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Diagnosing IIS NTLM authentication failures is a real pain, until… You use Microsoft’s Authentication and Access Control Diagnostics package, which can tell you… You need to enable HTTP Keep-Alives for NTLM to work. | 2023-12-22T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/5273 |
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Vintage Tin Multi-bottle Embossed Coke Coca-Cola Sign
For sale is a beautiful Coca-Cola sign with a multi-bottle graphic. The sign measures 54 x 18 and is in excellent condition. There are a few minor dents and dings that I tried to capture in the photos. There are a few spots in the red where the paint has either faded a little or been touched up long ago. I cant tell, but it isnt noticeable unless youre within a foot or so of the sign.
I tried to capture this in the photo. If you cant see it, its because it doesnt stand out. I think youll find that this sign is even more impressive in person. If you like the sign, make a reasonable offer. The item "Vintage Tin Multi-bottle Embossed Coke Coca-Cola Sign" is in sale since Wednesday, November 7, 2018. | 2024-06-01T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/3745 |
Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery lobectomy for stage I lung cancer.
The literature shows that, in the hands of experienced thoracoscopic surgeons, VL is a safe operation that offers patients at least comparable complication and survival rates compared with lobectomy by thoracotomy. VL can be performed safely with proven advantages over conventional thoracotomy for lobectomy: smaller incisions, decreased postoperative pain, decreased LOS, decreased chest tube output and duration, decreased blood loss, better preservation of pulmonary function, and earlier return to normal activities. These results are obtained without sacrificing the oncologic principles of thoracic surgery, and, in fact, the evidence in the literature is mounting that VATS may offer reduced rates of complications and better survival. | 2023-10-26T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/8768 |
i = 57 - 51. Suppose 3*x - k - 60 = 4*k, -5*k = 15. Solve 3*h - x = -i for h.
3
Let d = 28 + -9. Let t be d/4 - (-12)/(-16). Suppose -6*p = -t*p - 6. Solve -p*n - 2 = -5 for n.
1
Let l(q) = -q**2 + 8*q - 12. Let m be l(6). Suppose -5*w + 2*w + 60 = m. Let x = 36 - w. Solve 5*t + 1 - x = 0 for t.
3
Let u(k) = 40*k**3 + k**2 - 4*k + 3. Let x be u(1). Suppose 0 = j + 4*j - 5*s - x, 0 = -j - s + 4. Solve 2*g - j = 4*g for g.
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Suppose -60 + 264 = -6*j. Let u = -20 - j. Let t = 14 - u. Solve t = -c + 4*c - 3 for c.
1
Suppose 3 = -68*l + 69*l. Solve -5*y + 7 = -l for y.
2
Suppose -6*m + m = -30. Suppose 0 = -2*u + 4 + m. Suppose 12 + 2 = 3*h - 2*n, -u = 5*n. Solve l + h = -l for l.
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Let t(h) = -h**3 + 16*h**2 - 8. Let d be t(16). Let g be 88/32 + 6/d. Solve -g = n - 1 for n.
-1
Suppose 5 = -h, 5*r + 12*h - 215 = 13*h. Solve -40*v - 8 = -r*v for v.
4
Suppose 6*k + 3*d = 2*k + 359, 5*d = -3*k + 272. Let f = k - 85. Solve -f*v = -0*v - 12 for v.
3
Let x(v) = 2*v**3 + 9*v**2 + 2*v - 6. Let s be x(-4). Solve -2*d = s*d - 16 for d.
4
Suppose 0 = 53*i - 50*i - 120. Solve m - 11*m = i for m.
-4
Suppose 4*n + m + 30 = 9*n, -2*m - 15 = -n. Solve -12*v + n = -13*v for v.
-5
Let a(q) = -q**2 - 6*q. Suppose 0 = 4*g - g + 18. Let k be a(g). Suppose k*h - 2 = -2*h. Solve 3 = -4*c - h for c.
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Let z(i) = i**2 + 3*i - 7. Suppose 5*x = -0*x - 25. Let f be z(x). Solve f*r = -r + 8 for r.
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Let m be 2*((-2)/3 - 11/6). Let c(k) = k**3 + 6*k**2 + 3*k + 5. Let h be c(m). Solve -2*d = d - h for d.
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Let r = 53 + -11. Let w be 4/12 - r/(-9). Solve 0 = -4*x + w - 1 for x.
1
Let i(h) = -4*h**3 - 4*h**2 - 4*h - 5. Let t(q) = 7*q**3 + 9*q**2 + 7*q + 12. Let k(c) = 5*i(c) + 3*t(c). Let f be k(-7). Solve -s = -f*s - 3 for s.
-1
Let j(l) = -l - 13. Let o be j(-13). Suppose -b + o*b = -6. Let t be 1/2*(b + -6). Solve q - 6*q - 10 = t for q.
-2
Let m = -33 + 37. Suppose 3*l = 7*l - 2*f - 24, m*l = 4*f + 32. Solve -j = 1 + l for j.
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Suppose 82*v = 84*v. Solve 4*f + v*f = 0 for f.
0
Suppose 6*x + 8 = 4*x, 5*x + 28 = 2*m. Let h(p) = -7*p + 5. Let d(y) = 6*y - 4. Let i(z) = -6*d(z) - 5*h(z). Let t be i(-5). Solve -4*c + m = -t for c.
2
Let u = -1602 + 1602. Solve u = 14*o - 22 - 20 for o.
3
Suppose -4*u + 20 = 2*o, -u + 34*o - 31*o = 2. Let v = -1 - -3. Suppose -5*r + 13 = v*m, -m - 3 = -2*m + r. Solve -m = -2*w + u for w.
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Let k(a) = 20*a + 1. Let g be k(-5). Let f = g - -105. Solve -4 = -f*w + 2*w for w.
1
Let k(p) = p**2 + 2. Let a be k(0). Let n = 10 - a. Let s be 10/(-15) - n/(-3). Solve -s*l = l for l.
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Let f(a) = a**3 - 9*a**2 + 4. Let x be f(9). Suppose 0 = x*l - 1 - 23. Solve -v = v - l for v.
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Suppose 3*w - 133 = -s, 77*w = 3*s + 81*w - 379. Solve 4*l - 133 = -s for l.
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Let f be 2/(-5) + 2/5. Let d be 3*5/165 - 455/(-77) - 4. Let x = -1 + 9. Solve d*p = -f*p + x for p.
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Let j be (872/(-16))/((-2)/(-4)). Let w = j - -112. Solve 0 = -2*f - 3 - w for f.
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Let p = 8 - 5. Suppose -p*h + 61 = -d - 113, -3*d - 123 = -2*h. Suppose t = -4*l + 21, 5*t - h = 2*l + 2*l. Solve 5*z - 12 = t for z.
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Let f(j) = -j**3 - 5*j**2 - j + 4. Let m be f(-7). Suppose 0 = -3*a + 8*a - 3*b - m, -5*a - b = -97. Solve z - a = -3*z for z.
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Let s(g) = g**2 + 11*g - 6. Let o be s(-12). Solve 4*a - o = -2*a for a.
1
Suppose 2*w + w = -10*w. Let r(h) = -4*h - 1. Let q be r(-1). Let k = q + -3. Solve -j + k*j - 5 = w for j.
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Let p be -3 + 228/84 - (-2)/7. Solve 28*l - 31*l - 15 = p for l.
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Let b(z) = -2*z**2 + z - 8. Let t(v) = 2*v**2 - v + 7. Let x(m) = 3*b(m) + 4*t(m). Let r be x(-3). Solve -5 = -5*w - r for w.
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Suppose 2*m - 2*t = 4*m - 26, -2*m = 5*t - 35. Solve 0 = 2*q - m + 6 for q.
2
Suppose v - 9 = -0*v. Let b be 2 + 0 + 7 - (-8)/(-8). Let z = v - b. Solve 3 - z = t for t.
2
Suppose 4*o + i - 5*i - 8 = 0, -4*i = 4*o - 16. Suppose 0 = -s - 4*s - o*k + 5, 3*s - 22 = 2*k. Suppose s*p = 2 + 10. Solve 0 = 7*x - p*x for x.
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Let m be (20/8)/((-2)/(-4)). Suppose -i - 1 = o + o, -m*o = 5. Solve 0 = v - i for v.
1
Suppose -g - 40*a + 37*a = 7, 0 = 2*a + 10. Solve -g = -5*l + 2 for l.
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Let b(u) = -26*u - 23. Let p be b(-1). Solve s + p*s = -12 for s.
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Let i = 10 - 2. Let q = i - 2. Solve q - 2 = -j for j.
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Let m be (-3 - 3)/2 + 94. Let z be 150/14 - (-26)/m. Solve 2*x = 3 - z for x.
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Let u be 2/(-1) + 0 + 3. Suppose 3*c + u - 7 = 0. Solve -c*x = -5*x for x.
