EDITOR'S NOTE: Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus testing is Part 3 of a DUI Training series. Other articles cover Vehicle in Motion, Personal Contact, Walk and Turn, One Leg Stand, and specific safety concerns when conducting DUI investigations.
We encourage our readers to view all of the posts to become familiar with the overall SFST battery of tests. HGN is a very important clue in DUI investigations, but it is only one of many observations to successfully determine if a driver is impaired and to make a successful case for DUI.
Nothing in this article qualifies you to administer the test. You must attend a traditional training course for that. This is an informational article, and procedures and other information can and will change after its publication.
After observations of the Vehicle in Motion, and during our Personal Contact with the driver, the next step in the investigation of impaired drivers is to have them exit the vehicle for the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests (SFST). Let me go on record here concerning the decision to have people exit for SFST. This decision should not be made lightly or without reasonable suspicion that you indeed have an impaired driver.
Officers should not randomly or wantonly removed drivers for SFST. The decision should be based upon articulable facts that would lead a reasonable officer in your place to come to the conclusion the driver may be impaired, and SFST are warranted. Failing to have reasonable suspicion of impaired driving is a good way to get a sustained complaint or even a lawsuit.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The intent of this article is simply to refresh previously trained officer's on techniques and methods used for the SFST, and to encourage those who have not been properly trained to obtain the required training to perform this important test. This article does not replace your State's required training, nor certify you in anything.
The Frye standard, Frye test, is a general acceptance test or examination to determine the admissibility of scientific evidence. This standard comes from the pivotal U.S. Supreme Court case of Frye v. United States. This legal standard provides that expert opinion based on a scientific technique is admissible in court only where the technique is generally accepted as reliable in the relevant scientific community, and the person testifying has relevant education and training in the technique to be able to provide said testimony.
In the actual Supreme Court case the Court ruled, "the thing from which the deduction is made must be sufficiently established to have gained general acceptance in the particular field in which it belongs". The defense attorneys in Frye had attempted to use an "expert" in deception, using a systolic blood pressure test. The Court properly ruled the technique had not been generally accepted in the medical or psychological professions, so any tests or testimony was properly excluded.
The Frye Standard required the government to show the technique or tool was scientifically accepted.
To satisfy the scientific requirements of Frye v. United States, the National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration (NHTSA) funded scientific research on sobriety tests starting back in the 1970's. The results were the three "standardized and validated" field sobriety tests that most of us in police work have become most familiar with.
"Standardized" means there is a set procedure for administering the test, and each officer should be trained to perform the test in the specific manner described by NHTSA. "Validated" means the appropriate scientific community has studied the test techniques, and confirmed through accepted scientific methods the tests do in fact work to identify impaired drivers.
Final instructions on body requirements during test (the head to toe instructions).
After each section I would ask the driver "Do you understand". I would only continue when I obtained a verbal affirmative, which was conveniently recorded on audio and video equipment in the car. This played out extremely well because on each test the subject would have stated their understanding a minimum of four times! And if the subject says "no" to understanding something, I only repeat those parts they claim not to understand. This is consistent with the NHTSA SFST Manual. This break down also made it easy for me to ensure that all of the instructions from the NHTSA manual were provided.
This article will focus on the administration of the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN) test. This is probably the most difficult test to administer because the emphasis is on the officer, not the test subject, to get the test correct. The officer must follow the NHTSA standards of spacing and timing in order to get this test admitted in court. The officer must also show they have received a minimum of 8 hours of training on HGN to be able to have their testimony of the HGN test admitted in court.
The positive side is that most courts around the country now accept HGN results as a very strong indicator of impairment. The Appellate Courts in my State have ruled, "…four clues on HGN is indicative of impairment". That is a very strong statement from the courts and makes the administration of this test that much more important to our case.
HGN – the involuntary jerking of the eyes as the eyes track horizontally. Officers should remember this definition, as it is a layman's explanation of what we are testing for and easily remembered and understood by jurors.
NOTE: All people have nystagmus (attorney question – its called Physiological nystagmus, explained at the end), but that nystagmus is not visible to the naked eye and requires doctor's instruments to see. Alcohol and drugs enhance (do not cause) nystagmus as the eyes move horizontally and vertically. The nystagmus that officer's are testing for is Gaze nystagmus, which is different from the other forms of nystagmus. I have provided a detailed explanation of the different types of nystagmus at the article's conclusion.
Think of it this way – the eye is a ball sitting in a fluid socket. Like any ball it naturally wants to rotate and move around. The eye muscles keep the eye on track, but the eye is always making small adjustments to accommodate for lighting, distance, and focus. Alcohol, and other drugs that enhance nystagmus, weaken the eye muscles from doing what they need to do to control the eye, bringing nystagmus to the visible point. And don't you agree that an eye bouncing around would prevent someone from driving safely?
Starting Position – Standing with feet together, heels and toes, with arms down to side.
Basic Information – Explain that you're going to move your finger left to right and they are expected to follow your finger with their eyes only.
Demonstration – Actually position you finger and give an example pass left and right so they clearly understand your movements and intentions.
Final Instructions – Watch your finger with their eyes only, do not move their head. Keep their arms down to their side, and do not move out of the starting position until told to do so (Remember to ask "do you understand" after each step).
To be "standardized" the officer should start each examination with his finger in the center of the subject's face. Then move to the right (subject's left) to start each test. This is the way NHTSA teaches and should be followed by officers.
OFFICER SAFETY ISSUE – I am going to go on record here to advocate officers use their finger as the test stimulus, and NOT some foreign object like a pen. I've never heard of an officer having his finger pulled off and used as a weapon against him, but I have heard of pens or other objects being used in that manner. In one demonstration at an SFST conference or training seminar a petite female officer was able to grab a metal pen from another officer "administering" HGN and stab that pen about 3-4 inches into a mannequin chest – through a ballistic vest! No thank you – my finger is just fine for me.
Before starting any of the HGN tests the officer is required to place the stimulus approximately 12-15 inches from the test subject's eyes and slightly elevated . This is very important because as the test progresses to Onset of Nystagmus Prior to 45 Degrees, the distance from the subject's eyes is critical to establish the proper angle for testing. The slightly elevated part is to ensure you can see the subject's eyes clearly. Intoxicated individuals will often have droopy eyelids, so raising your stimulus will require their eyes to be more visible.
Every person has a limitation on how far their eyes will move. In addition, every person has a limitation on how well they can focus on a stimulus placed in front of their eyes. If the stimulus is too close – the person's vision is blurred (cross-eyed). If we move the stimulus too far to the sides, the person cannot track it beyond a certain point and keep their head still.
Standard paper is 8.5″ x 11″ and provides a good practice guide for establishing HGN distances.
The easiest way for an officer to practice and create a muscle memory of what 12-15 inches looks like is to take a piece of copy paper (standard 8.5″ x 11″) and hold it horizontally in front of your partner's nose. Don't stick it in their eye, but use the bridge of their nose (boney part) as a resting point. Since the paper is not touching their eyes that gives you roughly an additional 0.5 inches. Your paper is 11.0 inches long. So move your finger about 1-3 inches further out and you have your 12-15 inch distance.
Another method is to stretch your arm out and measure from your finger tips back to your elbow. This will often be between 12-24 inches depending on your height. This is your constant reference point. When having the subject get into the test position, stretch out your arm, but do not touch them (extend your arm just outside of their shoulder). Then, depending on your arm length, place your other arm at the appropriate distance (12-15 inches) that you know for your arm measurement.
The reason this is so important is when we test for Onset of Nystagmus Prior to 45 Degrees we must create an right, isosceles triangle. In other words – a triangle with a 90-degree angle and (2) equal length sides. I know! More math in police work?! However, since you've established your 12-15 inches using your piece of copy paper, now all you have to do is make sure you move the 12-15 inches to the side of their nose. Use the same piece of copy paper, now turned length-wise from their nose, as a guide for distance.
Equal distance of stimulus from their nose, and the distance stimulus is moved horizontally from their nose, means we've created a 45-degree angle! If you practiced nearly 12-inches, than your horizontal movement should be practiced to 12-inches. Same if your distance was greater – if you practiced 15-inches, than your horizontal movement should be out to 15-inches.
The Pupil is the black circle in the middle of the eye. The Iris is the colored portion.
This step is a 4-second total pass. The 4-seconds is from center of the subject's face to their left maximum deviation, back all the way to their right maximum deviation, and back to center (4 seconds). This is a fairly quick movement, but not too fast that a sober person could not follow your finger. Take about a one second pause in between the tests. This should be completed twice to ensure proper observations, but an additional test pass can be conducted if the subject is uncooperative or failing to following instructions.
Lack of smooth pursuit – eyes track equally, but the movement is jerky.
If you see unequal pupil size your FIRST job is to ascertain why! If the person cannot answer reasonably call the paramedics!
***MEDICAL NOTE: This step is critical because lack of either equal tracking or equal pupil size could indicate a serious brain injury/trauma that needs immediate medical attention. Ask the subject about any such events. If they cannot answer with a valid reason, summon paramedics immediately! You have a duty to protect the person in your custody!
I processed a guy who had been hit with a baseball bat 14 years earlier while he was playing as a baseball Catcher. Pupils were way off in size, but he'd been functioning fine since that incident. Note this observation and explanation in the report and move on. Don't get a good reason from the subject? Call for paramedics and have them transported to a hospital where you can draw blood and have them medically examined. Protect yourself and the subject, that is your duty!
The next step is to determine if the subject's eyes move "smoothly" while following your finger. This is a slower movement that takes "approximately" 2-seconds from center to to left maximum deviation, then about 4-seconds to get to right maximum deviation (2 seconds to center, 2 seconds to opposite max. deviation), and then another 2- seconds back to center.
This should be repeated at least twice for proper observation. NHTSA now directs officers to stop in the middle (nose) for approximately one second between tests of lack of smooth pursuit to ensure the test subject can re-focus on the stimulus if needed. More than two tests can be conducted if the subject is uncooperative or has trouble following instructions.
If the eyes are jerky when following then you score lack of smooth pursuit. If they track smoothly then you do not score this clue. Each eye gets its own score. Another way of describing lack of smooth pursuit is like windshield wipers on a hot, dry windshield, or some have said like a marble going across sand paper.
Maximum clues to be scored is 2 – (1 for each eye).
