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ed with enthusiastic applauses. The first is meant to be a satire on bigotry, and the other a panegyric on Mr. Grattan
5. But oh! there will never be a time with Bigotry—she has no head, and cannot think—she has no heart, and cannot feel-when she moves, it is in wrath-when she pauses, it is amid ruin-her prayers are curses-her God is a dæmon–her communion is death-her vengeance is eternity-her decalogue is written in the blood of her victims; and if she stoops for a moment from her infernal flight, it is upon some kindred rock to whet her vulture fang for keener rapine, and replume her wing for a more sanguinary desolation!"--I11.-22.
When the screech-owl of intolerance was yelling, and the night of bigotry was brooding on the land, he came forth with the heart of a hero! and the tongue of an angel till at his bidding, the spectre vanished; the colour of our fields revived, and Ireland, poor Ireland, &c. &c.—III–14.
Such-to speak figuratively of this great figure-maker-such are the tumid and empty bladders upon which the reputation of Mr. Phillips is trying to become buoyant. We believe our readers will, by this time, think that we have fully justified our opinion of the style of this Dublin Demosthenes.
But we have something more than mere errors of style to object to Mr. Phillips; we shall say little of the want of professional ability which his two pleadings exhihit, because he so little intends them to be considered as legal arguments, that there is but one passage in the statement of two legal cases in which there is the slightest allusion to the law, and that allusion only serves to show the advocate's ignorance of, and contempt for, the more serious parts of the profession he was exercising. " Do not suppose I am endeavouring to influence you by the power of
I am laying down to you the the British law, as liberally expounded and solemnly adjudged. I speak the language of the English Lord Eldon, a judge of great experience and greater learning-(Mr. Phil. lips here ciled several
cases as decided by lord Eldon)-Such, gentlemen, is the language of lord Eldon. I speak also on the authority of our own lord Avonmore+-a judge who illuminated the bench by his genius, endeared it by his sauvity, and dignified it by his bold uncompromising probity!!-one of those rare men, who hid the thorns of law beneath the brightest flowers of literature, and as it were, with the hand of an enchanter, changed a wilderness into a garden!'-7.-17
No, declamation is not the weapon of Mr. Phillips--one thing, indeed, we learn from all this, that Mr. Phillips's countrymen appreciate his legal talents at their true worth-We may be sure that he has published every frantic speech he ever made; and they are but two, and both on subjects in which the want of legal education and professional acquirements would be least observed; and accordingly we may say to borrow the happy expression of Louis the XVth's, relative to one of his chaplains, who had preached a flowry sermon on all things but religion—that if Mr. Phillips in his pleadings had only said a word or two about law, he would have spoken of every thing.
DECLAMATION,
But we have done with the advocate, blessing our stars that lawyers in this country are not of the same breed, and hoping (as indeed we are inclined to believe) that even in Ireland none but the lan yers of the Catholic Board, and one or two adventurers who assume that title as a "nom de guerre," are capable of such a union of ignorance and confidence, of inanity and pretension. We have indeed to observe, for the honour of Ireland, that all these rhodomontades are printed in England, and we believe that few, if any of them, have been heard of in the place of their supposed nativity.
We now come to Mr. Phillips in the character upon which, of all others, it is evident he piques himself most, namely, that of a PATRIOT
Mr. Phillips's first political pretension is honesty; he is, if you will take his own word for it, a model of integrity and decision, a pattern for all young men of the empire who will be warmed into emulation by Mr. Casey's Liverpool dinner. Lest our readers should doubt the modesty of this blushing Hibernian, we shall give his own words—a course which is always the safest, and, with so profuse a talker as Mr. Phillips, the most decisive and convincing.
" I hope, however, the benefit of this day will not be confined to the humble individual (Phillips, scilicet) you have so honoured; I hope it will cheer on the young aspirants after virtuous fame in both our countries, by proving to them, that however, for the moment, envy or ignorance, or corruption, may depreciate them, there is a reward in store for THE MAN (Phillips) WHO THINKS WITH INTEGRITY AND ACTS WITH DECISION."
V.-16. Again, he assures his partial friends "who were crowding around him, that no act of his shall ever raise a blush at the recollection of their early encouragement."--p. 16.
But it is not the easy virtues of profession alone to which Mr. Phillips lays claim-he boasts, in a quotation solemnly prepared for the occasion, that he is ready even to suffer for his country:
" For thee, fair Freedom, welcome all the past,
For thee, my country, welcome E'EN THE LAST!" Notwithstanding the present thriving appearance of Mr. Phillips's patriotism, he seems to have now and then had some slight misgivings as to the constancy of his virtue, and to anticipate the possibility of backsliding from this highway of honour, and with the most ingenious païveté he communicates his doubts to the Catholic Board.
" May I not be one of the myriads who, in the name of patriotism, and for the purposes of plunder, have swindled away your heart, that they might gamble with it afterwards at the political hazard table! May I not pretend a youth of virtue, that I may purchase with its fame an age of rịch
apostacy! ---Cast your view around the political horizon-Can you discover no one whose eye once gazed on glory, and whose voice once rung for liberty-no one, who, LIKE ME, once glowed with the energies of an assumed sincerity, and saw, or seemed to see, no god but COUNTRY, now toiling in the drudgeries of oppression, and shrouded in the pall of an official misCreancy! Trust no man's professions-ardent as I am-honest through every fibre as I feel myself—I repel your confidence, though perhaps unnecessarily, for I am humble, and below corruption—I am valueless, and not worth temptation-I am poor, and cannot afford to part with all I have—MY CHARACTFR.–Such are my sensations now-what they may be hereafter, I pretend not; but should I ever hazard descending into the sycophant or slave, I beseech thee, Heaven, that the first hour of crime may be the last of life, and that the worm may batten on the bloom of my youth, before my friends, if I have one, shall have cause to curse the mention of my memory."-I11.-11, 12.
Mr. Phillips's first publication, in the still earlier bloom of his youth, was, as our readers have seen, a poem called the Emerald Isle. It was dedicated, by permission, to his royal highness the prince regent, " Ireland's hope and England's ornament." The poem did not belie the promise of the dedication; it is a perfect stream of praise, a shower of roses on every person who is named in it, from alpha to omega. This alone was enough to excite some little suspicion of the author's sincerity; but it became conviction on finding that, whenever in any of his succeeding pamphlets written in altered times and different circumstances, he has occasion to mention any of the idols of his early flattery, he falls into the natural course of censuring and sometimes libelling them.
If his royal highness the prince regent was, on the 230 April, 1812, the date of Mr. Phillips's dedication Ireland's hope and England's ornament"-what has since happened to justify Mr. Phillips's imputations? What are the enormities which this highminded and independent patriot "cannot speak of, without danger, because, thank God, he cannot think of them without indiga nation"?
If, in 1812, the duke of Wellingtion was " a nation-saving hero" (I.-16.)if, in 1814," the illustrious potentates were met together in the British capital to commemorate the great festival of universal peace and universal emancipation" (III.--22.)--if "all the hopes of England were gratified and Europe free" (p. 21.)--how does it happen that, in 1816, Mr. Phillips can thus describe the war in which those objects were achieved?
" The heart of any reflecting man must burn within him when he thinks that the war, thus sanguinary in its operations, thus confessedly ruinous in its expenditure, was even still more odious in its principle. It was a war avowedly undertaken for the purpose of forcing France out of her undoubted right of choosing her own monarch; a war which uprooted the very foundations of the English constitution; which libelled the most glorious era in our national annals; and declared tyranny eternal."'-V.-10.
If, in 1812, Bonaparte was a despot-bloody-impious-polluted (1.-73)—if he was an infidel " who trod the symbol of Christianity under foot"-who plundered temples and murdered priests -if his legions were locusts, and he himself a vulture, (p. 74), a tyrant, (p. 77), and a fiend, (p. 75)— If, in August, 1813, he was again a " tyrant," a "monster," an embroidered butcher-if he was, in Mr. Phillips's opinion, all this, how comes it, that in 1816, he speaks of him in the following terms:
" In dethroning Napoleon you have dethroned a monarch who, with all his imputed crimes and vices, shed a splendour around royalty too powerful for the feeble vision of legitimacy even to bear. How grand was his march! How magnificent his destiny! Say what we will, sir, he will be the land-mark of our times in the eye of posterity. The goalof other men's speed was his starting-post-crowns were his playthings-thrones his footstool-he strode from victory to victory-his path was a plane of continued elevations." -V.-11.
If, in 1812, Mr. Phillips could thus speak of Napoleon and Spain-
" His aid is murder in disguise;
His triumphs, Freedom's obsequies;
His faith, is fraud-his wisdom, guile;
Creation withers in his smile-
See Spain, in his embraces, die,
His ancient friend, his firm ally!"–1.-73. If, in 1814, " the Catholic allies of England have refuted the foul aspersions on the Catholic faith," (111.-21.) with what face could he, in 1816, ask the Liverpool meeting, "What have you done for Europe? what have you achieved for man? Have morals been ameliorated? bas liberty been strengthened? You have restored to Spain a wretch of even worse than proverbial princely ingratitude; who filled his dungeons and fed his rack with the heroic remnant that bad braved war, and famine, and massacre beneath his banners; who rewarded patriotism with the prison--fidelity with the torture-heroism with the scaffold-and piety with the inquisition; whose royalty was published by the signature of his death-warrants, and whose religion evaporated in the embroidering of petticoats for the Blessed Virgin?"—V.-11, 12. If, in 1812, Bonaparte and Portugal could be thus described
"See hapless Portugal, who thought
A common creed her safety brought
A common creed! alas, his life
Has been one bloody, impious strife!
Beneath his torch the altars burn
And blush on the polluted urn."—I.—73. what can Mr. Phillips say for the following description, in 1816, of the very prince who fled from the once « bloody and impious," but now a magnificent" and " splendid" Napoleon!
VOL.II.
" You have restored to Portugal a prince of whom we know nothing, except that when bis dominions were invaded, his people distracted, his crowd in danger, and all that could interest the highest energies of man at issue, he left his cause to be combated by foreign bayonets, and fled with a dastard precipitation to the shameful security of a distant hemisphere."-V.-12.
In 1814 " the rocks of Norway are elate with liberty." (III.23.) In 1816 Norway is instanced as feeble state partitioned to feed the rapacity of the powerful."--(V.--13.)
In 1812 Mr. Grattan had the misfortune of being the idol of Mr. Phillips's humble adoration-in 1814 Mr. Grattan is still an idol, but an idol like those of the Tartars, which they chastise; and four pages of one of Mr. Phillips's speeches to the Catholic board are employed in chastising Mr. Grattan for having given some reasons (" if reasons," as Mr. Phillips cautiously observes, "they can be called,") against presenting a Catholic petition at that particular time: he shows too that repeated discussions have had the effect of reducing the majority against the catholics. All this is very well: but what shall we say when we find Mr. Phillips in 1816, at Liverpool, expressing his " hope that the Irish catho. lics will petition no more a parliament so equivocating?"
In 1812–Mr. Ponsonby is highly celebrated and told that " his country's heart m:1st be cold" ere the " honour," the "worth," the " wisdom," « the zeal," « the hand to act and heart to feel of her Ponsonby" be forgotten. But in the Liverpool speech we find all the merits of the leader of the whigs forgotten, and his character treated with high indignity:-
"Shall a borough-mongering faction convert what is misnamed the national representation, into a mere instrument for raising the supplies which are to gorge its own venality? Shall the mock dignitaries of whiggism and toryism lead their hungry retainers to contest the profits of an alternate ascendancy over the prostrate interests of a too generous people? These are questions which I blush to ask."-V.-15.
In 1812–England and Englishmen were the great objects of Mr. Phillips's horror; he found amongst us" a prejudice against his native land predominant above every other feeling, inveterate as ignorance could generate, as monstrous as credulity could feed." -1.-6--And (for he assails us in prose and verse) he invokes Ireland
" To remember the glory and pride of ber name,
Ere the cold blooded Sassanach tainted her fame." Again-in their mutual communications Mr. Phillips assigns to the Irish " the arcour of patriots and pride of freemen," but to the unlucky English, " atrocious provocation and perfidious arrogance.
In the Liverpool speech, however, he has quite changed his note; the cold blooded Sassanach is now " the high-minded people of England," (V.--4;) and even a provincial English town is " the emporium of liberality and public spirit the birth-place of ta