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Suppose -5 = -2*n + 5*i + 1, 0 = 3*n - i - 9. Solve -34*g - n = -37*g for g.
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Suppose -174 = -16*c + 18. Solve -9*t = -3 + c for t.
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Let n(l) be the third derivative of -l**5/20 - 13*l**4/24 - l**3/3 + 23*l**2 - 3. Let w(s) = 2*s + 8. Let v be w(-6). Let b be n(v). Solve 5 = j + b for j.
3
Let l be (6/(-12)*-2)/(1/5). Let y(w) = w**3 - 5*w**2 + 6*w - 5. Let u be y(4). Suppose 17 = h + u*f, -l*h + 2*f - 9 = -60. Solve 36 = 5*t + h for t.
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Suppose -4*n + 3*s + 578 = 0, 580 = 4*n + s - 5*s. Solve -4*g + 123 - n = 0 for g.
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Let y = -420 - -438. Solve y*a - 10 = 16*a for a.
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Let s be (-27)/(-36) + (-45)/(-4). Suppose -5*t = -s*t - 133. Let z be t/(-7) + 16/56. Solve 5*k + z = 23 for k.
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Suppose -2*k + 159 = -i, -i - 4 = -5. Let s be 24/20*k/(-6). Let f be (28/s - -2)*0. Solve t = -f*t for t.
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Let w = -55 + 67. Let v = -35 + 35. Solve v = z + 3*z - w for z.
3
Suppose 3*c = -3*c + 6. Let g be c*15*(-2)/(-6). Solve -25 = g*q - 0*q for q.
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Let q = 14 + -7. Suppose -4*b - 2*b = -6. Solve 4*h = q + b for h.
2
Let s be (-1 - 1 - -3) + 2. Suppose 33*d = -71*d + 104. Solve s = -z + d for z.
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Let x be 24/14*(-4 - (-406)/28). Solve -x*z + 13*z = 20 for z.
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Let u be -4 + 122/20 + 3/(-30). Let l(n) = n**2 + 2*n + n**3 + 2*n**2 - n + 1. Let o be l(-2). Solve 0 = o*j + u*j + 10 for j.
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Let j be -2*(9/4)/9*-4. Suppose -3*t - 5 = -3*c - 20, 4*c + 16 = 2*t. Solve -j*n + 4 = -t for n.
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Suppose u + 12 = 3*u + a, -u - a = -6. Solve 19*w = u*w - 26 for w.
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Let f = 0 + 7. Let d be -1 + (-1 - -4) + 0. Let r = 503 + -483. Solve f*k = d*k + r for k.
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Let u be 357/85 - 1*(-4)/5. Solve 0 = -u*c - 27 + 17 for c.
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Let i be 1 - (-1)/((-3)/(-6)). Let b be 3/1 + i + 2. Let h be 30/b - (-2)/8. Solve -h = -2*g + 4 for g.
4
Suppose 0 = -h + 5*c - 4, 4*c + 14 - 4 = 3*h. Suppose h = -2*z - 4*i, -4*z + 0*z + 8 = 3*i. Solve m = z*m for m.
0
Let w(i) = 5*i**2 - i - 8. Let k be w(-2). Solve -6*v = -k*v - 32 for v.
-4
Suppose 0 = 12*y - 17*y + 75. Suppose 1 + 15 = -4*s. Let h = 8 + s. Solve y = -f - h*f for f.
-3
Suppose 0 = -4*s + 94 - 6. Let f = s + -24. Let b be 2/(1 - f/(-6)). Solve -4*z - b = -19 for z.
4
Let u(y) = -5*y + 48. Let v be u(0). Let k be 152/36 - (2 - v/27). Solve k*n = -0*n - 12 for n.
-3
Suppose 0 = -5*a, 5*r - 6*r = 2*a. Solve r = -37*q + 40*q for q.
0
Let x(w) = -1. Let s(o) = o - 15. Let g(q) = -s(q) + 6*x(q). Let t be g(11). Let y = 11 + t. Solve -j - 2*j = y for j.
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Suppose 5 = 2*j - c, -c = -5*j - 3*c + 35. Suppose -4*d + 14 = -46. Suppose -3*l = -3*t, 4*t - d = -j*l + 4*l. Solve 4*m - 3*m = -l for m.
-3
Let r be (7/3)/((-53)/(-159)). Solve 0 = 9*u - 2*u + r for u.
-1
Let m = 310 - 308. Solve m*u = 5*u - 6 for u.
2
Suppose -20*l + 55 = -15*l. Suppose -29 = -3*w + 4*s, -3*w - l = 3*s + s. Solve 0 = -o - w for o.
-3
Let a = 235 + -224. Solve -a*v + 6*v - 25 = 0 for v.
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Let c(i) = -2*i**3 - 3*i**2 - 3*i. Let o = 0 + -2. Let p be c(o). Solve 3*s - p = s for s.
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Let n(v) = v**2 - 2*v - 16. Let m be n(7). Let u = 26 - m. Let r(j) = -j**3 - 5*j**2 - 3*j - 3. Let p be r(-5). Solve -p = -u*c + 3*c for c.
3
Suppose -1 = 8*u - 7*u. Let o(i) = -3*i**3 + i**2 + 2*i + 1. Let q be o(u). Solve -k = q*k + 4 for k.
-1
Let x = 83 + -49. Suppose -2*s - 41 = -3*u + 3*s, 5*s + x = 2*u. Solve u*l - 3*l = 4 for l.
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Let u(b) = -4*b**2 - 24*b + 2. Let o be u(-6). Solve o*w + 5 = w for w.
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Let c(x) = 27*x - 513. Let h be c(19). Let f = 11 + -8. Solve h = -0*j + j - f for j.
3
Let q be -6 - (-7 + 1) - -5. Solve -q*r + 6*r = -5 for r.
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Let x(o) = -2*o + 63. Let f be x(19). Solve -21*c = -f*c for c.
0
Let s(y) = y**3 - 7*y**2 + y - 3. Let f be s(7). Let k = 22 - 20. Suppose 0 = 4*u + u - 3*x - 6, -u + k = -x. Solve u*w + 4*w = -f for w.
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Let m(x) = -x**3 + 10*x**2 - 12*x + 12. Let f(v) = v**3 + 6*v**2 - 7*v + 9. Let s be f(-7). Let l be m(s). Let b be (12/15)/((-6)/l). Solve -b*t - 1 = 3 for t.
-2
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I don't know if these have been said and I don't feel like going through al 5 pages.
any belgium trappist ale, especially chimay double. and boulavard makes a great summer ale called zon. anything by boulavard is good though.
I just turned 21 yesterday! Whle i havent tried a lot of different kinds of beer i would have to say that leinenkugels (spell?) honey wheat isn't ver good at all, its pretty pale for my taste. I prefere coors light, tonight im gonna try becks, my dad got me a pleahther of alcoholic beverages and I have yet to try them all.
Yeah, I've never been a fan of wheat beers either, except for a Hefeweizen with a lemon in it. I've had so many different kinds of beer, it's hard to pick out favorites. I think probably my all around favorite would be either Red Tail Ale from the Mendocino Brewing Company or Boont Amber Ale from Anderson Valley--both NorCal breweries. Pretty much all the different brews both companies make are the bomb, and I haven't seen them sold anywhere around here.
Tim - Whole Foods in the U district has Red Tail Ale for sure and they may have Boont also. The next time you play North Park check out "The Beer Store" just east of Aurora on 105th. They claim to have Seattle's best selection (And it's only a couple of blocks from North Park!).
Lunger- Love the avatar! You like strong brew! If you haven't tried it (and you can find it) Black Boss Porter from Poland is good (or at least interesting). It's about 9.5 % and is surprisingly sweet for being that strong of a Porter.
Barbikes wrote:Tim - Whole Foods in the U district has Red Tail Ale for sure and they may have Boont also. The next time you play North Park check out "The Beer Store" just east of Aurora on 105th. They claim to have Seattle's best selection (And it's only a couple of blocks from North Park!).
oh sweet! thanks for the info! north park is actually the closest course to me, but I just never play it b/c it gets so damn crowded (plus it seems kinda "cliquey") I'll definitely check out The Beer Store though. | 2023-12-22T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/2159 |
Occupational disease in New York State: a comprehensive examination.
