I decided to challenge myself today and do a different workout today. After all, variety is the spice of life, isn't it? Normally, I would just train one body part and max it out. But today, I decided to do a new gym workout which I term 'The Big Four'.
As the name suggests, 'The Big Four' workout refers to targeting the major muscle groups of the human body in one single hour.
This is what I did today. And trust me, even though I only did 4 sets of 15 reps for each of 'The Big Four', I was perspiring not unlike after my cardio run. Woohoo...try it!
My first exercise was the chin-up. There is no secret to doing a good standard chin-up. You basically get onto the chin-up bar and pull yourself up. But that's where the difference lies between doing it correctly and wrongly. I've seen many guys do chin-ups the wrong way. Yes, it's an IPPT staple item but still, you can get it wrong if you use the wrong muscles. The chin-up targets primarily the lats and to a lesser extent, the biceps as well.
Next up was the bench press. Often regarded as THE exercise to test a man's strength (if you gym often, you must have heard someone ask you this: "how heavy can you bench?"), the bench press is an excellent way to train your pectoral muscles, or more commonly known as the chest. And surprise, surprise, I could bench heavier without support today.
Following the bench press, I proceeded to do my deadlifts. Deadlifts target multiple muscle groups and if you do them often enough, you will experience spikes in growth not seen otherwise. My lower back, hamstrings and glutes were the proud recipients after this exercise.
Rounding up, I faithfully did my squats. Squatting heavy and low, I worked my quads and glutes. Always relying on the mirror to check my posture, I have learnt to appreciate the beauty of squats and the benefits they bring to my body.
After 'The Big Four', I was still feeling energetic. And that was when I found myself doing dips for my triceps.
The finishing exercises for all my workouts remain the abs exercises. Combining various abs exercises, I did a total of 16 sets x 25 reps. Go figure what that number is...haha...mind boggling it seems but I know my abs will be super thankful come tomorrow!


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On one level I'd like to accept Hawaii for what it is—an island in the middle of the Pacific, far from civilization, but (thanks to tourism) not in poverty. We have sun, surf, the best climate in the world. We also recently have among the world's best chefs contributing to a fine quality of life on the islands.
On the other hand, we seem to be far away in time as well as distance. Our government computer systems are often antiquated. We seem to lack the knowhow to properly maintain streets and roads. Also, we seem ignorant of how to react appropriately to the coming rise of sea levels—we keep planning development in tsunami inundation zones, for example. Other state governments often do better. How can we?
Maybe it's true what many of my colleagues in GE told me when I moved to Hawaii—perhaps it's a great place to live, but it's not a place to work in technology. They seem to be right on both counts. It's a great place to live, but has a ways to go technologically.
I suggest that one way to close the tech gap with the rest of the world is to have a Chief Technologist on the state payroll. I'm borrowing the idea from GE Information Services, where I used to work. They had a guy whose job it was to keep his eye on technology and keep company executives informed. That sounds like a cushy job, but imagine what it could do for Honolulu and the state if we had such a person and if our government paid attention.
For GE, having a person on staff watching the company and watching the world brought many benefits. One was that we did not have to invest in re-inventing something that was already out there. Another, of course, was that the company could benefit from access to technology that would contribute to the bottom line. It worked very well—GE Information Services was consistently the leader in its niche, computer time-sharing services.
I suggest that "technology" is more than just computers and high tech. How are we doing as a state and as a city in other areas as well?
Why are our streets and roads in such bad condition? Are we using the appropriate methods to pave and repair them? Other cities have bad traffic, worse weather, and far better roads than we have. Why?
Aside from being old, are our government computer systems the best ones to do the job for us? Are other states and cities doing things differently and better? Where do we excel and where do we lack?
Years ago the city boasted of its new traffic light system, yet drivers still complain about the timing of Honolulu stop lights. The city's approach to pedestrian safety has failed miserably—Honolulu still sets records for seniors killed on the streets each year. What is the state of the art in street safety?
The state thinks broadband will bring prosperity. Will it?
The state thinks it should spend money on a spaceport and the users will come. Will they, or is this just another expensive boondoggle?
Hawaii's transportation is still antiquated. The Superferry went bankrupt not because of a Supreme Court decision but because it couldn't make money. Outside reviewers estimated that the company was losing money with the chosen vessels because the cost of fuel was not covered by passenger fares. Also, whenever the ferry encountered rough waters it sickened its passengers. No one questioned the technology chosen for the ferry. Mufi's TheBoat also lost money at a stunning rate because the $2 fare did not cover the per-passenger operating cost estimated to have been around $120. What would be an appropriate technology for an inter-island ferry system? We really could use advice on that one.
The city's smartphone apps don't work very well. A Chief Technologist could bring us up to date on basic quality control.
This blog has highlighted the use of permeable paving or other methods to allow storm water to go into the ground as it did before developments covered the area with asphalt and concrete. Many other states mandate that each new development handles its own storm water. In Honolulu, taxpayers foot the bill for sewer pipes instead.
A Chief Technologist could identify areas where government could eliminate waste. An example is the medieval technology used in stadium and park lighting that wastes energy by lighting up the sky instead of the field or the ground.
Why do we pay the highest energy rates in the world? Here's an area where the state could use advice. Should we be putting wind farms on land or off-shore? Should we put investment instead into wave power? After we destroy the environment with wind farms on neighbor islands, will we still be behind the curve in technology? What about off-shore wind farms with salt-water reservoirs? Is OTEC going to be ready soon enough? Etc.
Both the state and city governments apparently fail to maintain what they build. When a project is budgeted there seems to be little attention paid to lifetime costs. Will the Rail rust away just like Aloha Stadium (now there was a project that could have used a technical review before it was built…)? Maintenance is a discipline that has been mastered elsewhere, why not here?
Let's not claim to be a center of technology in the Pacific until we catch up with best practices in wide use elsewhere. A Chief Technologist (or some kind of technology auditor) could help us close the gap.


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Posted on Published: December 30, 2021 - Last updated: October 29, 2022
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Amy Kei Okuda, better known as Amy Okuda, is an American-based actress and television personality famous for playing the role of Julia Sasaki on the Netflix comedy-drama 'Atypical,' where she was a part of the series regular during the first two seasons. Also, she is well known in the Hollywood film industry for her well-played role in the web series 'The Guild' (2007-2013). Moreover, she was interested in basketball, which helped her join many international basketball teams.
Well, if you are curious to know more about her personal and professional life, start reading this post carefully because here you will discover Amy Okuda's age, net worth, early days, and many other things.
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The Otherworldly Perfectionist Zora Jones
On her debut album Ten Billion Angels, the Fractal Fantasy cohead channels the artful and obsessive proclivities of the CGI erotica community.
In Zora Jones' digital portraits of herself, she always has four arms. During her live audiovisual show with creative partner Sinjin Hawke, which the pair toured at Unsound Krakow, Mutek Montreal, and across Asia, the Austrian producer tampered with her video camera to project multiple, synchronized versions of herself choreographing movements while activating synth leads in real time. Against a stark black backdrop, the silvery figures looked like four extras from a Hype Williams music video recast to perform the Saman (Indonesian thousand arms dance).
