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Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of a Web-based or print-delivered tailored intervention to promote physical activity among adults aged over fifty: an economic evaluation of the Active Plus intervention
R.H.J. Golsteijn*, D.A. Peels, S.M.A.A. Evers, C. Bolman, A.N. Mudde, H. de Vries, L. Lechner
CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care
Background: The adverse health effects of insufficient physical activity (PA) result in high costs to society. The economic burden of insufficient PA, which increases in our aging population, stresses the urgency for cost-effective interventions to promote PA among older adults. The current study provides insight in the cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of different versions of a tailored PA intervention (Active Plus) among adults aged over fifty.
Methods: The intervention conditions (i.e. print-delivered basic (PB; N = 439), print-delivered environmental (PE; N = 435), Web-based basic (WB; N = 423), Web-based environmental (WE; N = 432)) and a waiting-list control group were studied in a clustered randomized controlled trial. Intervention costs were registered during the trial. Health care costs, participant costs and productivity losses were identified and compared with the intervention effects on PA (in MET-hours per week) and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) 12 months after the start of the intervention. Cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) and cost-utility ratios (ICURs) were calculated per intervention condition. Non-parametric bootstrapping techniques and sensitivity analyses were performed to account for uncertainty.
Results: As a whole (i.e. the four intervention conditions together) the Active Plus intervention was found to be cost-effective. The PB-intervention (ICER = (sic)-55/MET-hour), PE-intervention (ICER = (sic)-94/MET-hour) and the WE-intervention (ICER = (sic)-139/MET-hour) all resulted in higher effects on PA and lower societal costs than the control group. With regard to QALYs, the PB-intervention (ICUR = (sic) 38,120/QALY), the PE-intervention (ICUR = (sic)405,892/QALY) and the WE-intervention (ICUR = (sic)-47,293/QALY) were found to be cost-effective when considering a willingness-to-pay threshold of (sic)20,000/QALY. In most cases PE had the highest probability to be cost-effective.
Conclusions: The Active Plus intervention was found to be a cost-effective manner to increase PA in a population aged over fifty when compared to no-intervention. The tailored Active Plus intervention delivered through printed material and with additional environmental information (PE) turned out to be the most cost-effective intervention condition as confirmed by the different sensitivity analyses. By increasing PA at relatively low costs, the Active Plus intervention can contribute to a better public health.
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
Published - 28 Sep 2014
Tailored intervention
Cost-utility
QUALITY-OF-LIFE
RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED-TRIAL
LONG-TERM EFFICACY
OLDER-ADULTS
HEALTH-CARE
SHORT QUESTIONNAIRE
SEDENTARY ADULTS
Golsteijn, R. H. J., Peels, D. A., Evers, S. M. A. A., Bolman, C., Mudde, A. N., de Vries, H., & Lechner, L. (2014). Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of a Web-based or print-delivered tailored intervention to promote physical activity among adults aged over fifty: an economic evaluation of the Active Plus intervention. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 11, [122]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12966-014-0122-z
Golsteijn, R.H.J. ; Peels, D.A. ; Evers, S.M.A.A. ; Bolman, C. ; Mudde, A.N. ; de Vries, H. ; Lechner, L. / Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of a Web-based or print-delivered tailored intervention to promote physical activity among adults aged over fifty: an economic evaluation of the Active Plus intervention. In: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 2014 ; Vol. 11.
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Marky Ramone Talks Phil Spector and His First Book: "He Never Pointed a Gun at Us"
David Minsky
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David Minsky | April 7, 2015 | 9:00am
Marky Ramone (born Marc Steven Bell) is best-known as the second drummer for the seminal punk rock band the Ramones. Before he was a Ramone, he drummed for several other groups, including hard rockers Dust and protopunks Wayne County and the Backstreet Boys.
During the 15 years Bell spent with the Ramones, he played thousands of shows and recorded one of the foursome's most widely played songs, "I Wanna Be Sedated." One year after joining Joey, Dee Dee, and Johnny, he took part in the recording of their experimental album End of the Century with legendary producer Phil Spector. The year was 1979.
At one point during the studio sessions, bassist Dee Dee Ramone alleged that Spector held the Ramones at gunpoint as he ordered the band to continue recording. Bell disputes Dee Dee's account in his new book, Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone.
Released in January, Bell writes in an unabashed way about his tenure with one of rock 'n' roll's most influential bands and how it came to be. Here's what Marky Ramone has to say about why high school sucked, the infamous Phil Spector gun incident, and his new book.
New Times: The book starts off unassumingly, with your life and your progress into the rock 'n' roll lifestyle. Then things start to pick up and get crazy.
Bell: That was the whole intent, yeah.
Is this your fist book?
Yeah, that's the first book. After 15 years in the Ramones and 1,700 shows, I figured, have a Ramone write a book. And it's a long time to be involved with them, and that was the result.
You write about a former teacher who asked you to do a benefit concert after you became famous with Dust. But you refuse his offer rather swiftly. If he asked that question today, would you reconsider?
You know, at that age, in high school, you're a pretty impressionable teenager in life, and when teachers start smacking you and slapping and kicking you around, and being condescending towards you — I remember that. And it really affected me. So yeah, I definitely wouldn't go back on my word, because you can't just say you're sorry and think everything's going to work out, you know? But nah, I wouldn't do it today, because of the abuse. But teachers are different today; they're much better, and they're more concerned with each individual. And they bring out their own individual skills more than they did back then. And things are a lot more relaxed now, because of certain codes. Kids can wear what they want. They didn't have to look like miniatures of their parents. So back then it was different, you know?
Do you have bad feelings against your teachers in high school?
The way they treated me, I don't think about it, but I wrote about it in the book. I didn't like the fact that I was manhandled and slapped and pushed around. I think you don't do that to a 15-year-old kid, you know? There's other ways of getting the message across besides being physical.
Was that a common thing back then?
Yeah, that's how it was. When I went to high school, I probably wasn't the only one. There are probably other students that were abused too. Did I make a big deal about it? I only talked to my father. But these days, if that happened, that would totally be a different story.
Do you think you would have pursued a different path in high school?
I didn't even go. I only went to summer school because I got so upset at being singled out and abused. So I graduated high school in six months.
What was it like working for Phil Spector?
Oh, he never pointed a gun at us in the studio. I wanted to quell those rumors in the other books I read. There was only the four Ramones, Phil, and his engineer. He had a license to carry, and so did his bodyguard, but he never pointed a gun at anyone in his studio. I guess when he took the guns off and put them on the side of the console, it might have intimidated the other two Ramones. But me and Joey, we got along very well with him.
The guns didn't scare you at all?
Nah, nah, nah, I saw a lot of that in Brooklyn where I grew up. So I knew he wasn't going to point the gun at anybody.
