Year 2019 operating income and sales growth, our outlook for Fiscal Year 2020 operating income and sales growth, our long-term business model, sales growth, gross margin and operating margin, our consecutive years of growth, our position among cloud peripherals companies, our product portfolio and its ability to drive growth,, our growth in various product categories, our market opportunities, our long-term vision, and investments in our business. The forward-looking statements in this release involve risks and uncertainties that could cause Logitech’s actual results and events to differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, including, without limitation: if our product offerings, marketing activities and investment prioritization decisions do not result in the sales, profitability or profitability growth we expect, or when we expect it; if we fail toRemoval of pharmaceuticals and unspecified contaminants in sewage treatment effluents by activated carbon filtration and ozonation: Evaluation using biomarker responses and chemical analysis.
Traces of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and other chemicals are demonstrated in effluents from sewage treatment plants (STPs) and they may affect quality of surface water and eventually drinking water. Treatment of effluents with granular activated carbon (GAC) or ozone to improve removal of APIs and other contaminants was evaluated at two Swedish STPs, Käppala and Uppsala (88 and 103 APIs analyzed). Biomarker responses in rainbow trout exposed to regular and additionally treated effluents were determined. GAC and ozone treatment removed 87-95% of the total concentrations of APIs detected. In Käppala, GAC removed 20 and ozonation (7 g O3/m3) 21 of 24 APIs detected in regular


effluent. In Uppsala, GAC removed 25 and ozonation (5.4 g O3/m3) 15 of 25 APIs detected in effluent. GAC and ozonation also reduced biomarker responses caused by unidentified pollutants in STP effluent water. Elevated ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD) activity in gills was observed in fish exposed to effluent in both STPs. Gene expression analysis carried out in Käppala showed increased concentrations of cytochrome P450 (CYP1As and CYP1C3) transcripts in gills and of CYP1As in liver of fish exposed to effluent. In fish exposed to GAC- or ozone-treated effluent water, gill EROD activity and expression of CYP1As and CYP1C3 in gills and liver were generally equal to or below levels in fish held in tap water. The joint application of chemical analysis and sensitive biomarkers proved useful for evaluating contaminant removalConquista o Mundo - conquer the world Da Lama ao Caos - From The Mud To The Chaos (this is the name of Chico Science's first album)
Do Mangue - from the mangroves in Recife
Manaus - capital of Amazonas (heart of the rainforest)
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009

Sugar Bowl #15 - Gayle's Sketch

Am revisiting a few of the past colour challenges from Passion for Promarkers, and these are the colours that Caryn chose a few weeks ago. I thought they were ideal xmassy colours, so here's an addition to my xmas card collection for this year. I have used Gayle's sketch over at the Sugar Bowl, and have included the added extra which was ribbons or bows.

Image: Snowflake by Sugar Nellie, coloured with promarkers: Ivory & Blush for her skin, Moss & Olive for her hat, trousers,coat and muff; Poppy & Maroon for all the polka dot trim and her shoes; Sandstone, Cinnamon & Cocoa for her hair.

I distressed the edges of the card she was stamped on with my Timto find his next lunch or dinner date with the president. That’s not helping the people of South Carolina. I want to represent people of South Carolina.”

McClatchy first reported the news of Harrison’s exploratory committee.

Harrison currently serves as associate chairman and counselor for the Democratic National Committee (DNC). He started to build a national profile when he unsuccessfully ran for DNC chair in 2017.

Harrison told the The Hill that he’ll continue to serve in his DNC role if he runs for Senate.

When asked if he supports Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersJacobin editor: Primarying Schumer would force him to fight Trump's SCOTUS nominee Trump campaign plays up Biden's skills ahead of Cleveland debate: 'He's actually quite good' Young voters backing Biden by 2:1 margin: poll MORE’s (I-Vt.) “Medicare for


be purchased from retailers of the Sony® Corporation's (via its Sony Electronics, Inc. as well as Sony Semiconductor and Sony Computing operations) products. There are several Sony Digital Cameras. For instance there is the DSC-F1 Digital Still Camera with an infrared wireless connectivity to a PC. As seen at:http://www.ita.sel.sony.com/products/archive/imaging/dscf1.html)this DSC-F1 Digital Still Camera is a Sony Digital Still Camera which features infrared wireless connectivity to a PC as well as an internal flash memory capable of storing up to 108 pictures at a 640×480—24-bit color (16.7 million colors) resolution. The DSC-F1's built-in 1.8″ LCD screen allows for easy viewing with no need to hold the camera up to your eye with “what you see is exactly what you get” and allowing using the LCD monitor, one to instantlyHigh simian T-cell leukemia virus type 1 proviral loads combined with genetic stability as a result of cell-associated provirus replication in naturally infected, asymptomatic monkeys.
Simian T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (STLV-1) is a primate T cell leukemia virus of the group of oncogenic delta retroviruses. Sharing a high level of genetic homology with human T cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1), it is etiologically linked to the development of simian T cell malignancies that closely resemble HTLV-1 associated leukemias and lymphomas and might thus constitute an interesting model of study. The precise nature of STLV-1 replication in vivo remains unknown. The STLV-1 circulating proviral load of 14 naturally infected Celebes macaques (Macaca tonkeana) was measured by real-time quantitative PCR. The mean proportion of infected peripheral mononuclear cells was


7.9%, ranging from <0.4% to 38.9%. Values and distributions were closely reminiscent of those observed in symptomatic and asymptomatic HTLV-1 infected humans. Sequencing more than 32 kb of LTRs deriving from 2 animals with high proviral load showed an extremely low STLV-1 genetic variability (0.113%). This paradoxical combination of elevated proviral load and remarkable genetic stability was finally explained by the demonstration of a cell-associated dissemination of the virus in vivo. Inverse PCR (IPCR) amplification of STLV-1 integration sites evidenced clones of infected cells in all infected animals. The pattern of STLV-1 replication in these asymptomatic monkeys was indistinguishable from that of HTLV-1 in asymptomatic carriers or in patients with inflammatory diseases. We conclude that, as HTLV-1, STLV-1 mainly replicates by the clonal expansion of infected cells; accordingly,than their own creativity and force themselves to write something they don’t really mean. I’ve been there and I know how it feels. Hopefully, some of the rules I use will help the beginner writers like me forget about the fear of being rejected and focus on creativity.

Copying the style of others won’t get you anywhere.

There is a business strategy that the second best player on the market uses to stay on the safe side — copying every step of the leader. If the leader makes a profitable decision, they both win. And if the decision of the bigger player leads to some disappointing consequences, the second-best has time to analyze the situation and choose a different way.

The same thing often happens to writers. They see an article


on the defendants' assets. On August 15, 2002, a temporary receiver, accompanied by FTC employees, entered the corporate defendants' premises in Largo, Florida to seize business records and shut down operations pursuant to the restraining order.

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After conducting extensive discovery, the FTC moved for summary judgment against the corporate defendants, Porcelli, and Harris.2 With its motion the FTC filed the required Northern District of Illinois Local Rule 56.1(a)(3) statement of undisputed material facts. In response to the FTC's motion, the defendants filed a document averring that an attached affidavit sworn by Porcelli contested "the vast majority of all facts listed as undisputed by the FTC." The defendants also submitted affidavits from three former BABC employees and one former BABC Customer Service employee. The affidavits made the following three assertions:paragraphs and refer to the "affidavits, parts of the record, and other supporting materials" that substantiate the listed facts. The party opposing summary judgment must then submit a response to each numbered paragraph, "including, in the case of any disagreement, specific references to the affidavits, parts of the record, and other supporting materials relied upon." Id. 56.1(b)(3)(A). The reply must also contain numbered paragraphs with "any additional facts that require the denial of summary judgment," supported by citations to the record. Id. 56.1(b)(3)(B). Finally, the rule provides that "[a]ll material facts set forth in the statement required of the moving party will be deemed to be admitted unless controverted by the statement of the opposing party."

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Concluding that the defendants' affidavits did not comply with the strictures of the


and Harris suggest that the corporations' deceptive practices did not harm consumers. The FTC submitted declarations from multiple consumers who purchased the defendants' package, only to learn later that it did not contain a credit card. These consumers also attempted unsuccessfully to receive a refund for the money debited from their accounts. Thus, the FTC has established consumer injury, the final requirement for individual liability under the FTC Act. See Freecom Communications, 401 F.3d at 1205-06; Amy Travel, 875 F.2d at 573.

IV.

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For the foregoing reasons, we AFFIRM the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the FTC.

Notes:

1
 Although not a named defendant in this case, the Utah telemarketing company, Assail, Inc., was the subject of an FTC action filed in the Western District of TexasSee FTCv. Assail, Inc., 410 F.3d 256, 259 n. 1 (5th Cir. 2005) (describing telemarketing "scheme" selling worthless "MasterCards").

2
 The district court later approved a stipulated settlement agreement between the FTC and the sole remaining defendant, Christopher Tomasulo. The agreement contemplates Tomasulo's adherence to a permanent injunction that mirrors the one ultimately entered against the other defendants


for deterministic theories. Experiments have errors. The constants in any theory are only known up to limited precision. That means that even our most reliable predictions are probabilistic. In chaotic systems, it is even common to have situations where our best predictions do not limit the possible states of the system to a narrower range than what we knew before making the prediction. Some regularities might arise and, when that is the case, we can check them. Nevertheless, comparing observations to a distribution that is too wide might not provide as much information as we would have liked.

