief … I can drive what I choose to drive,'" the report said.
AtlantaUnfiltered obtained the investigative report, compiled for DeKalb CEO Burrell Ellis, through a request under the Georgia Open Records Act.
Bolton, who was fired in February, has said he took the cars home to keep them out of sight and prevent another agency from claiming them. The cars had been seized as part of a drug prosecution.
But Maj. C.A. Craddock, who had been driving the Range Rover, told investigators that Bolton took his wheels after admiring them at a community meeting in March 2008.
The major said Bolton told him he took the cars because they were not being used for undercover work as they should have been. Craddock acknowledged he had been driving the Range Rover for his personal use.
In addition to the two luxury cars, the report said Bolton assigned himself seven police cars for his use and his drivers' — three Crown Victorias, two Chevy Suburbans, a Ford Expedition and a Charger. Three were found at Bolton's home when the chief was placed on leave in February.
A deputy chief told investigators he believed Bolton had a car fetish, and Green said the chief was particular about his transportation. He ordered new seats, new carpet and a new grill for one of the Crown Vics because he didn't like the color of the seats, Green said.
Green said Bolton had a reputation for paranoia. The chief ordered the luxury cars moved from his garage, Green told investigators, "when the story started getting hot on the 'blog'" in November 2008. At the time, anonymous postings on the Web site DeKalb Officers Speak referenced Bolton's various vehicles.
Green and Deputy Chief Donald Frank moved the two cars from Bolton's home to Frank's residence in Walton County. But Bolton "went off" later that month and ordered the cars moved to police headquarters when he heard Frank was seen driving one of them, Green said in the report.
Deputy Chief Karen Anderson told investigators that Bolton chewed her out when she told him that federal law prohibited his driving a seized luxury car for his personal use.
Anderson said Bolton also resisted when she and others told him that it was illegal for Keisha Williams, the chief's top civilian aide, to drive a fully loaded vehicle with a police radio.
"Bolton said that he did not care and told Tip to mind his own business," the report said.


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DeMarco throws for 4 touchdowns, runs for another in Old Dominion's 44-13 win over Campbell
BUIES CREEK, N.C. – Thomas DeMarco threw for four touchdowns and ran for another as Old Dominion routed Campbell 44-13 on Saturday.
DeMarco finished with 303 yards, including 273 on 26-for-33 passing and threw the game's first three touchdowns.
DeMarco found Marquell Thomas 22 yards for a touchdown with 10:51 left in the first quarter, and threw a 10-yard TD to Reid Evans a little more than five minutes later. Early in the second quarter, Thomas and Evans hooked up again for an 8-yard score and a 20-0 Monarchs lead.
Evans caught eight passes for 65 yards and two touchdowns and Mario Crawford had 67 yards on five catches for Old Dominion (1-1).
The Monarchs proved efficient on offense, compiling 28 first downs, including 3-for-3 on fourth-down tries and tallied 463 yards of offense.
Adam Willets kicked field goals of 46 and 38 yards for the Camels (1-1).


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José P. Laurel, in full José Paciano Laurel, (born March 9, 1891, Tanauan, Luzon, Philippines—died November 6, 1959, Manila), Filipino lawyer, politician, and jurist, who served as president of the Philippines (1943–45) during the Japanese occupation during World War II.
Laurel was born and raised in a town south of Manila. His father served in the cabinet of Emilio Aguinaldo in the late 1890s. The younger Laurel received a law degree from the University of the Philippines in 1915 and an advanced jurisprudence degree in 1919 before earning a doctorate in civil law from Yale University in the United States in 1920. He entered politics and was elected to the Philippine Senate in 1925, serving there until he was appointed an associate justice of the Supreme Court in 1936.
Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (December 1941), and the subsequent Japanese assault on the Philippines, Laurel stayed in Manila; President Manuel Quezon had escaped, first to the Bataan Peninsula and then to the United States. Laurel offered his services to the Japanese, and, because of his criticism of U.S. rule of the Philippines, he held a series of high posts in 1942–43, climaxing in his selection as president in 1943. Twice in that year he was shot by Philippine guerrillas, but each time he recovered. In July 1946 he was charged with dozens of counts of treason, but he never stood trial; he shared in a general amnesty declared by President Manuel Roxas in April 1948.
Laurel was the Nationalist Party's nominee for the presidency of the Republic of the Philippines in 1949, but he was narrowly defeated by the incumbent president, Elpidio Quirino, the nominee of the Liberal Party. Elected to the Senate in 1951, Laurel helped to persuade Ramon Magsaysay, then secretary of defense, to desert the Liberals and join the Nationalists. When Magsaysay became president, Laurel headed an economic mission that in 1955 negotiated an agreement to improve economic relations with the United States. He retired from public life in 1957.


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Q: Solution of $\left(D^2+1\right)y=\sin x$ by partial fractions and direct formula To find the particular integral of the equation $\left(D^2+1\right)y=\sin x $,I converted this equation to its inverse $y=\frac{1}{D^2+1}\sin x$ . The solution to this can be obtained by taking the imaginary part of $y=\frac{1}{D^2+1}e^{ix}$
From here, I used 2 different methods to proceed.
First method:
I directly used the formula
$$\frac{e^{ax}}{P\left(D\right)}=\frac{xe^{ax}}{P'\left(D\right)},P\left(D\right)=0,P'\left(D\right)\ \neq 0 $$
which gave me $\frac{xe^{ix}}{2i}$ . The imaginary part of this is -$\frac{x\cos x}{2} $, which becomes my particular integral.