Did he turn out to be as crazy as some people think?
Well, not at that point. Later on in life, probably. I knew him until he went to jail. We remained friends. But as time went on, he did get a little more maniacal. But in the studio, he just did his job. It was an honor to work with a guy like that who had such a great reputation as a producer. Sure, he had different situations with different artists. He did pull out guns on different people, but not at us. We were all different personalities; we were all crazy in a sense. So it really was like a loony bin, but we did our job, we did it well, and that was the result: End of the Century.
Were you pleased with how the album came out?
Well, yeah. It was a Phil Spector production, and it was a little unusual when we first heard it, because of all the strings and brass and pianos and organs and percussion. But that's what you have to expect from the Phil Spector-produced album. A lot of punk purists at the time, they didn't like it. But when I see the same friends and fans when I tour the world, they like it now more than ever, because they understand it more.
Do you think the production, in a way, elevated the band's fame or boosted record sales?
It was the largest-selling album at the time. We already did the three-chord album and then he did the change, which was done on Road to Ruin with "I Wanna Be Sedated" on it. But End of Century was really like an experiment.
Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone is on stands now and available in hardcover and ebook. Copies can be purchased via Simon and Schuster, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple's iBook store.
David Minsky is a U.S. Navy veteran and Tulane graduate who has experience reporting on stories from California, South Florida, and the Deep South. He has also won some journalism awards. Email or tweet David with story tips and ideas.
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Today I handed in the keys to my appartment in Rotterdam!
On inspection, everything was found to be ok, and I was even able to sell my carpets for a couple hundred euros.
As you may have known, read, heard or guessed, Irene and I have got married on May 20.
The photo shoot in the morning was a great deal of fun. And yesterday evening, only 3 weeks later, we got the photo album from the photographer. He did a great job! Another big "thank you" to Fotostudio Aster Oostkapelle.
The wedding ceremony was in Veere, Zeeland. A picturesque little town, with a beautiful old city hall. The old windmill and the harbour and lake side were very nice for the photo shoot.
The reception, dinner and party were in Rotterdam in the Zuiderparkrestaurant Meerzicht. A very good restaurant at a great location. Again a big "thank you" to them!
All in all it was just a perfect day! We are so happy that so many people came to celebrate our wedding together with us, and that so many of them spent enormous amounts of time to make this day to what it was.
Yikes! What a huge ship that is!
If you have the opportunity, you should really go and see it, at the Wilhelminapier in Rotterdam. But you have to be quick, it is leaving for its home port Southampton this afternoon.
Check out the home page of the QM2 and the information about the current voyage "Northern Europe & Fjords".
My girlfriend and I went to the World Port Days on Saturday.
There were lots of things to see and do in and around Rotterdam, such as demonstrations of the navy, port authority and fire department, and excursions to the "Van Brienenoord" bridge, the ECT container terminal, and a cruise ferry. Or you could make a helicopter flight to see the port from the sky, or a boat trip to see it from the water.
We visited a British aircraft carrier and were allowed to handle weapons (machine guns, cannons, a rocket launcher!) and take a look inside the helicopters on board. Very spectacular!
In other news today, I had some bad luck with my motorbike.
Because last Thursday was Ascension Day, I also took the day off on Friday, and therefore had a nice long weekend to enjoy the beautiful weather.


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Achieving ISO 9001 certification requires a great deal of change within your organisation, from day to day improvements all the way to effective quality management systems that are designed to ensure that quality goals are met across the board.
What you may not realise however is that the move towards obtaining this certification also offers a chance to grow leaders within your organisation, providing teams with improved ways of getting things done to align each strategy with your quality goals. Much like sports teams, military units and any other high powered team, when people in the workplace are empowered and are able to trust their leaders to command, the real value of teamwork becomes apparent.
Making a living and achieving career growth is important, but contributing towards the growth of the company is equally important to each employee – especially those who show the potential to lead.
Enable a simpler way to collaborate on projects with tools such as document control. A team approach to creating, editing and reviewing documentation helps to improve quality on all documents while also giving each team member a better sense of responsibility. Visibility and accountability are also improved with a clear, easy to use document system.
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Belleville Baby
Mia Engberg
An unexpected phone call from a former lover becomes the starting point for a tale of love, nostalgia and bygone days. After a long time without any contact, the Swedish film director Mia Engberg receives a phone call from her former lover Vincent. After eight years in prison, Vincent needs Mia's help to reconstruct their shared past to find out who he is after so many years behind bars. Their telephone conversation reminds Mia of her rebellious youth in Paris, her affair with the criminal Vincent and their first encounter in the catacombs. The phone call, together with Mia's reflections, creates the framework of the film, complemented by evocative private recordings and photos of Paris and Sweden, where the past and the present merge together.
Story AB, Kocksgatan 31, 116 33 Stockholm, Sweden, www.story.se, tobias@story.se, +46 8 15 62 80
Story Sales, Malin Hüber, malin@story.se
2014 – Guldbagge for Best Documentary at the Guldbagge Awards; 2013 – Special Mention for Nordic Documentary at Göteborg Film Festival
Mia Engberg is a director and producer based in Stockholm. She has made several short films and documentary films, and is one of the filmmakers behind the production company Story. Her recent project Dirty Diaries, 12 shorts of feminist porn, received widespread attention both in Sweden and abroad.
Selected: Les enfants du square (1994), The Stars We Are (1997), Manhood (1999), Bitch & Butch (2002), Dirty Diaries (2009)
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Concerning Violence
Sweden, USA, Denmark, Finland
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Poetically Speaking with Me (Miss Print) about Undercover (A CLW Review)
Posted on April 8, 2015 by missprint
For today's Poetically Speaking post I'm taking over to review Undercover by Beth Kephart. Click the icon above to see the rest of this month-long series!
"What I knew wasn't mine. That's the thing about being undercover: You know what you know, and you cannot act on it."
Elisa Cantor is used to blending into the background. At home she is always in the shadow of her glamorous mother and sister, watching and wandering like her father. At school she is self-conscious and keen to stay invisible.
After all, it's so much easier to observe things when no one is looking at you. In the woods Elisa is able to observe nature, like her father, as an undercover operative. At school, she can use everything she sees and finds to secretly write love notes for the boys in her school like a modern day Cyrano De Bergerac.
Elisa thinks she is fine with all of that; with being undercover. But when Theo Moses starts asking for notes to win over Lila–a pretty, popular girl who is always ready to remind Elisa that she is neither–Elisa isn't sure she wants to stay in the shadows anymore.
As she hones her voice writing poems for herself–not pretending to be anyone else–and learns more about Theo, Elisa begins to wonder if there could be more to her life. With her father away on an extended trip and her family crumbling under the weight of his absence, Elisa really needs for there to be something more. When Elisa discovers a hidden pond and a talent for ice skating, she realizes it might be time for her to stop hiding in Undercover (2007) by Beth Kephart.