Jones' debut album Ten Billion Angels, released earlier this month, expands on her fixation with self-plurality. The work comes with an interactive visual component on the Fractal Fantasy website. Within it, a number of quad-appendaged bodies fill the screen, bound up in iridescent purple tentacles. In this sense, how Jones sees herself corresponds to the many roles she's meticulously trained over the years: Zora the fashion designer, Zora the producer, Zora the DJ, Zora the graphics creator—all four of which come together as Zora the artist.
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Though Ten Billion Angels is Jones' first album, she's had her hands in a number of projects as the titular co-head, or "fairy squadmother," of her record label Fractal Fantasy. She helped found the interdisciplinary imprint in 2014 with Hawke, who is known most prominently for his work with Kanye West. Since, she's collaborated with footwork vanguard Jlin and released the collaborative album Vicious Circles alongside Hawke on Planet Mu. That being said, Jones' trajectory as an artist is best traced all the way back to her first Fractal Fantasy EP 100 Ladies, released in 2015 and consisting of seven tracks carefully plucked out of 100 demos that Hawke challenged her to make two years earlier.
"For me, when I started making music to when I first released, it kind of looks like a triangle. You'd start with this really broad sound, and then, over time, it narrows and narrows and narrows and it becomes that's you, and your sound, and your identity," Jones tells me over Zoom. She calls me from Montreal, where she's been settling in during COVID-19 after a peripatetic two years. The black shadows from the blinds in the background slash across her form, giving our conversation a film noir feel. On the screen, she sits wearing a pair of Sennheiser headphones and a white track jacket with a black tag "Fractal Fantasy" over the right chest. Her trademark long ponytail is wrapped into a high bun. "I remember when I started out making music, I did so many things that I now know you're not supposed to do," she continues, "Like putting compressors in the wrong place, and I figured out a lot of new techniques just by experimenting and breaking the rules. And when you're better at making music or art, you're more able to execute exactly that and maybe experiment a bit less."
A lack of experimentation is Jones' least probable fault. She's the kind of no-holds-barred iconoclast who once launched Gucci Mane adlibs into outer space for Sónar's GJ273b project in an attempt to communicate with alien life forms. Her signature sound, which wraps the high-octane brio of metallic whirrs, flutes, and synth blares around mutant bass, is always folding in new elements. Hawke describes her take on club music as emanating with "this beautiful, almost extraterrestrial energy." On Ten Billion Angels, her new additions include layered, trilling acapellas made from her own vocal recordings that give her productions a more full-bodied, ecclesial feel.
The recent past, incidentally, also found her prowling fanatical underground Discord and Reddit communities dedicated to digitally modifying (or "modding") Japanese sex game characters—the creative impetus for Ten Billion Angels. "It's very artistic, a lot of it. It's not just pornography," she insists. "The people who make [3D erotic animations] are super meticulous about how every scene looks like, how every shot looks like. They think about camera movements, and about the shaders of the object." She explains that some members are so persistent to actualize their virtual girlfriend or boyfriend fantasies, they obsessively dig through YouTube tutorials, PornHub uploads, Twitter threads (that are "super open to nipples," she quips light-heartedly—as opposed to the more bowdlerizing platform, Instagram), and Internet milieus like the now-defunct media website Hongfire, to uncover software hacks to render tentacles or floating abilities on what is essentially their hyper-personalized Sim. Jones' own interpretation of these practices serves as the visual component on Ten Billion Angels.
What Jones admires the most about this titillating CGI subculture is the tenacity and single-mindedness these fans demonstrate in bringing their augmented avatars out of their imaginations and into cyber reality. "They need to actually see it," she says, "And that's such a cool, and kind of pure, artistic motivation—that you want to see something or hear something so badly that you need to make it, and that's all you care about. [These modders] don't care about getting famous or getting money from these things. They just do it purely for the passion of needing to see these things and needing to make them."
In her album's motivational statement and within our interview, Jones' expresses her dismay over social media's "absolutely evil" tendencies of clout chasing, empty hype, and attention hijacking—an online economy entirely dedicated to the exact things Jones herself avoids when she commits herself to another multifarious undertaking. To wit, her earnest admiration of online modding communities is a testament to the very qualities she herself strives towards. Hawke, who has known Jones for over ten years since their fateful meeting at the club Razzmatazz in Barcelona, attributes her tireless work ethic to her upbringing on a horse riding stable, where she juggled training, competing, caring for animals, and teaching equestrian skills—honing the multi-tasking expertise she now uses to co-run her polymathic label. "In the last 10 years there's been an exponential swell in the amount of music being released, coupled with an exponential decrease in it's overall quality and value—so I think it's important that we recognize exceptional craftsmanship and artistry when it happens," he writes to me over email from Montreal, "Zora's been working at her craft as long as I've known her, and she really put in the effort on all aspects of this record: artwork, visuals, vocals, composition, mixdowns, masters, sequencing…There's no 'machine' behind her, yet she was still able to nail everything."
The farm where Jones grew up is located in the south of Austria, in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, a city on the eastern shore of a popular bathing lake. She credits her birth country for instilling within her an appreciation for culture and her mother, an educational science professor who was "super instrumental in the beginnings of Austrian feminism," for always encouraging her to follow through on her artistic interests. Her father, meanwhile, was an actor and also involved in music. Jones remembers sitting on his lap at five years old as the two of them made beats on his Atari computer using an early version of Logic only compatible with floppy disks. Her parents helped cultivate her early curiosity for the arts, enrolling her in music classes and embarking on museum trips, and, growing up, she remembers always "drawing and looking and listening." Even from childhood, Jones remembers her perfectionistic tendencies.
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As she succinctly puts it herself, "l know what I want, and it needs to be done." At ten years old, Jones recalls painting a picture of her favorite violinist, the British-Thai entertainer Vanessa Mae, and botching the shape of her eye. "I cried for like two hours," she laughs in bemusement, "It was absolutely traumatic, which was ridiculous, but I had to redo the whole painting." When she was 18, Jones enrolled as a fashion major at BAU School of Design Barcelona, and, in ways, designing garments trained her fastidious attention to detail even more. "Because you have to make everything physically, there are also so many more tests," she explains. Case in point, she recently spent five hours sewing a new Fractal Fantasy jacket that she had designed in a 3D pattern-making program, only to realize she had made a minor mistake and the zipper wouldn't interlock. "I wished I could Control + Z it," Jones jokes, as we then speculated why she chose to develop her musical acumen. Around 2013, the natural autodidact had already taught herself to DJ and to make rudimentary edits, but Ableton, as it so happened, was the quintessential creative tool that enabled her to undo, redo, and piece together disparate variables in seemingly infinitesimal combinations, appealing to both her outsized imagination and exacting standards.
