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Pokémon Go to be available in Ireland 'within a few days'
by Gordon Hunt
While Pokémon Go crushes records in the US, Australia and New Zealand, the rest of the world watches on in wonder. But, don't worry, for it's on the way.
After news of Pokémon Go's incredible popularity over the weekend, with $7.5bn added to Nintendo's value on the back of the surge, many were left wondering when it would be released in Europe.
The answer is pretty soon, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cites people familiar with plans as saying a rollout to Europe and Asia will take place "within a few days".
That means an app that has been downloaded by over 5pc of all Android users in the US, has sparked incredible enthusiasm throughout social media and is more popular than Tinder and, perhaps, Twitter, is soon coming to Irish shores.
The reason the game is so popular is twofold. First up, nostalgia. Pokémon was immensely popular in the 1990s. Rolling out an old rock star is always a winner. Secondly, it's putting AR into the pop culture mainstream for one of the first times.
The augmented reality (AR) side of things means Pokémon Go is getting users to get up off the couch and out into the open. Using GPS and time, the game shows Pokémon characters everywhere you go, encouraging you to catch them all.
As you move around, different and more types of Pokémon will appear depending on where you are and what time it is.
It might be a little surprising that it's coming to Europe so soon. The servers supporting the app have been so strained that they have gone down several times already.
That prompted the team behind the literally overnight success to hesitate before a larger rollout.
John Hanke, CEO of Niantic, the Alphabet spin-off that worked with The Pokémon Company to build the app, said the rollout is "paused until we're comfortable".
However, it seems that "comfortable" point may have been reached.
Pokémon image via WindyBoy/Shutterstock
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Gordon Hunt is senior communications and content executive at NDRC. He previously worked as a journalist with Silicon Republic.
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FDA Strengthens Warning Over Severe Condition Linked to Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 Vaccine
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by RTM Staff
U.S. drug regulators this week formally strengthened a warning to Americans regarding a severe condition linked to Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine.
Blood clots and low blood platelet levels, known as thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS), are now listed as a contradiction, or a medical reason for somebody not to get the shot.
"Do not administer" the vaccine to individuals with a history of the set of conditions following the vaccine or any other adenovirus-vectored COVID-19 vaccine, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says in an updated fact sheet (pdf) for health care providers administering vaccines.
TTS has been reported in "a wide range of individuals 18 years and older" since administration of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine began earlier this year, regulators say.
The highest reporting rate, approximately 1 case per 100,000 doses administered, has occurred in women aged 30 to 49.
About 15 percent of the TTS cases have been fatal.
"Currently available evidence supports a causal relationship between TTS and the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine," the FDA says in its updated fact sheets.
Janssen is a subsidiary of J&J.
J&J did not respond to a request for comment.
In the spring, U.S. health officials recommended a nationwide pause in administration of the vaccine due to TTS cases appearing among people who had gotten it.
The pause was lifted in April.
The FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said at the time that officials were confident the vaccine was safe and effective in preventing COVID-19.
The FDA said that the available data showed the known and potential benefits outweigh its known and potential risks.
Paul Stoffels, J&J's chief scientific officer, said when the pause was lifted that the company would work with health authorities worldwide "to educate health care professionals and the public to ensure this very rare event can be identified early and treated effectively."
More recently, a Mayo Clinic study found J&J vaccine recipients had a higher risk of blood clots.
Three COVID-19 vaccines are available for use in the United States. J&J's is by far the least used. Just 17.2 million doses have been administered as of Dec. 15, compared to 185.8 million doses of Moderna's vaccine and 283 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
A Mayo Clinic study in November found J&J vaccine recipients had a higher risk of blood clots when compared to recipients of the other two shots.
Currently, there are no restrictions in place on administration of the J&J jab.
The two contraindications, TTS and severe allergic reaction, typically only apply once a person has suffered an adverse event.
The CDC's vaccine advisory panel is meeting Thursday to hear presentations from the CDC on J&J's vaccine.
This is an excerpt from The Epoch Times.
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Anne Boleyn in a spot of Barney Rubble. Vera Lynn gin trademark application rejected following successful opposition
Anne Boleyn1 in a spot of Barney Rubble2: Vera Lynn gin trademark application rejected following successful opposition
The recent stratospheric popularity of gin means that we are seeing brands using innovative marketing seeking to tempt shoppers into purchasing their Edna3. One company turned to cockney rhyming slang…
In June 2018 makers of Whitley Neill gin (this author can personally recommend their rhubarb & gin variety), Halewood International, applied to register a new trademark 'VERA LYNN' in class 33 for alcoholic beverages and spirits. The Forces' Sweetheart, Dame Vera Lynn promptly filed an opposition claiming that (i) she was the owner of an earlier right and (ii) the applicant had no permission to use her name and was trying to exploit her "good name and reputation to sell its goods".
In the following proceedings, Halewood International argued that Vera Lynn was well-known cockney rhyming slang for gin and that the younger generation of alcohol-drinkers, to which its goods were aimed, would not necessarily make the connection with a singer whose main activities were associated "with the war effort in the 1940s".
The Intellectual Property Office hearing officer held:
Dame Vera Lynn had used VERA LYNN as an unregistered trademark since 1939;
the applicant had failed to mention the cockney rhyming slang in its original defence;
the applicant's evidence had failed to show that relevant gin-drinkers (of all ages) were more likely to associate VERA LYNN with gin rather than the Dame who had been in the entertainment business for 84 years; and
it was likely the public would think there was an endorsement connection between Dame Vera Lynn and a gin bearing her name, and there was therefore a risk of damage in her ability to continue to use her name for the financial benefit of a number of charities.
It was also held that the trademark application was filed in bad faith as the applicant failed to establish that they had not intended the public to make an association with the famous singer by using her name on their gin.
Although there is the general rule that a famous person cannot use unregistered rights prevent the use of their name for all goods and services in all circumstances, it was held that in this instance VERA LYNN is very deliberately used in limited situations by Dame Vera Lynn and there was a potential risk to the goodwill long established in VERA LYNN if the mark was used by an unconnected entity.
The trademark application was subsequently rejected and the applicant ordered to pay Dame Vera Lynn £1800 in costs. It was a Naomi4 that didn't pay off.
We encourage our clients to conduct trademark searches prior to trademark application in order to ascertain potential risks. The moral of this Jackanory5 is to avoid using well-known marks or you may end up owing a bit of Bugs Bunny6 to the unhappy rights' owner.
For advice on how to use intellectual property rights to best protect your brand, please contact Ian Lindley.
Are your ideas and intellectual property protected? This guide outlines how you can get the most out of your assets, the differences between a trade mark, copyright, patent and design and what protection will work best for your business
Copyright infringement: a useful weapon and a warning. A recent case provides a useful reminder that copyright can sometimes be used to prevent infringement of a logo in situations where it has not been registered as a trade mark
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American Bomber Crewman 1941-45 (W.#119)
Producent: Osprey Publishing Ltd
Autor: Fremont-barnes
Cena netto: 55,00 zł 57,75 zł
Gregory Fremont-Barnes examines the lives of the American Bomber Crewmen of the Eighth Air Force, "The Mighty Eighth," who crewed, maintained and repaired the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and the B-24 Liberators that flew from the airfields of Norfolk and Suffolk and other counties of England.
American Bomber Crewman 1941-45 (W.#119), Fremont-barnes, data wydania marzec 2008 r, liczba stron 64, isbn 978-1-84603-125-0
Gregory Fremont-Barnes examines the lives of the American Bomber Crewmen of the Eighth Air Force, "The Mighty Eighth," who crewed, maintained and repaired the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and the B-24 Liberators that flew from the airfields of Norfolk and Suffolk and other counties of England. He highlights the physical and psychological strain placed on these brave men. Long bombing missions called for brute strength to control the aircraft and extraordinary endurance to fly for hours at 20,000 feet at temperatures below freezing in unheated, unpressurized cabins. Then there were Luftwaffe fighters and anti-aircraft fire to contend with and it required incredible skill and some luck to return from a mission unscathed. This book is a fitting tribute to these often uncelebrated heroes who took the war deep into the Third Reich, as well as a fascinating historical account of the experiences they went through.