Worse still, the predictions of a theory are not a well-defined set. As in the solar system example, we can only try to apply any gravitational theory, Newtonian, general relativity, orchoose them freely. However, that is only true before one learns anything. In principle, a person should pick a prior when she starts learning about the world. From there, she must update that initial guess with everything she has learned in her entire life. While not precisely infinite information, such an estimate is not computable in practical terms. Hence, even competent statisticians end up using guesses. However, it is crucial to recognize that those methods are not perfect implementations.

Another fundamental uncomputable aspect of Bayesian methods comes from the need to include every possible theory and their variations, including those nobody has ever thought [@fitelsonthomason08]. That is needed if one wants to obtain actual probability values. Comparing two complete sets of ideas can still be done if we ask


how the odds-ratio between the two sets evolve. In that case, renormalization constants cancel out, and the result does not depend on ideas outside the set. While useful, this property does not solve the problem of evaluating theories. As we will see, it allows us to make comparisons, but those still depend on assumptions that are not part of the compared theories.

Theories in physics
===================

One central cause that makes even comparing two theories using Bayesian methods often impossible is the fact that theories alone do not make probabilistic predictions. If we keep a theory unchanged, but we alter our assumptions about details like experimental errors or initial conditions, predictions change. In principle, the prediction of a theory should include distributions for every possibility associated with errors, possible initial andfew hypotheses would cause essential changes. Take, for example, the evidence in favor of general relativity when compared to Newtonian mechanics. If we look at the historical numbers that suggested general relativity was a better theory, the difference is colossal [@clemence47a]. Indeed, take only the case of the precession of the perihelion of Mercury. Given the average observations, the predictions of both theories, and the standard deviations associated with those numbers, if we assume errors follow a Normal distribution, the evidence in favor of general relativity amounts to an odds-ratio of staggering $10^{445}$. If one starts thinking there is only one in a million chance general relativity is better, that ratio will turn that initial believe into a one in $10^{439}$ chances in favor of general relativity.

That calculation,


motivating
factor causation standard should apply to a federal employee’s ADEA claim.
See Leal v. McHugh, 731 F.3d 405, 412 (5th Cir. 2013) (declining to determine
the proper causation standard because the appellants’ complaint stated a claim
for relief under the heightened but-for standard). Because we find that the
district court did not err in determining that Logan presented insufficient
evidence of causation under either standard, however, we need not decide the
appropriate standard in this case.
      Here, the district court first determined that Warden Keffer’s testimony
that he never referred to Selectee Crawford as “young” or a “twenty-seven year
old” was more credible than Supervisor Crawford’s and Logan’s testimony to
                     the reasons stated above, we AFFIRM the district court’s dismissal
of Logan’s ADEA claim.

       4Logan argues that Warden Keffer violated the Merit Systems Principles, 5 U.S.C.
§§ 2301(b)(1), 2302(b), by improperly relying on Warden Young’s recommendation of Selectee
Crawford. Because this argument was not raised before the district court, we find it waived.
See Pluet v. Frasier, 355 F.3d 381, 385 (5th Cir. 2004) (“We will not disturb the district court’s
judgment based upon an argument presented for the first time on appeal.”).


the regimes were all identified upon increasing the resolution. However, these studies used only one model, with a single ensemble member at each resolution. This leaves open the question as to how robust this resolution dependence is across models, as well as the possibility that sampling variability may be playing a role. In this paper, we address these issues by examining the impact of increasing resolution on three different models, each with three ensemble members. Besides examining the impact of resolution, we also evaluate the impact of using an ensemble: By concatenating multiple ensemble members, we can obtain larger data sets, effectively reducing the impact of excessive noise and/or poorly constrained regimes.

We will show that, for all three models considered, the low‐resolution models struggle to replicate the regimestructure seen in reanalysis data sets. None of the nine individual simulations achieve comparable levels of clustering to that of reanalysis, and while the regime patterns on average have a relatively high spatial correlation with those of reanalysis, the spread is often large with some individual members performing notably poorly. Persistence of the blocking regime is also systematically underestimated in all simulations, with the model tending to vacate the regime faster than reanalysis. Increasing the horizontal resolution leads to notably more tightly clustered data, with a few individual high‐resolution simulations achieving a regime structure comparable to reanalysis. A systematic improvement in the persistence statistics of the blocking regime is also seen across all the models; no such systematic change is identified for the other regimes. This is consistent


space. Concretely, the null hypothesis posits that the phase space is equivalent to that expected from assuming that each of the four coordinates of the atmosphere, in this truncated four‐dimensional phase space, are behaving like independent Markov processes with a fixed mean, variance, and lag‐1 correlation equaling those of the data set in question. The assumption of the process being first order (and therefore using the lag‐1 correlation) was justified by plotting the autocorrelation of our data sets and noting that these were very well captured by a basic exponential decay. While skewness in the data can, in principle, also influence clustering, we found little sensitivity to the computed metrics when adding skewness to the null hypothesis, and this was therefore ignored. Randomly generating four such Markov processesthose in reanalysis is used as a measure of how similar to reanalysis the diagnosed regimes are. Finally, we look at the level of day‐to‐day regime persistence.

Note that EOFs are always computed independently for each data set in question. In particular, when multiple ensemble members are concatenated, EOFs are computed for the concatenated data set.

3. Results {#grl59251-sec-0005}
==========

3.1. Regime Sharpness {#grl59251-sec-0006}
---------------------

Figure [2](#grl59251-fig-0002){ref-type="fig"} shows the impact of both increased resolution and increased ensemble size. In plot (a), the blue (red) dots/crosses/triangles associated with the ECEall/HadGEMall/MRIall labels are sharpness metrics for the relevant low‐resolution (high‐resolution) model obtained after concatenating all three ensemble members, effectively tripling the sample size compared to the reanalysis data sets. The horizontal black line shows the sharpness of ERA‐Interim over the period 1979--2010, while the black circles/crosses/triangles


sample size may still not suffice.

![Dependence of sharpness metric on number of ensemble members for (a) EC‐Earth3.1, (b) HadGEM3‐GA3, and (c) MRI‐AGCM3.2. In each, values for "1 member" is the average sharpness across the three low‐resolution (high‐resolution) members, "2 members" the average sharpness when concatenating combinations of two ensemble members (over all such combinations), and "3 members" the sharpness obtained after concatenating all three members: low resolution in blue and high resolution in green. Error bars show one standard deviation around the mean. The horizontal black line shows the sharpness of ERA‐Interim, and the black star shows the value of NCEP, over the relevant time periods.](GRL-46-7810-g003){#grl59251-fig-0003}

We note also (see Figure [2](#grl59251-fig-0002){ref-type="fig"}) that the increase in sharpness upon increasing the resolution is roughly twice as large as the maximumprobability that if the atmosphere is in a regime on day *N*, it will remain in the same regime on day *N*+1. This gives an indication of how persistent that regime tended to be in said season. For each model and each regime, distributions of these seasonal persistence probabilities were computed on the concatenation of the three ensemble members. These distributions were used to assess persistence.

All the models display biases in persistence statistics, but, with the exception of the blocking regime, we observed no systematic such bias, nor did we find a systematic improvement with resolution across all the models. For the blocking regime, all the models underestimate persistence, placing too much weight in the tail of short‐lived events. This is consistent with previous studies showing that GCM\'s


however, beyond the scope of the present study.

The above discussion becomes more pertinent when observing that horizontal resolution cannot by itself account for regime skill. Indeed, Figure [2](#grl59251-fig-0002){ref-type="fig"} shows that the low‐resolution (180 km) MRI simulations perform almost as well as the significantly higher‐resolution (25 km) HadGEM simulations. This implies that other aspects of the model, such as the model mean or small‐scale variability related to differing physics parametrisations, are likely equally important for producing robust regimes. Interestingly, MRI also has the coarsest vertical resolution of the three models, seemingly ruling this out as an important factor.

Our results also show that the sampling variability in both the sharpness and spatial correlation metrics is large for both high‐ and low‐resolution experiments. This may be due to excessive noise in the modelPages

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Measuring Murray up

Good article and video here by Andy Staples on Aaron Murray getting measured, both by NFL scouts and his own peers.

Murray hopes coaches will judge him more by his 35-17 record and by the way he played when his team needed him most. Can he throw under pressure? Check out this third-and-13 play that sealed the win against South Carolina on Sept. 6. Is he mobile? Check out this run against Tennessee, which came after the Bulldogs had lost nearly every key skill position player on offense to injury except Murray.

Or ask a teammate. Georgia tight end Arthur Lynch is playing for the South team this week, and he came to Athens with Murray in the class of 2009. "He's the epitome of


deflect criticism over Trump's barrage of tweets about Rep. Elijah Cummings Elijah Eugene CummingsBlack GOP candidate accuses Behar of wearing black face in heated interview Overnight Health Care: US won't join global coronavirus vaccine initiative | Federal panel lays out initial priorities for COVID-19 vaccine distribution | NIH panel: 'Insufficient data' to show treatment touted by Trump works House Oversight Democrats to subpoena AbbVie in drug pricing probe MORE (D-Md.) and Baltimore, which Trump labeled a "very dangerous & filthy place" where "no human being would want to live."

In his 2015 comments, Sanders, who was running for the Democratic presidential nomination at the time, took issue with the inequality in parts of the city.

"Anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think youof    the first full   paragraph on page             13,   which   begins, " Maddaus

did   not object,"    we delete the words " this slide" and replace them with the words " these slides. ";

this changed sentence now reads,

          Maddaus did not object to these slides.