Holding herself to such stringent, entirely self-imposed criteria means Jones personally wills every one of her releases on Fractal Fantasy to become nothing less than an audiovisual tour de force. Upholding excellence seems like a Herculean task, but it's one Jones staunchly commits herself to. For the presentation Virtua, hosted on the Fractal Fantasy website, the user oscillates around in a empty, 3D-modelled club, surrounded by morphing visual wall panels, to tracks by Hawke, Martyn Bootyspoon (who we recently covered in this feature), Swiss producer Xzavier Stone, and Jones herself blasting on the sound system. Point Clouds, another interactive program coded by contemporary artist Ezra Miller, sees Jones dancing as a dissolving magenta figurine whose expansion, wave frequency, and sharpness can be modulated in real time on a pop-up control window. For every endeavour, "I want it to be great—not only for myself," she admits. "I don't want to be a disappointment to people. I want to inspire others, so I think, in that sense, it's really important to me that what I do is as good as it can be, because I want other people to feel great when they look at it, or feel excited, motivated—everything."
Two years ago, during an off weekend, Jones was walking around Beijing's Chaoyang District with her friends when she came across a gargantuan, glowing LED sign emblazoned with the words "Ten Billion Angels Spa." "Wow, that must be the most amazing experience ever," she thought to herself. Long after she left East Asia, Jones was attempting to name her new album when, suddenly, the indelible brilliance of "Ten Billion Angels" illuminated her psyche once more. The name was a perfect reflection of the emotions she felt listening to her own work. On the first track, "Shadows To the Light," Fractal Fantasy visitors careen through a nexus of four-limbed women bobbing and back-bending across a viscous, white expansion. Celestial video game blips and reverberating hums of sub bass ricochet together in the background. What users experience here must be something adjacent to what Jones felt staring up at the spa lights—revelling in a moment of quiet awe while bearing witness to something that promises to be, at once, so sensuous, otherworldly, and immaculate.
Ten Billion Angels is out now. Visit Fractal Fantasy for the full, interactive experience here. Support the release on Bandcamp here.
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Venerable Lefties at Harper's Divided by Union
By Gabriel Sherman
Harper's, one of the last bastions of old-line liberalism and a lonely defender of a certain idea of what literary culture should be, has long been supported by the largesse of its owner publisher and patron, John "Rick" MacArthur, an author and heir to a ceramics fortune who has long supported liberal causes. And now, in a strange, ironic endgame, MacArthur finds himself fighting against his own side: His staff has unionized.
The Harper's union has been locked in a bitter dispute with MacArthur since July. And now he's trying to lay off Harper's' literary editor, Ben Metcalf, who's worked at the magazine since the mid-nineties and who played a key role in the union drive — a move the union says is pure retaliation.
The current crisis began a year ago, when MacArthur fired the magazine's editor-in-chief, Roger Hodge. The two men had once been close, but their relationship had frayed as the red ink mounted: Newsstand sales dropped, MacArthur's appetite for losses waned, and Hodge tried to defend the staff from cuts. According to Harper's' most recent tax filing in 2009, MacArthur invested $4.4 million into the magazine. (In 2006, his losses were only $2.9 million.)
In the months following Hodge's ouster, the staff became alarmed when MacArthur's name began appearing on top of the masthead (previously it had been underneath the editors' names, along with the business staff). Senior editors Bill Wasik, Luke Mitchell, and Jen Szalai departed, along with web editor Paul Ford. To fill Hodge's position, MacArthur appointed Ellen Rosenbush, Harper's' longtime managing editor, as acting editor. The move struck many staffers as a way to have a more pliant editor in charge: Rosenbush helped edit MacArthur's monthly column in the Providence Journal and his book You Can't Be President.. Staffers also complained that MacArthur's business plan was doomed to fail. He seemed to show little interest in the web in general or the iPad in particular, at a moment when The Atlantic, its longtime thought-leader rival, had invested heavily online and had reaped benefits both in prestige and in financial viability. "He said no one will ever make money on the web," one staffer told me on condition of anonymity.
A couple of months after Hodge's firing, senior editor Donovon Hohn helped to convene a meeting about publishing Harper's on the iPad. MacArthur didn't attend. But shortly thereafter, staffers began receiving xeroxed articles from MacArthur in their mailboxes that trashed the iPad and Kindle. One article from the Spectator had a hand-typed line at the top:
Last month, MacArthur wrote a column for the Providence Journal, subsequently posted on Harper's' website, that bashed the Internet. "I never found e-mail exciting," he wrote. "My skepticism stemmed from the suspicion that the World Wide Web wasn't, in essence, much more than a gigantic, unthinking Xerox machine …"
When one staffer brought MacArthur's attention to a recent New York Times article that stated The Atlantic was profitable this year because of its heavy investments in the web, MacArthur responded: "They're lying. They're a private company and they can say whatever they want."
Metcalf and other staffers began discussing the idea of forming a union in the months after Hodge was fired. Metcalf called Maida Rosenstein, president of UAW Local 2110, and she met with Metcalf and several Harper's staffers at a coffee shop. Local 2110 also represents employees of Harper Collins, The Village Voice, The Nation, and The New Press. (The Nation is unionized, but represented by the Newspaper Guild of America.)
On July 29, 2010, Metcalf, Rosenstein, and about a dozen Harper's employees gathered outside MacArthur's office. They opened the door, and Rosenstein informed MacArthur that the staff was forming a union. MacArthur seemed startled to see the group crowded into the doorway. "He was extremely upset," Rosenstein told me.
MacArthur recently told me in an e-mail: "I was taken by surprise and I thought it was rude that they didn't schedule a meeting to discuss it."
In a follow-up phone call, MacArthur told Rosenstein that he viewed the union as a "power play" by the staff. "He was very hostile," Rosenstein told me. "He said people had lied and misled him me about the reason they wanted to form a union, and that the staff was angry about Roger Hodge being fired. This was about Ben Metcalf becoming editor and they were against Ellen."
MacArthur contested the entire staff's right to unionize, arguing that editors and assistant editors who make up about half of the editorial team were management and thus did not qualify. Staffers couldn't help but chuckle at the irony: The staunch defender of unions, who in a 2009 Harper's piece called the UAW "the country's best and traditionally most honest mass labor organization," was now on the other side of the table as the "worst kind of factory owner," as one staffer put it to me.
MacArthur hired veteran employment lawyer Bert Pogrebin, who had previously faced off against the Village Voice union, to negotiate on his behalf. In August, the matter was taken up by the National Labor Relations Board. Pogrebin tried to get many of Harper's' editors, including Metcalf and senior editors Donovon Hohn and Chris Cox, excluded from the union on the grounds that were in management positions. In September, the NLRB ruled that Metcalf and the others could join the union. In October, the NLRB denied MacArthur's appeal, and the union went ahead with plans to hold elections that would certify the union. Staffers put up signs around the office and a ballot box was placed in the conference room.
On October 13, the day before elections were scheduled, MacArthur sent a letter to the staff lobbying employees to vote against the union. "I confess that I remain confused about the goal of the people seeking union representation," he wrote, "but I have to assume it has something to do with my firing of Roger, objections to my promoting Ellen over Ben, and general insecurity about the future of the magazine." MacArthur wrote that forming a union "will not, as some have requested, give any of you a great voice in the selection of the next editor," and added, "Certainly, the union will not be able to solve the financial problems of the magazine or get us more subscribers, newsstand buyers or advertisers. It will, of course, be able to collect initiation fees and dues from you."