A storm Tuesday didn't bring the severe flooding and debris flows that had been feared. But heavier rain is expected later in the week.
A storm Tuesday didn't bring the severe flooding and debris flows that had been feared for areas burned in recent wildfires. But heavier rain is expected later in the week.
National Weather Service meteorologist Kathy Hoxsie said the storm moved in a different pattern than originally forecast, significantly decreasing the rainfall totals.
"We were expecting a ton of rain," Hoxsie said.
Forecasters expected 1.5 to 3 inches of rain to fall, but the reality was an inch or less, Hoxsie said. Rain was expected to continue into the evening before tapering off and starting up again with moderate showers on Wednesday afternoon.
As of 3 p.m. Tuesday, Simi Valley had recorded the most local rainfall during the storm at 1.56 inches, according to data from the Ventura County Watershed Protection District. Matilija Canyon was the next highest at 1.53 inches. Other rainfall totals included 1.24 inches in Santa Paula, 0.9 inches in Port Hueneme, 0.77 inches in Ojai and 0.67 inches in Camarillo. The totals were for a 24-hour period that began at 3 p.m. Monday.
Although heavy rain didn't impact Ventura County on Tuesday afternoon, the region did prepare for it.
Mandatory evacuation orders were issued Tuesday morning for places scorched by the Thomas, Woolsey and Hill fires. If the weather had behaved according to what was forecast, life and property could have been at at risk, said Kevin McGowan, manager of the Ventura County Office of Emergency Services.
By Tuesday night however, many mandatory evacuation areas were downgraded to voluntary evacuation areas, including Bell Canyon, Oak Park and the Vista Fire burn area. Santa Barbara County lifted mandatory evacuation orders that drove thousands of people from Montecito and surrounding areas.
One of the concerns officials had was the possibility of rain falling at a rate of 1.25 inches per hour, McGowan said. For a first-year burn area, such as the one left by the Woolsey Fire, a rainfall rate of half an inch is a significant impact, McGowan said.
Some schools in the Ventura Unified School District were also closed due to the weather.
But for some in the evacuation areas, the decision to leave was not so simple.
Ken Whitteker said he didn't think he'd leave his home alongside Matilija Canyon Creek despite a mandatory order to do so.
"Because if you run away from the place you live in, why are you living there? I love it up here so much. This is just part of it," Whitteker said.
Bands of rain had made their way into Ventura County by late morning but meteorologists expected the heaviest rain between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. But that didn't happen.
Based on forecasts, mandatory evacuations were ordered about 10:30 a.m. for unincorporated areas of Thousand Oaks, the South Coast of Ventura County, the Malibu community and the Matilija, Wheeler Springs and North Fork areas extending along Oso Road. The Sage Mountain Senior Living Facility in Thousand Oaks and residences east of Highway 33 and Casitas Springs were also under mandatory evacuations.
There were voluntary evacuation orders for parts of Ventura affected by the Thomas Fire, with orders set to go into effect at noon. The Ventura Unified School District canceled classes at Ventura High School, Loma Vista School, Lincoln School, De Anza Middle School and Cabrillo Middle School.
A statement from Jeff Baarstad, the district's interim superintendent, said the district was notified by the Ventura Police Department that there was a "high likelihood" the city would be issuing a mandatory evacuation order later in the morning for parts of Ventura.
He said most of the elementary and middle school students had already been picked up by their parents as of 10:30 a.m. Ventura High School students were sheltering in place.
Having trouble seeing the interactive evacuation map? Click here.
11 p.m. According to a report from KABC, a rock slide along Malibu Canyon Road shut the roadway down to one lane.
8:25 p.m. Mandatory evacuations in Oak Park, Bell Canyon and the Vista Fire burn area have been downgraded to voluntary evacuations, according to the Ventura County Fire Department. Mandatory evacuations remain in place for Matilija, Wheeler Springs, North Fork and along the south coast of the county.
4:25 p.m. Ventura Unified School District schools will be open Wednesday, officials said.
3:30 p.m. By late Tuesday afternoon, most of the rainfall for the day had passed through the county, according to meteorologist Kathy Hoxsie of the National Weather Service. Scattered showers are expected to continue into Tuesday night, bringing between a quarter inch and three-quarters inch of rainfall, with higher elevations receiving more rain than along the coast, but the next rain event was expected to begin on Wednesday afternoon.
3:07 p.m. Diane Starzak wore a yellow slicker in the rain and dug shallow trenches to help protect her home that sits against a fire-burned hill in Oak Park.
She lives in an evacuation area but as of 2 p.m. Tuesday had decided to stay and try to protect a home that survived a Woolsey Fire that came as close as her front yard.
Pitt Gilmore, president of the Morrison Estates Owners Association and a retired captain with Los Angeles County Fire Department, traveled from house to house in Oak Park making sure people know about the risks of slope failure. He told people that if they waited, they might have no time to react.
"It comes on very silently," he said.
Barbara Bietz, Starzak's neighbor on Liverpool Court, wasn't taking any chances. She and her family were headed to her sister's home in a safer part of Oak Park.
1:29 p.m. The Oak Park Unified School District said due to the weather, parents were required to pick up all students after school ends. After school activities have been canceled.
12:48 p.m. Ken Whitteker lives in a house alongside Matilija Canyon Creek. He has lived in the area since 1952. On Tuesday, it was in a mandatory evacuation zone because of the storm. But Whitteker said he didn't think he was going to leave.
11:52 a.m. Much of Malibu seemed to be in a holding pattern as people waited to see what Mother Nature would bring.
People gathered in the streets talking about whether to stay or go.
"We're trying to keep them calm," said Tim Biglow, a community leader who was helping people understand their options.
Kate Franey has felt nature's wrath. Her Decker Canyon home and everything else she owned was lost in the Woolsey Fire. Now she's living with her in-laws in Malibu West. She plans to evacuate. It isn't worth it to stay, she said.
"I've already lost one house. I'm not going to lose my life, too," Franey said.
Henry Hungerland also lives in Malibu West, a community that lost several homes in the Woolsey Fire and is surrounded by barren hills.
By Tuesday morning, several people there had been not been told to evacuate. One of them was Henry Hungerland.
But if a wall of mud was coming, he'd certainly leave, he said.
Mike Reisbord, who lives in Broad Beach, was filling up sandbags at Zuma Beach in advance of the rain. He said he's used to Mother Nature.
"It's just another beautiful day in Malibu with a little bit of extra energy," Reisbord said.
11 a.m. Evacuation shelters were opened at Ventura Community College, 46667 Telegraph Road. The Red Cross is also in the process of opening shelters at Nordhoff High School, 1401 Maricopa Highway in Ojai, and the Thousand Oaks Community Center, 2525 N. Moorpark Road.
10:53 a.m. In La Conchita, the predicted rainfall caused concern among residents.
Winona Ready, a 17-year La Conchita resident, said she was just preparing to pack Tuesday morning as a light drizzle fell.
Ready said she was watching local TV news stations to keep updated on developments.
While heavy rain was expected Tuesday, it was the storm forecast for Wednesday that prompted the most concern for Ready.
Bob Hart, a 40-year resident of La Conchita, was taking a walk amid the drizzle.
Hart said rain always makes him nervous for his home.
Free sandbags for Ventura residents can be found at the Sanjon Maintenance Yard, 336 Sanjon Road. Arroyo Verde Park, Marina Park, Grant Park, and the Ventura Pier will be closed for the duration of the storm.
Ventura County emergency officials have mapped out the storm advisory area. To search an address, visit https://www.vcemergency.com/.
The American Red Cross is opening shelters at the Thousand Oaks Community Center, 2525 North Moorpark Road, Ventura Community College, 46667 Telegraph Road in Ventura and Nordhoff High School, 1401 Maricopa Highway in Ojai.
A shelter has opened for Los Angeles County residents at the Santa Monica High School South Gym, 601 Pico Blvd. A shelter at Agoura Hills/Calabasas Community Center, 27040 Malibu Hills Road is expected to open at noon. A large animal evacuation shelter has opened at Hansen Dam Equestrian Center, 11127 Orcas Ave. in Lakeview Terrace and at Pierce College, 6201 Winnetka Ave. in Woodland Hills.
More information about the storm's effect in Los Angeles County, visit http://www.lacounty.gov/larain.
A Red Cross shelter is expected to open in Goleta for those affected by the storm at 10 a.m. It will open at Goleta Valley Community Center, 5679 Hollister Ave.
For a map showing where the evacuation orders have been issued for Santa Barbara County, visit: https://readysbc.org.