           5)    In the first   sentence of   the last   paragraph on page         13,   which      begins, " It


 41,   we pluralize     the word " Slide"             in subheading D so that that the new

subheading       reads, "     D.     Power Point Slides ".             Also on page 41, in the first paragraph under

subheading " D ":

          After the first       sentence phrase " other similar words                    surrounding it,"    we  this assertion. See McFarland, 127 Wn.2d at 335.

         14) In the first full        paragraph on page             43,   which       begins, "   Applying the heightened,"

        in the first         sentence,      after   the word " unpreserved ",              we      delete the    word " errors"   and


  Nevertheless, to the extent this statement was arguably not a reasonable inference,
        any potential prejudice from this single statement was not significant given the
        other evidence of Maddaus' s guilt; and Maddaus has not shown that a curative
        instruction    would         not    have     overcome           any   potential       prejudice.           Accordingly,
        Maddaus does not show prosecutorial             compelled the defendant to choose between two distinct rights.
        Woods, 143 Wn.2d at 583.
                   The record here shows the State was not aware that Tremblay' s trial
       testimony would differ from his previous statements until Tremblay testified at
       trial.     Thus, the State clearly did not fail to act with due diligence, and the trial
        court did not err in denying Maddaus' s motion to dismiss to the


enhancements       for -his     murder,       attempted    kidnapping,     and   assault

convictions. He argues that ( 1) the'-Warrant- based search of his-residence was illegal; (2) the trial

court violated   his due   process rights   by   allowing him to be          restrained   during   trial; ( 3) the trial

                                          More specifically, Maddaus contends that his firearm sentencing enhancements violated his due
     process rights because the information charged him with only deadly weapon enhancements; the
     State failed to establish that he had two prior " strike" convictions for POAA purposes; and his
     POAA life sentence violated his equal protection and due process rights to a jury determination
     beyond a reasonable doubt that he had two prior qualifying convictions.

I


phone

conversation    of   the   persons   involved in the robbery.          Although most of the voices were

unrecognizable,      Maddaus believed that       one      was    Shaun Peterson.   Late the next evening,

November 15, Maddaus met with Peterson and several friends ( Matthew Tremblay, Jesse Rivera,

Daniel Leville, and Falyn Grimes) to question Peterson about his involvement in the- robbery.

Peterson was handcuffed, and Maddaus was armed with a firearm and a knife. Nobody else was

armed. While questioning Peterson, Maddaus played the recorded phone conversation. Peterson

eventually walked out the front door; Maddaus followed him outside, after which Maddaus' s
friendsmy     arrest.   The police

wanted      to talk to   me.    I didn' t   want   to talk to them."        15 VRP at 1868. The police found this wig

 in Maddaus' s vehicle when they arrested him.

                                                                    5
No.


  After Farmer

was caught carrying methamphetamine in November 2009, he provided Maddaus' s name to the

Thurston County Drug Task Force, became an informant, and agreed to perform three controlled

buys        from    Maddaus.            On November             14     or   15,   Farmer   called       Maddaus      to     purchase

methamphetamine, but Maddaus did not answer. Maddaus called Farmer back later and stated,

 I   can'   t talk. I' ll   either   be—                        B. final

                                                            1.   Restraints

           Over defense counsel's objection and without articulating its* reasons, the trial court

ordered Maddaus to wear a shock device and a leg restraint during trial. Before the jury entered,

Maddaus' s


uncover

    any firearms and that Akau had told police that Maddaus had spent the following night after the

    shooting at his own residence.

                The affidavit then summarized the evidence police expected to find at Maddaus' s

    residence as follows:

                The     residence      that Maddaus[]      went   to   immediately following the murder .... is
                roughly    1260 ( 2011). A person claiming ineffective assistance of counsel has
     the burden to establish that counsel' s performance both ( 1) was so deficient that it deprived the
     defendant of his constitutional right to counsel and .(2) prejudiced the defendant' s case. Failure
     toestablish either prong is fatal to an ineffective assistance of counsel claim. Strickland v.
     Washington; 466 U.S. 668; 687 -88, 104 S. Ct. 2052, 80 L. Ed. 2d 674 ( 1984); . State v.
     Hendrickson, 129 Wn.2d 61, 77 -78, 917 P. 2d 563 ( 1996).


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No. 41795 -2 -
             H

bases its decision on untenable grounds or reasons. State v. Thompson, 173 Wn.2d 865, 870, 217

P. 3d 204 ( 2012).      If the defendant failed to preserve an evidentiary challenge with a specific

objection below, we may address its merits for the first time on appeal if he establishes that the

error is manifest and of constitutional magnitude for purposes of the RAP 2.5( a)( 3)  copy to Maddaus' s counsel.

           We find no abuse of discretion in the trial court' s handling of this issue. With respect to

    Maddaus' s ineffective assistance of counsel, claim, he fails to provide any facts or reasons about

    21 In Garza, jail officials seized and examined several defendants' legal documents after the
    defendants had attempted escape. One inmate witnessed one of the officers reading these legal
    materials. The trial court denied the defendants' motion to dismiss. Garza, 99 Wn. App. at 293-
    95. Division Three of our court held that the trial court had abused its discretion by denying the


       The State concedes, and we agree, that third degree

            assault is an inferior degree of second degree assault.

                         Our focus then is whether the evidence raised an inference that Maddaus committed only

            the lesser degree                offense.               Medina, 141 Wn.2d
       ( 1997),            review     denied, 134      Wn.2d     1016 ( 1998)), aff d, 152
             Wn.2d 333, 96 P. 3d 974 (2004).
    i
             27 Maddaus does not challenge the trial court' s denial of Maddaus' s request for an instruction on
    i
        i    fourth degree assault.


specific count."
State  v. Fisher, 165 Wn.2d 727, 755, 202 P. 3d 937 ( 2009) ( citing State v. Petrich, 101 Wn.2d

 566, 570, 683 P. 2d 173 ( 1984),            modified on other grounds by State v. Kitchen, 110 Wn.2d 403,
 756 P. 2d 105 ( 1988)).
             But a unanimity instruction is not required when the State offers evidence of multiple acts
 in   a "   continuing    course of conduct."      State v. Crane, 116 Wn.2d 315, 326, 804 P. 2d 10 ( 1991).
  A continuing course of conduct requires an ongoing enterprise witha single objective." State v.
 Love, 80 Wn. App. 357, 361, 908 P. 2d 395 ( 1996). This determination requires a commonsense
 evaluation of the facts. State v. Handran, 113 Wn.2d 11, 17, 775 P. 2d 453 ( 1989).

 30 State v. Perez -Valdez., 172 Wn.2d 808, 818 -19, 265 P. 3d 853 ( 2011).

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    No. 41795 -2 -


gentlemen, the charge is attempted
            kidnapping. Jessica Abear was not kidnapped, but the evidence shows that that' s
            what the defendant had in mind, and he took a substantial step towards the
            commission of   that   crime. ...   The issue is what did the defendant have in mind
            when he confronted, and I submit, tortured Jessica Abear.

    17 VRP at 1992. We hold, therefore, that that Maddaus fails to show reversible error in the trial

 Br. of

    Appellant at 77 -78.

                Washington            courts     have     used        the    terms "   corroborative      of   and - "   indicates"

    interchangeably without criticism; and Maddaus cites no cases to the contrary. See, e. g., State v.

    Dent, 67 Wn.            App,    656, 660, 840 P. 2d 202 ( 1992),


         affd, 123 Wn.2d 467, 869 P.2d 392 ( 1994)

    32
         For the first time in his reply brief, Maddaus also argues that "[ n]othing in this case established
    that the weapon allegedly       used to assault Abear was a real gun, as opposed to a toy gun." Reply

    Br. of Appellant at 42. We do not consider an issue raised and argued for the first time in a reply
    brief. Cowiche Canyon Conservancy v. Bosley, 118 Wn.2d 801, 809, 828 P. 2d 549 ( 1992).
    Moreover, Maddaus provides no further argumentthat ( 1) the prosecutors conduct was improper, and ( 2) the

conduct was prejudicial in the context of the entire record and the circumstances at trial.

Thorgerson, 172 Wn.2d              at   438.    To establish prejudice, the defendant must show a substantial

 33 We have previously stated the applicable standard of review for ineffective assistance of
 counsel claims. See n. 18.

 34
                                             XIVV;

      U.


misconduct.           Maddaus correctly notes that it is improper for the

prosecutor to comment disparagingly on defense counsel' s role or to impugn the defense

lawyer' s integrity. Thorgerson, 172 Wn.2d at 45135 But this did not happen here.

          Here, the State neither disparaged counsel nor accused him of wrongdoing when it

suggested that defense counsel' s investigator had been " duped" into being Maddaus' s agent.

