Reddick v. Metro. Life Ins. Co.
THOMAS REDDICK, Plaintiff, v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant.
Because of his injury, Reddick started drawing benefits on his MetLife policy in 2010. He continued to draw benefits through November 21, 2014, when MetLife terminated his benefits. Prior to benefit termination, MetLife faxed a form ("the Form" [Doc. 40-8 Ex. 1 p. 5]) to Dr. Mark A. Harris ("Dr. Harris"), one of Reddick's treating physicians. The Form asked Dr. Harris "[d]o you agree that [Reddick] has the functional ability to return to work with or without accommodations [yes or no]." Before faxing it back, Dr. Harris circled "yes" and "with" and wrote in "I believe RTW [return to work] is an essential part of spine rehab although in this case likely with accommodations."
MetLife notified Reddick of his benefit termination via letter. (Termination Letter [AR 336-338].) In the Termination Letter, MetLife informed Reddick of his right to appeal within 180 days and explained that he should submit evidence to support his appeal. The Termination Letter did not notify Reddick of the Form filled out by Dr. Harris, nor did MetLife otherwise inform Reddick of the Form's existence prior to his administrative appeal.
MetLife denied Reddick's administrative appeal. (Appeal Denial [AR 11-17].) In doing so, MetLife relied on a variety of medical and administrative opinions, including an administrative law judge's ("ALJ") determination that Reddick was not sufficiently disabled to qualify for social security disability benefits. (See [Doc. 42] 5:2-5.) This decision was vacated on an appeal heard by the Honorable Barry Ted Moskowitz.
Defendant does not dispute the fact that, in light of Plaintiff's success in this litigation, the Court may award reasonable attorneys' fees and costs pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 1132(g)(1). Rather, the dispute focuses solely on what amount of compensation is reasonable. In ERISA cases the first step in determining reasonable attorneys' fees is calculation of a lodestar by multiplying the hours worked by a reasonable hourly rate. Welch v. MetLife, 480 F.3d 942, 945 (9th Cir. 2007). "The party seeking fees bears the burden of documenting the hours expended in the litigation and must submit evidence supporting those hours and the rates claimed." Id. (Citing Hensley v. Eckerhart, 461 U.S. 424, 433 (1983). Generally, the court should defer to the winning lawyer's professional judgment as to how much time the case required. Costa v. Comm'r of Social Sec. Admin., 690 F.3d 1132, 1135 (9th Cir. 2012); Moreno v. City of Sacramento, 534 F.3d 1106, 1112 (9th Cir. 2008) ("[A]fter all he [or she] won, and might not have, had he [or she] been more of a slacker.").
Defendant contends that 492 hours was an excessive amount of time to spend on this case. In support of this contention, Defendant offers six specific criticisms of Counsel's billing. First, Defendant argues that it was excessive to spend 40.5 hours preparing a detailed 37 page complaint. Defendant argues this was excessive because such a high level of detail and specificity is not required by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. While it is true that a less detailed complaint may have survived a motion to dismiss, it does not follow that it is a waste of time to prepare a detailed complaint. Because a detailed complaint can effectively signal the strength of a case and the diligence of a plaintiff's counsel, the Court finds it was not unreasonable for Counsel to spend 40.5 hours to draft the 85 paragraphs at issue here.
Defendant also makes a number of broad arguments to the effect that Plaintiff billed excessive time on this case because it did not actually go to trial and only two motions were contested. These arguments are not persuasive because they fail to engage Plaintiff's detailed fee chart in a way that identifies how it is allegedly inflated. Put differently, the proper focus of the present motion is the hours of work that Counsel actually performed, not the amount of work that Counsel did not have to perform.
Second, Defendant contends it was unreasonable to bill 71.1 hours after Defendant notified Plaintiff of its intention to reinstate his benefits. Defendant's argument consists only of Defendant's opinion that it "excessive, unnecessary, and unreasonable" to bill this time because reinstatement of benefits mooted the case. This argument is unpersuasive. It ignores the facts that Counsel spent 43.6 of these 71.1 hours preparing the instant motion and the remaining 27.5 hours are easily accounted for through Counsel's efforts in calculating damages, preparing a settlement demand, engaging in settlement negotiations, and repeated efforts at securing the benefit payments Defendant agreed to provide. (McMillen Supp. Decl. [Doc. ¶ 3.) Accordingly, the Court finds reasonable the 71.1 hours billed after notification of Defendant's intention to reinstate benefits.
Defendant complains it was unreasonable to bill 43.6 hours to prepare the instant fee motion. This argument rests entirely on the contention that briefing on the issue of whether Counsel was entitled to fees was unnecessary because the parties had already stipulated that Defendant owed counsel reasonable fees. The Court disagrees that the parties' stipulation rendered this briefing unnecessary. It serves the foundational purpose of providing the Court with a full explanation of the legal basis underpinning Counsel's entitlement to the requested relief, which is a proper function of any motion.
Third, Defendant complains that it was unreasonable for counsel to spend 167 hours on the two successful motions to augment the administrative record. Defendant's argument rests on a mischaracterization of these motions as being simple procedural motions of little consequence. Plaintiff's motions to augment were pivotal in that they set the evidentiary playing field in a posture that convinced Defendant to settle the case by agreeing to provide Plaintiff all the relief he sought. It was not unreasonable to spend 167 hours carefully drafting (successful) motions of such consequence.
Fourth, Defendant complains of the 83.5 hours Counsel spent reviewing the administrative record and the 28.5 hours spent preparing a casemap for trial. In support of this argument, Defendant offers only its opinion that such billing was "patently excessive and unreasonable." The Court disagrees. The administrative record in this case is 2,534 pages in length and successful prosecution of this case required that Counsel review it more than just once. Further, even assuming only one review, the math amounts to less than two minutes spent reviewing one page and much of the billing for review of the record was at the lower rate billed by junior associates. The 23.5 hours of case mapping was also billed by junior attorneys, amounting to only $7,801. The Court finds such billing reasonable.
Fifth, Defendant argues that, in light of the experience of Counsel, it was unreasonable to spend 32.3 hours performing legal research that involved reviewing cases. Defendant's argument again consists only of presenting its opinion that such billing was excessive. The Court is unpersuaded by Defendant's opinion. Suffice it to say that failing to review relevant case law can amount to malpractice, and 32.3 hours of legal research is by no means remarkable for a contested ERISA claim.
Finally, Defendant argues that it was overkill to staff this case with four lawyers given that Defendant only used one attorney. This argument is also unpersuasive. From the fact that the losing side used only one attorney, it does not follow that it was excessive for the winning side to have used more than one attorney. Furthermore, by using four attorneys (two senior, two junior) it seems that Counsel was actually able to lessen fees by delegating some of the less challenging work to the less expensive attorneys.
Having considered Defendant's arguments to the contrary and having reviewed Counsel's fee chart, the declaration of Mr. Kantor, and considering the quality of the work produced by Counsel and the successful result obtained, the Court finds reasonable the 515.1 hours Counsel spent on this case. The next step in the lodestar calculation is to determine reasonable hourly rates to assign to these hours.
Counsel seeks compensation at the following rates: $650 per hour for all work performed by Mr. McKennon prior to 2016 and $700 per hour for all work performed by Mr. McKennon thereafter; $550 per hour for all work performed by Mr. McMillen prior to 2016 and $600 per hour for all work performed by Mr. McMillen thereafter; $290 per hour for all work performed by junior attorneys. There appears to be no dispute regarding the $290 per hour fee for junior attorneys, which the Court finds reasonable. Rather, Defendant's opposition focuses on the hourly rates of Mr. McKennon and Mr. McMillen, which Defendant proposes should be set, respectively, at $600 per hour and $500 per hour.
Defendant's opposition argues that the requested fees are unreasonable because Counsel has provided no evidence that hourly clients pay them these rates. Defendant also appears to argue that the settlement of attorneys' fees claims has no relevance as to going market rates because parties do not consider the issue of a prevailing party's reasonable attorneys' fees when negotiating settlement amounts. Neither argument is persuasive.
The first argument is problematic in that the Ninth Circuit has explicitly held that an attorney need not show paying clients have paid them the sought hourly rate. Welch, 480 F.3d at 946. Rather, the test is whether the evidence shows that hourly paying clients will pay the sought rate for representation of comparable quality. Id. Here, Counsel has submitted evidence showing that hourly paying clients will in pay the sought rates for comparable representation. (Kantor Decl. ¶ 8.) Defendant's argument that reasonable attorneys' fees are or no relevance to the global settlements of ERISA claims is plainly untrue. To the extent a prevailing plaintiff's attorneys demand excessive fees, the cost to settle a case increases and settlement therefore becomes less desirable for a defendant. Thus, the fact that defendants have paid Counsel the sought hourly rates tends to suggest that these rates are reasonable.
Having considered Counsel's declarations, the declaration of Glenn Kantor, the attorneys' fees Counsel has received through settlement, and considering (1) the high quality of the work produced by Counsel, (2) the successful result they obtained for their client, and (3) the risks presented by the contingent nature of this case, the Court finds the requested hourly rates to be reasonable. The resulting lodestar figure is $293,115.
Defendant argues that the Court should apply a downward multiplier to the lodestar to reflect the fact that this case settled before trial. "In rare and exceptional cases, [a] district court may adjust the lodestar upward or downward using a multiplier based on facts not subsumed in the initial lodestar calculation." Welch, 480 F.3d at 946. Defendant's argument improperly conflates the concept of success on the merits (whether through trial or by way of dispositive motion) with success in using the litigation process to achieve a plaintiff's prayed for relief. Here, Counsel obtained 100% of the relief Plaintiff sought by way of a settlement agreement reached after extensive pretrial posturing. None of the cases Defendant's cite in their opposition suggest that lodestar reduction is proper in this context. Indeed, to reduce the lodestar because counsel did not need to proceed to trial to achieve the client's goals would create waste by discouraging parties from striking mutually beneficial pretrial settlement agreements. Accordingly, the Court GRANTS Counsel's motion as to fees in the amount of $293,115.
Additionally, Counsel seeks $3,651.11 in costs. A prevailing ERISA Plaintiff is entitled to the categories of costs enumerated under 28 U.S.C. § 1920 as well as reasonable out of pocket litigation expenses that lawyers in the community typically bill to clients separately from their hourly rates. Trs of Const. Indus. & Laborers Health and Welfare Trust v. Redland Ins. Co., 460 F.3d 1253, 1258 (9th Cir. 2006). The $3,651.11 in costs that Counsel seeks to recover stems from the filing fee, travel expenses, service / messenger fees, legal research service charges, and various monthly office fees for "telephone, facsimile transmission, in house document scanning, photocopying, and normal non-overnight postage." (McKennon Decl. ¶ 30; Cost Chart [Doc. 56-4 Ex. 6].) Defendant does not appear to dispute Counsel's entitlement to recover its costs for filing, travel, service / messenger fees, and legal research service charges. Further, Counsel's testimony that it is customary in this region for attorneys to charge such fees to paying clients separate from the hourly bill is consistent with the Court's experience. (McKennon Decl. ¶ 30.) Having carefully reviewed the itemization of these costs in the Cost Chart submitted by Plaintiff, the Court finds them reasonable.
• Defendant shall pay Counsel $293,115 for attorneys' fees.
• Defendant shall pay Counsel $1,276.11 for costs.