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To: richardred who wrote (2355) 9/9/2010 3:52:46 PM
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3M Pays $810M for Arizant, High-Tech Hospital Gowns
By Tiernan Ray
Shares of 3M (MMM) are up 82 cents, or 1%, at $83.57 after the company this morning said it would purchase privately held Arizant of Eden Prairie, Minnesota for $810 million in cash.
Arizant makes special gowns for patients in operating rooms that can control body temperature more effectively than blankets and other approaches, in order to, among other things, avoid the risk of hypothermia.
3M in its press release says the worldwide market for "patient warming" is $1 billion, with the sub-segment of "forced air" warming expected to increase 10% per annum.
FBR Capital's Ajay Kejriwal this morning notes that this is the third acquisition in two weeks for 3M, following on the purchase of biometric security maker Cogent and monitoring technology maker Attenti Holdings, for a total so far of $1.5 billion spent.
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To: richardred who wrote (2355) 9/19/2010 11:06:15 PM
Exclusive: Safran to buy L-1 for $1.09 billion
By Mathias Blamont
PARIS | Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:44pm EDT
PARIS (Reuters) - France's Safran (SAF.PA) has agreed to buy U.S. security firm L-1 Identity Solutions (ID.N) for $1.09 billion cash, a source familiar with the deal said on Sunday.
The takeover, which has been backed by the boards of both companies, will see the French state-owned aerospace and defense company buy the whole of L-1 but keep only its core biometrics and identity businesses, which are spread across three units.
L-1's face-recognition and other biometric products are used by government agencies for improving homeland security and border management and commercially at financial institutions.
Two sources familiar with a jigsaw of related transactions said earlier that Britain's BAE Systems (BAES.L) was poised to buy the rest of L-1 -- its government consulting services unit -- for around $300 million, paving the way for Safran's entry.
BAE declined to comment.
"The boards of Safran and L-1 have approved the transaction, but the operation is subject to the approval of L-1 shareholders. It should be wrapped up in the first quarter of 2011," the source familiar with the main Safran deal said.
The shake-up is the latest sign of mid-tier security and defense firms getting snapped up by traditional arms suppliers.
As the top contractors face sharp cuts in defense budgets, they are steadily targeting smaller players with niche technologies in cybersecurity, surveillance and intelligence.
L-1 shares closed on Friday at $9.70 each, valuing the Stamford, Connecticut-based maker of high-tech recognition and security systems at around $900 million.
Under the agreement, L-1's current stockholders will get $12 a share in cash, the source familiar with the Safran deal said.
None of the sources agreed to be identified because the talks remain confidential.
Barring a last-minute surprise, the two deals to transfer control of L-1's assets could be announced later on Monday.
L-1 was not available for comment late on Sunday.
Safran issued an invitation to a previously unscheduled media and analysts' call to be held on Monday at 0700 GMT, but declined to comment on the details of the call.
SPLIT TRANSACTION
L-1 was formed in 2006 through a merger of Viisage and Identix.
The company placed itself up for sale in February but moved to split the deal into two parts given a distinction between its biometric identification and government consulting businesses.
Reuters reported last week that Safran, already a player in biometrics, was leading the race to buy most of L-1 including the biometrics and identification activities.
The French deal was contingent, however, on L-1 first lining up a definitive buyer for the government consulting business.
A number of U.S. companies including Virginia-based ManTech (MANT.O), which makes intelligence and national security equipment, were touted as buyers for this part of the company.
But Britain's BAE Systems's leapfrogged these firms as a possible front-runner when sources divulged its interest and said it was close to striking a deal on Sunday.
A BAE Systems spokesman said it was the company's policy never to comment on merger rumor or speculation.
The UK-based company has built up a presence through acquisitions as a leading player in the U.S. defense industry.
(Additional reporting by Soyoung Kim in New York, Tim Hepher in Paris; Editing by Marguerita Choy)
To: richardred who wrote (2355) 10/1/2010 10:15:21 AM
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NEC Made Higher Bid for Cogent Before 3M Deal
Cogent, the fingerprint-identification systems maker being acquired by 3M, received a more-than $1 billion buyout bid from NEC, according to court papers, Bloomberg News reported.
3M, the maker of products including anti-counterfeiting laminates, agreed Aug. 30 to buy Pasadena, California-based Cogent for $10.50 a share for a total of $943 million. Cogent investors sued in Delaware Chancery Court alleging the company's officials didn't get enough for shareholders and unfairly structured the deal to deter other bidders.
NEC, Japan's largest maker of personal computers, bid as much as $12 a share before Cogent's board agreed to St. Paul, Minnesota-based 3M's offer, Cogent shareholders said in a court filing unsealed yesterday. Cogent officials had said they'd received a bid from an unidentified bidder identified only as "Company D."
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Though he was the least charismatic protagonist in Sunday's Actual Super Bowl, Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid was the guy whose face you wanted to see most.
Each time the Chiefs did something dumb, you found yourself praying for that sideline shot. Maybe Reid would strangle someone with his headphone cord. Maybe he'd beat an assistant with an iPad. Mainly, you wanted to see Reid – the only man on Earth who can out-taciturn Bill Belichick – blow his top. Finally.
He is famously a man accustomed to disappointment. Reid has made a very good living as the NFL's Young Werther – an introspective man perpetually bemused at his own failures.
Here was his chance to turn the story very late in the book by outthinking the best coach in the history of the game. The Chiefs – who scored an average of 35 points a game this year – didn't score a mumbling one in that first half.
If you can grow a great moustache, you too may some day be the head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs.
And, of course, it went awry.
Despite a raucous second-half comeback, a fourth quarter for the ages and overtime, the Chiefs lost the AFC Championship contest to the New England Patriots by a score of 37-31.
This was more than a defeat. It was the re-establishment of the NFL's expected order.
Many had hoped the Chiefs would become the NFL's new hero franchise. The anti-heroes in New England still stand on top.
Reid is not going to become the game's new, favourite intellectual. Bill Belichick still occupies his dual role as Deepest Thinker and Lord of the Flies.
Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes is denied his metaphoric Wheaties box. Tom Brady, who can apply for social security any time now, remains ascendant.
Nothing has changed in the NFL. This league is frozen in time for as long as Brady/Belichick will it so. We'll hear nothing but in the two weeks until the Patriots meet the L.A. Rams in the Technical Super Bowl.
For a game played by men in stretchy pants, there was an awful of karma roiling around the scene.
Despite their obvious quality, it has always been hard to like the Patriots. After last weekend's win, Brady couldn't help himself.
No one thinks that, but an important part of the Patriots Way is always feeling a little sorry for yourself. As Brady has gotten older, he's grown more curmudgeonly and less likely to seem like he plays this game for enjoyment. Long past the point when he's put the doubters at ease, Brady's entered the score-settling stage of his career.
I mean, come on. Does a team this good really need to seem so hard done by, so consistently?
The karma began coming hard and fast midway through the second half. We're not talking about something going ironically wrong. This is more like the Great Wheel spinning as Pat Sajak stood over it barking one-liners.
Edelman appeared to mishandle a kick, leading to a Chiefs touchdown. Upon review, it seemed he'd avoided touching the ball by a millimetre or two. Even after multiple slo-mo viewings in super-high-def, it was just about impossible to say for sure.
The play was reversed. New England's possession. It was a stroke of uncommon good luck.
On the next play, Edelman tipped the ball into the hands of a Kansas City defender. That's when the lead flipped over the first time.
At that point, everything went squirrelly. Non-calls became calls. Calls became non-calls. The early game – Rams against the New Orleans Saints – turned on an obvious pass interference that was ignored. That was at least simple to understand.
The Saints were enraged. Ask St. Louis – until three years ago, the home of the Rams – how they feel about it.
This game was that idea strung out endlessly. It had viewers parsing rule hermeneutics like we were all lying around in togas – What is pass interference? Define "catch". Can a man be said to have hit someone in the face when he meant to do so, but couldn't manage it?
Football either needs to find a way to answer these questions definitively, or else stop showing us replays. Because it gets a little frustrating being told that what you have quite plainly seen is not what you've seen at all.
This is one of the side effects of elevating football from pure brutality into something more ordered. It becomes so heavily technical that even people who do it for a living stop understanding what's what.
But the big thinkers on the field still understand what matters beyond the minutiae. It's a game of stars. Either yours does the business, or you lose.
Brady did his, running the two-minute drill twice at the very end – once in regulation; and again in OT.
Over on the other sideline, Reid had gotten a very faraway look. He didn't touch the ball, but he'll wear the loss.
There isn't much shame in it. At this point, no one in the NFL is telling their own story. They continue to spend all their time helping Brady, Belichick and the New England Patriots tell theirs.