In order to obtain information on the current magnitude of occupational disease in New York State, four data sources were reviewed: Workers' Compensation records, disease registries maintained by the state department of health, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and data from the California's physician reporting system. A proportionate attributable risk approach is used to develop estimates of mortality due to occupational diseases. The distribution of occupational hazards was assessed using data from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYDEC). Finally, econometric estimates of the direct and indirect costs of occupational illness were developed. The best available data indicate that 5,000 to 7,000 deaths are caused each year in New York State by work-related illnesses, and at least 35,000 new cases of occupational illness develop each year in the State. It is also estimated that between 150,000 and 750,000 workers in New York State are employed in the 50 most hazardous industries. OSHA standards regulating exposure to selected chemicals were found to have been violated frequently. The annual costs of occupational disease in New York State are approximately $600,000,000; only a small fraction is covered by workers' compensation insurance. Of the 52,000 physicians in New York State, only 73 are board-certified in occupational medicine. Most of these are involved in administrative, teaching, and research aspects of occupational medicine. Of the 300 industrial hygenists in New York State, two-thirds are employed by major corporations. Recommendations are described to improve the recognition of occupational disease in New York State and to reduce the burden of this disease. A statewide network of occupational health clinical services is proposed and has been funded by the New York State Legislature. Other recommendations are also given. | 2024-07-31T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/9404 |
Q:
Knight's Tour on a 5 x 5 Board Start from any Square?
I'd just like to check my logic here...
I wrote code to solve the Knight's Tour and it works well for 8x8 boards starting the Knight at any square.
But... on a 5x5 board I show no solution possible when starting at square (0, 1).
What I tried for 5x5 starting the Knight at Row 0, Col 1:
Warnsdorff's path
Added Roth (tie breakers based on Euclidean distance from center).
Since those did not produce a solution I did code that is just basic recursion with backtracking to test every possible path -- also no solution found when starting a 5x5 on 1, 0.
I looked everywhere for a list of exhaustive solutions to the 5x5 board but found none.
Is it that there just is no solution for 5x5 when starting at square 0, 1?
Thank you!
A:
Correct, there is no solution when you start at any of the squares adjacent to a corner square.
| 2024-02-24T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/2540 |
Let’s learn a little more about the village of: PIGNA
Such a delightful village.
Pigna dates back to around 816, built by Consalvo Romano – the name appears to stem from the Genoese period when it was a well off agricultural region, and signifies ‘wheat millstone’. Now, over the years Pigna has become a leader culture-wise. In 1964, the Corsicada association was created in order to bring life back to past trades, and promote the handmade crafts: sculpture, musical instruments, jewellery, potters, engravers. Musicians and craftsmen continue to transmit – also possessing its own music school and auditorium built between 1998-2000, open all year round and maintaining life in this village. This is what you would call a very quaint, traditional village in the Balagne area – around 76km from Ajaccio, and 46km from Bastia.
However, if you are in Ile-Rousse it’s only 9km away, and 23km from Calvi.
Streets of cobblestones and an old cattle enclosure ‘Vaccaja’ that was converted into an outdoor auditorium, with the stage being covered with an 8m in diameter dome, and registered as a historical monument in 1990. It remains one of the last testimonies of the intense cereal activity belonging to the Balagne region.
Overlooking the Algajola Bay, and perched at around 230m, an 18th century Italian style church can also be discovered.
If you do manage to make your way there, I do believe you will be absolutely enchanted with this village – once again, one amongst many that can offer you a traditional atmosphere within authentic settings. | 2024-06-21T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/5882 |
Samgyetang (Ginseng Chicken Soup)
This boiling hot ginseng chicken soup, called samgyetang (삼계탕), is an iconic summer dish in Korea. Sam (삼) refers to ginseng (insam, 인삼), gye (계) means chicken, and tang (탕) is soup. It’s extremely popular as a nourishing food which helps fight the summer heat. As the Korean saying goes, eating the hot soup is “fighting the heat with heat.”
On sambok (삼복) days, it’s a Korean tradition to eat foods that are healthy and restorative. Samgyetang is a popular choice. Sambok days are 3 distinct days that mark the hottest summer period. Based on the lunar calendar, they are chobok (초복, beginning), jungbok (중복, middle) and malbok (말복, end). Tomorrow is malbok, which means the summer is winding down!
Hope you get to enjoy samgyetang before the summer goes by. But, don’t worry about it even if you don’t get to, this ginseng soup is a nutritious, comfort food which you can enjoy all year around!
In this post, I’m updating my samgyetang recipe which was originally posted in August 2014 with new photos, answers to frequently asked questions and minor changes to the recipe. Here’s everything you need to know about Korean ginseng chicken soup!
Ginseng for samgyetang
Ginseng is highly prized for its medicinal benefits, including boosting energy and the immune system.
If you can’t find ginseng, you can omit the ginseng from this recipe and still make a tasty chicken soup, although, without ginseng, it can’t be called ginseng soup. When I don’t have ginseng, I make another type of chicken soup called dak gomtang (닭곰탕).
Korean markets around here sell fresh ginseng in the summer for samgyetang. I usually buy a pack and freeze the leftovers. You can also use dried ginseng roots after soaking in the water to soften.
Garlic, ginger, and jujubes (daechu, 대추) are other common ingredients. Jujubes are quite sweet, so do not use too many of them. Sometimes, other medicinal herbs such as milk vetch roots (hwanggi, 황기) are added as well as chestnuts and ginkgo nuts.
For the convenience, you can find samgyetang kits in Korean markets. They usually contain dried ginseng, jujubes, dried chestnuts, sweet rice, etc. If you choose to use a kit, follow the package instructions to prepare the ingredients (such as soaking) before using.
How to stuff the chicken
Samgyetang is made with a small, young chicken (known as Cornish hen in America) for its tender and tasty meat. If you can’t find a Cornish hen, use the smallest chicken you can find, adjusting cooking time. If you need to feed more people, it’s better to cook two small chickens in a larger pot rather than one large one. It takes much longer to cook the inside if the chicken is big, which will cause the outside to be overcooked.
The chicken is stuffed with soaked sweet rice (aka glutinous rice), chapssal (찹쌀). Some people stuff the chicken with ginseng, jujubes, etc., along with the rice, but I boil them in the broth to draw out the maximum flavors. Be sure to leave enough room in the cavity for the rice to expand in volume as it cooks.
How to make the soup more flavorful
In Korea, the restaurants specializing samgyetang are very popular. Some are also highly sought-after by tourists. Those restaurants usually feature a deeply flavored, thickened soup. They use all sorts of medicinal herbs and aromatic vegetables, and start with well-prepared chicken stock to boil the chicken.
At home, we don’t generally go that far. But, if you like a deeper flavor, start with good quality chicken stock (commercially prepared or homemade). I sometimes make chicken stock with the roast or boiled chicken remains and use it as a base for samgyetang.
To make the soup slightly thick, soak more sweet rice than the amount called for the stuffing and then add to the water or chicken stock while boiling the chicken. It would be even better if you blend the rice with a little bit of water for a creamier texture. The starch of the sweet rice will thicken the soup slightly and give a bit of sweetness to the soup.
How to serve samgyetang
At restaurants, the whole chicken is served uncut as one serving, but it can easily be two servings. The soup is usually not seasoned while being cooked. It’s served with salt and pepper on the side, so each person can season the broth to taste and use the remainder to dip the meat in.
The ginseng flavored meat is tasty and tender, and the broth is rich and delicious. Also, the sticky rice stuffing that’s infused with the chicken and ginseng flavors is to die for. If you’re trying it for the first time, samgyetang will be nothing like any other chicken soup you’ve had before.
A classic Korean chicken soup made with a small, whole chicken and ginseng.
Ingredients
1cornish hen(about 1.5 to 2 pounds)
1fresh ginseng root (or dried ginseng, rehydrated)
3tablespoonssweet rice (2 to 3 tablespoons more to boil with liquid if desired)-- soaked for 1 hour (yields about 4 tablespoons soaked)
5 - 6plump garlic cloves
1thin ginger slice(about 1 inch)
2 to 3jujubes, daechu (대추)(dried red dates)
1scallion white part
5 cupsof water (or good quality chicken stock)
2scallionsfinely chopped, to garnish
salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
Clean the chicken. Do not cut off the neck and/or tail, if they are still attached. They help keep the rice inside the cavity. Place the cleaned chicken on a cutting board or a large plate. Clean the inside of the cavity with a paper towel to remove any blood. Fold the attached neck into the cavity to close the hole.
Stuff the cavity with the sweet rice and a couple of garlic cloves, leaving room (about 1/4 of the cavity) for the rice to expand as it cooks.
To keep the rice inside the cavity while being cooked, use of one of these two methods: (1) Make a small cut through the thick skin part between one thigh and the cavity opening, but not too close to the edge. Then, use your finger to expand the hole enough to fit the end part of a leg. Bring the other leg over, and insert the end part through the hole to keep the legs crossed together, tucking the tail in to close the opening (see the photos above); or (2) Simply cross the legs and tie together with kitchen twine. Tightly close the cavity with a toothpick if necessary.
In a medium size pot, place the chicken and add 4 to 5 cups (or enough to cover most of the chicken) of water or chicken stock. Add the garlic, ginger, jujubes, and ginseng. If the chicken came with the neck that's been cut off, add to the pot. Also add the extra sweet rice to thicken the soup, if using. Blend the extra soaked rice with a little bit of water for a creamier texture, if desired.
Bring it to a boil over medium high heat. Skim off the foam on top. Cover, and boil for 10 to 15 minutes. Reduce the heat to medium low and boil, covered, for about 20 to 25 minutes, depending on the size of the chicken. See the note.
