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Jogreus, Claes
Blekinge Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
Ström, Kerstin
Comorbidity and Sex-Related Differences in Mortality in Oxygen-Dependent Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease2012In: PLoS ONE, ISSN 1932-6203, E-ISSN 1932-6203, Vol. 7, no 4 Article in journal (Refereed)
Background: It is not known why survival differs between men and women in oxygen-dependent chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The present study evaluates differences in comorbidity between men and women, and tests the hypothesis that comorbidity contributes to sex-related differences in mortality in oxygen-dependent COPD. Methods: National prospective study of patients aged 50 years or older, starting long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) for COPD in Sweden between 1992 and 2008. Comorbidities were obtained from the Swedish Hospital Discharge Register. Sex-related differences in comorbidity were estimated using logistic regression, adjusting for age, smoking status and year of inclusion. The effect of comorbidity on overall mortality and the interaction between comorbidity and sex were evaluated using Cox regression, adjusting for age, sex, Pa-O2 breathing air, FEV1, smoking history and year of inclusion. Results: In total, 8,712 patients (55% women) were included and 6,729 patients died during the study period. No patient was lost to follow-up. Compared with women, men had significantly more arrhythmia, cancer, ischemic heart disease and renal failure, and less hypertension, mental disorders, osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis (P<0.05 for all odds ratios). Comorbidity was an independent predictor of mortality, and the effect was similar for the sexes. Women had lower mortality, which remained unchanged even after adjusting for comorbidity; hazard ratio 0.73 (95% confidence interval, 0.68-0.77; P<0.001). Conclusions: Comorbidity is different in men and women, but does not explain the sex-related difference in mortality in oxygen-dependent COPD.
Moraes, Ana Luiza Dallora
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Health.
Anderberg, Peter
Kvist, Ola
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Mendes, Emilia
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Faculty of Computing, Department of Software Engineering.
Ruiz, Sandra
Sanmartin Berglund, Johan
Bone age assessment with various machine learning techniques: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis2019In: PLoS ONE, ISSN 1932-6203, E-ISSN 1932-6203, Vol. 14, no 7, article id e0220242 Article, review/survey (Refereed)
Background The assessment of bone age and skeletal maturity and its comparison to chronological age is an important task in the medical environment for the diagnosis of pediatric endocrinology, orthodontics and orthopedic disorders, and legal environment in what concerns if an individual is a minor or not when there is a lack of documents. Being a time-consuming activity that can be prone to inter- and intra-rater variability, the use of methods which can automate it, like Machine Learning techniques, is of value. Objective The goal of this paper is to present the state of the art evidence, trends and gaps in the research related to bone age assessment studies that make use of Machine Learning techniques. Method A systematic literature review was carried out, starting with the writing of the protocol, followed by searches on three databases: Pubmed, Scopus and Web of Science to identify the relevant evidence related to bone age assessment using Machine Learning techniques. One round of backward snowballing was performed to find additional studies. A quality assessment was performed on the selected studies to check for bias and low quality studies, which were removed. Data was extracted from the included studies to build summary tables. Lastly, a meta-analysis was performed on the performances of the selected studies. Results 26 studies constituted the final set of included studies. Most of them proposed automatic systems for bone age assessment and investigated methods for bone age assessment based on hand and wrist radiographs. The samples used in the studies were mostly comprehensive or bordered the age of 18, and the data origin was in most of cases from United States and West Europe. Few studies explored ethnic differences. Conclusions There is a clear focus of the research on bone age assessment methods based on radiographs whilst other types of medical imaging without radiation exposure (e.g. magnetic resonance imaging) are not much explored in the literature. Also, socioeconomic and other aspects that could influence in bone age were not addressed in the literature. Finally, studies that make use of more than one region of interest for bone age assessment are scarce. Copyright: © 2019 Dallora et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Faculty of Computing, Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Eivazzadeh, Shahryar
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Faculty of Computing, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Blekinge Institute of Technology, Faculty of Computing, Department of Software Engineering.
Berglund, Johan
Machine learning and microsimulation techniques on the prognosis of dementia: A systematic literature review2017In: PLoS ONE, ISSN 1932-6203, E-ISSN 1932-6203, Vol. 12, no 6, article id e0179804 Article in journal (Refereed)
Background Dementia is a complex disorder characterized by poor outcomes for the patients and high costs of care. After decades of research little is known about its mechanisms. Having prognostic estimates about dementia can help researchers, patients and public entities in dealing with this disorder. Thus, health data, machine learning and microsimulation techniques could be employed in developing prognostic estimates for dementia. Objective The goal of this paper is to present evidence on the state of the art of studies investigating and the prognosis of dementia using machine learning and microsimulation techniques. Method To achieve our goal we carried out a systematic literature review, in which three large databases -Pubmed, Socups and Web of Science were searched to select studies that employed machine learning or microsimulation techniques for the prognosis of dementia. A single backward snowballing was done to identify further studies. A quality checklist was also employed to assess the quality of the evidence presented by the selected studies, and low quality studies were removed. Finally, data from the final set of studies were extracted in summary tables. Results In total 37 papers were included. The data summary results showed that the current research is focused on the investigation of the patients with mild cognitive impairment that will evolve to Alzheimer's disease, using machine learning techniques. Microsimulation studies were concerned with cost estimation and had a populational focus. Neuroimaging was the most commonly used variable. Conclusions Prediction of conversion from MCI to AD is the dominant theme in the selected studies. Most studies used ML techniques on Neuroimaging data. Only a few data sources have been recruited by most studies and the ADNI database is the one most commonly used. Only two studies have investigated the prediction of epidemiological aspects of Dementia using either ML or MS techniques. Finally, care should be taken when interpreting the reported accuracy of ML techniques, given studies' different contexts. © 2017 Dallora et al.This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Q: Python: get() is not working on tkinter python Tkinter Python 3.x
Here is my code
def enter():
    if w.get() == 777:
        messagebox.showinfo("Spinbox","The Spinbox has max number")
    else:
        messagebox.showinfo("Spinbox","Your number " + w.get() + " is not max.")
root = Tk()
w = Button(root, text='Check if max', command=enter)
w.pack()
mainloop()

Output:
Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python\lib\tkinter\__init__.py", line 1705, in __call__
    return self.func(*args)
  File "C:\Users\brand\Desktop\Gobotz\gobotz.systemid.py", line 28, in enter
    if w.get() == 777:
AttributeError: 'Button' object has no attribute 'get'

So please help me on this code.

A: As Swetank pointed out, the get method is intended for a variety of widgets however the Button class is not one of them.
I've included a short working example using the Spinbox widget.
from tkinter import Tk, Button, messagebox, Spinbox

def enter():
    if spin.get() == '777':
        messagebox.showinfo("Spinbox","The Spinbox has max number")
    else:
        messagebox.showinfo("Spinbox","Your number " + spin.get() + " is not max.")
root = Tk()
spin = Spinbox(root, from_=0, to=777)
spin.pack()
w = Button(root, text='Check if max', command=enter)
w.pack()
root.mainloop()