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Analytical Engine said:
Where's the "lady exasperated at the thought of another election" when we need her?
Rillium said:
Threadmarks Turtledove Nomination
Thank you to the kind people who nominated this TL for a Turtledove. Voting is now open if anyone wants to throw us a vote!
It's got my vote. Good luck!
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And my vote as well.
Threadmarks December 2016 UK General Election, Part 1
Some feared the wrong election result risked Britain crashing out of the euro
"By refusing to change procedures, we have made political turmoil defining features of democracy. A few weeks ago, Austria almost elected its first far-right president, while a Dutch referendum voted down a trade agreement with Ukraine. My country, Belgium, became the laughing stock of Europe a few years earlier, when it failed to form a government for 541 days. But nobody is laughing now that it seems that many western democracies are turning "Belgian". Countless western societies are currently afflicted by "democratic fatigue syndrome". Symptoms may include referendum fever, declining party membership, and low voter turnout. Or government impotence – under relentless media scrutiny, widespread public distrust, and populist upheavals." - Why elections are bad for democracy, David Van Reybrouck, The Guardian (2016)
Snap elections are always a crude tool for unblocking political quagmires, and rarely end well for any involved. In the stable democracies of Germany, France and the Netherlands observers were worried Britain could cascade into a cycle of divisive elections, stubborn coalition negotiations, unstable government, followed again by divisive elections. Estonia, Portugal and Sweden had all collapsed into snap elections over the last few years and Italy had been through four Prime Ministers in the last four years, the prospect of Britain turning into another Italy - a real possibility - kept eurocrats and civil servants up at night. Merkel and Sarkozy, who had funnelled a lot of political capital into the UK bailout, feared political consequences at home should another bailout be needed.
Some parties hoped to ride this fear of "Italification" straight to Downing Street, most notably National. As by far Britain's largest party with a respectable lead in the polls, William Hague's pitch to the electorate was easy - just a few more votes and we can secure a stable majority - a tantalising prospect to a politically-weary electorate. National particularly targeted moderate Social Democratic voters, arguing if Burnham had agreed to a grand coalition all of this could've been avoided. Older SDP voters were especially spooked by the UPA wave and Scottish separatists; warnings of a leftist "coalition of chaos" were particularly effective in pushing them towards the National camp.
Fear of the People's Alliance and RISE was particularly high among swing voters
The Social Democrats meanwhile were busy trying to squash the UPA threat to their flank, in a repeat of history polls showed the SDP falling to third place in the general election. Burnhan's spin doctors, led by his bruiser campaign coordinator Richard Angell conducted a vicious negative campaign against the People's Alliance, highlighting the communist element of the leftist coalition and dire warnings of a radical UPA Government bringing the entire British state to its knees. However Burnham's campaign was continually dogged by divisions in his party, with several leading MPs planning a leadership challenge when Burnham lost, his authority was irreversibly shot.
"Andy Burnham, assured today that the SDP "is not going to support a National Government and Ribeiro is not going to be Prime Minister." In an interview with the BBC Burnham insisted that "between the extremists of Hague and Ribeiro-Addy there is an alternative, with a plan". He stressed that "the stronger the SDP is, the stronger and more inclusive that change will be" and he encouraged undecided voters to support the SDP. The SDP leader pointed out the three basic principles on which the SDP is going to come to terms with other political formations. "We are not going to support any government led by William Hague or the National Party. We are not going to support any government that fragments the United Kingdom. Finally we are not going to support any government that questions the economic and social viability of our welfare state." - Andy Burnham: Between the bad and the worst there is an alternative, SDP Press Release (2016)
Internal party strife lent some extra spice to election proceedings, the People's Alliance, Social Democrats and National all had internal splits and spats spilling out into public, with all three main leaders facing at least rumblings of a leadership challenge. The only party not openly eating itself was Unity, run effectively as Sugar's personal fiefdom. Whilst these divisions were most notable in the Social Democrats, the People's Alliance was also suffering from internal problems as centralist allies found themselves pushed down party lists in internal primaries. Pro-nuclear weapons Clive Lewis was demoted as the Alliance's foreign affairs spokesperson alongside Paul Mason and Caroline Lucas, all seen as internal critics of Ribeiro-Addy who favoured the party professionalising.
The Social Democrats were being pushed back into their Northern heartlands
Despite Jones' allies complaining, polls showed unifying the party around Ribeiro-Addy personally was paying off, Ribeiro-Addy had long outperformed her party personally in opinion polls from her time as a TV pundit. Election posters and social media memes were plastered with Bell's face with the caption "your next Prime Minister" whilst critics within and without the party attacked the "presidential campaign" it seemed to be working as the radical left picked up steam. This didn't stop discontent on the Alliance's backbenches especially among older politicians from the Socialist Alternative who were finding themselves increasingly sidelined for the new kinds of the block.
Ribeiro-Addy continued to attract headlines after in a BBC interview she declared support for Prime Ministerial term limits, promising not to spend more than two terms in Downing Street and "walk away entirely" from politics after finishing her time in office. The UPA also made the unprecedented move of publishing it's manifesto early, another gambit that seemed to pay off as proposals such as dramatically increasing tax on the highest earners and a 15% increase in public spending proved popular with voters. Ribeiro-Addy's campaign strategy was one of high-risk high reward, if she could keep the war machine moving all the way to Downing Street she could have it all, if she failed there was only one person to blame.
At the centre of the storm sat William Hague, playing it safe and not taking any risk, his campaign was a boring affair of leisure centre stump speeches and crisp interviews on the Today programme. Hague had been mocked by his opponents in National as "William Vague" when he first rose to the leadership, known as all things to all men without strong ideological drives. This reputation for being overly cautious was only exacerbated when Hague refused King's Charles' request to try and form a Commons majority. But Hague banked that with chaos all around them the voting public would turn to zen-like William Vague to lead them away from populists and temptation.
"Hague goes into December's election in a similar position to the one he found himself in six months ago: his personal approval ratings on the floor, but his party nonetheless leading polls. "He's had staying power in his party and he went into government at a difficult time for the UK. He's risk-averse but that has paid off for him, although I don't know if it's been to the UK's advantage." says one European diplomat. Assuming he can see off the leftist United People Alternative, which polls suggest is close behind, Hague will win again. But he will need the support of others to govern. National's most natural ally, Unity, has suggested it would only offer its backing if Hague steps aside as party leader. Staying in power into the new year may be one challenge too far for the great survivor of British politics." - William Vague's Final Stand, Guy Hedgecoe, Politico (2016)
Hague needed to win big if he hoped to save the top job
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Internal party strife lent some extra spice to election proceedings, the People's Alliance, Social Democrats and National all had internal splits and spats spilling out into public, with all three main leaders facing at least rumblings of a leadership challenge. The only party not openly eating itself was Unity, run effectively as Sugar's personal fiefdom. Whilst these divisions were most notable in the Social Democrats, the People's Alliance was also suffering from internal problems as centralist allies found themselves pushed down party lists in internal primaries. Pro-nuclear weapons Clive Lewis was demoted as the Alliance's foreign affairs spokesperson alongside Paul Mason and Caroline Lucas, all seen as internal critics of Ribiero-Addy who favoured the party professionalising.
All three solid candidates for a purging, good on Ribiero-Addy.
Threadmarks December 2016 Election Debate
Hague Survives UK Election Debate