There was no insinuation of misconduct or lack of integrity on the part of defense counsel; nor

did this       statement       impugn defense        counsel.      s name, and he had called

Maddaus     on    November 15, 2009, to             purchase methamphetamine       in    a controlled       buy. • Police

obtained phone records of all calls placed 'and received from Maddaus' s cell phone, which

included    a record of    his phone     call      to Farmer.    We agree with the State that, in this context,

Farmer was a potential witness by virtue of his prior arrangements with the police to set up a

controlled buy with Maddaus and Farmer' s subsequent phone calls


   v.   Crawford, 159 Wn.2d 86, 94, 147 P. 3d 1288 .( 2006) ( State must set

    forth in information its intent to             seek enhanced penalties);       In re Bush, 95 Wn.2d 551, 554, 627

    P. 2d 953 ( 1981).

            Here, the information alleged that ( 1) at the time Maddaus committed first degree murder

    and attempted kidnapping ( Counts I and III), he " was armed with a deadly weapon, a firearm";

    and (2) while committing second degree assault ( Count IV), Maddauscan neither find nor fairly imply an essential element of
    the crime in the charging document, we presume prejudice and reverse without considering
    whether the omission prejudiced the defendant. State v. Goodman, 150 Wn.2d 774, 788, 83 P. 3d
    410 ( 2004). In such cases, we reverse the conviction even if the defendant had actual knowledge
    of all the essential elements of the alleged crime. State v. Kjorsvick, 117 Wn.2d 93, 101 -02, 812
    P.2d 86 ( 1991).     But if the necessary facts appear, or are implied, in some form in the charging
     document,   we   then     consider


  on   Count III "reasonably         appris[ ed]"   him that the State was

seeking      a   firearm sentencing   enhancement         for this    attempted   kidnapping     charge.   CP at 22. See

Kjorsvick, 117 Wn.2d at 109.

            Furthermore, in contrast with Recuenco,44 the jury instructions here defined " firearm" as

 a weapon or device from which a projectile may be fired by an explosive such as gunpowder."

CP    at    448 ( Instruction 32).    Each of thethe evidence. State v. Hunley, 161 Wn. App.

919, 927, 253 P.3d 448, aff'd, 175 Wn:2d 901, 287 P. 3d 584 ( 2012).                 The best evidence of a

prior conviction is a certified copy of the judgment. State v. Mendoza, 165 Wn.2d 913, 920, 205

P. 3d 113 ( 2009) ( quoting State       v.   Lopez, 147 Wn.2d 515, 519, 55 P. 3d 609 ( 2002)).      It is the

State' s obligation to ensure that the. record before the sentencing court supports the criminal

history determination. State v. Ford, 137 Wn.2d 472, 480, 973 P. 2d 452 ( 1999).

 46 We also reject Maddaus' s


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            A defendant waives the right to object to inclusion of a prior conviction when he

affirmatively acknowledges that the conviction was properly included in his offender score.
Ross, 152 Wn.2d at 229 -32. But a defendant' s silence on the issue is not sufficient to constitute

such a waiver. Hunley, 161 Wn. App. at 928 -29.

            Here, the State provided certified copies of Maddaus' s prior judgment. and sentences: A

1993 jury verdict of guilty for two counts of second degree assault while armed with a deadly

weapon; and a 1995 guilty plea conviction for unlawful possession with intent to deliver while

armed   we        recently     rejected   this   same   argument   in Witherspoon.   We

recognized that current Washington Supreme Court case law interpreting the POAA has

 consistently continued to hold that a judge can determine a prior -conviction for -POAA

sentencing    purposes and       that   a   jury   determination is    not required."   Witherspoon, 171 Wn. App.

at   317 ( citing State   v.   Smith, 150 Wn.2d 135, 143, 75 P. 3d 934 ( 2003), cert. denied, 541 U.S.

909, 124 S. Ct. 1616, 158 L. Ed. 2d 256 ( 2004);


2007);      State v. McKague, 159 Wn. App. 489, 515 - 17, 246 P. 3d 558 ( Division Two),

 affrd,   172 Wn.2d 802, 262 P. 3d 1225 ( 2011);                State v. O'Connell, 137 Wn. App. 81, 90 -91, 152

 P. 3d 349 ( Division Three),       review         denied, 162 Wn.2d 1007 ( 2007)).       Again adhering to existing

 case law, we hold that Maddaus' s argument also fails here.

                     made within a reasonable         time   before trial. Chase, 59 Wn. App. at

506. Absent substantial reasons for delay, a late request will generally be denied, especially if a

continuance    may     delay trial.      Chase, 59 Wn.    App.    at   506.    We review a trial court' s denial of a

motion to substitute counsel for abuse of discretion. State v. Stenson, 132 Wn.2d 668, 733, 940

P. 2d 1239 ( 1997),       cent.   denied, 523 U. S. 1008 ( 1998).             To determine


    On the third day of trial, Maddaus asked for new counsel, stating,

          Yeah,   at   this time   I' d like to fire my   counsel.      I   need   new   counsel.   I can' t afford
          to hire [ retained counsel] and continue to pay him like this. I've asked him to do
          several things. A letter, I don' t know, somehow from me to Mr. Woodrow made
          it to the prosecutor' concurring in part and dissenting in part),

aj"d, 172 Wn.2d         802,   262 P. 3d 1225 ( 2011),   and State v. Rudolph, 141 Wn. App. 59, 72, 168

                          Brintnall, J.,
P. 3d 430 ( 2007) ( Quinn -                     dissenting),    review     denied, 163 Wn.2d 1045 ( 2008), I.

continue to question a trial court' s constitutional authority to impose a - sentence beyond that

supported by a jury verdict


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          2 II

the offense of conviction. Therefore, Maddaus' s sentence is supported by the jury' s verdict and

any violation of Maddaus' s jury trial rights in this instance is harmless.

                    IRELAND HAS A problem with obesity.

That’s the consensus from the World Health Organisation, among others.

They say that, on current trends, 89% of Irish men will be overweight by 2030, and nearly half obese.

Public health interventions are certainly required, but a group of doctors say that if the government and HSE treated obesity as a disease of the brain, and offered expanded access to surgical treatments, then it could save the exchequer millions and help to alleviate the problems associated with it in Ireland.

John Conneely is a consultant surgeon at the Mater Private Hospital in Dublin. He told TheJournal.ie that it’s a “no-brainer” to offer surgery as an effective means of treating someone with obesity over a certain weight.

The Irish Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism agrees and says


You may not think so at first glance but this is a natural segue from my last post—…The Time for All Good Men… We need a little historical background first.

At the start of the Women’s Suffrage movement, about a hundred and fifty years ago, the adult male in Western Society became “The Villain” and he remained in that role with increasing emphasis as the years went on. It is time now to rectify this public perception. It is entirely erroneous. If our men were as black as they were painted by the suffragettes, women would not have been given the vote. But they were. Our men did not have to do this and with the twenty-twenty vision of hindsight, we would be much better off today, both financiallygenerations.

Predators are kept at bay by a show of physical force and that is the only thing that keeps them at bay. Women do not have even half the physical force of men and for this reason alone predators do not fear them. That being the case, females in important public offices do not provide any deterrent value on the social level where predators grow. All this petticoat posturing called “equality” and “political correctness” and “gender sensitivity training” is the feminine idea of force in controlling a world where predators lurk by a display of drawing room manners.

It is time for our men to step up to the plate. I know I am not the only female in America who has faith in them. It’s a bit late


Jan van Krimpen

Jan van Krimpen (12 January 1892, in Gouda – 20 October 1958, in Haarlem) was a Dutch typographer, book designer and type designer. He worked for the printing house Koninklijke Joh. Enschedé. He also worked with Monotype in England, who issued or reissued many of his designs outside the Netherlands.

Van Krimpen was a leading figure of international reputation in book printing during his lifetime. He designed books both in the Netherlands and for the Limited Editions Club of New York, amongst others. His work has been described as traditional and classical in style, focusing on simplicity and high quality of book printing.

Type designs

Van Krimpen's type designs are elegant book typefaces, originally made for manual printing and the Monotype machine. Although a good few have beenwedding reception. He's in flannels, and everyone
else in every photo at this event (there are other photos) is wearing suits, gowns and tuxedos. Brion would've stuck put like a sore thumb with that
outfit on.

So, how the hell did this happen?

That's a direct scan of a Kodak point and shoot camera. I've seen the actual photo itself, and it's old. That is definitely my brother standing in
the background. It's a mystery.

Wedding Crasher! And FYI I've been to a few hillbilly weddings where flannel and/or camouflage were acceptable articles of clothing. Anyhow I guess
the whole thing depends on the story. Not sure how to prove or disprove.

Originally posted by jjkenobi
Wedding Crasher! And FYI I've been to a few hillbilly weddings where flannel and/or camouflage were acceptable articles of clothing. Anyhow


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in the United States. Ventura County is now on the verge of overtaking San Diego, in part because water there is cheaper and not as salty.

“The thing I find that is quite interesting is that district water that passes state standards for human consumption is water that is not worth a damn for a grower,” said Charley Wolk, a longtime avocado grower in Fallbrook.

In the past three years, the amount of salt in the water used by most avocado growers in the county has gone up by 20 percent, said David Crowley, a soil scientist at University of California, Riverside. Even with good quality water, he said that growers may be applying 30 pounds of salt per tree, and much more if the water is salty.

Salt is awould take to plant a new 20-acre avocado grove in several counties. In San Diego, water costs were about four times higher than the cost of water in Ventura County, the second-largest avocado producing county.

To break even, a new avocado farmer in San Diego would need to bring in about $1.44 per pound. In Ventura, a farmer would be able to break even at just 88 cents per pound. Right now, non-organic avocados are selling for up to $1.36 a pound in mid-May. That price is up from earlier in the year, when Mexico flooded the market with avocados.

So, if salt is affecting crop yield, that could be a real problem, because farmers’ costs aren’t going down.

Jessica Hunter, a farm manager at Del Ray Avocado in Fallbrook, said


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with the Norwegian option the least expensive. Given that, it seems probable that the government would pursue the Norwegian rather than the Canadian option in the event of a Brexit vote. The main figures Osborne used are based on a Canada-style arrangement.

Will taxes go up by 8p in £1 or spending on the NHS be cut by a third if Britain leaves?