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Fast forward many years, at 16, she joined a band with friends and starting writing songs to play on her violin. She won awards in Junior Miss and started to find success as a solo violist. As she continued to pursue her passion, she was invited on America's Got Talent where she was told by Piers Morgan as "You're not untalented, but you're not good enough to get away with flying through the air and trying to play the violin at the same time." Sharon Osbourne stated "You need to be in a group. ... What you're doing is not enough to fill a theater in Vegas." Stirlings response? "I was devastated at the results ... It was painful, and a bit humiliating; however, I had to relearn where it was that I drew my strength." She was voted off America's Got Talent (AGT).
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How can media projects get past measuring clicks and page views and come up with meaningful metrics that gauge real impact? That will be the focus of the upcoming Collab/Space Austin workshop on April 16, 2015. Co-produced by PBS MediaShift, the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas and the Media Impact Project at the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, it will be an all-day, hands-on workshop focused on media metrics, analytics and measuring impact. The workshop will take place at the Belo Center for New Media at the University of Texas. It will take place the day before the 16th International Symposium on Online Journalism.
We will have 7 startups and innovation projects in the metrics and impact space presenting in lightning fashion, with questions from the audience. Later we'll do collaborative exercises — using improv comedy techniques (facilitated by the fab Andy Boyle) — to learn how to work better together, and break out into groups to help each project get past their challenges. Plus, we'll be collaborating with a diverse group of participants, including entrepreneurs, journalists, technologists, designers, marketers, investors and major players in the media metrics space. See below for more information on our speakers and presenting projects.
This workshop is sold out! But you can still RSVP for the mixer.
Laura Evans is Vice President, Audience Development and Data Science, at Scripps Networks Interactive. In this role, Laura leads audience development, data analysis, data warehouse and DBMS initiatives; development and deployment of analytics across all SNI digital products; digital marketing execution and audience retention strategy through leveraging data and its management. Previously, Laura was head of Dow Jones's Audience Insights & Analytics team, and she was Chief Experience Officer and Vice President of Research at the Washington Post. Follow her on Twitter @evanslaurab.
Lauren Fuhrmann is associate director of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. Fuhrmann joined the Center in 2011, and previously researched audience engagement as a social media intern for Harvest Public Media and spent two years as a multimedia reporter for KBIA 91.3 FM and the Columbia Missourian. Fuhrmann leads WCIJ's public engagement efforts, including events, social media, newsletter and promotional materials; is co-director of the website; tracks the distribution and assesses the impact of WCIJ's news stories. Fuhrmann is vice president of the Madison Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Follow her on Twitter @LaurenFuhrmann.
Andy Boyle is a full-stack web developer for NBC News Digital Group's BreakingNews.com. Previously, he worked at the Boston Globe, St. Petersburg Times and the New York Times Regional Media Group, where his work was cited in the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News. Most recently, Boyle was a news applications developer for the Chicago Tribune, where he built projects for the 2012 and 2014 elections, built tools for user-generated content, created new ways of tracking shootings and crime in the greater Chicagoland area and crafted other data visualizations. He also regularly writes and tells jokes throughout the greater Midwest. Boyle was a runner-up in the Chicago satellite round of the Great American Comedy Festival, and was a featured comedian in the Orlando Indie Comedy Festival. You can follow him on Twitter at @andymboyle.
Read more about the presenting projects here.
The Media Impact Project is a hub for collecting, developing and sharing approaches for measuring the impact of media. Based at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communications & Journalism, the Media Impact Project seeks to better understand the role that media plays in changing knowledge, attitudes and behavior among individuals and communities, large and small, around the world.
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The presenting startups and projects will make brief presentations to the group and answer questions. We will list their 3 biggest challenges, whether that's financial, technological, marketing, distribution or some other major challenge. Later in the day, we'll divide into breakout groups around each project and develop solutions for their challenges. Solutions will be shared with the full group. We'll end the day with a mixer which is open to the community, to encourage further discussion and networking.
Below is a rough overview of the agenda, but you can see the full agenda here.
> Targeted talks on media metrics and measuring impact.
> Selected innovation projects and metrics startups present their work and list their challenges.
> Work collaboratively to help solve challenges for the startups and projects, and present that to the group.
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I get why you love your stats, your graphs, your charts so much. You put your blood, sweat and tears into the research. Or at least into finding other people's charts to paste into your slides. Your data is brilliant. It makes your case. It explains everything you want to say. It might even be kind of pretty. Look at how those data points curve so dramatically upward and then zigzag back down! Fascinating! You have so much information, and it's so interesting, and you want to share it all!
But guess what: Your audience doesn't love your stats, graphs and charts. Or your spreadsheets, because as Dave Paradi points out in this article, "...a spreadsheet is an analytical tool, not a communication tool."
They just want to know how you can help them.
Your chart doesn't tell your story, your graph doesn't persuade your audience, and your diagram doesn't motivate them to do anything. What your data does is support your key points and give the audience the facts and figures behind the story. Your charts and graphs can help them understand how you arrived at your conclusions, so that they can 1) determine your credibility, 2) make their own analysis of whether the data backs up their already established beliefs, gut feelings, and maybe some of your new challenging ideas, and 3) respond or not respond to your call to action.
But if all you have are charts and graphs, and you have no useful tools to offer, no relevant next steps, no emotional appeal to raise your audience's adrenaline by illuminating their fear, curiosity, amusement or anger, you will get little follow-through.
They just want to know how you can help them. So make it about them, about what they need, want and care about, and not about your slides that make you look really smart but make no human connection whatsoever with the humans sitting in front of you.
I found a nice explanation here of how to use charts and graphs more effectively in presentations. Enjoy!
That's what they call "data dump". Carrying the numbers, stats, figures, charts, bars, histograms, even "grabbles" and dumping them on the audience. It is bad practice when one big boss gives his topic to his secretary or PA and wants a presentation designed for him, from planning to design to slide deck. Pure laziness; poor impact!
I agree. It's unlikely that your presentation will be in your voice or will articulate your message well if someone else designs it for you. Unless they're a professional speechwriter, but the typical boss isn't paying for that!


