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Vietnam's deputy prime minister, and other government and business officials, are meeting with California companies in an effort to increase business ties. The investment forum is called "Meet Vietnam" and some events are taking place at San Francisco City Hall.
But, protesters say they think city officials should not be helping the Vietnamese government.
"We are concerned, not only because it will take jobs away from Americans here, but also because of the rampant abuses of human rights in Vietnam," said Brian Do.
The conference is ending with a gala dinner and art performances Monday night at City Hall.
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Amazon unveils new Fire TV Cube, Fire TV Edition televisions and soundbar
It's Amazon's largest product launch to date
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Amazon, the online shopping and tech giant has just launched a whole range of new Fire TV products, including a 2nd generation Fire TV Cube, Fire TV Edition soundbar and a raft of new Fire TV Edition televisions, including its first ever OLED model.
At last, Amazon is expanding its Fire TV Edition Smart TV range into new territories, using partnerships with the likes of JVC, Skyworth, Arcelik, TPV and Compal. As a result, we're going to see the Fire TV sets arrive in the UK, Germany and Austria for the very first time.
Specifically in the UK, Fire TV is teaming up with Dixons Carphone to sell Fire TV Edition smart TVs though its JVC brand. Three different sizes will be available - 40in (£349), 49in (£399) and 55in (£499). All of the sets support HDR10 and Dolby Vision and ship with Amazon's Voice Remote with Alexa. You'll be able to buy the TVs from Currys PC World and Amazon and you can register your interest now.
We'll even see the first Amazon Fire TV Edition OLED TV, designed in conjunction with Grundig, although it will only be available in Austria and Germany at launch.
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Amazon has also expanded its Fire TV family by partnering with Anker for the Nebula Soundbar - Fire TV Edition. This soundbar includes 4K HDR support, Dolby Vision pass-through, its own smart TV interface and the ability to use Alexa to control apps and power up (or down) your system through the supplied voice remote.
You can even add it to a multi-room system through the Alexa mobile app.
The Nebula Soundbar - Fire TV Edition will be available in the UK, US, Canada and Germany when it starts to ship on the 21st October. The price is £180/$230, and it's available to preorder now.
The original Fire TV Cube combined the streaming smarts of Amazon's Fire TV Stick with the sonic skills of an Amazon Echo speaker. Unfortunately the smart speaker mash up never really made it to UK or European shores. Well, Amazon has just unveiled a second generation model.
The Fire TV Cube (2019) features a new hexa-core processor which Amazon claims makes it the "fastest Fire TV ever". It also supports Dolby Atmos, 4K content at 60 frames per second and a wide range of HDR formats, including Dolby Vision and HDR10+. You can also use the Alexa virtual assistant which is built into the cube, to control the device without needing to use the remote.
It also uses multi-directional infrared technology, HDMI CEC and cloud-based artificial intelligence to allow Alexa to control all your kit, including TVs, AV receivers, and set-top boxes.
The 2019 Fire TV Cube costs £110/$120 and is available to pre-order on Amazon in the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States, Canada and Japan. The device ships on the 10th October.
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In 2010, France banned the wearing of the full-face veil in public pursuant to Law no. 2010-1192 of the 11th October 2010 (herein after as the Law). The Law strictly forbids anyone to conceal their faces in public places on pain of criminal sanctions (punishable by a fine of 150 euros maximum and an obligation to follow a citizenship course). Its application is not contingent to any religious practice and is limited in the subject matter: only the concealment of the face is prohibited irrespective of the reason.
Still, the fact and the matter is, it primarily affects Muslim women wearing the full-face veil in public places and thereby of expressing their religious beliefs.
In 2014, a French national lodged a complaint before the European Court of Human Rights (herein after as ECtHR) against France claiming that the ban was depriving her of the exercise of certain rights protected in the European Convention of Human Rights (herein after as the Convention). The case called SAS v. France, has attracted numerous reactions in the academic world and reignited a long debate in France on the expression of religious beliefs in public. This article purports to understand the grounds upon which the applicant's claim was dismissed and the ban upheld. For this purpose, we will later ask the opinion of Professor Maleiha Malik, Professor in Law at King's College London, Author, Barrister and specialist on discrimination law.
In SAS v. France, the applicant alleged that there had been a violation of Article 3 (Prohibition of Torture and Inhuman Treatment), Article 8 (Right to a private and family life), Article 9 (Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion), Article 10 (Freedom of Expression) and Article 11 (Right to Protest and Freedom of Association) of the Convention, taken separately and together with Article 14 (Non-Discrimination) of the Convention.
The Court found the parts of the complaint based on Articles 3, 10 and 11 ill-founded and therefore inadmissible. The debate was more intense with regards to alleged violations of Articles 8 (Right to a private and family life), 9 (Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion) and 14 (Non-Discrimination) of the Convention.
The Court found the Law, as a measure which restricts a choice of clothing, constitutive of an interference with or a limitation of the exercise of the rights protected by Articles 8 and 9 of the Convention [para.110]. However, the limitation to the exercise of a freedom can only be justified by a legitimate aim as enumerated in the second paragraphs of Articles 8 and 9.
The French Government had two lines of defense: First, the wearing of the full-face veil in public was banned on grounds of public safety. Second, the wearing of the full-face veil in public was banned on account of the principle of "vivre ensemble" (living together) and the respect for the minimum set of values of an open and democratic society.
Regarding public safety, the Court found that the ban could only be deemed proportionate in the context of a general threat to public safety [para. 139]. Yet, the arguments of the French government fell very short to demonstrate such a situation in France.
Finally, with respect to the second legitimate aim raised by France, the Court had to "link" it with the aim of protecting of the rights and freedoms of others enshrined in the second paragraphs of Articles 8, 9. On the latter, the Court stated that it falls within the powers of the State to secure the conditions whereby individuals can live together in their diversity and that a State may find it essential to give particular weight in this connection to the interaction between individuals and may consider this to be adversely affected by the fact that some conceal their faces in public places [para. 141]. Consequently, the ban was justified as far as it seeks to guarantee the conditions of "living together" [para. 142].
It must be noted here that the Court, compliant with its jurisprudence, afforded Frances a wide margin of appreciation in deciding upon what enters the realm of private or public interest (See ECHR – Evans v. the United Kingdom [GC]). As such, it does not determine at any point the legal or legitimate status of the wearing of the full-face veil in public with regards to the provisions of the Convention. Simply, it undertakes an analysis based on the particularities of the French society and its "compatibility" with the wearing of the full-face veil in public. And here lies the challenge!
Indeed, the Court dismissed the gender equality argument insofar as the practice at hand was defended by women. In addition, the public safety aim was also rejected although, arguably, a ban was possible for public safety reasons and growing extremism, as it is the case in some Muslim states and regions in the world (Chad, Congo, Muslim region of Xinjiang in China, banned and later relaxed in Syria etc…). In SAS v. France, the crux of the case laid in the fact that women decided on their own, for religious and other personal reasons to wear the full-face veil in public. Righteously, one can feel in discomfort at the first sight of a fully veiled women but discomfort is no harm.
As the Court admitted, the second legitimate aim raised by France (the principle of living together and the respect for the minimum set of values of an open and democratic society) is not listed in the articles of the Convention concerned. However, one can argue that the concept of "living together" is non-legal per se and quite subjective. On this note, Professor Maleiha Malik, explains in The Return of a Persecuting Society (Malik, 2014), that "a value-based reasoning can construct certain religion as "radical" and incompatible with French citizenship" thereby forcing a compulsory clash of cultures.
Indeed, this principle of "living together" rests on the fact that France is based upon the constitutional principle of "Laïcité" : as provided by the 1905 law, the State is separated from the Churches and must remained independent of any religious practice. Furthermore, the insertion of immigrants in France is based, since colonial time, on the idea of their assimilation to the French culture. In other words, immigrants are required to integrate with the dominant culture in place of individualistic self-identity. Consequently in the application of assimilation of immigrants, there is a French culture versus another culture : a marriage of the two must automatically undermine one culture for the other to prevail.