Again, this depends on whether the Treasury’s assumptions about the economy are right. If the economy really is 6% smaller by 2030, tax receipts will also be lower. That would force the government either to raise taxes or reduce spending. Osborne is assuming that contributions to the EU would fall by £7bn after Brexit. Without this, the loss to the exchequer would be £43bn in 2030, ratherthan £36bn. The leave campaign says the economy would do better outside the EU, which will continue to struggle as a result of the problems with the euro.

What impact does migration have on the Treasury projections?

The Treasury is assuming that net migration will fall from 329,000 in 2014 to 185,000 a year from 2021 onwards, in line with what the Office for National Statistics expects. The chancellor is right to say that if Britain wanted a Norway-style arrangement after voting to leave the EU, it would have to agree to the continued free movement of people from within the bloc. The only way in which the UK could have total control on migration would be to opt for the WTO approach. Campaigners for Brexit say lower migration would


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The expansion, set in the tundra of Ariandel, will cost $14.99 and be available for PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. A season pass containing both the first pack and a second DLC set, due early next year, is offered for $24.99.

Japanese gaming blog Hachima reports that Famitsu magazine, officially on stands later this week, includes pictures of some of the elemental powers included in "Ashes of Ariandel." These include a fiery sword, ice powers and a light-filled boomerang. Also shown is an exclusive PvP map called Immortal Competition, although further


satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday (07Jan15).

Synopsis

Documentary that celebrates the motion picture combat cameramen who served on the front lines of World War II. The program traces their story from Pearl Harbor to the war's aftermath in devastated Nagasaki. Most of the combat camera operators were enlisted men who were handed cameras instead of guns, given a brief training program and sent into battle armed mainly with Eyemo cameras -- hand-held, hand-wound 35mm machines that carried only two-minute film loads.concerns from around the world, the creation of a complaint/comment form used to gather information from residents about their health issues, and repeated visits to the area in varying weather conditions.

Christopher Menge, an engineer with Harris Miller Miller and Hanson Inc., the firm Falmouth hired to conduct a study of noise at the turbine site, summarized that report’s findings. The sound samples, taken over the course of 10 days in June 2010, were measured against the background noise in the area, as is standard in determining whether a particular source of sound exceeds the maximum allowable levels set by the state’s Department of Environmental Protection.

That threshold is 10 decibels over background noise, and Menge said the study had found that the turbine noise could approach or exceed that


the things down while you can still resell them.”

Terri Drummey referred to the turbine issues as “the so-called Falmouth Effect,” and described the difficulty sleeping and concentrating which she said had led to her 10-year-old son’s declining grades, as well as her daughter’s headaches, and the ringing in her husband’s ears.

“We are the unwilling guinea pigs in your experiment with wind energy,” she said.

The board is scheduled to hear further testimony from those affected by the turbines at its July 11 meeting.

This article is the work of the source indicated. Any opinions expressed in it are not necessarily those of National Wind Watch.

The copyright of this article is owned by the author or publisher indicated. Its availability here constitutes a "fair use" as provided for in section 107you what a thrill it is to meet you." "I mean, well..." "You don't meet someone everyday who's devised a legal code that's used all over the world." " A legal what?" " The Code Napoléon." "Your code for abolishing imprisoning men for debt ending slavery protecting women's claims on property." "Those are excellent ideas." "You thought of them, sir." "At least you will." "You are a fortuneteller?" " No, no, no, no." "I'm a" " Or a spy?" "Yeah, a fortuneteller, yes." "That's right." "Well, major." "Tell me about the future." "All right, sir." "I can tell you just about anything you'd wanna know." "What year is this?" "You're a fortuneteller, you don't know the year?" "Well..." "It's 1803." "Get rid of it." "Get rid of what?"


that he was sent by Russia." "I am back." "Oh, what a pleasant surprise." "You have met General Pichegru." "This is Mademoiselle Jeannie." "You're the one who is going to try to kill Napoleon." "And he is going to have you strangled." "But she's outrageous, sire." "But so beautiful." "Pichegru, would you excuse us?" "You" " You would not change your mind?" "No, call all the plans off." "As you command, sire." "I thought you were not coming." "You said you had to help a friend." "But I am helping him." "That is why I am here." "I don't understand." "Major Nelson sent me here to work on you." " To work on me?" " Yes." "But he said that I must be subtle." "What does subtle mean?"As we spoke, I asked several times how she could have believed for nearly five months that a twenty-three-year-old Frenchman with dyed hair, brown eyes, and a European accent was her son. “We just kept making excuses—that he’s different because of all this ugly stuff that had happened,” she said. She and Carey wanted it to be him so badly. It was only after he came to live with her that she had doubts. “He just didn’t act like my son,” Beverly said. “I couldn’t bond with him. I just didn’t have that feeling. My heart went out for him, but not like a mother’s would. The kid’s a mess and it’s sad, and I wouldn’t wish that on anybody.”

Beverly’s experience, as incredible as it is, does have


“He has lied, and lied, and lied again. And to this day he continues to lie. He bears no remorse.” Stick denounced Bourdin as a “flesh-eating bacteria,” and the judge compared what Bourdin had done—giving a family the hope that their lost child was alive and then shattering it—to murder.

The only person who seemed to have any sympathy for Bourdin was Beverly. She said at the time, “I feel sorry for him. You know, we got to know him, and this kid has been through hell. He has a lot of nervous habits.” She told me, “He did a lot of things that took a lot of guts, if you think about it.”

The judge sentenced Bourdin to six years—more than three times what was recommended under the sentencingand baby. “You can’t just invent yourself as a father,” his uncle Jean-Luc Drouart said. “You’re not a dad for six days or six months. It is not a character—it is a reality.” He added, “I fear for that child.”

Bourdin’s mother, Ghislaine, says that her son is a “liar and will never change.”

After so many years of playing an impostor, Bourdin has left his family and many authorities with the conviction that this is who Frédéric Pierre Bourdin really is: he is a chameleon. Within months of being released from prison in the United States and deported to France, in October, 2003, Bourdin resumed playing a child. He even stole the identity of a fourteen-year-old missing French boy named Léo Balley, who had vanished almost eight years earlier,


can have three arms and three legs,” he said. “It doesn’t matter. I don’t need my child to be perfect. All I want is that this child feels love.” He did not care what his family thought. “They are my shelter,” he said of his wife and soon-to-be child. “No one can take that from me.”

A month later, Bourdin called and told me that his wife had given birth. “It’s a girl,” he said. He and Isabelle had named her Athena, for the Greek goddess. “I’m really a father,” he said.

I asked if he had become a new person. For a moment, he fell silent. Then he said, “No, this is who I am.” ♦dust and super glue. I mixed the two together and made putty and pressed it into the damaged area of the ring. In the photo below you can see the repaired area on the ring.I used the Dremel and sanding drum to remove the excess patch and sanded it back until it was smooth against the rest of the bowl.I sanded it with 220 grit sandpaper until the ring blended in with the rest of the pipe. I used a hack saw blade to recut the grooves on each side of the ring repair. The photo below shows the recut grooves and the repaired ring. It still needs to be cleaned up but it is looking better.I used a knife blade needle file to clean up the grooves.


AMD and Cray have announced that they're building "Frontier," a new supercomputer for the Department of Energy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The goal is to deliver a system that can perform 1.5 exaflops: 1.5×1018 floating point operations per second.

By way of comparison, a single Nvidia RTX 2080 GPU manages about 14 teraflops of compute performance with 32-bit numbers. Frontier will achieve 100,000 times more. The fastest supercomputer in the Top 500 list weighs in at 200 petaflops, or 0.2 exaflops. As things stand, it'd take the top 160 machines on the list to match Frontier's performance.

Frontier will use custom versions of AMD's Epyc processors (likely Zen 3 or Zen 4), matched with 4 GPUs, all connected using AMD's Infinity Fabric. Between nodes, Cray's Slingshot interconnect will beSecond Generation Digital Detail Enhancement (DDE). DDE corrects digitally corrects sharpness so you can get sharper images without any blurry images. And, not forgetting the reduced image noise and a whole lot of other optimization features.

Performance

This is quite a capable model. The high definition resolution is a must have when you want the best performance from a thermal monocular. You don’t need to pick where you go out of restrictions. You are open to the place of your choice from the great outdoors, to security enforcement, and even in military use.

PROS:

It can display multiple color palettes

LED VGA produces high-resolution images at 640 x 480 pixels

It has imaging filter algorithms

It has a set of indicators including the battery, palette, and active profile indicator

Armasight by FLIR Prometheus C 336 2-8x25

This


third of the population is living in poverty, and the unemployment rate for those under the age of 24 is 39 percent.

And so forth…

In the face of this daunting, unrelenting, merciless, incessant drip-drip-drip of bad news, however, comes some good news. First, the United States is about to become a net exporter of petroleum products for the first time in 62 years. In the first nine months of 2011, the U.S. sent abroad 753 million barrels of “everything from gasoline to jet fuel” while importing only 689 million, as reported by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (USEIA).

North Dakota is expected to pump more crude oil next year than Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay. As noted by the Wall Street Journal, “If overall trends continue, daily U.S. oil output could beup by 1 million barrels a day by 2016, to 6.6 million:”

Crude-oil imports are falling, balance-of-trade payments are improving and thousands of oil-field jobs are being created from Texas to Ohio, from West Virginia to Wyoming. Moreover, the U.S. is beginning to export a significant amount of diesel and gasoline refined from crude and could begin exporting chilled natural gas next year.