Second method:
I first converted the$ \frac{1}{D^2+1}$ into partial fractions,which gave me
$\frac{1}{2i}\left(\frac{1}{D-i}-\frac{1}{D+i}\right)$ . Then I took $ e^{ix}$ inside, which gave me $\frac{1}{2i}\left(xe^{ix}-\frac{e^{ix}}{2i}\right)$
The first term was calculated using the formula in method 1, and the second term using the formula $$\frac{e^{ax}}{P\left(D\right)}=\frac{e^{ax}}{P\left(a\right)},P\left(a\right)\neq 0 $$
This is clearly not equal to the equation obtained using method 1(without splitting into partial fractions). What am I doing wrong here?

A: The difference between both, $\frac{e^{ix}}4$, is a homogeneous solution, both are valid solutions of the inhomogeneous equation and can serve as particular solutions.


HAProxy supports many load-balancing algorithms which may be used in many different type of cases.
That said, cache servers, which deliver most of the time the static content from your web applications, may require some specific load-balancing algorithms.
The main purpose of this article is to show how HAProxy can be used to aggregate Varnish servers memory storage in some kind of "JBOD" mode (like the "Just a Bunch Of Disks").
This has been covered many times on this blog.
As a quick introduction for readers who are not familiar with HAProxy, let's explain how it works.
Clients will get connected to HAProxy through a Frontend. Then HAProxy routes traffic to a backend (server farm) where the load-balancing algorithm is used to choose a server.
A frontend can points to multiple backends and the choice of a backend is made through acls and use_backend rules..
Acls can be formed using fetches. A fetch is a directive which instructs HAProxy where to get content from.
The configuration sniplet below should be integrated into the HAProxy frontend. It matches the rules above to do traffic splitting. The varnish servers will stands in the bk_static farm.
acl static_domain req.hdr_beg(Host) -i static. images.
The configuration above creates 2 named acls 'static_domain' and 'static_content' which are used by the used_backend rule to route the traffic to varnish servers.
Later in this article, we'll heavily used the hash based load-balancing algorithms from HAProxy.
So a few information here (non exhaustive, it would deserve a long blog article) which will be useful for people wanting to understand what happens deep inside HAProxy.
If any of the parameter above changes, the whole hash computation also changes, hence request may hit an other server. This may lead to a negative impact on the response time of the application (during a short period of time).
Fortunately, HAProxy allows 'consistent' hashing, which means that only the traffic related to the change will be impacted.
That's why you'll see a lot of hash-type consistent directives in the configuration samples below.
Now, let's focus on the magic we can add in the bk_static server farm.
HAProxy can hash the URL to pick up a server. With this load-balancing algorithm, we guarantee that a single URL will always hit the same Varnish server.
That said, in some cases (API, etc…), hashing the whole URL is not enough. We may want to hash only on a particular query string parameter.
This applies well in cases where the client can forge itself the URL and all the parameters may be randomly ordered.
HAProxy can apply the hash to a specific HTTP header field.
The example below applies it on the Host header. This can be used for people hosting many domain names with a few pages, like users dedicated pages.
Nowadays, HAProxy becomes more and more flexible and we can use this flexibility in its configuration.
Imagine, in your varnish configuration, you have a storage hash key based on the concatenation of the host header and the URI, then you may want to apply the same load-balancing algorithm into HAProxy, to optimize your caches.
The configuration below creates a new HTTP header field named X-LB which contains the host header (converted to lowercase) concatenated to the request uri (converted in lowercase too).
HAProxy and Varnish works very well together. Each soft can benefit from performance and flexibility of the other one.


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Why do Florida track owners want to stop greyhound racing?
Dog racing used to be a lucrative sport, but now it's a money-losing proposition that endangers scores of dogs
by Sheila MacVicar @Sheila_MacVicar & David Martin @Stories_Live
BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. — On a balmy December afternoon in southwestern Florida, eight greyhounds in colored jerseys bolted out of a starting gate, chasing a mechanical rabbit.
This tradition dates back decades in Florida, but on this day, the grandstands — built for 10,000 — were nearly empty.
What used to be a glamorous, lucrative sport has become a money-losing proposition that brings a black eye from animal-welfare groups.
"This is an industry that is dying in Florida and all over the country, and it's dying because of competition from other forms of gambling," said Carey Theil, an anti-greyhound racing activist and the executive director of Grey2K, a nonprofit group that campaigns to put an end to dog racing in the seven states where it remains legal. "It's dying because of concerns about the way dogs are treated in this industry."
He said that racing greyhounds spend about 22 hours a day in their cages — a life of confinement for thousands of dogs. Hundreds are injured, sometimes horrifically, forced into retirement and threatened with being put down if a new home cannot be found.
Even more shocking, state records obtained by "America Tonight" show that on average, one racing greyhound dies at a Florida track every three days.
State records obtained by "America Tonight" detail the serious physical danger greyhounds face in dog racing.
Theil said most of those deaths are due to serious injuries. "We know based on data from other states that a lot of the greyhounds in this industry suffer broken legs," he said. "Other injuries include heart attack, paralysis. Dogs are electrocuted when they fall into the lure."
Florida state Sen. Maria Sachs wants to stop greyhound racing, which she calls an "inhumane way of gambling." She said she conducted an investigation into how the dogs are treated.