There is always much to say for the thrills and the ecstasy of love, but the aspiration here was to convey the melancholic, lonely moments that make the heart grow fonder; like when gazing at the surface of a puddle disturbed by the pattering of raindrops.
Concentric LED rings (BMW headlights, actually - or angel eyes, to be precise) were arranged amongst coloured perspex disks to give the impression of gentle rain on a body of water.
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A dália (Dahlia) a fészkesvirágzatúak (Asterales) rendjébe, ezen belül az őszirózsafélék (Asteraceae) családjába tartozó nemzetség.

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A nemzetségbe az alábbi 38 faj tartozik:

Dahlia apiculata (Sherff) P.D.Sørensen
Dahlia atropurpurea P.D.Sørensen
Dahlia australis (Sherff) P.D.Sørensen
Dahlia brevis P.D.Sørensen
Dahlia campanulata Saar, Sorenson & Hjert.
Dahlia coccinea Cav.
Dahlia congestifolia P.D.Sørensen
Dahlia cordifolia (Sessé & Moc.) McVaugh
Dahlia cuspidata Saar, Sorenson & Hjert.
Dahlia dissecta S.Watson
Dahlia excelsa Benth.
Dahlia foeniculifolia Sherff
Dahlia hintonii Sherff
Dahlia hjertingii H.V.Hansen & P.D.Sørensen
Dahlia imperialis Roezl ex Ortgies
Dahlia linearis Sherff
Dahlia macdougallii Sherff
Dahlia merckii Lehm.
Dahlia mollis P.D.Sørensen
Dahlia moorei Sherff
Dahlia neglecta Saar
Dahlia parvibracteata Saar & P.D.Sørensen
kerti dália (Dahlia pinnata) Cav. - típusfaj
Dahlia pteropoda Sherff
Dahlia pugana Aarón Rodr. & Art.Castro
Dahlia purpusii Brandegee
Dahlia rudis P.D.Sørensen
Dahlia rupicola P.D.Sørensen
Dahlia scapigera Knowles & Westc.
Dahlia scapigeroides Sherff
Dahlia sherffii P.D.Sørensen
Dahlia sorensenii H.V.Hansen & Hjert.
Dahlia spectabilis Saar & P.D.Sørensen
Dahlia sublignosa (P.D.Sørensen) Saar & P.D.Sørensen
Dahlia tenuicaulis P.D.Sørensen
Dahlia tenuis B.L.Rob. & Greenm.
Dahlia tubulata P.D.Sørensen
Dahlia wixarika Art.Castro, Carr.-Ortiz & Aarón Rodr.

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Dahlia Cav. Plants of the World Online
Accepted species Plants of the World Online
Cavanilles, A.J. 1791. Icon. 1: 56. t. 80.
Saar, D.E. & al. 2003. A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Genus Dahlia (Asteraceae) Based on Internal and External Transcribed Spacer Regions of Nuclear Ribosomal DNA. Systematic Botany 28(3):627-639.