LONDON — Britain's acting prime minister, William Hague of the National Party, came out of a four-way electoral debate Monday alive.
The debate was the only one he will take part in during the campaign for the country's first repeat election in its modern history, to be held December 7.
Hague, faced two newcomers who have shaken up the two-party dominance: the far-left UPA, and centrist Unity.
Reflecting the political shift Britain has undergone, the debate was the first to put the UPA and Unity on the same footing as National and the SDP.
Hague also had to contend with his traditional rival, Social Democrat Andy Burnham, whom he had already debated in July.
Over the two-hour exchange, opposition leaders spent most of their time criticising Hague's austerity policies.
Hague defended his record, saying: "To govern is difficult, to preach is easy."
Hague's bet is that he will fare better in new elections, but the future doesn't look promising. He may well end up winning the ballot again, only to fail to put together a ruling coalition. He may even be rejected as a viable candidate.
Audiences were curious how Hague would respond to his much more telegenic rivals.
Hague wasn't brilliant, but he didn't make any terrible mistakes. He survived the debate by deploying his usual weapons: the economic recovery card, his experience, and clichés about how good a country Britain is.
"You don't come here to do an internship, you need to come here already grown up," he lectured his three rivals, highlighting his main rival Bell Ribeiro-Addy's inexperience, being only 29 years old, and an MP for only a few months. He criticised the others for sharing a "sad view" of their country.
Hague took a beating when the debate turned to corruption, as it happened during the last campaign with Burnham. This time it was Sugar who pulled the trigger on the acting prime minister, who responded by calling Sugar an "inquisitor."
In a conservative debate, with all candidates focused on avoiding mistakes, Sugar was the most aggressive.
The liberal leader of Unity pushed ahead with his campaign strategy of media visibility over precise policy proposals.
Sugar hammered Hague on the issue he knew would be most effective: corruption.
Brits consider corruption the second most important problem in the country, behind unemployment.
Hague's National Party has weathered repeated allegations of graft over the last few years. In response millions of regular National voters defected to Unity in December.
Sugar accused Hague of having received more than €400,000 in tainted funds, referring to a pending National corruption case. He suggested the acting prime minister should resign for the good of the country.
"It is very difficult to trust you anymore and you keep prioritising your chair over the country," Sugar argued.
Sugar also went for Ribeiro-Addy's jugular, portraying her as the champion of the Greek-based model of economic failure.
"Don't dress up like a Social Democrat, don't hide the wolf in the sheep's clothing," he told Ribeiro-Addy.
Andy Burnham, seen by many as a dead man walking, seems determined to struggle until the end. During the debate, he tried to communicate a few simple ideas. First, he could be the prime minister by now if Ribeiro-Addy hadn't rejected him. Second, the UPA supports the self-determination of Scotland, in contrast with his SDP, which defends the union. Third, he was still available to lead what he called a "progressive government of change."
He repeated the first of these messages around a dozen times.
"I keep thinking that you should have resigned, but you are still the acting prime minister thanks to Ms Ribeiro-Addy," he told Hague. "I tried to become Prime Minister and the two extremes rejected me," he added.
When Ribeiro-Addy argued she didn't want Scotland to leave Britain, Burnham countered by showing a newspaper headline of Mhairi Black - the UPA's Scottish leader saying she would vote for independence.
The Social Democrats believe they can win back up to one third of the People's Alliance's 7 million July voters. They're targeting those who are dissatisfied with Ribeiro-Addy's' "intransigence" during coalition negotiations. If they manage to win back a million, they still won't beat Hague, but Burnham will have a second chance at trying to head a ruling coalition.
Bell Ribeiro-Addy, the 29-year-old People's Party leader, played it safe Monday. That's likely the result of an attempt to cement the advantage polls say she has over the SDP — her priority is to beat the Social Democrats into third place.
Ribeiro-Addy left her revolutionary gestures at home and tried to project a serious statesman image. She used lots of data, quoting institutions like the OECD, defended Barack Obama and softened her language.
She ignored Sugar and tried to antagonise Hague to portray herself as the true alternative to National.
Ribeiro-Addy also argued the Social Democrats, with whom he wants to rule after the elections, are the People's Party's natural allies. She praised some of Burnham's proposals and argued they should both be fighting against Hague instead.
"You are mistaking your rival Andy," she countered after the Social Democrat criticised her over coalition negations.
Ribeiro-Addy also pressured Burnham to reveal if the SDP will help a National-led government or if it will support a UPA coalition.
"There are two options: a government with National or a government with People's Alliance and the SDP together," Ribeiro-Addy said.
Burnham didn't say whether he will support Ribeiro-Addy as prime minister if he ends up in third place, as polls forecast.
The debate made it clear: There's no easy solution to Britain's political stalemate. Polls also suggest that no individual party will gain a governing majority.
The four leaders each blamed one another for their failure to reach agreement on a coalition government.
The four leaders pledged to do everything possible to avoid a repeat of the impasse of the last six months. "There will be no further elections," said Ribeiro-Addy. Sugar said he would support "a government of change", without going into further details. Burnham said he would be mobilising support among his party's grassroots, while Hague called on Unity and the SDP to form a grand coalition
Last week, the YouGov put the National in the lead on 37% of the vote, compared with 34% in December. The UPA were second on 21%, forecasting no change form their 21% in the previous ballot.
The SDP was down on the 23% it gained in July (on 20%) relegating it to third place for the first time since democracy returned to Britain. Unity is forecast to remain in fourth place on 11%, down from its previous 12%.
Hague wasn't brilliant, but he didn't make any terrible mistakes.
when you summarise someone's entire political career in one sentence
When the best option is utter mediocrity...
tomasqs
The Social Democrats believe they can win back up to one third of Podemos' 7 million July voters. They're targeting those who are dissatisfied with Ribeiro-Addy's' "intransigence" during coalition negotiations. If they manage to win back a million, they still won't beat Hague, but Burnham will have a second chance at trying to head a ruling coalition.
Might wanna correct this
tomasqs said:
Thanks for catching, you win this week's Freudian slip bingo!
Prediction: National Party -Unity Party Coalition. Sugar will be become Chancellor again but his popularity will plummet.
Orchard said:
You could call it a government of National Unity.
But in all seriousness, I think Sugar will have the fate of Reform in the back of his mind and will be hesitant to actually form a government with Hague.
If he does do it it could be the end of centrist political parties in Britain, which could leave it with a weird Canada-style right-centre left-left political split
Threadmarks December 2016 General Election Reader's Poll
Good afternoon friends colleagues and lovers!
Probably sooner than some of us expected by yet again the good readers of this TL most go the polls to vote on who they would elect from our colourful cast of transition parties. As usual this will have no impact on the plot aside from a few Easter eggs and is purely for my own curiosity/to find out how many lurkers I have.
Cast your vote here
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State-independent consistent sets
By Jess Riedel September 2, 2014 October 11, 2014 Physics
In May, Losada and Laura wrote a paperM. Losada and R. Laura, Annals of Physics 344, 263 (2014).a pointing out the equivalence between two conditions on a set of "elementary histories" (i.e. fine-grained historiesGell-Mann and Hartle usually use the term "fine-grained set of histories" to refer to a set generated by the finest possible partitioning of histories in path integral (i.e. a point in space for every point in time), but this is overly specific. As far as the consistent histories framework is concerned, the key mathematical property that defines a fine-grained set is that it's an exhaustive and exclusive set where each history is constructed by choosing exactly one projector from a fixed orthogonal resolution of the identity at each time.b ). Let the elementary histories be defined by projective decompositions of the identity at time steps ( ), so that
where are the class operators. Then Losada and Laura showed that the following two conditions are equivalent