"Is it really true that the dogs are kept in small kennels? Is it true that they're kept in vans that are not air conditioned? Is it true that they are confined for many hours during the day?" she said. "And the answer? The answer is it's true." She added, "The people of Florida, once they find out what really goes on behind the tracks, behind the lights, behind the excitement, they're going to say, 'Enough. This is not who we are as a people.'"
The decline of the sport
Those who argue for an end to dog racing on humane grounds have some unlikely allies: dog track owners. Izzy Havenick is one owner who wants to at least reduce the number of dog races. He and his family own the Naples–Fort Myers Greyhound Track and Poker Room, a business his grandfather started. Havenick has heard the criticism — and watched the decline of the sport.
He said he keeps the track going because the poker business at his facility is profitable. "The state of Florida law mandates that we continue to run the dogs in order to keep the poker room open," he said. "We're legally obliged to keep a business operating that loses $2.5 million a year."
A 1997 Florida law meant to keep dog breeders and trainers in business mandates that track owners like Havenick run races if they want to keep their lucrative poker rooms.
Izzy Havenick, a Florida dog track owner who would like to sharply cut back on the number of greyhound races.
"The poker law says you have to run 90 percent of the amount of races you ran in 1996," he said. "Well, 20 years ago, this track was packed. It was a great source of entertainment. Twenty years … the world has changed drastically."
At his Naples track alone, there are 3,200 races every season — each one a money loser, each one potentially harmful to a dog.
Betting on greyhounds has fallen by more than half in Florida over the past decade. The dog races now compete for the attention of a generation that came of age with the Internet. "Most people my age and younger have no interest in going to some facility and watching an animal run around in a circle," Havenick said.
Sachs said that the state of Florida loses money on greyhound racing, spending $1.8 million more to regulate the industry than it receives in tax revenues. "We, as a state government, should not be putting money into a sport that is actually inhumane and is losing revenue," she said.
'The state of Florida law mandates that we continue to run the dogs in order to keep the poker room open. We're legally obliged to keep a business operating that loses $2.5 million a year.'
Izzy Havenick
greyhound track and poker room owner
Havenick said he'd like to offer a much more limited greyhound racing schedule. But he can't unless the state legislature passes a law that would cut the link between dog races and poker rooms.
That's an idea Sachs supports. "If we decouple, it will go the way of any other business," she said. "If it's a viable business, it will succeed and flourish. And if it's not a viable business, then it will die. Everybody knows in the state that greyhound racing is not a viable business."
As the state of Florida loses money on dogs, dog track owners and animal rights advocates hope to discontinue the sport.
But the decoupling law has come before the legislature five times and failed each time. Despite bipartisan support, there are powerful forces with deep pockets lined up against it.
Former Lt. Gov. Jeff Kottkamp is fighting for one group that opposes decoupling: the people who own and train the dogs. The track owners, he said, shouldn't be so quick to throw the dog owners under the bus.
"They've had a lot of benefits of having a monopoly in this arena and made billions of dollars," he said of the track owners. "If they don't want to do it anymore, fine. Relinquish the license. Put it out to bid."
'We just can't compete'
Dog racing is just a bit player in the bigger conversation surrounding the expansion of gambling in Florida.
But the dogs, their owners and even the track owners are bit players in this unfolding fight over the much larger debate concerning the expansion of gambling. It's a debate in which there is lots of money, lots of influence and a state government so dysfunctional that it can't come to grips with the larger question or even agree how to regulate gambling.
First up in the influence parade are the horse owners and racetrack owners who worry that if the dogs go away, then horse racing might be next. In Florida thoroughbred racing is a billion-dollar business.
Then there's the very powerful Seminole Tribe, which controls gambling in North and Central Florida, thanks in large part to a deal it cut with the state that brings in hundreds of millions of dollars a year. The Seminoles don't want track owners shutting down dog races and competing with them by expanding into casinos with slot machines.
If we decouple, it will go the way of any other business. If it's a viable business, it will succeed and flourish. And if it's not a viable business, then it will die. Everybody knows in the state that greyhound racing is not a viable business.
Maria Sachs
Florida state senator
Havenick said he and other track owners are simply outgunned by big-money players. "Everyone expects us to play at a level of an opponent that we just can't compete with," he said, adding that the Seminoles are the largest gambling interest in Florida and one of the three largest in the world. "If the Seminole Tribe is an NFL team, we're maybe a high school JV football team. We just can't compete at the same level."
He said the Seminoles are "probably the biggest impediment in the road" to legislation. Kottkamp said the greed is spread out among the relevant players.
"Every time these gaming bills come up in Tallahassee, it almost collapses from the weight of greed," Kottkamp said. "People want more, more, more, and they're making a heck of a lot of it already."
When legislators in Tallahassee take up the issue, they'll be facing a phalanx of lobbyists, including those representing casino owners from Las Vegas and beyond, who are also looking for a piece of the very rich gambling pie.
And the dogs? They're at the back of the pack. The decoupling bill faces an uphill fight, and Florida's greyhounds will most likely be running all out again and again.
Sachs said inaction on dog racing will hurt Florida's reputation — and more.
"You're going to have more deaths of animals," she said.