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For her 35th birthday, Behnoush Babzani decided to hold a party.
She used her birthday to ask friends to donate money to a cause she cares about: helping people who need bone marrow transplants.
Babzani herself received bone marrow from her brother in a transplant operation.
"It's not that my body was making cancerous cells. It was that my body was making no cells," she said.
Turning to social media, Babzani published a picture of herself on Facebook's website. The photograph showed her as a hospital patient. Using a new program on Facebook, she asked her friends to help raise $350.
It has always been easy for Facebook users to send birthday messages to friends online. Now people are using the social networking site to turn birthday messages into donations for a favorite cause, such as a charitable group.
A year ago, the American company launched a new feature that has helped charities in the United States and around the world. In its first year, Facebook's birthday fundraiser feature raised more than $300 million for groups helping those in need. This success has caused some charities to rethink their methods for raising money.
However, the success of the Facebook birthday feature comes at a troubling time for the company. Social media users have begun to question how internet services connecting friends and family have also become tools for some to spread hate or influence foreign elections.
Recently, a U.S. Senate committee met with Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, and Jack Dorsey, who heads Twitter.
Sandberg spoke about steps Facebook has taken to identify and remove messages that violate the company's terms of service.
"We were too slow to spot this, and too slow to act. That is on us," she told the lawmakers.
However, the birthday fundraiser feature shows the power of using social media for good, says Facebook spokeswoman Roya Winner.
Some of the charities receiving the largest donations are Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital, the Alzheimer's Association and the American Cancer Society.
In the case of Behnoush Babzani, she raised more than $1,700 in donations to help pay for bone marrow transplants.
Two weeks before his 65th birthday, Stan Jensen received a message from Facebook asking if he wanted to use his birthday to ask people to donate to a cause.
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He said that much money was more than he could have dreamed for, and he let his friends know they made a difference.
Michelle Quinn wrote this story for VOANews.com. Phil Dierking adapted her story for Learning English. George Grow was the editor.


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Paraguay Eyed as New Bitcoin Mining Destination
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Paraguay is one of the destinations being considered by various companies for setting up their bitcoin mining operations. Last week, Chinese company Future Fintech announced formal plans to build a bitcoin mining facility in the country, explaining they were determining the best location for the upcoming farm. In June, local media declared that there were eight Chinese economic groups interested in coming to the country.
Paraguay Considered for Its Bitcoin Mining Potential
Paraguay, an often overlooked country of South America, has recently been in the sights of mining institutions interested in establishing operations in the country. Paraguay presents several advantages for these groups, like an abundant supply of unused hydro-electrical power that could be put to work. Bitcoin mining activity has been stigmatized as a "dirty" industry, but having this much clean energy, companies could mine without worrying about the effect on the environment.
Future Fintech, a Chinese company that was invited to Paraguay, already has plans to establish a bitcoin mining facility in the country. According to a PR statement issued last week, CEO of the company Shanchun Huang will be reviewing the facts to determine the route the company will take to make this a reality. Huang stated:
We plan to carefully assess this development opportunity in Paraguay. We will work with our local consultant to review Paraguay's hydroelectric power and clean energy resources, locations for developing a mining farm and the preferential policy treatment that we might receive for our capital investment.
The company also made a special mention of the support that the Paraguayan government is giving to the cryptocurrency mining business.
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Many more companies could be secretly planning to move their operations to Paraguay, more so after the bitcoin mining exodus that China produced with its latest cryptocurrency crackdown. In July, CEO of the bitcoin mining company Digital Assets, Juanjo Benítez Rickmann, stated there were at least eight Chinese economic groups interested in Paraguay, but he didn't expand on the identities of these groups.
Furthermore, Rickmann stated he had knowledge that one of these groups was already in the country and that it had plans to install 90K miners in the coming months. The 5,500 MW of unused power Paraguay is said to produce could signal the start of a bitcoin mining era in the nation.
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Analytical Armadillo: Is Breastfeeding & Staying At Home Parenting Anti Feminism?
Is Breastfeeding & Staying At Home Parenting Anti Feminism?
Prior to having children, I wouldn't really call myself a feminist. Sure I thought women should have equal workplace rights, pay and so on - but really that's as far as it went. If I'm honest I also quite like chivalry; men opening doors, carrying a heavy bag and so on - which I'm sure to some directly undermines the "feminist movement" as this article discusses.
Yet more recently the discussion surrounding feminism has fascinated me, that people with very different and even directly opposing views can both consider themselves feminist. And even more recently still how this seems to have become an almost buzz word as a tool in the "parenting wars".
"Ms. Badinter sees co-sleeping, a big part of attachment parenting, as an additional limitation to a woman's freedom - and to her relationship with her husband or partner, who is often relegated to the couch for months."
Now perhaps the most important point to note about Ms Badinter's comments, is not actually related to feminism - but to the fact that Elisabeth Badinter's billion-dollar PR company "Publicis" represent Nestlé's breastmilk substitutes.
The second point to note is Publicis also appears to be the go-to agency for the infant formula industry's other major players as well, including Abbot Laboratories (Similac) and Mead & Johnson (Enfamil) as this webpage discusses.
So to summarise, Elisabeth Badinter's job is to increase sales of baby formula.
"Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights for women. In addition, feminism seeks to establish equal opportunities for women in education and employment."
Right, but what about choice?
Isn't feminism about empowering women? That they alone choose how to use their body and mind? Surely telling a mum she can't stay at home, breastfeed and raise her family if she wants to is just as bad as her being forced to? Having to go to out of the home to work is as restrictive as not being allowed? If mum is the main earner, dad may choose to stay home or both partners may work part time. Nowadays a whole range of different family setups exist, based on the needs and wants of each unique family. If a woman wants to "be a mother above all else" (to quote Badinter) why shouldn't she? If she was chairman of a multi million pound industry "above all else" would that suit?
If that's feminism, I'm glad I never fully subscribed!
The reality is that women get pregnant and lactate - men don't. That's not political but biological - and no amount of campaigning will change it. We also know that human milk is the normal food for a human infant, and that alternatives aren't as good. Yet a mother is letting down the feminist movement if she is able to give her young their intended food, and wants to (and is in a position to) stay home with her children? What about mothers who want to stay home, but can't because financial circumstances don't allow?
What about tackling employers to support women to express at the workplace, so they can choose to work AND feed their child? What about women who breastfeed, co-sleep and work, either by pumping or by continuing to breastfeed when they are with their infant? Where do they fit into this feminist mission Badinter speaks of?
Yeah, that sort of feminism wouldn't increase sales of formula though would it? Let's not forget breastmilk substitute's heyday was during the Second World War, when National Dried Milk was celebrated for liberating mothers from the constraints of breastfeeding so that they could help with the war effort.
"The use of infant formula costs the lives of an estimated 9,335 U.S. babies each year."
Yet still manufacturers are allowed to advertise and in the US give free formula samples out at birth.
It seems to me the propaganda continues. Claims that men are relegated to sofas because the mum is "mothering" rather bizarre.
My other half is a huge co-sleeping convert as he got shed loads more sleep (in our bed!). A baby is pretty small, not like another adult squeezing in? I have known dads who have headed off to the sofa, but their partners have at times been bottle feeding. A restless baby at 3am can exist regardless of how they are fed or where they sleep.
Ultimately if you have to get up and make a bottle as per the DOH recommendations, with baby sometimes crying whilst you do so - how is this more workable for anyone than rolling over and feeding baby from the breast whilst dozing? I rarely meet a mum who has both breast and bottle fed successfully who claims the latter is easier - the vast majority confirm it's oodles more work. Sterilising, making up feeds, having to buy and carry everything around.
The role of a mother is often undervalued in society. Ask a mum what she does and often you will hear "just a mum" (to differentiate from a work outside the home job) - just a mum? Indeed a mum on Facebook recently discussing the fact that she worked full time, made the comment that the women in her family were strong and independent and should be applauded for that. Which lays heavy implication that women who choose not to do so are neither. A mum some years ago stated she worked to set a positive role model for her children, others are asked do they not get bored staying at home?
Amen! I'm a feminist in that I believe women should have that choice. My MIL chose to work and my FIL stayed home. I choose to stay home. And really, shouldn't feminism celebrate what we can do as women?! We are unique and play an important role.
i have never understood the idea that to be a good feminist you have to be a man, or like a man. i am sorry but yes biology does in fact rule at times. we (women) give birth and lactate. men can not. shouldn't that be celebrated and honored and looked on with wonder? if you want to have babies giving birth to them and than raising them is all part of the joy. (even if you adopt you still have to be present and nurture them just like a biological child).
I agree it is about choice...I am a wahm, I co-sleep, babywear and breastfeed...I do these things because I chose to. It is almost as if Ms Badinter is trying to suggest that I was coerced into mothering this way...which I find an insult to my intelligence!
The whole formula industry is massively anti-women. Read The Politics of Breastfeeding. How many women do you think are in the top positions in formula companies?
I do think it's important to have choice and (unpopular on this blog, I know,) I believe one of those choices should be to use formula, in a country where the healthcare system means that the risks are small, but let's not kid ourselves that formula was invented so that women could have freedom from the "burden" of breastfeeding. If it was, and women truly had an equal say, there would be a lot more research into ingredients of formulas, it would be sold at cost price and there would be no branding or advertising, just different make-ups for problems such as reflux or CMP intolerance, with a couple of variations on "normal" to account for babies' preference. It would not be distributed in countries where the facilities do not exist to make it up properly, in fact, it would be distributed in liquid form as a precious and lifesaving medicine to these places. Healthcare professionals would be educated in breastfeeding support the world over and would be able to fully support and inform women in whatever their choice of feeding method, breast, bottle, or a mix.
As an aside, it's utterly ludicrous to suggest women are "coerced" into parenting in an AP way, because it's very much outside the mainstream/"norm" of parenting, in mine and many other womens' experience.
In fact, I think that parenting (specifically, discipline) in a respectful way is a crucial part of raising a child who will respect others and expect to be treated with respect, not try to get their own way by being stronger, or using force.
The mail is pretty hysterical and terrified of anything vaguely feminist, as though it was some kind of threat. Because of course we all know equality for all is, like, the most threatening thing anyone could ask for in the world.
The product you speak of, respectfully raising, sounds like a Generic pharmaceutical product. The kind you get in a pharmacy. With a prescription.
Yes, what a perfect idea for how to provide formula!
Thank you for this post. I often 'justify' staying home by explaining how difficult it was for us to have a child, and how I changed my mind quite dramatically from how I felt when I was younger. However, what I should say is that I feel empowered (and lucky) to be able to raise my child, with no 'reasons' for doing it. But, like breastfeeding, I always take care to not offend those who choose another option. Breastfeeding is best, that is a proven fact. I'd love to cite studies that show having a mom (or dad) at home is best as well. I don't know, but my gut feeling is yes.
I read that Badinter is the Chair of the Board of the PR firm that represents Nestle. Conflict of interest, anyone?
Instead of commonly being seen as a roadblock to women's empowerment, breastfeeding should be seen as a facilitator of it. As Van Esterik remarked in her essay, "Breastfeeding: A Feminist Issue", "Conditions supportive to successful nurturing, are conditions which reduce gender subordination generally by contradicting negative images of women and emphasising the value of women's reproductive work." In other words, to disvalue breastfeeding is to disvalue women.
The BBC has contended that "All mothers produce breastmilk". If, for sake of argument, we concede that 98% of women can produce sufficient breastmilk (Baby Friendly UK) yet less than 3% do so exclusively until 6 months (Unicef), this means that at least 95% of women are unnecessarily surrendering their baby's health to the will of multinational corporations such as SMA and Aptamil. As I said in my article, '15 Formula Company Tricks', the primary purpose of these companies is not to do good or even provide useful products. Rather they have a statutory duty to put the needs of their shareholders first, which makes profit their prime concern.
When we consider that the highest ranking executives of formula companies are men (Aptamil/ Cow&Gate - Mr. Jan Bennick; Heinz - Mr. William Johnson; Hipp - Mr. Klaus Hipp; Wyeth/SMA - Mr. Rober Essner), we begin to see the injustice from a gender perspective. Women have a gift that is highly valued in evolutionary terms (that of single-handedly birthing and nutritionally sustaining human infants), yet their competence in delivering this gift has been undermined by men.
Furthermore, a common conception of formula is that it aids a woman's economic mobility through strengthening her role in the workplace. She is no longer tied to a dependant infant and can instead pass a bottle of formula to grandma and return to being economically active. However this perceived benefit is negated by the fact that formula fed children are significantly more likely to fall ill, and numerous studies have shown that a child's illness commonly results in the mother rather than the father taking time off work (Journal of Early Childhood; Weimer.J; Nursery World; Mother and Baby; Working Mums Magazine). Thus when a woman is taking more time off work she is seen as a burden by her employer. This does not strengthen the role of women in the workplace. Consequently women of childbaring age are viewed as liabilities. This is not to mention the strain on employers caused by their employees sick children results in lower incomes for working families, thus reducing income tax revenues which pay for government programs and services that benefit everyone.


