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Miller talked about his long time friendship with Walker, which developed over the years after he first wandered into his academy looking to learn something about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. According to his coach, Walker regularly asked for his movies to feature grappling instead of the standard fight fare you might see in a... |
"He always wanted to showcase jiu-jitsu in his movies," Miller wrote in a blog. "Rather than the punches and kicks so common to many action films, he wanted to use his movies as a stage for jiu-jitsu. Some of the jiu-jitsu techniques from our training sessions were utilized in the Fast and Furious series. Paul would al... |
Looking back on the time he spent with Walker, there was one goal that the actor and father always had from the first day he started grappling and that was to earn his black belt. Miller warned him that he wasn’t going to be given or handed anything in his gym, and Walker was more than happy to earn each stripe he achi... |
"He was determined to become a black belt. He said ‘I will get my black belt, even if I need to get it in my coffin’. Now in the wake of his death, I would like to reward Paul Walker the black belt that he wanted so much during his life," Miller said. |
Miller awarded Walker his black belt at a memorial held in his memory this week as the world still mourns his passing. Walker was just 40 at the time of his death. |
Should Developers Sign An NDA Before Hearing Your Idea? |
The Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) is an extremely common form of "protecting" entrepreneurs' ideas from being stolen. Each day on matchist, people looking for developers ask me how they can ensure their idea is protected. They ask me whether developers will sign an NDA. |
1. Can you explain your idea at a high level? Without disclosing your secret sauce, can you talk to developers in order to understand how much time and effort your idea will take to build? Most of the time, the answer is yes- until you start developing the actual technology, there is not much inherent value in the idea... |
2. Are you starting the relationship off right? An NDA is an inherent sign of mistrust. It's certainly a form of protection, but in an informal environment when you are just starting to seek out technical help, having a developer sign an NDA before even talking to them indicates you don't trust them. The best professio... |
3. Can the developer really sign an NDA? Professional freelance developers obviously spend most time coding, but a lot of time is spent finding new clients. They are speaking with entrepreneurs all day long, and if they have to sign an NDA before speaking to each one, it is highly likely they will infringe on someone's... |
4. Can you enforce the NDA? Let's say someone does run off with your idea after you have them sign an NDA. What do you do? Well get ready for some fun times and lots of money ahead. To actually enforce the NDA, you'd have to hire a lawyer, acquire evidence, determine what legal claim you can make, and consider criminal... |
I want to emphasize, that NDAs are absolutely appropriate when there are trade secrets and other intellectual property at stake. Talk to your attorney about the appropriate time and place to use NDAs. The situation I am exploring is the entrepreneur who is too afraid of his/her idea being stolen that they have multiple... |
Entrepreneurs- remember, ideas aren't worth much...it's all about the execution. And you can't execute if you don't have a product. |
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and am not dispensing legal advice. |
San Andreas, CA...PLANNING COMMISSION NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING LEAD AGENCY: Calaveras County Planning Department, 891 Mountain Ranch Rd., San Andreas, CA 95249 2016-949 APPEAL by Matthew Uribe on behalf of Huntington Park Cannabis Providers Association of Denial of Commercial Cannabis Cultivation Registration The site ... |
What an idiot. Move up to Railroad Flat and name your pot farm Huntington Park. (There is a Huntington Park in San Francisco and one in LA.) His name is not Huntington either. Hopefully he moves back to the Huntington Park he came from. |
Actually his product was involved in the Gfarma Airport Bust. This denial is more than appropriate. |
SAN FRANCISCO – A growing number of Stanford University students and professors are protesting the conservative Hoover Institution’s decision to appoint former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as a visiting fellow. |
As of Friday, more than 2,500 students, alumni and faculty members have signed an online petition that opposes the Stanford-based think tank’s appointment of Rumsfeld, who resigned from the Bush administration after the November 2006 elections amid widespread dissatisfaction over his handling of the Iraq war. |
The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace announced earlier this month that Rumsfeld, who served as President Bush’s defense secretary for almost six years, would join a task force that will focus on issues related to “ideology and terror” in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. |
“Don has had immense experience in public service and has much to contribute to society as a result,” Hoover director John Raisan said in a statement announcing Rumsfeld’s appointment. |
The controversy highlights the strained relationship between the conservative Hoover Institution, a well-funded public policy research center founded in 1919, and the Palo Alto campus’s more liberal faculty and student body. |
