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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence in 2018: Seven Predictions
Artificial intelligence has been described both as a radical force for good and an enabler of evil whose risks are not yet fully understood. But is it just a lot of hype or a transformative technology poised to impact our future? Here, seven IT execs weigh in on the AI debate and offer their predictions for the changes we may see in 2018.
SolarWinds Expands SaaS Offerings with Loggly Purchase
SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software, has acquired Loggly, Inc., a provider of cloud-based log monitoring and log analytics software. With the transaction, Solarwinds will also expand its cloud software engineering and analytics expertise.
CA Technologies Partners With Cloud Native Computing Foundation
CA Technologies has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which sustains and integrates open source technologies such as Kubernetes and Prometheus. The vendor also said it is expanding its contributions to both the Kubernetes and the Prometheus CNCF projects.
Juniper Networks Releases Updated Security Automation Tools
Juniper Networks, a provider of automated networks, announced advancements to its cybersecurity platform, intended to deliver simplified operations with policy management efficiencies, on-premises malware defense with threat behavior analytics and one-touch mitigation and adaptive enforcement across diverse environments
The Changing Role of the Modern DBA in the New Cloud Era
As the use of cloud expands as a database platform and automated capabilities increase, there are new opportunities for DBAs to move beyond operations and emergency fire-fighting and instead get involved in more innovative, high-level tasks that bring additional value to their organizations. Experts weigh in on what's ahead.
Expect Increasing Market Consolidation in Database Management
The suddenness of the non-relational "breakout" created a lot of noise and confusion and—at least initially—an explosion of new database systems. However, the database landscape is settling down, and in the past few years, the biggest meta trend in database management has been a reduction in the number of leading vendors and consolidation of core technologies. Additionally, we're starting to see database as a service (DBaaS) offerings become increasingly credible alternatives to on-premise or do-it-yourself cloud database configuration.
Microsoft to Acquire Hybrid Cloud Storage Vendor Avere Systems
Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire Avere Systems, a provider of NFS and SMB file-based storage for Linux and Windows clients running in cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. The purchase was announced in a blog post by Jason Zander, corporate vice president, Microsoft Azure.
Machine Learning Predicted to Take the Stage Again in 2018
Machine learning and artificial intelligence will continue to improve and make waves in the big data industry. Autonomous machines that can learn without explicit programming is the future, many say, and experts are predicting that machine learning will continue to take center stage in a variety of ways in 2018.
What We Can Learn from Expedia - Today's Largest Self-Service BI Tool
Self-service data discovery has been the buzz word in the BI industry for the past 3 years and is touted as the solution to many problems. Yet, the BI industry has a dismal adoption rate of only 22%, which has plagued the industry for several years. In response to this grim number, we must look around for a solution in other sectors that provides self-service to millions of people without any IT support. In essence, we are looking for a self-service paradigm that can give us insights about how to solve the adoption challenge and learn from it.
Rocket Software Receives Distinguished Award
Rocket Software, a global technology provider specializing in app modernization and systems optimization, has won the 2017 "Growth Partner of the Year" award from Ellucian, recognizing the company's technical support. Ellucian, a provider of software and services built to power higher education, selected Rocket for the award in recognition of the company's technical support for Ellucian's cloud-based solutions and for its role in helping the company transition to its current SaaS license model.
Splice Machine Gains New Funding and Launches Online Predictive Processing Platform
Splice Machine has launched its Online Predictive Processing Platform (OLPP) for powering predictive applications. Using the Splice Machine OLPP platform, applications can now both "predict" by learning from the past as well as use those predictions to "act in the moment."
Three Predictions about Cloud, AI, and Automation from Oracle's Amit Zavery
As 2017 winds down and a new year comes into view, Amit Zavery, senior VP, Product Development, Oracle Cloud Platform & Middleware, offered three predictions about cloud, AI, and automation for 2018—and beyond.
Panoply, Stitch, and Chartio Collaborate to Provide an Automatic Cloud Data Stack
Panoply, Stitch, and Chartio are partnering to offer an Automatic Cloud Data Stack, allowing users to gain insights through data visualization. The combined solution includes a self-optimizing petabyte-scale data warehouse, a self-serve ETL pipeline, and a modern business intelligence platform with pre-built business dashboards.
SolarWinds Improves Management of Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments
SolarWinds, a provider of IT management software has announced updates to SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM) 4.6, Server and Application Monitor (SAM), Database Performance Analyzer (DPA), and a broader set of email monitoring capabilities for on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments.
Dell Boomi Accelerates Integration
Dell Boomi's integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) is designed to equip enterprises to improve productivity, accountability and collaboration internally and with customers.
AWS Ramps Up Container Capabilities, Offering Bare Metal Service
AWS has announced two new container capabilities—Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) and AWS Fargate Amazon EKS. The two new arrivals complement its existing Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) and are intended to make it easier to deploy, manage, and scale container workloads on AWS.
SAP Introduces New Features in Enterprise Information Management Portfolio
SAP is introducing new innovations in its enterprise information management (EIM) portfolio to help customers better manage and use their data for digital transformation, cloud, Big Data, the Internet of Things (IoT), and data protection and privacy. These innovations help simplify data management and include broader support for diverse data landscapes and tighter integration across SAP solutions.
Experts at SAP Offer Insight into the Upcoming Trends for 2018
Another year is right around the corner and improved technology is rising to greet the prospect of a new day to become the next big thing. Experts at SAP are weighing in on what 2018 may bring.
Additional SAP Co-Innovation Lab will Launch New Business Applications
SAP is opening a new SAP Co-Innovation Lab at its North America headquarters in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, focusing on creating business applications for emerging technologies. SAP Co-Innovation Lab locations provide infrastructure and space for SAP and its partners and customers to co-innovate new solutions to the most pressing challenges organizations face in the digital economy.
New SAP Solution Connects People and Organizational Data
SAP is launching the SAP SuccessFactors People Central Hub solution, introducing a new way for customers to simplify and speed the use of cloud-based people and organizational data across their businesses. The need for people and organizational data across the enterprise is vital, but integrating this data from disparate systems is complex and expensive. SAP SuccessFactors People Central Hub helps solve this by consolidating people and organizational data from legacy systems into a central, cloud-based hub where it's then integrated and available for use with SAP enterprise applications, such as SAP S/4HANA.
SAP Innovative Business Solution Expands to the Cloud
The SAP Innovative Business Solutions organization is expanding its business model and is now collaborating with clients to run tailored solutions in the cloud. SAP is now collaborating with clients in an end-to-end innovation process to discover, design, develop on premise or in hybrid scenarios that address their specific mission-critical business needs.
New Capabilities Expand Oracle Security Portfolio
To help organizations better protect their clouds and digital services, Oracle is expanding its security portfolio and unveiling a new partner program. The Oracle Identity SOC portfolio now includes new capabilities to help enterprises manage and certify user identities, applications, and confidential data more securely and through a richer, consumerized user experience. In addition, a new partner program is aimed at improving collaboration with security vendors and simplifying customer adoption.
IOUG Insight: Is There Still a Place for User Groups?
In the past, user groups were the place where you would meet people interested in the same thing you were. Vendors worked with the user groups to communicate new releases, and gather feedback on beta testing and leveraged them as a source for new features. The user group had a library of information, presentations, events, and ways to interact with other users and vendors. Now, with social tools, including Facebook, Slack, and LinkedIn, and powerful search engines such as Google and Bing, the question is: Are user groups still needed? They are, and here is why.
IBM Makes Heavy Investments in Quantum Computing
IBM announced the first clients to tap into its IBM Q early-access commercial quantum computing systems to explore practical applications important to business and science. They include: JPMorgan Chase, Daimler AG, Samsung, JSR Corporation, Barclays, Hitachi Metals, Honda, Nagase, Keio University, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oxford University and University of Melbourne.
Hitachi Vantara Introduces "Smart" Data Center Vision
Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., announced its vision for its Smart Data Center, which brings together technologies and approaches in infrastructure management, predictive analytics and internet of things (IoT) capabilities.
A Year of Both Artificial and Human Intelligence
Over the past 12 months, there have been many new initiatives aimed at boosting access to and adoption of artificial intelligence. Many resources need to be aligned, including data analytics and computing processing power. But the most important ingredient is human intelligence. AI will only succeed if it is working in partnership with human intelligence, and only humans can provide the business context that gives AI value. This will be the final issue of this newsletter for 2017, and we will resume publishing on January 8th. We wish all our readers a very happy and safe holiday season!
BMC Extends its Remedy Solution to Multi-Cloud Environments
BMC is expanding its Remedy solution to multi-cloud environments, including AWS, Jira, and Microsoft Azure, allowing companies to deliver seamless experiences. IT leaders can now broker tickets and manage all incidents both on-premises and across multiple clouds.
Six Data Security and GDPR Predictions for 2018
With cyberattacks on the rise and the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) going into effect in 2018, there is a greater focus on data security and governance. Here six top IT leaders reflect on the changes taking place and offer their predictions for data security and compliance in 2018.
Three IT Execs Share Cloud Predictions for 2018
Adoption of cross-cloud containers is increasing as developers push for an open cloud stack to avoid vendor lock-in, say IT leaders. However, in their efforts to embrace multi-cloud environments, organizations have to be mindful of avoiding the complexity of cloud sprawl, they caution. Here, three IT leaders share their predictions for the impact that containers and microservices will have in 2018
AWS Partner Onica Acquires Sturdy Networks and NetBrains
Onica, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Consulting and Managed Service Partner, has acquired Sturdy Networks and NetBrains. Onica, which joined the AWS Partner Network (APN) in 2013, was recently spun out of CorpInfo with a $20 million growth equity investment. With the acquisitions Onica now holds more than 250 AWS certifications, 9 competencies, and a customer base consuming over $150 million of AWS services a year.
SentryOne Creates Global Partner Network
SentryOne, a Charlotte-NC-based provider of solutions for optimizing SQL Server performance, has launched a Global Partner Network to better serve its customers and partners outside of the United States.
Oracle Introduces Cloud Infrastructure Options
Oracle has announced the general availability of new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compute options to provide customers with high compute performance based on its recently announced X7 hardware.
Veeam Extends Portfolio to Support Oracle Solaris and IBM AIX
Veeam Software has extended its portfolio of availability solutions to support Oracle Solaris and IBM AIX and operating environments, enabling enterprise customers to replace their legacy backup solution with a comprehensive data protection and availability solution to protect mission-critical applications, systems and data.
RedPoint Global Enhances Data Management to Maximize Customer Engagement
RedPoint Global, a provider of data management and customer engagement technology, is rolling out the 8.0 release of RedPoint Data Management within the RedPoint Customer Data Platform.
Talend Offers New Quick Start Solution for Deploying Cloud Data Lakes on AWS
Talend unveiled a new Quick Start solution for deploying cloud data lakes on Amazon Web Services (AWS) platforms, allowing organizations to get data lakes up and running fast. Available for download immediately, the Quick Start automates the building of data lake environments by deploying Talend Big Data Integration components and AWS services such as Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS).
Hot Data Technologies and Trends for 2018
There never has been a more interesting time to be involved in the data management field. Data not only has become "the new oil" but is also the catalyst that is powering organizations to new heights of success. The past year has seen the rise of powerful analytics and an embrace of new tools and platforms emerging to more effectively tap into the power that data offers. DBTA reached out to industry experts to document the most important trends shaping data management in 2018.