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A privacy test is a test which is performed to determine the level of privacy offered by a software program, computer system, website, or related system. Privacy tests can be run for a variety of different reasons, ranging from concerns about the security of confidential information to curiosity on the part of browsers who want to know what kind of information is collected about them and how it is used. There are numerous resources which can be used to conduct a privacy test.
Websites which provide information about privacy rights and the protection of privacy often offer privacy tests to their users as a service. The test can check for cookies stored on a user's computer and take note of identifying information which can be collected, such as a user's IP address. Such tests can also provide information about the privacy of websites the user visits; for example, people who are concerned about email privacy can run a privacy test to see how secure their email clients are.
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Privacy tests can also be run across entire systems, as may be done in facilities where there are concerns about the security of data. In some cases this may involve structuring a custom privacy test fitted to the specific system being tested while in other instances software products may be used. Such tests can identify weak points in the system, including users who may not be following privacy protocols.
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New Babyshambles song posted online
NME Dec 5, 2007 11:20 am GMT
New track from Pete Doherty and co is available to hear now
Babyshambles have posted a brand new song online.
'Pretty Sue', in its early demo stage, was recorded by the band between tour dates on their recent arena tour.
The song is available to hear now on the MySpace site for Roses, Kings, Castles: Babyshambles drummer Adam Ficek's musical project site.
In a MySpace bulletin, Ficek has explained that the band plan to post two further new songs, '1939' and 'Mouse In The House', online soon.
Ficek also revealed that the band plan to play "some small shows for Xmas" – which may mean more of Babyshambles' famed secret pub gigs are on the cards.
The band meanwhile will headline the launch party of the Shockwaves NME Awards tomorrow night (December 6) in London.
Stay tuned to NME.COM for live coverage straight from the party.


Customers pose for a photograph at Apple Inc.'s Canton Road store in the Tsim Sha Tsui district of Hong Kong, China.
BEIJING — Apple Inc will boost its investment in China, one of its most important but increasingly difficult markets, and build its first Asia-Pacific research and development centre in the country, Chief Executive Tim Cook said on Tuesday.
Demand for Apple's phones has plummeted in China, and the government maintains a wary attitude towards foreign technology. This is at least the CEO's second trip to the country in four months.
Apple's new research and development centre will be built by the end of the year, Cook told Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli, one of China's most senior officials, according to the official Chinese state broadcaster.
The pledge comes after the head of China's industry and technology regulator in May told Cook he hoped Apple could deepen its cooperation with the country in research and development and stressed information security.
Sales in Greater China, once touted as Apple's next growth engine, decreased by a third in its most recent quarterly results, after having more than doubled a year earlier.
Before Cook's charm offensive in Beijing in May, Apple announced a $1 billion deal with ride-hailing app Didi Chuxing, a move many experts saw as an attempt to curry favour with Beijing.
Other tech firms have in the past pledged investment in China while facing difficulties in the country, including Microsoft Corp and Qualcomm Inc, but often with mixed results.