Nystagmus at maximum deviation is observing the "bouncing" or jerking of the eyes when the Iris (colored portion of the eye) is taken to the far corner of the eye with none of the white part of the eye showing in that corner. The nystagmus must be sustained, for a "minimum" of 4 seconds.
VERY IMPORTANT – This is the only part of the HGN test that requires a minimum of 4 seconds of observation at maximum deviation. All of the other NHTSA time instructions are "approximately", but maximum deviation is clear – "minimum". Remember, the HGN test requires the officer to obtain a minimum of 8-hours of instruction and training in order to be able to testify to the results of the HGN test in court.
So you take the subject's left eye to maximum deviation in a movement that takes about 1 second from center, wait a minimum of 4 seconds, move across to the subject's right side maximum deviation in about a 2-second movement (just slow enough for them to follow your finger), hold for a minimum of 4 seconds, and then about 1 second to center. Pause for about one second. That is one evaluation. Repeat the same process and if you are confident with your observations you are done with distinct nystagmus at maximum deviation. You do not need to stop at center to start the next pass, but if you're a little weak on your tests it's a good place to get your timing in balance.
HERE'S A HELPFUL HINT – during this test you will count fast to yourself (trust me), so when counting by "one thousand one", etc., count to about "1006" to make sure you get the full 4-seconds. Each eye is scored independently.
Maximum clues to be scored is 2 – (1 clue per eye).
There are good scientific reasons we hold the eye a minimum of 4-seconds. The clue requires "distinct and sustained" nystagmus at maximum deviation. As a person's Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) goes up they will start to show signs of nystagmus at maximum deviation. However, a person at say a .06% or .07% may only show that nystagmus for 2-3 seconds and then it will stop completely.
This is why failing to hold the subject's eye at maximum deviation for a minimum of 4-seconds will definitely cause the test to be tossed in court, and could cause you embarrassment when you put that subject on the BAC instrument at the station. Remember, we arrest for impairment – not a BAC score.
Many officers see this phenomenon happen and then begin to doubt the accuracy of the tests. That's why we do at least two passes to ensure what we are seeing. And on that note – the NHTSA manual says to do a "minimum" of two passes, but doesn't say you can't do more passes if something doesn't feel right and you want to check things more closely.
Dr. Karl Citek, who has done extensive work with NHTSA on the eye examinations, advises that you can hold the eye at maximum deviation for up to 15 seconds for observation before worrying about causing a fatigue nystagmus – where the eye muscles just get too tired to hold the eye in that position and start to show nystagmus for that reason alone.
Remember – we are impartial investigators of the truth. Sometimes we will test people who are under the statutory legal alcohol limit. When you see this you've actually done a great job, and should start to realize this person is borderline impaired. They may still be too impaired to drive based upon your other observations because not all people handle alcohol or drugs the same. A person who takes their first "two drinks" ever might only get to a .05% but have difficulty standing, where a professional drinker could be a .150% and almost nail the other two tests in the SFST.
That's why HGN is so very important, because "the eyes are the windows to the soul" and they don't lie. Regardless, of drinking ability, age, size or anything, HGN will show up and has been shown to be over 90% effective at finding the .08% BAC and above impaired driver.
This is probably the most tricky of the HGN tests and requires the most practice and patience. This is because it requires the officer to move 12-15 inches from center of subject to maximum deviation, and time the movement to occur in "approximately" 4-seconds. The officer must also be a corresponding 12-15 inches from the subject's eye line. This is what creates an isosceles triangle to guarantee 45 degrees. Finally, to ensure you've done the test correctly the Iris should not reach maximum deviation, as there should be some white of the eye still showing in the corner.
During that time the officer must look for the first signs of involuntary jerking (nystagmus). Once observed the officer pauses there for at least one second to ensure what they observed is still present. I would recommend pausing for several seconds to avoid any doubt, and to present a much stronger case. If nystagmus is still there the officer can move back to center and start the process for the right eye. If the nystagmus is not there, the officer continues the process until observing nystagmus or reaching maximum deviation at the 4-second pace.
This is a very slow movement, that requires skill to observe correctly, but has a great opportunity to determine greater impairment. Think of it this way – the sooner the nystagmus is observed, the greater the eye muscles are effected by the alcohol or drugs, meaning the greatest level of impairment. The one thing that officers must do is maintain a consistent movement of their finger (stimulus), otherwise you may actually induce a nystagmus as the subject tries to keep focused on your jerking finger.
Taking the example of an officer reaching "prior to" maximum deviation with no signs of nystagmus, the officer should take about one second to get to center again, and then start the 4-second process on the other eye, with a one second return to center. This entire process should be repeated again for at least two passes to complete the evaluation.
Maximum clues to be scored is 2 (1 per eye).
NHTSA does allow the officer to conduct more than two passes per examination. If something happens and you're not comfortable with what you saw, simply conduct another pass. This comes about quite frequently when the subject is uncooperative with doing the test. Document any reasons for more than two passes, but don't sit there and do 12 passes or you'll be accused of being on a fishing expedition.
The entire test, if performed according to NHTSA standards involves a minimum of 14 passes and will take a minimum of 76 seconds to complete. And that's if you go through every portion of the test, only stopping briefly as required by NHTSA standards. You can bet the defense attorney will be watching and counting!
After completing the HGN tests keep the subject in the same position and ask them to follow your finger as you track in an upward motion. Keeping the 12-15″ spacing rule, position your finger in a horizontal manner in front of their face and slightly elevated. In a movement that takes approximately one second move your finger up about 12-15″ and hold that top most position for approximately 4-seconds. Repeat this process twice to ensure your findings.
If there is a noticeable bouncing of the eyes when looking up, then the person is exhibiting VGN. If there is none, or it starts and then stops before the 4-seconds is complete, then that subject does not have VGN.
Although not a clue that is scored, VGN provides invaluable evidence of impairment. Through training with Dr. Citek I was taught that the presence of VGN means that the amount of alcohol or drugs in the subject's system indicates a high level of impairement for that particular subject. What that means is that the 100 pound woman or the guy that just had his first few drinks, who may only have a BAC of .08%, may still exhibit VGN because for them the alcohol or drug is causing greater impairment. The heavy drinker on the other hand, may have a BAC of .180% and not exhibit any VGN.
VGN is, therefore, a great indicator of that person's impairment. VGN, like HGN can be enhanced by alcohol, other CNS Depressants, Inhalants, and Dissociative Anesthetics like PCP.
NOTE: The VGN Test is NOT a drug detecting test, or marijuana test as some have misinterpreted about the test. Only drugs that cause HGN will also cause VGN. These include CNS Depressants (including alcohol), Inhalants, and Dissociative Anesthetics (like PCP).
FINAL NOTE: Dr. Citek conducted a NHTSA funded scientific study on the ability to perform HGN on subjects who were seated or laying down (supine). His results are now published in the scientific journals. Officers CAN perform HGN on seated and prone subjects so long as the subject's head is in-line with the body. So if you want to do a preliminary HGN test on a subject who is still in their car you can, so long as you get them to turn slightly so their body and head are facing in the same direction. Same goes for that crash subject on the backboard. Remember, keep the subject's head straight in-line with their body (no tilting, or turning of the head) and you can get your HGN test in.
I hope this information clears up any confusion you may have had, educates you on some of the intricacies of HGN, and encourages you to use this skill to remove impaired drivers. If you've already been trained – happy hunting! If not, you still must go through a NHTSA approved SFST course to properly administer the tests and testify in court. Don't be the officer that sets bad case law precedent!
Ever since police have used Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus in determining impairment, the defense attorneys have wanted to throw the test out as bunk. This is because they know how damaging good HGN testimony can be to proving impairment. Remember, HGN came to police sobriety testing through medical professionals, and scientists. Testing for HGN is well known and accepted in the scientific and medical community.
However, savvy attorneys will attempt to cast doubt on whether you saw HGN by trying to say it was another form of nystagmus. So, it behooves us to have at least a layman's understanding of the other forms of nystagmus, and a counter to the argument the HGN we observed was caused by one of the other forms of nystagmus.
Vestibular nystagmus is caused by movement or action to the vestibular system (inner ear).
Rotational Nystagmus occurs when the person is spun around or rotated rapidly, causing the fluid in the inner ear to be disturbed. If it were possible to observe the eyes of a rotating person, they would be seen to jerk noticeably.
Post Rotational Nystagmus is closely related to rotational nystagmus: when the person stops spinning, the fluid in the inner ear remains disturbed for a period of time, and the eyes continue to jerk.
Caloric Nystagmus occurs when fluid motion in the canals of the vestibular system is stimulated by temperature as by putting warm water in one ear and cold in the other.
Positional Alcohol Nystagmus (PAN) occurs when a foreign fluid, such as alcohol, that alters the specific gravity of the blood is in unequal concentrations in the blood and the vestibular system.
Optokinetic Nystagmus occurs when the eyes fixate on an object that suddenly moves out of sight, or when the eyes watch sharply contrasting moving images.
Physiological Nystagmus is a natural nystagmus that keeps the sensory cells of the eye from tiring. It is the most common type of nystagmus. It happens to all of us, all the time. This type of nystagmus produces extremely minor tremors or jerks of the eyes. These tremors are generally too small to be seen with the naked eye. Physiological nystagmus will have no impact on our Standardized Field Sobriety Tests, because its tremors are generally invisible.
Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus occurs as the eyes move to the side (horizontally). It is the observation of the eyes for Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus that provides the first and most accurate test in the Standardized Field Sobriety Test battery. Although this type of nystagmus is most accurate for determining alcohol impairment, its presence may also indicate use of certain other drugs (Depressants, Inhalants, and Disassociative Anesthetics).
They include brain tumors and other brain damage or some diseases of the inner ear. These pathological disorders occur in relatively few people and in even fewer drivers.
If you've noticed some chopped sentences that didn't make much sense, we had a little transfer issue when changing servers. Posts in the DUI series should be checked and cleaned up by the end of today.
DirtyDoggg – it is obvious you have a hatred of cops, but your statements are not based upon fact. This particular article is just one of a series of articles on DUI enforcement.
The decision to arrest looks at the totality of evidence. This includes the vehicle in motion – what traffic violations led to the officer stopping the car in the first place. Then it moves into personal contact with the driver – what signs were noted from simple conversation and observations, was the driver slurring words, was there an odor of intoxicants, open containers of alcohol or drugs in plain view. We observe how they are able to retrieve documents, how they exit the vehicle, how they walk and stand.
The SFST tests (including HGN) are the last observations the officer does before making a decision to arrest.
Everyone has nystagmus, but it is not visible to the naked eye. Alcohol and some drugs "enhance" the nystagmus to the point it can be seen by the naked eye. This is medical science, not police procedure.
Impaired drivers continue to kill around 10,000 motorists each year. That's about 30 per day or 1 every 51 minutes. Officers sworn to uphold the law should be praised for removing these dangerous drivers. It would appear by your bent that you or someone you know was removed from the roadway by an officer. Perhaps you or they should reconsider your driving behaviors.
Perhaps you are mistakenly confusing stigmatism with nystagmus.