Undercover is a marvelous novel, partly a retelling of the play Cyrano De Bergerac and partly something entirely unique.
Elisa is a narrator who sees the world not just as it is but also through her own lens, always with a sense of whimsy and wonder. Readers are easily drawn into Elisa's appreciation for poetry when she discovers new writers and forms and begins to write poems of her own (included throughout the narrative and also in bonus material at the end of the paperback edition).
Kephart uses poetry and prose to tell a layered story about love in all of its forms whether for family, friends, nature or even for words. Elisa's journey as she learns to love and respect herself is also beautifully told. Undercover is a slim book that has a lot to say about honesty, family and learning who you want to be. Highly recommended.
Possible Pairings: Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo, Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley, Take a Bow by Elizabeth Eulberg, The Midnight Dress by Karen Foxlee, To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han, Life by Committee by Corey Ann Haydu, And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart, Drawing the Ocean by Carolyn MacCullough, I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson, The Summer of Chasing Mermaids by Sarah Ockler, Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales, A Map of the Known World by Lisa Ann Sandell, The Unwritten Rule by Elizabeth Scott, This is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith, Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld
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Sydney on April 8, 2015 at 8:43 pm said:
I've always wanted to pay more attention to poetry than I do. I think it's a gorgeous way of writing, especially if it's done well, and I'm always envious of people who can write really gorgeous poetry. I'm especially jealous of writers who can weave it into their stories and make it a part of a character or form of writing. It's definitely a great skill!
(Also, I adored This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales so I liked seeing it on your pairings list!)


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Piqued by estimated N295 billion losses suffered by investors in the last seven months, stakeholders have warned political parties and their representatives to desist from actions that portend further risks or trigger more panic in the market.
Indeed, the stakeholders attributed the current depression in the market to unfolding events in the political space, which has continued to fuel uncertainty and shadow on the overall mood of the equities market.
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The Chief Research Officer of Investdata Consulting, Ambrose Omodion, said political risk and uncertainties ahead of the 2019 general elections are major factors that continue to depress and escalate foreign capital flight.
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He pointed out that the implementation of the new structure of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) in recent times has so far, not brought the expected impact from market makers, in terms of liquidity, to support relative stability, as it remains on the downtrend.
The analyst suggested that investors should also change their investment strategies in favour of medium to long-term horizon and position for higher returns post-election.
"Investors should review their positions in line with investment goals, strength of the company numbers and act as events unfold in the global and domestic environment," he said.
The former Secretary General of Independent Shareholders Association, Adebayo Adeleke, said market performance would continue to be weak, coupled with low liquidity, if politicians fail to realise the effect of unstable environment on the economy.
"We need to play our politics in the way that we will be mindful of what happens to the economy.
We do not need to do things that will have adverse effect on the economy because if it does, it becomes a problem even for those that will take over power.
"During electioneering in America, you find out that the economy remains strong and stable.
Our people need to play the game equally like that by ensuring that they put the economy first.
"What we are seeing is a very cautious approach to the market.
An independent investor, Amaechi Egbo, explained that the local bourse do not have the capacity to absorb external shock or mop up shares when there is sudden dumping by foreign investors to sustain price rally.
Therefore, he suggested that the regulators should work on how to boost the participation of local investors that would not easily sell-off when there is panic in the market.


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Q: Refreshing table data using Ajax not working in django Trying to build a web application for the first time using Django. The table UI from the below script is rendering the data for the first time. But the Ajax call doesn't seem to call the get_more_tables in views.py and refresh the table data.
I have already looked at but didn't help my case Reload table data in Django without refreshing the page
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A: The link you provided was from my old answer! What a small world.
In any case, your issue is on this line:
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The single quotes cancel each other out - you should make it look like this:
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EDIT
Also, it looks like you are missing an opening  tag after your jQuery import:

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9:04pm, 27 November 2021
Sad scenes as Bastareaud left screaming in agony on pitch
French great Matthieu Bastareaud was left rolling around on the ground in agony after suffering a brutal injury in the Top 14.
Playing against his former side Toulon, Bastaureaud appeared to slip on the way into contact.
The converted No.8's knee just seemed to buckle underneath, in what could well be an ACL injury. If it is, it could potentially threaten the French man's career, given he's already 33.
It rounded off a pretty poor day in rugby union. Due to six confirmed Covid-19 cases in the Barbarian's men's team (four players and two members of staff), the Professional Game Testing Oversight Group advised that the fixture scheduled to be played against Samoa was unable to proceed.
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It's now the second Barbarians game in a row that has been cancelled at the last moment, which will make it harder to promote the fixture next season.
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Everyday justice
Law School professor Tracey Meares is helping police to build trust with civilians.
By Cathy Shufro | Jan/Feb 2018
Cathy Shufro, a fellow of the International Reporting Project, teaches writing at Yale.
Professor Tracey Meares has sandwiched this trip to Chicago between two teaching days at the Yale Law School, timing it for when her kids are out of the house. On this cool Thursday morning in May 2017, she's back in her favorite city, where she lived for almost 20 years. She's come to Chicago State University to help train investigators for the city's new Civilian Office of Police Accountability. At Yale, she teaches students in their 20s, in a wood-paneled room hung with portraits in oil, but here in this windowless, fluorescent-lit room, her students are three dozen former prosecutors, defense attorneys, and ex-cops. They will soon begin investigating complaints against Chicago's often reviled police.
Meares, 50, paces as she speaks, pausing now and then to scrawl on a whiteboard. She begins by telling the group that she rejects the conventional idea that, above all, police should be crime fighters. Police should be guardians, she says, not warriors who alienate the people they have sworn to protect. Moreover, "Aggressive policing is not very powerful at all," says Meares. "It is expensive, and it frequently backfires."
Meares's visit today is part of a larger undertaking. For 20 years, she has been combining legal scholarship with social science research to study policing. She represents a growing cadre of police chiefs, mayors, and criminal justice scholars who advocate "procedural justice," an approach to policing that fosters mutual respect between police and civilians. Meares didn't originate procedural justice, but, along with Tom R. Tyler, Yale's Macklin Fleming Professor of Law, she has verified, explained, and championed its principles nationwide.
Meares argues that our democratic system will work better if people can view representatives of the state, including police, as allies. "When people trust the institutions they have a right to rely on, it's more democratic, it's more fair. It's really a fundamental component of citizenship."
She has shared these ideas with the police themselves, both by visiting police departments and by teaching other trainers. "Tracey Meares has been on the leading edge of translating the principles of justice and legitimacy," says former New Orleans and Nashville police chief Ronal Serpas. She's also made her case in high places. When President Barack Obama created his Task Force on 21st Century Policing in 2014, he named Meares as one of 11 members.