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Professor Robert Buckingham Celebrated on New Year's Honour List
Written on January 4, 2021 .
RAIN's Professor Rob Buckingham has been awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to robotic engineering. The UK Atomic Energy Authority's (UKAEA) Robotics Director was one of those named in the full New Year Honours list for 2021, which recognises the achievements and service of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom. The awards will be presented by Queen Elizabeth II or her vice-regal representative.
Remote Inspection of the Reactor 4 Shelter's Western Wall
Written on December 1, 2020 .
In October 2020, a Bristol University research team with engineers and scientists from the Interface Analysis Centre deployed a semi-autonomous robot for remote radiation inspection inside the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) in Ukraine. The objective of this visit was to create a radiation map of the western wall of the Shelter Object, known as the Sarcophagus, a temporary containment structure hastily erected over the remains of Reactor 4 in the aftermath of the accident on 26 April 1986. The Shelter is facing structural integrity challenges and will need to be dismantled the upcoming years to take the contained reactor remains apart.
By deploying a specialised sensor system called YanDavos on Boston Dynamics' quadrupedal robotics platform Spot, the researchers were able to acquire an accurate dose rate map of the Shelter's wall without exposing humans to high radiation levels. Spot moved the sensor system into position in an environment where the dose rate exceeds 100 µSv/h, a hazardous radiation level for humans, and remained there until the scan was completed. YanDavos was designed and developed at Bristol University by RAIN researchers, and combines state-of-the-art gamma spectroscopy, simultaneous single point Lidar ranging and 15 FPS solid state Lidar ranging with 4K cameras to produce detailed radiation maps that can be used to plan decommissioning activities. Spot also completed a radiation mapping test around the outer perimeter of the Shelter as a training exercise for its radiation mapping algorithms.
You can watch the documentary excerpt for Ukrainian TV here, and a feature on the RT news network Ruptly here.
Dr Cardoso and Dr Ferrando secondment to NIST – US
Written on November 30, 2020 .
RAIN researcher's Dr Rafael C. Cardoso and Dr Angelo Ferrando were not able to go to their secondment at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, they have been collaborating virtually with NIST in two different projects.
Dr Cardoso is leading the project on agile tasking of robotic systems with explicit verifiable autonomy. Task agility is an increasingly desirable feature for robots in application domains such as manufacturing. The Canonical Robot Command Language (CRCL) is a lightweight information model built for agile tasking of robotic systems by NIST. CRCL replaces the underlying complex proprietary robot programming interface with a standard interface. In this project, we exchange the automated planning component that CRCL used in the past for a rational agent in the Gwendolen agent programming language, thus providing greater possibilities for formal verification and explicit autonomy. We have evaluated our approach by performing agile tasking in a kitting case study.
The NIST agility lab, with two robot arms performing kitting operations in the real world (left) and in simulation (right).
Dr Ferrando is leading the project on runtime verification of the ARIAC (Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition) competition. ARIAC is a robotic competition which aims to advance robotic agility in industry. Participants in this competition are required to implement a robot control system to overcome agility challenges in a simulated environment. ARIAC comes with a set of score metrics to evaluate the performance of each control system during task execution. In this project, we show how such task-oriented evaluation can be problematic and how the addition of runtime monitors to verify properties given in ISO/TS safety standards can help in reducing the resulting reality gap. In particular, we focused on an initial case study where a safety property given in ISO/TS 15066:2016 is used to synthesise a monitor.
The ARIAC competition.
ISCF Robots for a Safer World Cross-Hub Activities
Written on October 8, 2020 .
The Use of Digital Twins for Robotic Inspection, Maintenance and Repair
The use of robots and AI represents the future of critical infrastructure inspection, repair and maintenance. Through the ISCF's 'Robots for a Safer World' scheme, four world-leading research hubs; FAIRSPACE, NCNR, ORCA and RAIN, have been developing solutions for use in hazardous and challenging environments, such as those found in the nuclear, offshore and space sectors.
Significant research has been undertaken across the Hubs in the use of digital twins as part of robotic inspections. To maximise the impact of this research, a new cross-hub initiative has been launched on 'Digital Twins and Digital Tissue for Robotic Inspections, Maintenance and Repair'.
As well as enabling the sharing of state-of-the-art research between the hubs and fostering a collaborative community, it is also allowing researchers to continue their research during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown.
For example, NCNR researchers from the University of Lincoln have been able to control a mobile robot from the RAIN Hub at the University of Oxford. Teams from the University of Manchester are working to control a mobile robot from the ORCA Hub at Heriot-Watt University as well as robot manipulators from the FAIRSPACE Hub at the University of Edinburgh.
This video showcases some of the cutting-edge research which forms the foundation of the cross-hub initiative.
ISCF Robots for a Safer World – Cross-Hub Activities on Digital Twins for Robotic IMR
Robotic inspection of active sites at Dounreay
Written on August 12, 2020 .
The RAIN Hub has successfully trialled a robot in an active deployment at the Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DSRL) nuclear reactor research facility, now in the process of decommissioning. RAIN's remit is to develop robotic and AI solutions to meet user-led challenges in the nuclear industry. A team of RAIN researchers has been working with DSRL to understand where our technology might benefit them.
Development of pipe inspection robot
Written on August 5, 2020 .
Despite the COVID lockdown inhibiting lab access, RAIN PDRA Nick Castledine has been making great progress developing prototypes for a pipe inspection platform. Read on to hear more about his latest research progress. He also presented his work at one of the recent RAIN webinars.
3D Mapping with handheld sensors at walking pace
In the film Prometheus (2012) a team of astronauts explored the underground lair of the mysterious "Engineers" and used a flying device to quickly map the environment. Slightly less mysterious engineers in Oxford Robotics Institute have developed a handheld mapping device capable of mapping large facilities at walking speed.
RACE shares robotics expertise
Building networks between research and industry is a fundamental principle of the RAIN Hub. Early meetings between RAIN and Rolls Royce (RR) explored ways in which RAIN could support the short and long-term objectives of RR. In addition to collaborative projects and robotic deployments, sharing the expertise that RACE has in both designing for robotics and the long-term integration of robotics into regular operations was identified as valuable to RR. To this end, a series of four workshops were held between RACE and (RR) over the summer.
RAIN PM acts as guinea-pig for COVID vaccine trial
The RAIN programme manager, John Jukes, took some moments off from spreadsheets and enthusiastically coordinating team RAIN to take part in the COVID vaccine trial. He recounts his experiences here.
Remote Inspection Working Group (RIWG) trials in drummed waste store
Written on June 8, 2020 .
As part of the RAIN project, the Remote Inspection Working Group (RIWG) has been developing a range of technologies to allow autonomous ground vehicles to characterise and monitor facilities that process and store waste from the nuclear industry. As part of this work, we have been developing a relationship with the UKAEA Waste Consignments team in Culham. In this relationship we have been working to understand the different requirements the UKAEA team have for autonomous systems in monitoring and managing temporarily stored waste, and helping them understand the technology currently under development in the RAIN consortium. As part of this process, UKAEA have allowed us to trial various robotic inspection systems in their low hazard drummed waste store in Culham.


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Jefferson County's suspended District Attorney has been found guilty of first-degree perjury.
A jury returned that verdict late last week in the trial of suspended District Attorney Charles Todd Henderson. Henderson was accused of giving false testimony in a divorce case from last year in which he served as guardian for the divorcing couple's child. The woman in the divorce case, Yareima Akl, worked on Henderson's campaign for District Attorney. The two later married. However, Henderson claimed multiple times under oath during the divorce proceeding that the two were not romantically involved.
After his felony conviction, Henderson loses his elected position as District Attorney. Assistant Jefferson County DA Danny Carr has been serving in Henderson's place. Governor Kay Ivey will now appoint someone to fill that role.
A judge says he will set a sentencing date for Henderson soon.