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taking photos is kinda important in the paper toy process. it showcases your model and needs to make people wanna have it. it shows off the design. ive started this group so people can join to share tips on how to take some quality photos.
i have a degree in photography so it's easy for me to geek out on this topic. right now though i'm keeping it simple, having jettisoned my studio gear prior to a cross-country move. my sweep is actually some butcher paper, lit with one light and a few bounce cards. tri-pod is key, wide open aperature for that shallow depth of field i love.
I've just cleared my desk of all the crap that has accumulated since i moved house and now i can finally use my z740 with a tripod and lights (geekgasm!) expect some better photos from me soon.
Anyone have preferences on ISO settings and lighting? Currently using a FUJI 'bridge' camera on Aperture or Shutter priority, with lamps placed to create nicer shadows... I'm loving what Marshall's doing with his toys... more thought about layout and settings!
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Shared services, acccessibility sprout smarter cities
Written by Jason Shueh
By 2051, the U.S. Census Bureau projects the country's population will grow by 25 percent, expanding the nation from roughly 319 million people today to 400 million. As part of this surge, a study by the humanitarian aid organization UNICEF estimated 90 percent of these residents will live in cities. If unaccounted for, that fact threatens to congest the globe's roadways, drain water reservoirs and overwhelm government services already straining under high demand.
To find possible remedies to these future problems, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation's (ITIF) brought together on Friday a panel of government, academic and industry leaders. The "Cities of Tomorrow" event, which was held in Washington D.C., was to discern how cities might adapt using insights gained from technologies like sensor networks, green energy, predictive analytics, and autonomous transport.
Panelists included Boston chief digital officer Lauren Lockwood, Boston University computer science professor Azer Bestavros and ITIF Center for Data Innovation (CDI) director Daniel Castro.
The panelists' advice was as pragmatic as it was ambitious. With innovation they cautioned city officials not to be taken in by fanciful gadgetry, and to instead focus on technology that improved quality of life and equitably. Policies and practices, they added, shouldn't be determined by tradition or government's needs alone, but adopt an openness and flexibility that allows services to evolve.
In the public sector, "you don't get to chose who your customers are," explained Lockwood, who played an instrumental role directing the redesign of Boston.gov. Everyone is a customer for cities, she said. This means people with varying education and income levels, different languages, abilities and disabilities.
"Smart cities or newfangled digital tools should not require constituents to be techies themselves," Lockwood said. "There are a lot of ways we can make improvements in cities without requiring anybody to change behaviors."
Boston's new website, which launched July, was developed using agile methodology to apply this thinking. Design feedback required Lockwood and her team to do a fair share of driving, stair climbing and door knocking to reach residents in their communities. She credited the citizen-centric approach for Boston.gov's successful debut.
"The way that we're working on the website is just a microcosm of the way we're going about work throughout the city," she said.
A smart city or "programmable city," said Bestravos — who has led several university analytics projects, including chaired Boston University's Data Science Initiative in 2014 — is one that must have capacity to interact, manage and accommodate all its constituents. Otherwise, he said, the system grows unstable and dysfunctional, as history can attest. The digital divide applies not only to low-income or less educated residents, but also to city departments that might find themselves without the right skill sets and tools.
"When you introduce a new technology, you risk actually making a divide between people" Bestavros said. "So when we talk about making technology for smart cities what we should think about is how to lessen that altogether."
One department alone can't build a smart and accessible city.
"We talk about scale, but we need to talk about being able to make comparisons across cities," Castro said. "It's one thing to enhance performance across cities, but what we really want to go and do eventually is find peer cities … and find common metrics that can be used to draw comparisons."
Government often has to "reinvent the wheel" on technology projects because few municipalities have comparable data to assess if one IT solution performs better than another, Castro pointed out. A "civic standard" for performance metrics could illuminate best solutions to common city challenges, he said.
"I think one of the problems right now in the smart city development space is that while cities are sharing some solutions, they're not completely sharing performance metrics in some standardized way," Castro said.
This kind of standard, he said, could enhance use of other shareable technologies. Possible solutions include open source apps and application programming interfaces (APIs).
In Boston, Lockwood said the city is considering an open-source-by-default policy to enable other cities and technologists to use code from the apps they create. Boston.gov was made open source last week, and she said the city sees that release as a starting point.
"I think it allows us this opportunity to really scale in an exponential way the kinds of interesting and successful things happening around the country," Lockwood said.
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Gun deaths in South Africa vs the world
Data from the United Nations and the Small Arms Survey shows how South Africa's gun ownership and gun deaths compare to other countries across the world.
Gun violence has again been thrust into the global spotlight following a widely publicised mass shooting in Orlando, Florida in the USA.
The mass shooting has been described as the worst of its kind in US history – and is just the latest in what has sadly become a common recurrence in the world's leading economy.
Martin Grandjean, a researcher of contemporary history at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and a data visualization expert, claimed that more Americans have died from guns in the US since 1968, than on the battlefields of all the wars in the country's history.
From 1966 to 2012, nearly a third of the world's mass shootings took place in the US, according to a 2016 study that used the FBI definition of 'mass shooting'.
An despite this infamy around gun deaths in the US, a World Health Organization report in 2015 – using data from 2012 – revealed that South Africa was the second worst country in the world for gun-related deaths.
Read: South Africa is the second worst country in the world for gun deaths
South Africa is a violent country, recording high murder rates on an annual basis. However, gun death statistics are notoriously difficult to pin down due to the non-specific nature of reporting.
The South African Police Service stopped reporting on firearm data in 2000, making many of the local stats dependent on hunting associations and other sources, which are not entirely reliable.
Also because of this, the number of reported guns are typically indicative of legal gun ownership (as illegal firearms can't easily be tracked), while gun death statistics include both murder and suicide.
Despite these points, many legal firearms still end up in the hands of criminals (the SAPS reported 1,900 police guns going missing between 2014 and 2015 alone), and add fuel to the fire of gun control debates – in the USA and South Africa.
Global gun deaths
Data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime paints a different picture to the WHO data.
The global body tracked homicide rates and gun ownership in 2012, showing which nations in the world lead as the most dangerous for gun crime.
In summary, the data shows that the US has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world, with 88.8 firearms per 100,000 people, followed by Yemen (54.8 per 100,000) and Switzerland (45.7 per 100,000).
The US has the most guns, and also one of the highest death counts attributed to guns (6th, globally, with 9,146 deaths) – but the country known as the most gun-crazy in the world has a lower murder by gun rate than South Africa, the data shows.
According to the UN data, the US has a homicide by firearm rate of 2.97 per 100,000 people – the 28th highest rate in the world.
South Africa ranks 12th, with a rate of 17.03 per 100,000 people.
These findings are vastly different to the WHO dataset, which shows just how difficult it is to determine any solid facts on global gun deaths – but the data aligns with global homicide rates.
The tables below show the countries in the world with the highest rates of gun ownership and gun deaths, according to the UN.
Top 15 countries by gun ownership
Total number of civilian firearms
Rate (per 100,000 people)
1 United States 270 000 000 88.8
2 Yemen 11 500 000 54.8
3 Switzerland 3 400 000 45.7
4 Finland 2 400 000 45.3
5 Serbia 3 050 000 37.8
6 Cyprus 275 000 36.4
7 Saudi Arabia 6 000 000 35.0
8 Iraq 9 750 000 34.2
9 Uruguay 1 100 000 31.8
10 Sweden 2 800 000 31.6
11 Norway 1 400 000 31.3
12 France 19 000 000 31.2
13 Canada 9 950 000 30.8
14 Austria 2 500 000 30.4
15 Germany 25 000 000 30.3
Top 15 countries by gun deaths
Number of homicides by firearms
1 Honduras 5 201 68.4
2 El Salvador 2 446 39.9
3 Jamaica 1 080 39.4
4 Venezuela 11 115 39.0
5 Guatemala 5 009 34.8
6 Saint Kitts and Nevis 17 32.4
7 Trinidad and Tobago 365 27.3
8 Colombia 12 539 27.1
9 Belize 68 21.8
10 Puerto Rico 692 18.3
11 Brazil 34 678 18.1
12 South Africa 8 319 17.0
13 Dominican Republic 1 618 16.3
14 Panama 569 16.2
15 Bahamas 52 15.4
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> The intention is not to use a BIOS from AMI for instance.
>> >  processor module. Is there a list of supported processors ? We are using Intel® AtomTM Processor E680T !
> Do you perhaps mean CoreBoot?
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This study is a case-control study examining risk factors for paediatric abusive head trauma (AHT), using data collected well before the outcome of interest took place.
This study examined data from multiple sources, matching police and child protective service records for families with perinatal health records for newborn babies.
This was a retrospective study, so it was not possible to control the quality and consistency of data collection across health, police and child protective services.