By stating that wearing the full-face veil in public is "incompatible" with the idea of living together in the French society [para. 141], France takes a huge risk in trying to define a stagnant French society to which people should either integrate or be in conflict with it.
Professor Maleiha Malik notes in "Complex Equality : Muslim Women and the 'Headscarf'", that the law has a constitutive role in society and plays an important p in constructing behaviour : giving it sense and meaning, and influencing the self-interpretation of the participants. It is therefore very alarming to read that the rationale behind the ban, according to the Report of the French parliamentary commission, is that the full-face veil represented a denial of fraternity, constituting the negation of contact with others and a flagrant infringement of the French principle of living together – "vivre ensemble"[para. 17].
Alexandra Esmel (AE) : In SAS v. France, the French Government argued that the reciprocal exposure of faces was fundamental in French society to which the applicant responded that this argument failed to take into account the cultural practices of minorities which do not share this philosophy. Where do you draw the line, if you believe there is, between cultural relativism and multiculturalism.
AE : The main argument of the French Government in S.A.S argument is the principle of "living together" in the French society. The question is therefore whether or not you can force somebody to reveal their faces in public. Is that/ should it be a requirement in society? What are your views on the fact that there could be a social contract which require its participants to respect written (i.e. the law) and unspoken rules (politeness; revealing one's face)?
AE : The term "incompatible" was heavily cited in the decision and France insisted that the wearing of the full-face veil was "incompatible" with the French society and with the "objective of ensuring the social integration of groups of immigrant origin". What are your thoughts on this? – Is the French Law of 11 October 2010 simply a reflection of France rejecting a societal change? Do you assimilate that notion of the "incompatible" to the "Bad Other" as explained in your introduction to Anti-Muslim prejudice in the West, past and present: an introduction?
The ECtHR noted itself in SAS v. France that the role of the authorities is not to remove the cause of tension [between groups] by eliminating pluralism, but to ensure that the competing groups tolerate each other. France is demographically changing and is meant to change with time. Only, the interaction of these changes with internal policy will shape the present and future identity of France.
Great article. Indeed is the full face veil a test on how serious we take our western values of liberty when it comes to the adaption of new cultural traditions.


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As I sit at my computer while completing my seventy-third Christmas I am concerned with the sadness I have over the amount a destructive hate some people have in this country. Differences are one thing, hate, as I hear it from some of my neighbors, is deplorable. The frightening thing about this hate is that it comes from many that are completely disconnected from facts and refuse to hear them. It is their way or the highway. These same people are probably going to temple, church, or their mosque soon in a show of their hypocritical spirituality.
Everyone interested in the subject knows that Saddam Hussein developed, had and used Weapons of Mass Destruction. The indisputable evidence is there and has been manifested in his gassing his own Kurdish citizens as well as Iranians. Politicians, diplomats, clergy, and media regardless of their political philosophy agree with these facts. The problem is they occasionally have to be reminded of them.
Some ask if Hussein and Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction when our politicians authorized the invasion of that country. He refused to allow United Nations' inspectors into his country so to most people that would be prima facia that he had something to hide from the world and, because of his history, that something is frightening. Of course the mass graves of the citizens of Iraq he has slaughtered could be a reason for not letting the free world in the country. But, would he give up his country for that? I doubt it as I don't think he believed the Coalition would ever invade Iraq without the UN's blessing of which they would have never gotten. But again, like O.J. he could be innocent.
Another question though only tangential is was he planning to acquire and/or develop more WMD? Regardless of the Joe Wilson/Valerie Plame sideshow, the preponderance of evidence is he was. I wouldn't doubt for a minute that he still is planning to do so while incarcerated. He does have Ramsey Clark, the ex-Attorney General under LBJ whose father was a bought-off Supreme Court Justice, trying to put Saddam Hussein back on the street. You have to hand it to Hussein; he certainly has testicular fortitude.
The foregoing briefly covers the past. Most of us and especially the media love to dwell on the past. Why? We can point fingers and second guess without examining the facts and knowledge at the time and have absolutely no responsibility for any decisions made. The political news is like the sports page. Written by people incapable of playing the game and relying of second hand information. A typical coward's way of attempting to solve serious problems.
Today we are in Iraq. Our politicians from both major parties authorized this invasion as they as well the world's politicians and diplomats, including the United Nations, believed Saddam Hussein still had and was producing more Weapons of Mass Destruction. Many question whether he had WMD when the Coalition invaded? I personally believe he probably shipped them to his friends in Syria, as he never believed the Coalition would depose and incarcerate him. His ego is much too big for that as witnessed by his actions during his trial.
I don't have any direct evidence of the Syrian connection but there is plenty of anecdotal evidence pointing that way? It would be nice if the UN would check but that be asking them to do something besides skimming money from their contributors, especially the United States, for their personal use.
Did our leaders know Hussein did not have WMD in Iraq before the Coalition invaded? If they did, they have a price to pay. Of course, you could ask which one of our leaders knew as several of them, their Administrations as well as current and previous candidates for the job, made that claim knowing for certain that at one time he did. But, I don't see why. There certainly wasn't anything politically to gain by invading Iraq especially after the large poll numbers following 9/11. Being inarticulate is not being stupid.
How would people feel if we found WMD in Iraq? Would the media, as they are wont to do, create some other controversy for them to be testy at press conferences and making fools of themselves? The point is: We have troops in Iraq now regardless of what anyone thinks, wants or believes and we must win. If we don't the freer countries of the Middle East, including Israel, will be toast like the slaughter in Southeast Asia after well pulled out of Vietnam - another war won on the battlefield but lost in the shameful media and political arena. I would hope nobody wants to see Holocaust circa 2006!
I want to address the haters, not constructive critics out there. Always, but especially at this time of the year, I decry the hate I see from my neighbors. Hate for politicians of all philosophies usually coming from people who are the least knowledgeable. People who decry the hate of Hitler and Stalin seem to believe that they are excused from such abhorrent behavior. I read the hate in the editorial pages of our newspapers and letters to the editor. It is sick! It is a horrible emotion that is being expressed by some of our most notable politicians, journalists and authors. And, as usual, it destroys reasoned thought as it is used to discourage meaningful, rational discussion. We all heard of killing the messenger because we don't like the message. Today it is kill the messenger and don't read the message. Let us all rebel against the haters as they hurt us all and destroy the moral fabric of this wonderful country. They are free to hate but we are free to respond and to hold them accountable.
We are now entering a New Year, 2006. It is some time since 9/11 but we better not forget the results of that fateful day. It is about time that everyone gets on the same page to fight international terrorism, corruption, drugs and crime as they are all connected. The most important thing that a government can do is it provides security for its citizens. The small, infinistimal trade-off in civil liberties vs. security are hardly enough for concern. I don't see anything that would or should bother any honest, law-abiding citizen. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
The haters should use their energy to fight the terrorism. Ironically, it is my experience that very few haters have ever served their country in the military and have a shortsighted political agenda they put above their country's security. An insecure country doesn't have any civil rights and those who weaken our security must be challenged and defeated. Losing is not an option and shame to those who want to surrender.
As I write this on Christmas Day, a day to enjoy ones family and friends regardless of religion affiliation or lack thereof, I would like to see all of us rolling up our sleeves and getting on the same page to beat terrorism and win the war in Iraq. Let us send a message to the terrorists telling them we are a country that will not back down to their murderous attacks and not just a bunch of finger-pointing cowards. Why have we seemed to have lost the will to fight we had at Christmas 2001 and now acting like a bunch of losers? We forget at our own peril.
Sincerely & Happy New Year!