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2020 Ford Super Duty Arrives With More Power And Fresh Styling
by Martin Bigg Reveal
Ford's new Super Duty has been updated with a new 7.3-liter V8, and 10-speed automatic transmission.
Following the unveiling of the new Ram, Chevrolet Silverado, and GMC Sierra heavy-duty trucks, Ford has wasted no time lifting the wraps off the new and improved 2020 F-Series Super Duty, which arrives with a new engine option, refreshed styling, and new tech.
The biggest change is the addition of an all-new 7.3-liter V8 gasoline engine. Ford is keeping power, torque, and towing details under wraps for now, but the Blue Oval automaker claims the new 7.3-liter engine will be the "most powerful gas V8 in its class."
It uses an all-new cam-in-block, overhead valve architecture with cast iron block and forged steel crankshaft for maximum durability. Port injection with variable-valve timing optimizes the intake and exhaust to match performance with workloads, and oil jets cool the pistons under heavy loads.
Additionally, Ford's 6.7-liter Power Stroke diesel V8 has been upgraded with a new fuel injection system to optimize the combustion process and lower noise levels. It also delivers more power and torque, but specific figures haven't been revealed. Like the previous model, Ford is also offering an entry-level F-Series Super Duty with a 6.2-liter V8 that provides "proven capability at an affordable price." Ford says it's the only manufacturer in the industry to design and build all of its heavy-duty engine and transmission combinations, which should ensure "the powertrain works seamlessly with all chassis components and vehicle calibrations."
Both the new 7.3-liter V8 and upgraded 6.7-liter diesel V8 are paired with an all-new 10-speed heavy-duty TorqShift automatic transmission, which features a wider gear ratio span than the previous 6-speed auto "designed for the harshest towing conditions." According to Ford, the compact transmission fits in the same space as the six-speed despite having four extra gears and weighing only 3.5 pounds more.
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Five drive modes are available: normal, tow/haul, eco, slippery, and deep sand and snow. Also new for the 2020 model is an updated version of Ford's Pro Trailer Backup Assist designed to make "negotiating even the largest trailers into the tightest of spaces easier than ever before". It is used in combination with the truck's Trailer Reverse Guidance system, which shows the trailer angle and direction and provides steering suggestions to most efficiently direct a trailer backward. Both systems are built to accommodate all trailer styles, including fifth-wheel and gooseneck trailers.
Other driver aids include pre-collision braking with pedestrian detection, blind-spot monitoring with trailer coverage, lane-keep assist, and automatic high beams, which all come standard on the XLT trim level and higher. Inside, the 2020 Super Duty comes with a 4G LTE Wi-Fi hotspot as standard that can connect up to 10 devices at a time and supports FordPass Connect telematics functions. USB Type C charging ports and wireless phone charging have also been added.
On the outside, the front-end has been enhanced to optimize cooling and lighting performance under heavy loads. All dual-rear-wheel Super Duty trucks are fitted with a uniquely designed high-airflow grille optimized for maximum powertrain cooling. The LED headlights have also been redesigned and offer improved performance, while high series trucks feature continuous signature lighting. Other exterior changes include an improved front bumper and air dam, a refreshed tailgate design, revised tailllights, and a restyled rear bumper.
New materials are also available for the cabin. The Limited trim's interior has been refreshed with Ebony and Highland Tan colors and features authentic materials such as genuine leather, a coarse ash wood in black and modern brushed aluminum trim. Crafted details include decorative stitching on the leather-wrapped instrument panel topper, wrapped door armrests, seating and center console lid, and an embroidered Super Duty logo added to the floor mats.
The new 2020 Ford F-Series Super Duty arrives in dealers this fall, but pricing details are being kept under wraps for now.
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All but two tracked stocks today took the slide down, along with the broader markets. That will be our focus for this evening's manufactured housing connected stock report.
Why did Gillibrand, Warren launch presidential exploratory committees?
Conventional exiting housing sales slipped in December, as a report linked here explains.
CNBC warns that some builders will be impacted by broader housing trends. While they don't mention manufactured housing, that in itself is a clue as to what's wrong.
ELS and Sun (SUIU) today, and Third Ave (TAVFX) on Friday were the only tracked equities that reported an uptick in today's Bloomberg closing ticker, see further below.
As MHProNews has noted previously, the manufactured housing industry has for some years been held captive by forces often seemingly beyond its control. But where they?
In fact, for those willing to look with open eyes and consider the actual evidence, the causes for the industry's relatively low point are knowable. Just start by reading 21st's Tim Williams, Warren Buffett corresponding annual letter, and then listen to Clayton Homes CEO – Kevin Clayton.
Or ponder what a former MHI President and Vice President has said. Isn't it only logical that the reason that the powers that be won't debate this directly, is because that means they are arguing against their own past words?
When manufactured housing was riding higher in the saddle, the industry was able to pull off high-level meetings that actually resulted in meaningful action.
Today, when the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) brags about their photo opportunities with administration or political officials, that is arguably all that they are. Bragging about photo opportunities.
What is MHI, Clayton's, 21st or other "insider" firm's response to these #nettlesome issues? Several, but they are indirect once. Among them is to have a purported surrogate call for a boycott of one of the few industry voices that dares to publicly tell the uncomfortable truth.
What is harmful to smaller firms, is seen as beneficial by several larger ones. Who has said?
MHProNews looks at the facts, considers the sources, and follows the evidence.
Marty Lavin, Frank Rolfe, and several other industry voices.
Another manufactured housing industry source will be publishing a report on a related vexing issue, at about mid-day tomorrow. Watch for it on the Daily Business News on MHProNews.
Manufactured housing should be performing at a much higher level that it now is, based on industry history pre-2003. It may take federal, state, shareholders', and plaintiffs attorneys to break up the forces that are arguably working to the detriment of the industry at large.
Of course, in conjunction with that is the need for sound information and insight. The Omaha-Knoxville-Arlington Amen corner, have they given it to you? Will they?
As more shareholders attorney law firms are piling on Cavco, is it possible that some law firms will realize that it is more than just Cavco that has possible problems?
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126M Accessed Facebook Solely From Mobile Last Month, Up 24% Since June. US User Count Inches Upward
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Facebook's 10-Q reveals some juicy tidbits left out of its earnings call yesterday. The final price it paid for Instagram was $715 million in stock and cash. Despite rumors that it has stopped growing in mature markets, Facebook's US user count did increase slightly from 168 million to 171 million monthly users during Q3. And the amount of people who accessed Facebook solely from mobile each month grew 24% to 126 million in since June 30th.
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The Instagram acquisition finally closed in early September after months of legal review. The 10-Q explains that Facebook bought it for $300 million cash plus $221 million in vested shares and $194 million (aggregate fair value) in unvested shares. That totals up to $715 million. That number is not listed anywhere in the 10-Q, but it's well under the $1 billion Facebook would have paid if its share price hadn't slipped.
Mobile-Only Growth Accelerates
As for mobile-only growth, Facebook wrote in its 10-Q: "Approximately 126 million mobile MAUs accessed Facebook solely through mobile apps or our mobile website during the month ended September 30, 2012, increasing 24% from 102 million during the month ended June 30, 2012."
That means the trend is accelerating, as Facebook saw a 23% increase in mobile only users from 83 million in March to 102 million in June. While it made 14% of its ad revenue from mobile in Q3, up from 0% in February, it has to keep up with the change in how users access the site.
The increase in mobile-only users doesn't necessarily mean people are ditching their desktops. Instead, it's likely due to an increase in sign-ups by mobile-only users, many of them on feature phones in emerging markets like India and Brazil.
Right now Facebook shows news feed ads to these users through its Facebook For Every Phone app. However, since they aren't downloading apps from the iOS or Google Play app stores, several of its new ad units like app install ads can't be shown to feature phone users. Boosting average revenue per user for these segments will be a tough challenge in the years ahead.
Solid International Growth
Facebook's key emerging markets kept growing fast in Q3. Brazil's monthly active users (MAU) hit 61 million, up 13% from 54 million at the end of June, and up 109% year-over-year. India hit 65 million MAU, up 8.5% from 59 million at the end of Q2, and up 62% since September 30th, 2011.
Unfortunately for Facebook, growth in both those markets is slowing, as Brazil grew 146% and India grew 84% from June 30th 2011 to June 2012. One brighter spot, though. Japan grew to 18 million MAU, up 218% year-over-year.
US Growth Just 1.71%
And now onto mature market growth. While some third-party measurement services including ComScore said Facebook's unique US visitor count fell in May, Facebook responded through its 10-Q, noting "We had 171 million MAUs in the United States as of September 30, 2012, an increase of 8% compared to the same period in 2011″, and an increase of 1.71% from 168 million as of June 30th.
That's surely not stunning growth, as Facebook is hitting its saturation point in the US. Instead of boosting its bottom line by increasing its user count, Facebook must now look to increase the ARPU in mature markets.
Users in countries like the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, and Australia have discretionary income, and Facebook needs to learn how to suck it out of their wallets rather than scraping it off of their eyeballs with ads (yuck, I know). Facebook Gifts, its entrance into ecommerce, is squarely aimed at growing ARPU in these types of markets. However, Facebook will have to navigate obstacles like localized shopping preferences and international shipping to bring Gifts abroad.
You can slog through the whole 10-Q below if you want:


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RESOURCES > Title 21 USC Codified CSA > Section 955a-d
Title 21 United States Code (USC) Controlled Substances Act
SUBCHAPTER II — IMPORT AND EXPORT
§§955a to 955d. Transferred
Codification
Sections, Pub. L. 96–350, §§1–4, Sept. 15, 1980, 94 Stat. 1159, 1160, relating to maritime drug law enforcement, were transferred to sections 1901 to 1904 of the former Appendix to Title 46, Shipping. Sections 1901 to 1904 of the former Appendix to Title 46 were repealed and restated in chapter 705 of Title 46, Shipping, by Pub. L. 109–304, §§10(2), 19, Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1683, 1710. For disposition of sections of the former Appendix to Title 46, see Disposition Table preceding section 101 of Title 46.