Five Culver-Stockton Wildcat football players are on the 2015 Heart of America Athletic Conference North Division all-conference team.
This year's team that was released by the league office last week.
Senior defensive end David Marcinko (Kansas City, Mo. / Staley HS) and senior linebacker Jeff Treadway (Columbia, Mo. / Hickman HS) earn second team honors while junior tight end Fred Moore III (Flint, Mich. / Southwestern Academy), junior wide receiver John Haarmann (St. Charles, Mo. / Francis Howell HS) and senior offensive lineman Nick Curlett (St. Louis, Mo. / Trinity Catholic HS) are honorable mention selections.
David Marcinko was a first-team selection in 2013 and 2014. He led the Wildcats with three sacks and eight tackles for loss this season. Marcinko was third on the team with 60 total tackles, including 30 solo stops, and he had one forced fumble and one blocked kick. In addition, Marcinko recorded his first career interception, which he returned for a touchdown, against MidAmerica Nazarene on Aug. 29.
In his career as a four year starter, Marcinko recorded 200 total tackles including 41.5 stops for loss, and 21 sacks. He r forced fourfumbles, has six fumble recoveries and five passes defended in 43 career games.
Jeff Treadway is also a four year letterwinner. He moved from safety to linebacker this season and led the Wildcats with 91 total tackles. The Columbia Hickman alum finished fourth in the Heart, averaging 8.3 tackles per game. Treadway also recorded 7.5 tackles for loss and forced a fumble.
In his four-year career at Culver, Treadway garnered 214 total tackles, including 109 solo stops and 15 tackles for loss. He also forced two fumbles, had one fumble recovery and was credited with five passes defended.
John Haarmann led all Wildcat receivers with 42 receptions for 554 yards and six touchdowns this season. He averaged 3.8 receptions per game and 50.4 yards receiving per game, which were both ranked 10th in the Heart this season.
Fred Moore was second on the team with 34 receptions for a team-high 585 yards and three touchdowns. He ranked seventh in the Heart, averaging 53.2 yards per game. His 34 receptions ranked 15th overall in the Heart.
Nick Curlett is a three-year starter for the Wildcats on the offensive line, playing mostly at guard, though he has also played tackle this season.


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"I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I'm just more in tune with that than anything else."
―David Boreanaz
BBC interview
"It's just a television show, we have fun with it and try to make each other crack up."
"Do I believe in giving up? No, I don't."
"I could easily escape to a hotel for a weekend and do absolutely nothing."
"I see L.A. as a beautiful blonde with dirty underwear."
"I have a very clear vision as to what I want at the end of my prep, and then I throw it out and let the creative process take over."
"I was associated with a woman who I was involved with and had a relationship with. She asked for money. I felt as though I was being blackmailed or there was some sort of extortion."
"I don't do serious."
"I'm a fighter. I'm a lover."
"I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible."
"I like to escape to hotels."
"I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak."
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Bubble Bobble is another arcade conversion. It's cute and it's fun, even many years after it's initial release it is still a blast playing a quick game. Bub and Bob blows bubbles. This way they destroy monsters, first by trapping the monster in a bubble and then bursting it's bubble, as it were. They have to finish one hundred screens of bubble bursting before they rescue their girlfriends. Naturally the game has a two player option, Different monsters cross their path, some shoot boulders at them while others just jump around. They can collect jewels and water 'containers' that help them to kill monsters.
The Commodre version rocks, it has nearly everything the arcade machine has. A level progress screen is missing from both versions but the Commodore has an near exact graphics match to the arcade machine. While the graphics are the same, within the machines limits of coarse, it has an exact match of the bouncy little tune that plays. For me it doubles the fun, it rocks! The Spectrum in contrast is silent except for some weird sounding sound FX.
The Spectrum version is not bad, but the mono graphics show their limitations, at least there is no color clash. The Commodore version in contrast, is one of the best games ever produced for the machine. It shows that the Commodre chip-set really was good enough to produce arcade quality games (before 1985). Let's keep it real, nobody in an arcade would have played a game, after 1980, that didn't have proper color and sound.
Nice and playable game on both machines, the Commodore however wins hands down, the Commodore version is good enough to have gone into the arcade. as is


On Saturday Jim and I drove out to East Stroudsburg PA to visit the Frank Frazetta museum.
Frazetta's been a favorite of mine since I was a kid. I don't remember when I first became aware of him, but I do vividly remember begging my mom to let me buy "The Fantastic Art of Frank Frazetta" when I was fairly young.
I never realized there was a Frazetta museum until a few months ago when I finally got around to watching Painting With Fire, the Frazetta documentary, which mentioned it in passing. I immediately said, "OK, I'm going!" The museum is curated and managed by Frank's wife Ellie. Although we were disappointed not to meet the man himself, she took the time to meet each visitor personally and told some interesting and funny stories about some of the paintings.
The museum is quite small (this image shows about 75% of it) but it's an inspiring sight. To stand in front of a single Frazetta painting from only a foot away is fantastic, and to see them all at once is almost overwhelming. It was hard to keep from running all over the place going "There's that one! Ooo there's that one!" Although I have several books of his work, I was surprised to see how much detail is not reproduced in print. The makeup on the Egyptian Queen, the scars on Conan's face, were so incredible.
As sort of a funny side note, seeing all these paintings in one place made me realize something: Frazetta doesn't draw feet! I forget at what point it dawned on us, but as we moved from painting to painting we started to laugh, "Yep, no feet on that one either!" Of course there are some that have feet, and they are certainly well-rendered (so it's not like he can't draw feet obviously) but time after time the feet were hidden behind trees, under water, buried in snow, in stirrups, obscured by piles of bodies, etc. Take a look at a bunch of his paintings and you'll see what I mean!
Anyhow, the museum is open Saturdays and Sundays. If you are a fan and in any way able to make it out there, take the trip and you won't regret it.
Excellent… I'm sure the depth of the paintings really come out when you see them in person.
What's the media he primarily uses?
I think the most interesting thing for me was seeing the difference in quality between his personal work, (E.g. the Africa paintings) and the commercial.
There were lots of little mistakes and artistic "cover ups" in the book covers that you will never see when shrunk down and reproduced. And not just the feet.
But his personal work on the other hand was almost perfect. It's in those paintings that you can see his true genius.


Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered may be hitting retail stores as a standalone title at the end of next month.
Raven Software and Activision released a new video for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered today where they discuss the importance of handling the remaster of such a popular and important game with care.
Last year, the long-running Call of Duty series jumped into the far future with the release of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, and along with it brought an exciting (and terrifying) new rendition of its infamous "Zombies"
A little earlier today Activision-owned development studio Raven Software tweeted a rather telling tease over on twitter, teasing a return to the Singularity series.
Modern Warfare 3 Later This Year? WTF or FTW?