How to convert "Data" correctly?
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Then I can simply convert "55 37 32 41" to U72A in ASCII string format.
But how to convert the received "Data" frame correctly?
"BB AB AB E4" is obviously the correct 4-byte of "Data" because the packet format including the check sum is correct, UM7 is perfectly put on the table and I received about "-0.0055G" from Redshift Serial Interface without touch UM7.
Where can I find the document describing this conversion between "BB AB AB E4" and "-0.0055G"?
Appreciate if you can help to point this out.
You could look through the UMJ github repo, and see how we parsed the data.
Also the datasheet for the UM7 contains useful information on how to parse data in binary mode from the UM7.
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You never anticipate getting injured when you pick up a product you have owned for months, borrow a device from a friend, or purchase a new item from the store. You don't expect your vape pen to explode. You do not expect the salad you buy to be infected with harmful bacteria. You don't awake in the morning assuming you will be injured that day or lose a loved one. Defective products can cause catastrophic harm in the blink of an eye. An otherwise typical day becomes the worst day of your life. If you've been injured by a defective product, you might be able to recover compensation for your injuries from the product manufacturer.
To discuss your case after you are injured or lose a loved one because of a dangerous product, contact an Atlanta product liability lawyer at Allen & Scofield Injury Lawyers, LLC. Our Atlanta personal injury lawyers will listen to your story, discuss all your legal options and explain how we can secure compensation for you.
You can schedule a free, no-risk consultation by calling (404) 419-6674. You can also submit your information through our online form, and we will contact you as soon as possible to schedule your appointment.
Businesses are typically liable for any injuries caused by their defective products. A defective product is a product that is not as safe as it should be. The product may be potentially dangerous either when it is used as intended or as reasonably expected. However, an item may be defective in more than one way. The three main categories of defects are: design, manufacturing, and warning, also called a marketing defect. If you were injured by a dangerous product and you are not sure what type of defect may have caused the incident, contact a product liability lawyer at Allen & Scofield Injury Lawyers, LLC. We will utilize our decades of experience to advise you whether you should sue the manufacturer of the product that injured you.
A product may be defective when it is not designed to be as safe as it could while still serving its intended purpose. To pursue compensation for injuries caused by a product with a design defect, you must show that the product was inherently flawed, and that there was a possible safer design.
The product may have been well designed, but something went wrong while it was made, assembled, or packaged. When the product does not correspond to the design, and that alteration made the product dangerous, that is a manufacturing defect. That type of defect may impact a small number of items or large quantities of a product.
Many products come with risks, even when they are used as intended or in a reasonably foreseeable manner. Power tools are a common example. These types of products should come with instructions and warnings that inform you how to use the product in the safest possible way. When a product lacks these necessary warnings, it is defective.
To learn more about these types of product defects and how to analyze the type of defect that harmed you, call an Atlanta product liability attorney today.
At Allen & Scofield Injury Lawyers, LLC, we are veteran product liability lawyers. We welcome the opportunity to meet you and share our wealth of knowledge with you.
If you or a loved one was injured by one of these products or another product type, contact an Atlanta product liability lawyer right away. Defective product claims are expensive, time-consuming and difficult to prove. To improve your chances of recovering maximum compensation for your injuries, you need a tenacious attorney that specializes in product liability cases.
Many federal laws protect the public from harmful products. A few of them include the Uniform Commercial Code, Consumer Product Safety Act, Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, Federal Hazardous Substances Act, Labelling of Hazardous Art Materials Act, Child Safety Protection Act, and Poison Prevention Packaging Act.
Georgia also has enacted its own product safety laws. Georgia Code §51-1-11 provides that you do not need to prove "privity" to file a defective product lawsuit. Essentially, that means that you do not have to prove that you purchased the product. You might still be able to recover if you received the product as a gift or borrowed it from a friend.
Many businesses are held responsible for the injuries caused by their defective products. However, the reason why a business is liable depends on the applicable laws and the facts of the case. Many product liability cases in the U.S. are based on a negligence theory. A negligence claim alleges that the defendant did not behave in the manner it should have, which ultimately led to your injuries. You must prove the business should have obeyed its duty of care to you, and that its production of the defective product violated its duty of care. You must also prove that the breach of the business's duty directly and proximately caused your injuries.
However, under Georgia state law, you do not ordinarily have to prove product liability negligence. Georgia holds manufacturers strictly liable for their defective products. If the manufacturer is responsible for producing the product, then it is also responsible for the injuries its product causes.
The product was defective at the time you suffered an injury.
When the product injured you, it was mostly in the same condition as it was when it left the manufacturer's production facility.
You used the item as the manufacturer intended it to be used.
To learn more about filing a product liability claim pursuant to Georgia state law, contact product liability law firm Allen & Scofield Injury Lawyers, LLC.
After you are hurt or you've lost a loved one due to a defective product, you are surely feeling overwhelmed. If you are the injured victim, you must concentrate on your medical care and recovery each day. If you lost a relative, you are grieving and trying to imagine your future without them. If that stress wasn't enough, you are likely receiving lots of medical bills from your providers. A defective product accident can also be financially devastating if it puts you out of work for a long period or causes the loss of the breadwinner in the family. At Allen & Scofield Injury Lawyers, LLC, we understand that money is the last thing you want to worry about, but if you don't take immediate steps to recover your losses, you might face the awful prospect of filing bankruptcy. Our product liability attorneys are here to help you fight to obtain compensation to cover your economic and non-economic damages.
If you were injured in an incident with any type of defective product, your next step should be to contact a product liability attorney. By working with a lawyer right away, you have someone on your side who knows the law, knows how to protect your rights, and knows how to build the strongest possible case for you so that you can obtain you maximum compensation for your injuries or loss. A product liability claim is too large a burden for anyone to handle other than an attorney that specializes in product liability law. At Allen & Scofield Injury Lawyers, LLC, we are here to help and offer our services on a contingency fee basis. We do not get paid unless we win your case.
We represent individuals in Atlanta, Fulton County, DeKalb County, Clayton County, Gwinnett County, Cobb County, and throughout Georgia. Call us at (404) 419-6674 or use our online form to schedule a free case consultation.