On October 14, staffers certified the union and formally joined UAW Local 2110.
"Employees have a right to unionize and I feel neutral towards the union," MacArthur told me in a statement. "They haven't interfered with the measures we've taken to improve the magazine, and my relationship with them is cordial."
Staffers' fears that Metcalf was being targeted for retaliation were realized last week, when they found out that Metcalf's name was included on a list of people that MacArthur wanted to lay off. Rosenstein told me she was discussing upcoming contract negotiations with Pogrebin when he told her that MacArthur was contemplating a round of layoffs. In addition to Metcalf, MacArthur was seeking to lay off a member of the business staff and associate editor Ted Ross, who oversees the "Harper's Index." "First of all, we have numerous objections to this," Rosenstein told me. "Ben spearheaded the union … and they knew Ted was pro union. Ted is a feisty person, he was right out front when we walked into Rick's office."
"Ben Metcalf and Ted Ross are currently Harper's Magazine employees," said Kathy Park Price, Harper's' vice-president for public relations, in an e-mail. "We can't address speculative questions about personnel matters. It's no secret, however, that we're in a very tough economy, and that layoffs are not out of the question."
One employee on the business side has already been laid off.
Metcalf's fate will be decided in a meeting on January 25 between the UAW and Pogrebin. Whatever happens, Harper's faces a long road back to regaining the prestige of a magazine that was founded in 1850 and once published Mark Twain, Henry James, and Norman Mailer. MacArthur says that "In recent months, we have made significant improvements to the magazine: we hired Thomas Frank to pen the monthly Easy Chair column and Zadie Smith to write the monthly New Books column. We also made the magazine available on the iPad."
Frank and Smith are, no doubt, major league hires. But bylines alone may not be able to change Harper's' trajectory. As MacArthur lamented in his own magazine on his own website, "we're headed for the end of the line for middle-class unionism."
This post has been updated for clarification and to add additional information.
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Even if you hold the top job in the school district, the top of one of your schools is not place you often go.
In fact this is the first time Jefferson Union Superintendent Michael Crilly has not been on the roof of High School since thieves were up here this past winter.
During their visit, they walked away with more than 100 of the school's solar panels worth roughly $50,000.
They just take them right off.
Crilly's reaction when he first heard of the theft was understandable when the commons steal from the school, you know. That's, that's the lowest of the low. Right now, through, he's a bit surprised. Surprised just how easy it all looks.
When you get up here and you look at these, they are remarkably easy to take apart. Sadly simple. And sadly becoming more common.
Agobian is president of solar Insure, a southern California company that specializes in insuring renewable energy system. He says, We're seeing a rise in solar panel theft in California over the past 2 years, solar panel theft shot up 26%. In the bay area, there have been thefts for multiple wineries in Napa valley as well as multiple schools in the East Bay. The common denominator among them seems to be large installations not very visible to the general public.
Here at the Pacific School, it wasn't until a member of the installation team came back to the site did anyone notice anything was wrong. And that could have been a full 2 weeks after the theft. It's one reason police have made few arrest in these cases and recovered even fewer panels.
Who Are The Immediate Suspects for the Panels Theft?
Investigators are the first to admit they really don't know who's behind then. They say some way be showing up on Craigslist and Ebay but without any serial number database to check, no one can really be sure. Agobian, though, has an idea what's happening.
It seems that the theft is being caused by people with industry knowledge. They know where the cameras are being installed and they know how to take the panels.
Agobian figures many of the stolen panels have likely ended up in the homes of people more than happy to get a good deal on solar panels but not wanting to ask too many questions. He says fencing, alarms and security cameras are now becoming necessary additions to solar panel array. Meaning the real impact of this crime wave will likely be making the switch to solar panels, already expensive, even more so.


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The state of Washington has enacted domestic violence laws that protect the human rights of individuals suffering abuse at the hands of their partner, spouse or other relatives. This abuse can occur in the form of physical, psychological or sexual actions. Harassment and stalking behaviors, as well as the destruction of personal property, can also fall under domestic violence laws.
People who are being abused are often fearful for their safety and the safety of other loved ones living in the household and may feel helpless and unable to protect themselves from the abuser. Talk to a domestic violence lawyer in Bellevue about the protections available to you.
What Constitutes Domestic Violence in Washington State?
Domestic violence can be very serious, and many abusers threaten further or more serious abuse if the abused victim reports the activity to authorities, tries to leave or seeks help. Interfering with domestic violence laws is a crime and can be punishable by law. Victims should call law enforcement and can work with a Seattle domestic abuse attorney to exercise their rights.
Both the criminal and civil legal system in Washington offer protection against domestic violence. If you are a victim of abuse, you will need to get assistance from authorities, such as the police or the court system either to bring criminal charges against your abuser or seek civil protection. You also can work with a domestic violence lawyer in Seattle. Consider the following options when determining your best course of action.
Protection orders: If you are fearful of harm or harassment from your spouse or partner, you can seek a protection order from the court. A protection order is a civil decree that requires a person to cease any form of contact with the holder of the order. When you file for a protection order, you will need to provide documentation to support your request. If the court receives appropriate documentation, a temporary order will be issued and served to the abuser by a sheriff. After a period of two weeks, a hearing will be scheduled to determine whether a final order will be enforced.
Criminal charges: If you've been physically abused, injured, sexually assaulted, threatened with any type of weapon, or had your property damaged or stolen by your abuser, you can contact police to press criminal charges. You may have to testify in court to complete the charges, and a protective order can be issued to prevent your abuser from contacting or harming you while you await your court date.
Federal mandates: According to federal law, if you have a protection order in place, it not only will apply to your safety in the state of Washington but also will travel with you wherever you go. All states must enforce your protection order, and your abuser is not permitted to contact you in any part of the country.
Domestic violence affects families in every socioeconomic class, every age group, every race and every type of neighborhood. While this type of abuse often causes victims to feel helpless, shameful and afraid, there is help available from the authorities and domestic abuse lawyers in Bellevue.
At the Law Offices of Molly B. Kenny, our team understands the volatile, emotional nature of domestic violence cases. A domestic violence lawyer in Bellevue can help you understand your rights, seek the help you need to get out of harm's way and gain the protection you need to rebuild your life. We assist with divorce and domestic abuse cases. Call us today for discreet legal assistance at 425-460-0550.


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Today I registered for the Beat the Bridge race in Seattle on Sunday. Decided I should run before then. I felt great until I got to the bottom of the hill on 51st and then I had to come back up. Wow.
Also, I need to register for future races so I continue to train.


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Idaho – UPS pilot Brittney Infanger dies after crashing into potato plant, parent demand closer of the airport
Arthur Chapman
Idaho – A 30-years-old experienced pilot Brittney Infanger lost her life while her Cessna crashed into the nearby potato processing plant last week.