If the moon was created by a planet crashing into the earth, mark 1, the debris would have formed a ring system around earth. Of course, we have to say how effing cool would that be?
But then we worry…if we have a ring system, rather than a satelite, would we get enough gravitational pull to knead the earth's core and keep us tectonically active to have an atmosphere? would there be tides?
Mr pea decided to go to bed at this point.
If you don't agree, she will be forced to tell you about the radio-wave energy driven solar sytem we came up with on an anniversary trip.
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Block is an unincorporated community and coal town in Campbell County, Tennessee. Its post office  is closed.

References

Unincorporated communities in Campbell County, Tennessee
Unincorporated communities in Tennessee
Coal towns in Tennessee

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Work has begun on temporary wooden towns for those who lost their homes in last Wednesday's earthquake which hit central Italy.
In total, 2,700 people have been left homeless across the northern Lazio and Marche region, the majority of whom are currently living in blue tent camps.
"We hope to complete the first temporary housing modules within four or five months," Italy's Infrastructure Minister, Graziano Delrio, was quoted as saying in Il Sole 24 Ore on Wednesday.
The temporary settlements will house people in wooden chalets, each between 40 and 70 metres squared.
The new settlements will be built as close as possible to the hardest-hit towns of Amatrice, Arquata del Tronto and Amatrice, where some 2,500 people lost their homes.
"We need to keep people in groups, so as to keep the community together," Amatrice Mayor Sergio Pirozzi told Corriere earlier this week.
The towns will be based on similar settlements built in the aftermath of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake near the devastated villages of Onna and Fossa.
At Onna and Fossa, more than 5,000 displaced people still live wooden chalets and make use of wooden bars, churches and even sports facilities.
"Fossa can become a model to follow," former mayor Luigi Calvisi told Italian news agency Ansa.
In total, it is estimated that Italy will need to build some 700 wooden chalets for the survivors of its most recent quake, at an estimated cost of €35 million.
But while the wooden homes can be quickly erected, it is likely they will not be dismantled for a long time to come, while the earthquake-hit region is rebuilt.
"Previous experience tells us it will take years and we need to be patient," Delrio added.


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Q: Update UI from parent class on different thread from secondary class I have a parent class which builds my UI (basically just a text box at the moment).  I have created a secondary class which creates a new thread and I need to be able to update the textbox on the parent class from the new thread.  Everything I try throws errors.  I'm assuming I need to create some kind of dispatcher but my background is C# and I'm not 100% familiar on how to do this in Java.
My latest iteration passes the object of the parent class to a static method in the secondary which ultimately creates the new thread by instantiating an object for the secondary class (which has the run() method inside).  I have a constructor in the secondary object that expects the passed in object from the parent class which, when passed in, sets a property that I've decalred in my member section for the parent class.  when I try to access that member in the run() method to update a textbox on the parent class, I get an error.
Essentially the secondary class looks something like this:
        public class SecondaryClass extends Thread {
    private ParentClass pc = null;
    public SecondaryClass(ParentClass PC){
    pc = PC;
    }
    public static void StartThread(ParentClass pC){
       Thread thread = new SecondaryClass(pC);
       thread.start();
    }
    public void run() {
      pc.myTextBox.append("something");
    }
}

I've also tried creating a public method on the parent class that accepts a string as it's only argument and calling that method from within run() on the secondary class and passing "somethign" there.  The method on the parent class updates the same textbox but having problems there as well.
can anyone please provide some insight as to what I need to do to access UI elements across these threads?

A: you will need to use SwingWorker
Similar question answered on stackoverflow for J2ME:
Interacting with UI threads in Java/J2ME
Also read following:
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/threads/threads1.html
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/threads/threads2.html
Check simple example here:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/concurrency/worker.html
Hope this helps.

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What do you do with a pair of old ProAc Studio 1 speakers that not only have rotted woofer surrounds, but damaged tweeters as well?
You send them to me to turn them into HUMAN 61 speakers!
We decided to retain the original input terminals, as they were nice beefy nickel-plated binding posts.
First I removed the drivers, the t-nuts that they were bolted into, some of the internal damping foam, and the crossovers.
The next order of business was to deal with the metric woofer hole. I had a pair of custom MDF rings made with an outside diameter to fit the cabinet and an inside diameter to snugly fit my woofer basket.
I glued them in using a bit of hot melt to tack them and carpenter's glue for the structural bond.
Then I used epoxy to fill all the original bolt holes, using pieces of tape behind them to stop the glue from pouring through. I also filled in where the wood glue had shrunk a bit around the woofer mounting rings.
I scraped the epoxy smooth when it was 90% set and painted the entire rabbet area for each driver black.
Using a Dremel with a routing bit, I cut the small "ears" required for my tweeter terminals.
Then I installed the crossovers, replaced the foam I had removed, and added a bit more polyfill, drilled pilot holes for the screws, and installed the drivers.
Then came the big question: would the vent be tuned appropriately for my woofer in this cabinet? Luckily, it was, confirming my previous estimates based on the dimensions and port design of the Genesis V-6, a small vented system using this same woofer. Frequency response will be from about 40 Hz to well over 20 kHz, plus or minus 3 dB, with power handling approximately 150 watts rms.
Elapsed time: approximately three hours, not counting thinking. Billed time: half an hour, but it was fun.


Breathing Room is a laid back discussion group for LGBTQQIA+ students, faculty, staff, administrators, & their allies...with BRUNCH!
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New Student Programs will be hosting an NCAA tournament watch party to all first year students.
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using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Collections;
using System.Globalization;
using OpenLiveWriter.CoreServices;
using OpenLiveWriter.HtmlEditor;
using mshtml;

namespace OpenLiveWriter.PostEditor.Tables
{
    public class HTMLTableColumn
    {
        public HTMLTableColumn(IHTMLTable table, IHTMLTableCell baseCell)
        {
            _table = table;
            _baseCell = baseCell;
            _index = _baseCell.cellIndex;
        }

        public int Index
        {
            get
            {
                return _index;
            }
        }

        public IHTMLTableCell BaseCell
        {
            get
            {
                return _baseCell;
            }
        }

        public int Width
        {
            get
            {
                return TableHelper.GetCellWidth(_baseCell);
            }
            set
            {
                ProcessColumnCells(new CellWidthProcessor(value));
            }
        }

        public CellColor BackgroundColor
        {
            get
            {
                CellBackgroundColorReader bgColorReader = new CellBackgroundColorReader();
                ProcessColumnCells(bgColorReader);
                return bgColorReader.BackgroundColor;
            }
            set
            {
                ProcessColumnCells(new CellBackgroundColorWriter(value));
            }
        }

        public HorizontalAlignment HorizontalAlignment
        {
            get
            {
                CellAlignmentReader alignmentReader = new CellAlignmentReader();
                ProcessColumnCells(alignmentReader);
                return alignmentReader.HorizontalAlignment;
            }
            set
            {
                ProcessColumnCells(new CellAlignmentWriter(value));
            }
        }

        public VerticalAlignment VerticalAlignment
        {
            get
            {
                CellVAlignmentReader vAlignmentReader = new CellVAlignmentReader();
                ProcessColumnCells(vAlignmentReader);
                return vAlignmentReader.VerticalAlignment;
            }
            set
            {
                ProcessColumnCells(new CellVAlignmentWriter(value));
            }
        }

        private class CellBackgroundColorReader : IColumnCellProcessor
        {
            bool _firstCellProcessed = false;
            private CellColor _backgroundColor = new CellColor();

            public void ProcessCell(IHTMLTableCell cell)
            {
                // for the first cell processed, note its color
                if (!_firstCellProcessed)
                {
                    _backgroundColor.Color = TableHelper.GetColorForHtmlColor(cell.bgColor);
                    _firstCellProcessed = true;
                }
                // for subsequent cells, if any of them differ from the first cell
                // then the background color is mixed
                else if (!_backgroundColor.IsMixed)
                {
                    if (_backgroundColor.Color != TableHelper.GetColorForHtmlColor(cell.bgColor))
                    {
                        _backgroundColor.IsMixed = true;
                    }
                }
            }

            public CellColor BackgroundColor
            {
                get
                {
                    return _backgroundColor;
                }
            }
        }