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Biografia
Fu uno dei fisici sperimentali e dei dimostratori più abili del Settecento. Dopo gli studi teologici rivolse i propri interessi alla scienza, diventando assistente di due scienziati già famosi, Charles François de Cisternay du Fay (1698-1739) e René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683-1757). Grazie a loro conobbe alcuni dei principali divulgatori della fisica newtoniana quali John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744) e Willem Jacob 's Gravesande (1688-1742). Tra i suoi allievi è da citare Joseph-Aignan Sigaud de Lafond, che ne proseguì l'opera di promozione della fisica sperimentale.

Nel 1740 divenne membro dell'Académie Royale des Sciences di Parigi.

Il suo contributo alla diffusione della fisica sperimentale fu notevolissimo e i suoi trattati, fra i quali ricordiamo le Leçons de physique, pubblicate in sei volumi fra il 1743 e il 1748 e spesso ristampate, e L'art des expériences, pubblicato nel 1770, godettero di enorme popolarità. Importante fu pure la sua opera nel campo dell'elettricità: inventò i primi elettroscopi, fece conoscere in Francia la bottiglia di Leida, di cui realizzò una versione "asciutta", e ipotizzò che i fuochi di Sant'Elmo e i fulmini fossero dovuti a cariche elettriche. Si deve a lui l'invenzione di numerosissimi strumenti utilizzati a scopo didattico. Molti apparecchi di fisica realizzati per il Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale di Firenze, oggi conservati al Museo Galileo, furono costruiti seguendo le tavole e le indicazioni dei testi di Nollet, tra cui anche l'apparecchio per studiare gli urti elastici ed anelastici.

Opere

Voci correlate
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Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

GLAM/Museo Galileo

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Aug. 16 - Georgia accuses Russia of destroying a railway bridge on Saturday - which Russia flatly denies.
Georgian Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze told reporters that Russian soldiers had destroyed a key railway bridge on Saturday.
He said destruction of the bridge resulted in the country losing east-west railway communications.
# Georgia's Reintegration Minister Temur Iakobashvili.
# Anatoly Nagovitsyn, Colonel-General, Deputy Chief Of The General Staff, saying (Russian):
"When we were in a fighting phase of the peacekeeping operation, yes, bridges were our objectives, and we've shared this information, because this way we could block troop movements and reinforcements. That's a common military practice. But now, when we are in peace time why should we be blowing up bridges when we will have to restore them afterwards? We are already working hard restoring things, so I think it is just another unverified statement. We are not conducting bombardments, because we are now involved in humanitarian activity along with the peacekeeping one. I can say with full responsibility that this cannot be the case.


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Conference UAE energy minister sees diminished threat from US shale oil rivals
Coal | Electric Power | Natural Gas | Oil
UK oil & gas industry pledges CO2 curbs in appeal for government help
Electric Power | Renewables | Natural Gas | Oil | Crude Oil
UAE energy minister sees diminished threat from US shale oil rivals
Recycled plastics recover from pandemic but economics remain challenging
16 Jun 2020 | 11:01 UTC
Author Nick Coleman
Editor Jonathan Dart
Commodity Coal , Electric Power, Natural Gas, Oil
Topic Environment and Sustainability
Targets 50% emission reduction by 2030, 90% by 2040
Low-carbon electrification projects face major challenge
Shell says targets will 'galvanize' industry's transition effort
Nick Coleman
Jonathan Dart
Coal , Electric Power, Natural Gas, Oil
London — The UK's upstream industry body Oil & Gas UK committed June 16 to halving the sector's greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and to a 90% reduction by 2040, as it begins talks with the government on measures to mitigate the impact on the industry of recent market turmoil.
Outlining the new goals, intended to fend off environmental criticism and align the oil and gas sector with the UK's goal of net zero emissions by 2050, OGUK emphasized the blow inflicted by the coronavirus and collapsing oil prices.
The upheaval, it said, had been particularly severe for supply chain companies, seen by the industry as in need of government help -- or a "sector deal" -- to stay in existence, as upstream operators curb spending on new projects. OGUK has warned up to 30,000 jobs could be lost in the sector due to the latest downturn.
Coronavirus and low commodity prices "have had a devastating impact on the UK's offshore oil and gas industry. Given the limited impact that the severity of the lockdown has had on global emissions, it's clearer than ever that we need a fair, inclusive and sustainable transition toward climate targets," OGUK CEO Deirdre Michie said.
Oil & Gas UK's climate goals do not cover the emissions resulting from the consumption of UK oil and gas, but from the process of oil and gas production in the North Sea, including generation of power and heat at offshore platforms, and the "flaring," or burning off of gas, for safety or technical reasons. It estimates these upstream emissions at 4% of the UK's total greenhouse gas emissions, with power generated at offshore platforms being four to five times more CO2-intensive than energy from the national grid.
OGUK reiterated, however, that allowing the sector to die for the sake of reducing emissions would mean greater reliance on imported fuel, with potentially higher associated emissions.
It argues the industry can contribute to innovations such as carbon capture and storage and the use of hydrogen fuels, and in the longer term can take its power from renewable sources.
Shell voiced its support for the new targets. "The industry's set itself a clear and challenging goal to align with the UK's net zero targets. It should galvanize efforts across the sector, and increase the speed of change in UK energy, while maintaining security of supply," Shell's UK and Ireland upstream director, Steve Phimister, said.
"Emissions from operations will be reduced while the industry, government and regulators work to develop bold projects...that will help society decarbonize and reach net zero."
OGUK called for government support, particularly for the supply chain. Scotland's devolved government made its own pledge of a GBP62 million ($78 million) "energy transition fund" on June 12.
"We need a green recovery which supports jobs, supply chain companies and energy communities," Michie said.
It issued an accompanying statement from the UK government's minister for business, energy and clean growth, Kwasi Kwarteng, reiterating his support, but without specific pledges. "The offshore oil and gas sector's commitment to halving operational emissions over the next decade is a welcome step for an industry that has a vital role to play in our energy transition in the years to come," he said.
The government "will continue to work tirelessly with all partners to deliver a dynamic sector deal," he added.
OGUK acknowledged the scale of the challenge in cutting the industry's carbon emissions, which it estimated at 18.3 million mt of CO2 equivalent in 2018.
While UK oil and gas production is seen as being in long-term decline, the country's oil output has recovered in the last half-decade, exceeding 1.1 million b/d. "Natural" production decline would only cut the industry's emissions by around 6% over the next five years, with efficiency gains able to bring modest additional reductions, OGUK said.
It also noted a need to improve the measurement of the sector's CO2 emissions, 60% of which come from power generation at offshore facilities. The group estimates 1.2 million mt of gas was burnt off, or "flared," in 2018, along with another 95,000 mt released, or "vented," directly into the atmosphere.
Renewable projects
More substantial efforts such as bringing renewable power to oil and gas platforms -- as happens in Norway -- would be costly and face a number of obstacles, OGUK said.
A number of proposals have been made for supplying renewable power to oil and gas platforms, either from the UK or Norwegian grids, or from offshore sources such as floating wind farms.
However, "the technology, offshore renewable resources and infrastructure are not currently in place to facilitate such offshore electrification of either existing or new assets," and such projects were likely to take a decade to implement "at scale", requiring significant investment and regulatory improvement, OGUK said.
A separate contract-for-difference pricing mechanism might be needed for floating wind power generation, particularly to bring renewable power to platforms in the remote West of Shetland area, Louise O'Hara Murray, OGUK's environmental manager, added.
"Electrification is a challenge in all parts of the UK continental shelf ... a challenge converting brownfield assets and it will be a challenge for putting new assets out there as well," she told journalists.
"West of Shetland is an important area for future production. It's got lots of new, very efficient assets there at the moment, and lots of potential for electrification, but it is costly."