The pilot was flying packages of UPS from Salt Lake, Utah to Burley, Idaho when she met a fatal accident while trying to land at the airport.
The distraught family now wants to have the airport shut down because of the poor and hazardous conditions for the pilot.
According to the reports, Brittney Infanger was an experienced pilot and she was killed immediately when her plane crashed into a potato plant having a big chimney just next to the burley airport, Idaho.
The single-engine 208B airplane crashed into a Gem state processing plant located in Heyburn, Idaho.
Brittney Infanger had more than 11 years of experience in flying and was a "well-respected pilot beyond her years" around Idaho and Utah.
Jim Bob Infanger, the grieving father who is also a pilot, stated that Brittney knew the area really well. He blamed the hazardous chimney of the potato processing plant for the fatal crash and called upon the authorities to close the airport.
'There's a 60-foot chimney sticking out of the food processing plant – no lights on it, dead center – straight across the runway. So whenever you come in, you have to fly over the top of this and drop down,' Jim Bob stated.
The airport needs to be closed, period,' Jim Bob said after the accident. 'I'm a pilot myself and…many pilots have told me how unsafe the Burley Airport is and how they've begged the county to relocate it.'
'They've allowed this potato plant to continue to expand and this chimney comes on and has a huge amount of steam. If the wind is blowing…you fly right into this wall of steam.'
The Minidoka County Sheriff's office and the Heyburn police have stated that Brittney was at a very low level while trying to land at the airport.
The federal aviation administration and the national transportation safety board have jointly started an investigation into the fatal crash.
Brittney was the fifth among the seven children of the Infanger family. She debuted as a pilot at the age of 19, as she was passionate about flying just like her father.
She had become a qualified teacher in Arizona and had shifted back to Idaho during the pandemic days where she was teaching flying.
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Tributes continue to pour in for Zhu Chang, the iPhone factory worker who tragically jumped to his death yesterday following a lengthy battle against murderously long hours and poor working conditions at the Foxconn factory at Longhua, near Shanghai.
World leaders in politics and business were united this morning in their sorrow for the loss of a man they almost certainly never even met.
US President Barack Obama and Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev, both of who own iPhones with a battery compartment personally assembled by Mr Chang, said he had changed their world.
Crowds of grieving consumers were milling disconsolately outside Apple stores from Seattle to Sydney today, united in their grief at the untimely death of the man who had, in a real hands-on way, made the iPhone possible.


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Afghanistan hopes for calm as key presidential election approaches
March 25, 2014 Kevin Lees	Leave a comment
Though there's a long list of world elections approaching between now and the end of May — from Europe to India to South Africa — none of them will have nearly as direct an influence on US foreign policy as the presidential election in a small central Asian country of just 31 million people.
On April 5, Afghanistan will hold only its third presidential election to select a successor to Hamid Karzai, who's held the office since December 2001 and who is barred from seeking a third term under the country's new constitution. By far, the largest challenge for Afghanistan's new president secure will be to secure the country upon the US troop drawdown that's expected to be complete by the end of 2014. Continue reading Afghanistan hopes for calm as key presidential election approaches →
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14 in 2014: Afghanistan presidential election
December 31, 2013 Kevin Lees	2 Comments
4. Afghanistan presidential election, April 5.
Afghanistan's president since December 2001, Hamid Karzai (pictured above), is stepping down under the term limits of his country's new constitution, initiating a new era in the country that will see a vast drawdown of US military forces in 2014 as well.
The most important question isn't necessarily who follows Karzai but what follows him. Afghanistan remains less of a nation-state than a patchwork of various groups tied together by tribal and ethnic lines — the experience of Afghanistan as a national identity has more to do with resisting British, Soviet and now US occupation than any other uniting forces. What seems certain is that at the national level, Pashtun elites will continue to dominate the national government, with relatively autonomous control throughout the rest of the country, and the Taliban certain to retain significant influence in parts of southern Afghanistan and elsewhere. That means it's important that the Pashtun, Tajik, Uzbek and other ethnic groups accept the election result.
With that caveat, the leading two candidates seem to be Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai. Abdullah lost the 2009 presidential race to Karzai in a relatively fraud-ridden vote, but it gives him perhaps a leg up in the 2014 contest. Karzai's foreign minister between 2001 and 2005, Abdullah is half-Pashtun and half-Tajik, which could boost him among the two largest ethnic groups in Afghanistan. Pashtuns, concentrated in the broad center of the county, account for about 40% to 50% of Afghanistan's population and Tajiks, concentrated in the far northeastern corner, account for between 25% and 30%. Abdullah has already built an impressively broad coalition that, controversially, includes hardline Islamists as well as moderates. Ghani, finance minister between 2002 and 2004, a former World Bank official and chancellor of Kabul University, was a minor candidate in the 2009 election. This time around, he's running a stronger campaign with the support of general Abdul Rashid Dostum, perhaps the most important Uzbek political leader.
Karzai's brother Qayum, a businessman with somewhat murky ethics, is also running and will likely attract significant support. But Zalmai Rassoul, who served as national security advisor from 2002 to 2010 and foreign minister from 2010 through October 2013 may be the candidate who most embodies continuity with the current administration. Abdul Rasoul Sayyaf, a top leader of the anti-Soviet mujahideen in the 1980s, who is thought to have had ties to al-Qaeda, is also expected to run, though he's more recently opposed the Taliban within Afghanistan.
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Q: What Lucene analyzer should I use if I want to allow all characters in a string? I'm creating a dictionary app that searches both a word and its definition (two separate Fields). However, using a StandardAnalyzer, no search results are returned when the search string contains whitespace or special characters.
For example, in my dummy dictionary data, searching "lorem" searches all words that have "lorem" in their definitions, but searching for "lorem ipsum" returns nothing, even though most of my dummy words have a lorem ipsum in the definition.
Also, searching for words like "make-believe" only returns results when typing "make," but as soon as I include the dash, nothing is returned.
I want to include characters like whitespace, dashes, commas, whatever--basically everything in the search string (except perhaps the nonsense words like "and," "at," "by," etc.), but what analyzer should I use? I've tried PatternAnalyzer and supplied .+ as the Pattern to look for but typing even just a single letter returns nothing.

A: I stuck with a StandardAnalyzer since there doesn't seem to be an alternative. What I did is tokenize the string via a regex that captures non-word characters, combine them in an AND BooleanQuery, and combine the query for the two Fields in another OR BooleanQuery.
In my code below, entry is the word, description is the definition, and s is the search string as a CharSequence.
BooleanQuery bq = new BooleanQuery();
BooleanQuery entryBQ = new BooleanQuery();
BooleanQuery descriptionBQ = new BooleanQuery();
String[] tokens = String.valueOf(s).split("[^a-zA-Z0-9]");
for (String token : tokens) {
    if (token.isEmpty()) continue;
    entryBQ.add(new WildcardQuery(new Term("entry", token + "*")), BooleanClause.Occur.MUST);
    descriptionBQ.add(new WildcardQuery(new Term("description", token + "*")), BooleanClause.Occur.MUST);
}
bq.add(entryBQ, BooleanClause.Occur.SHOULD);
bq.add(descriptionBQ, BooleanClause.Occur.SHOULD);
TopScoreDocCollector collector = TopScoreDocCollector.create(10, true);
is.search(bq, collector);

This is horrendously slow in my Android app right now but I can optimize it later. :)

A: I would seriously think about writing your own analyzer, but I know that will be harder than using an existing analyzer.