Meares often points out that even though crime in the United States has fallen dramatically during the past three decades, only 36 percent of Americans have "a lot of confidence" in their local police. Among African Americans, the rate is 14 percent. Twenty-first-century police are in trouble.
If Tracey Meares hadn't been "a lazy student" during college, she probably wouldn't be a lawyer today. She grew up in Illinois, first in the college town of Champaign ("in the heart of corn country") and then in Springfield. After high school, she returned to Champaign to study structural engineering at the University of Illinois.
"I was a kid who was able to get really good grades by doing very little," says Meares. As a college junior, she thought medical school might be fun. The admissions test looked easy. But her adviser warned that he wouldn't sign her application unless she took biology senior year. "That seemed like more work than I wanted to do at the time," she recalls. "I said, 'OK, I guess I'll be going to law school.'"
She'd been in second grade when she first faced racism. She and other girls in her class, all of the others white, had walked from school to a classmate's house for their first-ever Brownie meeting. The classmate's mother told Tracey the troop was full; Tracey should phone home and wait for her mother on the front steps. "I didn't understand what was going on at all," Meares says. "Why couldn't I go to the Brownie meeting with all of my friends?" Her mother, a high school history teacher, "was furious." When another mother started a Brownie troop, all the girls transferred except the one whose mother had left Meares on the steps.
Meares's grandmother had been active in the civil rights struggle. Velma Carey helped organize a lawsuit to desegregate the Springfield public schools, and she was a plaintiff in a suit to reform a discriminatory voting system in the city. She was the first African American sales clerk at Myers Brothers department store. This was a big deal, says Meares, because her grandmother worked in cosmetics: "She was touching the skin of white women."
Meares doesn't see family history as the only reason she entered law school. "I'm a faithful person," she says. "God had a plan for me."
She graduated cum laude from law school in 1991. She clerked for federal appeals court judge Harlington Wood Jr. for a year, then worked for the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department. She returned to the University of Chicago Law School to teach in 1993, and in 1999 she became the first African American woman in its 97-year history to earn tenure. When she joined Yale Law School as the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law in 2007, she was the first African American woman with tenure in its 173 years.
Once at Yale, Meares joined with Tyler to establish The Justice Collaboratory to "rethink and reform" the criminal justice system. The Collaboratory comprises 21 researchers in multiple disciplines who study people's day-to-day experiences of the system. They have examined, for example, how prosecutors manage plea bargains; how corrections officers interact with inmates; and how police behave when assigned to schools. Their aim is to develop a fairer criminal justice system by connecting theory with on-the-street research.
Meares's interest in social science research was sparked by a conversation with Harvard professor Randall Kennedy in the mid-1990s. Meares and Kennedy were discussing a new law requiring sentences for crack cocaine possession to be 100 times longer than sentences for powdered cocaine. The longer prison terms mostly affected black people, but Kennedy noted that African American politicians supported them. He also claimed that the larger African American community did, too. Meares remembers what she said next: "'How do you know? Did you ask anybody other than your grandmother?' And he looks at me and he's, 'No, I don't know; why don't you figure it out?'" She took his advice and studied statistics and regression analysis at the University of Michigan. (She couldn't prove or disprove Kennedy's contention. "It's complicated," she says.) Many legal scholars invoke social science research to support their arguments, but Meares says she's different: "I don't just cite social science; I do it."
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The statistics are from a survey of US adults conducted in 2016 by the Pew Research Center. (Whites and blacks include only non-Hispanics; the "no answer" category is not shown.) View full image
In a roundabout way, it was the 2014 police shooting of Laquan McDonald that brought Meares to Chicago to train the new Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA). On the night McDonald died, a caller had alerted Chicago police that someone was breaking into vehicles in a South Side trucking yard. Police cars began following McDonald. A police dashboard camera recorded what happened next: an African American teenager walks away, his back to the camera, seemingly ignoring the police. He holds a small knife in his right hand. As he passes patrol cars to his left, he suddenly spins and falls. His body jerks again and again as bullets hit him, 16 in all.
City officials called the shooting of the 17-year-old a "tipping point." McDonald's death caused widespread protests, and outrage flared again 13 months later when a court forced police to release the video. On that day, Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with murder.
And so the COPA trainees will serve a city where many citizens fear and distrust the police. The city's own 2016 study acknowledged the "deaths of numerous men and women of color whose lives came to an end solely because of an encounter with CPD"—the Chicago Police Department. It concluded, "The community's lack of trust in CPD is justified."
Meares is all about trust. Collaborating with expert police trainers, she and Tyler have written an eight-hour procedural justice curriculum that was adopted by the Obama Department of Justice and has been taught to cops in cities from Minneapolis to Pittsburgh to Mexico City. She's teaching a shorter version in Chicago. The 37 trainees listen intently as Meares explains that civilians are far more likely to cooperate with police and others with power if they see them as legitimate—that is, entitled to exercise authority. To maintain legitimacy, police themselves must act lawfully. But that's not all. Research shows that people care less about police lawfulness than about how the officer treats them. They care more about how they're treated than about the outcome of a police encounter, such as whether they get a ticket.
Meares and Tyler have studied years' worth of social science research, and they've concluded that civilians who interact with police and other authorities want four things. These four elements constitute procedural justice. First, people want "voice"—the chance to tell their side of the story. Second, they want fair decision-making, in which decisions are based on facts and are consistent and neutral, and they want police to explain how they reached those decisions. Third, people want police to treat them politely, with dignity, and with respect for their legal rights. Finally, they want benevolence, to be treated as if they count. They want to feel confident that police are motivated by good intentions.
"There is a long research tradition with literally hundreds of studies showing that these matter to people" and lead them to view police as legitimate, Meares says. She's made her own contributions to this research. For instance, along with Tyler and Jacob Gardener '11JD, she showed real-life videos of police encounters with civilians to 1,361 study participants from 15 cities. The results confirmed that people cared more about whether the police seemed fair than whether they appeared to follow the law.
Meares has also analyzed police practices that alienate civilians. In her 2014 article "The Law and Social Science of Stop and Frisk," she examined numerous studies of the massive escalation of police stops that many departments initiated roughly 20 years ago. A Supreme Court decision had given police license to stop and frisk anyone if they had "a reasonable suspicion" that the person was armed and was breaking the law. In New York City, with its population of more than 8 million, police stopped 4.4 million people between January 2004 and June 2012. Most were people of color. In 2006 alone, police stopped 77 out of every 100 black male New Yorkers ages 15 to 19. Yet for every 1,000 people frisked, police discovered only 1.5 serious crimes (those resulting in prison terms of at least a year). When a federal judge halted New York's stop-and-frisk campaign in 2013, she likened it to "burning down a house to rid it of mice."