The Hoover Institution has hosted many prominent conservatives as visiting fellows – including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Secretary of State George Shultz and retired Army Gen. John Abizaid – though few have generated as much opposition as Rumsfeld. |
Last week, a group of professors began circulating a petition objecting to the former defense secretary’s appointment, citing his role in overseeing the military occupation of Iraq and crafting policies that led to the abuse of prisoners at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison. |
Hoover officials would not comment directly on the petition Friday. |
Officials in Marin County, California, decided on Tuesday to replace the county's ailing SAP ERP (enterprise resource planning) system, an option that would cost less than trying to fix widespread problems with the software, according to officials. |
The system is the subject of a lawsuit Marin County filed against system integrator Deloitte Consulting earlier this year. Deloitte used the project as "a trial-and-error training ground" for inexperienced employees, and the result was a "costly computer system far worse than the legacy systems it was intended to repla... |
Deloitte has filed motions against Marin County's "completely unfounded allegations," as well as a complaint seeking unpaid fees, a spokesman said via e-mail. The system "was working properly and could perform all the tasks consistently with the standards set forth in the written contract," according to a Deloitte cour... |
Marin County tells a different story. The SAP implementation dates to 2006, but today only 50 percent of the functionality is in place and working properly, according to a county report. |
"In order to make it happen with SAP, we would need to re-architect it, redesign it, and that would be quite expensive," said David Hill, director of the county's information services and technology department, during a meeting of the Marin County Board of Supervisors, which was webcast. |
Most county department heads "agree there's a compelling reason to move off SAP or improve it, but not to stay where we were," he added. |
A chart in the Marin County report details what various solutions to the problem would cost over a 10-year period. |
Maintaining the system at "status quo" would tally up US$34.7 million; fixing it and also "supporting continual improvement" by hiring more workers would cost $49.8 million; and merely fixing problems and running the system would ring up a $34.1 million bill. |
In contrast, starting over with a new product would cost just $26.2 million over the same 10-year period, according to the report. |
No particular software package is currently in mind for the replacement, according to Hill. |
There is little need to hurry, suggested board member Susan Adams. "The technology is changing," she said. "I think this is a good opportunity to shake out the sheets and see what's available." |
SAP "strongly believes in the value and performance of its software in use in Marin County," said spokesman Andy Kendzie. "Our software works exactly as it should, and any issues in this implementation in no way reflect on SAP. Our software is installed and functioning perfectly in tens of thousands of public sector ag... |
"We regret their decision but will work with them going forward as they deem appropriate," Kendzie added. |
Whatever product Marin County chooses as a replacement, "the key thing is for them to understand their future state business processes," said Altimeter Group analyst Ray Wang. "They need to compare what they want to do with what the software vendors say they can do." |
In turn, "the next software vendor that picks up this gig needs to be clear on what works out of the box, what is customizable and what's coming in the future," he said. Any system integrators involved would do well to give the county concrete expectations of what can be accomplished in a given time frame, he added. |
Harry Horner Hummel, of Kennett Square, PA, died February 28, 2006 at the age of 88. Although he was vigorous up to the day he died, acute leukemia caused his death. Harry was an internationally known expert in the physics of breeder nuclear reactor safety, spending 39 years as a scientist at Argonne National Laborator... |
Matthew Goode is charged with resisting law enforcement by operating a vehicle in a manner that causes death. |
An Indianapolis man faces charges in a police pursuit that left his passenger dead and himself badly injured this month on the city’s south side. |
IMPD officers spotted and tried to stop a stolen vehicle in the area of Walker Avenue and State Avenue just after 2 p.m. Aug. 10, spokesman Officer Michael Hewitt said. Authorities have identified Matthew Goode, 40, as the driver of the white Chrysler Sebring. |
As an officer activated his sirens and attempted to catch up to the car, it accelerated, a probable cause affidavit said. A short chase ensued, during which the Sebring's driver ignored stop signs and traffic lights and moved at about 60 miles per hour, according to court documents. |
The car eventually slowed down to around 40 miles per hour, an officer wrote in the affidavit. When it turned southbound on Meridian Street from Southern Avenue, the Sebring suddenly swerved into another officer’s car that had moved to the vehicle driver’s side. |
Goode then lost control, driving through a fence and crashing into a tree at Concordia Cemetery, near the intersection of Meridian and Gimber Streets, police said. |
The crash trapped Goode and his passenger in the car. Police were unable to open the wedged driver’s side door or the passenger’s side door that was blocked by the tree, the affidavit said. Officers removed two knives from the car — one was in Goode’s hand — so firefighters could extricate Goode, who was taken to Esken... |