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package shadowsocks.crypto;

import org.bouncycastle.crypto.StreamCipher;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;

import shadowsocks.crypto.CryptoException;
import shadowsocks.crypto.Utils;
import shadowsocks.crypto.DecryptState;

/**
 * Crypt base class implementation
 */
public abstract class BaseStreamCrypto implements SSCrypto
{

    protected final String mName;
    protected final byte[] mKey;
    protected final int mIVLength;
    protected final int mKeyLength;

    protected StreamCipher mEncryptCipher = null;
    protected StreamCipher mDecryptCipher = null;

    protected byte[] mEncryptIV;
    protected byte[] mDecryptIV;

    // One SSCrypto could only do one decrypt/encrypt at the same time.
    protected ByteArrayOutputStream mData;

    private byte [] mLock = new byte[0];

    protected abstract StreamCipher createCipher(byte[] iv, boolean encrypt);
    protected abstract void process(byte[] in, ByteArrayOutputStream out, boolean encrypt);

    public BaseStreamCrypto(String name, String password) throws CryptoException
    {
        mName = name.toLowerCase();
        mIVLength = getIVLength();
        mKeyLength = getKeyLength();
        mKey = Utils.getKey(password, mKeyLength, mIVLength);
        mData = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    }

    public byte [] getKey(){
        return mKey;
    }

    public byte [] getIV(boolean encrypt){
        if (encrypt){
            if (mEncryptIV == null){
                mEncryptIV = Utils.randomBytes(mIVLength);
            }
            return mEncryptIV;
        }else
            return mDecryptIV;
    }

    private byte [] encryptLocked(byte[] in)
    {
        mData.reset();
        if (mEncryptCipher == null) {
            mEncryptIV = getIV(true);
            mEncryptCipher = createCipher(mEncryptIV, true);
            mData.write(mEncryptIV, 0, getIVLength());
        }
        process(in, mData, true);
        return mData.toByteArray();
    }

    @Override
    public byte [] encrypt(byte[] in)
    {
        synchronized(mLock) {
            return encryptLocked(in);
        }
    }

    private byte[] decryptLocked(byte[] in)
    {
        byte[] data;
        mData.reset();
        if (mDecryptCipher == null) {
            mDecryptCipher = createCipher(in, false);
            mDecryptIV = new byte[mIVLength];
            data = new byte[in.length - mIVLength];
            System.arraycopy(in, 0, mDecryptIV, 0, mIVLength);
            System.arraycopy(in, mIVLength, data, 0, in.length - mIVLength);
        } else {
            data = in;
        }
        process(data, mData, false);
        return mData.toByteArray();
    }

    @Override
    public byte [][] decrypt(byte[] in)
    {
        byte result[][] = new byte[2][];
        result[1] = null;
        synchronized(mLock) {
            result[0] = decryptLocked(in);
        }
        return result;
    }

    public int getLastDecryptState()
    {
        return DecryptState.SUCCESS;
    }
}

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Today the Supreme Court in case, King v. Burwell, interpreted the law to 'fit' an unintended purpose. With the vote of 6-3, the infamous law lives on.
The court has squarely set it ethics on the sidelines and a decision was not based on the standard of weather the letter of the law was being followed or the intent of the law was being followed, but on the mere notion that the law was in essence to big to fail and there was an obligation of the court to somehow help it along.
The Justices upholding this flawed law, even when known to be an unpopular and highly partisan law, should have sent it back to congress as an easy way out. But since 6 Justices who upheld the law are obviously playing into political corridors, we all have to worry if our country has enough educated, and principled people to right this ship christened by providence.


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Satisfy your shopping joy in our store. Our boutique retail showroom offers a curated collection of home furnishings, fine art, estate finds, interesting and unusual gift ware, antiques, jewelry and the best product lines for bringing new life to found treasures.
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This RMR SB-120 Whitewater Raft is one of the very best values in a twelve footer. Please phone in your order if you want to check color availability. A drop-stitch floor version of this raft is also available for an extra $550.
RMR SB-120 Raft – Outfitter Worthy Quality and Strength!
Rocky Mountain's thwart pin system is easy to use, and the three thwarts are now fully beveled on the ends. This integrates them better to the main hull and when passengers sit on them, and it spreads the load to the thwart ends rather than just to the attachment points.
The inflatable floor design has been improved multiple times the last few years as well. A while back we had suggested RMR take a look at what Incept in New Zealand has been doing for decades, namely tapering the floor I-beams near the bow & stern, and using shorter I-beams for the ones nearest the left & right edges. This is of course takes more time, and can be somewhat confusing for those employees who assemble the floors. But the result is a floor with smoother edges all around, and the results are felt for sure – our experience with Incept boats both rowed bearing heavy loads and paddled with lighter loads bears this out.
From the sides, decreasing the floor edge protrusion allows current to slide under the boat, and the raft to react less to both swift downstream water and to powerful eddies. At the bow and stern, it simply makes for a faster raft since the underside is less bumpy. For the end user, these small changes absolutely mean a better handling boat.
A couple other things to mention are that Rocky Mountain will be migrating to the new generation Leafield D-7 valves later this year, and the actual thickness of the floor near the center of the 12', 13', 14', and 16' rafts has increased. This last detail is important if your drybox or cooler protrudes down much more than 10" below the frame bars. In some cases this is certainly adjustable if you use standard camlock straps, but if your cooler has a taper on the two long sides and tends to drop between fixed position bars until it stops, that may mean you are more like 12" below the frame bars. The total depth of any raft will increase as the side tubes get bigger. On the 16' RMR, you are looking at maybe 12.5", on the 14' about 10 to 11", on the 13' maybe 9.5", and on the Rocky 12' as little as 9". If you have an existing frame and/or cooler and drybox, measure first to avoid problems.
Feedback on the Rocky Mountain rafts (a.k.a. RMR), catarafts, and inflatable kayaks has been terrific and this company strives to make improvements both large and small every season. There are many imported pvc brands on the market, but with the exception of AIRE's Tributary line most have traditionally been glued rather than welded, and glue leads to eventual seam failures. Even if the better glued brands hold up for ten to fifteen years, there will still come a day when you have to put a large quantity of pvc in a landfill. Rocky Mountain boats have welded tube seams, floor I-beams, floor edges, D-rings, and bulkheads. In addition to the main overlaps, RMR also welds seam tape over both the interior and exterior side of each tube joint. This double taping is something that some pvc boat manufacturers don't bother with, yet a lack of seam tape often means their inflatables have air retention that is less than stellar, especially as they age. Not so with RMR - the extra step of adding seam tape to the interior prevents air wicking along the exterior edges, and the outside seam tape makes it even more reliable.
Most sizes of the RM rafts including this 12' have ten stainless D-rings outside (& two more facing inward at the bow and stern), and six of these D-ring patches also have lift handles. Two removable thwarts and are standard and if you want a third one they are available. The base fabric inside the 33 ounce pvc is a very strong 2000 denier polyester, and wrap-up layers on the underside of each raft toughen them up even more - though those extra layers also make any raft that has them a bear to roll up. Another important detail about boats from the Rocky Mountain factory is that they not only produce them from the ground up, they also make the material they are built with. This gives a far higher degree of quality assurance than you can get from Asian boat makers who have to buy pvc or rubber from an outside source.
A surprising feature of the RMR boats is that all sizes 12' and up have lace-in floors, not permanently mounted ones. Should something happen to your floor, your can remove it & UPS it to RMR instead of trying to ship the whole boat on a truck line. Laced floors cost far more to produce, but they have the benefit of draining a raft quicker than glued ones can. It is quite unusual to find a laced floor on a raft of this low price.
Warranties on all RMR boats are five years. If you want to check lead times on an RMR, email us your zip code and we'll give you a close idea. The worst case should be five to seven business days.
The 12' self bailing RM raft is a 6'2" wide with the thwarts inflated (or an inch less without them), and it has 18.5" side tubes. All Rocky Mountain rafts 12' and up have four main chambers, plus three thwarts & floor. The 12' RMR weighs roughly 129 pounds with all three thwarts. They are not heavy but removing them shaves off about 10 pounds. We know this is a weighty raft for it's size, but all that extra reinforcing material comes at a price.
The RMR 12' is shipped free to lower-48 destinations. Commercial addresses are always preferred whenever possible, since UPS drivers might not leave a box this big at your house if you are not home. Colors include yellow, red, lime, blue, and occasionally solid gray, military green, or orange.