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Justia Dockets & Filings Ninth Circuit California Eastern District Vang et al v. Lopey, et al., Filing 68
Vang et al v. Lopey, et al.,
ORDER signed by District Judge John A. Mendez on 5/3/2017 GRANTING 58 Motion to Dismiss. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and Alex Nishimura are DISMISSED as defendants in this case. (Zignago, K.)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 JESSE VANG, et al, 12 2:16-cv-2172-JAM-CMK Plaintiffs, 13 14 No. v. SHERIFF JON LOPEY, et al, 15 ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS ALEX NISHIMURA AND CAL FIRE'S MOTION TO DISMISS Defendants. 16 Plaintiffs, several Hmong individuals who own property in 17 18 Siskiyou County ("the County"), allege Defendants California 19 Department of Forestry and Fire Protection ("Cal Fire") and Alex 20 Nishimura ("Nishimura"), an investigator for the California 21 Secretary of State, violated the Constitution and state and 22 federal law in investigating allegations of voter fraud. 23 Amended Complaint ("SAC"), ECF No. 56. 24 (collectively "Defendants") move to dismiss Plaintiffs' SAC. 25 No. 58. Plaintiffs oppose the motion. Second Cal Fire and Nishimura ECF ECF No. 60. 1 26 27 28 1 This motion was determined to be suitable for decision without oral argument. E.D. Cal. L.R. 230(g). The hearing was scheduled for April 4, 2017. 1 1 I. 2 3 FACTS The Court takes the facts alleged by Plaintiffs as true for purposes of this motion. 4 Many members of the Hmong community in the County attempted 5 to register to vote before the June 2016 election. 6 County clerk Colleen Setzer forwarded copies of several voter 7 registration cards to the California Secretary of State Election 8 Fraud Division for investigation. 9 Plaintiffs received letters from Nishimura indicating the SAC ¶ 19. SAC ¶ 18. Around May 2016, 10 Secretary of State would begin conducting a voter fraud 11 investigation. 12 SAC ¶ 24. On June 1, 2016, Cal Fire officer Monte Whipple and other 13 individuals from Siskiyou County participated in voter fraud 14 investigations. 15 told Plaintiffs "they could not use their property to register to 16 vote, and would be prosecuted if they attempted to vote." 17 ¶ 31. 18 government agency carrying an assault rifle." 19 SAC ¶ 27. Members of these investigation teams SAC The investigation team included "at least one officer of a Id. On June 2, an investigation team visited Dang Xiong's 20 property. 21 sheriff's officer and the person in the CAL-FIRE truck pulled out 22 two assault rifles." 23 interaction with the armed Cal Fire agent, but Xiong still voted on 24 June 7 using a provisional ballot. 25 SAC ¶ 73. "As Mr. Xiong approached the vehicles, the SAC ¶ 74. Xiong feared voting after his SAC ¶ 78. Also on June 2, Nishimura visited Plaintiff Jesse Vang's 26 property and told Vang "he would go to jail if he voted on June 27 7, 2016, because he did not register properly online." 28 ¶¶ 47-50. SAC Vang did not vote in the June or November elections 2 1 2 3 4 because he feared arrest if he voted. SAC ¶ 54. Plaintiffs do not make any other specific factual allegations against Nishimura or Cal Fire in their SAC. Plaintiffs bring nine claims in total. Six of these claims 5 are against Cal Fire and Nishimura: (1) unreasonable search and 6 seizure under § 1983, (2) violation of the Fourteenth Amendment 7 under § 1983, (3) negligence, (4) violation of California 8 Elections Code § 14027, (5) violation of § 2 of the Voting Rights 9 Act ("VRA"), and (6) negligent infliction of emotional distress 10 ("NIED"). 11 against only Cal Fire for negligent hiring and supervision. 12 at 36. SAC at 29-38. Plaintiffs bring a seventh claim SAC 13 14 II. OPINION 15 A. Claims Against Cal Fire 16 Cal Fire argues that other than the VRA claim, the Eleventh 17 Amendment bars "all of Plaintiff's claims against the state 18 agency CAL FIRE." 19 1. Mot. at 4. § 1983 Claims Against Cal Fire (First and Second Causes of Action) 20 21 The Eleventh Amendment bars a citizen from bringing a suit 22 against the citizen's own state in federal court. 23 California Dep't of Forestry & Fire Prot., 2016 WL 4411816, at *5 24 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 19, 2016). 25 agencies and departments," including Cal Fire. 26 Clark v. "This immunity also extends to state Id. Some exceptions exist to state sovereign immunity, such as if 27 a state expressly waives its immunity and consents to suit in 28 federal court or if Congress overrides that immunity. 3 Moreno v. 1 Thomas, 490 F. Supp. 2d 1055, 1059 (C.D. Cal. 2007). 2 California has not waived its Eleventh Amendment immunity with 3 respect to claims brought under § 1983 in federal court, and the 4 Supreme Court has held that § 1983 was not intended to abrogate a 5 State's Eleventh Amendment immunity." 6 marks and citations omitted). 7 not preclude a suit against state officers for prospective relief 8 from an ongoing violation of federal law." 9 Health Ctr. v. Belshe, 188 F.3d 1090, 1095 (9th Cir. 1999). 10 "The State of Id. (internal quotation But, the Eleventh Amendment "does Children's Hosp. & Plaintiffs argue their first two claims should proceed against 11 Cal Fire because they seek "prospective injunctive and declaratory 12 relief." 13 pursuing injunctive relief applies only to "state officers," not to 14 state agencies. 15 Court therefore finds Cal Fire is immune from liability for 16 Plaintiffs' § 1983 claims, and thus dismisses Plaintiffs' first two 17 claims against Cal Fire with prejudice. 18 Opp'n at 6. 