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Fossil alligator discovery in Japan
This video from England is called Dinosaur, crocodile and plant fossil hunting in Fairlight Cove, East Sussex, England.
From Kyodo news agency in Japan:
Paleontologist finds fossil of gator dating back 20 million years on Oki
by Haruka Nishimoto
MATSUE, SHIMANE PREF. – Shigenori Kawano, 32, found last summer what was later identified as East Asia's oldest fossil of a giant alligator, dating from around 20 million years ago, on Oki Island in the Sea of Japan.
In mid-July, the researcher at Shimane Nature Museum of Mount Sanbe found a 30-cm rock on the Shimane Prefecture island's shore while studying local animal and plant life.
Kawano said that when he saw part of a bone exposed on the surface of the rock, he instantly knew it must be that of a reptile.
"The size was nothing compared with that of a turtle or a soft-shelled turtle," he said.
After carefully examining the rock, he learned that the bone, which measured 21 by 18 cm, was a fossilized portion of the backbone of an alligator estimated to be up to 7 meters long.
Kawano said, "I spontaneously shouted, 'I did it!' "
The previous oldest fossil of a giant alligator was found on the Penghu Islands in Taiwan and is believed to date from about 10 million years ago.
A native of Takeo, Saga Prefecture, Kawano was a second-grader when he started collecting fossils.
Taken by his father, who was a civil engineer, he collected fossils of snails and shark teeth not only in coastal areas and construction sites in Saga Prefecture but also in other parts of northern Kyushu and Shikoku.
Since his mother and younger brother were also fans of archaeology, it has become a sort of "leisure activity for our family," Kawano said.
When his family went on an excavation trip to a remote island, all of the members got so absorbed in digging that they forgot that the tide was rising and were almost unable to return to the mainland.
Kawano has made remarkable discoveries since he was a junior high school student.
He found a bird bill from about 34 million years ago when he was a sophomore at junior high school and the bill is still a treasure for him.
At Shimane University, which he chose to enter simply because he can go fishing and fossil hunting by bicycle, he studied paleontology for 10 years.
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I think eCards were made for vday. They're always perfect.
I love these cards! I don't love Valentines day though.
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I love the Hunger Games ones! I bet Valentines today are so much fancier than when I was a kid. Maybe we need to exchange valentines as adults too!
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The Kanye one CRACKS me up!
Oh gosh that will you accept this rose makes me want to punch him in the face lol. I don't know if I would like my valentine much if he gave me that card. lol.
Haha these are great! Love the Taylor Swift one!
Taylor Swift = so true!! I saw an interview with an American Olympic athlete that says one of his crushes was Taylor and all I could think was NOOOOOOOO haha!
Funny Valentines are the bomb. I love the TSwift one because I hate her.
Love these! I think the tswift one is my favorite!
Haha I love all of these! I am not huge into celebrating vday. We always have dinner in and not make a big deal about it or exchange gifts. We always do cards though! A funny one is even better!
Ha! I love these, especially the Peeta one.
These are all amazing- but the T Swift one had me cracking up!
hahahaha these are amazing. my favorite is the first one "and isn't just you sending this card to yourself"
That T Swifty one is the bees knees!


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Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed Nominated for a Golden Joystick Award
Author Dave Luty
Sumo Digitals absolutely brilliant Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed managed to win the hearts of many fans as well as critics. If you've read our review of the game, or played it, you'll probably know that it's quite an exceptional racing game that will find the weak and crush them!
CVG have announced their nominations for this years Golden Joystick awards and ASRT has been nominated. Oh my! What category you may ask? Multiplayer! But I think it's got a chance to win, it's only up against. Battlefield 3, Halo 4, Black Ops 2, StarCraft 2, Fifa 13 and… Borderlands 2… as well as a few other popular games.
Hmmm, you know, I like it's chances of winning /blind faith.
And win it shall! *Puts on the music from the Golden Axe stage* The winner is decided by public vote, come on you lot, get on there and vote, we shall crush the other games, see them driven before us and hear the lamentations of their women!
You can vote for the game here.
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Sonic Generations Preview Round-up, More Info & Gameplay Footage
Posted on 5th October 2011 5th October 2011
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It appears SEGA's embargo that IGN mentioned before has now lifted, as gaming websites SPOnG, CVG, Videogamer.com and GamesRadar have all just unleashed new previews of a near-final build of Sonic Generations, which give us some new nuggets of information. CVG has also provided new gameplay footage of Classic Sonic's Sky Sanctuary Zone stage.
SPOnG's preview is written by this website's very own Svend Joscelyne/Dreadknux and tells us more about the game's missions. Two new Speed Highway screenshots are also included.
Inbetween these stages, you'll get the opportunity to play optional missions. There are five missions for both Classic and Modern Sonic in each zone, and will mix up the core stage in some form. Other characters will take an active role in helping you out, but for now we only know of Tails' involvement in these levels. A mission called 'Way Past Fast' sees you race against the Tornado plane, piloted by the two-tailed fox
Other missions include Doppelganger races, against another Sonic, and a mission called 'Look Out Below' which challenges you to complete a remixed Green Hill Zone stage with breakable platforms. In each of these, the main elements of the core stage remains the same, but enemy placements will change and you may even explore completely different looking areas than you would in the main level
In Videogamer.com's preview, there is an example of what part Sonic's friends play in gameplay:
You don't actually play as, say, Knuckles, but in one mission you can take advantage of the red echidna's fists, where a tap of the button sends him burrowing into the ground for rings. As well as this there are time attacks, high speed challenges and doppelgänger races, which has you racing against the 'other' Sonic. Considering modern Sonic has homing attacks and the such, the odds are always stacked against his older, squatter counterpart – which is half the fun.
GamesRadar gives a bit more information about the opening of the game's story:
The game's plot is told through deliciously self-referential cut-scenes. Sonic eats chilli dogs while holding Amy at arms length literally with his whole hand over her face as she runs on the spot trying to get to him. But just as it's getting all cosy, a vortex opens up in the space/time continuum and all of Sonic's buddies (which include some Chaotix members) get sucked into it. Some cynics would likely be happy to leave the game there, having solved the most irksome problem of the past 19 years, but they'd be missing out on some gorgeous gameplay, so let's carry on.
GamesRadar also previews the 3DS version and praises the 3D effect:
The 3DS version of Sonic Generations is very different compared to the 'big' game, but at the same time very similar in that the more platform-centric Classic Sonic levels are countered by faster, more dazzling Modern Sonic levels. But they all look great in 3D. I played for a long while with the 3D slider up full and it didn't feel strained on my eyes, which was good. It can look a little simplistic in the over-the-shoulder Modern sections, but that's to keep the speed and fluidity up, which is obviously vitally important.