This hallucinogenic herb offers an experience as intense as LSD, but the trip only lasts five minutes. Is it any wonder states are banning it?
In 2003, always looking for ways to distract myself from the terrifying emotional burdens of adulthood, I ordered some herbs from a Web site that sold "marijuana alternatives." One of those herbs was a sizable bag of salvia divinorum, which I'd read about in Daniel Pinchbeck's book "Breaking Open the Head." He touted it as a visionary plant favored by native Mesoamericans. I like visions, and I like Mesoamerica, so I tried the salvia almost immediately after I bought it, smoking a small bowl at an outdoor Flaming Lips show -- you know, because the Flaming Lips are "trippy." No visions emerged, which, given my pathetic reasoning, is exactly what I deserved. I didn't even get a headache. The next time, I decided, I'd actually get some directions on how to use the drug, and then maybe I'd even follow them.
I put the salvia in my freezer and didn't touch it for almost two years. Then I had a free midnight, and it occurred to me to try some. I took a pinch of salvia from my bag, rolled it into a ball and stuck it under my tongue; all the Web sites say that sublingual absorption leads to stronger trips. It tasted bitter but not much worse than, say, collard greens. I gave it a chew and placed it under my tongue for another 30 seconds. I repeated this process a few times until I'd created a slightly acrid green brew in my mouth; I sloshed it around and kept chewing. By degrees, I felt nauseated, like I'd eaten vitamins on an empty stomach, but my gut held. After 20 minutes, I spit the whole megilla into the toilet, put some bhangra on the iPod, lay down on my guest bed, and closed my eyes.
Almost immediately, I had visions. Great, thick green vines, ancient beyond measure, stretched out into infinite space. A being that looked like an Aztec God flew above, spewing fire. I saw my head splitting open. Red goo poured out and melded into what appeared to be the cosmos. I had another vision, of me dancing with my son, which was a bit more pleasant. A large hole opened in the universe. I flew toward it. A beautiful woman in a white robe took my hand and guided me through. This, I later learned, was the "salvia spirit," who appears in most salvia-inspired visions, or at least the ones that get chronicled on Erowid. She's also repeatedly depicted in online "salvia art". I opened my eyes, and the trip was over. Ten minutes had passed.
The next night, I repeated the dose. While I had a few small visions, I mostly felt that my body was stretching out beyond its boundaries, moving into infinite space. The night after that, I did a third consecutive salvia chew. Nothing came of it, and around 1 a.m., I fell asleep.
Approximately two hours later, I snapped awake, aware that the room had shaken with a tremendous thud, as though something very heavy had landed. A massive stone warrior, looking vaguely like a lost piece of Mesoamerican art, stood in the middle of the room. "Don't mess with what you don't understand," he said to me. Terrified, I closed my eyes, and saw the woman again. I seem to recall begging her to show me the secrets of the universe. She spoke for the first time as well. "You take yourself too seriously," she said. The sensation of traveling through space returned, and then I fell asleep. The next morning, when I woke up, I was seized with the urge to see how my fantasy baseball team was doing.
On a scale of drug harshness, salvia falls on the mild end, stronger than weed but weaker than ecstasy, and it doesn't even register in the same league as the hard drugs like cocaine and heroin and meth. It should be classified as a mild hallucinogen. Well, perhaps "mild" isn't the right word, since the effects are intense, but it's short-lived. I haven't done psychedelic mushrooms or acid in nearly 20 years, but I remember those trips as being very, very long and annoyingly open-ended. You never knew exactly what you'd see or experience, though you were pretty much guaranteed to sweat a lot and have a nasty backache the next day. Salvia, on the other hand, is quick, focused and almost uniform in its effects. Salvia is non-toxic, and too intense to be addictive. Anyone who does it more than once a month should literally have their head examined.
People who hate drugs have been busy excoriating salvia this year. Salvia is currently illegal in Delaware, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Virginia, and bills are on the table in many other states. In Ohio, a 12-year-old-boy, who said he uses salvia, shot and killed another boy, though there's no clear evidence that the shooter was on salvia at the time. In 2006, a Delaware teenager, who'd written about salvia in the past, committed suicide, prompting that state's ban. Tragic as those events may be for the people involved, salvia does not appear to have torn apart our precious social fabric. It barely even scratches around the edge. The "salvia trip video" is a standard bearer on YouTube, but you end up watching either giggling Jew-froed teenagers or bearded grown-ups falling back into their couch and saying, "Whoa." There are few things more boring than grainy footage of someone else's drug trip, and I don't think the proselytizing is going to get more high-end any time soon.
My recommendations, for all that they're worth, are as follows: Salvia isn't a drug for the young. No one under 21 should ever touch the stuff, and if anyone else is going to use it, do so wisely. First-timers might be helped to have a sober "guide," preferably one experienced with salvia, nearby. It's good to have someone to talk with when you're done; also, if you forgot water, you're going to want someone to get you some, because you'll come back really thirsty. Users know well enough not to make any big plans for a couple hours after the trip. The intense effects only last a short time, but you should never, ever drive after using salvia.
I've continued to do salvia a couple times a year. That's all I need, and all I can really handle. After I moved to Los Angeles, I spent some time looking around the drug boards for a reliable source. I found a vintage clothing store on Melrose with a quasi-legal head shop hidden in back, behind the winter-coat rack, the last place anyone ever looks in a Southern California vintage shop. There, a one-armed Lebanese man sold me a couple of discounted packets of 25X salvia extract, an extremely concentrated form of the drug that transports you to salvia land very quickly. One small pipeful, and you're gone.
"You need to be careful with this," he said.
"I know what I'm doing," I replied.
By now, I've gotten over the intensity of the trip, the descent (or ascent) into another dimension. I know, for the most part, what to expect; it barely even seems weird to me anymore. Unlike my early trips, which were just random explorations, now I only go to the salvia if I have an intractable problem, if my life seems blocked somehow, or if I have a complicated existential question to ask. There's always a purpose, however obscure, for my visits.
I have a salvia routine. After the family has gone to sleep, and the house is very quiet, I go down to my basement office with a glass of ice water. I turn on some mellow music and sit in my big blue easy chair. A small pipeful of salvia concentrate waits for me. I smoke the bowl. My head and chest start to throb. I sink back in my chair and close my eyes, trying to keep my question of the day at the forefront of my thoughts. A trip through the vines follows. I pass a phalanx of guards, who look like the caterpillar in the "Alice in Wonderland" cartoon. Sometimes, I travel over arid plains or behold mountain views of indescribable beauty. But eventually, I always get to that secluded glen where the salvia spirit is waiting, on a vine-covered throne. She's usually in a damn good mood, and is always glad to see me. We commune for a while, she shows me unusual things, and while I don't directly ask my question or express my concern, I keep it floating around the edges of consciousness. She's always gently mocking, in a "foolish human!" kind of way, and her response always leaves me feeling a little bit better.
Gradually, the visions fade, my heart starts beating more normally, and I open my eyes. For a few minutes, everything seems gauzy and pixelated, as though I can nearly see the other world just beyond my field of perception. Then the salvia trip ends without harm to others, or to myself.
Neal Pollack is the author of several books of satirical fiction and the semi-controversial parenting memoir "Alternadad." He lives in Los Angeles, with his family.
Sort of a poorly written article. definately not well stated or concise enough to change the minds of the people who need their minds changed about this herb. Not to say anything in it is wrong, but much of it was rather pointless and self indulgent.
Also, I REALLY wish people would stop using "confessions of a ______ eater" as titles. "Confessions of a Cocoa eater" really pushed me over the edge.
Yeah, you're right. Some parts of it are also written in an annoying smirky and condescending tone. The only things I thought were kind of interesting is that he talks about chewing the leaf instead of smoking it, and also mentions that he uses it for problem-solving.
The night after that, I did a third consecutive salvia chew. Nothing came of it, and around 1 a.m., I fell asleep.
Approximately two hours later, I snapped awake, aware that the room had shaken with a tremendous thud, as though something very heavy had landed. A massive stone warrior, looking vaguely like a lost piece of Mesoamerican art, stood in the middle of the room. "Don't mess with what you don't understand," he said to me.