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By now you'll be more than familiar with the ever-expanding live streaming platform that is Twitch. As a gamer, it's likely that you enjoy watching the odd stream of your favourite game or you might be a dedicated viewer of a particular channel. You may even dabble in broadcasting yourself, but you'll certainly be aware of the meteoric rise of Twitch gaming over the past few years. What started as a subsidiary of early lifecasting website Justin.tv has become a thriving community of epic proportions and what the viewers want more than anything is more gaming streams.
This hunger for gaming content has brought fame and fortune to a whole new wave of online personalities. Whilst follower numbers are nowhere near the numbers that YouTubers like PewDiePie entertain, it has shot up into the millions for the likes of streamers Ninja and Shroud. So, just how does this seemingly accidental platform make dreams come true?
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We've already gone into just how much Twitch streamers can earn on the platform, with top gamers like Ninja and Tfue making upwards of $500,000 a month. However, the legions of dedicated fans and viewers that have elevated them to such great heights are growing in number by the hour.
Twitch is currently averaging 1.3 million viewers per day across the platform, and that number has steadily been increasing since the site debuted in 2011. The main chunk of these viewers will be tuning in to live streams of Fortnite and League of Legends, by far the two games with the biggest audiences on this platform.
At any one time, there are about 45,000 channels live on Twitch. Just like with the YouTuber boom in recent years, Twitch streamers could soon become the new superstars of the modern media landscape.
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The Big Five Names
At the moment, some of the biggest names on Twitch are:
'super streamer' Tyler "Ninja" Blevins
Michael "shroud" Grzesiek
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Ali "TSM_myth" Kabbani and
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Three of these guys mainly stream Fortnite whereas the other two stream a variety of other fan favourites like Grand Theft Auto V and World of Warcraft. If you're thinking that earning money from playing your favourite games all day sounds like the best job ever then you're right. But it's not as easy as all that.
For a start, these people are good at what they do. Ninja is phenomenally successful on Fortnite and approaches his gameplay as seriously as any other professional would their work. Putting in somewhere between 5 and 10 hours of gaming on an average day, this is certainly a marathon and not a sprint. Clearly, it's paying off though, as he's currently worth about $10 million.
Another important aspect of having a successful channel, besides the sheer amount of hours dedicated to streaming, is personality. The top streamers are not just fantastic players, they also interact with their viewers and are entertaining to watch. For Twitch streamers, the audience is everything so they can offer incentives to keep engaging like exclusive emotes and tips for better gameplay. After all, watching one of these masters at work is like a free lesson in itself.
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It's not just video games that lend themselves so well to the Twitch streaming platform. Much like the initial YouTuber boom, there are popular streamers from all walks of life and every discipline, including musicians, artists, poker players and people who just love to chat. The most successful category on the platform outside of gaming is IRL or In Real Life. Much like YouTubers' daily vlogs, this allows people a glimpse into the everyday life of their favourite streamers.
Other popular categories include card and board games like Poker, a karaoke-type category called Twitch Sings, and Art which covers everything from digital art to painting to live tattooing.
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Zu/Dälek is a self-titled split album by Italian band Zu and the American experimental hip hop duo Dälek, released in 2005.