        private class CellAlignmentReader : IColumnCellProcessor
        {
            bool _firstCellProcessed = false;
            private HorizontalAlignment _horizontalAlignment;

            public void ProcessCell(IHTMLTableCell cell)
            {
                // for the first cell processed, note its alignment
                if (!_firstCellProcessed)
                {
                    _horizontalAlignment = TableHelper.GetAlignmentForHtmlAlignment(cell.align);
                    _firstCellProcessed = true;
                }
                // for subsequent cells, if any of them differ from the first cell
                // then the alignment is mixed
                else if (_horizontalAlignment != HorizontalAlignment.Mixed)
                {
                    if (_horizontalAlignment != TableHelper.GetAlignmentForHtmlAlignment(cell.align))
                        _horizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Mixed;
                }
            }

            public HorizontalAlignment HorizontalAlignment
            {
                get
                {
                    return _horizontalAlignment;
                }
            }
        }

        private class CellVAlignmentReader : IColumnCellProcessor
        {
            bool _firstCellProcessed = false;
            private VerticalAlignment _verticalAlignment;

            public void ProcessCell(IHTMLTableCell cell)
            {
                // for the first cell processed, note its alignment
                if (!_firstCellProcessed)
                {
                    _verticalAlignment = TableHelper.GetVAlignmentForHtmlAlignment(cell.vAlign);
                    _firstCellProcessed = true;
                }
                // for subsequent cells, if any of them differ from the first cell
                // then the alignment is mixed
                else if (_verticalAlignment != VerticalAlignment.Mixed) // optimize
                {
                    if (_verticalAlignment != TableHelper.GetVAlignmentForHtmlAlignment(cell.vAlign))
                        _verticalAlignment = VerticalAlignment.Mixed;
                }
            }

            public VerticalAlignment VerticalAlignment
            {
                get
                {
                    return _verticalAlignment;
                }
            }
        }

        private class CellBackgroundColorWriter : IColumnCellProcessor
        {
            private CellColor _backgroundColor;
            public CellBackgroundColorWriter(CellColor backgroundColor) { _backgroundColor = backgroundColor; }

            public void ProcessCell(IHTMLTableCell cell)
            {
                // mixed means leave the cells alone
                if (!_backgroundColor.IsMixed)
                {
                    if (_backgroundColor.Color != Color.Empty)
                    {
                        cell.bgColor = ColorHelper.ColorToString(_backgroundColor.Color);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        (cell as IHTMLElement).removeAttribute("bgcolor", 0);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        private class CellAlignmentWriter : IColumnCellProcessor
        {
            private HorizontalAlignment _alignment;
            public CellAlignmentWriter(HorizontalAlignment alignment) { _alignment = alignment; }

            public void ProcessCell(IHTMLTableCell cell)
            {
                // mixed means leave the cells alone
                if (_alignment != HorizontalAlignment.Mixed)
                {
                    if (_alignment != HorizontalAlignment.Left)
                        cell.align = TableHelper.GetHtmlAlignmentForAlignment(_alignment);
                    else
                        (cell as IHTMLElement).removeAttribute("align", 0);
                }
            }
        }

        private class CellVAlignmentWriter : IColumnCellProcessor
        {
            private VerticalAlignment _alignment;
            public CellVAlignmentWriter(VerticalAlignment alignment) { _alignment = alignment; }

            public void ProcessCell(IHTMLTableCell cell)
            {
                // mixed means leave the cells alone
                if (_alignment != VerticalAlignment.Mixed)
                {
                    if (_alignment != VerticalAlignment.Middle)
                        cell.vAlign = TableHelper.GetHtmlAlignmentForVAlignment(_alignment);
                    else
                        (cell as IHTMLElement).removeAttribute("valign", 0);
                }
            }
        }

        private class CellWidthProcessor : IColumnCellProcessor
        {
            private int _width;
            public CellWidthProcessor(int width) { _width = width; }

            public void ProcessCell(IHTMLTableCell cell)
            {
                if (_width > 0)
                {
                    cell.width = _width.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
                }
                else
                {
                    (cell as IHTMLElement).removeAttribute("width", 0);
                }
            }
        }

        private interface IColumnCellProcessor
        {
            void ProcessCell(IHTMLTableCell cell);
        }

        private void ProcessColumnCells(IColumnCellProcessor cellProcessor)
        {
            // set the specified alignment for each cell in the column
            foreach (IHTMLTableRow row in _table.rows)
            {
                if (row.cells.length > Index)
                {
                    IHTMLTableCell cell = row.cells.item(Index, Index) as IHTMLTableCell;
                    cellProcessor.ProcessCell(cell);
                }
            }
        }

        private IHTMLTable _table;
        private IHTMLTableCell _baseCell;
        private int _index;
    }

}

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Biografia
Nato e cresciuto nell'Illinois, Johnson si laureò in legge e successivamente entrò in politica con il Partito Repubblicano. Nel 1971 fu eletto all'interno del consiglio comunale di Urbana.

Nel 1976 fu eletto all'interno della Camera dei rappresentanti dell'Illinois, dove rimase per i successivi ventiquattro anni.

Nel 2000 si candidò alla Camera dei Rappresentanti nazionale e venne eletto deputato, venendo poi riconfermato per altri cinque mandati negli anni successivi. Nel 2012, dopo aver inizialmente concorso per la rielezione, annunciò il proprio ritiro dalla competizione e si ritirò dal Congresso al termine del mandato.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
Timothy V. Johnson sul Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Politici del Partito Repubblicano (Stati Uniti d'America)
Rappresentanti statunitensi eletti dall'Illinois


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Іва́н Йо́сипович Ві́нник (22 червня 1929 — 6 грудня 2017) — організатор і керівник вітчизняного суднобудування, Герой Соціалістичної Праці (1977).

Життєпис
Народився 22 червня 1929 року в селі Міські Млини Опішнянського (тепер Зіньківського) району Полтавської області в селянській родині.

Після закінчення семирічної школи, вступив до Харківського машинобудівного технікуму, який закінчив на відмінно у 1951 році. Через матеріальну скруту відмовився від вступу до інституту й пішов працювати на Чорноморський суднобудівний завод в Миколаєві помічником майстра монтажного цеху. Почергово займав посади майстра, старшого майстра, заступника начальника монтажного цеху. Брав участь в будівництві китобійної бази «Радянська Росія», траулера «Лермонтов», інших суден.

У 1964 році переведений на посаду начальника цеху.

З 1968 року — головний будівельник кораблів на ЧСЗ. Під його керівництвом було створено унікальне науково-дослідне судно «Академік Сергій Корольов».

У 1977 році за будівництво і здачу авіанесучого крейсера «Київ» був удостоєний звання Героя Соціалістичної Праці.

З 1978 року — виконувач обов'язків заступника директора з машинобудування.

З 1982 року — заступник директора по верфі.

З 1989 року — заступник директора з виробництва.

Вів значну суспільну роботу, чотири рази обирався депутатом Миколаївської міської ради.

Після виходу на пенсію мешкав у Миколаєві, де й помер.

Нагороди
 Медаль «Серп і Молот» Героя Соціалістичної Праці (1977);
 Два ордени Леніна (1966, 1977);
 Орден Трудового Червоного Прапора (1970);
 Орден «Знак Пошани» (1963);
 Медаль «В ознаменування 100-річчя з дня народження Володимира Ілліча Леніна» (1970);
 Почесна грамота Президії ВР УРСР (1989);
 Почесний громадянин міста Миколаєва (1989).

Вшанування пам'яті
15 жовтня 2020 року в Миколаєві на будинку за адресою Бузький бульвар, 1-А, де 26 років жив Іван Винник, встановили меморіальну дошку.

Примітки

Джерела
 «Золоті зірки Миколаївщини: Енциклопедичне видання.» — Миколаїв: Вид-во МДГУ ім. П. Могили, 2005.