In another article, Meares and coauthor Benjamin Justice write that stop-and-frisk, and other police practices, send "certain citizens clear signals that they are members of a special, dangerous, and undesirable class, even when police claim only to be doing their jobs—fighting crime on behalf of impoverished and disproportionately minority communities."
Meares has had her own experience with the difference procedural justice makes. She tells the COPA group about an encounter with a cop a decade ago, when she was still teaching in Chicago. She was driving her three children in the family's Honda Odyssey when a police officer pulled her over. At that moment, Meares said, "I totally knew I had rolled through the stop sign." Moments before, her one-year-old had begun to scream, and Meares had managed to pass him a bag of Goldfish crackers. The baby had "very inconveniently" calmed down by the time the officer arrived at the driver's-side window. Meares says she felt compelled to explain why she'd been distracted. "I really needed to tell my side of the story," she says. Whether she got a ticket or not, she didn't want the cop to view her as a heedless driver. (She didn't get a ticket.)
When citizens feel confident that police will treat them justly, Meares says, the benefits pervade community life: "They are more likely to spend money in their communities, to vote, to be civically engaged. This is very, very powerful."
Tracey Meares's schedule is so complicated that her administrative assistant, Patty Milardo, needs the skills of an air traffic controller. This fall Meares taught criminal procedure; gave talks in Philadelphia, Washington, Edinburgh, and Oslo; wrote journal articles; organized a conference, "Moving Justice Forward"; worked on a new book with Tyler and on a new edition of a textbook; and teamed up with two colleagues and her younger daughter for the Law School's "Iron Chef" competition. Their egg- yolk raviolo won best entrée.
Meares is always immersed in research, too. A current project allows people in low-income neighborhoods of five US cities to talk to each other, live, via huge video screens. After 1,000 interviews, Meares and Johns Hopkins professor Vesla Weaver will analyze the discussions of the question "How do you feel about police in your community?"
To cope with all this work, Meares has set policies. She shops for clothes once a year, right after the July board meeting of Chicago's Joyce Foundation; the meeting coincides with a big sale at Nordstrom's. The nanny buys groceries, and a housekeeper cleans. "I don't do anything myself that will take time away from my kids if I can pay somebody else to do it," Meares says.
Her five children—three from her previous marriage and two from her partner's—range from a sixth-grader to a college junior. Her partner is Benjamin Justice '93, a historian at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Education and an affiliate of the Justice Collaboratory. The two aren't married, but after three years together, they hosted "a nonsectarian, non–legally binding—but still kind of romantic—celebration of our preexisting quasi-marital relationship." (Now it's been seven years.)
The children stay with their other parents from Wednesday through Friday and on alternate weekends. That's when Meares concentrates her work and traveling. When Obama White House counsel Neil Eggleston asked her to join the president's policing task force, Meares told him she'd serve only if meetings were scheduled for days when the children were away. Eggleston consented. Meares recalls: "He said, 'It's not going to take much time.'" He was wrong, she says.
Does she have any hobbies? "Hobbies?" she asks. "That's hilarious." But she does keep a greenhouse, and she likes to cook.
On an afternoon in March, Meares met with four dozen teenagers and 35 police recruits at an indoor basketball court in New Haven. The students were participating in a leadership program called LEAP, and the police came from the New Haven Police Academy. The two groups would meet together for six months, closing the program by serving meals together at a soup kitchen.
Meares outlined the basics of procedural justice, and then she asked the students how they viewed police. One teenager replied, "You're taught as a kid not to interact with police." Another said that when police show up, "Someone is going to get arrested, or beat down, or killed. That strikes fear into our hearts."
Meares says reconciliation could begin before a cop says a single word if police dispensed with "command presence"—the rigid shoulders, oblique stance, and tense jaw that neither invite conversation nor suggest mutuality. One recruit challenged Meares: "If I show a little of my personality or kindness, am I going to sacrifice my safety?" and she added, "I apologize, because this is the way we were trained."
"It's the way you were trained," Meares replied, "but it's not the best way. That's not opinion. It's research."
Meares pointed out to the teenagers that sometimes police chiefs order officers to carry out policies they oppose. "I've talked to cop after cop, and they all said, 'We didn't want to do that. We thought it was bad for the community.'" To the police-in-training, Meares suggested not only practicing procedural justice, but also demanding it from their superiors. "As officers, you should be treated justly, too. Your family needs you to be whole when you go home. Your community needs you to be whole. We all need you to be whole."
Meares pointed out that both policing and living in poverty exact a cost. "You have two groups of people who are experiencing trauma in an interaction. That's not good," said Meares. "Hurt people hurt people."
Statistics from a 2016 survey of US adults by the Pew Research Center. View full image
Police in the United States kill 1,000 civilians every year. (Roughly 50 on-duty police officers die in violent encounters.) Meares believes that any death caused by police demands far more than expressing sorrow and promising to check whether police broke a law. She wants communities to respond to each death caused by police in a way similar to the way the FAA investigates a plane crash, scrutinizing every error, every policy, every factor that might have contributed.
There's more: Meares argues that "A commitment to preserving life . . . will necessarily rewrite the aims of policing." That will require civilians and police to confront a question that Meares asks often: "What are police for?" The answer, she says, will vary from place to place; police serve in 16,000 independent departments, and each community will need to decide what it wants from local police. Citizens and police will "co-produce" public safety.
Police would benefit from such collaborations, says former police chief Ronald L. Davis, who headed the community policing office in Obama's Department of Justice. "We've asked them [police] to define their job for themselves," he says. Meanwhile, that job becomes increasingly complex. "The new generation of officers now have to be analytical, they have to be community-engaged, they have to understand mental illness, they have to understand the teen brain, they have to understand the difference between addiction and crime. They have to carry Narcan [to treat opioid overdoses] and refer people to substance-abuse treatment."
It's unrealistic to ask police to do all this and also cultivate relationships with civilians, says Jim Pasco. Pasco serves as senior adviser to the head of the Fraternal Order of Police, the nation's largest police union. Pasco says he values community policing, but he adds, "Police [departments] are so short-staffed and so underequipped that they find themselves running from call to call, and virtually everyone they meet is a stranger." We can't expect a "happy outcome," he adds, "if we just send police officers into this toxic stew that exists in many cities in the United States, where citizens are prisoners through no fault of their own, caught in this cycle of hopelessness caused by poverty, failure of the health system, lack of educational opportunities, and lack of a mental-health safety net—all the direct responsibility of the elected officials who have failed these people for generations."
Meares agrees that improving police-community relationships is part of a bigger project. "Reducing crime is not just about these individual-level interactions between police and people. It's about making sure that the institutions of city government serve the public."