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— японский композитор. Наиболее известен как автор музыки для многих игр серии Sonic the Hedgehog.

Биография
Кэнъити Токои родился 13 июля 1969 года в префектуре Тотиги.
С детства увлекался музыкой, особенно игрой на фортепиано. Интересовался также духовыми инструментами. В университете был одним из участников группы Какэмоти (), где играл на синтезаторе и бас-гитаре.

Благодаря увлечению компьютерными играми, в 1996 году Кэнъити Токой был принят на работу в Sega, где первой его работой стало создание музыки для игры Daytona USA: Championship Circuit Edition. Внёс существенный вклад в создание музыки для игры Sonic Adventure, благодаря которой у Токои утвердился джазовый стиль. Вместе с Дзюном Сэноуэ написал главную тему игры «Open Your Heart» и тему ехидны Наклза для «Unknown from M.E.».

Под псевдонимом Dr. Pris создал несколько песен для серии игр Space Channel 5. Принимал участие в создание песен к таким играм, как Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution, Sonic Advance 3, Phantasy Star Universe, Sonic Unleashed и Yakuza 4, а также к серии Sonic Riders.

В 2007 году становится звукорежиссёром игры Sonic and the Secret Rings, а в 2010 был главным композитором Sonic Colors. Некоторые работы Кэнъити Токои звучат в качестве ремиксов в юбилейной игре про ежа Соника Sonic Generations.

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long __cancel(), __syscall_cp_asm(), __syscall_cp_c();

long __cancel()
{
	pthread_t self = __pthread_self();
	if (self->canceldisable == PTHREAD_CANCEL_ENABLE || self->cancelasync)
		pthread_exit(PTHREAD_CANCELED);
	self->canceldisable = PTHREAD_CANCEL_DISABLE;
	return -ECANCELED;
}

long __syscall_cp_asm(volatile void *, syscall_arg_t,
                      syscall_arg_t, syscall_arg_t, syscall_arg_t,
                      syscall_arg_t, syscall_arg_t, syscall_arg_t);

long __syscall_cp_c(syscall_arg_t nr,
                    syscall_arg_t u, syscall_arg_t v, syscall_arg_t w,
                    syscall_arg_t x, syscall_arg_t y, syscall_arg_t z)
{
	pthread_t self;
	long r;
	int st;

	if ((st=(self=__pthread_self())->canceldisable)
	    && (st==PTHREAD_CANCEL_DISABLE || nr==SYS_close))
		return __syscall(nr, u, v, w, x, y, z);

	r = __syscall_cp_asm(&self->cancel, nr, u, v, w, x, y, z);
	if (r==-EINTR && nr!=SYS_close && self->cancel &&
	    self->canceldisable != PTHREAD_CANCEL_DISABLE)
		r = __cancel();
	return r;
}

static void _sigaddset(sigset_t *set, int sig)
{
	unsigned s = sig-1;
	set->__bits[s/8/sizeof *set->__bits] |= 1UL<<(s&8*sizeof *set->__bits-1);
}

__attribute__((__visibility__("hidden")))
extern const char __cp_begin[1], __cp_end[1], __cp_cancel[1];

static void cancel_handler(int sig, siginfo_t *si, void *ctx)
{
	pthread_t self = __pthread_self();
	ucontext_t *uc = ctx;
	uintptr_t pc = uc->uc_mcontext.MC_PC;

	a_barrier();
	if (!self->cancel || self->canceldisable == PTHREAD_CANCEL_DISABLE) return;

	_sigaddset(&uc->uc_sigmask, SIGCANCEL);

	if (self->cancelasync || pc >= (uintptr_t)__cp_begin && pc < (uintptr_t)__cp_end) {
		uc->uc_mcontext.MC_PC = (uintptr_t)__cp_cancel;
#ifdef CANCEL_GOT
		uc->uc_mcontext.MC_GOT = CANCEL_GOT;
#endif
		return;
	}

	__syscall(SYS_tkill, self->tid, SIGCANCEL);
}

void __testcancel()
{
	pthread_t self = __pthread_self();
	if (self->cancel && !self->canceldisable)
		__cancel();
}

static void init_cancellation()
{
	struct sigaction sa = {
		.sa_flags = SA_SIGINFO | SA_RESTART,
		.sa_sigaction = cancel_handler
	};
	memset(&sa.sa_mask, -1, _NSIG/8);
	__libc_sigaction(SIGCANCEL, &sa, 0);
}

int pthread_cancel(pthread_t t)
{
	static int init;
	if (!init) {
		init_cancellation();
		init = 1;
	}
	a_store(&t->cancel, 1);
	if (t == pthread_self()) {
		if (t->canceldisable == PTHREAD_CANCEL_ENABLE && t->cancelasync)
			pthread_exit(PTHREAD_CANCELED);
		return 0;
	}
	return pthread_kill(t, SIGCANCEL);
}

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of portable careers, ranging from writing a cookbook called Dates in Oman through being a successful journalist in Dubai to running seminars and workshops worldwide during her time repatriated to the UK and the following decade in the Netherlands. In 2002 she began to focus on helping expats to get published. At the time of writing and since 2013 she is on assignment with her husband in Kuala Lumpur running Summertime Publishing Ltd, which is registered in the UK. Back in 1998 she wrote a book that would inspire and empower others to develop their own career just as she did. 2013 saw the launch of the fourth edition of Career in Your Suitcase®, this time in collaboration with Colleen with whom she has developed the workbook you hold in your hands – The Career in Your Suitcase® Way. With a permanently evolving portable career to keep her busy, Jo has run Summertime Publishing since 1997 and now has over 100 books in her stable, most of which are by or for other people living abroad. In 2012 she launched www.ExpatBookshop.com to enable her to promote them.
Find out more about Jo, her workshops, her consultancy and what makes her heart sing, through her blog at www.SunnyInterval.com or via www.SummertimePublishing.com.
Colleen believes the skills people need to make the most of their career journey – to make personally meaningful choices for their career – are essential life skills and has dedicated her career to teaching people these skills. Colleen made an international transition in 2005 when she moved from Canada to the Netherlands for love after almost ten years as a career consultant. Seeing it as the ultimate chance to apply the career development principles she teaches others, within two years she had learned the language and was again delivering career development training. This time in Dutch. After meeting Jo Parfitt at a networking event, Colleen decided to follow her intuition and discuss her wild idea of writing a book with Jo. This led to A Career in Your Suitcase® 4 ed. and the co-creation of the Career in Your Suitcase® Way which includes this workbook and incorporates lessons learned and the career development principles needed for today's mobile career adventurer.
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Stats Can also found that the reason for use had a profound impact on the amount consumed. People who use cannabis for medical reasons were more likely to use it daily or almost daily, and less likely to choose smoking as their method of consumption. One in five non-medical users reported consuming cannabis daily or almost daily, according to the agency. This compares strongly against medical users with documentation (70%), medical users without medical documentation (46%) and mixed users (46%).
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What will we do if we can't bring back Buck?
Following the Black Caps' victory over the south africans the other day I decided to display a bit of patriotism and wear my Beige Brigade shirt to work.
Last year, when our Italy trip was still in the ideas stage, my friend Phil put forward an idea to go to the Caribbean to watch the Cricket World Cup, and now that it's here I'm quietly wishing that I had more holiday leave up my sleeve so that I could go and do it (after my Italy holiday). It'd be great to go to the Caribbean, and the cricket so far seems to have been pretty good to :-).
Apparently Phil has a favorite island where one of his favorite authors lived, and he thought that this would have been an excellent excuse to entertain both his fascination with the island and his enjoyment of cricket. I think we could even convince the girls to come along too, with promises of tropical beaches and exotic cocktails (although I'm not sure how many matches we'd get them along to).
Ah well. Dreams are free.
The ashes are in town and I'm having my annual re-awakening to how much I love cricket.
It's been nice seing some good competition (OK, so maybe not the first test, but even then there was some good individual performances that weren't necessarily reflected in the outcome), and while I am far from being a die hard sports fan, I love being able to flick on the TV and watch bits and pieces of cricket, and not need to devote my full attention to it (while concurrently reading a book, or doing some housework, or playing on my computer).
There has also been a couple of shows on TV that have added to my interest. The ABC in, conjunction with the Australian Cricket Board, have made a series of Documentaries entitled "Cricket in the…" with each one focusing on a different decade of Australian cricket.
Now some of you may recall me previously mentioning a DVD called Calipso Summer, which dealt with the 1960-61 West Indies cricket tour of Australia, and the "Cricket in the.." series is made by the same people, and is almost as enjoyable.
I watched Cricket in the 50's last week, and am looking forward to cricket in the 60's which is on soon. They interview the players and have archival footage and the whole thing is generally fun and informative, giving a good insight into the matches and the dominant personalities and characters of the day.