The set is consistent"Medium decoherent" in Gell-Mann and Hartle's terminology. Also note that Losada and Laura actually work with the obsolete condition of "weak decoherence", but this turns out to be an unimportance difference. For a summary of these sorts of consistency conditions, see my round-up.c for any state: .
The Heisenberg-picture projectors at all times commute: .
However, this is not as general as one would like because assuming the set of histories is elementary is very restrictive. (It excludes branch-dependent sets, sets with inhomogeneous histories, and many more types of sets that we would like to work with.) Luckily, their proof can be extended a bit.
Let's forget that we have any projectors and just consider a consistent set . Then consistency for any state, or state-independent consistency, means
Now, let's consider the coarse-grained set that contains just a single arbitrary history and its converse . Coarse-graining preserves state-independent consistency, so we get that for all states , and in particular for any with : . But one can check (see Losada and Laura) that the only operator that always vanishes when sandwiched between two copies of an arbitrary vector is the zero operator. Therefore, or, in other words, . The operator is positive, and is one of its square roots. But a positive operator can't be equal to its square root unless it's a projector. (Use the singular-value decomposition to see this.) Therefore is a projector and, since there was nothing special about this particular history, we see that all the class operators in the original set are projectors. We find, without assuming anything about the set of histories being elementary, that the following two conditions are equivalent
The set is consistent for any state.
The class operators are projectors.
Then, if we further assume that the set is elementary, it immediately follows that the individual projectors commute.
A further question, whose answer I don't know: do all the projectors used in constructing a state-independent set of (not necessarily elementary) homogeneous histories necessarily commute?
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M. Losada and R. Laura, Annals of Physics 344, 263 (2014).↵
Gell-Mann and Hartle usually use the term "fine-grained set of histories" to refer to a set generated by the finest possible partitioning of histories in path integral (i.e. a point in space for every point in time), but this is overly specific. As far as the consistent histories framework is concerned, the key mathematical property that defines a fine-grained set is that it's an exhaustive and exclusive set where each history is constructed by choosing exactly one projector from a fixed orthogonal resolution of the identity at each time.↵
"Medium decoherent" in Gell-Mann and Hartle's terminology. Also note that Losada and Laura actually work with the obsolete condition of "weak decoherence", but this turns out to be an unimportance difference. For a summary of these sorts of consistency conditions, see my round-up.↵
Tagged Consistent histories.
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Detail from Plitsch-Platsch [Splish Splash] (1983) by Thomas Bayrle. As reproduced in our new book
Some of the best images in the New Museum show are made up of tiny figures. Here's why the artist created them
The 80-year-old weaver-turned artist Thomas Bayrle no longer works with looms, yet his old job informs his new one.
"I look at fabric for its threads," Bayrle is quoted as saying in our new book, Thomas Bayrle Playtime, which accompanies his current show at the New Museum, "threads that crisscross and intersect constitute the fabric or material as a whole. Within this context, the thread stands for the individual."
Look closely at a few of the best Bayrle works in the New Museum show, and you'll see those individuals standing out, as little people form a greater picture. In these colourful arrangements, little people build up into a greater image, or "superform" as the artist calls it.
Detail from Running in Circles (1970) by Thomas Baryle
In these pictures, the individual person, "is overtaken," writes the critic Alex Kitnick in our new book, "as people are brought together by something bigger than themselves (TV, labour, a brand name), often forming another icon – a strong, clear image – as a result."
Sometimes that bigger image is a little bit critical, as in the artist's 1968 work ML (Marxist Leninist Cowboys), in which a few hundred identical lassoing cowpokes are arranged into the initials of these two Communist figureheads.
Detail from ML (Marxist-Leninist Cowboys [green]) (1968) by Thomas Bayrle
Yet at others, these people paintings in the new exhibition just seem to pull back from the traditional artistic focus – the individual portrait – to show us all as we truly are. "His practice shows the world as constantly under construction, in a perpetual state of formation, while objectifying it into something hard and regimented at the same time," writes Kitnick. "It is both full of content – men, women, planes pears, umbrellas – and yet uncomfortably hollow and purposefully mind-numbing."
Thomas Bayrle Playtime
To see more of this remarkable practice, order a copy of Bayrle's new catalogue, which accompanies his current New Museum Show, Playtime.
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Our range of tours offer you the opportunity to see a range of wildlife including whales, porpoise, dolphins, basking sharks, otter, golden and white tailed sea eagles and much more in our European Special Area of Conservation - Firth of Lorn. However, with wildlife there can be no guarantees, please call us on 01852 300003 or email us at oban@seafari.co.uk to ask us what we've been seeing recently - we will always give you an honest answer !
Our routes throughout the Firth of Lorn pass through some incredibly biodiverse ecosystems, on land and at sea, supporting a great range of animals from the smallest of fish to the largest land mammal and bird of prey the UK has to offer. Our year round residents are spectacular enough but we also have some incredible seasonal visitors too. This page showcases some of the wildlife we regularly get to see on our trips.
Year Round Wildlife - Residents
The White Tailed Sea Eagle
This is the UK's largest raptor and are often thought of as the fourth largest eagles in the world, their wingspan can be up to 2.5m, they are so large they are commonly referred to as 'flying barn doors'. Less aerially agile than the golden eagle they soar on flat wings but they are still formidable predators, taking mammals, birds and fish as prey, they are opportunistic feeders and will even feed on carrion. They develop their white tail when they reach adulthood at around 5 years of age and can live up to 25 years.
It is a joy to see them back in the UK after human persecution lead to their local extinction in the UK in the early 1900s. A reintroduction effort started on the Isle of Rum in 1975 and now 40 years on they seem to be flourishing and spreading down the islands and on to the mainland. The gaelic name for the white tailed sea eagle is "iolaire sùil na grѐine" meaning 'eagle of the sunlit eye', for its beautiful golden eye.
Seafari Adventures - White Tailed Sea Eagle (credit to Patrick Rowan)
The second largest raptor in the UK with a wing span of around 2m, although not the largest of our raptors they do have an air of majesty and have long been symbolic of power and strength throughout their range. These large birds are expert hunters and feed on small mammals, birds and sometimes carrion. Their keen eyesight helping them hone in on prey from great distance, they have awe inspiring agility in flight and during courtship displays perform undulating flight, flying upwards then swooping at great speed.
They will have up to 5 eyries in their extremely large territories which can be up to 150Km², nesting on craggy cliffs and in tall trees, they will add nesting material each year they reuse a nest, which can make nesting structures incredibly large! Tending to lay 2-3 eggs per clutch it is usually only one chick that fledges, although in some rare cases twins and even triplets have been reared to fledging.
Seafari Adventures - Golden Eagle (credit to Victoria Hillman - www.vikspics.com)
The Buzzard
The Buzzard is the most numerous bird of prey in the UK, it is a medium sized raptor with a large range of colour morphs, from very pale to almost black, they have a paler patch on the underside of the wings that can help identify them during flight.
Seafari Adventures - Buzzard (credit to Benjamin O Jones)
The Common Seal
The common seal is smaller than the grey seal, the larger males being up to 1.9m, they have a very dog like profile with their large eyes and pronounced muzzle. Named common as they have a wide geographic range they are less numerous than the grey seal in the UK. They pup in early summer and the pups are able to swim hours after birth, but they do have a little encouragement from mum and if they get a little tired mum's there for a piggyback! As adults they are able to dive for up to 30 minutes and have been found to go to a depth of 500m, however their normal dive profile tends to be less than 4 minutes at a depth of less than 20m to get their favourite prey of small fish like sand eels.
Seafari Adventures - Mother and Pup Common Seals (credit to Patrick Rowan)