Will the changes that Meares advocates take hold? Some in police leadership believe they will. Although President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are pushing for a renewed "tough on crime" approach, Davis doubts they'll get traction. "I'm hearing police chiefs say, 'No thank you.' Once the field has seen the value" of reform, he says, no administration can stop it. "They may take a handful of people with them, but the rest of us are going forward into the twenty-first century." Former New Orleans police chief Serpas says that "Very few, if any, experienced and forward-looking police chiefs see any value in returning to the practices and strategies of crime fighting from the mid-1990s to today. 'Tough on crime' policies do not work."
Meares has no doubts. "Research shows that cops become cops because they want to help people. They're pretty idealistic people," she says. "I'm totally optimistic about police reform."
Dionne Hardiman, 5:18pm January 07 2018 | Flag as inappropriate
I am degreed and wonder if ypu would use my profile as a case study. I have had an interesting life
I am a degreed woman of color who has been victimized and the police did not act. I have been molested raped domestically ase studybused and these individuals broke in repeatedly. I have been hurt by different ethic peoples including black. Please use my situation as a case study.
Chris Keevil, 5:02pm March 19 2018 | Flag as inappropriate
That's a really nice article. I like the clarity with which you lay out a new approach to policing, and the details of about Tracey Meares and her life. She sounds like a really interesting person. It's also a hopeful article -- nice to hear that people are working on how to make policing better.
Booker Vance, 10:51pm June 23 2019 | Flag as inappropriate
Praying fr my sister. Wonderful gifted talent.
For a look at how ideas of procedural justice are having an impact on Yale's own police force, see "Policing: the view from campus," also from our January/February issue.


Time to hack some bad guys again.
Ubisoft has revealed a trailer for the second expansion for Watch Dogs 2, which will be available February 21 for all those on PS4 who purchased a season pass. Unfortunately, Xbox One and PC players will have to wait until March 23.
The meat of this DLC comes from three all new story missions called Bad Medicine, Automata, and Caustic Progress.
In Bad Medicine, we have Marcus investigating multiple hospitals under attack from randsomware. This mission is very topical as multiple hospitals in 2016 were plagued by this type of cyber attack. While Marcus attempts to track down those responsible, he runs into Jordi Chin from the first Watch Dogs game. Jordi Chin, for those who don't know or don't remember, was a hitman and known associate of original Watch Dogs protagonist Aiden Pierce.
Caustic Progress involves Marcus following information received by Watch Dogs 2 antagonist Lenora Kaster. She informs Marcus of a conspiracy, presumably run by a major corporation or government entity, which involves kidnapping homeless people to use as test subjects for a study involving experimental nanotechnology.
The final mission Automata involves internet company Nudle releasing highly advanced self-driving cars. Not surprisingly, DedSec finds out that each self-driving vehicle possess a direct connection to Blume's database likely for the purpose of obtaining information on the car's owner.
The DLC also provides players with new Elite co-op missions and a new type of enemy known as the Jammer which can prevent Marcus from hacking objects within a certain area.
With over five hours of new content, Watch Dogs 2's Human Conditions DLC will certainly entice quite a few players to return to DedSec.


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expect Hoberman to strike back at his former publication.
his long-time employer was letting him go.
his time at the publication impacted his life.
fortunate to meet -- and I'm not talking about on-screen or in interviews."
Michael Atkinson to Nathan Lee. Hoberman now tops that list.
As for any sour grapes? No thank you.
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international and avant garde cinema, often bringing in a bit of politics.
in 1983. His first review was of David Lynch's "Eraserhead."
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It's Here… DAS BLOG OF SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION!!!
This is the text of a group e-mail sent Thursday morning to my co-workers at the Village Voice.
...And this leaves us with, of all people, Karina Longworth.
The sad thing is that it's not unbelievable.
J. Hoberman, longtime film critic for The Village Voice, has been let go from the paper, where he's been a staff writer since 1983.
The news leaked out in a tweet from the music writer Mike Rubin early this evening: "A CINEMATIC SIN: Further diluting what's left of their 'brand,' Village Voice laid off J. Hoberman today, senior film critic since 1988."
Capital has confirmed Hoberman's exit with a source. Hoberman didn't immediately respond to a request for comment but we'll update here if we hear back from him.
UPDATE: Daily Intel has also confirmed the news, with a comment from Hoberman: "I've seen a lot of people lose their jobs there in the last five years. I would be disingenuous to say I hadn't considered the possibility that this would happen to me eventually. I was shocked, but not surprised."
Tony Ortega, editor of the paper, said he couldn't comment on personnel matters, but, he wrote in an email: "The Voice is committed to providing comprehensive film coverage, and will continue to publish our many fine film writers, both in print and online."
Hoberman is the latest in a string of old-time Voice veterans who have parted ways with the paper in recent years including Tom Robbins, Wayne Barrett, Nat Hentoff (though he's come back as a freelancer), and Ward Harkavy.
The Village Voice has laid off its senior film critic, J. Hoberman, a staple of the American film criticism and a contributor to the publication since 1977. Hoberman served as a staff writer for the publication since 1983 and was appointed its chief film critic in 1988.
New York magazine's Daily Intel blog reported that the critic was let go earlier today. In a brief statement, Hoberman sounded unsurprised. "I've seen a lot of people lose their jobs there over the years," he told reporter Joe Coscarelli, a former Voice employee. "It would be disingenuous to say I hadn't considered the possibility that this would happen eventually." Anne Thompson also posted about Hoberman's departure.
The news brings a shocking climax to a series of layoffs and changes that have plagued the Voice over the last several years, beginning with the 2005 merging of Village Voice Media and the New Times syndicate. From the film section alone, layoffs have included editor Dennis Lim and critics Michael Atkinson and Nathan Lee.
But the departure of Hoberman, whose distinctly intellectual and politically tinged writings on international and experimental cinema became a must-read for cinephiles around the world, signals the end of an era. In 2006, S.T. VanAirsdale reported in The Reeler on the layoffs at the Voice with a reassuring lead: "For everyone fretting about the changes sweeping the vaunted film section of the Village Voice, you can relax: Jim Hoberman is staying," he wrote. "There is that."
No longer. In that piece, VanAirsdale quoted independent film distributors and advertisers who imply they would pull advertisements from the paper if Hoberman were ever let go. It's easy to see why: An endorsement from Hoberman, particularly in the New York area, can speak to a wide variety of dedicated filmgoers who have learned to trust his opinion over a long period of time--in some cases, decades.
Hoberman began writing for former Voice editor Jonas Mekas in the '70s under the pseudonym Clinton Delancey, named after the Lower East Side location of his apartment at that time. His first published review was an essay on Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures," later the subject of a book Hoberman authored in 2001.