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In late 2003 as the war in Iraq shifted from armored combat to fighting a growing insurgency on the ground, Soldiers found themselves increasingly in danger as they moved about in soft-skinned Humvees. Never intended for front-line combat, the M998 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV or "Humvee") provided virtually no protection from small arms fire or from the expanding use of improvised explosive devices (IED). In response, units began adding protection of their own, placing sandbags on their floorboards and welding on a creative variety of steel plating to the sides of vehicles utilizing whatever was on hand. Such temporary expediencies became known as "haji armor" or "hillbilly armor" and were intended to bridge the gap until the Army could provide better armor options and increase the number of armored Humvees in Iraq.
A soldier from 1st Battalion, 68th Armor on an armored HMMWV takes up a security position on Nahrwan's city streets as a local shop owner looks on. 2006. U.S. Army Photo.
Visitors to the National Museum of the United States Army will see examples of the Army's first attempts to provide this needed additional protection. Within the Uncertain Battlefield gallery, three Humvee doors from an Armor Survivability Kit (ASK) will be on display, helping to document this dangerous shift in the war. In late 2003, the Armor Survivability Kit was quickly developed at the Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Md., and field tested at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, moving from design to production in just six weeks. The ASK included a bulletproof windshield, armored seatbacks, and a set of replacement armored Humvee doors with small windows of bulletproof glass that could be retrofitted in the field. This was an important precursor to the Fragmentary Armor or Frag Kits introduced in 2004.
Each of the three armored doors bear their own unique artwork, created with cut stencils and spray paint. Comparing them to the iconic bomber nose art of World War II, Semancik noted that these emblems helped Soldiers personalize their vehicles. Amid security concerns that insurgents could use such markings to identify and track the movements of particular vehicles, commanders ultimately ordered these emblems to be removed. These surviving Humvee doors therefore represent a snapshot in time as the Army learned and adapted to the ever-changing situation in Iraq.
The exhibits at the National Army Museum, extending from the Army's formation to modern operations, will offer visitors the opportunity to interact with real objects and help connect them to real Soldiers and their experiences.
"One day, I want veterans who are walking through the Museum's exhibits to see and recognize these Humvee doors and to tell their families about what they remember," Semancik explained.


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As Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers were gearing up for what amounted to a title run in 2009, Nike released his signature Kobe IV as part of the brand's Playoff Pack. Ten years later, the "White/Del Sol" Playoff Pack (POP) colorway returns as a Nike Kobe 4 Protro, releasing May 24 on SNKRS.
The latest iteration in Bryant's performance-driven "Protro" series maintains the exact design from the original release. The white-based upper is accompanied by a black Swoosh that's outlined in gold, and quilted stitching on the collar.
Although dubbed a model for the 2009 NBA Playoffs, Bryant didn't debut the shoe on the court until Game 2 of the Lakers' first-round matchup with the Denver Nuggets. He scored 32 points on an efficient 10-for-20 shooting from the field, but the Lakers suffered a narrow loss.
L.A. rebounded to win Game 3 and eventually closed out the series in six. Bryant wore the colorway during several home games throughout the Lakers' run in the Western Conference Playoffs. He then switched to 'home' and 'away' models of a "Kobe 4 Finals" version.
But when the Lakers held their parade to celebrate the franchise's 15th NBA title, which culminated with a rally at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum, Bryant opted for the "POP" model of his fourth signature shoe.
The "white/del sol" release is the second iteration of the Kobe 4 Protro brought to market. The first was the "Draft Day" model — outfitted in a Charlotte Hornets design" to commemorate the night Bryant was selected 13th overall in the 1996 Draft.
Nike released the model, along with several others, during All-Star Weekend in Charlotte. Thus far, various colorways of the Kobe 1 and Kobe 4 have been released under the "Protro" umbrella.
Bryant announced plans to take previous models from his signature line with Nike and retool them with updated technology that mirrors that of today's footwear. While considered a retro line similar to what Jordan Brand has found endless success with, Bryant has focused on performance.
"It just didn't fit right with everything I stood for, with the Mamba Brand," he said at the time of announcing the series. "Protro is about evolution and improving on things that were.
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Can see the rainbows past the veil.
Each day I have a date with the sunset. Walking along Currumbin beachfront and around the corner. I connect with and breathe in the last rays of the sun, as it drops towards the Gold Coast hinterland, bathing the hills in color. After breathing in the color, I head back to my favorite spot on the waterfront and watch the color reflected in the sky. Then either sit and meditate or dance with the wind, connecting to the frequency of the moment.
This day I hesitated to take up my favorite position. A mother and small child were sitting beside my favorite spot on the sitting cubes to the right. I hesitated because I enjoy the privacy of these moments and my meditation. However, I decided to quietly walk towards the central cube and sit paying no attention to them, my focus fully to the sea and the sky.
Suddenly a clear young voice said "Hello" so I turned towards him and said "Hello, how are you today" and then turned back towards the sea. There was a pink haze forming in an arc across the sky close to the horizon, the aftermath of the sunset. Again the clear little voice said, "It's a lovely rainbow isn't it?" I replied yes it is because I knew that the rainbows were there even though I was not seeing them that day. I knew that for this beautiful blond cherub of a 3 yr old, the veil was lifted and he could see the beauty that for us is soon to arrive.
I had experienced seeing that beauty in a ceremony with a Peruvian Shaman in the Sacred Valley of the Incas in Peru recently. The ceremony was to partake of the Sacred Medicine Wachuma, sometimes know as San Pedro and sit the night through.
We gathered in a circle around a campfire with the snow on mountains nearby. It was a very cold night and frost gathered on those who lay down for the night. We covered ourselves with blankets and many layers of clothing to either sit, lie or stand through the night and experience whatever the sacred medicine brought for us. I saw multiple images of sacred geometry. The most wonderful thing was seeing all the stars connected by threads of light to each other and orbs of light hovering over us in the valley, all connected by streams of light to each other and the stars.
When the light of day came, I was still seeing streams of light, now rainbows on the sides of each facet of each mountain. These were not bows but straight streams of rainbow colors. I continued to see this for most of that day and sometimes in the following days in Cusco under certain conditions.
The clear little voice again drew my attention he said to me "It's a beautiful rainbow isn't it". Again I agreed with him, for I knew that they were indeed there and I rejoice the day when I can see the rainbows all the time without Sacred Medicine to lift the veil from my eyes.
Silently as I walked away I rejoiced in my heart for the Mother who allowed her little boy to know that the rainbows were indeed there that day and he could share them with me. It reminded me of another little 4 yr old who puts his hands on his Mothers heart and says to her, "Mum your heart has got rainbow and Angel DNA in it".


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Asbestos: Production — the great screening scam
Once plaintiffs' lawyers attracted potential asbestos plaintiffs, they had to convert them into actual plaintiffs. This "production" process is at the heart of the overall asbestos litigation scam. As noted, the screenings typically occurred in vans or trailers in parking lots. The procedures inside were laughable:
Inside the trailers, screeners took "occupational exposure histories" (which were necessary to link plaintiffs to asbestos defendants), conducted breathing tests, and took X-rays that were later analyzed by medical specialists known as "B readers." People with little or no medical training ran the screening clinics: high school students or clerical workers took patient histories, a crucial procedure in diagnosing lung disease. Glorified clerks composed the diagnoses and "signed" them with rubber stamps.
The evidence is overwhelming that these screenings were largely shams designed to identify as many individuals as possible as "impaired" with asbestos-related injury. The plaintiffs' lawyers only employed 4 to 6 percent of the nation's certified B-readers. Some were employed in staggering mass-production fashion: one doctor diagnosed some 88,000 patients, conducting 150 asbestos X-ray readings per day. Unsurprisingly, many of the doctors who were most employed by the asbestos litigation machine later disavowed their diagnoses under oath or pleaded their Fifth Amendment-right against self-incrimination.
Just how stacked were the screenings in favor of finding a positive diagnosis of injury? A study employing independent readers conducted by Johns Hopkins researchers looked at 492 X-rays processed by the screening clinics and found lung impairment in 4.5 percent of cases; the lawyers' B-readers had identified asbestos-related injury in 95.9 percent of the exact same films.