Serve piping hot with the chopped scallions and salt and pepper on the side so each person can season to taste.
Recipe Notes
This recipe is an update of the original recipe posted in August 2014.
You can also use a samgyetang kit (commercially packaged dry ingredients for samgyetang). Follow the package instructions to prepare the dry ingredients to use in this recipe. Usually soaking is required.
Comments
Are you talking about galbijjim? If yes, I have two recipes on the blog. Your can go to the Recipe index tab, Main dish, and click on the meat. If not, Can you describe it a little so I know which dish you are talking about. Thanks!
oh thank goodness I found your blog! I'm stuck all the way out in the Czech Republic and getting desperate for recipes. I'm excited to try this recipe. Any suggestions on how to make this work in a slow cooker? Thank you Ms. Ro!
This doesn't take that long to cook, so it will be best to be done over the stove top. I haven't cooked this soup in a slow cooker, so not sure how long it will take this small chicken with stuffing inside to cook. Thanks for finding my blog! I hope you find many recipes to try.
Tried your recipe, came out fabulous! I couldn't find fresh Ginseng in the Korean markets in Chicago, so I used dry and soaked per your recommendation.
Also, next time, I would definitely not over-fill the chicken with the sweet rice. With the cooking times from the recipe, the rice wasn't as cooked as I would have wanted it to be.
The cornish hens had a plastic bag filled with the chicken innards. Make sure to check yours for that before boiling!
Hello, I love all your recipes, especially because they're written in English for this Korean-American mom who has a hard time understanding written Korean. :) My question for you is: is sweet rice the regular Korean rice we get in the Korean markets? Is it something different? If so, what's it called in Korean (so I can ask the Korean ladies at the Korean grocery store). Thank you!
You can, but the sweet rice is traditionally used because they stick together. Normal rice will mostly separate in the soup. It will be a little different but I am sure you can still enjoy it. Happy cooking!
Hi, thanks for your recipe.
I am just back from Korea and really enjoyed Ginseng chicken soup there (Tosokchon).
I also brought some fresh ginseng home and would like to try with your recipe.
But, is it safe for children under 10 to eat this chicken soup?
I guess I would like this dish. Once in a while the Chinese merchant I use to buy at has fresh ginseng. I'm going to buy some next time and try this recipe. How exactly is it served? In a bowl from where everybody ladles broth into a personal soup bowl and some of the meat, rice and vegetables? Is there served additional rice?
Is Amazon.com an option for you? Not sure how overseas shipping works, but there's also Hmart.com. Sorry I'm just not familiar with European on-line shopping, but let's hope to hear from other people here.
Sorry not sure. I've never tried the dry one in the instant pot. I'd soften it a little and then try it for the first time. And then, depending on how it turns out, you can see if you need to or not next time. Let me know how it turns out. It'll be interesting to know. | 2023-11-11T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/5695 |
Is Vitamin C Beneficial to Patients with CAP?
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality in elderly and children. Vitamin C is known as a physiological antioxidant, regulating innate immune system in the lung. Vitamin C has been used to prevent and treat CAP. However, the use of vitamin C for preventing and treating CAP has been a subject of controversy. We aim to review the most significant findings about vitamin C supplementation in patients with pneumonia based on literature from the PubMed. First, we reviewed recent advances about the role of oxidative stress in CAP. Oxidative stress is a crucial component of the host defense system and inflammatory response. However, excessive oxidative stress can cause a systemic inflammatory response leading to tissue damage. The degree of oxidative stress has been associated with the severity of CAP. Vitamin C is beneficial to the host defense system by regulating the innate immunity in the lungs. We also discuss the prophylactic use of vitamin C for pneumonia. Vitamin C supplementation decreased the pneumonia risk in patients with vitamin C deficiency. However, it is not beneficial for prophylactic use of vitamin C to prevent pneumonia in the well-nourished population. Finally, we summarize the effect of vitamin C on mechanical ventilation used during respiratory failure. Administration of vitamin C decreases the duration of mechanical ventilation by decreasing oxidative stress. | 2023-11-30T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/6839 |
Protein Z and protein Z-dependent protease inhibitor. Determinants of levels and risk of venous thrombosis.
To assess the potential roles of protein Z (PZ) and protein Z-dependent protease inhibitor (ZPI) in venous thrombosis, their plasma levels were measured in 426 individuals with venous thrombosis and 471 control individuals participating in the Leiden Thrombophilia Study. A relationship between the level of PZ or ZPI and venous thrombosis was not detected in the overall case-control study. PZ and ZPI circulate as a complex and their plasma levels are interdependent. Both PZ and ZPI are increased with oral contraceptive use and reduced with oral anticoagulant therapy. | 2024-01-06T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/6490 |
Q:
Does GDAL support parallel processing?
I would like to speed up the process corresponding to this command:
gdalwarp -t_srs EPSG:4326 -overwrite input.ntf output.tif
Is there a way to use parallel processing in GDAL?
Semi-offtopic: If not, do you recommend a non-GDAL solution to speeding up a gdalwarp-like process?
Here are the web pages I've looked at:
Is it possible to do parallel processing in GDAL and QGIS?
[gdal-dev] GDAL raster processing: parallel computing
Edit: I asked this question because I thought I saw my CPU% stay below 100% when processing gdalwarp. However, on a second look, it reached 555.5%.
A:
Yes, GDAL supports parallel processing, and this support applies to gdalwarp by default.
Use the -multi option with gdalwarp to enable multithreading, as opposed to only multiple cores.
Details:
Without -multi:
33.849s, and the CPU reached 555%. (multiple cores)
With -multi:
23.377s, and the CPU reached 700%. (multiple cores and multiple threads)
Raster size: 34721 x 20453, OS: Ubuntu 16.04, # Cores: 6, # Threads: 12
Credit: user30184 mentioned the -multi option in a comment.
Documentation: gdalwarp
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This found footage movie focuses on one of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries, which you would think would provide enough basis for solid terror to be spooky on its own. As it turns out, The Devil’s Doorway is not terribly spooky, it’s not even spoopy, it just kind of is.
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This movie focuses on two priests who are sent to investigate some reports of miracles that were made by those that inhabit this particular Magdalene Laundry, and they end up finding a demonically impregnated young woman who is imprisoned by some pretty questionable nuns.
I was excited for this movie because usually, Catholic horror movies capitalize on all the weirdest in a long line of weird stuff that Catholicism offers us. You have everything from officially recognized possession, to ancient architecture, to clergy that has something terrible or perverse to hide. This movie touch on all these aspects, and still manages to be pretty forgettable.
As mentioned above, this is a found footage movie, but they put their flavor on it by setting it in 1960. I have no idea how large the film camera that Father John (played by Ciaran Flynn) carries around must be, but it can’t be small, and for that, I applaud his efforts.
If you aren’t a fan of found footage, this has all the things that you dislike the most about the format, lots of jiggly-running, plenty of out of focus shots, and lots of panning around looking for something that isn’t there. It even adds what I call “the strobe effect.” The strobe effect involves the light that is attached to the camera (and is often the only source of light) very reliably going out for about one out of every ten seconds for a good portion of this movie.
If you like the found footage format, the only thing that might bother you about this is the aforementioned, “strobe effect.” It’s clear that director Aislinn Clarke cared about this movie, it just didn’t translate very well.
My Rating
4/10
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Spoilers: The Rundown
Father Thomas (Lalor Roddy) and Father John (Ciaran Flynn) are dispatched to a Magdalene Laundry by the Vatican to investigate some purported miracles. They are met by a steely Mother Superior ( Helena Bereen) who is not thrilled about being investigated by the Vatican.
As the older Father Thomas and younger Father John talk, we learn that Father Thomas has essentially lost his faith in God. He has investigated many miracles for the church and has always found the culprit to be a person of faith. Similarly, he mentions that the worst evils perpetrated on earth are done by man.
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We meet Kathleen (Lauren Coe) who is imprisoned in the bowels of the laundry and chained to the walls. Kathleen is a pregnant virgin who seems to be the polar opposite of the Mother Mary. As we wade through the plethora of jump-scares, Kathleen eventually gives birth. I’m going to be honest, I don’t think I saw the baby, and I didn’t even know there was one.
Jump-scares bring us into a system of tunnels below the laundry, where more jump-scares lead us on a demon-baby chase. Stuff happens, and the end is pretty underwhelming.
How The Devil’s Doorway Stacks Up
This movie misses plenty of opportunities as it progresses. The setting is great – the subject matter is hard to mess up – the acting is pretty darn good. It’s forgettable and has some annoying tendencies. The strobe effect soon became the focal point of my annoyance as I waited for the next reliable light’s out moment. The jump-scares were fast and furious. The audio was terrible, and I mean terrible.
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The Devil’s Doorway is great for those who have a good time with jump scares. Other than that, it fails despite having a lot going for it.