Announcement on Public Invitation for Public Announcement of Hardware Purchase of City West Middle School Pursuant to the "People's Republic of China Government Procurement Law" and relevant laws, regulations, and regulations, the Shanghai Jing'an District Government Procurement Center is entrusted by the Jing'an District Education Bureau of Shanghai to the following items. To conduct domestic open tender procurement, specially invited qualified bidders to come to bid. I. Project Overview: 1. Project Name: City West Middle School Hardware Equipment Purchase Project 2. Tender No.: 2013-A0613, Purchase List: City West Middle School Hardware Equipment Procurement Item List No. Item Content Unit Quantity Remarks 1 New Core Switch Set 1 *Provide authorization certificate 2 Upgrade original core switch cover 1* Provide authorization certificate 3 Aggregation switch cover 6* Provide authorization certificate 4 Network management software cover 1* Provide authorization certificate 5 Campus touch inquiry machine 60* Provide authorization certificate 6 Wireless AP cover 140 * Providing authorization certificate 7 Wireless controller kit 2* Providing authorization certificate 8POE switchboard 10* Providing authorization certificate 9 authentication and security management system kit 1* Providing authorization certificate 10 Depth service routing switching gateway kit 1* Providing authorization certificate 11 Storage system ( a) Set of 1* Providing authorization certificate 12 Storage system (2) Set 1* Providing authorization certificate 13 Backup software kit 1* Providing authorization certificate 14 Virtual tape library cover 1* Providing authorization certificate 15 Unified storage platform switch cover 1* Providing authorization certificate 16 Virtualization Platform Software Suite 1* Provide Authorization Certification 17 Virtualization Platform Security Management Software Suite 1* Provide Authorization Certificate 18 Blade server (set of 2 each) Set of 2* Provide authorization certificate 19 Unified communications platform set 1* Provide authorization certificate 20LCD splicing screen cover 1* Provide authorization certificate Note: Bid quotations should include parts and accessories (such as fiber jumpers, etc.) Fees, if not listed, are considered to have been included in the total price. The specific content and requirements of the project can be found in the bidding documents. 2. Qualified bidders must meet the following conditions: 1. The supplier meets the provisions of Article 22 of the 'People's Republic of China Government Procurement Law.' 2. According to the 'Measures for the Registration and Integrity of Shanghai's Government Procurement Suppliers (Provisional)' 》Registered suppliers; 3. Must have an independent legal personality, and have a corresponding scope of business; 4, With strong economic strength, good reputation, in this city has a fixed office space, professional technical force , Can provide good technical support and after-sales service support capabilities, no bad operating records in three years; 5, registered capital of not less than 10 million yuan (including 10 million yuan), with more than three years of relevant sales experience; 6, with information The Ministry of Industry issued a computer information system integration level of more than (including grade) qualifications; 7, network switches, touch inquiry machines, wireless AP, wireless controllers, routing switching gateways, storage systems, storage system platform switches, virtualization software, Blade server, unified communication platform, LCD splicing screen, the above content shall provide an original factory warranty of not less than 3 years and provide Original service commitment letter of the original manufacturer; 8. Smart campus construction is divided into software and infrastructure construction (bidding number: 2013-C038) and hardware equipment (bidding number: 2013-A061) in two parts, including the software and infrastructure construction of the bid The manufacturer is responsible for the overall integration of the project (including the integration of hardware devices). The hardware winning bidder must cooperate with the software winning bidder to implement the project's overall integration implementation. 9. The project does not accept the bid of the Commonwealth. 3. Bidders who meet the above conditions need to bring in the following registration: 1. One copy of business license, tax registration certificate and organization code certificate, and one copy; 2. Shanghai Municipal Government Procurement Supplier Registration and Integrity Management (Provisional) 'Measures' has been registered and verified as a member supplier's certification materials (website:) (printed in the website or printed in screenshots); 3. A copy of the letter of inquiries issued by the procuratorial agency on the results of bribery crime files and a copy of the letter of intent. (4) One copy of the original letter of authorization of the legal representative; (5) One copy of the original ID card of the authorized representative; (6) One copy of the qualification certificate and copy of the computer information system; (7) The final production (manufacturing) manufacturer. To participate in the bidding, production (manufacturing) certification materials must be provided. Agents must participate in the bidding with the authorization certificate issued by the final production (manufacturing) manufacturer for the project. Please bring along the original and a copy of the application. 8. 2010-2012 three-year annual financial statements (effective copy) ★Note: All materials provided above must be stamped with official seals. IV. Other explanations 1. The bidder's qualification will be obtained after the preliminary examination. 2. All matters must be submitted on the spot in writing and no other methods are accepted. V. Time and place of application for preliminary examination, receipt of bids, on-site survey, and Q\u0026A briefing session: 1. Application for initial examination and receipt of bids: From July 31, 2013 to August 15, 2013 (Monday to Friday, every day 9:00 to 11:00 and 14:00 to 16:00) Please bring your own U disk. Registration Location: 2nd Floor, No. 5, Lane 658, Xikang Road, Jing'an District 2. Field Reconnaissance and Q\u0026A Conference Time: 14:00 (Beijing time), August 19, 2013 Venue: 404 Yuyuan Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai, China Main entrance collection) 6. 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Fracture narratives: echoes of Thomas and Eliot in Jon McGregor's 'If nobody speaks of remarkable things'
D. Shortt
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54 F. 3d 438 - Mueller v. B Reich H Thompson
54 F3d 438 Mueller v. B Reich H Thompson
63 USLW 2788, 130 Lab.Cas. P 33,236,
2 Wage & Hour Cas.2d (BNA) 1217
Gerald R. MUELLER, James A. Andreshak, and Frederick
Moeller, on behalf of themselves and all other
employees of the State of Wisconsin
similarly situated, et al.,
Plaintiffs-Appellants,
Robert B. REICH, Secretary of Labor, and United States
Department of Labor, Defendants-Appellants,
Charles H. THOMPSON, Secretary, Wisconsin Department of
Transportation; Wisconsin Department of
Transportation; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
Nos. 94-3262, 94-3263.
Seventh Circuit.
Argued April 5, 1995.
Decided May 15, 1995.
Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied July 12, 1995.
Michael E. Banks (argued), Kelly & Haus, Madison, WI, for Gerald R. Mueller, James A. Andreshak, Frederick Moeller, David Tamblyn, David Dahlk, Melvin Sensenbrenner, Richard Nelson, Roger Bohn, David Buschkopf, Curtis Paulson, Thomas M. Stemrich, Terry D. Cook, Gerard Swim, Robert Grosch, Vernon Carlson, State Engineering Ass'n.
Jennifer Sloan Lattis, Asst. Atty. Gen., Wisconsin Dept. of Justice, Richard Briles Moriarty (argued), Wisconsin Dept. of Justice, Madison, WI, for James Klauser, Carroll D. Besadny, Gerald Whitburn, Carol N. Skornicka, Jon E. Litscher, Dept. of Health and Social Services, Dept. of Employment Relations, Dept. of Transp., Dept. of Admin., Dept. of Industry, Labor and Human Relations, Dept. of Health & Human Services, Charles H. Thompson, George Meyer, Public Service Com'n, George K. Steil, Sr., Bd. of Regents of University of Wisconsin System, State of Wis.
Paul Frieden (argued), Dept. of Labor, Office of Sol., Washington, DC, for Robert B. Reich, Dept. of Labor.
Christine O. Gregoire, Office of Atty. Gen. of Wash., Olympia, WA, for State of Wash., amicus curiae.
Bruce F. Ehlke, Aaron N. Halstead, Shneidman, Myers, Dowling & Blumenfield, Madison, WI, for American Federation of State, County and Mun. Employees, AFL-CIO, District Council 40.
Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and CUMMINGS and MANION, Circuit Judges.
POSNER, Chief Judge.
This is a class action on behalf of certain engineers employed by the State of Wisconsin, seeking overtime pay to which the plaintiffs claim to be entitled by the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. Secs. 201 et seq. The Act exempts bona fide executive, administrative, and professional employees, Sec. 213(a)(1); and the state claims, and the district court agreed, that the engineers fall within the exemption. Mueller v. Thompson, 858 F.Supp. 885 (W.D.Wis.1994). The class is defined as all state-employed engineers who have been classified as exempt.
The Act does not define the term "executive, administrative, and professional employees," but instead tells the Department of Labor to define it "from time to time by regulations." Sec. 213(a)(1). The Department has done this in a pair of regulations one of which--the only one we need consider--is known as the "salary basis" regulation. 29 C.F.R. Sec. 541.118. This regulation defines executive, administrative, and professional employees as employees who receive a salary as distinct from an hourly wage--provided (so far as bears on this case) that their pay may not be docked for an absence from work of less than one day and that they are not subject to having less than a week's pay docked for a disciplinary infraction that is not the breach of a major safety regulation. The engineers who make up the plaintiff class are subject to both types of sanction. This may seem to make their case a slam dunk. But in 1992 the Department of Labor created an exception, limited to public employees, to the first proviso and in consequence a public employer may now, without forfeiting its exemption from the Fair Labor Standards Act, dock an employee's pay for missing less than a day's work. 29 C.F.R. Sec. 541.5d. The Department considered whether likewise to make an exception for public employees to the limitation on disciplinary sanctions, but it decided not to. The engineers challenge the new regulation, claiming that the Department is not authorized to treat public employees differently from private ones, but they defend the Department's decision not to go further and differentiate between public and private employers with regard to disciplinary measures. The state, though otherwise pleased with the new regulation, attacks that decision. The district judge rejected the engineers' challenge to the Department but accepted the state's. So the state won the case.
The Department of Labor has managed to inject huge confusion into our appellate review of the district court's decision. The engineers, because they wanted to knock out the new regulation, which had been promulgated by the Department of Labor, named the Department as an additional defendant along with the state. They did not have to do this. The relief they seek is the payment of overtime compensation by the state. They ask for nothing from the Department of Labor or any other federal entity. The regulation on which the state relies is an obstacle--that is true. But they could challenge its validity without naming the Department as a defendant. It is utterly commonplace for the validity of regulations and even statutes to be challenged in private litigation (which from the standpoint of the federal government a suit by private individuals against a state is). See, e.g. Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc., --- U.S. ----, 115 S.Ct. 1447, 131 L.Ed.2d 328 (1995). That is why, for example, a district court is required to certify a challenge to the constitutionality of a state or federal statute to the state or federal attorney general, respectively, and allow him an opportunity to intervene and defend the statute. 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2403; Max M. v. New Trier High School District No. 203, 859 F.2d 1297, 1300 (7th Cir.1988). We know of no similar provision requiring a party who is challenging the validity of a federal regulation in private litigation to name the agency that promulgated or enforces the regulation as a defendant.