Посилання

Уродженці Міських Млинів
Українські промисловці
Кораблебудівники СРСР
Працівники Чорноморського суднобудівного заводу


Mar 5, 2018. If insurance rates are any barometer, then the stereotype is true:. Car insurance rates rise again in state in 2017. According to the Washington state Office of the Insurance Commissioner, base car insurance rates went up.
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Real Madrid Femenino vs Chelsea Women Match Analysis & Prediction
Real Madrid Femenino
After claiming a 2-0 victory over Real Madrid Femenino two weeks ago, Chelsea Women will be looking to replicate that result when they face the Spanish side at Estadio Alfredo Di Stefano on Thursday.
Double Chance: Chelsea or X
Goals Over 2.5: Yes
Chelsea To Score Next Goal: Yes
The Blues are currently at the summit of their Women's Champions League group, while third-placed Real Madrid are level on four points with Paris Saint-Germain.
After defeating Sturm Graz, Manchester City and Rosenborg in the qualifying stages, Real Madrid kicked off the group phase with a 2-0 victory over Vllaznia.
Alberto Toril's side followed that result with a hard-fought goalless draw with PSG, before they lost away to Chelsea in November.
That defeat to the English side leaves Los Blancos behind PSG on goal difference, while they are five points adrift of Chelsea ahead of the midweek contest.
Real Madrid returned to winning ways in their last two league matches, claiming a 5-1 victory over Alhama before beating Levante Las Planas 4-1 at the weekend.
Although they face a tough test against the Blues on Thursday, Real Madrid will feel confident that they can at least pick up a point after losing just one of their last eight home matches across all competitions.
On the other hand, Chelsea are on the verge of reaching the knockout rounds after picking up maximum points from their three group matches.
After kicking off the competition with a narrow 1-0 away victory over PSG, the English champions eased to a memorable 8-0 victory over Vllaznia.
They followed up with another positive result on matchday three, as goals from Sophie Ingle and Erin Cuthbert guided Chelsea to a 2-0 victory over Real Madrid.
Emma Hayes' side know that if they can claim all three points on Thursday then they will secure their spot in the quarter-finals.
After beating Leicester City WFC 8-0 at the weekend to record an 11th successive victory across all competitions, the Blues will certainly be confident that they can progress to the knockout rounds with two matches to spare.
Real Madrid Femenino vs. Chelsea Women Head to head
These two teams have previously met on just one occasion in the Women's Champions League last month, where Chelsea claimed a 2-0 victory.
Real Madrid Femenino Team News
Real Madrid are set to be without the services of Claudia Florentino after the 24-year-old missed Satuday's victory over Levante Las Planas, but Esther Gonzalez will lead the line for the hosts.
After being rested at the weekend, Kenti Robles and Ivana Andres should return to the back four here.
Real Madrid Femenino's Last 5 Matches
Primera Division Femenina
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Cheslea
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Chelsea Women Team News
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Lauren James and Cuthbert were left on the bench for the victory over Leicester City, but the pair could be brought into the starting lineup for the game against Real Madrid.
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#ifndef DiGpuProgram_h__
#define DiGpuProgram_h__

#include "Skeleton.h"
#include "GfxDriver.h"
#include "Shadows.h"
#include "Any.h"

#include <functional>

namespace Demi
{
    enum DiVsVersion
    {
        VS_INVALID = -1,

        VS_NONE    = 0,
        VS_1_1,
        VS_2_0,
        VS_2_a,
        VS_3_0,
        VS_4_0,

        NUM_VERTEX_SHADER_VERSIONS
    };

    enum DiPsVersion
    {
        PS_INVALID = -1,

        PS_NONE    = 0,
        PS_1_1,
        PS_1_2,
        PS_1_3,
        PS_1_4,
        PS_2_0,
        PS_2_b,
        PS_2_a,
        PS_3_0,
        PS_4_0,

        NUM_PIXEL_SHADER_VERSIONS
    };

    typedef DiPair<DiString,DiString>   DiMarcoDefine;
    typedef DiVector<DiMarcoDefine>     DiMarcoDefineList;

    struct DiCompileDesc
    {

        void                AddMarco(const DiString& name, const DiString& def = DiString::BLANK);

        void                RemoveMarco(const DiString& name);

        DiString            profile;

        DiMarcoDefineList   marcos;

        DiString            entryName;
    };

    //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    class DiShaderEnvironment
    {
    public:
        DiShaderEnvironment(void);

    public:
        DiMat4        modelMatrix;

        DiMat4        viewMatrix;
        DiMat4        projMatrix;
        DiMat4        modelViewMatrix;
        DiMat4        modelViewProjMatrix;
        DiMat4        viewProjMatrix;
        DiMat4        texMatrix;

        DiVec3        eyePosition;
        DiVec3        eyeDirection;

        DiVec4        farnearPlane;

        DiColor       globalAmbient;
        DiColor       ambientColor;
        DiColor       diffuseColor;
        DiColor       specularColor;
        float         opacity;
        float         shininess;

        DiVec4        boneMatrices[MAX_BONE_NUM * 3];
        DiVec4        modelMatrices[MAX_WORLD_MATS * 3];
        uint32        numBones;
        uint32        numModelMatrices;

        float         time;
        DiVec4        viewportSize;
        DiVec4        texelOffsets;

        int           numDirLights;
        DiColor       dirLightsColor[MAX_LIGHTS];
        DiVec4        dirLightsDir[MAX_LIGHTS];

        int           numPointLights;
        DiColor       pointLightsColor[MAX_LIGHTS];
        DiVec4        pointLightsPosition[MAX_LIGHTS];
        DiVec4        pointLightsAttenuation[MAX_LIGHTS];

        bool          hasSkyLight;
        DiColor       skyLightColor;
        DiColor       groundColor;
        DiVec3        skyLightDir;

        DiVec4        depthRange;
        DiMat4        texViewProjMatrix; // assume we only have one simultaneous shadow light

        void          SetIdentity();
    };

    //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

    class DI_GFX_API DiShaderInstance : public DiBase
    {
    public:

        DiShaderInstance(DiShaderType type){}

        virtual                 ~DiShaderInstance(){}

        virtual void            Bind(const DiShaderEnvironment& shaderEnv) = 0;

        virtual void            Release() = 0;

        virtual DiShaderType    GetType() = 0;

        virtual bool            Compile(const DiString& code) = 0;

        DiCompileDesc           mCompileDesc;
    };
}

#endif


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The French striker put a string of angry posts on Twitter and Instagram on Saturday aimed at those who had criticized him for eating a gold-coated steak, AFP reported.
"He used words that we, FC Bayern, cannot accept and that Franck does not have the right to use, as a role model and player of FC Bayern", added Salihamidzic.
On Thursday, the 35-year-old Bayern Munich player posted a video on social media showing him in a steak house owned by celebrity Turkish restauranteur Salt Bae and rubbing his hands before tucking into a huge chop coated in gold.
That ostentatious luxury, and the reported cost of the meal, drew ferocious criticism before Ribery – who earns an estimated €8 million a year with the German champion – hit back on Saturday.
German media and social media users had called on the reigning Bundesliga champion to punish the striker, who is out of contract at the end of the season.
"Bosses must suspend Ribery," urged German tabloid Bild.
The paper referred to comments by Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, the club's chief executive, who, in October responded to media criticism by quoting the German Constitution that "the dignity of the human being is intangible".
Bayern and Rummenigge have also been on the defensive recently after criticism from some of the club's own fans over the decision to return to Qatar for winter training.


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San Joaquin General Hospital is a 196-bed public teaching hospital located within the San Joaquin County area of French Camp, California, United States. San Joaquin General Hospital, funded by San Joaquin County, originally established in 1857, is a general acute care facility providing a full range of inpatient services including General Medical/Surgical Care, High-Risk Obstetrics and Neonatal Intensive Care, Pediatrics and Acute Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. The hospital is the only trauma center serving the 700,000 residents of San Joaquin County.  San Joaquin General Hospital is also a primary stroke center and the county's EMS base station.  The county's EMS administrative and education facility is immediately adjacent to the hospital.

The hospital offers physician residencies in family medicine, internal medicine, and general surgery.  The physician residencies are affiliated with the University of California, Davis School of Medicine.  The hospital also has a pharmacy residency program, and is a teaching site for the University of the Pacific School of Pharmacy.