The Grey Seal
The grey seal is the larger of the two species of seal that breed in the UK, the bulls (males) can reach over 2m in length with the females being slightly smaller at around 1.8m. They are superbly adapted to life at sea, being able to hold their breath for over 1 hour and like all true seals don't have external ear structures and have small forelimbs. They can only shuffle about on land but have fantastic agility underwater. They spend most of their lives at sea but we often see them hauled out resting and regulating their temperature, because although their blubber helps them stay warm underwater sometimes they need to warm up on land.
Seafari Adventures - Grey Seals (credit to Patrick Rowan)
The Harbour Porpoise
The harbour porpoise is the smallest cetacean we see in British waters, they are a coastal species never ranging further than 10km from land. Growing up to 1.9m, they have a small triangular dorsal fin in the middle of their back. Locally they are also known as the puffing pig as when they surface to breath they make a sneezing like sound. Like all the toothed cetaceans they use echolocation to hunt their prey and will often feed collaboratively, numerous individuals rounding up a shoal of fish into a tight ball and forcing them close to the surface, the porpoise then take it in turn to pick fish off from the shoal.
Seafari Adventures - Porpoise (credit to Patrick Rowan)
The Bottlenose Dolphin
The bottlenose dolphin is a large dolphin reaching sizes of up to 3.8m and can weigh up to 650kg, with a dark grey dorsal surface, paler underside and short beak they are an instantly recognisable species. They are a surface active species, breaching and spy hopping and performing great aerial acrobatics, they can be very inquisitive and will often come and ride the bow waves next to boats! Usually swimming at speeds of around 6mph they can reach up to 30 mph for short periods of time. Although resident in our waters all year they have an extremely large home range, from the southern tip of Islay all the way up to Skye. Please scroll to the bottom of this page to see some video footage, taken in early 2016 by crew member James Gilpin, of dolphin encounters on our Corryvreckan Wildlife Tours.
Seafari Adventures - Bottlenose Dolphins (credit to Benjamin O Jones)
Shags and Cormorants
These very closely related seabirds can be quite hard to tell apart, unless side by side as the cormorant is about a third larger than the shag. Shags tend to be a jet black in colour whereas the cormorants are more brown in colour and have a larger creamy patch on their throat and chest. During the breeding season the shags have a pronounced crest which is why they are so named. For seabirds they have relatively little waterproofing oil in their feathers so they get waterlogged wings quite quickly making them less efficient fliers and swimmers so they need to haul out to dry off, they are often seen with their wings out; increasing the surface area for speeding up the drying process.
Seafari Adventures - Shag (credit to Patrick Rowan)
The red deer is the largest land mammal in the UK, a stag can stand at around 137cm at the shoulder and weigh up to 190kg! They breed during the rut in autumn where the males defend a territory and battle it out for breeding rights to a harem of hinds. They fight as a last resort, bellowing and parallel walking to infer dominance and it's only if the males are fairly evenly matched will they fight, using their antlers as weapons. They cast their antlers each year and grow new ones towards the end of spring, it is the fastest growing mammalian tissue and while growing is covered in a velvet like fur, filled with blood vessels supplying energy and nutrients for growth.
Seafari Adventures - Red Deer (credit to Benjamin O Jones)
The fallow deer are not a native species to the UK and were introduced in the 11th century, the fallow deer on Scarba being introduced as a game species much later. Standing at just under a metre at shoulder height the males, called bucks will weigh about 100kg less than the red deer stags. They have palmate antlers rather than the branched antlers of the red deer and primarily feed on grass.
Seafari Adventures - Fallow Deer (credit to Patrick Rowan)
The Otter
The European otter, growing up to 1.1m in length, its tail makes up a third of its total length helping propel them through the water. When they live in fresh water habitats European otters display what is known as crepuscular activity, being most active around dawn and dusk, however when they live in a coastal habitat their activity fluctuates with the tide so we often see them in the middle of the day. Hunting for their favourite quarry of small fish, but they will also eat crustaceans and frogs. Unlike the other marine mammals in the area otters lack a layer of blubber so have 2 layers of fur to provide insulation whilst foraging in the water.
Seafari Adventures - Otter (credit to Benjamin O Jones)
Seasonal Wildlife - Visitors
The Minke Whale
Reaching our area towards the end of June each year they spend up to 8 weeks feeding in the food rich water around the Garvellach Islands and Gulf of Corryvreckan.
The minke whale is a baleen whale, a group of whales that, rather than having teeth, have large baleen plates to filter fish like herring and sand eels from the water. The Baleen plates are made up of keratin bristles that trap fish as they expel the large quantities of water they have just taken in. Minke whales are the smallest rorquals, a group within the baleen whales that have large groves on the underside of their throats that allow expansion when taking in gulps of water when feeding. We only see the minke whales in the summer; usually July and August, during the winter they are further south, breeding in warmer waters. They can reach up to 10m in length and weigh in at around 8 tons.
We have dedicated Corryvreckan Wildlife and Whales Tours that tend to start towards the end of June until the beginning of September. Please contact us on 01852 300003 to ask whether we have been seeing whales, we will always give you an honest answer.
Seafari Adventures - Minkie Whale (credit to Nicola Boulton - www.goingwild.com)
The Basking Shark
Basking sharks also pass through our area during the summer. They are second largest shark in the world and can grow over 10m in length. Similar to the whale shark which is the largest shark in the world the basking shark is also a filter feeder, using gill rakers that catch plankton out of the water it takes in, they can filter up to 1.5 million litres of water per hour! They often feed at the surface where plankton is abundant at certain times of the day and often their nose, tip of their dorsal fin and caudal (tail) fin can be seen above the water.
Seafari Adventures - Basking Shark (credit to James Clark)
Seasonal Seabirds
Coming to the coast to breed during the spring and summer we see lots of these seabirds down in the gulf of Corryvreckan which is a great feeding site before they head back out to sea towards the end of August where they spend the majority of the year.
Kittiwakes
The kittiwakes are the UKs most delicate looking gull, as adults they have black wing tips and black legs and feet, as juveniles (like the one pictured) they have a dark patch behind the eye and a black band on the leading edge of their wing.
They have a diet of small fish, primarily sand eels and their breeding success fluctuates in relation to sand eel abundance.
Seafari Adventures - Kittiwake (credit to Patrick Rowan)
Common Guillemot
The common guillemot is a member of the auk family and relative to the black guillemot that is resident all year. They are slender seabirds, with a white belly and black back, and use their wings to propel them through the water to catch fish. They come to the coast during the spring to nest on ledges on cliff faces, they defend a small nesting territory and will literally be touching their nearest neighbour; to prevent them from falling off the cliff-face their eggs are cone shaped.
Seafari Adventures - Guillemot (credit to Victoria Hillman - www.vikspics.com)
The razorbill is another auk, named because its beak has the same shape as an old fashioned cut-throat razor, which also comes to the coast to breed. Although they nest further up on the cliff-faces than the common guillemot so they don't need the pyriform egg shape.
Seafari Adventures - Razorbill (credit to Benjamin O Jones)
The gannet is a large seabird with a wingspan of 1.8m, as an adult they are predominantly white with black wing tips, a creamy face and neck and icy blue eyes. In flight they look pterodactyl like with a bend in the wing at their carpal (wrist) joint. They soar high above the water often at about 30m high looking for fish, on spotting a fish they plummet like arrows at speeds reaching up to 60mph into the water after their prey, they can dive down to 20m depth after a fish and stay underwater for 30 seconds. They often feed in association with cetaceans as they bring shoals of fish close to the surface of the water. The gannets we see in our area breed down on Ailsa Craig in the firth of Clyde and travel up to feed in the rich waters in the gulf of the Corryvreckan.
Seafari Adventures - Gannet (credit to Patrick Rowan)
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Een van de grote problemen met stereofotografie is de montage.