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Funding tablets for education
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Published Date: 15 / April / 2014
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A student's progress is closely linked to their self-motivation, engagement and independent learning skills. Tablets offer new opportunities to motivate and engage students of all abilities. It empowers the student to take control of their learning and to work in a more individualised way.
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Murder on the High Seas!
Filed Under: Contemporary Life, Retirement by Wendy — 1 Comment
We celebrated my 75th birthday aboard a private dining room and deck of the Queen Mary. Somehow, there was a slippage in time, and we arrived in 1936, on the ship's maiden voyage. It was a very different night, as you can see.
There was quite a crowd, and it was a gorgeous evening.
We began with drinks and appetizers on the deck.
Congressman Marion Zioncheck tried to sell his New Deal Politics to Brazilian polo player Lincoln Moreira. Moriera had just spent a fortune on an Irish stud for his stables, but feigned interest.
I was there, of course, with Margaret Sanger, who was offering birth control to any woman who looked young enough to use it.
Bill Bacardi from Puerto Rico was making even more money now that Prohibition was over and he could run his rum legally. He was going "all respectable" now, hoping for an appointment to the Reconstruction Administration. He avoided the Chicago crowd.
Janet Gabbler, the society gossip columnist, tried unsuccessfully to get information out of the ship's photographer Flash Wilcoxen. Flash could have told her a lot, as he seemed to know a great deal about the passengers and had been a news photographer from Chicago until recently.
He made a point of telling passengers that he never forgot a face.
Marilyn Fisher, lady detective from Australia, was there, enjoying a conversation with the famous
silent screen actress Barbara Bow,who was talking.
Later, she had a long discussion with Margaret Sanger and Lucia Magliocco. It was rumored that Lucia was a spy for Mussolini. No one knew for sure. Perhaps Margaret Sanger was educating her new friends about the benefits of a Dutch cap.
Russian Countess Anna Vladimirovich had her most valuable jewel stolen in Monte Carlo. She was devastated but knew she had better find a rich American to marry before the ship docked in New York. She seemed to spend a lot of time with the famous medium Madam Madelyn Blatvinski. Perhaps she thought the medium could tell her who the thief was.
French chanteuse Colette Flaubert was aboard. She sang for us. She was traveling with RCA Victor executive Tony Marconi.
He was trying to avoid people from Chicago, but it was not clear why. He also managed to avoid Flash's camera.
Malvina Petrov, the prima ballerina with the Kiev was traveling with her handler, Dimitri Sardonavich, who had just failed to assassinate Trotsky. He was keeping a very close eye on her, because if anything went wrong in America, the Kremlin would not give him another chance. Janet Gabbler was trying to figure out their secrets.
The amazing medium Madam Blatvinsky and Mathew Rockefeller seemed very interested in each other. Did he think she could tell what would happen to oil during the coming war? Had the spirits told her something about his secret dealings?
Lady Beatriz Spencer seemed to get around and talk to almost everyone. She had promised her friend the Queen that she would keep an eye on the hussy Wallis Warfield Simpson, as the Queen was very concerned that her son was about to do something rash.
In the meantime, Wallis was having a lovely time. She always had liked strong men.
And Hollywood cowboy Tumbleweed Morris looked like he was thoroughly enjoying himself.
So was the stunning Barbara Hutton Von Haugwitz-Reventlow, the heir to the Woolworth fortune and America's "Poor Little Rich Girl."
It looked like she had a new amusement in sight.
William Anderson was pretending to be a businessman, although he really was a professional gambler looking for a patsy.
In the meantime, he was chatting up the ladies.
Carmen Casadillo de Vargas, illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso of Spain, was leaving Europe forever. Rumors said she did secret work for Generalisimo Franco. But what were she and Barbara Bow smiling about?
Conservative head of the House of Lords, Lord Nelson Stuart was there with his lovely American wife Lady Caroline. Orphaned quite young, she had survived as a nanny and had only been in England a few years. Lord Nelson saw her and fell madly in love with her, in spite of her sometimes unorthodox ideas. He did not seem to notice Wallis, fortunately. He thought the whole affair with the Prince of Wales was disgraceful!
Olympic gold medalist Eleanor Holm, champion of the 100-meter backstroke, now seemed to prefer her water with her scotch.
The quiet ones are always suspicious.
Jack Strong was very evasive about his past, even his accent.
This was especially true when he was around Carole Hamer, the American Immigrations official. He managed to avoid cameras.
On the other hand, Brigette Twomey, guerilla fighter for the Irish Republican Army was completely comfortable with Carole Hamer, even though the former was going to the USA to raise money for guns for the IRA. Perhaps Carole was of Irish descent.
James Lincoln seemed to respond to several names. His passport said had been in Monte Carlos recently.
There was definitely something suspicious about him. But why did Mathew Rockefeller seem chummy with him?
Best-selling novelist Judith Halstead had writer's block. She was hoping something on this voyage would inspire her next book and the words would begin to flow again. Perhaps her conversation with the Italian spy and the lady detective would give her some ideas.
We were called into the dining room for dinner. There I introduced some of the celebrities among us when I noticed that Flash was missing. Assuming he was still at the bar, I asked Colette to ask him to join us. She opened the door to the deck and let out a terrible scream.
FLASH HAD BEEN KILLED!
Chaos broke loose. The lady detective went through the corpse's pockets for clues while Brigette tried to steal his gold ring to sell for guns. I said I had no idea who would want to hurt Flash, but I didn't know him very well. He had asked for the passenger list well before our departure date, which was a little strange. The bartender said he had gone to get ice and had not seen anything.
We decided to solve the mystery ourselves and went back inside to discuss what we had learned.
It was pointed out by someone that Bugs Moran, the famous Chicago gangster was there with his wife Chrissy. Flash had worked on a newspaper in Chicago. Perhaps there was a Chicago connection.
Or maybe Irish artist Josefa Brinski had drawn something in her sketchpad that would be a clue.
She appeared to be traveling with Hans Heilman. It made sense, She was a famous artist and he an art dealer.
But why did she keep insisting that she was Irish and why did he leave Germany so suddenly? He certainly looked suspicious!
After considerable discussion and a delicious dinner, Judith Halstead discovered Flash's briefcase had been left at the table where he was supposed to sit. She opened it and these things fell out.
Was that Al Capone? Who was the woman fondling his gun?
Jimmy Fingers?
The passengers took the photos around from table to table, trying to match faces.
Some people thought this looked like William Anderson. He didn't agree. But the letter addressed to Mathew Rockefeller that was attached explained why Anderson might not want to be recognized.
You can imagine the buzz in the room. Little by little people began to identify the people in the photos. All of these people were more than a bit suspicious. Maybe they had motive for murder. But who had the opportunity? Wern't we all inside when the murder happened?
Another scream rang out. Flash's ghost made an appearance!
He didn't say a word, just sort of floated through the room and around the bar on the deck, sniffing.
Someone announced he was sniffing out the murderer.
The ghost disappeared when another clue was discovered in Flash's briefcase.
But, what on earth was this about (besides the obvious)?
Madam Blatvinski decided she could handle this. She pulled three candles out of her purse (where mediums always carry them in case of emergency) and began a séance. Everyone held hands and chanted Flash's name.
The ghost reappeared. With great drama, he pointed out his murderer.
Lady Caroline Stuart!
It was Lady Caroline who, in her younger days, had worked in the Carnival of Dark Desire – as a knife thrower! Flash was trying to blackmail her and she was terrified her super conservative husband would divorce her if he found out. She really had no choice but to kill Flash. She was the last person in from the deck, but had been standing by the doorway, far away from the criminally-inclined photographer.
Now that the mystery was solved, we each introduced our characters and their secrets and then said a little about who we really were.
It was wonderful to see how much my guests were into their roles. Two men even had business cards printed up with their characters' names!
Of course, Jimmy "Fingers" Remmington put "James Lincoln" on his card.
Another alias, alas.
Doug, no longer Flash but still ghastly looking, gave a loving speech about the importance of family and community. Everything he said was all true. Finally, I thanked everyone for being willing to come out and play with me.
It was the best birthday ever!
For more pictures, including those you can download, go to
Wendy's 75th Party Photos
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Ann Forsberg
It was a great time and even though I did not recover my Faith Diamond. I did get to enjoy my new friends and participate in trying to help solve the murder of Flash.
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Home RELEASE: Calgary Set to Host ISU World Cup Short Track at Olympic Oval
RELEASE: Calgary Set to Host ISU World Cup Short Track at Olympic Oval
Speed Skating Canada – Calgary Set to Host ISU World Cup Short Track at Olympic Oval
Five Canadian women, along with Mixed Gender Relay, to make their World Cup debut
Credit: Dave Holland, CSI Calgary Photos
CALGARY, ALBERTA – Speed Skating Canada will welcome over 175 short track speed skaters from 27 different countries to Calgary, Alberta this weekend for the 2018 ISU World Cup Short Track #1, the first competition of the international season. The event runs from November 2-4 at the Olympic Oval.
This will mark the fifth time in the past 20 years that Calgary will host a short track World Cup, having also done so during the 2016-17, 2012-13, 2001-02 and 2000-01 seasons.
The competition gets underway Friday with the qualifying races in all distances. The finals for the men's and ladies 500m (1) and 1500m races will take place on Saturday, while those for the men's and ladies 500m (2) and 1000m races, along with all three relays (men's, ladies and mixed gender) are set for Sunday.
CBCsports.ca and Radio-Canada will be live streaming the event on Saturday beginning at 3:20PM ET and Sunday beginning at 3:00PM ET. CBC will also have live broadcast coverage from 5:00PM ET to 6:00PM ET on Saturday.
Canada will be represented by a mix of veterans and newcomers.
The men's team is comprised of Olympic medalists Charles Hamelin (Sainte-Julie, QC), Samuel Girard (Ferland-et-Boilleau, QC), Charle Cournoyer (Boucherville, QC) and Pascal Dion (Montréal, QC), along with a pair of new faces in Cédrik Blais (Châteauguay, QC) and Steven Dubois (Lachenaie, QC).
"The vibe around this group from the beginning of the season has been incredible," said Hamelin, who is preparing for his 16th season on the World Cup circuit. "They've brought me a new motivation that I maybe lost in the last few seasons," he added referencing his young male and female teammates.
The chance to compete in front of a Canadian crowd is something many of the skaters were excited about.
"It's always fantastic having a home crowd cheering for us," stated Cournoyer. "The whole team is pretty pumped up for the weekend. We've been training really hard for the past few months and are looking forward to it."
Meanwhile, all five skaters on the ladies team – Courtney Sarault (Moncton, NB), Alyson Charles (Montréal, QC), Alison Desmarais (Vanderhoof, BC), Claudia Gagnon (Saguenay, QC), and Camille De Serres-Rainville (Montréal, QC) – will be making their World Cup debut this weekend.
"We have five new girls taking part in this World Cup," said Gagnon. "We are all young and I would say essentially is the same boat in terms of what to expect at the event and what our experience will be like."
While the nerves surely exist for the group of youngsters, the atmosphere was loose and extremely positive.
"I'm as ready as I'll ever be," expressed a smiling Desmarais when asked about making the step to the senior ranks. "I've been preparing for this for a long time and I'm excited to start my international career."
"We know that we have the support of all our teammates back home who have gone through this before," added Desmarais, referring to Kim Boutin, Jamie Macdonald and Audrey Phaneuf, a trio of girls that won't be competing in the first two World Cups. "They've been really good at helping us out and transitioning us into this new level of competition."
When asked if she was intimated to be skating against competitors nearly double her age, Sarault, the youngest athlete on the team at 18 years of age, didn't seem fazed.
"I'm the youngest, but I still have confidence in myself," she said. "I'm not normally intimidated by older skaters. They definitely have more experience than me, but I think I can compete with them."
In addition to new competitors, a new race will also make its debut in Calgary.
The 2000m Mixed Gender Relay, an exciting new race featuring two male and two female skaters, will make its international debut at this weekend's World Cup. The event was tested a handful of times last season and has already been approved for including into the 2022 Olympic Program.
Please see below the full list of athletes, in alphabetical order by last name, and the races they will be skating in this weekend. A biography of each athlete can be found at www.speedskating.ca/teams/short-track.
BLAIS, Cédrik 500m (1), 500m (2)
COURNOYER, Charle 1000m, 1500m
DION, Pascal 500m (2), 1500m
DUBOIS, Steven 500m (1), 1000m
GIRARD, Samuel 500m (2), 1500m
HAMELIN, Charles 500m (1), 1000m
Ladies Team
CHARLES, Alyson 500m (1), 500m (2)
DE SERRES-RAINVILLE, Camille 1000m, 1500m
DESMARAIS, Alison 500m (1), 1000m
GAGNON, Claudia 500m (2), 1500m
SARAULT, Courtney 1000m, 1500m
For more information on the event, including links to schedules, results and webcasting, please visit www.speedskating.ca/events/world-cup-1-st.
About Speed Skating Canada
Speed Skating Canada (SSC) is the governing body for long track and short track speed skating in Canada. Founded in 1887, SSC is comprised of 13 provincial and territorial associations. Together, we aim to: Challenge and inspire Canada to thrive through the power of speed skating. SSC celebrates the 63 Olympic medals won by Canadian athletes since 1932 and recognizes the coaches, officials, volunteers and other dedicated individuals who helped them on their journey.
Speed Skating Canada would like to thank its sponsors:
Premium Partner: Intact Insurance
Funding Partners: Government of Canada (Sport Canada), Own The Podium, Canadian Olympic Committee
Official On-Ice High Performance Apparel: Li-Ning
Official Suppliers: Auclair, USANA
Official Technical Equipment Supplier: Nagano Skate
Sport Development Partners: Winsport Canada, Calgary's Olympic Oval, University of Calgary, Institut national du sport du Québec, Government of Quebec, Canadian Sport Institute-Calgary, City of Montreal, Quebec City, Excellence sportive Québec-Lévis
Alain Brouillette
Senior Coordinator, Marketing and Communications
Speed Skating Canada
Email: abrouillette@speedskating.ca