The boom in North Dakota not only is keeping that state’s unemployment rate the lowest in the country, it is beginning to fuel a real estate turnaround in Las Vegas and Phoenix. Realtor Rocky Parra in Gilbert, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, has so many customers buying properties in Arizona that he makes regular trips to towns like Williston, North Dakota to take orders from local residents


Ian Bush Charged For Tying Up, Robbing 101-Year-Old WWII Vet

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY ANNE MEYER
101 years old canadian veteran Ernest Cote poses in front of the Juno Beach museum in Juno Beach on April 17, 2014 in Courseulles-sur-Mer, western France. Ernest Cote landed on June 6, 1944 at 11am at Juno Beach. AFP PHOTO / CHARLY TRIBALLEAU (Photo credit should read CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP/Getty Images)

OTTAWA - A man facing multiple charges for tying up and robbing a Second World War veteran in Ottawa has been remanded in custody for 30 days for a psychiatric assessment.

Ian Bush appeared in an Ottawa court on Wednesday following his arrest last week.

Bush will return to court Jan. 23 after the court-ordered assessment determines whether he could be held criminally responsible for4) received a liver transplant before or during the study period; and 5) had only a temporary address.

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The pathogenesis of cirrhosis was determined from the medical record and classified as alcoholic liver disease (documented history of alcohol misuse and absence of other risk factors); nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (cirrhosis in the presence of obesity and absence of other causes of liver disease); viral (presence of markers of hepatitis B virus \[HBV\] and/or hepatitis C virus \[HCV\] and absence of other causes for cirrhosis); immune (autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, primary sclerosing cholangitis); and other (such as hemochromatosis, α‐1 antitrypsin deficiency, and cardiac cirrhosis). Patients with HCV or HBV with a remote history of alcohol use were grouped under viral. Patients with current misuse of alcohol and markers


summary, this study identified age and sex as major risk factors for initial hospitalization and a high rate of 30‐day readmission in patients with cirrhosis. The MELD‐Na score, platelet count, and length of stay are independent predictors of readmission, but the model to predict risk for readmission had poor discriminative ability. Postindex hospitalization costs for those readmitted are high, especially so in the group readmitted within 30 days. Moreover, at 1 year, only a minority of patients have their care managed at home, highlighting the devastating outcome of readmission for complications of cirrhosis. In the absence of a model that accurately identifies patient groups at high risk for readmission, strategies to reduce readmission may not be successful.

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Australia will travel to Austria for their Davis Cup World Group play-off in September after the ITF conducted the draw in London on Tuesday.

Captain Lleyton Hewitt will travel with his team to Europe for the away tie following Tuesday's draw at the International Tennis Federation (ITF) headquarters in London.

Victory in the tie would ensure Australia remain in the World Group for a sixth straight year.

The play-off will take place on September 14-16 - only five days after the US Open ends - with the venue yet to be decided but the surface likely to be clay.

Austria have played their last three home ties on clay, the favoured surface of their top player, world No.7 Dominic Thiem.

Hewitt will be hoping to call upon Nick Kyrgios, Matthew Ebden and JohnPages

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I used this lesson plan during a recent Red Ball clinic and it worked like a charm. Hope you have the same success.

It's never too soon to teach your beginner tennis students how to bounce feed properly. You gotta walk before you can run, as the saying goes. Bounce feeds are an easy way for students to get a point or a rally started if they are having difficulty with an underhand or overhand serve. This lesson plan is composed of several simple activities in a progression that should culminate in the students bounce feeding and perhaps getting into a brief rally if we're all very lucky :)

Warm Up: Wacky KneesWacky Knees is a fun warm-up I have posted about previously. To recap, students stand


bring the balls back to the starting side, or you will never run out of balls and this will be a neverending warmup. Unless you are short on balls! If you are low on balls, have them retrieve and return balls from the far side and just end the warm-up when X amount of balls have landed in the proper spot across court. If you use this second option, they may need help keeping track of score. Pins are handy for scorekeeping but sometimes slow things down.

The Bounce Feed
Next step is to have the group or teams perform the same activity, doing Wacky Knees forward into a certain spot in the court. But now, instead of underhand tossing the ball over the net, have them bounce feed itover.

Bounce Feed Technique Tips:

Right-handed player turned 90 degrees
from net, racquet hand on baseline side

Player faces to the side, 90 degrees from net with dominant hand closest to baseline and drop arm (the one holding the ball) closest to net.

Drop arm should be held out straight at shoulder height, 45 degree angle toward the net post. This angle is important. Most beginners want to hold both arms out in front, parallel to each other, like a Tennis Frankenstein.

Back of hand should be pointing toward sky with ball pointing toward ground.

Drop ball, let it bounce, then hit it over the net. The ball is dropped gently; just release the fingers. It is not thrown, not tossed up in the air.

Some students find a scooping motion helpful when swinging the racquet


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on and off the field Savarese said has been invaluable.

“First, off the field, he is extraordinary,” Savarese said. “He is very humble, very calm, prepared for any inconvenience to make it positive. He has been tremendous to younger players. Somebody who is always ready to work. On the field we know the professional we got, a player who has a lot of quality, somebody who technical-wise is great. He is able to do things that come very easy to him, he makes the difficult look simple. He makes the team better around him and also looks like a young boy in the way he is running. He has been everything we thought and more.”

To bolster the Cosmos’ attack, Savarese reached back to his native Venezuela and signed strikerDiomar Diaz, 23. In two games, Diaz has scored three goals, including both in last week’s victory at Fort Lauderdale.

“He is technical and talented,” Savarese said. “We are lucky to have such a young player with his quality.”


$u_0'(c)=0$ or $u_0'(d)=0$, since $u_0''$ is of constant sign on $(c,d)$, we have that $u_0'$ is a function of constant sign on $[c,d]$, then $u_0(c)=u_0(d)=0$ implies that $u_0\equiv 0$ on $[c,d]$. In other words, $0$ is not an eigenvalue of operator $T[0]$ coupled either with boundary conditions $u(c)=u'(c)=u(d)=u''(d)=0$ or $u(c)=u(d)=u'(d)=u''(d)=0$.

Now, working with boundary conditions , we know that $u'_0(c)=0$, then with the previous argument $u_0'$ is of constant sign. Hence, $u_0$ is a monotone function with at most a zero, which satisfies $u_0(d)=0$, then $u_0$ is of constant sign on $[c,d)$.

Let us see that every solution $$T[M]\,u_M(t)=0\,,\quad t\in[c,d]\,,$$ verifying the boundary conditions will be of constant sign until one of the following assertions holds: $u_M'(c)=0$ or $u_M'(d)=0$.

From the properties deduced for $M=0$, we know that $u_M >0$ ort=b}>0$ for $s\in(a,b)$. Then $T[M]$ is strongly inverse negative in $X$ if, and only if, $M\in [-\lambda_3,-\lambda_1)$.

From Theorem \[T::1\] we obtain a direct corollary by using the method of upper and lower solutions, see [@cacisa] for details.

\[Cor::1\] We consider the operator $T[c]\,u(t)\equiv u^{(4)}(t)+p_1(t)\,u'''(t)+p_2(t)\,u''(t)+c(t)\,u(t)$, with $c\in C(I)$, under the hypothesis of Theorem \[T::1\]. Then,

-   If $-\lambda_1<c(t)\leq -\lambda_2$ for every $t\in I$, then $T[c]$ is strongly inverse positive in $X$.

-   If $-\lambda_3\leq c(t)<-\lambda_1$ for every $t\in I$, then $T[c]$ is strongly inverse negative in $X$.

Particular cases
================

In this section, in order to see the usefulness of given results, several examples where it can be applied are shown.

 Operator $u^{(4)}-p\,u''$, with $p\geq0$.
------------------------------------------

Now, let us consider the operator given by the expression $u^{(4)}-p\,u''+M\,u$, with $p\geq 0$ defined on $I$.

In


[@CaSaa1 Theorem 2.1] it is proved that the second order linear differential equation $u''(t)+m\,u(t)=0$ is disconjugate on $I$ if, and only if, $m\in\left( -\infty, \left( \frac{\pi}{b-a}\right) ^2\right)$. In particular, $u''(t)-p\,u(t)=0$ is always a disconjugate equation on $I$ for all $p>0$, so, we can apply Theorem \[T::1\].

So, in order to apply Theorem \[T::1\] we have to obtain the eigenvalues of this operator in $X$, $X_3$, $X_1$, $U_{[a,b]}$ and $V_{[a,b]}$.

In this particular case, the eigenvalues of the operator in $X_1$ and $X_3$ are the same, and also the eigenvalues in $U_{[0,1]}$ and $V_{[0,1]}$ coincide. Indeed, if we have $u\in X_1$ (resp. $u\in U_{[0,1]}$) such that $u^{(4)}(t)-pu''(t)+M\,u(t)=0$, then $v(t)=u(1-t)$ satisfies $v\in X_3$ (resp. $v\in V_{[0,1]}$) and $v^{(4)}(t)-pv''(t)+M\,v(t)=0$ on $I$.

We consider the general expression of the solution of equation $u^{(4)}(t)-p\,u''(t)=\lambda\, u(t)$ tothe electorate.

It is therefore no accident that in some such situations in the past, the armed forces were often tempted to intervene as a mediating power. One might argue that the United States has successfully rendered such conflicts “normal” and thus defused them. To explain how American political institutions and practices have achieved this result would exceed the scope of this essay, but it is worth noting that the uniquely diffuse character of American political parties—which, ironically, exasperates many American political scientists and leads them to call for responsible, ideologically disciplined parties—has something to do with it. Unfortunately, the American case seems to be an exception; the development of modern political parties, particularly in socially and ideologically polarized countries, generally exacerbates, rather than moderates, conflicts between the legislative


being created.