In 1977, Hoberman began writing for the paper on a regular basis, beginning with a review of David Lynch's "Eraserhead," which he found superior to a much bigger movie released around the same time. "'Eraserhead' is not a movie I'd drop acid for," he wrote, "although I would consider it a revolutionary act if someone dropped a reel of it into the middle of 'Star Wars.'"
In 2007, the Brooklyn Academy of Music celebrated Hoberman's 30th anniversary as a Voice staffer with a retrospective of films curated by the critic. Over the course of those three decades, Hoberman also published numerous books, including the indispensable "Midnight Movies" with Jonathan Rosenbaum and the acclaimed "The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties." He recently followed up that volume with the Cold War study "An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War," which Sony Pictures Classics co-president Michael Barker recently listed as one of the best movie events of last year.
Indiewire has reached out to Hoberman for comment, but it's clear that he won't be going away. Following the publication of his last book, Hoberman has begun working on another historical tome about American movies, this one focused on the Reagan presidency. He is also planning a collection of previously published work.
Hoberman participated in a recent conversation with Indiewire about "Melancholia" and freelances for numerous publications. Additionally, he frequently teaches film history and criticism at NYU (where I worked for him as a research assistant) and Cooper Union.
In short, the Voice may have lost Hoberman, but the movies haven't lost Hoberman's voice.


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Updated: January 2nd, 2018* by RadarBusters' Staff
In January of 2015, during the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Uniden announced their release of three new Uniden radar detectors, the Uniden LRD450, LRD750, and the LRD-950.
In 2016, Uniden introduced successors to these models--the Uniden DFR6, and GPS-based Uniden DF7.
For 2017, Uniden has redefined what is possible in detection performance with the highest performing detectors ever seen, the Uniden R1 and Uniden R3.
(Updated 01/02/2018)
Uniden's History in the Radar Detector Business
Uniden is the company that pioneered the integration of GPS technology into radar detectors
Uniden's first entry into GPS radar detector integration
Uniden GPS RD, Introduced 2001
In 2001, Uniden released the first detector of its kind, the Uniden GPSRD, a detector that had GPS capability. The product concept was cutting edge. But unlike today, the ability to leverage GPS technology was limited by certain circumstances at the time.
Unlike GPS integration that is common today--including the WAZE smartphone app, TomTom and Garmin navigation systems, and other GPS radar detectors--this early Uniden GPS radar detector did not have an integrated photo enforcement database as it wasn't needed at the time. Photo enforcement didn't make its first appearance in the United States until four years later, in 2005.
The only real benefit of the Uniden GPSRD was that it would provide you with your exact GPS coordinates, as consumer GPS technology and high-end CPU processing capacity was still in its infancy at that time. The GPSRD did not provide the ability to filter out false alerts based upon GPS locations.
It's also important to point out that GPS accuracy had been restricted by the government, until later in the year of 2000. Even so, in terms of GPS integration into a radar detector, the GPSRD was way ahead of its time.
That's not to say that the GPSRD wasn't without fault, however.
One major problem is it leaked RF (radio frequency) like a sieve, causing interference with ground based satellite transmitters and receivers.
It was so bad that in the fall of 2003, Radar Roy got a phone call from an ESPN engineer.
He explained that they were set up at the University of Phoenix sports complex getting ready to uplink Cardinals football game, and he was suspecting that a car was in the parking lot that had a radar detector which was interfering with their uplink and "begged" me to come out with my Spectre RDD to locate the vehicle.
So Roy packed up his SPECTRE, jumped on his Harley and was met by security at the gate and began driving around the parking lot. In about five-minutes he located the car, and hanging on the windshield was a Uniden GPSRD.
Shortly after this the FCC came down with stiff regulations which limited the emissions of radar detectors and soon after Uniden chose to leave the radar detector manufacturing business to focus on other more popular selling items, such as their scanners and CB radios.
Uniden's second entry into GPS radar detector integration
Then a few years later, Uniden decided to get back into the game by announcing the Uniden MapTrax during the 2007 CES show.
Uniden MapTrax, Introduced 2007
While the Uniden MapTrax consisted of two separate units, one for radar and one for GPS/navigation (connected by a cable), several years later, Escort released their own fully integrated one-piece GPS navigation/radar detector with similar features to the Uniden MapTrax. Despite the novelty of the MapTrax, the model was eventually discontinued.
Passport iQ, Introduced 2010
The Escort Passport iQ also proved not to be much of a commercial success, either, and it too was eventually withdrawn from the marketplace.
Looking back at this period, it appears that the consumer marketplace simply rejected products consisting of a primary GPS navigation device with radar detection abilities even if it was built-in to the device as was the case with the iQ. Perhaps that and the fact that the mainstream consumer GPS navigation manufacturers of TomTom and Garmin (with DriveAssist) had already been offering GPS navigation devices which incorporated photo enforcement databases and real-time traffic reporting for little or no additional costs made the utility of an all-in-one device less compelling and overly complicated for the consumer to understand.
Uniden's third entry into GPS radar detector integration
In 2015, Uniden announced that they were going to make their third entry into the radar detector niche by releasing their Uniden LRD-450, LRD-750, LRD-850, and LRD-950 radar detectors. The latter model, the LRD-950 was a radar detector with GPS capabilties built-in.
Unlike the earlier MapTrax and Passport iQ models, both of which were not commercially successful, these newer Unidens were primarily radar detectors first and foremost with GPS capabilities enhancing their detection performance as opposed to a GPS navigation system with radar detection capabilities added on.
This approach clearly proved to be more commercially viable as all of the major radar detector manufacturers today incorporate GPS capabilities in their radar detectors, similarly.
Overview of the Uniden LRD-950 Radar Detector
On Unidens' website, they promoted their LRD-950 as their top of the line "Super Long Range" radar detector with a built in GPS enabling you to "mark geographical points where you commonly encounter radar transmissions".
They also claimed that this detector, along with their LRD450 and LRD750 were undetectable to the Spectre RDD.
They also claim that their built in GPS has red light camera and speed camera alerts.
The retail price for the Uniden LRD950 on the Uniden website is $399.00, about $50 dollars cheaper than the retail price of the Escort 9500ix a popular detector selling at the time.
First Impressions of the Uniden LRD-950 Radar Detector
Roy's first impressions when taking the Uniden LRD-950 out of the box were positive.
It used the same RJ-11 power connection, had an audio jack, a USB port and came packaged in a travel case.
What was different was that the LRD-950 had a larger OLED display which was much easier to read than the smaller 9500ix's blue display.
OLED Display – Pass
The one thing Roy really liked about the Uniden LRD950 was the main OLED display of the detector.
It was very easy to read, even in bright sunlight, it also displayed the time right in the center.
However, one thing he did not like about the display was its five little LED lights under the main OLED display that serve as the signal strength meter.