Katie Kitamura's novel A Separation is fraught with sleights and nods. It seems simple, yet throughout the book, Kitamura adds gossamer layers and funhouse mirrors which yield haunting echoes, demanding rereading.
Dissonance already. The narrator doesn't know quite where her husband is because, as the book's title implies, they haven't been together for some time. Their separation is a closely guarded secret, though one shared with Yvan, with whom the narrator moves in after three months of Christopher's absence.
She stays in a Greek hotel as the country smolders with repeated arson. She briefly visits the room once occupied by her husband, askew like Christopher has left in a hurry. The off-season hotel boasts a skeleton staff she knows by name, but hosts few guests save the narrator and a couple — perhaps newlyweds — who paw at each other as if performing for an imagined audience.
The couple and their libido is just one example of Kitamura emphasizing appearances, how they differ from reality both in and out of relationships. The narrator's curiosity brings her to the house of one of the professional mourners her husband sought: the great-aunt of a hotel driver, who is by consensus the best professional mourner, her caterwauling and wailing sounding the most grieved, the most authentic. Upon introduction, the narrator slips easily into a lie and says that it's she who's writing a book on mourning rituals.
And earlier, she mentioned her employment as a translator, in which "you write and do not write the words….people are prone to saying that a successful translation doesn't feel like a translation at all, as if the translator's ultimate task is to be invisible." This urge towards making choices but appearing not to is very much in character with the chasm, ever yawning, between the narrator and her now-estranged husband. But it's very much out of character with impersonating her husband, of agency and choice.
The press material for A Separation urges readers to read the whole slim volume in one sitting. The request may seem odd, as Kitamura's prose doesn't engulf as much as smolder like the ever-present fires that always lurk on her Grecian horizon. Yet around the midway point — and no spoilers here — the reading strategy becomes apparent, then propulsive in its Hitchcockian reorientation. And with this shift comes the realization that the theme of appearance vs. reality is even more present and demanding than first thought.
Is the key the fight between Stefano, the driver whose great-aunt mourns professionally, and Maria, with whom Christopher had an affair? Perhaps. Kitamura expertly excises all dialogue as the couple argues in Greek, leaving the narrator drawing assumptions, and we with her, especially when Maria turns a heated gaze onto the narrator, "as if an actor you have been watching on television suddenly turned to acknowledge you, the spectator." The fourth wall is broken, and the narrator is quick to tell us as much — but to what end?
Bits of narrative gymnastics continue like this until the book's conclusion, in which pieces fall together — or not. The narrator laments "the wounds you do not know you do not know about, and the course of which you cannot predict," leading to pause, to reevaluation before the book's final silence.
Perhaps itself a lie, or a slip into professional mourning, or perhaps the invisibility of slipping into something already decided, A Separation is a gorgeous treatise of feasibilities and trajectories, of guise and finally of narrative, invention.
Katie Kitamura is a critic and novelist living in New York City. She is the author of Gone to the Forest and The Longshot, both of which were finalists for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. A recipient of a Lannan Residency Fellowship, Kitamura has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, Granta, BOMB, Triple Canopy and is a regular contributor to Frieze.


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On remand from the Supreme Court's holding in Friends of the College of San Mateo Gardens v. San Mateo County Community College (2016) 1 Cal.5th 926 (San Mateo I ), the First District interpreted the Supreme Court's direction as requiring the application of the fair argument standard of review to claims challenging an addendum to a negative declaration in Friends of the College of San Mateo Gardens v. San Mateo County Community College District (2017) 11 Cal. App.5th 596.
The San Mateo cases concern the San Mateo County Community College District's campus renovation project, approved with a mitigated negative declaration (MND) in 2006. In 2011, the college decided to demolish an area of the campus (the Building 20 Complex) that was planned for renovation under the 2006 plan, and construct a parking lot in its place. The updated plan was analyzed in an addendum to the 2006 MND. The suit in San Mateo I followed, with the petitioner alleging that the updated plan was a "new project" under CEQA, and not a modified project subject to CEQA's subsequent review provisions (Pub. Resources Code, § 21166; CEQA Guidelines, § 15162.). Both the trial court and the First District held that it was a new project, and therefore, the college was not entitled to rely on an addendum.
The Supreme Court reversed, noting first that the proper inquiry under CEQA was not whether or not a project is new or modified, but whether or not the initial environmental document retains informational value in light of the proposed modifications, or if it had become irrelevant. This is a factual determination to be made by the agency and reviewed for substantial evidence.
If the agency's decision to proceed under CEQA's subsequent review provisions is supported by substantial evidence, a court may consider the type of subsequent document prepared by the agency. The standard of review applied by the court in reviewing that decision turns on the nature of the original documents. The agency must first determine if there are substantial changes to the project that require "major revisions" in the original environmental analysis. This determination is reviewed for substantial evidence. When the project was previously reviewed in an EIR, there are no "major revisions" if the initial EIR has already adequately addressed any additional environmental effects expected to result from the proposed modifications. In contrast, when a project is initially approved with a negative declaration, a "major revision" to the negative declaration will necessarily be required if the proposed modification may produce a new or previously unstudied significant environmental effect. If there is no major revision required, the agency can issue a subsequent mitigated negative declaration, addendum, or no further documentation.
The court applied the two-part test of San Mateo I to the college's decision to rely on an addendum to the 2006 MND. First, the court conceded that the agency determination—that the MND retained informational value in light of the revised campus plan—was supported by substantial evidence. It retained informational value because the revised plan considered in the addendum did not affect plans to demolish 14 of the buildings cited in the original plan. The revised plan added one more building complex to the demolition list, but the college had previously removed two others, deciding to renovate them instead. The mitigation measures adopted with the original plan remained in place.
Applying the second prong of the Supreme Court's test, however, the court held that the college violated CEQA's subsequent review provisions by preparing an addendum to the MND, because the removal of gardens in the Building 20 Complex could result in a significant aesthetic impact, under the fair argument standard of review.
Interpreting this second prong of the San Mateo I test, the San Mateo II court stated that when the initial environmental review document is an negative declaration, the court must apply the more exacting standard applicable to negative declarations—whether there is substantial evidence to support a fair argument that the proposed changes to the project might have a significant effect on the environment. The court acknowledged that aesthetic impacts are necessarily subjective, but agreed with the petitioner that substantial evidence of a fair argument could be found in lay opinions based on direct observation. The impact is not determined by the size of the area, but measured in light of the context in which it occurs, and this can vary by setting.
Here, the court relied on the opinions of campus employees and students regarding the garden's aesthetic value and quality. Although not a significant portion of the campus' open space (less than one-third of one percent), the garden's vegetation and landscaping were alleged by its admirers to be unique. The garden's social value as a gathering space was also considered. Because the court determined that these opinions qualified as substantial evidence to support a fair argument of a potentially significant aesthetic impact, the college's decision to rely on an addendum violated CEQA's subsequent review provisions, as an addendum is only appropriate if there are no new or more severe significant impacts than were previously analyzed. However, the court refused to order the preparation of an EIR, stating that the college could choose to prepare a subsequent MND if the impacts to the garden could be mitigated to a less-than-significant level.
RMM Partner Sabrina V. Teller represented the respondent college district.