The female passenger, identified as Tracy Sears, was pronounced dead at the scene. |
Goode is charged with resisting law enforcement by operating a vehicle in a manner that causes death. The felony offense carries up to 16 years in prison. |
The affidavit says Goode also had an active warrant out of Brown County for failing to appear in court on felony drug possession charges. |
Goode is due in court on Wednesday. Court records don’t list an attorney for him. |
April 23, 2019, 5:39 p.m. |
Rents in Houston have been rising — alarmingly — for a while, but there might be some relief on the horizon. Of the more than 320,000 new apartments in the U.S. slated to reach completion this year, RentCafe reports that Texas can lay claim to about 70,000 of them. |
That's 22 percent of the national inventory, spread out over Texas' four biggest metros of Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio. |
Houston alone is gaining 25,935 units, which is seconded by DFW's 23,159 units. Filling out the top five are some heavy real estate hitters: New York, Los Angeles, and Washington. |
This 50 percent increase in apartment construction should signal a cool-down in most big cities from the recently overheated pricing. Cuts in Houston's energy and mining industries have furthered this reprieve, resulting in a 3.4 percent rise in rent this year. |
Of these new apartments, expect more than half of them to be one-bedroom units. |
TWO of Spain’s largest trade unions have said they will demonstrate in Madrid next month against changes to labour laws and pensions. |
The CCOO and UGT unions have said around 10,000 activists are expected to join the protest on February 8. |
Union demands include a reversal to labour law changes which they claim have tipped the balance too far in favour of employers. Supporters of the reforms claim it helps to free up businesses so they can create jobs. |
The unions also oppose changes to pension rules that state payments will be reassessed according to factors including life expectancy which came into force at the start of this year. |
Unions claim the reform, brought in to keep the cost of pensions down, will result in payments being cut by an average of 5 per cent every year. |
“It is essential that these labour changes are repealed once and for all,” the unions said. |
The CCOO and UGT have also called for the government to guarantee that Spain’s welfare state be properly funded to make it sustainable and allow it to improve. |
Ariana Grande brought a lot of the usual to Wango Tango 2013. The Nickelodeon starlet performed 'The Way' with her typical strong vocals, trademark half-up hairstyle and wearing one of her signature girly, frilly dresses. |
Mac Miller wasn't on hand to rap with the whistle-register songstress, but her delivery was good enough for you not to miss him too much. Grande delivered a grand performance indeed, entering to audience members shrieking. That's the way to do it! |
Next: Vote for Your Favorite Ariana Grande Hair Color! |
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) notices that she’s part of a shrinking minority every time she heads to the Senate floor for a vote. |
Women make up almost 51 percent of the U.S. population but less than 10 percent of the House and Senate GOP — a gender disconnect that could make the Republicans’ climb back to power even steeper than it would be otherwise. |
Republican women in the House say they feel the problem — literally — when their male colleagues nudge them to the front of GOP press conferences to break up the solid lines of middle-aged white men in neckties. |
The numbers make that difficult. |
Out of 435 members of the House, just 17 are Republican women. Of 99 sitting senators, just four are Republican women. |
Of course, there are fewer Republicans than Democrats of either gender in the two houses. But even on a percentage basis, Republicans suffer a gender gap. Twenty-two percent of House Democrats are women, but only 9.5 percent of House Republicans are. In the Senate, nearly 23 percent of the Democrats are women, but only... |
The problem isn’t new; former Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.) remembers being struck that no Republican women were on stage while President George W. Bush signed a ban on partial-birth abortions in 2003. “I looked at the stage and said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me,’” said Musgrave, who was sitting in the audience. |
But the imbalance seems to be getting worse. While the Republicans had Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on their presidential ticket in 2008, Democratic women far outnumbered Republican women as general-election candidates for the House in November. There were 96 Democratic women on the ballot — but only 37 Republican women. |
In 2006, 70 percent of the women competing in major party primaries were Democrats, according to Laurel Elder, an associate political science professor and gender expert at Hartwick College in New York,. And, she says, only five Republican women have chaired congressional committees since 1995. Democratic women current... |
Republican women who have made it to the top — women such as Snowe and Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Lynn Jenkins and Virginia Foxx — say they’ve been warmly welcomed and mentored by the Republican leadership. But Elder said the GOP has to do more than just make female candidates feel welcome; it’s got to be aggressive... |
National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) is trying to do that. |
While Palin provided a high-profile role model for Republican women thinking of running for office, her experience was a double-edged sword. Lawmakers say the rough treatment Palin received showcased the nastiness of modern campaigns and underscored the notion that women are susceptible to the charge that they’ve been ... |