2. But the Eleventh Amendment exception for See Children's Hosp., 188 F. 3d. at 1095. The State Common Law Claims Against Cal Fire (Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth Causes of Action) 19 20 Plaintiffs assert three California state common law claims 21 against Cal Fire: negligence, negligent hiring/supervision, and 22 NIED. 23 Order, "[i]t is well-settled that there is no common law tort 24 liability for public entities in California; instead, such 25 liability must be based on statute." 26 WL 3609489, at *2 (S.D. Cal. Sept. 14, 2010). 27 sixth, and ninth claims are based on common law, not statute, and 28 thus are dismissed as brought against Cal Fire with prejudice. SAC at 35-36, 40. As stated in this Court's previous 4 Cardinal v. Buchnoff, 2010 Plaintiffs' fifth, 1 3. California Elections Code § 14027 (Seventh Cause of Action) 2 3 Plaintiffs allege Cal Fire "use[d] an 'at-large election' to 4 pass Measures T and U, in an intentional, unlawful and selective 5 way for the purpose of disenfranchising Plaintiffs" in violation 6 of California Elections Code § 14027. 7 discussed § 14027 in its previous Order and stated that it 8 "appl[ies] to elections of candidates." 9 No. 51. SAC ¶ 155. The Court 1/13/17 Order at 12, ECF Plaintiffs have once again failed to "cite to any 10 authority to support their contention that [§ 14027] appl[ies] to 11 passage of measures or propositions." 12 dismisses Plaintiffs' seventh claim for violation of California 13 Election Code § 14027 as brought against Cal Fire and Nishimura 14 with prejudice. 15 4. See id. The Court Violation of the Voting Rights Act (Eighth Cause of Action) 16 17 Plaintiffs allege Cal Fire violated 52 U.S.C. § 10303(f)(2) 18 by "impos[ing] voting qualifications and/or prerequisites to 19 voting and/or standards, practices, or procedures in a manner 20 resulting in a denial or abridgement of the right of Plaintiffs 21 . . . to vote on account of race or color." 22 10303(f)(2) states that "[n]o voting qualification or 23 prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure 24 shall be imposed or applied by any State or political 25 subdivision to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the 26 United States to vote because he is a member of a language 27 minority group." 28 SAC ¶ 158. Section 52 U.S.C. § 10303(f)(2). Cal Fire argues the presence of one of its officers during 5 1 an investigation into voter fraud "does not amount to an 2 imposition of a prerequisite, or 'standard, practice, or 3 procedure' in violation of the Voting Rights Act." 4 Plaintiffs respond that the "voter provisions, intimidation 5 tactics and restrictions which targeted Plaintiffs [and 6 interfered] with Plaintiffs['] right to vote, rose to a 7 'standard, practice, or procedure' from which a court must find 8 a violation of § 2 of the Voting Rights Act." 9 Plaintiffs do not cite to any legal authority to support this 10 Mot. at 15. Opp'n at 13. claim. 11 The only factual allegations against Cal Fire are that Cal 12 Fire officials assisted with a voter fraud investigation on two 13 days in June 2016 while carrying assault rifles. 14 finds these allegations insufficient to allege Cal Fire's 15 conduct rose to the level of the imposition of a "standard, 16 practice, or procedure" with the intent to deny Plaintiffs the 17 right to vote. 18 against Cal Fire with prejudice. 19 The Court The Court dismisses the VRA claim as brought The Court also dismisses the VRA claim as brought against 20 Nishimura with prejudice because Nishimura is not a "State or 21 political subdivision" to which the VRA applies. 22 23 B. Remaining Claims Against Nishimura 1. Search and Seizure § 1983 Claim (First Cause of Action) 24 25 Nishimura argues that Plaintiffs have not stated a § 1983 26 unlawful search and seizure against him. 27 Plaintiffs respond that "Nishimura authored an investigatory 28 letter," asked one plaintiff for his name and identification, 6 Mot. at 8-9. 1 and threatened the same plaintiff that he would go to jail if he 2 voted in the June 2016 election. 3 Opp'n at 7. But state officials do not violate the right against search 4 and seizure when they "ask questions of an individual [or] ask 5 to examine the individual's identification." 6 Gutierrez-Llamas, 24 F. App'x 787, 788 (9th Cir. 2001). 7 the allegations that Nishimura "authored an investigatory 8 letter" and told a plaintiff that he could go to jail, 9 Plaintiffs do not provide any legal authority stating these United States v. As to 10 actions constitute unlawful search and seizure. 11 other allegations against Nishimura in their opposition brief— 12 i.e. Nishimura engaged in some planning meetings with County 13 officials—but none of these allegations appear in Plaintiffs' 14 SAC. 15 Plaintiffs make There are no allegations that Nishimura personally searched 16 or seized any of Plaintiffs' persons or property. 17 therefore dismisses Plaintiffs' first claim as brought against 18 Nishimura with prejudice. 19 2. The Court Due Process Claim (Second Cause of Action) 20 Plaintiffs allege Nishimura was "deliberately indifferent 21 to the health and safety of Plaintiffs" or "acted with purpose 22 to cause harm" in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. 23 ¶ 130. 24 25 i. SAC Deliberate Indifference The Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause "does not 26 confer any affirmative right to governmental aid and typically 27 does not impose a duty on the state to protect individuals from 28 third parties." A.D. v. California Highway Patrol, 712 F.3d 7 1 446, 453 (9th Cir. 2013) (internal quotation marks omitted). 