We then found another gear to dominate the final 20 minutes. It started with a couple of raids down the left from Cian Hughton before Pekhart shot straight at Szczesny, the substitute goalkeeper on at half-time for Mannone.

Dawkins fired just wide, Szczesny clawed Jon Obika's header off the line and Barcham snatched when offered a clear shot 16 yards out.

Still the lads pushed for the winner and it almost arrived in injury time when Barcham's cross was cleared into the air enabling Pekhart to shape for an overhead kick that beat Szczesny only for Gavin Hoyte to head off the line. It wouldn't have quite matched the drama of Younes Kaboul's equaliser against Villa the previous night, but it would have been just as deserved.Q:

What "opening" words do not require a change in the word order in a sentence?

German is very strict about putting the verb in the second position in a sentence. So in a simple sentence like, "Ich kam später", if I put spater in the first position, ich has to go in the third position: "Später kam ich."
But this does not appear to be true for certain words (particles?) such as "und" and "aber."
So I can use "Und ich kam später," or "Aber ich kam später" without changing the word order. It is as if "Und" and "aber" were placed in the "zeroeth" position of a sentence, so the rest of the sentence is not disturbed.
For which words in German is this true, and what is the grammatical term


the initial molecular studies of MASC was the presence of *t(12;15)(p13;q25)* resulting in *ETV6-NTRK3* translocation. This was reported to be specific for this tumor type and was not documented in other salivary gland tumors. However, a recent report of 10 cases with typical morphology and immunoprofile identified that some such tumors harbor a novel *ETV6-RET* translocation ([@B10]). It is interesting to speculate on the possible cytogenetic and molecular relationships between these tumors and carcinomas of follicular epithelial differentiation that also harbor rearrangements of *RET* and *NTRK* ([@B11]).

The diagnosis of MASC in thyroid can be challenging as illustrated in this case. Many features mimic papillary thyroid carcinoma. The cytology can be misdiagnosed ([@B8], [@B9]). The architecture can resemble that of papillary thyroid carcinoma and the diffuse expression for PAX-8spontaneous expulsion and prolapse have been reported [@bib0015; @bib0045]. Only few cases of ileocecal lipomas presenting as lower GI bleeding have been reported in the literature [@bib0050]. A report by Jiang et al. has shown that the most common presentations of colonic lipomas were abdominal pain (42.4%), bleeding per rectum (54.5%) and alteration in bowel habits (24.2%) [@bib0005].

There are several proposed methods to diagnose colonic lipomas. Lipomas would appear on ultrasonography as hyperechoic, well-circumscribed solid lesions with absent or minimal blood flow on color doppler sonography. However, definitive diagnosis is not possible [@bib0055]. A barium enema shows an ovoid filling defect with well-defined borders. The "squeeze sign", which is a change in the size and shape of a radiolucent lesion in response to peristalsis or the application of


that 5% of voters below the age of 30 would vote for parties in the liberal-conservative EPP group, compared to 22% of all age groups. There is a similar scenario in Malta, where 28% of voters under 30 would vote for EPP group parties. This is 8% lower when compared to all age groups.

The centre-left S&D will achieve 137 seats in this latest projection; 52 seats less than in 2014. The S&D have fallen in hard times at the moment, with poor election results across Europe, and this is reflected in the votes of the younger electorate.

In Slovakia, according to the latest poll showing age groups, parties in the S&D would win 12% of the vote from 18-39 year olds. The average of all age groups is 28%,Let c be (z/(-10))/((-2)/4). Solve 2*t + c = -3*t for t.
-4
Suppose -3*s + 158 = -5*f, 0*f - 3*f = 12. Suppose 14*r + 4 = s. Solve -2*v + r - 1 = 0 for v.
1
Let z(c) = -5*c**2 - 19*c - 8. Let g be z(-3). Solve -t = t - g for t.
2
Suppose 4*x - 11 = g - 27, 3*g = -3*x - 12. Let c(m) = 29*m**2 - 3*m - 2. Let d be c(-1). Let a be 4/3*d/(-24)*-3. Solve g = -4*y + a*y for y.
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Let c(u) = -u**3 - 6*u**2 - 2*u - 9. Let y = -8 + 2. Let t be c(y). Suppose -5*s + 2 + t = 5*z, s + 3*z = 3. Solve s -


+ 35. Let l be z(-20). Solve 3*b + 132 - l = 0 for b.
1
Let m = 103 - 66. Let n = -33 + m. Solve n*t - 2 = -6 for t.
-1
Suppose -2*f - 3*k - 9 = 0, 0*f - 3*f - 9 = 3*k. Let q(v) = 2*v**2 + 9*v + 7. Let x be (-24)/(-9)*((-9)/6 + 0). Let u be q(x). Solve f = -o - u + 6 for o.
3
Suppose -2*f - 2*s = -20, 55*f - 59*f - 3*s + 39 = 0. Solve f = -4*b - 11 for b.
-5
Suppose 0 = -4*i + 3 + 13. Suppose 4*f = -0*s + s + 96, 0 = -4*s. Suppose -2*b + 0*b + f = 0. Solve -m =group, indicating liver damage. Administration of SPRT at the doses of 0.3, 0.6, and 1.2 g/kg remarkably prevented hepatotoxicity induced by CCl~4~ in a dose-dependent manner.

3.2. Effect of SPRT on Liver MDA and SOD Activity {#sec3.2}
-------------------------------------------------

CCl~4~ treatment significantly increased the level of MDA in liver tissue compared with the control group. Meanwhile, CCl~4~ decreased the activity of hepatic antioxidant enzyme SOD compared with the respective control group. Treatment with SPRT at doses of 0.3, 0.6, and 1.2 g/kg significantly reduced the MDA level compared with the CCl~4~-treated rats. The liver of the animal treated with 0.6 and 1.2 g/kg of SPRT showed significant increase in SOD levels compared with the CCl~4~-treated rats. The results are shown in [Figure 2](#fig2){ref-type="fig"}.

3.3. Histological Analysis {#sec3.3}
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[Figure 3](#fig3){ref-type="fig"} showed the well-formed hepatocytes in an intact hepatic


and pushed my motorbike onto the bordering sidewalk while Angela stayed with the woman. By this time, there were two policemen marking the accident scene by spray painting white lines around the minivan’s tires and blue lines around the woman’s banged up motorbike.

Being rush hour, there were countless cars and motorbikes zipping around the scene, so one of the policemen had the driver of the minivan pull his vehicle to the side of the road while the other picked up the motorbike and placed it on the curb. Thankfully the victim was the exception to the rule and was smartly wearing a helmet, long pants, a jacket, and shoes. We watched as she lifted up her ripped pant legs and sleeves to reveal that she was not bleeding.pat on the back and tensely said, “That was scary.” Briefly forgetting what country I was in, I could see that he didn’t understand a word I just said. He repeated his thank you and I replied with a “Khap khun khrup” (Thank you in Thai).

Angela and I sympathetically made eye contact with the woman one last time and stared with disapproval at the driver of the minivan before walking back to our motorbike. As we drove home, all I could do was shake my head back and forth and be thankful that we were able to get off our motorbike in time to jump in front of the van before the driver had a chance to crush the woman with the full weight of his vehicle.

Today is


CHCH; and the station's managers wanted to produce more local programming, instead of being forced to carry CBC programming.

CHCH became the first (and for over a decade, the only) television station in Canada not to be affiliated with any network, as the other private stations (which signed on the air in 1960 or early 1961) that were not affiliated with the CBC had formed the CTV network in October 1961.

Possible flagship of a third network
In the mid-1960s, CHCH was the lead station in United Program Purchase, a consortium of Canadian television stations which began purchasing some programming rights separately from the CTV and CBC networks.

By 1966, UPP was attracting media coverage as the potential foundation for a third Canadian television network. In the fall of that year,Hobby Time and a daily talk show hosted by Elaine Callei.

The station also produced a number of important Canadian syndicated series in the 1970s and 1980s, including The Pierre Berton Show, The Hilarious House of Frightenstein, Me & Max, Party Game, The Baxters and Smith & Smith, and was the original television home of The Red Green Show. Hamilton native Martin Short also made his television debut on the station. The 1986–87 syndicated revival of Split Second also taped at CHCH's studios; their involvement was noted in the credits of the show in Canadian broadcasts, whereas the American copies only noted distributor Viacom Enterprises.

As of September 2018, CHCH's daytime programming consists of locally produced newscasts geared primarily to the Golden Horseshoe region of Southern Ontario, and a block


Q:

How to update PDF metadata with CAM::PDF

How can I add/overwrite the title and author metadata of a PDF using CAM::PDF?

A:

I'm the author of CAM::PDF. The library doesn't support this sort of edit, but you can do it by digging into the internals like this:
#!perl -w
use strict;
use CAM::PDF;
my $infile = shift || die 'syntax...';
my $outfile = shift || die 'syntax...';
my $pdf = CAM::PDF->new($infile) || die;
my $info = $pdf->getValue($pdf->{trailer}->{Info});
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Q:

How to use the data from a structure in another C file?

I have defined a structure "data" in Main.c.
I want to use the values of this structure in a function of another file app.c.
Please suggest how to do this.