While the fraud involved in asbestos screenings was fairly well known among those in the know, and had been documented extensively by Professor Lester Brickman (see, e.g., here), the real public break in exposing the fraud came in federal court in 2005, when Texas judge Janis Graham Jack documented on the record massive fraud in the silicosis cases before her court. Regular readers of Overlawyered and Point of Law are familiar with Judge Jack's basic findings (see here), so I'll only go over the high points. (Interested readers can refer to the pertinent section of the Trial Lawyers, Inc.: Asbestos report for more detail.)
In essence, Judge Jack discovered (through the diligent work of the defendant's law firm) that most of the silicosis claims before here were filed on behalf of individuals who had already been paid for asbestosis. While medically possible, mutual occurrence of both diseases is highly unlikely; and the medical diagnosis of X-ray readings makes distinguishing between the 2 injuries rather easy, as "scars that asbestos causes look like threads, while the scars that silica causes look like BBs." Dr. George Martindale, a doctor who had processed thousands of claims before Judge Jack, admitted that the language in his "reports" that formed the basis for the litigation came from the lawyers and screening companies, and he denied that they were actual diagnoses. Judge Jack held full hearings under the rules established by Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals and its progeny, and issued a comprehensive — and withering — 249-page decision:
These diagnoses were about litigation rather than health care. And yet that statement, while true, overestimates the motives of the people who engineered them…. [T]ruth and justice had very little to do with these diagnoses. Instead, these diagnoses were driven by neither health nor justice; they were manufactured for money. The record is not clear who originally devised this scheme, but it is clear that the lawyers, doctors and screening companies were all willing participants.
Since Judge Jack's ruling, other scandals involving mass asbestos screenings have emerged, which I'll document in due course. The key take-away from a broad litigation context is just how much difficulty U.S. courts have in dealing with complex medical evidence. Federal courts have improved significantly since Peter Huber wrote Galileo's Revenge, in no small part due to Daubert and the cases that followed, but many state courts lack the procedural protections — or competence — that their federal brethren possess in handling these issues. Indeed, had Judge Jack not been a former nurse, she herself may not have been able to interpret the fraud before her. In mass tort cases, of course, handling the scientific evidence becomes all but impossible, as I'll discuss next.
Filed under: asbestos, Lester Brickman, product liability, silicosis, x-rays
By James Copland
Asbestos: Part Deux
With Walter occupied on a deadline and Ted on the road, I'm happy to be back to wrap up my discussion of developments in asbestos litigation, as summarized in the Manhattan Institute's recently released Trial Lawyers, Inc.: Asbestos report. As I noted last month, asbestos has an ancient history, and in the early part of the last century, it was deemed a "magic mineral"; its flame-retardant properties protected American naval vessels and schoolhouses from fire. (See here.) Unfortunately, asbestos exposure ultimately proved deadly, the plaintiffs' lawyers pounced, and the American asbestos industry largely went bankrupt by the early 1980s. (See here.) The trusts created to pay out claimants from these bankrupt entities became a big business unto themselves, swamped with claimants and unable fairly or efficiently to process the claims. (See here.)
What happened next, in the 1990s and early part of this decade, amounts in large part to the systemization of fraud, through a business model the trial lawyers developed to extract as much money as possible out of the asbestos well. As we point out in our Trial Lawyers, Inc. report, this business model "starts with marketing (recruiting plaintiffs), followed by production (eagerly screening prospective plaintiffs for purported lung impairment and usually finding it), packaging (bundling cases into a "mass" of tort claims), and sales (overwhelming courts and defendants to extract settlements)." At each stage of the process, the business exemplifies major problems with American jurisprudence. I'll start with marketing.
Lawyers' ability to "market" for clients is founded in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, which determined that attorney advertising is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment. That ruling may well have been right as a matter of constitutional law, but it effectively gutted prohibitions on attorney solitication of clients and led to attorney-driven litigation. In the asbestos context, solicitation of clients became truly laughable, as ne'er-do-wells attracted potential plaintiffs to screening vans parked outside union halls or strip malls:
Heath Mason, a junior-college dropout with no legal or medical training who made $25.5 million from asbestos litigation. Mason's role was attracting potential plaintiffs to "screening clinics" that interviewed and "tested" them, usually in trailers hauled to restaurant, shopping-center, or motel parking lots. Mason would lure passersby with attractive women he called his "lawyer girls," such as the two young lawyers he met at an unidentified convention in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and later persuaded to stand on a Fort Worth street corner with signs directing potential plaintiffs to an X-ray screening van in a Staples parking lot.
Today, marketing tactics are also of the sophisticated variety. As Overlawyered readers are aware, the most expensive Google ad-search terms involve "asbestos" and "mesothelioma."
Filed under: asbestos, product liability, silicosis, x-rays
Client-chasing roundup
Screening firm hired by Beaumont, Tex.'s Provost Umphrey to do mass silicosis x-rays at Pennsylvania hotels is fined $80,500 for breaking various state rules, like the one requiring that a medical professional be on hand [Childs]
Milberg Weiss's special way of obtaining perfectly pliant clients — that is to say by bribing them under the table — harmed other class members by increasing fees but not settlement sums, suggests a new study by St. John's lawprof Michael Perino for Ted's project at AEI [Carter Wood @ PoL]
Time for Texas to join many other states in requiring lawyers to inform clients when practicing without professional liability insurance [SE Texas Record; earlier here, here and here]
Lawyers, in concert with their public pension fund allies, jockey for control of securities case against Bear Stearns [Gerstein/NY Sun]
Another court, this time in California, rules that a screw maker can't sue a law firm on the claim that its solicitation of potential claimants wrongly portrayed the company's products as defective; amicus brief from state trial lawyers group and Sen. Sheila Kuehl says relevant provisions of state's "SLAPP" law were "meant to protect plaintiffs groups, not companies" [The Recorder via ABA Journal; earlier case from Tennessee]
Most lucrative Google AdSense words still dominated by asbestos and other personal injury practice, the top terms being "mesothelioma treatment options" ($69.10 per click, and the point of obtaining the click is not to provide treatment options), "mesothelioma risk" ($66.46), and "personal injury lawyer michigan" ($65.85) [CyberWyre via NAM "Shop Floor"; more here, here, etc.]
Filed under: AEI, asbestos, Bear Stearns, California, chasing clients, Google, mass screenings, Milberg Weiss, Provost Umphrey, silicosis, Texas, x-rays
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Why they might be giving you a parting x-ray whether or not anyone thinks you strictly need one (Dr. Val, Apr. 2).
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The Sečovlje Salina Nature Park with its surface area of approximately 750ha is situated at the most south-western part of Slovenia, just along the border with the Republic of Croatia, in the southern part of the municipality of Piran. The northern part of the Park with still active salt production is called Lera. From the southern part of the Park, called Fontanigge, it is separated by the bed of the Drnica creek.
In Fontanigge, there are large ponds which are gradually overgrown with characteristic salt marsh vegetation – halophytes. They are criss-crossed by the system of ancient dykes, from which only the larger remain. Along broader channels, former salt-pan houses are scattered contributing to the uniqueness of the saline landscape with its characteristic appearance. The main freshwater source is the Dragonja river, which runs into the sea at the Sečovlje salt pans following the 10-kilometre path.
In the Fontanigge area, salt production was abandoned in the 1960s, however, within the framework of the activities of the Museum of Salt-making, salt is still produced in the manner which originates from the 14th century. Each saline field used to represent a separate salt-pan with its own ponds for seawater thickening and crystallization.
At Lera, the salt fields earmarked for salt crystallization are separated from the fields used for seawater thickening (evaporation basins). The difference between the two manners of salt production therefore lies in the technological procedure of brine preparation, salt gathering and storage as well as the different working tools. The common feature of both salt-pan areas lies in the fact that petola (a special type of biosediment that prevents sea mud merging with the salt and retains the incorporation of separate ions into the salt) is cultivated by the salt workers at the bottom of the salt fields.