See also
Hospitals in California

References

External links
Official Website
This hospital in the CA Healthcare Atlas A project by OSHPD

Hospital buildings completed in 1857
County hospitals in California
1857 establishments in California
Trauma centers


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Bachelor of Visual Arts and Bachelor of Visual Arts/Bachelor of Advanced Studies
Bachelor of Visual Arts and Bachelor of Visual Arts/Bachelor of Advanced Studies at Sydney College of the Arts will allow you to develop the conceptual, theoretical and technical skills you will need to succeed as a practising artist or in a range of careers in the creative industries.
First year develops your creative practice through projects designed to expand your awareness of the potentialities of contemporary art practice. You will be introduced to two-dimensional, three-dimensional and four-dimensional realms of studio based creative practice in a range of contemporary art disciplines in SCA's well equipped studios. You will be introduced to interdisciplinary principles and relevant theories designed to blend conceptual and technical proficiencies, so as to develop your own critical and visual language, ideas and mode of expression.
In second year, you will select one area of emphasis through focused assessment projects. The areas of emphasis are:
Photomedia
Screen Arts, or
Sculpture.
Here you will explore and develop emerging ideas and a personal artistic voice. Your studies will be supported by tailored technical workshops across all areas.
Third year is the consolidation of your creative practice, where you will work independently on self-directed projects that continue to develop and extend concepts, theories and methods learned first and second year. You may take a disciplinary or interdisciplinary approach to a refined body of work appropriate for the graduate exhibition, a public event held at the conclusion of semester two.
1. Bachelor of Visual Arts
To qualify for the award of Bachelor of Visual Arts, a candidate must complete 144 credit points including:
72 credit points of Studio units from the Visual Arts table
24 credit points of Art History units, of which 12 credit points must be from 1000 level and 12 credit points must be from 2000 or 3000 level from the Visual Arts table
48 credit points from Elective units in the:
–Visual Arts table or
–Table O or
– Table S Electives which may include a minor or major excluding the Visual Arts major or minor from Table S
2. Bachelor of Visual Arts and Bachelor of Advanced Studies
To qualify for the award of Bachelor of Visual Arts/Bachelor of Advanced Studies, a candidate must complete 192 credit points including:
A 48 credit points major excluding the Visual Arts major from Table S
12 credit points of Open Learning Environment units of study from Table O
A minimum of 24 credit points at 4000 level as listed in the Visual Arts table
Where appropriate, elective units of study from Table O or Table S Electives
A major consists of 48 credit points in a single subject area. A minor consists of 36 credit points in a single discipline area.
Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Visual Arts may choose to complete a major or a minor (excluding the Visual Arts major and minor) from Table S (shared pool) to meet degree requirements.
Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Visual Arts and Bachelor of Advanced Studies must complete a major (excluding the Visual Arts major) from Table S.
The honours year allows you to extend your potential in studio-based and written research. You may continue to work in the area of your undergraduate study or undertake research in a different area.
You can choose to complete honours in Visual Arts either by studio practice and research paper; or by sole dissertation.
Your final examination will take place at the graduate exhibition at the end of the honours year. You are required to present your research paper and studio work; or dissertation with an oral examination, both to a panel of two examiners.
Requirements for honours
The requirements for honours in Visual Arts are described in the degree resolutions for the Bachelor of Visual Arts/Bachelor of Advanced Studies.
36 credit points of honours units will be included in the table for 2021.
Honours admission requirements
For students who commenced their degree prior to 2018: admission to Honours requires:
the completion of the requirements of the pass degree in the Bachelor of Visual Arts, or a major in Visual Arts in an undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney or an equivalent degree from another university with a weighted average mark (WAM) of at least 65 across all 2000- and 3000-level units; and
presentation of a research proposal outlining the proposed topic of investigation; and
for students not in the Bachelor of Visual Arts, presentation of a portfolio of creative work demonstrating level of expertise for honours level.
The requirements for advanced coursework in Visual Arts are described in the degree resolutions for the Bachelor of Visual Arts/Bachelor of Advanced Studies.
24 credit points of advanced study will be included in the table for 2021.
Pre-2018 Curriculum students
Students who started their current degree prior to 2018 should follow the requirements (such as 36cp majors) listed in the handbook of the year they commenced the degree.
For example, a student who started their Bachelor of Arts in 2017 should follow the 2017 Handbook requirements. Handbooks for previous years are located in the Handbook Archive.
Available units of study will appear in the unit of study enrolment task screens in Sydney Student.
Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Visual Arts, and the Bachelor of Visual Arts and Bachelor of Advanced Studies can complete elective units of study from Table S (shared pool) and Table O.
The available units of study are listed in Table O and Table S in the Interdisciplinary Studies handbook.
Contact and further information
Website: Sydney College of the Arts
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Elective or 1000 level unit in major/minor from Table S*
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2000 or 3000 level Art History unit
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Elective or 3000 level unit in major from S*
Elective or 2000/3000 level unit in major/minor from S*
*Table S major or minor excluding Visual Arts major or minor
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Split Decisions: Federal Cases Show Big Gap In Reward For Cooperation
Rules on Reducing Sentences Vary Across U.S. - An Edge For Some Crime Bosses, A 'Little Fish' Gets 19 1/2 Years
By Laurie P. Cohen, WSJ Reporter
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On Jan. 28, 2004, federal agents stopped a fishing boat and a pleasure boat as they sped into a Florida inlet from the Bahamas carrying 380 kilograms of cocaine and 487 pounds of marijuana. Ringleader William "Billy" Stevens, 46 years old, was arrested along with Henry Rudnitskie and one other man.
Messrs. Stevens and Rudnitskie both sought to cooperate with authorities, lawyers in the case say. But Mr. Rudnitskie was turned down because "anything he knew came from Billy," says Mr. Stevens's lawyer, Alvin E. Entin. Only Mr. Stevens got credit for cooperation. He received an 11-year sentence while Mr. Rudnitskie, 57, was sentenced to 19 years and seven months.
Mr. Entin says he's seen it many times: "The big fish gets off and the little fish gets eaten."
Cooperating with federal prosecutors against friends, acquaintances and co-defendants is often the only hope for criminals to avoid being sentenced under strict federal guidelines and mandatory minimum prison terms. More than one in six defendants is awarded a letter from prosecutors saying he or she gave "substantial assistance" to an investigation. The letter means that the usual rules are thrown out and judges, many of whom believe current punishments are too severe, can give any sentence they like.
But the procedure for deciding who gets these valuable letters is often haphazard and tilted toward higher-ranking veteran criminals who can tell prosecutors what they want to know. U.S. attorneys in different parts of the country vary widely in how they reward cooperation, even though they're all part of the same federal justice system. Studies suggest blacks and Hispanics are less likely to get credit than whites, perhaps partly because they are more mistrustful of authorities. And once prosecutors decide that cooperation is insufficient for a letter, their word is usually final -- defendants can't appeal the decision to a judge.
All these issues raise concern because the federal sentencing guidelines were supposed to promote uniformity in sentencing. "How could any factor in a system which aims to normalize sentences be so widely disparate?" asks Marc Miller, a professor at Atlanta's Emory University Law School.
Disparities in one aspect of cooperation letters have attracted the attention of the Department of Justice. Robert McCampbell, the U.S. attorney in Oklahoma City and head of a sentencing subcommittee advising the attorney general, says the department is worried that while some prosecutors have strictly followed the requirements for giving the letters, others seem to hand them out more liberally. Following a September 2003 memo by Attorney General John Ashcroft to all federal prosecutors, Mr. McCampbell says the department's message is now: "Only use substantial assistance departures where cooperation is truly substantial."
And last week, a report by the U.S. Sentencing Commission reviewing the 15-year record of the guidelines warned that "unwarranted disparity" in cooperation letters may play a role in increasing sentence variation.
The system of cooperation letters could change if the Supreme Court, which is currently hearing a case on the sentencing guidelines, rules that they are unconstitutional. Under the guidelines, many sentences are "enhanced" based on factors that weren't considered by a jury or admitted by the defendant -- for example, the amount of money stolen by a fraud defendant. The high court in June struck down a similar system in the state of Washington by a 5-4 margin.
The Supreme Court could throw out only the parts of the guidelines that deal with sentence enhancements or strike down the entire system. Even in the latter case, lawyers expect some form of reward for cooperation to survive, perhaps with a greater role for defense lawyers and judges in determining the size of the reward. The justice system depends on getting people to cooperate in exchange for sentencing discounts, says Kevin O'Connor, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut.
"Without them," he says, "the system would break down because everyone would be going to trial."