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STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS DO NOT
APPLY IN CALIFORNIA ARBITRATIONS
SECURITIES BROKER'S DUTIES
AS A FIDUCIARY TO A QUALIFIED TRUST
DUTY TO DIVERSIFY A QUALIFIED PLAN
GLOSSARY- CAUSES OF ACTION
Statute of Limitations do not apply in CA Arbitrations
Arbitration proceedings, as a matter of statutory definition, are not "actions".
Statutes of Limitation therefore do not apply to claims brought in arbitration.
The California Code of Civil Procedure ("CCP") addresses statutes of limitation
at CCP # 335, et seq. CCP # 335 provides: "[t]he periods prescribed for the
commencement of actions other than for the recovery of real property, are as follows…
" (emphasis added). The CCP then goes on to describe each limitation period as the
time within which an "action" must be commenced. The Legislature defined the word
"action" at CCP # 22:
An Action is an ordinary proceeding in a court of Justice
by which one party prosecutes another for the declaration,
enforcement, or protection of a right, the redress or prevention
of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense (emphasis added)
Several California cases have addressed the question of whether a proceeding
other than one taking place in court is an "action" for purposes of California Law.
In CITY OF OAKLAND V. PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM,
95 Cal. App. 4th 29, 48 (2002, the Court specifically held that statutes of
limitation do not apply to administrative proceedings because they are not
"actions" in a court of law. Citing to Witkin, the Court held: :[t]he general and
special statute of limitation referring to actions and special proceedings are
applicable only to judicial proceedings, they do not apply to administrative
proceedings." Id.
four years later, in SHEPPARD V. LIGHTPOST MUSEUM FUND, 146 Cal.
App. 4th 315 (2006) the Court was faced with a motion under CCP # 425.16 to
strike an arbitration claim. the CCP statute in question permitted the striking of a
"complaint", cross-complaint or petition." In denying the relief sought, the Court
Complaints, cross-complaints and petitions are pleadings
which are filed in courts to initiate judicial proceedings.
[Citations] Arbitration claims filed only in an arbitral
forum, while in some ways similar to pleadings, are very
different because they are not filed in courts and they do
not initiate judicial proceedings. These distinctions
indicate that the legislature did not intend to include
such claims within the term "complaint" ID., (emphasis
in original).
The Sheppard court relied heavily upon PARAMOUNT UNIFIED SCHOOL
DISTRICT V. TEACHERS ASSN. OF PARAMOUNT, 26 Cal.App. 4th 1371 (1004)
In Paramount, the parties had submitted their dispute to binding arbitration. Upon
the motion to confirm the award, the school district, a public entity, argued that the
claim was barred due to the claimant's failure to comply with the claims statute set
forth in the CCP. (The CCP requires that a Notice of Claim be provided to a public
entity as a prerequisite to an action against that entity (Govt. Code # 900, et seq.).
An untimely notice of claim operates as a bar to an "action" against a a public entity.
As such, it operates exactly like a statute of limitation.
The Court rejected this claim, specifically pointing out the inapplicability of the CCP
to arbitrations:
Nonjudicial [private contractual] arbitration proceedings are
generally regulated by the procedural rules established by the
arbitration agency; such proceedings are not necessarily con-
trolled by the Code of Civil Procedure unless expressly
provided by that code (Code of Civ. Proc., # 1280 et seq.),
by the arbitration rules, by the parties' contract or other
provisions of law regulating such nonjudicial arbitration.
Id., at 1387.
Most recently, in 2009, a California appellate court ruled that an "action" for the purpose
of recording a lis pendens did not encompass a contractual arbitration claim.
MANHATTAN LOFT, LLC V. MERCURY LIQUORS, INC., 93 Cal. Rptr. 3d 457
(Ct. App. 2009). In this case, the court followed the analysis of looking to CCP # 22 for
the definition of "action" and the lix pendens statute, and found that a simple reading of
the statute did not encompass arbitration claims.
In a relatively recent FINRA arbitration case brought in California, ALLING, ET AL.
V. PACIFIC WEST SECURITIES, ET AL, FINRA Case No. 10-05466 (Master Consol-
idated Case) decided April 5, 2013, a California FINRA arbitration panel appointed to
deal with a multi-party dispute involving private placement securities and due diligence
issues addressed a pre-hearing Motion to Dismiss based on Statute of Limitations
arguments as follows:
The rule of the forum generally governs as to procedural issues such as time
limitations for filing claims, and here, FINRA Rule 12206(a) allows claims
to be filed up to six years after they arise, California statutes of limitation
generally refer to actions filed in courts, and are not applicable to this
arbitration.
A decision was reached and an award was granted in which the Panel found Respondents
Pacific West Securities, Inc. and Pacific West Financial Group liable for over $2.1 million
for their failure to exercise due diligence and recommending five unsuitable private
placement securities to Claimants.
A FINRA arbitration proceeding is an equitable proceeding in a private arbitral forum.
It is not "an ordinary proceeding in a court of justice. It is not an action as defined by
the CCP. By the statute's definition, case law, and arbitral findings, statutes of
limitations for "actions" do not apply in FINRA arbitrations.
Securities Broker's Duties as Fiduciary to a Qualified Trust
A. The relationship between any stockbroker and his or her customer is fiduciary in
nature, imposing on the former, duty to act in the highest good faith toward the
customer. ERISA holds fiduciaries to a prudent man standard of care in the manage-
ment of qualified plans. A fiduciary shall discharge his duties with respect to a plan
with care, skill, prudence and diligence.
B. There are three ways one can gain fiduciary status:
1. Exercising discretionary authority or control over the management of the plan or
disposition of assets.
2. Rendering investment advice for a fee or other compensation (direct or indirect).
a. Such person renders advice to the plan as to the value of securities or other
property, or makes recommendation as to the advisability of investing in,
purchasing, or selling securities or other property.
b. Such person renders any advice…..on a regular basis, to the plan pursuant
to a mutual agreement, arrangement or understanding, written or otherwise,
between such person & the plan….that such services will serve as a primary
basis for investment decisions with respect to plan assets, and that such
person will render individualized investment advice to the plan based on the
particular needs of the plan regarding such matters as, among other things,
investment policies or strategy, overall portfolio composition, or diversification
of plan investments. [29 U.S.C. S 1002 (21) (A) (ii)] 29 C.F.R. S 2510. 3-21
(C) (I) (1992).
3. Exercising discretionary authority in the administration of the plan.
C. All of the five following factors are necessary to support a finding of fiduciary status.
1. Providing individualized investment advice (even to sophisticated customers).
2. The advice was given pursuant to a mutual understanding. It is not necessary
for the party being added to the Trust Agreement as a fiduciary. In writing or
orally, the party need only agree to provide advice that is the primary basis for
the plan's investment decisions.
3. The advice was provided on a regular basis.
4. The advice pertained to the value of the property or consisted of recommen-
dations as to the advisability of investing in certain property.
5. The advice was rendered for a fee.
29 U.S.C. S 1002 (21) A
D. Notes
1. Court decisions have upheld that one who sells his own property to an ERISA
Trust is a financial advisor. Further, a financial advisor is always a fiduciary.
2. Any agent is also a fiduciary whose obligation of diligence & faithful service is
the same as that of a trustee. West's ann. Cal. Civ. code S 2322 (C).
3. There is in all cases a fiduciary duty owed by a stockbroker to his or her cust-
omers; the scope of this duty depends on specific facts and circumstances
presented in a given case, including relative sophistication & experience of cust-
omer, customers ability to evaluate broker's recommendations and exercise an
independent judgment thereon, nature of account, whether discretionary or
non discretionary, and actual financial situation and needs of customer.
Broker, If a Fiduciary, Must Diversify a Qualified Plan
A broker may be a fiduciary if, in the process of executing orders, he or she is asked for recommendations about investments without receipt of any compensation other than normal commissions and:
A. There is a mutual understanding that recommendations are to be on an ongoing basis;
B. There is mutual understanding that the recommendations will serve as a primary basis for investment decisions with respect to plan assets; and
C. The recommendations are individualized to the full range of the plan's particular need.
A broker may or may not be a fiduciary with respect to a plan. One who merely suggests a stock is not. See Farm King Supply inc. v. Edward D. Jones, 884 F. 2d 288 (7th Cir. 1989. To be a fiduciary, the court held that the broker must provide advice pursuant to an agreement, be paid for that advice, or have influence over the plan's investment decisions. Id. at 292. See also, Wolin v. Smith Barney, 83F.3d 847 (7th Cir. 1996); Olson b. E.F. Hutton & Co., 957 F. 2d 622 (8th Cir. 1992). If determined to be a fiduciary, the broker will then be held to the standards of conduct of sections 404(a) including the standard to act with care, skill, prudence and diligence under the circumstances.
In the Restatement Third of the Law of Trusts, the major revision has been the change of its investment standard from a "prudent man" rule to a "prudent investor" rule. This change seeks to incorporate modern portfolio theories of investing into trust investment theory. The prudent investor standard has the following affect on fiduciary duties of trustees:
(a) Duty of Loyalty(#170) and Impartiality (#183): inflation erosion affects a fiduciary's duty to treat the income and remainder beneficiaries impartially (i.e. investment of trust funds in interest-bearing securities may benefit income beneficiary while inflation erodes the principal remaining for the remainder beneficiary. Under the Restatement Third, growth investments may be justified in certain trusts, dependent upon trust purpose, beneficiary circumstances and family financial objectives;
(b) Duty to Delegate (#171): the new Restatement expands the fiduciary's ability to seek expert assistance regarding investment making decisions (e.g. a fiduciary without investment experience or skill or when complicated investment strategies are appropriately pursued by trustees managing large diverse portfolios);
(c) Other Duties:
(1) Duties of skill and prudence: the Restatement now adopts a "total
Return" (income plus capital appreciation/depreciation) definition as to what constitutes a "reasonable return" on trust assets;
(2) Care and caution: the new Restatement emphasizes that a
Fiduciary's undue conservatism, as well as excessive risk taking, in investing trust assets can disserve trust beneficiary's.
Prudent Investor Theory
The prudence requirement is evaluated based upon the fiduciary's conduct or actions at the time a decision is made, not upon the subsequent success or failure of such decision. To satisfy the prudent man standard, a fiduciary must give appropriate consideration of the facts and circumstances which, based upon the scope of fiduciary's investment duties, are relevant to a particular investment or investment course of action. The fiduciary should consider each investment or investment course of action in light of the role it plays within the entire portfolio; each investment should be designed to further the purpose of the underlying plan given the risk of loss and opportunity for gain. The following factors should be considered by the fiduciary:
(a) composition of plan's investment portfolio;
(b) the diversity or lack thereof of the plan's investment portfolio;
(c) the liquidity, rate of return and cash flow needs of the plan; and
(d) the projected return from the plan investments relative to the plan's
funding objectives.
Generally, a failure to diversify a plan's investments is a breach of fiduciary duty, unless the fiduciary can show that the failure to diversify was "clearly prudent". Compare Brock v. Citizens Bank of Clovis, 841 F. 2d 344 (N.M. 1988) (investments of over 65% of pension plan's assets in commercial real estate first mortgages violated ERISA diversification requirements where trustees failed to establish that lack of diversification was prudent) with Reich v.King, 861 F. Supp. 379 (Md. 1994) (investment of over 70% of plan's assets in residential mortgages not per se violation of ERISA diversification requirement; finding that non-diversification was not clearly prudent required first). The diversification requirement is evaluated by the following factors:
(a) the plan's purpose;
(b) the amount of plan assets;
(c) financial and industrial conditions;
(d) the type of investment(s);
(e) distribution of investments as to industries;
(f) distribution of investments as to geographic location; and
(g) maturity dates of investment(s).
Lanka v. O' Higgins, 810 F. Supp. 379 (N.D.N.Y. 1992).
PRUDENT PRACTICES FOR INVESTMENT FIDUCIARIES
Financial advisors, trustees, plan sponsors and anyone else involved in investment decision-making, face a host of issues as they navigate through complex and sometimes uncertain areas. But, guidance is available.
One source of guidance deserves our focus. it is, "Prudent Investment Practices", a handbook for investment fiduciaries, written by the Foundation for Fiduciary Studies. A major benefit of the handbook is its simple organization. There are 5 so-called "Steps" and 27 so-called "Practices", which expand on this sound starting proposition: "To manage a prudent investment process, without which the components of an investment plan cannot be defined, implemented or evaluates." These Steps and Practices were determined after review of the major investment fiduciary legislation – ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (Uniform Prudent Investor Act) and MPERS (Management of Public Employee Retirement Systems Act).
Lets overview the 5 Steps and some of the 27 Practices
STEP 1: ANALYZE CURRENT POSITION
The first practice is to review all of the documents relating to the establishment and management of the investments. These documents include the Investment Policy Statement, minutes from investment committee meetings, trust documents, custodial and brokerage agreements, service agreements such as investment and advisory contracts, regulatory filings such as Form ADV and mutual fund prospectuses, as well as performance reports. Another Practice is to ensure that the investment fiduciary knows his duties. Even if the fiduciary has delegated certain decisions to, for example, professional money managers, trustees and consultants, the fiduciary always remains responsible for matters such as: determining investment objectives, choosing an appropriate asset allocation strategy, establishing written investment policies, approving appropriate experts, monitoring activities and avoiding conflicts of interest and prohibited transactions. Likewise, another Practice requires the fiduciary to prudently manage investment decisions and, if he or she is unwilling or unable to act, then he or she is responsible for obtaining assistance from outside professionals who will do so.
STEP 2: DIVERSIFY – ALLOCATE PORTFOLIO
An important Practice is to identify the risk level appropriate for the investments. In this regard, investment fiduciaries must ensure that they adequately have communicated the potential negative consequences of an investment strategy or the fact that investment objectives may not be met. Then, the fiduciary is required to state the presumptions that are being used to model the probable outcomes of a given investment strategy. Likewise, another important Practice is to identify the investment time horizon. Along those lines, the fiduciary would prepare a schedule of the investment portfolio's anticipated cash flows. At this point, one can select the asset classes consistent with the identified risk, return and time horizon. A Practice suggests that the number of asset classes and investment options will depend upon such factors as the size of the investment portfolio, sensitivity to investment expenses, as well as the decision-makers' investment expertise and ability to monitor the strategies and options considered.
STEP 3: FORMALIZE INVESTMENT POLICY
One of the more critical functions of the fiduciary is to prepare and maintain the Investment Policy Statement (IPS). The IPS is the "business plan" for the portfolio. As such, it defines the duties of all the parties involvement and provides guidance for diversification and rebalancing of investments. Another Practice suggests that the IPS define the due diligence criteria for selecting investment options. The goal is to ensure that the fiduciary not chase the latest hot Wall Street manager or the latest top performing asset class. Additionally, the IPS should define procedures for controlling and accounting for investment expenses. Another Practice requires that the IPS define the monitoring criteria for investment options and service vendors.
STEP 4: IMPLEMENT INVESTMENT POLICY
An important Practice is to implement investment strategies in compliance with the required level of Prudence. Critically, while the law does not expressly require a fiduciary to hire a professional money manager, the fiduciary will be held to the same expert standard of care and his or her conduct will be measured against that of the investment professionals. Additionally, in implementing the investment policy, the fiduciary must choose appropriate investment vehicles. One example provided relates to the decision of whether to use mutual funds or separate account managers. Another important implementation Practice is to follow a due diligence process in selecting service providers such as the custodian.
STEP 5: MONITOR AND SUPERVISE
The final Step is to monitor and supervise and there are several Practices worth noting. First, the fiduciary should prepare periodic reports that compare the investment performance of the portfolio against an appropriate index, peer group and IPS objectives. A second Practice suggests examining the qualitative and/or organizational changes of investment decision-makers. There also should be control procedures in place to periodically review matters such as best execution, soft dollars and proxy voting. Finally, another Practice requires that the fiduciary determine that the fees paid to investment managers (and others) are consistent with agreements and the law.
The 5 Steps and 27 Practices are an excellent and highly needed roadmap for investment fiduciaries and should be immediately implemented.
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1. DEFINITION OF A SECURITY
Under California Law, the term Security includes an investment contract. An investment contract is a contract or transaction in which a person entrusts money or other capital to another, with the expectation of deriving a profit, income or some financial benefit from a business enterprise, the failure or success of which is dependent upon the managerial efforts of the other person.
Source: People v. Smith.263 Cal. Rptrk. 684,686 (Cal. Ct. App. 1989)
See also SEC v. W.J. Howey Co. 328 U.S. 293 (1946
2. REQUIREMENT THAT SECURITIES BE QUALIFIED PRIOR TO SALE
It is unlawful for any person to offer or sell in CA any security unless such sale has been qualified or unless such security or transaction is exempted or not subject to qualification.
Qualification entails meeting requirements set by the CA Department of Corporations for the sale of securities in the state.
Any person who sells a security that is not qualified or exempt from qualification is liable to the person who buys the security from him, and the purchaser is entitled to recover the money paid for the security with interest at the legal rate, less the amount of any income received.
Source: CA Corp. Code #25110 and 25503
3. MISSTATEMENTS AND OMISSIONS IN THE SALE OF SECURITIES
It is unlawful for any person to offer or sell a security by means of any written or oral communication which includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
Any person who sells a security via misrepresentations and omissions is liable to the person who purchases a security from him who may sue either for rescission or for damages.
4. MATERIALITY DEFINED
A fact is material if its disclosure would change the total mix of facts available and there is substantial likelihood that a reasonable shareholder would consider the facts important to his or her investment decision.
Source: Basic Inc. v. Levinson 485 U.S. 224, 231-232 (1988)
5. LIABILITY FOR MATERIALLY AIDING
When securities are sold via material misrepresentations and omissions or if the securities are unqualified for sale and non-exempt, not only is the primary seller liable, but anyone who materially aids the seller, or is a control person of the seller is also liable.
Any person who materially assists in the sale of an unqualified or non-exempt security, or who materially assists in a sale made through misrepresentations or omissions is jointly and severally liable with any other person liable.
Source: CA Corporations Code #25504.1
6. CONTROL PERSON LIABILITY
When securities are sold via material misrepresentations and omissions, or if the securities are unqualified for sale and non-exempt, not only is the primary seller liable, but anyone who materially aids the seller, or is a control person of the seller is also liable.
Control Person Defined
A "control person" is defined as someone who possesses, directly or indirectly, the power to manage, or direct the management and policies of a person.
Source: Hollinger v. Titan Capital Corp., 914 F.2d 1564, 1569 (9th Cir. 1990)
Every person who directly or indirectly controls a person liable for selling unqualified securities or for selling securities through misrepresentations and omissions, every person occupying a similar status or performing similar functions, every employee of a person so liable who materially aids in the act or transaction constituting the violation, are also liable jointly and severally with and to the same extent as such person, unless the other person who is so liable had no knowledge of or reasonable grounds to believe in the existence of the facts by reason of which the liability is alleged to exist.
Source: CA Corp. Code: 25504
7. LIABILITY FOR UNLICENSED BROKER DEALER
Under California law, a "Broker-dealer" means any person engaged in the business of effecting transactions in securities in this state for the account of others or for his own account.
A person who purchases a security from a broker-dealer that is required to be licensed but is not may bring an action for rescission of the sale.
Source: CA Corp. Code # 25004 and 25501.5
8. CLAIM OF EXEMPTION
The burden of proving an exemption is upon the person claiming it.
Source: People v. Feno 201 Cal. Rptr. 513, 518 (Cal. Ct. App. 1984) Modified
See also: Kahn v. State,493 N.E.2d 790, 798 (IN Ct. App. 1986)
State v. Kershner, 801 P.2d 68m (KA 1990)
State v. Tober, 841 P.2d 206,209 (AZ 1992)
9. BREACH OF FIDUCIARY DUTY
Under CA law, a broker or securities salesman owes a fiduciary duty to his or her customer. A fiduciary relationship exists whenever trust and confidence is reposed by one person in the integrity and fidelity of another. The relationship between a broker and a client is fiduciary in nature and imposes on the broker the duty of acting in the highest good faith toward the client.
Source: Duffy v. Cavalier, 264 CA Rptr. 740,753 n.11 (CA Ct. App. 1989)
Twomey v. Mitchum, Jones & Templeton, Inc., 262 CA App.2d 690,69 CA Rptr. 222 (1968)