For centuries, the salt pans in the northern Adriatic Sea area long had a significant impact on the economy of the countries and city-states in this area. They were the subject of political disputes and wars as salt was considered a precious raw material and strategic merchandise due to its usefulness, and was important for the preservation of food and the production of gunpowder. In the past, there were a number of smaller and larger salt pans in the Gulf of Trieste and Istria (e.g. in Milje, Koper, Izola, Lucija), however, today only the Sečovlje and Strunjan salt pans remain. They were not only characterized by political and economic interests, but also by the whims of nature which sometimes made salt production impossible for longer periods, however, sometimes it offered an over-abundance.
In the abundance of different kinds of high-quality salts, Piran salt is one of the most prominent as it is cultivated according to the method of more than 700 years ago. The Sečovlje salt pans are the northernmost still functioning salt pans in the Mediterranean area and one of the few salt pans in the world where salt is produced after several centuries-old processes originating from at least the 14th century. Their speciality is that the salt pan workers cultivate petola at the bottom of the crystallization ponds. This is a biosediment which prevents the sea mud merging with the salt and gives the salt numerous microelements and minerals necessary for the human organism. It is cultivated completely through natural crystallization using their bare hands, and the tools and procedures of their ancestors.
Salt panning distinctively shaped the cultural landscape, i.e. areas that are the work of human hands.
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Gary Wilson feels misunderstood and hopes Scottish Open glory ends 'lazy' punditry
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Gary Wilson lifted the Stephen Hendry Trophy on Sunday night (Picture: Getty Images)
Gary Wilson is finally a ranking event winner and he hopes his Scottish Open triumph will change what he sees as the 'lazy' narrative about his temperament.
The 37-year-old beat surprise finalist Joe O'Connor 9-2 in the final in Edinburgh, after a string of impressive wins en route to the showpiece, beating Ronnie O'Sullivan, Hossein Vafaei, Kyren Wilson and Thepchaiya Un-Nooh along the way.
It was the Tyneside Terror's third ranking final, and having also been to the World Championship semi-finals, it was not a huge shock, but the timing was something of a surprise as he had not shown great form heading into Edinburgh.
It was a technical change that Wilson credits for finding the tournament-winning form while in Scotland, but often it is his temperament that is blamed for why he hasn't got his hands on silverware in the past.
Sometimes a fiery character at the table, Wilson feels like the pundits have got him wrong, saying he is happy to show his emotions during a game but it doesn't hamper his play.
If anything, he feels that he gets himself fired up by letting things out, but certainly doesn't think the perceived wisdom of him having a poor temperament is accurate.
Asked if he feels his temperament has been misunderstood, he told Metro.co.uk: 'I do, yes. I think that's a very valid point.
'That's easy for me to say, but I do think people take my temperament as a real hindrance, but I don't see it that way, I don't see it as hindering my game. It's a reactive thing because of my game, not the other way round.'
Wilson showed his emotional side during his win over namesake Kyren in the quarter-finals, swiping a ball off the practice table during the interval, which bothered his opponent.
He thinks this is good evidence that his temperament is not a problem, though, as he was the same as ever in Edinburgh and got his hands on the trophy.
'I get what people are saying, but take this week, my temperament was "awful" as well and I won the tournament,' he said. 'I had that complaint from Kyren about making a bang in the interval when I was 3-1 down. He said my attitude wasn't very good, but you could argue my temperament was awful all week.
'I think people misunderstand it. It's just me showing emotions, I'm not afraid to show emotions if I want to. I think some people feel they're more obliged, professionally, to be like a robot. I don't feel as strongly about that.
Wilson beat Ronnie O'Sullivan for the first time on his run to the title (Picture: Getty Images)
'It doesn't affect my game as much as people think, in my eyes. At the same time, I did my best to keep everything to myself in the semis and final, to be as blank as possible, to show people that if I want to not show my emotions, I can.
'Things were going well, so it was easier, but I can decide to not show a single thing if I want to. But I don't feel the need to or see why I should. If I want to be disappointed by a shot I'll be disappointed. I don't believe that it spurs my opponent on when I do, either. I think there's a little bit much made about the whole temperament side of things.'
Wilson certainly doesn't deny that he obviously looks frustrated at times, an example when he memorably dropped his cue on the floor during the UK Championship qualifiers as Andres Petrov fluked frame ball. However, he feels that blaming this for losses is a lazy conclusion to draw.
'It's a bit of lazy journalism from pundits and commentators, it's a little bit lazy just to go to that and use it as an excuse,' he said. 'It is frustrating but as players we've got to get on with it and not get wound up with it.
'All I can do is keep telling the truth, I always do, I'm very honest. If I thought I had a problem with my temperament and it affected my game I'd be the first to come out and say it. I'd say I can't pot a ball when my head goes.
'I know Tom Ford's admitted in the past that when his head goes a bit he really struggles. I wouldn't say I'm that kind of player. My head can go a bit and I'm a bit more of a Maguire where it can gee us up a little bit. I'd admit it if I felt it's a problem, but it's not, it's more that if my game is gone, I don't mind showing it.'
The world number 18 is not just open about his feelings at the table, but off it as well, speaking impressively about his struggles with depression last year.
He is in a far better place than he was at the start of 2021, now knowing how to get himself on the right track if he feels negative thoughts and behaviours creeping back in.
'I've been over it generally the last year or so,' Wilson explained. 'But I still have moments where I slip into a situation where I think, "Don't keep feeling like this if you can Gaz, because you've felt like this before."
Wilson won his first title with O'Connor playing in his first final (Picture: Getty Images)
'I'm just more mindful not to let myself slip into a situation like I was in beforehand, I can see the signs when it's happening. Things like lying in bed too long during the day, thinking certain things, I know to get myself up and doing something rather than dwell on it. Just stop myself from getting anywhere near that thought process.
'Winning this [tournament] changes things quite a bit, ticks one of the boxes I've wanted to do for a long time and I'm going to enjoy it.'
Back to the baize and Wilson explains that the technical change he made was also mental, as it was to 'play on instinct' more and try and think less on shots.
This sounds like it would be a more attack-minded style of play, but not necessarily, it was more to eliminate the drawn-out thought process on each shot which hampers his enjoyment of the game.
'When I say play on instinct, it's not shot selection or trying to speed up, or being more attacking, it's all technique,' he said. 'Pretty much my whole career, I get down on a shot and think about feathering, stopping at the cue ball, think about back swing, pausing, on every shot.
'I abandoned that. Got down to the ball, aimed it and cued it instinctively. That's very difficult to do when you've trained yourself to do something different your whole career. It was about trying to think less technically. It was difficult but that's how I instinctively play if I just pick up a cue and chuck my arm at a few balls, so I was just trying to do that to enjoy it.'
The change in his plan really came about in the second half of the semi-final win over Thepchaiya when he powered to victory with three centuries in four frames.
Wilson wants to keep playing with this level of freedom, but knows he will need to strike something of a balance between 'abandonment' and his more measured style.
'I'll have to balance it a bit to give myself a rounded game,' he said. 'I didn't play great, I played well enough to do the job, but there were a few shots I completely splattered because I was doing something totally different to what I'm used to. I'll have to round that off to be more consistent.
'I only really felt like I could do some damage in the second half of the semi-finals. Abandonment is the word I've been using. It's how I'm going to try and play now, I enjoy it and it's working, so it can't be the wrong way.
'But I'm not worried about any of that, I've won a tournament, I don't have to worry about that ever again. I'm just going to enjoy playing now and whatever happens, happens. I'm capable of making a living out of the game for another 10 years hopefully.'
Also set for another 10 years and more in the game is Wilson's opponent in the final in Edinburgh, who Gary expects to be picking up trophies of his own at some stage.