All four previews are extremely positive, which is very good to see this close to release when reviews will soon be due. Will Sonic Generations be critically acclaimed? We'll have to wait and see…
To read the full previews, head over to the links below.
Sources: SPOnG, CVG, Videogamer.com and GamesRadar [PS3/Xbox 360 & 3DS]
Thanks to SSMB member ForgeCircuit for the heads up!
Got a news tip? Send it in to thesonicstadium@googlemail.com, shadzter@sonicstadium.org or via Twitter at @Shadzter and we'll credit you for the find.
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Sonic Generations Announced For Japan, 2 New Screens & Artwork
Posted on 21st April 2011 21st April 2011
Andriasang reports that SEGA has announced that Sonic Generations will be released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in Japan this Winter. Along with the announcement, SEGA's shared four screenshots (two old, two new) and a piece of artwork featuring both Modern Sonic and Classic Sonic. You can check out the new screenshots and artwork below.
Source: Andriasang (via CVG)
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Iizuka Explains The Secret to Making 2D Gameplay Work
UK Xbox 360 specialist magazine Xbox World 360 recently sent out e-mails to a variety of game developers to find out the secrets of the industry for a feature in their magazine, which has now been made available online on partner site CVG. One of the developers queried was Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka, who was asked "What's the secret to making 2D work?", to which he replied with the below statement.
I think there are various kinds of 2D platformer and each one of them focuses on different game elements. In the case of Sonic games, I put a premium on the game tempo of the stage.
A game cannot be constructed with only speed elements and a game with only jump actions is not a Sonic. Though jump actions bring a feeling of tension and cause a lot of stress, it's an element giving the player a great sense of achievement when completed.
In addition to that, maximizing the feeling of achievement and exhilaration in a game whilst still providing the speed is the basic concept – and also real pleasure – of Sonic games.
Takashi Iizuka has gotten a lot of flack from the fanbase for Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 due to physics being very different to the classic Mega Drive titles among other reasons, and those fans who didn't enjoy Episode 1 are hopeful things will change in Episode 2. While this statement doesn't mention physics, does it give you some hope for Episode 2 and any other future 2D Sonic games? Share your thoughts in the comments.
Source: Xbox World 360 @ CVG (via GoNintendo)
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Iizuka: "We recognise there are different needs"
Posted on 21st September 2010 21st September 2010
CVG has published a new interview with Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka today. In the interview we find out Iizuka's thoughts on how Sonic Colours compares to past 3D titles and why this latest entry isn't being released on Xbox 360 and PS3.
Iizuka explains that the comparison between past 3D Sonic games and Sonic Colours is the cast of characters. The older titles had a large playable cast, while Colours has Sonic alone, which he says is what the fans want.
If you look at previous 3D Sonic games, it began with Sonic Adventure and moved on to others. Those titles always had Sonic as the main characters but also had different rival characters. Those characters were like different action characters – Sonic was the speed character. This time around in Sonic Colours the team really wanted to focus on high-speed Sonic, which is what made the Sonic games special to begin with. The focus was always on the Sonic character itself, they wanted to make Sonic as the only playable character because fans only want to play as Sonic.
Instead of having other characters with different gameplay twists, Iizuka says this time they decided to implement the Wisp power-ups, so they could keep Sonic's fast-paced gameplay and not break the tempo.
At the same time they also want a different twist to the gameplay and that is why we introduced the Colour powers. The focus is on high-speed Sonic and those colour powers are in more of a complimentary role. We wanted high-speed to be the main focus and didn't really want to break up the tempo. It's more like we tried to blend in those actions in a more efficient way, not really distracting the player from the core gameplay.
When asked if Sonic fits with the Xbox 360 and PS3 audiences, Iizuka details why they went with the Nintendo platforms for Sonic Colours and that Sonic still has an audience on the HD platforms.
It's not that Sonic is for the Nintendo platform, it's more like when we looked at the target audience for this particular title we wanted to expand the franchise more to newcomers. That is why we chose the Nintendo platforms.
This doesn't mean that the PS3 and 360 don't have an audience for Sonic any more, it's just this title in particular is more tailor made for the Nintendo platform fans – more like fun, enjoyable and vibrant, which Nintendo platforms excel at. It's more that this type of game is more tailored to those platforms.
Finally, Iizuka tells CVG how Sonic Team recognise there are different needs in the Sonic fanbase, how some want speed, others want platforming and the rest want something new. He says they are looking forward to developing more titles in the future that cater to these different groups of fans.
This year the reason the team is releasing Sonic 4 and Sonic Colours in the same release window is because we recognise there are different needs in terms of Sonic games and characters. There is the platforming, the high-speed and people looking for something new. This is the style that the team thinks works best, looking at the classic fans in one way and the new one in another.
It's pretty hard for the team to satisfy those two very different fans with just one title. We probably look forward to developing titles which are made more towards the core and casual Sonic fans, that's probably one of the ways the team thinks it can keep Sonic popular and expand fans for the future.
For the full interview, head over to CVG.
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3 New Sonic 4 Lost Labyrinth Zone Screenshots
Posted on 13th September 2010 13th September 2010
CVG has released some new screenshots of Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1, three old and three new. While three of them are new to the eye, they actually appear to be from an older build, because Sonic is running in his old animation rather than the recent blurred one SEGA changed it to.
You can check out the rest of the screens below.
Source: CVG
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We report the first method for the direct, regioselective Ru(II)-catalyzed oxidative arylation of C–H bonds in diverse N-heterocycles with aryl silanes by exploiting solvent-controlled N-coordination. The reaction takes advantage of the attractive features of organosilanes as coupling partners, providing proof of concept for N-directed Ru(II)-catalyzed C–H arylation. This novel, operationally-simple and versatile protocol utilizes the Ru(II)/CuF2 reagent system in which CuF2 serves as a dual activator/oxidant in non-coordinating solvents to accommodate for ligand N-coordination. This first Ru(II)-catalyzed N-directed Hiyama C–H arylation offers broad implications to achieve numerous C–H bond functionalizations by versatile ruthenium(II) catalysis manifold.


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Seriously, who makes an Olympic Wrestler a Judge?
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Judge Gregory Martinetti is a lawyer, former Olympian and communal judge who obviously went soft in the head after biting the mat one time too many cos he never won anything in his whole career.
He heads up the child protection authority BUT he allowed a man we were state's witness against in a violent robbery to report us to child protection THREE TIMES.
At the time that man Michael Aymon had two prior convictions for drunk driving (DUI) and trying to flee the police plus a criminal record for assaulting a police officer. He was eventually jailed pending trial for obstruction, coercion and intimidation against his brother's FOUR ALLEGED RAPE VICTIMS. His brother allegedly drugged and raped underage girls.
You can read Judge Gregory Martinetti's Wikipedia profile in french here and his olympic.org profile here.
Alternatively, if you want to laugh until you cry, go read what he has to say about being a judge on the website of his political party Parti Libéral-Radical.