2 There are two exceptions to this rule: (1) the "special 3 relationship" exception—when a custodial relationship exists 4 between the plaintiff and the State such that the State assumes 5 some responsibility for the plaintiff's safety and well-being; 6 and (2) the "state-created danger" exception—when the state 7 affirmatively places the plaintiff in danger by acting with 8 deliberate indifference to a known and obvious danger. 9 Id. Plaintiffs have not pled facts to support that either of 10 the two exceptions apply. 11 claim against Nishimura fails, and the Court dismisses it with 12 prejudice. 13 14 ii. Plaintiffs' "deliberate indifference" Purpose to Harm A law enforcement officer violates the Fourteenth Amendment 15 when he acts with "a purpose to cause harm unrelated to the 16 legitimate object of arrest." 17 Kosakoff v. City of San Diego, 460 F. App'x 652, 655 (9th Cir. 18 2011). 19 opposition how Nishimura acted with "purpose to cause harm" 20 toward Plaintiffs. 21 Estate of Kosakoff ex rel. Plaintiffs do not indicate in their SAC or in their The Court dismisses the first and second claims as brought 22 against Nishimura with prejudice. 23 stated § 1983 claims against Nishimura and because the Court 24 dismisses those claims with prejudice, the Court need not 25 address Nishimura's assertions of Eleventh Amendment immunity 26 and qualified immunity. 27 3. 28 Because Plaintiffs have not State Law Claims (Fifth and Ninth Claims) In addition to the California Elections Code § 14027 claim— 8 1 which the Court dismissed above—Plaintiffs bring two other state 2 claims against Nishimura: negligence and NIED. 3 SAC at 35, 40. Nishimura argues California Government Code § 821.6 shields 4 him from liability from Plaintiffs' state law claims. 5 11. 6 liable for injury caused by his instituting or prosecuting any 7 judicial or administrative proceeding within the scope of his 8 employment, even if he acts maliciously and without probable 9 cause." 10 Mot. at Section 821.6 states that "[a] public employee is not Cal. Gov't Code § 821.6. California courts construe section 821.6 broadly. Gillan v. 11 City of San Marino, 147 Cal. App. 4th 1033, 1048 (2007). "Section 12 821.6 is not limited to conduct occurring during formal 13 proceedings. 14 formal proceedings. 15 toward the institution of formal proceedings, it is also cloaked 16 with immunity." 17 (E.D. Cal. Dec. 27, 2010) (quoting Javor v. Taggart, 98 18 Cal.App.4th 795, 808 (2002)) (internal punctuation omitted). 19 It also extends to actions taken in preparation for Because investigation is 'an essential step' Clark v. Cty. of Tulare, 2010 WL 5437195, at *2 Plaintiffs argue Nishimura's "actions exceed the scope of 20 immunity protection" offered by § 821.6. 21 Plaintiffs do not provide any legal authority to support their 22 contention that Nishimura's actions in investigating potential 23 voter fraud exceeded § 821.6 immunity. 24 "Plaintiffs have only alleged that Nishimura sent letters 25 requesting Plaintiffs fill out a questionnaire and visited and 26 spoke with Plaintiffs in furtherance of his investigation . . . 27 These actions are well within the [§ 821.6] immunity." 28 11. 9 Opp'n at 12. Nishimura argues Mot. at 1 The Court agrees with Nishimura. The factual allegations 2 against him arose in the context of his investigation of 3 potential voter fraud and § 821.6 therefore shields him from 4 liability for state law claims. 5 and ninth causes of action as brought against Nishimura with 6 prejudice. The Court dismisses the fifth 7 8 9 II. ORDER For the reasons set forth above, the Court GRANTS 10 Defendants' motion to dismiss with prejudice. 11 Fire are dismissed as defendants in this case. 12 13 14 IT IS SO ORDERED. Dated: May 3, 2017 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 10 Nishimura and Cal


June Alben Hartzel, 85, of Ellwood City, passed away peacefully on Saturday morning, June 27, 2015 at Jameson Memorial Hospital in New Castle.
She was born in Portersville on May 2, 1930 to the late Robert Alben and the late Blanche Jones Alben. June attended Lincoln High School and was a member of First Christian Church. She married her late husband of 44 years, John N. Hartzel in August of 1952. He preceded her in death on January 13, 1997. She worked at Shenango China for 44 years until its closure and was a member of the Polish National Alliance, where she served as treasurer, and many other social clubs. June was the first lifeguard at the New Castle Community YMCA, where she taught swimming lessons. She also enjoyed synchronized swimming and scuba diving. She was an early member of the North Sewickley Civil Defense and enjoyed Bingo, going to the casino, and getting together with her beloved nieces and nephews on Wednesday nights.
The last of her family, she was preceded in death, in addition to her parents and husband, by two brothers and two sisters: Kenneth and Arthur Alben, Geraldine Johnston, and Roberta Frishkorn. She was also preceded by two nephews: Thomas Bell and Kenneth Alben.
June is survived by numerous nieces and nephews.
Friends will be received from 5 P.M. until the time of service at 8 P.M. on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 in the TURNER FUNERAL HOME of Ellwood City, Sixth Street at Park Avenue, with Mr. Thomas O'Brien, her pastor, officiating.
Entombment will be in Zelienople Community Mausoleum.


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Cleveland Browns name Alec Scheiner their new president
Updated: Dec. 19, 2012, 3:09 a.m. |
Published: Dec. 19, 2012, 2:09 a.m.
Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com
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BEREA, Ohio -- Alec Scheiner, the first hire by Jimmy Haslam and Joe Banner, promises to make the fan experience at Cleveland Browns Stadium as inviting and exciting as Cowboys Stadium, the NFL's crown jewel which he helped build.