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"I am skeptical that the deal makes financial sense."
In 1999, the Spanish toll company Cintra paid $3 .1 billion Canadian for the right to operate a 42-mile toll road in Toronto.
In January, the Cintra-Macquarie Consortium ponied up $1.83 billion to lease operating rights to the eight-mile Chicago Skyway for 99 years.
Astute financiers worldwide have begun viewing busy toll roads that draw hundreds of thousands of drivers daily as long-term investment opportunities, and the Harris County Toll Road Authority is among the systems attracting interest.
Investment banks and private toll -road operators have put out feelers to the county, saying it might be able to lease the 83-mile system for $2 billion to $7 billion.
Such numbers got the attention of county officials. Harris County Judge Robert Eckels is among those who say road bond referendums could become a thing of the past if such a windfall were received and the interest was used to pay for street construction, repairs and other transportation needs, such as commuter rail lines.
But a local watchdog group remains skeptical. Its members wonder whether the toll -road system, which they say has been prone to secrecy for decades, would be less transparent than ever under a private operator.
"Many, many members of our organization are concerned the accountability will be less if the toll roads are run by a private company," said Robin Holzer, chair of the Citizens Transportation Coalition.
Commissioners Court is expected today to give the go-ahead to a comprehensive study that will determine whether it is in the public's and the county's interest to fully or partially privatize the toll road. The plan calls for the county to ask selected investment banks to submit proposals about the toll road's future.
The court also will consider whether it should create a working group that will help review proposals about the toll road's future.
The study will consider which of the following options is best for the toll road users, the county and its long-term financial stability.
The county could:
Keep the toll -road authority as is.
Sell parts or all of the system to a private firm or to a partnership between a private firm, the county and a newly created regional mobility organization. Such a sale might net $2.7 billion to $4.4 billion, concluded First Southwest Co., the county's financial adviser.
Or it could lease the right to operate the system for 50 to 75 years to a private firm or to a partnership between a private firm, county and the regional group. Such a deal could net the county $2 billion to $7 billion, according to investment banks.
Under a public-private partnership, the county could hold no more than a 49 percent interest. A private firm and a regional mobility organization would control the remaining 51 percent.
The organization, Eckels said, would include members appointed by Harris County, surrounding counties and Gov. Rick Perry.
Commissioner Sylvia Garcia said, "The study will explore our options and look at what the future of the toll -road authority ought to be. We would be remiss in our responsibility not to look at this."
The county considered leasing toll -road operator rights in 1999, but the idea died. But Eckels and other influential county figures, such as Dick Raycraft, who oversees the county's budget and long-term financial planning, now want the court to seriously examine privatization.
Some court members already know where they stand. In the past weeks, Commissioner Steve Radack has said he will not oppose the privatization study. But he said he will oppose privatizing the toll road in any way.
Holzer said private firms want to operate the toll road because they know that they can make money on top of whatever was required to be paid to the county. She wondered why the county just doesn't make the money itself rather than give a private firm a cut of its take.
"I am skeptical that the deal makes financial sense. Some people will be tempted by the thought, `Hey, we can have money now instead of later,' " she said.
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Tens of thousands of science supporters streamed through a steady rain to rally at the foot of the Washington Monument Saturday to demonstrate their support for policies grounded in science, including climate change action.
As they stood in long lines to pass through security gates onto the grassy mall just south of the White House, the demonstrators talked about deep discomfort with the policies of the Trump administration.
They said they were alarmed not only by the administration's overt denial of mainstream climate science, but by what they saw as a disrespect for the fundamental values of science and its contribution to society.
The marchers came from practically every branch of science, from the most familiar to the most obscure.
The March for Science, which attracted support from many of the nation's most prestigious institutions, occurred on Earth Day and kicks off a week of teach-ins, demonstrations and other grassroots activism culminating in the People's Climate March on April 29, which is expected to draw even bigger crowds.
Local marches were held around the nation and around the world. In Portland, Maine, Elke Perks, a science teacher at a local charter school, said she marched out of concern for the "squelching" of science.
"It's unacceptable, and it's not American," she said.
The overriding message from interviewing scores of people attending the march in Washington was that the want government policies built on evidence and reason, not ideology. Even as they professed nonpartisan ideals, they're worried that the government under Donald Trump is moving in a different direction.
Many protesters came from out of town, even though there were mirror events in cities around the nation and across the globe.
Just as striking was the diversity of researchers who said they are actively engaged in climate science.
Climate change cuts across almost every scientific discipline—astronomy, meteorology, biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, mathematics, economics. And the denial of the consensus that has been built from every way of looking at the problem is of deep concern to those attending this march.
Not all of them participated because of the climate crisis—many were worried about public health, funding for education, or the like. But not a single person interviewed was unaware that climate science is at risk. For many, this was the main reason they travelled to Washington this weekend, or if they live here, that they come downtown with their lab-coat-white ponchos and their hand-painted signs.
Richard White, who came from Baltimore with his wife Jean Engelke, said his own work on the Hubble space telescope was not threatened, but that he was there in "solidarity" with fellow NASA scientists, given signs that the space agency's earth observation work is threatened.
Gabrielle Bueno. Credit: John H. Cushman Jr./InsideClimate News
For Gabrielle Buono, a Rochester University undergraduate studying primate cognition, climate change is just one element of species conservation, where she hopes her career will take her.
Some of them were not scientists at all—just ordinary citizens, like Kevin Davies, wearing an Einstein wig, who said he simply wanted to let his government know that science matters That includes climate science, said Davies, who said his trip from Philadelphia was partly inspired by the Trump administration's climate policies. "If you make light of that, you make light of all of science."
Kevin Davies. Credit: John H. Cushman Jr./InsideClimate News
Two youngsters, Aden and Toby D'Amore, the sons of physicians, said their trip to Washington "was a family idea."
"I don't want Trump to screw up the world," Toby said.
Even though the march was billed as non-partisan, most of the people interviewed on the streets said they were alarmed by the Trump administration's policies and were inspired to take political action.
"I was really, really crushed by the election," said Julia Salas, a local college student whose mother came to town from California to join her for the march.
At the Washington event, Trump's record was invoked by speaker Shawn Otto, author of the 2016 book, "The War on Science," and co-founder and producer of the U.S. Presidential Science Debates. The online forum was the only place Trump answered questions on climate and science during the presidential campaign.
"Attacking science is attacking democracy. Denying Science is denying democracy. Rejecting science is rejecting democracy," Otto told the crowd. "We say to our elected leaders: The evidence shows that global warming is real that and vaccines do not cause autism, that research drives prosperity, there are no such things as alternative facts. If you want to lead, Donald Trump, you can't do it with your brain tied behind your back."
In Chicago, marchers gathered near Chicago's Millennium Park, then streamed down toward the city's Field Museum of Natural History. About 700 employees of the museum were among the nearly 50,000 people who turned up.
Many of the marchers in Chicago held signs supporting the Environmental Protection Agency and its Region 5 office in particular. The office, based in Chicago, covers six midwestern states, and recent reports have said it could be shuttered. (The EPA has denied those reports.)
The march in Washington drew a lot of support from people who work on science inside the Beltway, but federal financing for science is so pervasive that threats to science funding are felt all over the country.
Michael Parmacek, the chair of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, was in Chicago for a conference, but came out to the city's march. Parmacek, a former board member of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health, said the Trump administration's proposed slashing of the NIH budget is already having a chilling effect on research.
"Everyone's scared to death," he said.
ICN reporters Sabrina Shankman, Georgina Gustin and Marianne Lavelle contributed to this story. | 2024-07-10T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/5599 |
In the Hands of a Brute
In the Hands of a Brute is a 1914 American silent film produced by Sid Films and distributed by Warner's Features. It was directed by Sidney Olcott with himself, Valentine Grant, and Arthur Donaldson in the leading roles.
Cast
Valentine Grant - Nell
Arthur Donaldson -
James Vincent - Walter Roberts
Walter Chapin -
Roy Cheldon -
Sidney Olcott -
Production notes
The film was shot in Jacksonville, Fla.
External links
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An Afghan youth has been arrested on suspicion he was a tacit accomplice to the shooting in Munich.
An Afghan youth who was arrested on Sunday had been in contact via WhatsApp with an 18-year-old gunman who killed nine people in Munich two days earlier and also met him just before the attack, Bavarian officials said.
The youth, who was questioned after he contacted police after the shooting, is under investigation for possibly having failed to report the plans of the gunman.
Thomas Steinkraus-Koch, senior public prosecutor in Munich, told a news conference on Monday the Afghan,16, had been in contact with the gunman via WhatsApp until shortly before the attack. He wiped the conversation, but officials were able to retrieve it.
"This (WhatsApp) chat and questioning of a suspect has shown that the Afghan met the gunman directly before the gun attack at what was later the scene of the crime," Steinkraus-Koch told a news conference in Munich.