'He was in the players lounge and we had a couple of drinks afterwards,' said Wilson of O'Connor. 'He's such a nice character, I've got a lot of respect for Joe and a lot of time for him. He's so down to earth and respectful, got a great head on his shoulders.
'I meant what I said after the game, he will win a tournament one day, it might take him 10 years, but the way he is, I've got no doubt about that.'
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A cool and wet spring saw frost late in the season. A warm early-summer with a wet mid-summer eventually gave way to above normal temperatures through August. The later ripening varietal used in our Appassimento - Aglianico, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon - benefited from an extended season while the Cabernet Franc delivered good fruit, as per expectations. The growing season set the background on the canvas for our Master winemaker to employ his artistry in crafting this fantastic expression of the classic method of Appassimento.
All varietals were given the time they required on the vines to achieve their maximum potential. Great care was taken in hand picking these and laying out for drying, in an effort to retain the greatest quantity for further processing; drying to place over three months. The wine was aged in oak for three years, moved to stainless steel tanks for stabilization for six months and, another six months in bottle before release.
To refer to this wine as special is an understatement. We set out many years ago on the journey to crafting Appassimento wines and it's a joy to realize this ambition. From the planting of the vines, and cultivating these over many years, to devising the system to best create these wines of distinction. The very name, Appassimento, conjures images of the challenges, the creative leaps we've taken, and the comradery gained in our team in creating this wine.
The 2013 is our second vintage and I'm confident it will surpass the expectations of those unfamiliar with the heights reached in winemaking in the Niagara Peninsula.
Varieties: Aglianico, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc
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Residual Sugar: 5.4 g/L
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It was 1971 and the Hogs had just come off of an 8-2-1 season and in doing so, they had beaten Texas 31-7 for the first time since the win in 1966. Now, they were headed to the Liberty Bowl in Memphis on Monday night, December 20. On that Monday, it would be #9 Tennessee squaring off against #17 Arkansas for the 13th meeting in the bowl's history. It had been 64 years since the two teams had faced each other. The last meeting had been in 1907 when Tennessee won 14-2 in Little Rock. The Hogs were still known as the Cardinals and had Frank "Shorty" Longman out of the University of Michigan as their coach.
It was now a new day when Bill Battle would be bringing his Volunteers to go up against Frank Broyles Razorbacks. Things had certainly changed since their last meeting. It was now time for them to meet once again on the gridiron. The teams had not played in competition since December 5 when the Hogs had defeated Texas Tech15-0 and Tennessee had upset #5 Penn State 31-11.
In the close moments of the game, it would be wrought with controversy which was not surprising since the officiating was provided by three SEC zebras and two SWC officials. This would be the last time that the Liberty Bowl would not be officiated by neutral officials from conferences outside of those for the teams competing.
The bookies were favoring Tennessee by one which coincidently would be the final margin. Liberty Bowl records would fall as new ones would take their place offensively by Joe Ferguson (three records - 18 completions of 20 attempts for 209 yards) and defensively by Louis Campbell (three interceptions), but the one that counted the most was Tennessee for the win. Attendance for the game was also a bowl record 51,410 fans. This was not surprising as both teams had been followed by fanatical fans throughout the season and both states bordered on the bowl site.
Joe Ferguson to Jim Hodge pass. Click to enlarge
Tennessee won the toss and received the initial kickoff. After moving 25 yards, they were forced to punt. The punt found its way and ended up on the Hog one yard line. After a 20 yard end around, the Hogs were forced to punt. Drew Toole punted 45 yards, where Volunteer Bobby Majors returned to the 45 yard line. Tennessee QB Jim Maxwell would now set up shop.
From here UT star Bill Rudder, and fullback Steve Chancey would move the ball down to the Hog 43. On third and eight, Maxwell went to wingback George Silvey. Pass interference was called and Tennessee received the ball and first down on the Arkansas 24 yard line. On the next play, Maxwell pitched to Rudder who made an option pass to split end Emmon Love. Love took the ball down to the two. First down. With 5:39 left in the quarter, Rudder would take it over for six. Tennessee was now on the board. Kicker George Hunt would add the point after, giving Tennessee the initial lead at 7-0. In the next series, Ferguson would be intercepted by cornerback David Allen. As the quarter ended, neither team could mount any offense.
With 9:52 left before halftime, Bill McClard attempted a 40 yard field goal to put the Hogs on the board. Defensive back Conrad Graham blocked the attempt negating the Hog points leaving the score at 7-0. Arkansas would finally get on the board just before halftime when Ferguson would find Jim Hodge on a 47 yard scoring strike knotting the score at 7-all.
"It's probably the only one I ever had in my coaching career." - Frank Broyles
Curt Watson scoring run. Click to enlarge
After halftime, neither team would be able to score during the third quarter. Screen passes to Jon Richardson and outside running by Dickey Morton kept the Hogs alive. As he set his interception record, three picks by Campbell would keep the Vols in check.
This set up the final quarter for the showdown when all stops would be pulled out.
With 13:14 left in the game, McClard kicked a 19 yard field goal capping a 54 yard scoring drive. For the first time in the game, the Hogs would hold the lead. It was now Hogs 10, Vols 7. Following a Campbell interception, McClard kicked his second field goal with 8:57 showing on the scoreboard. It was now 13-7 Hogs.
On the next series, Campbell picks off his third interception with a diving catch with 5:51 left in the game. Arkansas' ball. McClard would now kick his third field goal of the game from 48 yards out. The scoreboard now read 16-7 Hogs. The game was now surely going to Arkansas. But wait. Controversy #1: An SEC official (Preston Watts) called tight end Bobby Nichols for holding. Arkansas was penalized and forced to punt. Broyles later commented "It's probably the only one I ever had in my coaching career." Nichols also told reporters that a Volunteer player had grabbed him and pulled him to the ground. The field goal was erased and the scoreboard again would be read 13-7 Hogs. The game was no longer out of reach. Game on.
Tennessee could not move the ball, and was forced to punt with about four minutes left. After the punt, Arkansas was using the clock when Richardson fumbled the ball due to a collision with Graham following a screen pass from Ferguson. No problem, for under the pile Razorback Tom Reed had recovered the ball. Reed came out of the pile with the ball. However, Preston Watts made his play once again. Controversy #2: Reed handed the ball to Watts, who then promptly awarded possession to Tennessee at the Hog 37 yard line. After only two previous plays and with 1:56 left in the game, injured fullback Curt Watson would take a pitch from Maxwell and carry the ball around right end for the remaining 17 yards to tie the score at 13-all. Hunt would now add the PAT to give the Volunteers their only lead since the first quarter.
In its final effort, the Hogs drove 20 yards before a second down bomb from Ferguson to Hodge was intercepted by defensive back Eddie Brown. Final score Arkansas 13, Tennessee 14. After all of the controversy, it would be 19 years before these two teams would meet again. This time it was in Dallas at the 1990 Cotton Bowl (also a Volunteer victory 31-27).
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SiriusXM, the Big Ten Network (BTN), and the Big Ten Conference announced today that they will launch SiriusXM Big Ten Radio, a new and exclusive 24/7 audio channel dedicated to Big Ten sports that will deliver fans and alumni across the country in-depth access to Big Ten-focused sports talk and news, plus an extensive schedule of Big Ten games.
Hosts on the channel will include former Ohio State star LB and 2005 Lombardi Award winner A.J. Hawk; former Illinois All-America offensive lineman Brad Hopkins; former Iowa defensive lineman Anthony Herron; former Penn State basketball player Jon Crispin; former Ohio State tight end Ben Hartsock; as well as Jason Goff, Tom Luginbill, Pete Pistone and Matt Schick.
Listeners will also hear weekly college coaches shows, press conferences, classic game broadcasts, coverage of future Big Ten Media Days, as well as curated, Big Ten-specific highlights.