Martinetti never amounted to much in the sports arena, and his professional performance does not seem to have improved since he became a judge.
Please allow me to explain.
The "juge de commune" is in charge of the Child Protection Agency (APEA) which you can read about here.
Second paragraph from bottom reads "Enfin, le juge de commune est membre de plein droit de l'autorité de protection de l'enfant et de l'adulte (autorité tutélaire inférieure)." which says "the juge de commune is a part of the child protection authority".
Remember Maitre Michael Aymon reported us repeatedly to child protection starting August 2015? Well we had been called by District Attorney Marie-Line Viorol Revaz as state's witness against Michael Aymon regarding an alleged aggravated assault and robbery which took place on 27 December 2014.
The Child Protection Agency, and by extension Judge Gregory Martinetti didn't recognise coercion, witness tampering and obstruction of justice occurring right under his nose because Judge Gregory Martinetti allowed an investigation to be opened against us.
The good judge issued a summons to my previous address, after I had already left the country and announced my departure to the authorities (that would be him). He neglected to send a copy of said summons to my attorney Maitre Jonathan Luethi, whilst my adversaries Maitre Pierre-Andre Veuthey & Maitre Amadine Francey had simply ignored my attorney.
The objective was probably to hold the hearing without me, so I would be unable to offer up any legal argument or defence, and to impose a stiff financial penalty.
On top of my murder charges, this was "death by a thousand cuts"
Judge Gregory Martinetti was called upon by Maitre Pierre-Andre Veuthey and Maitre Amadine Francey to arbitrate in a dispute over a bill.
He must have known we had left the country two years earlier, because of the aforementioned Child Protection Agency investigation opened against us.
Perhaps he's just incompetent like the rest of the inhabitants of Switzerland claim to be (while denying allegations of corruption), or corrupt and malicious, because it's banana republic type behaviour to summon someone by sending said summons to their previous address. Doubly so when they have filled out official forms stating they left the country, as I did. His summons even said if I was not resident, I did not have to appear. Judge Gregory Martinetti had my forwarding address, I already had a lawyer, and I notified him I had left the country. Yet he summoned me at my previous address. It makes a mockery of the Swiss legal system.
I pointed this out to my lawyer Maitre Bernard Delaloye, but he only said "Well, you have now acknowledged receipt, so you've admitted you've got the summons and you have to appear. However, you replied too late and missed the cutoff date, we cannot ask for a date change." You can read more about Maitre Delaloye on his own page.
It's also generally accepted as foul play to issue a summons, which is as I am sure you are aware, a legal document, to some other third party and consider it delivered. I wasn't there to sign for it, somebody else did. That's Swiss justice for you; they summon you after you leave the country then hold a "Kangaroo Court" - bring on that old reliable pedophile Rolf Harris (the Swiss would love him, they love all pedos) to Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport.
My lawyer Maitre Bernard Delaloye was refusing to show me core elements of my case againt Maitre Pierre-Andre Veuthey and Maitre Amadine Francey; when I pressed him, suddenly the judge found out about my website, and threatened me in the letter below.
Shockingly, my lawyer refused me a copy of that threat of criminal sanction, and resigned his commission rather than hand it over.
I had to get another lawyer, Maitre Pierre Bayenet, and threaten Maitre Bernard Delaloye to hand over my own file, and copies of critical time sensitive information. He then threatened me with a criminal complaint if I did not retract my threat and apologise.
My email :
So, finally Maitre Delaloye's threat :
I refused to apologise and told him I am waiting for him to make good upon his threat to sue in 5 working days; I have yet to receive a reply.
I suspect they all banded together, and didn't want their backroom deal ending up on my website.
You just can't make this stuff up.


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IMG Academy's Yoshihito Nishioka wins Chile F11 Futures
Yoshihito Nishioka now has two Futures singles titles and a Futures doubles title to his credit through an impressive 2013 campaign
The IMG Academy Bollettieri Tennis Program's Yoshihito Nishioka notched his second Futures win of 2013 over the weekend when he took the singles title at the Chile F11 Futures, held in Quillota, Chile, Dec. 9-15. Nishioka, the No. 8 seed, turned in a commanding performance after dropping the first set of his first match, the only set he would yield the entire tournament. In the final, Nishioka upended Argentina's Andres Molteni, currently ranked No. 276 ATP, by a score of 7-5, 6-2.
The Chile F11 Futures marked Nishioka's first Futures title since September, when the 18-year old from Tsu City, Japan won the USA F25 Futures doubles title. Nishioka's last Futures title came at February's Mexico F3 Futures, which was also his first career professional singles title.


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Planning designs for Reno market
Steve Sinovic
info.nnbw.biz
Seattle-based outdoor-gear maker Cascade Designs will move about 100 jobs, nearly one-fifth of its workforce, to a new manufacturing and distribution facility in the Reno area as it seeks to keep costs down while expanding.
The company said it needs to grow, but doing so in the Seattle area is too expensive. The main reason is the skyrocketing cost of real estate, especially for the space it leases around the city to house its merchandise.
"We're running out of space in Seattle," spokesman Martin Maisonpierre said. After scouting several locations in the West and Mountain states, the decision was made to come to Reno, although Salt Lake City was also in the running.
The company's top brass are passionate about the outdoors and access to the Reno-Tahoe region played a strong role for the expansion, especially on the product testing end.
In terms of distribution, Reno is the perfect spot, especially access to California, which is the company's single-largest retail market, said Maisonpierre.
Another concern is labor costs. Seattle employers are now required to pay to a minimum wage of $15 per hour. Labor costs add up, especially as Cascade competes with brands that rely on cheap overseas labor, Maisonpierre said.
The privately held company, which makes outdoor sleeping mattresses and other equipment under the brands Therm-a-Rest, MSR, Platypus and others, will keep the bulk of its operations in the Emerald City where it owns a significant chunk of real estate south of downtown. Some 300 to 350 Cascade employees will continue to work in Seattle.
"We want to remain a Seattle company," Maisonpierre said.
By diversifying its operations, it can "hopefully work on our manufacturing costs to where we can continue to add jobs in Seattle," he said.
The facility in Reno will open in August and is expected to be fully operational in the first quarter of next year. Maisonpierre said the company still is negotiating the final terms of the lease and wouldn't disclose the location Cascade Designs is eyeballing.
All affected employees have been offered the opportunity to relocate to Reno, with six to 10 months' notice and with severance pay for those who stay through the transition. It's unclear at this point how many will move.
"They've got plenty of time to make that decision," Maisonpierre said.
He said the jobs in Reno will pay $10 an hour or more. Many of them will be on the more labor-intensive, less-specialized end of the spectrum. A lot of the more complex, high-tech manufacturing will remain in Seattle, Maisonpierre said.
Founded in 1972, the business owns seven separate brands, which it sells direct-to consumer and via retail partners such as REI, its biggest customer, said Maisonpierre.
He said part of the reason Cascade is opening a facility in Reno is because it remains committed to U.S. manufacturing. The company also has another facility, in Cork, Ireland, to serve European outdoor enthusiasts.