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Taipei, Taiwan's new Education Minister Wu Maw-kuen (???) said Wednesday that the young generation must be equipped with the ability to solve problems such as global warming and that the country's education system needs to keep pace with new technologies.
"Due to global warming, some people believe that our planet will face major catastrophes in the next 20 to 30 years," Wu said at his first meeting of ministry officials since taking office last week.
He said it is most important that the next generation becomes aware of the difficulties ahead and gains the ability to overcome those challenges.
In fact, Wu said, many of the existing problems are caused by the current generation, which has no right to hold the next generation accountable.
The current generation is responsible for providing the next generation with an education that will enable them to better face the future, he said.
Furthermore, with the development of technologies like artificial intelligence, Taiwan's education system needs to be changed, Wu said.
For example, young children do not need to learn about combustion engines in light of the fact that by 2035 electric vehicles will fully replace fuel-powered ones, Wu said.
In anticipation of such a future, it might be best to focus on how to build power plants, how electric cars work and the basics of battery power, said Wu, a physicist who specializes in superconductivity, low-temperature physics, and high-pressure physics.
He told his staff that Premier Lai Ching-te (???) offered him the post of education minister in the hope that he would tackle education from a scientist's perspective.
"So as a scientist, I intend to find the best education system for Taiwan," Wu said.


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Rudolph Guerrero Sablan (November 13, 1931 – July 24, 1995) was a Guamanian politician and member of the Democratic Party of Guam. Sablan served as the 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Guam from January 6, 1975 to January 1, 1979 under Governor Ricardo Bordallo.

Biography

Early life and education
Sablan was born in Agana, Guam, which is now known as Hagåtña. He graduated from Father Dueñas Memorial School in 1950 as the valedictorian of his class. Sablan attended Boston College from 1950 to 1952 and received his bachelor's degree in political science 1954 from the former Loyola University of Los Angeles, which is now part of Loyola Marymount University.

Sablan was hired by a Navy Public Works Center after college before being drafted in the United States Army in 1956. He attend basic training in Hawaii and remained there to serve as an intelligence analyst and area studies specialist with the 14th Radio Broadcasting and Leaflet Battalion. He served until December 1957 and returned to Guam after an honorable discharge.

Career

Civil service
Once he had returned to Guam, Sablan took a job within the territorial government. He was quickly promoted to administrative positions within government agencies, including the Director of Labor and Personnel by 1961. His work caught the attention of Governor Manuel F.L. Guerrero, who appointed Sablan as both assistant Secretary of Guam and executive assistant to the Governor during the 1960s. The appointments allowed Sablan to oversee much of Guam's executive branch.

Political career
In 1974, Governor Carlos Camacho, a Republican and the first elected Governor of Guam, sought re-election for a second term, together with his Lt. Governor Kurt Moylan. Four Democrats declared their intention to challenge Camacho, including Ricardo Bordallo, former Gov. Manuel Flores Leon Guerrero (who teamed with David D.L. Flores as his running mate for Lt. Governor); Pedro C. Sanchez, the former President of University of Guam (who teamed with Esteban U. Torres), and Joaquin C. "Kin" Arriola (teamed with school principal, Ted S. Nelson). On the Republican side, a rival team, Senator Paul McDonald Calvo with running mate Tony Palomo, challenged Governor Camacho for the GOP nomination.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ricardo Bordallo chose Rudy Sablan as his running mate for Lt. Governor. The Bordallo-Sablan team won the 1974 Democratic primary election, defeating the three other candidates. Governor Carlos Camacho won the Republican nomination, beating the Calvo-Palomo ticket, but badly dividing Guam's Republican Party. The Republican split worked to the Democrat's advantage, allowing Bordallo to defeat Governor Camacho in the November gubernatorial election.

Governor Bordallo and Lt. Governor Rudy Sablan were sworn into office on January 6, 1975. Sablan became the second elected Lt. Governor in Guam's history. However, Bordallo and Sablan frequent, public spats and disagreements on policy issues plagued the Bordallo-Sablan administration throughout their four-year term. The political relationship between the Governor and Lt. Governor broke down by the 1978 general election. In 1978, Rudy Sablan ran against Governor Bordallo in the gubernatorial election. Sablan chose Jose L. "Joe" Leon Guerrero as his running mate for Lt. Governor, while Governor Bordallo replaced Sablan with Dr. Pedro C. Sanchez, a historian and educator, on his ticket. Governor Bordallo defeated Sablan in the 1978 Democratic primary, taking 34.2% while Sablan-Guerrero placed second with 25% of the vote. Ricardo Bordallo ultimately lost his re-election bid to Republican Paul McDonald Calvo in November 1978.

Four years later, Sablan once again announced his candidacy for Governor of Guam in the 1982 gubernatorial election. Sablan again picked his Joe Leon Guerrero, as his running mate for Lt. Governor (Sablan and Guerrero had also run on the same ticket in 1978). However, the Sablan-Guerrero lost a rematch in Democratic primary to Ricardo Bordallo and his new running mate, Edward Diego Reyes. Bordallo defeated Sablan by 35 percentage points in the Democratic primary to win the nomination. Bordallo, in a second political rematch from 1978, then beat Governor Paul McDonald Calvo in the November 1982 general election. (Calvo had previously ousted Bordallo from office in 1978).

Later career and life
Governor Ricky Bordallo appointed Sablan as a member of Commission on Self-Determination, which oversaw the future relationship between Guam and the United States, from 1983 until 1987. Sablan remained a proponent the Guam Commonwealth Act, even after the end of the Bordallo-Reyes administration in 1987. In December 1989, Sablan testified in support of the Guam Commonwealth Act at the sole U.S. congressional hearing on the Act, which was held in Honolulu.

In 1983, Sablan was appointed Chairman of the board of directors of the Guam Airport Authority, a territorial government agency which operates the island's international airport (now known as Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport). Under Sablan, the airport's terminals and runways were modernized and expanded to encourage a growing tourism industry.

Sablan worked to reconcile the various, often infighting, factions of the Democratic Party of Guam by 1993. He endorsed the 1994 gubernatorial campaign of Governor Carl Gutierrez and Lt. Gov. Madeleine Bordallo and has been credited with helping the Gutierrez-Bordallo team win the 1994 general election.

Sablan became an integral advisor to the new Gutierrez administration. Governor Carl Gutierrez appointed Sablan to the Commission on Self-Determination from 1994 until his death in 1995. (Sablan had previously served on the Commission from 1983 to 1987 under Governor Ricky Bordallo). In 1994 and 1995, Gutierrez appointed Sablan as part of a team who represented Guam at the Base Reuse and Realignment Commission hearings in San Francisco, California.

Sablan died on July 24, 1995 (equivalent to the early morning of July 25, Guam time) at the age of 63. He was survived by his wife, Esperanza "Ancha" Cruz San Nicolas; their two children, Rudy and Essie; and three grandchildren, Marie Antoinette, Jessica, and Mario. He was buried at Pigo Catholic Cemetery in Agana.