SiriusXM offers an unparalleled lineup of college sports programming. Subscribers get access to dozens of live college football and basketball games from multiple conferences every week, plus several college sports-focused channels featuring many former coaches, players and insiders as hosts. SiriusXM's lineup includes the all-college sports channel, ESPNU Radio on SiriusXM, plus 24/7 channels focused on the ACC, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC conferences.


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Leading German broadcast facilities company, _wige SOLUTIONS GmbH, has purchased a Snell Kahuna 9600 production switcher for a new mobile production unit that will soon be joining its extensive fleet. Based in Meuspath, Germany, _wige SOLUTIONS has been supplying complete outside broadcast event services for over 25 years; this will be the sixth Snell switcher the company has purchased for its OB operations. The new mobile production unit, consisting of modular components to provide maximum flexibility, will be completed in spring 2015 and provide more broadcast possibilities than a conventional OB van.
The Kahuna 9600 is the flagship of the new Snell Kahuna production switcher range which was launched at IBC 2014. The new Kahuna 4800, 6400 and 9600 production switchers offer more firepower and flexibility than ever before with added 4K capabilities across the entire range. The new range also benefits from an enhanced feature set, including more power for Mix Effects (M/E) functionality and enhanced DVE resize engines, enabling chromakey capabilities on all keyers and 2.5D DVE on all models in the range.
"Although we are very satisfied with the five Kahuna switchers we already use, we looked hard at all the latest offerings across the market before selecting the new Kahuna 9600 for our portfolio," said Thomas Schäfer, _wige SOLUTIONS Technical Director. "As well as its ability to handle all production formats, the Kahuna 9600 gives us both the power and the flexibility we need to add more M/Es as required. Its compact mainframe is also a real plus in saving valuable real-estate."
"_wige SOLUTIONS has built its reputation on delivering quality and reliability and I'm delighted that it has once again chosen Snell technology to be at the heart of its latest Production Unit," said Robert Rowe, managing director of Live TV at Snell. "The added performance and 4K capabilities of the new Kahuna range ensure that our customers are able to future-proof their infrastructures and productions for whatever the future brings."


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Abraham Lincoln : The President Of The United States
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At a time when few people dared to traverse the forbidding Llano Estacado on the South Plains of Texas, a group of people known to history as the Comancheros made quite a living in the region. Known at the time as "Comancheria" and marked on maps as "The Great American Desert," the Llano Estacado wasn't a desert but hardly anyone except the Comanches and Comancheros knew this.
Generally referred to as "half-breeds" by uncomprehending Anglos, the Comancheros made a living by trading with the Comanches. They were a combination of entrepreneurs and soldiers of fortune with a little explorer mixed in for good measure. The fact that their steadiest customers were the Comanche bands scattered across the llanos and canyonlands added an element of danger to their version of free enterprise.
The Comancheros were also trailblazers, cutting paths across the plains that were later followed, fatefully for the Comanches, by the U.S. Army and early day settlers and ranchers. The Comancheros' sales territory extended from their native New Mexico east to the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma and as far east and south as the Davis Mountains.
That turf was opened up with an 1786 treaty between Juan Baptista de Anza, the Spanish governor of New Mexico who had dramatically scored a couple of rare but decisive military defeats of the Comanche in Colorado. The treaty allowed trade between New Mexico and the Comanches in exchange for protection of the Spanish territories and thus created a market the adventurous businessmen known as Comancheros were quick to exploit; the most amazing thing about the treaty was that both sides actually observed it.
The trade worked like this. The Comanches would bring cows, horses, hides and captives to a predetermined meeting point. The Comancheros would take those commodities, including the captives, off the Comanches' hands, and trade them guns, firewater, trinkets, whatever. A lot of times the Comanchero served as a middle man in returning the captives over to the Army, especially after an announcement by U.S. Army General Zachary Taylor that the government would pay for any captives brought in to Fort Gibson (in what is now eastern Oklahoma). The announcement had an unintended result: the number of captives skyrocketed and the market for them boomed.
In time, the trade came to include guns, ammunition and whiskey and more than a few head of stolen cattle and horses. The Comancheros sold these to wily merchants who often sold the livestock back to the original owners.
The beginning of the end for the Comancheros came when Colonel Ranald Mackenzie, with orders to exterminate the last band of wild Comanches (or any other tribe for that matter) found an old Comanchero trail that ran from present-day Tucumcari, New Mexico to what is now Canyon, Texas on the edge of the Palo Duro. The trail was told to Mackenzie by a captured Comanchero, Polonio Ortiz, who was promptly transcripted into service by Mackenzie as a scout.
When Quanah Parker and his warriors surrendered, marking the official end of the Comanches as lords and warriors of the plains, the Comancheros lost one half of their business equation and faded into history as a sidebar or footnote, and not always in a good way.
Many of the old Comanchero trails and the ones credited to Mackenzie and his soldiers are still in existence, though there is virtually no trace of the old Comanchero culture to be found anywhere. The old trails now are generally paved and are marked on maps as highways and county roads.
It's almost like the scant legacy of the Comancheros is part of the deal they made with history – to do their business, leave little behind and then move out of the way. The bulk of their lasting legacy is that they kept up their end of the deal.


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The featured photo here is unusual from our point of view. It appears to be a set-up photo, circa 1915. What makes it interesting is that we cannot imagine what the photo's purpose was.
I think we would all agree that it's from a northern state—maybe a mining district or near a lumber mill. The men have work clothes on, and most have a white pin on their caps that identifies them as part of a work group.
The deer have been brought to the photo area and hung on the long pole. They appear field dressed, young, and were probably killed for meat. We can't tell if they're bucks or does, but if they're bucks, they're young with no stained tarsal glands on the hind legs. All were killed in a short time period because they're fresh, and no refrigeration existed in that time period.
The "horse" sign on the right wall shows 1912, and the paint is clean and new. But why would someone want a photo op of a group of 15 men and 16 hanging deer? The gentleman in striped overalls and tie appears to be the boss or leader.
Could this photo be associated with a market hunting processing plant for deer meat? During that time period, market hunting was common. The location had to be a northern state with lots of deer—New York, Michigan, Wisconsin—for example. Those states and others in the north had good deer populations. There was no southern state with deer so numerous that you could kill 16 in a few days.


A while back I wrote a tongue-in-cheek post alleging that NASA satellites are being used to raise the global sea levels. The point was that the most commonly quoted 20th century sea level data had the average rise rate at about 1.8 mm per year, but the satellite data since 1993 had the rise rate at about 3 mm per year.
I have always wondered if those two facts could be reconciled. If they are both true, does that mean there has been an extreme acceleration in sea level rise rates at the tail end of the 20th century? Shouldn't such an acceleration be apparent in the tide gauge data? So I have spent much time recently searching the data for such an acceleration.
For all my searching, the outcome is still somewhat ambiguous. This is the beginning of a series of posts on that search. In this post I will cover the basic methods I have used, and present results in subsequent posts.
Established in 1933, the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) has been responsible for the collection, publication, analysis and interpretation of sea level data from the global network of tide gauges. It is based in Liverpool at the National Oceanograhy Centre (NOC), which is a component of the UK Natural Environment Research Council(NERC).
The PSMSL data is a comprehensive collection of sea level data. The map in figure 1 (click to enlarge) shows 1384 RLR data sites. The circles are 100 km radius and centered on each site. This seems like a gold mine of data. But most of the data is not useful for the purpose I have stated, because it either covers an insufficient length of time, or has too many "holes" in the time period that it does cover.
Figure 1. Location of all RLR data sites.
We need sites with good records of sea level for at least the last half century. This drastically limits the number of adequate sites and their global distribution. Figure 2 (click to enlarge) shows all the sites with data starting in 1955 at the latest, ending in 2005 at the earliest, and having data for at least 90% of the months between 1955 and 2005. Of the original 1384 sites, only 112 meet these criteria and their global distribution is greatly reduced.