In the legal world, a cooperation letter is known as a 5k1.1, after the provision in the guidelines that gives judges the go-ahead to depart downward from the usual sentence range. In Washington, D.C., in 2002, 31.1% of all defendants got 5k1.1s. Across the Potomac River in the Eastern District of Virginia, just 6.3% of all defendants got them. Judges and former prosecutors in that district say prosecutors there prefer to ask for sentencing reductions for cooperators after they are sentenced, a practice for which statistics aren't kept.
A 1998 Sentencing Commission study found that black defendants had a 16% chance of receiving a 5k1.1 and Hispanic defendants a 13% chance, compared with 20% for white defendants. The study also found that blacks and Hispanics who did get 5k1.1s had their sentences reduced less on average than white defendants.
Many details of how the system works differ from place to place. U.S. attorneys in Salt Lake City, Montgomery, Ala., and Boston, among other places, make specific recommendations as to how much a cooperating defendant's sentence should be cut. In Manhattan, Brooklyn and Washington, D.C., U.S. attorneys merely report the cooperation without recommending a sentence.
Elliot Enoki, the first assistant U.S. attorney in Hawaii, cites another discrepancy. "Some districts have a rule that unless your substantial assistance results in someone else being convicted of a crime, that isn't substantial assistance," he says. "We don't have that rule."
Sven Truman, a former machinist at Roxane Laboratories Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, found this out the hard way. In February 2000, Mr. Truman stole large quantities of morphine, methadone and other drugs made by Roxane, hiding them in his socks. He then tried to sell 8,000 tablets to an undercover agent. Mr. Truman confessed and promised to cooperate. His description of lax security procedures led to security upgrades at Roxane, a unit of Germany's Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH, according to an April 2002 Cincinnati appeals-court ruling in his case.
But prosecutors refused to award Mr. Truman a 5k1.1 because no one was prosecuted as a result of his information. They recommended a sentence of 10 years and one month, at the low end of the tight range prescribed in the guidelines. The judge at first adhered to the recommendation but after an appeal he departed from the guidelines, ultimately giving Mr. Truman a sentence of seven years and a month.
The decision on handing out cooperation letters is entirely in prosecutors' hands. Unless defendants can prove that a denial resulted from bad faith -- which is difficult to show -- there isn't anything a court can do about it.
In one Washington, D.C., case, the government conceded that a drug defendant's assistance helped secure indictments against several others. But after the defendant refused to testify in a case out of fear for his family's safety, the government refused him a 5k1.1. He sought a district court's help, but in 2001 the court rejected the request, saying it had no authority to undermine the prosecutors' discretion. The court's ruling concealed the defendant's name.
The Justice Department has grown concerned about the way some prosecutors exercise their discretion. In Mr. Ashcroft's September 2003 memo calling for fewer 5k1.1 motions, he wrote: "It is not appropriate to use substantial assistance motions as a case management tool to secure plea agreements and avoid trials."
In the government's $2.7 billion accounting fraud case against former HealthSouth Corp. executives including former Chief Executive Richard Scrushy, a total of 15 defendants received 5k1.1s. Judges were quick to reward many of them with lenient sentences. Of 10 HealthSouth defendants sentenced so far, just one drew prison time and then for only five months. Prosecutors had sought prison time for most of the defendants.
Federal judges generally like it when 5k1.1s are awarded since they can freely use their discretion in deciding sentences. "Most judges are so pleased to see people they don't have to sentence under the guidelines that they don't ask a lot of questions," says retired U.S. District Judge John S. Martin Jr. of Manhattan.
U.S. Attorney Alice Martin of Birmingham, Ala., says it was necessary to offer substantial assistance motions to the 15 "because of the complexity of the fraud" at HealthSouth. Using 5k1.1s, Ms. Martin says, "puts a lot more scores on the board a lot quicker."
While HealthSouth prosecutors used 5k1.1s for lower-ranking defendants as a way of going after the company's former chief, the reverse is often true, says Judge Martin. "Very often it is people higher up in the chain, not the people lower down, who get the 5k1.1s because they have more to offer up to prosecutors," he says.
Issa Jaber, now 29 years old, learned about the methamphetamine business from a veteran dealer, Khalid S. Abu-Lawi, who gave him money for drugs and introduced him to customers, according to the prosecutor in Mr. Jaber's case. The two men were distributing pseudoephedrine, the key ingredient in methamphetamine or "speed."
Mr. Abu-Lawi was arrested in Florida in 2000. He agreed to cooperate and informed on Mr. Jaber of Boston, one of his distributors. Police arrested Mr. Jaber in July 2002. He pleaded guilty and also offered to cooperate.
But because he was caught later, Mr. Jaber was in a weaker position. He implicated Mr. Abu-Lawi but that was useless to the prosecutors: They had already extracted a guilty plea from the senior dealer. Then Mr. Jaber fingered another pseudoephedrine distributor in Florida. This was more helpful, and investigators spent four sessions with Mr. Jaber quizzing him. But the investigation was aborted when the Fort Lauderdale prosecutor leading it left his job and another drug agent working on it was reassigned.
Prosecutors then rejected Mr. Jaber's bid for a 5k1.1. They asked that Mr. Jaber be sentenced to seven years and three months in prison, nearly double the sentence of four years and three months that Mr. Abu-Lawi received.
Mr. Abu-Lawi, now 39, was released in April of this year after getting time off for good behavior. In an interview from his home in Orlando, Fla., where he works as a video-store manager, he says federal drug agents warned him at the time of his arrest that he would get about 20 years in jail if he didn't start cooperating. "They said if you don't tell us everything, we won't give you nothing. We're going to hit you with the book," Mr. Abu-Lawi recalls. He says he and several of his co-defendants got credit for cooperating, and each knew what the others were saying.
Mr. Jaber's lawyer, Mark NeJame of Orlando, says his client had "bad luck." The case, he says, "shows how capricious the system is."
But Mr. Jaber had some good luck too: His case was heard by Judge Nancy Gertner, an outspoken critic of inequities in how 5k1.1s are meted out. At Mr. Jaber's sentencing three weeks ago, the judge noted that Mr. Abu-Lawi was "substantively involved in [drug] distribution from one end of the country to the other, while Mr. Jaber was simply the Massachusetts spoke in that wheel."
Judge Gertner called it "grotesque" that Mr. Jaber faced a much stiffer sentence than his onetime mentor simply because the would-be prosecutor of the distributor Mr. Jaber fingered in Florida happened to leave his job, dooming Mr. Jaber's chance of getting a 5k1.1. She sentenced Mr. Jaber to four years and three months, the same sentence as Mr. Abu-Lawi. Federal prosecutors have 30 days to notify the court whether they will appeal Judge Gertner's ruling.
Judge Gertner also departed from the guidelines in a case earlier this year involving two Guatemalan women caught at the Boston airport with heroin pellets stuffed in their bodies. Both offered to cooperate but only one had a piece of paper in her pocket with the name and phone number of a contact. That woman got a 5k1.1 and a recommendation from the prosecutors for a lighter sentence, while the one without the paper faced six to seven years in prison under the guidelines. Judge Gertner ended up sentencing both women to the time they had already served. They were then deported.
However, such departures from the guidelines are unusual because judges have to hold longer or additional hearings to justify them and submit their reasons for departing to the Justice Department. Even then, the lighter sentences may be overruled on appeal.
One judge has attempted to hold prosecutors accountable for their 5k1.1 decisions. In March, U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller of Milwaukee said he would start ordering prosecutors who filed 5k1.1 motions to produce details of the defendant's cooperation and explain how the decision to file the motion was made. Without that information, Judge Stadtmueller, a Ronald Reagan nominee, said he wouldn't accept such motions.
The U.S. attorney in Milwaukee challenged Judge Stadtmueller's order on behalf of the government, and in late September the Seventh Circuit Appeals Court struck it down. The appeals court said the order might make law-enforcement agencies less likely to tell prosecutors which defendants were being helpful since information about the cooperation could end up in the public record.
Judge Stadtmueller "just wanted transparency and accountability," says Franklin Gimbel, a lawyer representing the judge. "So much discretion is reposed in the nation's 4,900 assistant U.S. attorneys who make these decisions daily behind closed doors."
Such a decision led to unequal punishment for Marisol Perez, a waitress at a New York barbecue restaurant, and Jorge Tellez, whom Ms. Perez accompanied on a bus trip to Florida in February 2002. Mr. Tellez bought heroin and cocaine there and planned to bring it back to New York to sell. The two were arrested first. Mr. Tellez, now 53, pleaded guilty and quickly began cooperating with the government. He implicated Ms. Perez but said she was "a very small player" in the drug deal "because all she did was accompany me."
Normally Mr. Tellez would have faced at least five years and 10 months in prison under the federal sentencing guidelines. But thanks to the 5k1.1 he received for telling on Ms. Perez, he got a 31/2-year sentence instead.
Ms. Perez, 32, is a first-time offender and the single mother of a 10-year-old son. She denied knowing about the plans for a drug pickup in Florida, saying she thought she was accompanying Mr. Tellez on a vacation. Maintaining her innocence, she went to trial, where Mr. Tellez testified against her. A federal jury convicted her of conspiring to distribute controlled substances. Her sentence: six years.
Ms. Perez's lawyer, David Oscar Markus, says she was just beginning to turn her life around at the time of her arrest after breaking up with her son's father, a drug user. "Marisol's case still keeps me awake at night," says Mr. Markus. "She was the least culpable defendant in a drug case, yet she got the most time."
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