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soooo....um.....dang! these look sweet. I have a couple of questions however. I'm assuming you've done play testing with various table top games and such? I'm just thinking about my D&D group and the whole "fog of war" type thing. How would you go about slowly revealing the dungeon if it's stacked all on top of each other like this? I'm not saying it's a negative thing, I'm just curious how you would recommend doing it?
Who do you think would win a fight between pirates and ninjas? I think pirates would, but just because they say "booty" a lot.
The same tactic applies to TLX builds and previous TCPs sets. I build in chunks. In something like this, I would build a large room or a few rooms as one "chunk" that sits right next to another "chunk." Each level would do the same and I would add sections as needed.
The other way that I have handled things is to lay out much of the set up, but not place props or minis and just tell the players to not metagame (this doesn't work with every group).
I guess that you could also cover things with specifically cut pieces of paper or something if you really desired.
To maintain the fog of war thingie, I build in pieces, at the table, during play. Yes, It does slow things down, but just a bit. I have everything built out before they show and it is very easy to lay down a room, or corridor, when needed. I do use the TLX format, but these are essentially the same, in that they are modular and can be added quickly.
By the way WWG. Nice work. Wish I could afford to drop $500 for these. And $500 for the last group. This stuff really is awesome. Will have to do with my TLX stuff, but I really don't feel slighted. I love my TLX.
I still can't get over just how great they look.
The quality of the artwork just blows my mind. I don't know how you keep amazing me after all these years, but you've done it again.
I'm itching to make a preorder. No way I'm letting these sell out without picking up a set!
damn if they are good!
really a nice addition and i love how you thinked "out of the square"
Will printable-PDF TerrainLinx versions be available at some point?
Denny has said on several occasions that the TCP stuff will be unique to TCP. There will be no sharing between brands. I can see his reasoning. Some people like me, and apparently you (and others) would simply wait until the TLX release would come out, then make our purchases.
As it stands now, I could purchase this stuff (imagining I had the money) and use it along side my TLX stuff. I am sure it would work just fine even if they don't join up properly. What I can't imagine is buying just one set. Two each, of every set would be my minimum. Ten might be a more imaginable number for me, maybe twenty. I don't do anything small.
Lovely sets here. but I'm still seeing one problem. Everything is 3x3 and 6x6 scale.
I know its probably a limitation on the medium but was wondering how to emulate all those beautiful dungeons I have in many D&D modules with these? you know, 5ft and 10 ft corridors, etc.
Maybe you guys have something planned or will this be a papercraft only thing.
I've also created 5' wide halls out of 3x3 tiles by blacking out the outer two rows with GIMP. Also made a long 5' wide corridor with alcoves the same way. Granted, that was with TLX, but I've got some TCP custom pieces I've made from my TLX sets.
Edit: Just to make clear, I'm not the creator of the build in the referenced thread.
Yah, I like customizing my dungeon terrain, but sometimes it takes a couple of tries to get it looking right - don't really want to do that with commercially purchased "hard copies".
Still, I guess I can mix and match it with the TerrainLinx stuff. How compatable are the printable and pre-made sets?
Actually the corridors would be 7.5' wide as balconies are 1.5".
very nice, Congratulations on the excellent high standard.
And all those details that not only look superb, they make it work even better. Stairs, straight and spiral (Who other than Denny could possibly manage to include spiral stairs in a baseline tile/terrain set?), I'm looking at you right now. Going back to the other details shortly.
p.s. I hope you've cranked the production volumes up this time, Denny. These look to be even better sellers than the original sets.
I must admit WWG has outdone themselves here and I'll be amazed if this doesn't outsell the Malifaux set by miles (nothing wrong with the Malifaux sets ). The level of detail is amazing and the the unique shapes just put the icing on the cake!
Two of each set for me I think.
First off, thank you so much for the kind words gang. It was a real pleasure having the chance to think about dungeons again and how to approach that with some freshness. I have to admit, its pretty satisfying to finally get a product out there that I think (hopefully) matches what many tabletop players have had in their heads for so many years.
I really hope people enjoy these as much as I enjoyed making them!
A lot of time was spent in early development prototyping the tight corridor issue. TerraClips uses a "clean modularity" standard so that you can design a 3D, multi-level layout that cleanly links back into itself. To accommodate 5' or 10' corridors within that construct is basically a gigantic puzzle full of dozens of unique pieces (both floors and walls). Not impossible mind you, just really extensive and impractical (nearly a release in and of itself).
In the short term some have already mentioned creative solutions. For the most part, due to the impractical nature of tight corridors in a 3D walled environment, we often recommend a simple upscale of tighter corridor sections (to accommodate chubby fingers and giant swords). Another simple solution might be to add freefloating strips or overlays which tighten existing corridors in a fog-of war kind of way.
If the support was there, a 5'/10' expansion pack could technically be developed but its definitely its own thing due to the extensive content required to make it work.
p.s. could you show a close up of the half-stairs that go along the wall please?
Is their going to be software support for a dungeon builder? Would be very useful having a catalog of bits so you don't have to just bash everything together and hope you have enough bits.
I would say four of each set would give you a bit of confidence you can build what you want. Ten sets would give you pretty strong confidence to build what you wish. And the twenty sets I would need would give me confidence to use my imagination without limits. Yeah, twenty sets of each. Like I don't really need to pay my mortgage this month. lol Or next month.
Not to my taste. Way too busy graphically. For a generic set these has more theme and ambiance then most of the other fantasy setting stuff, which greatly limits their use for me.
Geez, if these sets are going to GenCon you'd better have a semi or two fully loaded to meet the demand.
How could anyone resist picking them up ... they are so beautiful, so functional ... so darn incredible!!!! ... and no shippimg if you buy them there.
I hope they are going to be available then.
Just an aside note, Denny, you really know how to design the packaging for maximum punch. You don't waste an inch of sale space. Darn you are good.
I can hardly wait for you to put out a three box set for sci-fi.
Those look fantastic, I'll be sure to check them out when they are available!
depends on the wife. Mine would, she knows I give up gaming stuff to get her shinys . So she does get me gaming stuff for special days.