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Ferrari Gains F1 Momentum with Hungarian Grand Prix Win
United States – July 28, 2015, 12:30 PM
Sebastian Vettel and the Infor-sponsored Scuderia Ferrari team notched their second Formula One victory of the season with the Hungarian Grand Prix this week.
Sunday's dramatic Hungarian Grand Prix win is being called Vettel's best race of the 2015 season so far, and it's fueling Ferrari's bid to revive their F1 campaign.
Vettel also won the Malaysia Grand Prix in March, and is currently in third place in the overall standings.
The Hungarian Grand Prix win was emotional as Vettel dedicated it to former Ferrari reserve driver Jules Bianchi, who died July 17 and whose funeral Vettel and many F1 drivers attended Tuesday before the race. Bianchi suffered severe head injuries in a crash at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix and never recovered.
The BBC.com reports: "Vettel said in French over the radio on his slowing down lap: 'Merci, Jules. Cette victoire est pour toi.' (Thank you, Jules. This victory is for you). He added in English: 'You will always be in our hearts. We know sooner or later you would have been in this team.' "
Ferrari's other driver, Kimi Raikkonen, had mechanical trouble and had to retire from the race.
"A fantastic win!" declared Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene. "Both Seb and Kimi had a tremendous start and being able to drive in clean air surely made a difference."
"It has been a week with a lot of ups and downs and as I said after the race I dedicate this win to Jules and his family," Vettel said. "We had a great start, and after that, we had great pace and were able to control the race. … Thanks to all our partners for their support."
Infor is an Official Supplier to the Scuderia Ferrari Formula One team. Infor's sponsorship reinforces the long-term business collaboration with Ferrari, where Infor software solutions have been instrumental for one of the most respected automotive brands in the world. Read the Ferrari case study.
The next F1 race is the Belgian Grand Prix on Aug. 23. Go RED!