They are very small and they are very hard to see while driving in bright sunlight.
Voice Alerts - Pass
The Uniden LRD-950 has voice alerts that are easy to hear and understand. It alerts you to the type of speed measurement threat that is being displayed.
Spectre RDD Performance – Fail
Roy first wanted to confirm Uniden's claim that their new radar detectors' were "undetectable" to the Spectre I and 4. He got his two Spectre units from my arsenal of testing equipment.
After powering on the LRD950, Roy allowed it to go through its power on testing feature. The Spectre 1 lit up like a Christmas tree, the exact same thing happened when he tested the LRD950 against his Spectre 4.
However Roy was due for bit of a surprise.
During range testing of the Spectre he was unable to detect the Uniden further away than 25 feet. (It should be noted that Stealth MicroSystems had offered a free update for the Spectre I shortly after its release to the Spectre II. Because of this it is unknown if any Spectre I units are still in use today)
During range testing of the Spectre 4, he received a number of intermittent warnings as far away as 500 feet, but for the most part it was silent at distances further then 30 to 35 feet.
So even though the Uniden fails at being 100% Spectre proof, this is the best detector outside of Escort's M3 series in defeating the Spectre.
Mark Locations – Fail
Roy soon discovered that Uniden's marketing claim that you are able to "mark geographical points where you commonly encounter radar transmissions" may mislead someone to believe that this feature is similar to Escort's auto learn feature, where their detectors are able to lock out known false alert locations, its not!
All it is able to do is mark a location that you may want to be alerted to the next time you're in close proximity.
False Alert Filtering – Pass
Roy was pleasantly surprised of the LRD-950's ability to filter out false alerts from the adaptive cruise control sensors and other devices that cause false alerts.
During the last two weeks driving and testing this detector Roy noticed one disturbing thing. The lag time for the Uniden LRD-950 to alert to a real constant on K and Ka was as long as two to four seconds behind the REDLiNE and the STiR Plus.
Because of this, he felt it may have a negative impact on the detectors ability to detect quick trigger instant on.
Radar Detector Performance Testing – Pass
For our initial review we did a number of instant on and constant on radar detector tests with the Uniden LR-D950 and the results we recorded, documented and published on our YouTube channel.
However several other independent reviewers and enthusiasts have had totally different results than what we encountered and documented during our testing.
So because we only had one Uniden LRD-950 for our initial test, which could had been defective, we have decided to upgrade our score to pass and place it in the same category as our 3-star rated detectors.
Does Uniden Strike Out or Get On Base?
Roy's only major remaining concern with the Uniden LRD-950 is that it was advertised as being stealth to the Spectre, which it wasn't.
However since many respected members of our radar detector community have given the Uniden such high marks and because of its competitive price, Roy decided to "eat a little crow" since his first review and say that they definitely got on base with the Uniden LRD-950 radar detector.


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Over 100 Artists and Small Businesses Forced Out of Gowanus Buildings
by Paddy Johnson on October 2, 2015 · 1 comment Newswire
Photo: Kate Leonova for PropertyShark
Over 100 Gowanus-based artists and small businesses are the latest victims of New York's rampant developer-led gentrification. The newest displacement involves three adjacent buildings at 94 and 98 9th street, and 75 and 75A 10th Street and possibly more. Many artists and businesses have been told they must vacate as early as October 31st.
That's no good for the tenants. "I've only been here for four months." artist Karen Heagle told me, speaking of her studio at 75 10th street. "I have been in the New York for 25 years and that is the fastest I've been removed from a studio." Prior to that Heagle was in Industry City, a studio building she moved into in 2010. But, rents were raised and she said she no longer felt welcomed there. In June she moved to Gowanus.
Heagle, like many I spoke to in the building signed a sublease agreement. "I was under the impression I would be there longer than this." She told me. "There was a presumed longevity to the thing."
That impression was shared by many, and has lead to significant issues. "People invest more than they would otherwise" artist Liz Insogna explained. She too is being forced to vacate the 75 street building. "They make lofts for their paintings. There's also a woodshop on our floor. You can't close a woodshop in a month. For people like us, who aren't in the middle of production, it's disruptive but not devastating—for them, it's scary bad."
The lease situation changed for tenants this spring when 8112–8124 18th Ave Realty Corp, Maserati Realty LLC, and Ribellino Family Limited Partnership, entered into new agreement acting "jointly and severally, as Landlord," and Eli Hamway's CH Gowanus LLC, as tenant. According to Hyperallergic, the lease, effective April 1, 2015 is for approximately 101 years and six months and worth $21.2 million. What's more, there are more buildings in the lease named that have may also be affected. An "entire lot" — at 124 9th Street is listed as a property under the agreement in addition to the other buildings.
Edward Colley, a carpenter, bar owner and now former leaseholder at the 75 10th street building told me he was given no advance warning that the landlord might change. But "nothing [the new management] did was illegal" he told me referring to the new management's decision to evict. 15 years ago, when he first signed the lease, the document contained a clause that said if the building was purchased the new owners could dissolve the pre-existing lease. That's what happened. "I went into negotiations with them and I put up a good fight." he said. "I really wanted to create an environment where people could rent and feel safe and stable." But the landlord had different ideas for the property. "They seem to be planning on gutting the building."
Exactly what's in store for the property is unclear. Eli Hamway could not be reached for comment.
Meanwhile, displaced businesses and artists are focusing on finding new spaces. Andrej Urem, who runs a candle shop called AU Collection in the 75 10th street building told me he'd organized with a group of 35 to 40 people and was able to secure a net lease for $2 per square foot in Sunset Park. "We got a great price," he told me.
But he also noted that not everyone has been so lucky. When I reached out to Abby Subak, the director of Arts Gowanus, she told me that Gowanus Open Studios, which opens two weeks from now, has only one artist registered from 75 10th street, as opposed to the nine that signed up last year. "I also feel like the people who are looking for spaces are not finding comparable spaces in Gowanus." she said. That observation was backed up with my own conversations with artists, none of whom had found new spaces, let alone ones in Gowanus.
Tagged as: Abby Subak, Andrej Urem, Arts Gowanus, AU Collection, Edward Colley, Karen Heagle, Liz Insogna, Maserati Realty LLC, Ribellino Family Limited Partnership
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By default, the group rows in RadGridView display the group value and the added aggregates to the GroupDescriptor. A common scenario is to check/uncheck all rows from a certain group by a check box placed in the group header.
We will create a derivative of GridGroupContentCellElement and insert a RadCheckBoxElement in the cell's children. For the correct layout of the group row element, the text will be visualized in a LightVisualElement next to the check box. Both of the elements will be hosted in StackLayoutElement. When the check box is toggled, all rows that belong to the group should be updated.