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Yang Fudong, Ye Jiang (The night man cometh), 2011
Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is dedicating a new major solo show to Chinese artist and film maker Yang Fudong this September . Yang Fudong is regarded as one of the most important artists to emerge in contemporary China. In this exhibition he presents three works: Fight Night, 2010: One half of August, 2001 and Yejing (the night man cometh), 2011
Fifth Night is a video-installation composed of seven synchronized projections. The shots are supposed to feature the streets of Shanghai's old town at night. In the middle of the scene with carriages, rickshaws and vintage cars, a stage has been built and a tramway is being frantically repaired. Unrelated characters appear, hesitating men and women attend to their own activities without interaction. The artist uses seven 35 mm cameras which film the same scene from different angles, demonstrating a variation of scale and depths of field. Yang Fudong refers to this new technique as
"multiple view film", which emphasises the character's subtle expressions and simplest actions. What the viewer could perceive as separate instances, are actually simultaneously tied together into one scene, expanding and multiplying the spectator's usual vision and perception. As with most of Yang Fudong's works, here again the work is open-ended.
In the first floor gallery is the world premiere of two other works: One half of August is an eight-screen, black-and-white, HD video installation in which Yang Fudong aims to create distortion and a change of reality in some of his selected video works by projecting them onto various structures and objects.
Yejiang (The night man cometh), a 35-mm film transferred to HD video, is a single-screen work that trails a palace guard on his nightly rounds. In a snow-covered landscape, the guard is confronted by a fierce battlefield in which he too must fight for survival.
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A false-color scanning electron micrograph of the qubit's structure showing the "moving wells" developed by UW-Madison researchers to improve the accuracy of quantum computers. The area imaged is approximately 1,500 nanometers in diameter. For comparison, a human hair is between 50,000 and 100,000 nanometers wide. The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Conventional computers rarely make mistakes, largely thanks to the digital behavior of semiconductor transistors. They are on or off, corresponding to the ones and zeros of the classic bits.
On the other hand, quantum bits, or qubits, can be zero, one, or an arbitrary mixture of the two, allowing quantum computers to solve certain calculations that are beyond the capability of any classical computer. A complication with qubits, however, is that they can occupy energy levels outside of the one and zero of computation. If these additional levels are too close to one or zero, errors are more likely to occur.
Marc Friesen
"In a typical computer, all aspects of a transistor are super-uniform," says UW-Madison Scientist Emeritus Mark Friesen, author of both papers. "Silicon qubits are in many ways like transistors, and we've gotten to the point where we can control the properties of the qubit very well, except for one."
This property, known as valley splitting, is the buffer between computational energy levels at one zero and additional energy levels, helping to reduce quantum computational errors.
In two papers published in Nature Communications in December, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of New South Wales, and TU-Delft showed that altering the physical structure of a qubit , known as a silicon quantum dot, creates enough valley division to reduce miscalculations. The results overturn conventional wisdom by showing that a less perfect silicon quantum dot can be beneficial.
In the past, the most common way to fabricate qubits was to embed the quantum dot in a layer of pure silicon, called a silicon well, and then sandwich this layer between two layers of silicon-germanium with sharp boundaries between layers. In these new studies, the semiconductor qubits are fabricated in the same way, with a layer of silicon located between two layers of silicon-germanium. New is the addition of germanium to the silicon layer itself.
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"Everyone always thought that the only thing you shouldn't mess with in qubit design was pure silicon," says Bob Joynt, professor of physics at UW-Madison. "And we decided, well, let's play around with that a bit."
The researchers modified the design by intentionally adding germanium to the silicon layer in a slightly different way. Like so many successes in physics, theirs started with theoretical calculations. Joynt asked what would happen if the concentration of germanium "wriggled" throughout the well, in evenly spaced waves with peaks and valleys. Friesen's group, who also contributed to the accompanying TU-Delft article, noted that some germanium is still pouring into the well, even when researchers try to keep it out. They asked what would happen if low levels of germanium were randomly sprinkled into the well.
"Theoretical calculations have shown unambiguously that it's better to include germanium, and that it's better to stir than not to stir," says Mark Eriksson, professor of physics at UW-Madison, whose group tested the new qubits. with agitated wells.
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After confirming that the stirred wells did not significantly alter the electronic properties of the quantum dot, Eriksson's group measured the size of the energy buffer, or valley split, in these new structures. For a quantum dot embedded in a swinging well, the theory predicted an increase of 20 microelectronvolts. But in the lab, the largest valley split measured was nearly 250 microelectronvolts. Additionally, the division of the valley changed when the quantum dot was moved to new locations in the well, where the atoms making up the ripples were in different locations. The hustle and bustle of the concentration was clearly not the only factor affecting the valley split – the individual atoms mattered too.
This fact turned out to be the key: the atoms in the swinging well were distributed somewhat randomly. The introduction of this random distribution into numerical simulations made it possible to explain with precision the variations observed in the division of the valleys. In the second paper, Friesen and co-workers at TU-Delft confirmed that even uniformly distributed random germanium in the well leads to greater valley splitting on average than when no germanium is present.
"Contrary to many people's fears, germanium in wells is a very good idea," says Eriksson. "If you sprinkle it completely randomly with no focus swings, you'll do pretty well. If you sprinkle it with focus swings, you'll do better.
Both qubit structures have been filed for patent protection by WARF, and the UW-Madison team is actively working on designs that further improve the valley split.
"It's possible that when quantum computers are made from silicon/silicon-germanium qubits, they will want to have germanium in the wells," says Joynt. "But we don't know yet. We are just getting started.
At UW-Madison, Thomas McJunkin, Benjamin Harpt, Yi Feng, Merritt Losert, JP Dodson, Michael Wolfe, Don Savage, Max Lagally, and Sue Coppersmith also contributed to this work. Both studies were funded by the army research Office, a branch of the Army Research Laboratory of the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (W911NF-17-1-0274).
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Q: javac classpath cannot find symbol? i have two classes at the same folder:

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*First.java

*Second.java
First class implementation:
package mypackage;

public class First {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Second.myMethod();
    }

}

Second class implementation:
public class Second {
    public static void myMethod() {
        System.out.println("this is the second class");
    }
}

the Second has been compiled, so it becomes:

*

*First.java

*Second.java

*Second.class
when i try to compile First.java :
javac -cp .;.. -d . First.java
i got an error :
cannot find symbol
                 Second.myMethod();
                        ^
  symbol:   variable Second
  location: class First
1 error

i have tried: "javac -d . *.java" and i got the same result

A: Starting point
You showed two class definitions..

*

*Here is First, which belongs to package "mypackage":
package mypackage;

public class First {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Second.myMethod();
    }
}

*Here is Second, which has no package statement:
public class Second {
    public static void myMethod() {
        System.out.println("this is the second class");
    }
}

If you attempt to compile those together, you'll get a compilation error like below (OpenJDK 18.0.1.1):
% javac *.java
First.java:5: error: cannot find symbol
        Second.myMethod();
        ^
  symbol:   variable Second
  location: class First
1 error

Why it doesn't work
From 7.4.2. Unnamed Packages:

A compilation unit that has no package declaration is part of an unnamed package.
Unnamed packages are provided by the Java SE platform principally for convenience when developing small or temporary applications or when just beginning development.

This describes "Second" – a compilation unit which has no package declaration. JLS 7.4.2 tells us that this class would belong to an unnamed package.
Further, we can see that unnamed packages are not intended to be used for much of anything.
From 7.5. Import Declarations:

Without the use of an appropriate import declaration, the only way to refer to a type declared in another package, or a static member of another type, is to use a fully qualified name (§6.7).

This tells us that in First.java, if we wish to refer to a type defined in another package,
we would need to use the fully qualified name of the type we wish to reference.
This is what you tried to do – First is in named package "mypackage", and Second is in an unnamed package.
For First to see Second, First would need to use a fully-qualified name for Second. But there is no fully-qualified name for Second – it belongs to an unnamed package; it doesn't have a name, so it isn't possible to reference it.

Solution 1
Edit Second – move it from the unnamed package to the named package "mypackage" by putting this at the top: package mypackage;. By doing this, both First and Second would belong to the same named package, and compilation will succeed.

Solution 2
Edit First – move it from the named package "mypackage" to the unnamed package by commenting out or deleting this line: package mypackage;. By doing this, you are removing the named package altogether, leaving First and Second both in the unnamed package, and compilation will succeed.

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Although hyperlinks are often used in web pages, they can be used in Word documents as well. For instance, you can use a hyperlink to include an email address or website in part of your document. A bookmark is a type of hyperlink that allows you to reference a certain area of a document. You can use a bookmark to jump to the top of your page from a different part of a Word document.
A bookmark is a type of hyperlink that allows you to reference part of your document.
Open the document you want to create a hyperlink for in Microsoft Word.
Place the cursor at the top of your page where the hyperlink will point. Then select "Insert" and "Bookmark" in the menu ribbon. The "Bookmark" dialog box will open. Name the bookmark and click "Add." The dialog box will close.
Scroll to the bottom of the page or to the spot where you want to insert the hyperlink. Type in a short phrase, such as "Back to Top," indicating that you will jump to the top of the page by clicking on the text.
Select the "Back to Top" text. Then click on "Insert" and "Hyperlink" from the ribbon. The "Insert Hyperlink" dialog box will open.
Click the "Bookmark" button on the right. The "Select Place in Document" dialog box will open. Click on the bookmark you named in Step 2. Then click "OK." The bookmark name will appear in the "Address" text field at the bottom of the "Insert Hyperlink" dialog box. Click "OK" to apply your changes.
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