"We created something that is perfectly fit for the Dallas Cowboys and I'd like to do the same thing in Cleveland," the Browns' new president said on a conference call Tuesday. "Create something that links us to the past and links us to the community in a way that when Browns fans outside Cleveland come, they know exactly where they are and they enjoy it."
Scheiner, who will start Jan. 7, spent the previous eight years with the Cowboys, the last five as senior vice president and general counsel. He replaces Mike Holmgren as president, but his role will be different.
Holmgren oversaw the business and football operations, while Scheiner will focus on the business side. His primary duties will include stadium enhancements and local TV/radio broadcasting.
In addition, Executive VP-Business Operations Bryan Wiedmeier will take a new role in which he'll work closely with CEO Banner, focusing on long-term strategic planning for the organization, including stadium projects and other capital endeavors.
Scheiner, who began talking to Banner in June, views the Browns as a marketing gem similar to the Cowboys.
"I do because the brand is so iconic and there's so much history behind it and the fans clearly care about the team," he said. "We just have to harness it. We have to harness it everywhere. We have to harness it with our employees, we have to harness it with people in the community, everyone can be a Browns fan. Everyone in Northeast Ohio, everyone in Ohio can be a Browns fan. We just have to reach out to people and kind of prove our value on the field and off the field."
Haslam has been impressed with the marketing genius of Dallas owner Jerry Jones, and hopes to bring some of that magic here. But how will Scheiner do some of the innovative things the Cowboys do in a town where the mention of logos on helmets is taboo?
"I'm not sure you need to change those things to pull the team forward," he said. "I really think it's really more about connecting with what we have already in more effective ways. That's not to say it hasn't been done well in the past, but you can always do better.
"I'm not sure we have to change any of the things that have made the Browns so great. We just have to keep doing them better and keep working harder at it."
As for his early thoughts on a dome on the stadium, he said, "I'd have to sit down with Joe and Jimmy and talk about that. ... I think that's part of a much bigger conversation about how to enhance our stadium for the fans."
Banner said Scheiner fit his criteria of searching for the "best of the best" at every position. "In my opinion, there's nobody better" at what he does, said Banner.
Jones, in a statement, praised the new hire.
"Alec is a bright and talented executive who has provided our organization with nine years of quality service. He knows his way around the NFL and has fine leadership ability. He is a tireless taskmaster and will be a great addition to the Browns front office."
Scheiner was a lead advisor on the purchase of the Baltimore Ravens by Steve Bisciotti, the relocation of the Charlotte Hornets to New Orleans, in addition to the partial sales of several other pro sports franchises. He and his wife, Nadya, have a daughter, Norah (6), and two sons, Rafe (3) and Max (8 months).
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Bio-Inductive Shoulder Patch:
A New Approach to Treating Rotator Cuff Injuries
Overview of the Bio-Inductive Patch:
Rotator cuff injury is common, and many patients avoid surgery because they hear about painful, lengthy postoperative rehabilitation and time away from work. This minimally invasive approach is designed as a new option for people suffering from rotator cuff tendon tears in the shoulder joint, which affect more than 4 million people annually in the U.S. and are the most common source of shoulder pain and disability. The Bio-inductive Implant, manufactured by Rotation Medical, is suitable for most rotator cuff disease, from small partial-thickness tears to massive full-thickness tears.
Rotator cufftears are most often caused by chronic wear and tear with degeneration of the tendon. Rotator cuff tears can also occur in people who repeatedly perform overhead motions in their jobs or sports. In fact, more than 50 percent of people over age 60 have symptoms. Because traditional treatments do not address the poor quality of the underlying tendon tissue, a significant number of these tendons often develop into larger, more painful and debilitating tears and/or re-tears due to continuing degeneration of the torn tendon. The Bio-inductive Patch allows surgeons to intervene early and potentially prevent disease progression by augmenting and healing the tendon before the injury worsens.
Watch the video of Dr. Marc Pietropaoli discussing the Bio-Inductive Patch on Bridge Street (Channel 9 WSYR)
Inflammation and Impingement of the Rotator Cuff:
The rotator cuff is four muscles – one in front (the subscapularis), one on the top (the supraspinatus) and two in back (infraspinatus and teres minor). Strengthening these muscles will help a lot to dynamically stabilize the shoulder. The rotator cuff can usually be strengthened with rubber band type resistance as well as using 1- to 5-pound dumbbells. A physical therapist teaches patients how to perform these exercises correctly. They also utilize various modalities to help such as ice, heat, ultrasound and electronic stimulation.
The supraspinatus sits in between two bones: the humeral head (the ball of the ball and socket) and the acromion (the tip of your shoulder bone). In between the supraspinatus tendon and the acromion there is a bursa, which
is a little fluid filled sack that lubricates the tendon from the undersurface of the bone. Both the rotator cuff tendons and the bursa can get pinched in between the acromion and the humeral head and become inflamed.
"Itis" means inflammation so bursitis is "inflammation of the bursa;" whereas tendonitis is "inflammation of the tendon." The two combined is often called impingement syndrome and can cause a rotator cuff injury. This all can be helped/treated by performing rotator cuff strengthening exercises. These can all be taught by a physical therapist. Sometimes, even this fails and then either a cortisone shot, an MRI and/or surgery are utilized.