“For Republican women to say, ‘This is something I want to subject my family to’ — it’s a big role,” said Rep. Thelma Drake (R-Va.), who was one of the top political targets of left-wing organization MoveOn.org in 2006 and 2008. Drake lost her seat last year and says she is still angered by the effect scathing televisi... |
The problem is also geographical. As political realignment shifts the GOP territory south, Elder said female candidates are vying to get elected in a region least hospitable to women, while Democrats are getting elected in the West and Northeast — areas that are more welcoming to female candidates. |
According to the center’s analysis of exit-polling data, women backed Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden over Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin 56 percent to 43 percent. Male voters split their votes much more evenly, with 49 percent voting for Obama-Biden and 48 percent choosing McCain-Palin. |
Snowe says there’s also a political dimension. As the Republican Party sheds moderates, it also sheds women. |
Leadership has taken notice. The Republican National Committee says a critical first step is to be more all-inclusive when recruiting and training women. It says its Women’s Coalition is making an early push to identify women for 2010 as part of its 50-state plan. |
But the pool is shallow. State legislatures, which often serve as feeders for Congress, are also seeing fewer Republican women step up to the plate. Meanwhile, Democratic training outlets such EMILY’s List have been well-organized and highly successful at recruiting, while anti-abortion Republican womens’ groups, such ... |
McMorris Rodgers, who is helping lead the NRCC’s candidate recruitment team, says she’s bringing in groups of women from different regions of the country for tours of Capitol Hill in the hopes of getting some to run. |
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. – November 9, 2010 – Led by “NBC Sunday Night Football,” which was the #1 program of the week in primetime’s key demographic of adults 18-49 for the ninth straight week, NBC averaged a 2.4 rating, 7 share in adults 18-49 and 7.4 million viewers overall for the week of November 1-7, according to i... |
NBC Sports’ “Sunday Night Football” telecast of the Green Bay Packers’ 45-7 blowout over the Dallas Cowboys ranked #1 among all programs this week in adults 18-49, marking the ninth straight week in which “NBC Sunday Night Football” has topped the weekly rankings in primetime’s key demographic. “Sunday Night Football” ... |
“The Office” ranked #11 (tied) among all primetime programs this week in adults 18-49 and was the #3 program of the week among adults 18-34 (rankings exclude all football pre-game and post-game telecasts). |
Primetime averages for the week of November 1-7 in adults 18-49 were CBS (3.1/9), ABC (2.5/7), NBC (2.4/7), Fox (2.2/6) and CW (1.0/3). In overall total viewers the weekly averages were CBS (11.7 million), ABC (9.3 million), NBC (7.4 million), Fox (6.7 million) and CW (2.3 million). |
Season-to-date through seven weeks, NBC is tied for #3 in adults 18-49, up 4 percent in 18-49 rating versus the first seven weeks of last season (2.8 vs. 2.7). NBC is also tied for #3 season-to-date in adults 25-54, up 5 percent in 25-54 rating versus the first seven weeks last year (3.3 vs. 3.1). NBC is up 5 percent y... |
* On Sunday, NBC Sports’ “Sunday Night Football” telecast of the Dallas Cowboys at the Green Bay Packers propelled NBC to a primetime win in nearly all key demographic measures, including adults 18-49, adults 18-34, adults 25-54 and all key adult-male demos. |
* On Thursday, “The Office” ranked #2 in its slot in adults 18-49 and #1, ahead of ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy,” CBS’s “CSI” and Fox’s “Fringe,” in adults 18-34 and in all key adult-male demos. Excluding the prior week’s highly rated Halloween episode, this was the top telecast of “The Office” in total viewers since the show... |
* Also on Thursday, despite time-period competition that included CBS’s “Big Bang Theory,” “Community” matched NBC’s 18-49 average in the slot last season. In the time period, “Community” ” tied for #2 among ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and CW in adults and men 18-34. |
* Additionally on Thursday, “30 Rock” built on its lead-in from “Community” by 26 percent in 18-49 rating and total viewers, and was also up 26 percent in 18-49 versus NBC’s average in this slot last season. Versus its prior telecast, “30 Rock” was up 9 percent in adults 18-49. |
* Thursday’s telecast of “Outsourced” matched its highest 18-49 rating in five weeks, equaling the 18-49 rating of the show’s Halloween episode one week earlier. In its slot, “Outsourced” was the #1 telecast on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and CW in men 18-34, tied for #1 in men 18-49 and was #2 in adults 18-34 and men 25-54. |
* “Outsourced” is the #1 new show of the season in adults 18-34, tied for #14 among all primetime programs in that demographic, with a 3.4 rating (excludes all football pre-game and post-game telecasts). |
* So far this season, “Outsourced” is the #1 biggest gainer on a percentage basis going from “live plus same day” to “live plus seven day” among all first-year half-hour comedies on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and CW. |
* Also, Thursday’s telecast of “The Apprentice” delivered its biggest overall audience and matched its highest 18-49 rating in seven weeks. “The Apprentice” was up 6 percent in total viewers versus the prior week and up 13 percent versus two weeks ago. |
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