The shooting was one of four attacks in Germany - three of them by migrants - since July 18 that have left 10 people dead and 34 injured, a toll that may heighten public disquiet over Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door refugee policy.
More than a million migrants have entered Germany over the past year, many fleeing war in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.
The WhatsApp chat showed the Afghan knew the German-Iranian gunman was in possession of a Glock 17 firearm, Steinkraus-Koch said.
"They got to know each other last summer, in 2015, in a psychiatric clinic where they underwent treatment," he said.
"There, it also became apparent to the (Afghan) suspect that the attacker was interested in Breivik," Steinkraus-Koch added, referring to Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in back-to-back attacks in Norway in 2011.
The Afghan's decision to delete his WhatsApp chat with the gunman and their meeting just before the Munich attack led investigators to suspect he knew of the planned shooting in advance. | 2023-12-19T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/7682 |
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Siderno is a town and comune located in Calabria, Italy about 3 kilometres from Locri.Siderno Marina is the newer town located on the Ionian coast. It is popular with both Italian and foreign tourists and has a bathing beach.Siderno Superiore is the old town, higher up on the flank of the coastal mountain range. It has historic palaces, old buildings and very narrow streets. It has now become a ghost town because most of the old population has moved to the more modern Siderno which is the new city and offers more job opportunities and services. | 2024-06-07T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/9299 |
Action Monitoring Cortical Activity Coupled to Submovements
Numerous studies have examined neural correlates of the human brain’s action-monitoring system during experimentally segmented tasks. However, it remains unknown how such a system operates during continuous motor output when no experimental time marker is available (such as button presses or stimulus onset). We set out to investigate the electrophysiological correlates of action monitoring when hand position has to be repeatedly monitored and corrected. For this, we recorded high-density electroencephalography (EEG) during a visuomotor tracking task during which participants had to follow a target with the mouse cursor along a visible trajectory. By decomposing hand kinematics into naturally occurring periodic submovements, we found an event-related potential (ERP) time-locked to these submovements and localized in a sensorimotor cortical network comprising the supplementary motor area (SMA) and the precentral gyrus. Critically, the amplitude of the ERP correlated with the deviation of the cursor, 110 ms before the submovement. Control analyses showed that this correlation was truly due to the cursor deviation and not to differences in submovement kinematics or to the visual content of the task. The ERP closely resembled those found in response to mismatch events in typical cognitive neuroscience experiments. Our results demonstrate the existence of a cortical process in the SMA, evaluating hand position in synchrony with submovements. These findings suggest a functional role of submovements in a sensorimotor loop of periodic monitoring and correction and generalize previous results from the field of action monitoring to cases where action has to be repeatedly monitored. | 2024-07-03T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/1439 |
717 P.2d 608 (1986)
Lester REYNOLDS, Appellant,
v.
The STATE of Oklahoma, Appellee.
No. F-84-461.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma.
April 21, 1986.
Thomas Purcell, Asst. Appellate Public Defender, Norman, for appellant.
Michael C. Turpen, Atty. Gen., Tomilou Gentry Liddell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Oklahoma City, for appellee.
OPINION
BUSSEY, Judge:
Appellant, Lester Reynolds, was charged with six (6) counts of Indecent Proposal or Act to a Child in violation of 21 O.S. 1981, § 1123 in Case No. CRF-83-92 in the District Court of Seminole County. The jury returned a verdict of guilty on two (2) counts and appellant was sentenced to five (5) years imprisonment on each count, the sentences to run concurrently, and he appeals.
Briefly stated the State's testimony at trial shows that appellant fondled and/or exposed himself to four children ages nine eleven (9-11) while babysitting them. The mother of two of the children testified that on one occasion she left her children at appellant's home in the care of appellant and his wife for approximately six to eight *609 hours. The mother of the other two children testified that she used the Reynoldses as babysitters when she went to work and paid them twenty dollars ($20) per week. She denied owing them any money at the time of trial.
Appellant and his wife testified that they had never taken care of two of the children, but admitted babysitting for the other two children while their mother was working. Appellant further testified that he did not commit the acts charged, and denied ever receiving compensation from the mother who left her children with them while she worked.
In his first assignment of error, appellant contends that repeated improper comments[1] by the prosecuting attorney during closing arguments deprived the appellant of a fair trial. However, no objection was interposed at trial to any of these allegedly improper remarks. This Court has consistently held that when no objection is raised the appellant is deemed to have waived any objection, unless the remarks are fundamentally prejudicial. Bruner v. State, 612 P.2d 1375 (Okl.Cr. 1980). We find that the prosecutor's comments in this case are not fundamentally prejudicial, especially in light of the overwhelming evidence of appellant's guilt. Therefore, this assignment of error is without merit.
In his second assignment of error, appellant contends that the trial court erred in excluding from evidence the opinion testimony of Molly Thomas who had administered the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory to the appellant.
In support of this contention, appellant relies upon 12 O.S. 1981, § 2405 which states in pertinent part:
A. Where evidence of a person's character or trait of character is admissible, proof may be by testimony as to reputation or by testimony in the form of opinion. Inquiry is allowable on cross-examination into relevant specific instances of conduct.
Appellant argues that since the trial court allowed appellant's neighbors and the son of his former landlord to testify concerning his character, the trial court should have allowed Molly Thomas to give her opinion concerning appellant's overt type behavior, and her opinion that if appellant did something wrong he would not be able to hide it.
However, in an in camera hearing, Ms. Thomas testified that her opinion was based solely upon a few interviews with appellant and the results of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Test. She further testified concerning her expertise, and details of the test, and her opinion based on the results. At the end of the hearing, the trial judge basically stated that he did not believe that 12 O.S. 1981, § 2405 encompassed this type of opinion testimony; however, he gave appellant an opportunity to cite authority to substantiate the introduction of Ms. Thomas's testimony into evidence. Appellant did not cite any authority at that time, and he failed to cite any authority in his brief which demonstrates that the evidence is admissible.
The introduction or refusal of evidence is a matter for the exercise of discretion by the trial court, and the action of the trial court on such a matter will not be disturbed except for an abuse of discretion. Haury v. State, 533 P.2d 991, 995 (Okl.Cr. 1975).
*610 The trial court did not abuse its discretion; therefore, this assignment of error is without merit.
Accordingly, for the above and foregoing reasons, the judgment and sentence is AFFIRMED.
NOTES
[1] The transcript reads in pertinent part as follows:
And if we say, `Don't come to court if anything happens to you, if you're ever abused, don't complain to any adults,' we just reinforce exactly what that Defendant said to those children. `Don't tell anyone or you'll be in trouble or I'll hurt you.'
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Now, there are lessons to be learned. Certainly there are. And I don't think the lessons that the Defendant would give our children are the lessons that you want to be part of.
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`Our Lord tells us, `Suffer the little children to come unto me.' He sure didn't mean this kind of suffering.'
| 2023-12-23T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/8330 |
Q:
How to increase the web service timeout in a Windows Service application?
I am working on a web application that uses an asmx web service to import data in IIS7. We have a Windows Service pick up a file to import and send it thru the web service. I am getting the following error during large imports after 1 minute:
The request channel timed out while waiting for a reply after
00:00:59.9843750. Increase the timeout value passed to the call to
Request or increase the SendTimeout value on the Binding. The time
allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer
timeout.
I have seen plenty of posts where the suggestion is to not have a web service call that runs that long. I agree in principle, but this is a low traffic, internal web site. Until proven otherwise, I believe the amount of work to re-architect the other portions of the system will be longer than updating the timeout.
So far we have tried updating the basicHttpBinding properties in the web.config, specifically the openTimeout, receiveTimeout, sendTimeout and closeTimeout properties. There was no change to the behavior.
We also tried setting these properties in the code that makes the call to the web service after the object is constructed. Still no luck.
I looked thru the IIS settings and do not see any timeout value that is currently set to 60 seconds. We also tried bumping up the executionTimeout in the web.config to no effect.
What configuration value am I missing? Are there any other ways to modify a timeout?