Many Linux distros, such as RHEL/CentOS 7, Fedora, Ubuntu 16, are now using systemd instead of init as the init system. It is common for Linux users to set Linux to boot to "GUI" or "Text" mode. The old way of changing '/etc/inittab' for choosing Linux runlevels is not working for sytemd. This post will introduce the way for systemd systems to select the "runlevels".
The command used is isolate. It starts the unit specified on the command line and its dependencies and stop all others.
This is similar to changing the runlevel in a traditional init system using init 3.
This changes the default boot target.
Next time you reboot, the default target booted to will be "multi-user".
This is not suggested way for changing the boot target. The command using systemctl is the best way. Just for those who are curious.
The default target is controlled by /etc/systemd/system/default.target which is a symbolic to the real .target file.
To set a default target, change the symbolic to point to the target you want.


Google's mobile-first indexing - what does it mean for me?
Google announced in March of 2018 that they would start migrating sites for mobile-first indexing. By now, presumably this process has been complete and mobile-first indexing is the standard for Google's crawlers. You most likely have received an email from Google that mobile-first indexing has been enabled for your site. What does this mean?
Historically, Googlebot (Google's web crawler) has visited sites as if it were a desktop user, that is, a user with a relatively large screen with a mouse and a keyboard. With mobile-first indexing, Googlebot is now visiting sites first as a "mobile user" - small screen, no pointing device, touch screen, etc.) So to determine what your pages have to offer, it will first look at those pages as a smartphone, and then as a desktop device.
I was introduced to "bookmarklets" by my friend, Rob Snell, many years ago at one of the Yahoo Store conferences and they are indispensable tools in my daily work on Yahoo stores.