A:

I assume you are asking about "c" and not "c#" since your question refers to ".c" files and not ".cs" files, etc:
Make a header file and put the struct there.
Include the header file in both Main.c and app.c
#include "yourFileNameHere.h"

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The decision disappointed critics who had hoped to see the organization end its ban despite a 2000 Supreme Court ruling saying it had the right to keep it.

"Every day that the Boy Scouts of America delay action is another day that discrimination prevails," said Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin. "Now is the time for action. Young Americans, gay and straight, are


and potentially destroy the organization.

The Boy Scouts announced last month that the organization would consider changing the policy, a sharp reversal of its previous support for excluding openly gay members and scout leaders.

The new policy would allow local leaders to decide "consistent with each organization's mission, principles or religious beliefs" whether to open troops they sponsor to openly gay people, the group said in a statement at the time.

The proposal comes more than a decade after a Supreme Court ruling that found the organization has the right to keep gays out, but also amid declining participation in the venerable American institution.

Membership in Boy Scouts has declined by about a third since 1999. About 2.7 million people now participate in scouting nationwide, with more than 70% of troops affiliatedwith a church or religious groups.

The organization has also endured frequent criticism from gay rights groups and other critics who say the Boy Scouts should not endorse discrimination.

Among more recent controversies, the organization came under fire last year after Jennifer Tyrrell, an Ohio den leader, was dismissed by her local Boy Scout officials for being a lesbian.

On Tuesday, Tyrell delivered a petition she said was signed by 1.4 million people supporting the change.

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grain decohesion observed by experiments.'
author:
- 'Hieu H. Pham'
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title: Fundamental Study of Hydrogen Segregation at Vacancy and Grain Boundary in Palladium
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\[intro\] Introduction
======================

The absorption of hydrogen in metals, in particular Pd-based materials, has attracted great interest due to its unique behavior, including its high solubility and activity [@ColdFusion; @Devanathan62; @Conrad1974435; @Favier21092001]. However, it is also known that the interaction of impurity and the defects in host materials would drastically affect their properties and performance. Specifically, both experimental and theoretical investigations have evidenced that defects such as vacancy, dislocations and grain boundary in metals can attract a high localization of impurities, [@Birnbaum1994191; @Fukai2000121; @Fukai73.1640; @Pham20105142; @arXiv150507524P] and subsequently are responsible for many prominent phenomena.

These effects, nevertheless, require a threshold concentration of hydrogen at intrinsic binding sites. Therefore, the learning ofclean state, respectively. E$^{H_{2}}$ is the total energy of one isolated hydrogen molecule, calculated by placing that molecule in a large supercell (20$\times$20$\times$20 [Å]{}).

The formation energy of one vacancy in any system is obtained from the change in total energies of that system before ($E_{tot}$) and after the formation of vacancy (E$_{tot}$$^{v}$), adding the average energy of one Pd atom in bulk state (E$_{bulk}$$^{Pd}$): $$\label{vacancy}
 E_{f} = E_{tot}^{v} - E_{tot} + E_{bulk}^{Pd}$$

In order to illustrate the site competition between H segregation in vacancy (or grain boundary) with H binding in interstitial, we calculate the trapping energy of H. Its average value therefore is calculated with respect to the change in total energy of bulk palladium E$_{tot}$$^{1H}$-E$_{tot}$$^{0H}$, by adding one H as interstitial: [@Vekilova80.02410]

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the center of vacancy is a very unfavorable binding site for H. Parts of the curves below the zero level indicate possible regions around a vacancy at which H binding is stronger than that of a general octahedral binding (with no vacancy). At the same time, this indicates that the formation of the nearest-neighbor vacancy makes H binding at octahedral site stronger (O1 in Fig. \[fig1\]) . However, it is interesting that the most energetically stable site for H-vacancy binding is in \[111\] direction, close to its tetrahedral position (T in Fig. \[fig1\]) . This H bonding will be threefold, instead of fourfold, due to one missing Pd (vacancy). Farther in \[111\] direction, vacancy has no effect on H binding at its second nearest octahedral interstitial (as trapping energy atO2 site is zero).

![\[fig2\] (color online) (a) Variation of H trapping energy as a function of H number at vacancy site. A Pd-H configuration with hydrogen filling up 8 tetrahedral sites around vacancy is energetically favorable and structurally stable. (b) Trapping energy of the 9$^{th}$ H as function of distance in \[100\] from vacancy center. Its values is everywhere positive along \[100\] direction](FIG2.eps){width="6"}

Using local-density approximation (LDA) method, Vekilova et. al [@Vekilova80.02410] reported about a possibility of multiple hydrogen occupancy, in which a maximum of six hydrogen atoms can be trapped in a monovacancy. The most favorable sites were reported to be along the directions of \[100\] family, as six octahedral sites coordinate a Pd atom. However, in our work with GGA, that configuration of VacH$_{6}$ is not energetically favorable.


was a more valuable offensive player. Regardless of what weight you put on OBP, 2x, 1.7x, 1.1x, Henderson comes out on top here. Let's not pretend that Henderson couldn't slug, either. He was 7th in the league. You swap Mattingly and Henderson in the order, and there's a great chance Rickey's driving in 100+ runs, just based on people being on base in front of him that he doesn't see with Bob Meachem and Butch Wynegar batting in front of him.

So considering that Rickey very likely had more offensive value than Mattingly, he was more valuable with his glove, and, oh yea, he stole 80 bases and was a great baserunner, explain again how Mattingly was the better baseball player?

Posted by burnsy483 on 8/28/2013 6:25:00 PM (view original):Andgames in CF over his first three years with the Yankees. That's enough to give us an idea.

Regardless, you already conceded that Henderson brought more value with his glove in 1985.

Posted by burnsy483 on 8/28/2013 3:10:00 PM (view original):Hypothetical: You're starting a team. You have a player who can play CF slightly below average, or 1st base very well. He will put up the same offensive stats regardless of where he plays. Where would you play him?

Are we not answering this question?

It's a loaded question, based on a single player with a single skill set. The answer to that question should be fairly obvious.

The discussion at hand is about two different players, with two very different skill sets, who put up two very different sets of offensive stats.

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the scripts need to be combined and iteratively refined.

Significant effort was required to build new workflows and to manually modify existing workflows to cater to new requirements ([*e.g.,*]{}to use different parameters or different visualization techniques). Besides being challenging for IT personnel and project members with a computer science background, the complexity involved in this process made it impossible for domain scientists to manipulate the workflows. Producing a visualization that could generate insight often required help from a person familiar with the computation, a visualization expert, and the scientist(s). This process often took days and significant effort from all involved. Our initial goal with VisTrails was to assist visualization and computing experts in order to streamline this process. However, as the system developed, we realized that by improving usabilityTools (UV-CDAT) project.

UV-CDAT, led by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, seeks to deliver a rich set of data exploration and analysis tools for climate data analysis. The goal is to make it easier for climate scientists to locate and analyze data while capturing provenance information to ensure reproducibility [@williams:2013:uvcdat]. They use VisTrails as a framework and developed a custom graphical user interface (GUI) that leverages VisTrails workflow execution and provenance capture behind the scenes [@santos:2012:ipaw]. For climate scientists, the distinct operations of loading data, computing derived data, and generating plots can be better exposed as separate steps in the interface and transparently composed into workflows. In addition, the focus on plots led to the spreadsheet being directly incorporated into the main window (see Figure \[fig:uvcdat\]). Finally, specific VisTrails packages like vtDV3D[^4]


have a build machine with multiple virtual machines that run the test suite to test compatibility with different platforms.

#### Componentized Architecture

While one of the original goals of VisTrails was, and still is, to deliver a fully-functional system that users can install and run with minimal effort, we also want to make it easier for others to use and build on individual pieces of the system. For example, as discussed earlier, UV-CDAT uses much of the VisTrails functionality but has a GUI that is climate-focused. To this end, we have had to reorganize the code to better separate functionality from interface elements so that they are more generally useful, enabling an *elastic interface* that can be adapted to specific domains in order to enhance usability. In addition, we haveas well as end-user domains. Finally, our outreach through tutorials, talks, and publications has both provided opportunities for new collaborations and contributions to communities looking to address similar problems.

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Q:

Building 'flat' rather than 'tree' LINQ expressions

I'm using some code (available here on MSDN) to dynamically build LINQ expressions containing multiple OR 'clauses'.
The relevant code is
var equals = values.Select(value => (Expression)Expression.Equal(valueSelector.Body, Expression.Constant(value, typeof(TValue))));

var body = equals.Aggregate<Expression>((accumulate, equal) => Expression.Or(accumulate, equal));

This generates a LINQ expression that looks something like this:
(((((ID = 5) OR (ID = 4)) OR (ID = 3)) OR (ID = 2)) OR (ID = 1))

I'm hitting the recursion limit (100) when using this expression, so I'd like to generate an expression that looks like this:
(ID = 5) OR (ID = 4) OR (ID = 3) OR (ID = 2) OR (ID = 1)

How would I modify the expression building code to do this?

A:

You need to modify the generation so that it builds a ballanced treeEffect of age and dietary restriction on expression of heat shock protein 70 in rat alveolar macrophages.
Dietary restriction (DR) is the only effective experimental manipulation known to retard aging in rodents, and this manipulation has been shown to alter a variety of processes that change with age. However, there is no information on the effect of DR on macrophage Function. In the present study, the effect of aging and DR on the ability of alveolar macrophages (AMs) to express the heat shock gene, hsp70 was studied. AMs were isolated by lavage from the lungs of young (4-6 months) and old (24-26 months) rats fed either ad libitum (AL) or a restricted diet (60% of AL). There was no age-related change in the number of cells recovered from young