Update:
As requested, here are the configs:
App.config
<configuration>
<system.serviceModel>
<bindings>
<basicHttpBinding>
<binding name="ImportServiceSoap" closeTimeout="00:02:00" openTimeout="00:02:00"
receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:10:00" allowCookies="false"
bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
maxBufferSize="1265536" maxBufferPoolSize="12524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="1265536"
messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" transferMode="Buffered"
useDefaultWebProxy="true">
<readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
<security mode="None">
<transport clientCredentialType="None" proxyCredentialType="None"
realm="" />
<message clientCredentialType="UserName" algorithmSuite="Default" />
</security>
</binding>
</basicHttpBinding>
</bindings>
<client>
<endpoint address="http://mysite.com/Importservice.asmx"
binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="ImportServiceSoap"
contract="ImportService.ImportServiceSoap" name="ImportServiceSoap" />
</client>
</system.serviceModel>
</configuration>
Web.config (abridged, connectionstrings removed):
<configuration>
<appSettings>
<system.web>
<roleManager enabled="false" cacheRolesInCookie="false" defaultProvider="AspNetSqlRoleProvider" />
<siteMap defaultProvider="MenuElementsProvider">
</siteMap>
<compilation debug="false" targetFramework="4.0">
</compilation>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="Shared/Internal_Server_Error.html">
<error statusCode="404" redirect="Shared/Internal_Server_Error.html" />
<error statusCode="500" redirect="Shared/Internal_Server_Error.html" />
</customErrors>
<authentication mode="Windows" />
<identity impersonate="true" />
<authorization>
<allow users="*" />
</authorization>
<trace enabled="false" requestLimit="10" pageOutput="false" traceMode="SortByTime" localOnly="true" />
<sessionState mode="InProc" stateConnectionString="tcpip=127.1.0.1" cookieless="false" timeout="30" />
<globalization fileEncoding="utf-8" requestEncoding="utf-8" responseEncoding="utf-8" culture="en-US" uiCulture="en-US" />
<httpRuntime maxRequestLength="102400" requestValidationMode="2.0" executionTimeout="14400" />
</system.web>
<location path="DefaultWsdlHelpGenerator.aspx">
<system.web>
<pages styleSheetTheme="" />
<httpRuntime maxRequestLength="1048576" executionTimeout="3600" />
</system.web>
</location>
<system.webServer>
<validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" />
</system.webServer>
</appSettings>
</configuration>
A:
Are you updating the binding timeouts in code or just in the client's app.config? I have seen changing the app.config settings get ignored from orignal creation of the client-side webservice - so the old settings stay even though the app.config has changed.
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"It's wonderful" "It's wonderful" "It's wonderful" "Good luck, my baby" "It's wonderful" "It's wonderful it's wonderful" "I dream of you" "It's wonderful" "It's wonderful" "It's wonderful" "It's wonderful" "I'm the wrong guy!" "I'm the wrong guy!" "Come on, I'm the wrong guy!" "I'm the wrong guy." "Hey!" "Hey, hey, hey." "Your--your..." "Your mother's a whore!" "Oh, man!" "Come on!" "What's so fucking funny?" "Hey, keep laughin' at me, and I'll kill you." "No, I'm not laughing at you." "I'm laughing at life." "Well, life ain't funny, so quit it!" "No, listen to me." "I'm gonna tell you a secret." "A secret so you can laugh too." "Listen to me, you fool!" "I am going to tell you something that will change your life." "You remember the old brick building" "On Chester Avenue?" "There's a million brick buildings on Che" "No!" "No!" "The old flour factory," "With the bright gold brick." "What about it?" "I'll wait for you." "I'll think of you every night." "Listen to me, idiot." "I need a Mullinski." "I want you to go back to Collinwood," "And I want you to find someone" "Who'll take the rap for this car fiasco for me." "I'll pay 15 grand." "15 grand?" "Where are you going to get 15 grand?" "From a shoebox." "What shoebox?" "It's under my bed." "You said we couldn't get married 'cause you were broke." "You lied to me, you son of a bitch." "You lied!" "Of all the shit you've put me through..." "Listen to me." "We use that money to get married." "I'm stuck in here." "Is that what you want?" "You want me in jail?" "No." "No." "I want you to buy me a ring." "Alright." "So listen to what I'm telling you." "I heard about a job in here." "It's the greatest job I ever heard of." "It'd give us all the money we could ever use" "For the rest of our lives." "If I get you a Mullinski, will you marry me?" "Will you?" "Alright!" "Alright!" "On my mother." "Alright." "I'll get you a Mullinski." "Who is it?" "It's Rosalind, Toto." "Open up." "Toto no here." "No Toto." "How'd you find me?" "This is where you live." "Well, how do you know?" "It's me, Rosalind." "Cosimo's woman." "Sweet Jesus." "He gave me up, didn't he?" "Look, I tried to get him outta that car." " I swear to God I tried!" " Relax, old man." "He didn't give you up, but he needs your help." "How can I help him?" "I'm like a caged animal in here!" "All day, cops everywhere." "Look, I don't eat" "Listen to me, you fool." "The only way cops will get you is through Cosimo, and he'd never give you up, but you've got to help him." "He needs a Mullinski." "I can't Mullinski for him." "I already did." "The judge would lock us both up," " ...then Mullinski." " No, he needs you to find a Mullinski." "He offered 15 grand." "15..." "I spent a year in isolation for him." "He only gave me five." "Yeah, well..." "Somebody told him about a job in there." "A job?" "What kind of job?" "Can I trust you?" "He says it could be his Bellini." "15 large for a Mullinski?" " Yeah." " What's the charge?" "Grand theft auto." "Oh, shit, forget it." "I can't do it." "What are you talking about?" "Grand theft's easy." "I did it." "No, it's not the time." "It's..." "My mother." "She'd die on the spot." "Well, she'd die happier knowing you had 15 grand in your pocket." "What, are you sick?" "Forget it." "I'm not doing it." "Look, you're going to turn down 15 grand for a Mullinski?" "What do you want from me, huh?" "I told you, I can't do it." "I can't do it." "I mean, let Cosimo rot." "He's the biggest asshole in Collinwood anyway." "Look, swear you'll never repeat this." "What?" "Swear." "Cosimo will kill me if he ever finds out I told you." "Come on." "Alright, I swear." "Cosimo, he's got this big job lined up." "Big?" "How big?" "Huge." "The only thing huge about Cosimo is his fat fucking head." "He says it's his Bellini." "His Bellini." "Everybody in this fricking neighborhood's got a Bellini." " Hey, Mickey." " What's up?" "How's your Bellini?" "Hey, watch your mouth!" "Hey, hey, hey!" "No, Cosimo's..." "Cosimo's is real." "A lifer gave it up to him in the joint." "That's why he is so desperate to find a Mullinski." "A lifer gave it up to him?" "You see, I figure..." "If we help Cosimo get out," "Maybe we can get in on some of the action." "How much action?" "Cosimo says 300 grand." " Holy shit." " Yeah." "I know." "I don't know." "Look, how much money did you wake up with in your pocket this morning?" "55 cents." "What have you got to lose?" "Do you know Leon?" "You mean that negro who hides his sister?" "He's a nutcase, but he always needs dough." "I can't do it." "My sister's engaged to be married." "Well, Jesus, man." "This'll pay for the wedding." "It's 10 grand we're talking about here." "Nah, her fiancé's a snob from the suburbs." "If he knew I'm going to the pen, there'd be no wedding." "This is crazy." "How hard can it be to find a Mullinski?" "Look, man, you gotta know somebody that could use the dough," "You know, some friends that'd be better off in jail." "What the fuck is that supposed to mean?" "It means what it means." "Screw Cosimo." "Why do you give a shit for that guy for, anyway?" "He's the biggest asshole hole in Collinwood." "Yeah, but, uh, he's got a Bellini." "What are you doing to me?" "Hey, you want to find a Mullinski or not?" "Every sucker in the project's got a Bellini." "This one's legit." "A lifer gave it up to him," "And anybody who helps Cosimo can get a piece of the action." "Well, shit, why didn't the lifer pull it himself?" "Because he's a lifer." "Because he went to the pen before he could." "A genuine Bellini?" "You swear on your mother?" "I swear on my mother." "Goddamn." "You fellows know Riley?" "What the fuck are you doing?" "I just got the baby to sleep." "I rocked him for three hours." "I'm sorry." "That's alright." "It's alright." "It's just..." "He's very neurotic." "Noises and-- and, uh... bright lights upset him terribly." "I'm sorry, if you're here for pictures," "I'm out of the business." "My wife's in the pen." "I had to sell all my cameras to buy diapers and baby food." "But if you're interested," "I'm selling drinking glasses." "I paint them." "They're all hand-painted by me." "If you're interested." "Sweet Jesus, I am so broke." "It's funny you should mention that." "You got a job?" "Cosimo needs a Mullinski," "And he's willing to pay 10 large for it." "10 large?" "It's two bucks a jar." "I can't..." "It's impossible." "I got the kid, for Chrissake." "So where's your wife?" "Seneca." "They gave her a year for fraud." "Even with a newborn." "They set her fine at a thousand bucks..." "Christ." "We're so broke, she had to do the time." "A year!" "A year for a thousand bucks." "I know." "Well, you know, they've got a..." "They've got a fabulous nursery at Seneca." "I was born there." "Look, buddy, we're in a real pickle here." "We need a Mullinski, and we need one fast." "You're not gonna..." "You're not gonna get an ex-con for grand