Coordinate enrollment process, student activities and related affairs for the Microbiology program.
I am from Rhode Island and spent ten years in San Diego before moving to lovely Miami.
I'm delighted to be part of the Office of Graduate Studies here at the Miller School of Medicine. The teamwork and friendly faces I witness each day remind me that I'm in the right place. Thanks to Miami's weather, landscape, and diverse cultures, I doubt I'll ever run out of places to explore and people to meet!


This is garbage. Putting a dollar 'value' on brands is a meaningless and misleading exercise no matter how much fancy mathematics is purportedly being used.
Apple clinging onto second place? I guess it's time for the death spiral clock to be started once again? I assume the word "clung" was chosen on purpose to imply precarious impending failure. So when will Apple lose its grip and fall from second to third place? Words do have meaning.
Well, if you frequent a blog that rehashes other sites' stories to make a crust, don't expect Pulitzer-level writing.
Apple is number one. Apple will always be number one.
There is no shame in being a tiny step behind Amazon today. No company in this group understands customer lifetime value (CLV) better than Amazon. This isn't an indictment of Apple but a pat of the back for Amazon for the amazing job they are doing right now. Apple has a ton of untapped potential and additional capacity in its current workforce and has a solid product portfolio and loyal customer base eager for a big refresh. One or two strategic acquisitions and some core product refreshes that surprise and delight current customers will quickly tip the scales back in Apple's favor.
Over the last year Apple has been paying down technical debt around security, power resiliency, and feature completeness. They've weathered big PR storms. The glacial-pace release of critical new core components from their primary suppliers is seriously bogging them down. If Apple was truly firing on all cylinders and killing it with customers and product reviewers and was still #2 then we should worry. But they are not running in top gear, much less overdrive. Here they are, stuck in second gear, yet they are still breathing down Amazon's neck and have a massive load of fuel in the tank. Apple is in a great position, they just have to deliver. Soon.
How does one slip into second place when they didn't move?
2017's leader, Google, slipped to third as its brand value increased only 10 percent to $120.9 billion.
No one gives a flying F^&*( what Brand Finance thinks other than the fools who pay them for their BS.
passionate about the company which is why Amazon has failed at every premium product aimed at consumers.
I guess they could, as there are others doing just that. But that is not what is interesting or measured here, as the article clearly states, they estimate the brand value. Nothing else.
In essence this is "how much of a household name is a given brand," and in that context it makes perfect sense for Amazon to be #1 by this measure. Amazon's services transcend nearly all barriers wrt to platforms, and they are perceived to be a good value to consumers (if not stockholders). Of course they're a brand on everyone's mind.
I know lots of households that won't buy any device from the [Apple/Android] eco-system, but they both will use Amazon. So the result is hardly surprising.
And yes, "clung" is a poor word choice.
Wall Street and the news media really love Amazon and they're going to continue to put Amazon ahead of Apple in all respects. Amazon's value is growing by leaps and bounds while Apple's value is barely moving. With all the money Apple had available to improve products and services for consumers, I just don't understand why Apple is falling to Amazon.
Net income doesn't matter anymore. Amazon will surely beat Apple to a $1T market cap because the big investors truly love Bezos and Amazon.
"oh no, I'm going to kill myself"


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Celebrate your next Bat/Bar Mitzvah in style at the city's most stylish boutique hotel complete with exceptional event space! Catering is provided on-site from The Wise, sourcing local food whenever possible and specializing in Jewish events to meet your specific requirements.
HotelRED also proudly features 48 contemporary suites, a variety of modern amenities, worldclass service and an unforgettable dining experience.