Een stereofoto bestaat uit twee vrijwel identieke foto's. Deze moeten met twee ogen bekeken worden en daarbij precies even hoog staan. Bovendien mag de zijdelingse afwijking niet te groot zijn.

De meeste stereofotografen maken dia's. Ze worden ingeraamd in twee gewone diaraampjes (buitenmaat 50 x 50 mm) of een gestandaardiseerd stereoraampje (41 x 101 mm).

Werkwijze
Bij de montage legt men de raampjes op een lichtbak en daarop de twee stukjes film. In het bovenvlak van de lichtbak zijn een aantal horizontale lijnen gekrast. De fotograaf vergelijkt met een vergrootglas de homologe punten van de opname en verschuift de stukjes film tot ze precies goed liggen.

Om te verhinderen dat de stukjes film ongewild verschuiven, worden ze met klemmetjes vastgezet.

Een geavanceerde wijze van montage geschiedt met projectie. De beeldjes van de lichtbak worden over elkaar heen geprojecteerd. Door een vlinder te laten draaien, waarmee de twee beeldjes beurtelings verduisterd worden, vallen de kleinste afwijkingen direct op.

Vooral rotatiefouten moeten vermeden worden. Als er links en rechts geen hoogteverschillen zijn, zijn er meestal ook geen rotatiefouten.

Zijdelingse afwijkingen zijn toegestaan - ze zijn zelfs het wezenlijke van stereo. Er moet op gelet worden dat de zijdelingse afwijking van de homologe punten in het beeld groter is dan die van het schijnvenster (het schijnvenster is het kader van het diaraampje).

Door de noodzaak de beeldjes in de juiste stand te plaatsen, is het onvermijdelijk dat er beeldmateriaal aan de rand verloren gaat. Zelfs kan het voorkomen dat het kader in het diaraampje te groot is, zodat men zijn toevlucht tot een kleiner raampje moet nemen. Er zijn gelukkig fabrikanten die veel verschillende raampjes op de markt brengen.

Roteren
Een goede stereofoto moet gemaakt worden met beide lenzen op dezelfde hoogte. Met andere woorden, de stereocamera moet horizontaal worden gehouden. (Het is zelfs, in tegenstelling tot monofotografie, niet mogelijk verticale foto's te maken.) In theorie is het bij stereofoto's niet mogelijk een schuine horizon recht te zetten.

Afwerking

Liggen de stukjes film precies goed, dan worden ze met een strookje plakband vastgezet, waarna de raampjes gesloten kunnen worden.

Daarna worden de raampjes gecodeerd. De codering is gestandaardiseerd. Men legt de dia's zodat de afbeelding rechtop staat en niet in spiegelbeeld. Bij gescheiden paren zet men een rode stip linksonder op de linkerdia en een groene stip linksonder op de rechterdia. Verbonden paren krijgen een rode stip linksonder. Dia's komen altijd omgekeerd in de projector, dus bij projectie komen de stippen rechtsboven.

Digitale stereofotografie
De komst van digitale camera's heeft deze werkwijze geheel veranderd. Er bestaan tegenwoordig computerprogramma's zoals Stereo Photo Maker en het Duitse Cosima waarmee de montage op het computerscherm geschiedt.

Stereoscopie

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Background: Hospital-acquired infections are a common and serious public health problem and their management and control are essential to minimize hospital-related morbidity and mortality. The aim was to acquire the base line data regarding prevalence of Multi Drug Resistant (MDR) organism in a tertiary care institution and to help in ensuring proper practice guidelines like contact isolation, cohorting and sterile barrier precaution. The study design was an observational descriptive hospital based cross sectional study.
Methods: The study was conducted in a critical care unit of a tertiary care hospital for a duration of 6months. Patients with the age more than 18yrs, duration of stay more than 48hrs were included in the study. Categorical data are expressed in percentages.
Results: In the study 111 patients more than 18 yrs of age were enrolled of which 68 were male and 43 females. The sample collected from the axillary site were 110, nasal site 108, urine 96 and respiratory site 95. The culture positivity for pathogenic organisms were maximum for axillary site (95.5%) followed by nasal site (83.33%), respiratory site (36.8%) and urine (26%). Of all the organisms isolated multidrug resistance were as follows: MRSA 63% and MSSA 37% (of all S. aureus), MR CoNS 41.32% (of all CoNS), ESBL producer 22.2% and carbapenemase producer 22.2% (of all Klebsiella species), ESBL producer 37.5% and carbapenemase producer 31.26% (of all E. coli), non albicans Candida 57.14% (of all Candida species).
Conclusions: Early identification of the causative pathogen in nosocomial and community-acquired infection is crucial for initiating the correct antibiotics as well as preventing further spread.
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Q: error for Importing sql file to mysql database using java in windows here is my code
try{
String logf = "mysql -p -h localhost ruralcdn<E:\\data\\DBServer\\"+FileName;
System.out.println("Command"+logf);
Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();

Process pr = rt.exec(logf);
int lm = pr.waitFor();
System.out.println("lm"+lm);

System.out.println("!!Done!!");
}catch(Exception ex){
System.out.println("!!error!!");

}

when i compile the above code, it hangs for infinite period of time and no entry updated in my database.
when i tried using the method given below
Connection conn = dbConnectionSource.getConnection();
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
stmt.execute(FileUtils.readFileToString(new File("./some-sql-file")));

console displayed error:you have an error in your sql syntex
please help me so that i can do things correctly.
Thanks -A

A: Your command (in logf) includes a redirection of standard input.  Unfortunately, you can't do it that way because the Process.exec(String) method doesn't understand how to do command redirection, quoting and sso on.  It only understands how to execute a simple command with arguments separated by spaces.
You've got two choices:

*

*You can open the file in Java, and write it to the process object's output stream so that it show up on the commands standard input.

*You can tell Java to run the mysql command in a shell / command interpretter that can take care of the redirection and so on.

Your code should look something like this:
String[] command = new String{
        "cmd",
        "/c",
        "mysql -p -h localhost ruralcdn < E:\\data\\DBServer\\" + fileName;

ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder(command);
Process p = pb.start();
p.waitFor();

The other thing that your code should do is to read and display (or discard) the standard output / error from the command.  If you don't read it:

*

*you won't know if it contains any error messages, and

*there is the possibility that the mysql command will block because it can't write any more to the pipe that you haven't reading.

console displayed error:you have an error in your sql syntex

It is probably telling the truth ...

By the way, the reason that the mysql command currently hangs for ever is that it is waiting for the Java process to send it data on its standard input.  And that ain't going to happen because your Java code doesn't write anything to it.

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