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Home » CISCO Global Problem Solver Challenge 2021
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The CISCO Global Problem Solver invites early-stage innovative technology solution to solve the world's most pressing social and environmental problems
The fifth annual Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge aims to recognize new business ideas that leverage technology for social impact from entrepreneurs around the world. The goal is to advance early-stage projects that are beyond the concept or idea formation stage, but which have not yet generated over $1M USD in funding and/or revenue.
$1,000,000 USD in prize money will help accelerate the adoption of breakthrough technology, products, and services that drive economic development and/or solve social or environmental problems.
Participants could register individually, as a team of not more than 5 people or as a business entity.
There would be two submission rounds in the competition:
Round One: In the first round, participant(s) need to complete an online questionnaire regarding the problem your project is trying to solve. Participant(s) also need to make a 90 second video pitch explaining the solution. The deadline for Round One is January 21, 2021.
Round Two: The teams passing through Round One reach the Round Two or the Semifinal round. In addition to the details submitted in the previous round, the participant(s) need to submit details regarding the problem and the project. The submission deadline for Round Two is April 23, 2021.
On the basis of submissions on the two rounds, the judges would decide winners that would be announced on June 29, 2021.
The total prize pool of the competition is USD 1 million which would be distributed in following ways:
Grand Prize: One team would receive a grand prize of $250,000.
Regional First Runners‐Up: Three teams from Americas, EMEAR and APJC will be designated the regional first runners-up and will receive $75,000 USD each.
Second Runners‐Up: Three teams will be designated the second runners-up and will receive $50,000 USD each.
Third Runners‐Up: Three teams will be designated the third runners-up and will receive $25,000 USD each.
Fourth Runners‐Up: Three teams will be designated the fourth runners-up and will receive $10,000 USD each.
People's Choice: The finalist entry that receives the most votes will receive the People's Choice Award.
CISCO Employee's Choice: The finalist entry that receives the most votes will receive the Cisco Employees' Choice Award.
In addition, there are also 2021 Special Prizes which are as follows;
Greenhouse Gas Solutions Prize: A single team will be designated as the winner of this prize and receive $50,000 USD.
Ethical AI Prize: A single team will be designated as the winner of this prize and receive $50,000 USD.
Digital Inclusivity Prize: A single team will be designated as the winner of this prize and receive $50,000 USD.
HBCU Startup Prize: A single team will be designated as the winner of this prize and receive $50,000 USD.
Pandemic Response Prize: A single team will be designated as the winner of this prize and receive $50,000 USD.
For judging Round One, judging Round Two, and judging Round Three, the Judging Panel will make their selection based on the content of the Entries and using the following criteria:
Innovative Internet of Things (IoT) or digital technology aspect of solution: How innovative is the solution in its use of new or existing technology to solve a local or global problem? Are there other solutions available and if so, how does this differentiate from them? (33%)
Feasibility: How feasible is the solution to put into practice? Does the solution make sense financially? Will the solution be sustainable over the long term? (24%)
Impact: What is the scale of potential social impact? How broad is the impact? How many people will your solution reach? How significant is the impact? (33%)
Clarity: How well do you articulate your solution and the potential impact it will have on society? (10%)
Registration deadline: January 29, 2021
Prize pool: $1 million USD
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Back-to-school season is here! Walk into any store right now and you'll be greeted by bright displays of all things school supplies. Whether you're in school, have kids who are, or just need to gear up for a productive fall, we've compiled a list of our favorite back-to-school supplies to help you survive the next semester of life.


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Q: Is there any way that I can reset the sensor after I have killed the chased body so that the sensor can pick up bodies in range? I have it so when a sensor collision is detected the body the sensor is attached to will home in on the other body detected, while it does this the sensor ignores other bodies it detects. The problem is that when the body with the sensor kills the other body and hence stops seeing it, any other bodies in the sensor range are not being detected as they were previously ignored when the body was still being chased, aka ONLY SENSED ONCE.
Is there any way that I can reset the sensor after I have killed the chased body so that the sensor can pick up bodies in range?

A: Answered:
You can keep a list of everything that the body with sensor attached is touching, and update that list as necessary when you get BeginContact and EndContact callbacks for the sensor.


The thesis of your paper should be as strong as possible, because it has a huge bearing on the rest of your work. Read this article to get great advice.
How to Write a Comparative Analysis. Throughout ... Predictably, the thesis of such a paper is usually an assertion that A and B are very similar yet not so similar after all. To write a .... In a compare-and contrast, you also need to make links between A and B in the body of your essay if you want your paper to hold together.
A character analysis paper analyzes a character's personality and behavior to draw conclusions about her motivations. The thesis statement of a character analysis paper presents an argument about the significance of the character in relation to the story. A writer gathers evidence ... How to Write a Character Analysis Essay.


This is the off season for the b&b. Although the peninsula is no doubt beautiful at any time of year, right now night falls by 4:45 pm (I googled it and the results indicated that Japan only observes DST "sometimes") and it's much too cold to even dip your toes in the water - that is at the few beaches where the waves are mild enough that it's safe to. Below is a summary of the people who have come to stay during my tenure and my impressions (read: judgements) of them.
The first real challenge was the overnight stay of a children's baseball team with coaches and parents in tow. V was still here, so both of us donned awkwardly large black chef coats, brown aprons and matching newsboy caps, as well as plastic nametags bearing the names of our countries of origin and helped serve dinner. (The nametags were to prevent the guests from trying to engage us in conversation. V, being Spanish, was an obvious foreigner; I am not). The meal was a long and drawn-out affair, full of kids running and yelling in the hallway and the coach's feeble attempts to make them be quiet. Thankfully everyone was quieter the following morning at 6:30 am breakfast.
When we cleaned out the adults' rooms after the group's departure, I had a sudden flashback to the mornings after parties I'd thrown in my room in college - cups, scattered and half-empty, and beer cans that everyone had been too lazy (or drunk) to consolidate into a trash bag. No matter, if those had been my kids I would have been drinking a lot too.
Next came a group of university students who, we were told, had come here to party. We cleared the largest tatami room for their use, but with all its austerity it seemed, to me, the last place I'd want to let loose and potentially make a mess. Whatever shananigans they may have gotten up to, however, they were much neater than the adults in the last group, neatly bagging up all their trash before they left.
The weekend of a local marathon, a rather unhealthy-looking group of young people stayed for one night. One of the guys had an unfortunate condition that left his sheets and corner of the room covered in flakes of skin that, from afar, looked like crumbs. I shook off what I could outside, and hoped that the lint catcher inside the washing machine would take care of the rest.
For the most part, though, guests at this time of year are lone travelers, truck drivers, or maintenance workers assigned to the area. All men, of course, whose pungent, left-behind odors after only one or two-night stays never cease to amaze me. (If they're smokers, it's even worse). After checkout we leave the windows open for a day or so, willing God to return the room to state of olfactory neutrality.
There's also the occasional Single White Male, which under the circumstances I put in a separate category. I always hope that they're not here to find a Japanese girlfriend/wife but, you know, yellow fever is as yellow fever does.


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Honk was a social automotive website developer headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company was co-founded by Tom Taira and Stephanie LaCrosse in 2009 to develop web and mobile solutions that enabled consumers to choose a car.

Honk operated Honk.com, a website that featured user-generated car reviews, new car pricing information, and several social shopping features.
A beta version of Honk.com was launched in November 2009.

Honk's "social recommendation engine" enabled consumers to find recommendations on cars based on their demographic and psychographic backgrounds. Using its social search tool, Honk users could input their age, sex, favorite hobbies, etc. and the social recommendation engine then looked to see which car models were most preferred by other people with the same characteristics.  The Honk database featured anonymous data from several hundred thousand automobile shoppers and buyers in the United States.

Honk.com was acquired by TrueCar in May 2011.

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The service will include scripture readings about that time, singing and silence.
Also, the Sanctuary will be open all day on Good Friday, from 7 am to 5:30 pm. Come and sit in the silence at anytime during the day for as long as you choose. At the top of each hour, there will be a brief time of music, prayer and scripture. Someone will also be present throughout the day to pray with you if you choose.