Sometimes they are injured from a fall on an outstretched hand. Sports or jobs with repeated overhead motion can also damage the rotator cuff. You're more likely to have this if you have a job where you need to move your arm a certain way over and over, like a painter or a carpenter, or you play sports like baseball, tennis , swimming, javelin, overhead sports. Aging causes tendons to wear down, which can lead to a tear as well. Some tears are not painful, but others can be very painful. Dr. Pietropaoli believes that 80 to 90 percent of people who have some impingement syndrome don't often need to have surgery.
What is a Rotator Cuff Tear?
There are two types of rotator cuff tears:
Partial thickness tear – This type of tear is also called an incomplete tear. It damages the tendon, but does not completely sever it.
Full-thickness tear – This type of tear is also called a complete tear. It separates all of the tendon from the bone and/or is a full hole within the tendon itself.
What causes your Rotator Cuff to tear?
Rotator cuff problems are caused by a variety of factors including genecs, trauma, age or acvity-related injury. The most common cause is a process called degenerave tendinosis. As we age, our rotator cuff tendons wear out like a well-worn pair of jeans. These tendons are subject to stress and wear and have poor blood supply. Over me, the tendon becomes thinner and is more suscepble to tearing. As this degeneraon progresses, rotator cuff tears can become increasingly larger and more painful
Symptoms of a Tear:
With a rotator cuff injury, you will typically feel pain in the front and side of your shoulder that radiates down the side of your arm.
You may also feel pain when lifting your arm overhead, reach behind your back, or when you try to sleep on the affected side.
If the tear occurs with injury, you may experience acute pain, a snapping sensation and immediate weakness of the arm/inability to lift the arm overhead.
Approximately 25% to 50% of U.S. adults over 40 years of age have a rotator cuff tear.
A New Approach: The Rotation Medical Rotator Cuff System
The Rotational Medical Rotator Cuff System is a new technology designed to improve the treatment of rotator cuff disease. At Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics, Dr. Pietropaoli is pioneering the use of a breakthrough technology designed as a new option for millions of people suffering from rotator cuff tendon tears in the shoulder joint. This new, minimally invasive solution, the Rotation Medical Bio-inductive Patch, goes beyond traditional surgery to help the tendon heal through the induction of new tendinous tissue growth
The technology can be used in earlier stages of rotator cuff disease to slow progression of your rotator cuff disease. Addressing the injury earlier can shorten recovery time, reduce pain and improve quality of life. Intervening before a full tear has occurred may also decrease your chances of requiring traditional rotator cuff surgery. The technology can also be used in conjunction with traditional repair procedures to improve the tendon biology and decrease the chance of your rotator cuff tendon re-tearing.
The technology includes a collagen based bio-inductive implant about the size of a postage stamp. This implant is delivered arthroscopically through a small incision over the location of your rotator cuff tendon injury. Your physician will secure it in place with small staples.
This first-of-its-kind implant induces the formation of new tendinous tissue for the treatment of rotator cuff disease. Not only does this new approach augment the tendons that are vital to proper functioning of the rotator cuff, it can potentially prevent the progression of rotator cuff disease, both in situations where partial-thickness tears might progress to full-thickness tears or where re-tears of full-thickness repairs are likely.
Watch a short animated video on the Bio-Inductive Shoulder Patch procedure.
About the Surgery:
The Rotation Medical Bio-inductive Patch biologically augments the tendon through the induction of new tendinous tissue growth of the supraspinatus tendon to help reduce the peak strain at the site of the tear and create an environment for the patient's tendon to heal.
The patch is inserted through a small incision during a short, minimally-invasive procedure. Derived from bovine Achilles tendon, the implant is held in place with surgical staples until new tissue grows into the implant and remodels into tendon-like tissue. The surgical staples hold the implant in place until new tissue grows into the implant and remodels into tendon-like tissue. The implant gradually absorbs within about six months, leaving a layer of new tendinous tissue to biologically augment the existing tendon in doing its job of moving and stabilizing the shoulder during day-to-day activities.
How does the patch work?
After implantation, the bio-inductive implant dissolves slowly. This implant has been shown in clinical studies to heal the tendon by inducing the growth of new tendon- like issue, resulting in thicker tendons and replacement of issue defects. The new issue growth occurs within weeks of implantation, enhancing the body's natural healing response and thickening the tendon to help restore good attachment of your tendon to your shoulder bone.
How does the Rotation Medical Implant benefit you?
Depending on the stage of your rotator cuff disease, the Rotation Medical Rotator Cuff Repair System can potentially provide a range of benefits:
Shorter rehabilitation
Potential to prevent or slow down disease progression
Decreased risk of developing a second degenerative tear
Healing of partial-thickness tears
Recent Study on the Bio-Inductive Implant:
There is a growing body of evidence demonstrating the ability of the implant to safely induce new tendinous tissue. A first-in-man study conducted in Sydney, Australia, enrolled 24 patients who required rotator cuff surgery in a prospective, multi-center, non-randomized trial. Patients with partial- or full-thickness supraspinatus tendon tears underwent arthroscopic subacromial decompression (ASD) followed by implantation of the Rotation Medical Bio-inductive Implant.
For partial-thickness tears the implant was placed over the tendon without repair; for full-thickness tears the implant was placed over a traditional repair. MRI results showed that a layer of new tendinous tissue was induced in all of the patients, with a 64 percent increase in tendon thickness. In addition, partial-thickness defects were filled in without any evidence of tear progression, and there were no re-tears in the full-thickness repair patients. There were no observations of adverse reactions to the implant, and all patients showed consistent improvement in clinical scores.
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