With billions of neurons connected by trillions of synapses, the brain is by far the most intricate and complex organ. A complete map of the brain's connections will be essential to understanding its function. Some of the tools that have been invaluable towards creating this map are the colorful range of fluorescent proteins used to label individual neurons and subcellular structures. Until recently, though, only about three different fluorescent colors could be used at the same time, limiting the range of labeling options, especially in regions that were densely-populated or had thousands of intertwined neuronal projections. In these cases, the low number of different colors made it difficult to distinguish adjacent cells. Fortunately, a fluorescence-based strategy called "Brainbow" in mice allows for a much larger spectral range. Brainbow uses several cassettes of multi-colored fluorescent protein transgenes in combination with Cre-lox genetic recombination to randomly express one fluorescent protein gene per cassette. The fluorescent colors thus mix to make an individual cell fluoresce with one of up to 90 possible colors, allowing for easy differentiation of adjacent neurons. On its own, this technique creates informative images, and its signal intensity can be improved even further with immuno-labeling. One challenge to this immune strategy, though, has been that many of the different colors of fluorescent protein, such as those derived from the original jellyfish green fluorescent protein, have very similar sequences and are thus indistinguishable from each other as antigens. Therefore, differently-colored fluorescent proteins would have a strong advantage if they were also antigenically distinct from each other.
To identify fluorescent proteins that were antigenically distinct, the amino acid sequences of fluorescent proteins from various marine animals were screened. A group of five differently-colored proteins that had minimal sequence similarity were chosen for affinity and size exclusion purification to reduce cross-reaction and avoid increased background signal. These proteins were then used as antigens for immunization in five different animal host species. Because the resulting fluorescent protein antibodies do not interfere with the reactivity of one another, they can all be used in the same incubation. Therefore, experiments such as those visualizing complex neuronal processes not only have enhanced fluorescence signal intensity, but they have shorter experimental times, as well.


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"I am sailing, I am sailing, home again 'cross the sea. I am sailing, stormy waters, to be near you, to be free." Accompanied by Rod Stewart's voice our boat floats along the Spree. The sun is shining, Katja is behind the steering wheel and I turn the music up a little more before climbing up on the boat's roof. Passing captains wave at us, every now and then we get a smile from experienced sailors or other cruise rookies. By the time we play along the saxophone solo of "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty on our air-saxophones we are the biggest stars on the water.
Well to be honest, it's not us drawing all the attention, but our "wheels" as we chartered a red wooden houseboat from Wasserkutsche in Berlin.
3 years ago the idea of rental electrical houseboats in Berlin was born by Jan Rademacher, after consulting with his friends about what kind of cool and original service Berlin still misses. So what's the original thing about Wasserkutsche? 1. Jan has built his houseboats from scratch and by hand, and 2. as the boats run with an electric engine they are eco-friendly and noiseless.
Originating in the business of restoring boats building his own ones was just one small step away for Jan. This little step is called design and was provided by the US-American naval architect Philip Thiel. Jan slightly adjusted the plans and got started. Today, three years later, Wasserkutsche has a fleet of four small and one big boat – all similar, but each with individual interior and distinguished by exterior color. Wasserkutsche's dock and office is situated at the Spree right behind Oberbaumbrücke – a central starting point for a cruise on Berlin's plentiful waterways. Getting away from the overcrowded urban lifestyle was only one of the intentions for Jan to start this business. If people would know what's right outside the doorstep of Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain they would go there more often.
From the jetty at Oberbaumbrücke there are several ways to go. Unfortunately the inner parts of the Spree are closed to boats with such a small engine, but routes lead to the east towards Müggelsee and further, or through the channels of Kreuzberg and Neukölln all the way south to Wannsee.
We choose a tour which can easily be done in two days. Navigating was quite easy as no "driver's license" is needed for a Wasserkutsche and the library in our boat provided good map of the lakes, rivers and channels of Berlin. We made our way down the Spree, turned right on Dahme, sailed past a rowing regatta training camp (well actually they were faster and row past us as we went with only about 4mph) and arrived at our destination for the night: Seddinsee. This beautiful lake's edge is surrounded by forest and nature preserve areas, but there's a marina in the village at the southeast end of the lake where you can recharge your engine over night. However as long as you don't go too fast, your battery should last for the whole of the way and you can spend the night either in the middle of the lake or inside a small protected bay as we did: entertaining neighbors, a visit by a swan family, an amazing sunset over the water, a picnic on the roof and a bonfire at night included!
On our way back to Berlin we stopped at Dämeritzsee for lunch at Kellings Schifferstube which also rents out canoes and paddle boats for only 6€ per hour. A quick look at Katja and we were settled with a canoe for two hours, ready to explore romantic Gosener Graben – a real adventure! Compared to the regulated Gosener Canal right next to it this creek's shore is covered in wild nature, water lilies float on the surface and even if a sudden rain shower comes down there's plenty of big trees providing shelter for the weary paddler.
Before heading back to the crowded city we got one more glimpse at the hidden beauty of Berlin's suburbs: New Venice, a residential area east of Müggelsee. Here the river Spree is separated into five channels which are lined up with beautiful weekend houses, impressive estates or simply luscious gardens. Every resident seems to own a yacht, a boat or a kayak. Suddenly we feel even further away from home, is this really still Berlin?
Whenever you plan a trip to Berlin again decide on spending a day outside the city. The water-surrounded suburbs have so much to offer! Get in touch with Wasserkutsche (they have an online booking form), you can rent a boat for a single day or a whole week. The four regular boats sleep up to four people (bigger groups will have to bring tents) and are equipped with two gas cooking plates, cutlery and crockery, a fridge, an MP3/CD-Player (don't forget a cable to connect your mp3-player with), lounge mats, a camping toilet and freshwater. As an extra you can buy additional drinking water and a picnic basket filled with food and drinks for your trip!