At all events, the district judge held the regulation valid and also dismissed the suit, so that the engineers obtained no relief of any sort against the Department. Yet the Department filed a cross-appeal. As the Supreme Court has held, California v. Rooney, 483 U.S. 307, 107 S.Ct. 2852, 97 L.Ed.2d 258 (1987) (per curiam), and we tirelessly remind the bar, e.g., Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co. v. Reinke, 43 F.3d 1152, 1154 (7th Cir.1995); Warner/Elektra/Atlantic Corp. v. County of DuPage, 991 F.2d 1280, 1282-83 (7th Cir.1993); Abbs v. Sullivan, 963 F.2d 918, 924-25 (7th Cir.1992), and would have expected the agencies of the federal government, at least, to have learned by now, a party is not permitted to appeal or cross-appeal unless it wants the judgment of the lower court modified in some way.
The Department's reason for wanting to cross-appeal is that it is distressed by the district court's ruling that the new regulation, though valid as far as it goes, should have gone even further and exempted public employees from the disciplinary limitation in the salary-based regulation as well as from the prohibition against pay deductions for missing part of a day's work. That ruling is important to the engineers' suit against the state; it doomed the suit. But it did not affect the judgment in the suit against the Department, a judgment of dismissal. A defendant cannot appeal the dismissal of the suit against him on the ground that, in dismissing the suit, the district court said something that may hurt the defendant in a future case. E.g., California v. Rooney, supra, 483 U.S. at 311, 107 S.Ct. at 2854; Warner/Elektra/Atlantic Corp. v. County of DuPage, supra, 991 F.2d at 1282-83. That is precisely the ground of the Department's appeal here, as its lawyer acknowledged at the argument. We add that the hurt would be small here because district court decisions are not authoritative as precedents, even at the district court level. Colby v. J.C. Penney Co., 811 F.2d 1119, 1124 (7th Cir.1987).
So the cross-appeal was improper, and must be dismissed. What makes it confusing rather than merely superfluous is that the Department, though it manages to avoid saying so, wants the plaintiffs to win their suit against the state. That is, the would-be cross-appellant wants the appellants to win rather than, as is almost always true, to lose. To come within the exemption for executive, administrative, and professional employees, the state must, in the Department's view--and we do not understand any other party to these proceedings to disagree--comply with all parts of the salary-basis regulation (to the extent the regulation is valid, of course), thus including the part limiting discipline; and the state did not comply with that part. But a party cannot appeal from a judgment in its favor merely because it would like the unsuccessful plaintiff to prevail against someone else. Moy v. Cowen, 958 F.2d 168 (7th Cir.1992) (per curiam).
The cross-appeal is all the more weird because the Department of Labor is empowered to sue to enforce the Fair Labor Standards Act on behalf of employees aggrieved by violations of the Act and specifically to recover, as their agent, unpaid minimum wages or overtime compensation. 29 U.S.C. Sec. 216(c); see, e.g., Tony & Susan Alamo Foundation v. Secretary of Labor, 471 U.S. 290, 293-94, 105 S.Ct. 1953, 1957-58, 85 L.Ed.2d 278 (1985). Indeed, the Act clearly envisions the Department as the primary enforcer. 29 U.S.C. Sec. 217; Walton v. United Consumers Club, Inc., 786 F.2d 303, 306-07 (7th Cir.1986); EEOC v. G-K-G, Inc., 39 F.3d 740, 745 (7th Cir.1994) (dictum). Since the Department wanted these employees to win, it could have sued on their behalf, and it should have been realigned with them as a plaintiff. This realignment would have made clear that the Department could not file a cross-appeal in this case.
So let us set the cross-appeal to one side and turn to the merits of the engineers' suit against the state.
The state can prevail only if the current regulation, which is to say 29 C.F.R. Sec. 541.118 as amended by 29 C.F.R. Sec. 541.5d, is valid as far as it goes but should have gone further, that is, should have extended the exemption for public employees to the provision on discipline. We think the regulation is valid, period; and therefore that the engineers must win since the state, it is conceded, did not comply fully and had to do so (provided the regulation is valid) to be entitled to the exemption.
When Congress explicitly delegates responsibility for completing a statutory scheme by defining key terms, here terms on which exemption from the statute's requirements turns, without supplying criteria for the exercise of the delegated responsibility, the scope of judicial review is extremely limited. Judicial review of administrative action typically involves comparing the action with the criteria set forth by the legislature to guide the agency. If there are no criteria, about all the court can do is determine whether the agency's action is rationally related to the objectives of the statute containing the delegation. See Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837, 842-45, 104 S.Ct. 2778, 2781-83, 81 L.Ed.2d 694 (1984); Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. v. LTV Corp., 496 U.S. 633, 647-52, 110 S.Ct. 2668, 2676-79, 110 L.Ed.2d 579 (1990); Sullivan v. Everhardt, 494 U.S. 83, 88-89, 110 S.Ct. 960, 963-64, 108 L.Ed.2d 72 (1990); Madison Gas & Electric Co. v. EPA, 25 F.3d 526, 529 (7th Cir.1994). That liberal test is easily passed here, at least with respect to the deduction for absences from work of less than a day.
Remember that the issue is entitlement to overtime pay (at the statutory rate of 1.5 times regular pay). There is little purpose in paying overtime if the express or implied contract of employment does not fix specific hours of work, the employee being expected to do as much work (within reason) as necessary to carry out his responsibilities rather than to work exactly the same number of hours day after day. If the employer docks the employee's pay for an absence of a few hours on a particular day, the implication is that the employee really is expected to work the same number of hours every day, implying in turn that he really is an hourly rather than a salaried worker and that his salaried status is an evasion of the statute. That is the logic behind the original provision governing absences of less than a full day. But when public employees were placed under the Fair Labor Standards Act (effectively in 1985, when the Supreme Court overruled the National League of Cities decision in Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority, 469 U.S. 528, 105 S.Ct. 1005, 83 L.Ed.2d 1016 (1985)), the Department of Labor discovered that states and municipalities, in accordance with the principle of "public accountability," insist that public employees, even if from a functional standpoint they are executive, administrative, or professional employees rather than hourly-wage employees, must account for every hour away from work, either by using accrued leave or if they have none by losing a pro rata portion of their salary. Americans are suspicious of their civil servants, and do not trust those servants to work as many hours as necessary to do the job. They demand "public accountability"--for every minute, or at least every hour. The interaction between this principle, which is deeply embedded in the American political culture, and the original salary-basis regulation, forbidding pay deductions for absences from work of less than a full day, was to bring under the Act workers who in no realistic sense were hourly-wage employees and were therefore outside the Act's intended scope. Hence the new regulation. We cannot say that it is not rationally related to the objectives of the Act. And we can find nothing in the Act's provision on delegation or elsewhere to suggest that the Department of Labor is forbidden to make rational distinctions between public and private employees.
In drafting the new regulation, the Department considered but rejected making a further exception that would permit public employers to dock their employees less than a full week's pay as a penalty for a violation of work rules or other infraction, even if it is not a major safety infraction--for which so light a penalty would usually be inappropriate anyway. Neither the principle of public accountability, nor any other principle of public administration that has been drawn to our attention, makes it imperative that public employers have this power with respect to their executive, administrative, and professional employees. What is true is that the bar against this range of penalties reduces the employer's disciplinary flexibility, but this is as true for private as for public employers. So far as we know, there is nothing peculiar to the culture or customs or conditions of public employment that necessitates these penalties. We recognize that a higher percentage of public than of private employees have tenure and that it is difficult (quite apart from the rather silly constitutional bar to firing a tenured public employee without giving him due process of law) to fire a public employee; and this makes alternative sanctions more important. But all the challenged rule prevents is suspensions without pay for less than a week, and it is entirely unclear why that should be thought a crippling blow to effective public administration.
Because the rule barring such suspensions does not impose an insuperable obstacle to states' bringing their executive, administrative, and professional employees within the exemption--all the states have to do is to delete this form of discipline from their arsenals of disciplinary remedies--we do not think there is merit to the district judge's suggestion that to subject the states to the rule violates the constitutional guarantee to each state of a republican form of government. U.S. Const. art. IV, Sec. 4. How the clause relates to the employment of engineers is in any event obscure. Since we do not think the Department of Labor's rule inimical to the guarantee clause, we need not speculate on whether the Supreme Court continues to believe that the clause does not create any legally enforceable rights. Compare Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, 218-26, 82 S.Ct. 691, 710-15, 7 L.Ed.2d 663 (1962), with New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144, ---- - ----, 112 S.Ct. 2408, 2432-33, 120 L.Ed.2d 120 (1992).
It might be possible to question the rationality of the rule with respect to all employees, private as well as public, although we do not understand the state to be attempting so broad a challenge. How, it might be asked, does the structure of discipline affect the character of employees as hourly or salaried workers? The only answer that has been suggested or that occurs to us is that if an employer measures out discipline in the form of fractions of a weekly salary, the implication is that the employee is really being paid on an hourly basis. This is pretty feeble. But apart from the extreme narrowness of the scope of judicial review of the Department's regulation, we do not understand the state to be challenging the disciplinary rule in toto. It is merely challenging the Department's refusal to carve out an exception for public employers. That challenge must fail because the state has not shown what is so special about state employment that makes greater disciplinary flexibility than is permitted to the private sector indispensable to the effective functioning of state government.
The plaintiffs are not exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the judgment of the district court dismissing their suit must therefore be REVERSED and the case REMANDED to that court for further proceedings in conformity with this opinion. The cross-appeal is DISMISSED.