Figure 2. Sea level sites with 90% completion between 1955 and 2005.
The methods that I will employ to mine the data will start by selecting data from sites that meet various completion criteria. Typically, those criteria will be all the data sites in some region that have 90% complete data over some specified time period.
Looking for acceleration in sea level data can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. The average global sea level rise rate for the 20th century was about 1.8 mm per year. But the fluctuations from year to year or even month to month at any particular site or region can be hundreds of times greater than the yearly average.
Consider the sea level data from the North Sea port city of Den Helder in the Netherlands. Figure 3, below, (click to enlarge) shows the type of processing I use to analyse sea level data in order to find the needle of acceleration in the haystack of data. Read the figure caption for details. Note that 3A through 3F all show a red bar in the upper left corner to represent the amount of globally averaged sea level rise for the entire 20th century, and compare it to the short term fluctuation at Den Helder. The wide fluctuations of the Den Helder data is typical of all the tide gauge sea level data from around the world.
Figure 3. (Click to enlarge.) 20th century sea level data from Den Helder, The Netherlands. RLR data file #23. For comparison, the red bar in the upper left corner of 3A through 3F shows the global average sea level rise for the 20th century.
3B. Raw data minus the yearly signal.
3C. Yearly signal. This is constructed from the Fourier components of the raw data for 12, 6, 4, 3 and 2 months.
3D. Overlay of FWHM Gaussian smooths of the raw data minus the yearly signal. The scale is the same as 3A and 3B for comparison purposes.
3E. Same as 3D, but with expanded scale.
3F. Raw data and 5 year Gaussian smooth.
3G. Sea level rise rates from derivatives of the 1, 3, 5, 7 & 9 year FWHM Gaussian smooths.
3H. Same as 3G, but for only the 3, 5, 7 & 9 year FWHM Gaussian smooths. The red line shows the average global rise rate for the 20th century.
Not rise rates, but change in rise rates.
I want to stress that in most cases I will not be concerned the actual sea rise rate, but rather, I am looking for a change in the sea level rise rate. This is an important distinction, because often times tide gauge data from two or more sites in the same region may have very different rise rates, but very similar changes in sea level rise rates over a long period of time. For example, consider Wernemunde, Germany and Stockholm, Sweden, both in the Baltic Sea region, about 600 km apart. Figure 4a shows their sea level data from 1940 to 2010, with a 2 year Fourier long pass filter. A linear fit to the Wernemunde data over that period gives an overall sea level rise rate of 1.68 mm/year, while Stockholm had an overall rise rate of -3.35 mm/year. The Wernemunde and Stockholm sea levels are obviously dominated by different local effects.
But if the Wernemunde and Stockholm data are detrended (the best linear fit of the data subtracted from the data itself) then we can see that there are remarkable similarities (see figure 4b). Those two data sets are clearly measuring a combination of signals: local, regional, and global. While their sea level rise rates may be very different, their changes in sea level rise rates are very similar.
Figure 4. a.) Stockholm and Wernemunde sea level, and (b) detrended version.
The example illustrated in figure 4 shows only two sets of tide gauge data from the Baltic Sea region. When I finally present data for the Baltic Sea region in a later post I will use about 25 tide gauge sites. The similarity between these 25 data sets after detrending is quite amazing (at least to me). It leaves me with great confidence that those sets of detrended data are measuring nearly the same regional and global signals while having very different local signals. But the question still remains: how to combine the data for those sites?
I will typically combine such data sets two different ways: simple unweighted year by year average of the detrended data, and a weighted average of the detrended data. The weighting will be based on distance between sites. S0, for example, if I choose a weighting threshold of 200 km, then sites that are more than 200 km away from the next closest site will be weighted as "1." A site that is within 200 km of n other sites will be weighted as 1/(n+1). Figure 3 shows an example of the site weighting.
Figure 3. Site weighting. Overlapping circles are weight less than non-overlapping circles.
I will use a fourier technique to remove yearly signals. That is, the Fourier transform of a sea level time series will have the components coresponding to 12, 6, 4, 3, and 2 months removed. Additional long pass smoothing may be applied by removing all Fourier components for periods shorter than some threshold period, but usually I will apply a Gaussian filter after the yearly signal has been removed. It will always be noted when I apply these techniques.
In later posts I will analyze data and present results from various regions around the world.
I cannot think of any local effect that would make a sustained sea level rise in one area and drop in another other than plate tectonics (the reference is moving). There is data that suggest that continents and islands are moving laterally. Japan moved laterally eight feet during the earthquake/ tsunami. Did it move vertically? Is there any global data on land mass rising or falling? It would be interesting to see the map with sea level rise in one color and sea level drop in another.
Plate tectonics or glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA).
The Japanese sea level data has something interesting to say about this, which I will point out when I present the Japanese data.


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The difference between a smoothie and a milkshake
by Ekpedeme Umoh
We know that you love them, both of these flavoursome drinks have many fans. Milkshakes and smoothies are a treat which is easily available and you can even make them at home. You can add any seasonal fruits to these refreshing drinks. But many don't know that there are many things which makes them quite different from each other. Both of these drinks have different taste, texture and even the way they are prepared. They are a big hit in the fitness industry. People who go on a liquid diet, prefer them as an option and add them to their routine. Many get confused between them and often use them interchangeably which is even worse. So, we have made it our mission to tell you about the key differences they have.
Milkshake, as the name suggests, has a dairy base, it commonly uses ice creams, fruits and flavoured syrups. It has a creamy, frothy and thick texture as compared to the smoothie. It happens due to the milk and ice cream used in its preparation. Milkshake is made sweet by adding various flavoured syrups such as vanilla, chocolate, strawberry and many more. It also has endless toppings on it like candies, whipped cream, fruit which makes them rich in fat, and high sugar content. Milkshake is not considered as a meal replacement, unlike smoothies. Even though they are loaded with calcium and protein. But you can easily change these things when you prepare milkshake at home to get a healthier version.
They are mainly prepared with fruits and some ingredients like milk, fruit juice, seeds or yoghurt. It was an alternate version of milkshakes for those who are lactose intolerant. It mostly uses fruits like kiwi, berries. The name smoothie originated because of its smooth texture. It is very filling and is light on the stomach. It gets a bit of thick texture because of the fruit and vegetable pulp. Smoothies are prepared when fruits are blended with ice. They are often consumed as a substitute for meals by the people who are trying to lose weight or are on a diet. It is rich in carbs and low in fat as they don't use much of the dairy products in them. It is widely believed that smoothies are healthier than milkshakes because its main elements are fruits and vegetables. You can also add oats and grains in the smoothie to increase its nutrient value.
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There is Device technically installed to a Device location on 19.03.2011. There is Meter reading on the device on 20.03.2011 with meter reading reason '08' Reading at technical installation.
I want to reverse the technicall installation but I need to reverse the reading first. TCode EL37 is not allowing me to reverse the read with reading reason as '08'. It says using wrong business transaction.
EG50 is the transaction is to technical reversal which should automatically reverse the meter readings.
Any reason why you want to reverse the Meter reading ?
inputs are device location,device and start date.
User did some changes in the Data but now they want it as original again.
User also does not remember how and what changes they made.
There is no need to reverse the meter reading at installation time, when you do a reveral of Technical Installation.
When the device was installed on 19.03.2011, using T Code eg33, how come the reading date at technical installation is showing date 20.03.2011.
Also, it will not let you reverse the Technical Installation of the device on a later date than it was technically installed.
In this case you can go for Technical Removal EG36 of the device, however this will create a time stamp for the duration the device was installed at the initial location.
I suggest that you view the change documents to determine what steps the user took and the data they entered. Use transaction code IQ03 to view the device. Then click on the "Dev. Changes" button. It will show the user ID, transaction code, transaction date and time and the changed data.
You should be able to use this data to reverse the steps the user took.