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Going, gore-ing, gone…..
Apparently Frank Gore is planning to sign with the Eagles. Will the last 49ers fan favorite to leave Levi's Stadium please turn out the lights?
You know you're not in Kansas, or the San Francisco Bay Area, anymore, when the first sign you see at United Airlines check-in is "If you are traveling with a firearm…" (Phoenix, AZ)
Selection Sunday for March Madness is March 15. Meaning most Americans have less than one week before we can start passionately caring about teams we didn't know existed before.
And now the latest rumor out of Santa Clara, Jayson Braddock of SportsTalk 790 in Houston says the SF 49ers are trying to trade Colin Kaepernick. "49ers" may soon refer to the price in cents people will have paid for tickets.
So does the Dolphins' signing of #NdamukongSuh mean they are really putting their foot down on bullying?
Two American tourists were arrested and charged with carving their initials into the Colesseum in Rome. And we can't even put it down to testosterone poisoning. They are young women, ages 21 and 25.
The cherry on the stupid top of the tourists who carved their initials into the Colosseum: These two idiot women TOOK A SELFIE with their handiwork. That stampeding sound you hear across the ocean is prosecuting attorneys volunteering to take the case.
Lindsey Graham today: "You can have every email I've ever sent — I've never sent one. I don't know what that makes me." So maybe Mike Huckabee is right about man co-existing with dinosaurs.
Not defending Hillary Clinton here, but regarding this email flap: One, so how many people on both sides of the aisle got emails from her personal address and no one felt inclined to call her on it and/or go to the media. And two, my sense is that Clinton is smart, and secretive, enough that the things we might really worry about weren't put in an email.
Categories: baseball jokes, political jokes, sports jokes
Tags: 49ers jokes, colosseum jokes, Janice Hough, Jed york jokes, March madness jokes, Ndamukong Suh jokes, Suh jokes
Tweets and twits?
You can't make this "stuff" up. Now ISIS has threatened Twitter and its employees for shutting down their accounts. So let me get this straight, the infidels ISIS so despises have created something they are outraged at the thought of living without….
Detroit has decided not to use the franchise tag on Ndamukong Suh. So much for those potential headlines "Lions put their foot down on Suh."
Apparently PGA pro Dan Olsen (who?) said last week in a radio interview that Tiger Woods is not on tour because he is serving a month-long suspension for a failed drug test. Woods' agent and the PGA tour itself strongly denied the claim. Well, yeah, duh. If Tiger were taking PED's he'd have been playing better.
Jameis Winston has filed to trademark "Famous Jameis." Let's hope whichever team drafts the young quarterback doesn't end up wanting to toss their cookies.
It's a start that WalMart is going to start paying a $9 an hour minimum wage. Means that their employees will only have to work about a day and a half to afford ONE entry fee to Disneyland.
William Shatner doubled down on missing Leonard Nimoy's funeral today "My understanding is mourn the dead but celebrate life. I chose to celebrate life by going to the Red Cross gathering in Palm Beach, raised a lot of money for the Red Cross."
Okay, except flying East Coast to West coast you gain time, and just GUESSING the man, or Priceline, could have afforded a private jet. #Livelongandbs
The Houston Chronicle reports that after 3-yr-old and 4-yr old boys accidentally fatally shot themselves this weekend, a 6-yr-old is in critical condition after being shot today by his 5-yr-old brother. And local sheriffs are now distributing free gun locks. Uh, shouldn't guns COME with gun locks?
The Arizona Legislature is trying to get the U.S. Supreme Court to declare their state's independent commission for drawing congressional boundaries unconstitutional. Their lawyer claims the "ultimate check on partisan gerrymandering is the ability to throw the bums out." Uh, no, that's exactly the ability partisan gerrymandering takes away.
What a long strange trip it's been. The cheapest seat on Stubhub for the Grateful Dead's reunion concert in July is over $1300. And the top price is over $100,000. Of course, to be fair, most Deadheads who regularly saw the band in its heyday probably can't remember any of the concerts.
Bill Littlejohn on Marshawn Lynch's latest: "Marshawn Lynch gave an interview to Turkish TV and said he expected the ball on the last Super Bowl play.He also said, 'I'm just here so I won't have to take the Midnight Express'
Categories: political jokes, sports jokes, Uncategorized
Tags: Grateful Deal jokes, ISIS jokes, Jameis Winston jokes, Janice Hough, Suh jokes, Tiger Woods jokes, Walmart jokes
Candlestick Park South?
For the opening kickoff of the first Foster Farms Bowl, the wind blew the football off the tee repeatedly so Maryland had to use a holder. They can take the 49ers out of Candlestick, but they can't take the Candlestick out of their field.
Game time temperature at Levi's Stadium 45 degrees with wind gusts up to 40mph. Maybe it wasn't a great idea to have a bowl sponsor with a major product of frozen food. #FosterFarmsBowl
VTA Light Rail announcement tonight at each stop on the way to Levi's stadium. "Look both ways before crossing tracks.". Might be more effective to say "Trains use both tracks. Please have your organ donor card available".
The Lion's Ndamukong Suh won his appeal and will play Sunday after his one-game suspension was changed to a $70,000 fine. Bonus time for the NFL, as they get the money from his fine plus higher rates as people tune in to see which Cowboy Suh is planning to stomp now.
Nick Saban said today he's "not really interested in any situation in the NFL." Makes sense, the Alabama coach is making plenty of money, and he already gets to deal with professional players, who will be gone after a maximum of four years.
Maryland beat Michigan in football this year 23 to 16. Stanford probably calling Harbaugh tonight to see if Jim wants to schedule a game.
Texas A&M fired student assistant coach Michael Richardson after he hit two West Virginia players during the Liberty Bowl. Richardson may, however, be offered a tryout with the Oakland Raiders defense.
At a Idaho Wal-Mart, a 2-year-old boy shot and killed his mother when he reached into her purse where she was carrying a concealed gun and the weapon fired. If only the woman had been armed. Oops, wait, never mind.
A thought about this toddler who shot and killed his mom with her own gun at Walmart. That woman wouldn't have been allowed to drive the kid to the store without a carseat. But a loaded gun with the safety off, no problem. #noanticarsafetylobby #priorities
Jim Harbaugh has a seven year contract at Michigan. Seven years?! And they said it with a straight face.
Groupon is selling a "49ers field experience" where during the first five weeks of 2015, you'll be able to enter Levi's Stadium and run around on the field and play with a football. And if you can get along with Jed York, maybe the team will offer you a coaching position.
How social media can make you feel really out of touch. The #1 trending story on FB this morning is "Giada De Laurentiis announces divorce." And my #1 reaction was "Who?"
Kim Kardashian claims she doesn't smile often because it causes wrinkles. Got news for Kim, people aren't looking at her face
Categories: sports jokes, Uncategorized
Tags: Foster Farms Bowl jokes, Harbaugh jokes, Janice Hough, Jed york jokes, Kardashian jokes, Michigan jokes, Stanford jokes, Suh jokes
Busted Championship Series?
A lot of one-loss teams in college football after this weekend. What a shame that the sporting world has never figured out a way after the regular season to play such teams off against each other..
Thanks to Southern Mississippi, BCS bowl games can all safely say "We no longer have a Houston problem."
Ndamukong Suh failed in his attempt to have his two-game suspension overturned. Guess NFL commissioner Roger Goddell decided to put his foot down.
Herman Cain has told his supporters to "board the Cain train." Which apparently has turned out be Amtrak. (And let's hope for Herman's sake that when he gets home, it doesn't turn out to be a remake of "Murder on the Orient Express."
Some conservatives put all the allegations about women and Herman Cain down to a liberal conspiracy. But really, assuming liberals were organized enough to pull off such a conspiracy (which I doubt), wouldn't they have waited until he was actually on the ticket to do the most possible damage?
What's next for the former pizza mogul? A line of t-shirts saying "I had an inappropriate relationship with Herman Cain and all I got was a lousy order of Hot Wings?
Syracuse basketball Jim Boeheim apologized for accusing the men who said they were abused by his former assistant coach Bernie Fine of lying for money. Boeheim added that no one told him what to say and his apology is "what I feel." Of course what Boeheim also may feel is that he would like to keep his job.
Coca Cola had been packaging Coke in white cans for the holidays and as part of a campaign to protect polar bears. But the company is adding red cans after some consumers complained that white cans looked like Diet Coke and made the soda taste different. Can't imagine how Americans get the reputation sometimes for being whiny wimps.
Commissioner Larry Scott stated of the Pac 12's 1st championship game "Of course I acknowledge there is disappointment around the fact that we've got a 6-6 team that fired their coach this week." And blames the NCAA for putting USC on probation. Uh, maybe the conference could have had #1 play #2? Or not added two lousy teams (Colorado and Utah) in the first place.
GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said this week that gay people do have the right to get married, as long as they married someone of the opposite sex. Like her husband Marcus did?
Tags: Herman Cain jokes, Janice Hough, Michele Bachmann jokes, Suh jokes


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Video Game - "Metal Gear Solid 2"
£38 / $49 per poster
by artist "James Weinreb"
Keywords: Video Games, Cult
Metal Gear Solid was a groundbreaking game when it was released in 1998, which saw Konami return to the Metal Gear franchise that started out on the MSX2 and NES in the 1980's. The sequel, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty, was launched for the PS2 in 2001 and once again saw us following the story of Snake and his family. The game introduced the new rookie character of Raiden, which you control through most of the game, which divided many fans of the popular stealth franchise. The game was well received overall, and remains as one of the most popular titles in the long-running Metal Gear series. To celebrate this landmark title, here's a matching set of Displate artwork by artist James Weinreb, featuring a selection of the characters in the game.
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