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January 30, 2019 Arts & Culture » Movies
Review: Period romance 'Cold War' lacks love, depth
By Cameron Meier
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Tomasz Kot and Joanna Kulig in Paweł Pawlikowski's Cold War.
"After so many years, even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth," wrote Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco in The Name of the Rose.
Eco's writing contemplates the relationship between time, emotion, and personal certainty, as does Polish writer-director Paweł Pawlikowski's Cold War. Loosely based on the lives of his parents, the film takes place during the height of tensions between the Soviet bloc and the West, and tells the tale of two star-crossed lovers separated by politics and their own missteps. And though Pawlikowski surely intended for his characters' passion to burn red hot on the screen — in stark contrast to the black-and-white cinematography — we're instead left with little but a cold, passionless, underwritten tale of a relationship wrecked by circumstance.
Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) and Zula (Joanna Kulig) meet in post-World War II Poland. He is an accomplished musical scholar with a devotion to folk tunes, and she is an aspiring singer. Though he is older and essentially her supervisor in a Communist-run traveling troupe, he is unable to resist her unpredictability, honesty, and smoldering sensuality, while she is drawn to his, well, it's not clear. Perhaps it's their passion for music that brings them together, or their shared resistance to the propagandizing of what they hoped would be a noble cultural endeavor. Ultimately, they seem to become permanently bonded not so much by love but by their exile from one another — after Zula fails to join Wiktor when he defects to France.
Cold War has received praise — and Oscar nominations for foreign-language film, director and cinematography — but its champions are either ignoring or, astonishingly, not bothered by the film's episodic structure, which sucks relatability, character development, and narrative satisfaction from what could have been a haunting tale of found-and-lost-and-found romance. More a series of vignettes set over two decades, Cold War might have held intrigue and heartbreak if Pawlikowki's script (co-written by Janusz Głowacki and Piotr Borkowski) contained more tenderness. Rather, it portrays Wiktor and Zula as angry, frustrated, non-communicative, and even abusive. And though the film has an old-fashioned, quiet beauty, which is bolstered by its color palette — or lack thereof — and its 1.37:1 aspect ratio, its bare-bones, oddly structured story smells of arthouse pretentiousness.
Jacqueline Susann wrote, in Valley of the Dolls, "People parted, years passed, they met again — and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed and things weren't as bright or attractive as they had been."
And thus Wiktor and Zula keep on keeping on, clinging to an inexplicable, impractical, and often ugly love that is so understated and undernourished as to be practically nonexistent.
Cold War's critical success is all the more frustrating considering the plethora of better foreign films from 2018. So stay out of the Cold and instead warm to Burning, get caught with Shoplifters, embrace The Guilty, and visit Roma, which could become the first non-English-language movie to ever win the Academy Award for best film.
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Former LASD recruit gets 180 days in jail for stealing $110,000, burning ATM
Jim Holt
A one-time recruit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department who lives in the Santa Clarita Valley was sentenced late last week to 180 days in jail after he pleaded no contest to one felony count each of arson and grand theft, with an enhancement that the value exceeded $65,000.
Julio Cesar Jimenez, 35, of Santa Clarita, who was arrested on Feb. 15 and described at the time in an L.A. County Sheriff's Department news release as a newly hired recruit, appeared Friday in San Fernando Superior Court.
He is no longer employed by the LASD.
"Jimenez was sentenced to 180 days in jail and five years of formal probation," Ricardo Santiago, spokesman for the L.A. County District Attorney's Office, said Tuesday.
"The defendant also was ordered to complete 45 days of community labor and 26 sessions of mental health counseling," he said.
On Jan. 4, 2019, a restitution hearing is scheduled to determine the amount of money to be paid to Brinks and Wells Fargo Inc.
On that day, Jimenez is expected to surrender to authorities and begin serving his jail sentence.
Jimenez stole $110,000 on Nov. 28, 2017, from an ATM in Newhall and then, on Dec. 1, 2017, burned the ATM to cover his theft.
Jimenez was arrested and then booked at the East Los Angeles Sheriff's Station on felony charges of arson, grand theft and embezzlement.
He posted bond that same day and was released pending a future court appearance.
Jimenez was hired Dec. 14, 2017, and was employed as a cadet for less than two months when his alleged involvement in the incidents was discovered.
He started the Deputy Sheriff Training Academy on Dec.18, 2017.
He was in the initial phase of the 22-week academy when the discovery of his potential involvement in the crimes surfaced.
The LASD carries out an extensive background investigation on all applicants before they are hired for the position of deputy sheriff trainee, Capt. Darren Harris, who heads the LASD's Information Bureau, said in March.
Very few of the total applicants, Harris said, less than 5 percent, successfully complete the extensive process and are selected to enter the training academy.
Based on the timeline, he said in March, it appears the crimes committed by Jimenez occurred between the time his background investigation concluded and his date of employment with the Department,.
The allegations of grand theft initially levelled against Jimenez conflict with the highest ethical and professional standards required for employment with the Sheriff's Department, said Harris.
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The clerk of the court may vacate a default judgment entered pursuant to section 3215 upon the filing with him of a stipulation of consent to such vacatur by the parties personally or by their attorneys.
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An administrative judge, upon a showing that default judgments were obtained by fraud, misrepresentation, illegality, unconscionability, lack of due service, violations of law, or other illegalities or where such default judgments were obtained in cases in which those defendants would be uniformly entitled to interpose a defense predicated upon but not limited to the foregoing defenses, and where such default judgments have been obtained in a number deemed sufficient by him to justify such action as set forth herein, and upon appropriate notice to counsel for the respective parties, or to the parties themselves, may bring a proceeding to relieve a party or parties from them upon such terms as may be just. The disposition of any proceeding so instituted shall be determined by a judge other than the administrative judge.
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