theft auto." "What you need is somebody with a clean record" "So the judge'll go easy on him." "Jesus, it's not like the old days anymore." "Do you guys know Pero?" "Baby coming through." "Baby coming through." "Baby coming through." "Baby fucking coming through." "Let's put this on you." " You outta your lunatic mind?" " What?" "Cosimo will never share his job with these idiots." "It was an accident." "I was talking and my mouth slipped." "He's going to kill me for this." "He's going to kill me." "Are you insane?" "I'm not going to prison for that fool." "Not even for 15 grand?" "You told us 10." "I don't need the money." "My boxing career's about to take off." " You're fighting a priest." " He's a tough priest." "You rather I, uh, fight a woman?" "Tonight, I fight a priest." "Tomorrow, I fight for the championship." "Right, baby?" "This jackass is our last chance." "We need to sweeten the deal." "I'm telling you, he's this close." "I say we go equal parts on another thousand." "A thousand dollars would get my wife outta hock, for Chrissake." "For crying out loud." "What is it with you guys?" "You've got to spend money, to make money." "Look, man, she's right." "If we don't spring Cosimo, there is no job." "Huh?" "We'll go 16 thousand on the deal." "I told you, I don't need it." "When my boxing career takes off," "I'm going to spit on this neighborhood." "Maholovic, you're up!" " Alright!" " Come on, let's go." "That's it." "See you after the fight, picka." "Pero, bomaye!" "I'm so pretty." "I'm so pretty." "Come on!" "Cosimo Cosanawowski, for the crime of attempted grand theft auto," " this court sentences" " Stop!" "The proceedings." "Order!" "Order!" "Remove him." "Hear me out!" "Hear me out!" "Please, your Honor, I'm here to confess." "That man is innocent." "Your Honor, I can no longer live with the guilt." "It was me who was stealing that car." "I confess." "My brother, Cosimo..." "St. Cosimo, as he's known on the streets, was only trying to stop me, and I told him," ""Cosimo, I mean to steal this car." ""I am a car thief." ""I steal cars." "By myself."" "I'm gonna kill you!" "You're the worst Mullinski I've ever seen." "Not only that, man, you added six months..." "Six months to my sentence!" "Six months?" "Six months?" "Who cares about six months?" "I just got three fucking years, man!" "I want my money back, every cent." "Otherwise, you gonna die in this prison." "You understand me?" "Get out of here!" "You can have the money." "I don't care." "I don't care about anything anymore." "What's the matter with you?" "Oh, come on, prison is easy, you puss." "No, you don't understand." "I betrayed my brother." "Well, maybe he deserved it." "He's dying, you jackass." "My real brother, Bleeko, is dying." "I'll have to die alone." "Just last week, he said to me..." "He said, "Pero, be there for me," ""in the final moments," ""when death has me in its deadly grip." "Don't let me go it alone," and I swore to him I wouldn't, but I betrayed him..." "For a lousy 16 grand." "Oh, you're a sick bastard." "No, no, no, no." "I'm not laughing at you." "I'm laughing at..." "You wanna hear something that's gonna cheer you up?" "You know that old brick building on Chester Avenue?" "There's a million old buildings on Chester Avenue." "You know, the old flour factory with the gold brick." "What about it?" "Well, it's not a flour factory anymore." "Half of it, they turned it into an apartment," "And you'll never guess what's on the other half." "I don't care." " A jewelry shylock." " So what?" "So, my cellmate, the bricklayer, he split the building." " He pulled a Krazner." " What?" "You know, a Krazner." "He mortared the wall in the living room between the building of the apartment with the shylock, with sand and water." "You can push right through it." "The shylock's a big shot." "The bricklayer told me he's gotta fortune in that safe." "So what?" "You still have to break into the apartment to pull the job." "Well, that's the beauty of it." "Nobody lives there." "It's vacant." "You can walk right in." "Well, you're a bigger jackass than everyone says you are." "What are you talking about?" "If this job is so good," "Why didn't the old man pull it himself?" "Two days before he's gonna pull the job, he gets into an argument with his wife." "Shoots her dead." "He's a lifer now." "So he gave me the job." "You were supposed to spring me so I could pull it, and here we are, in the can together." " Funny shit, huh?" " Yeah, it is." " I mean, really funny, right?" " You have no idea." " Alright, you're free to go." " Thanks." "What are you talking about?" "Where's he going?" "Where you going?" "You told me you had three years." "You know, I did, but the judge suspended the sentence." "Oh, you know what?" "I'm gonna fucking kill you!" "You son of a bitch!" "Your mother's a whore!" "Yeah?" " My mother's a what?" " Your mother's a whore!" "Your mother's a whore!" "Huh!" "Give me some." "Yeah." "Huh!" "I say..." "Wow!" "Goddamn." "Shit." "Well, come to see me home?" "I want the money back." "I did my job, baby." "It's not my fault the judge" "Please." "Cosimo will kill me if I don't get the money back." "Lookie here, boys." "Look who flew the coop." "If it isn't the $16,000 man." "Alright, Maholovic, we don't care whose fault it was or what went wrong." "All we want is our stake or our money back." "What the fuck is the matter with you people?" "What kinda world you think we live in" " We don't want any trouble, Pero." " Trouble?" "You want me to pick it out of your ass, punk?" "Fuck you!" " Got more to say, pretty boy?" " Jesus Christ." " Where's the money?" " I don't have it." "You'd better fucking find it!" "Jesus Christ!" " Just give us the money." " I had debts." " I gave the money to my debtors." " All 16,000?" "I'm in for another five to Leo The Lip." "Ask anybody." "He's lying." "Wait, wait." "I got..." "I got the Bellini." "I got Cosimo's Bellini!" " Bullshit!" " Stick him again!" "I swear to God!" "I told him I got three years, and he gave it up to me." "I swear." " So what?" " So..." "So I'll cut you in on it, equal shares, all of you." "It's the greatest job I ever heard of." "It's a jewelry shylock." "Let's hear it, then." "I can't breathe." "Hey, let him up." "Let him up." "You watch yourself, fucker." " I feel weak." " Shit!" "Oh, Jesus, we killed him." "Safe's on the second floor of the pawnshop." "The apartment next to the pawnshop is empty." "We break into the apartment, we smash a hole in the wall," "Climb into the shylock's, and crack the safe." "That's the easy part." "The trouble is that building is like a fortress." "The front door to the apartment's alarmed." "I think the best way in is through the coal chute of the building next door." "We use the back fire escape to get to the roof." "Then we drop down to the apartment window, and we cut it open." "Does anybody know a safe cracker?" "Jerzy Antwerp is the only one I know." "Wait a minute." "Here, hold him, would you?" "I got an idea." "I was thinking..." "If I had a camera," "I could shoot the shylock opening the safe." "We could get the combination that way." "That's brilliant." "Where we gonna get a camera?" "Well, we could pay a little visit to a guy I know at the flea market." "So, what are you hocking today, Riley?" "Your kid?" "You should treat me with a little more respect, Oswald." "It just so happens I came into some money." "I'm a buyer today." "It's nice." "I like the browns." "Yes, but, uh..." "What about the reds?" "What do you think?" "It's for my sister." "Is it too much red?" "She's been institutionalized, and the color red makes her bark like a dog." "Yes, after all, I believe there is too much red." "I'm sorry, Oswald, but your paintings are crap." "Let's go to Sears." "Okay, here we go." " What is this?" " Sorry." "Sorry." "I had to shoot some footage of him to send to his mom." "He's a cute baby." "That's his new food." "He's not taking to it too well." "I like it." " Riley, come on." " I think it's good food." "You're killing me." "Here we go." "The Hassenfeffer 622." "Is that good or bad?" "Neither." "Here he is." "Okay, okay, watch this." "78." "77." "Eight." "78, eight." "Jesus Christ." "77." "What's that number?" "78." "What is the number?" "It's an eight." "78, eight." "That's great." "We did nine takes." "Every time, on the last number..." "He does this." "He's like a gimp." "Sorry." "So, what do you think?" "Well, as a film, it's a disaster." "It's a documentary." "It's supposed to look like that." "The good news is the safe is crackable." "So how do we...?" "What do we...?" "How do we do this?" "Do I carry you on my back, or..." "This may come as a shock to you, but I don't go on the field anymore." "See?" "What the hell is he doing here?" "I teach." "For 500 bucks, I show you how to do it." " 500 bucks?" " 500 bucks!" "Be quiet." "The baby." "Okay, look, we're all tapped out here." "That's why we're doing this job in the first place." "We'll give you a cut." "I don't take back-end money." "It's worthless." "There's a fortune in that safe." "500 bucks up front." "That's the deal." "My time is valuable." " Alright." "Hey, hey, hey." " Hold your horses." "Can you show us how to get through a Krazner wall?" "Well, who do you think Krazner called?" "Alright, so then it's a deal." "Good." "Be at my place Saturday afternoon." "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a class to teach in Youngstown." "500 bucks." "Did I happen to mention I'm trying to get my wife out of the goddamn clink?" "How are we supposed to get that kind of money?" "We could mug someone." "There's got to be something." "I think I can get the money." "How much do you need?" "Just a small loan" "For a new suit." "I met a nice girl," "And I'm going to ask her to marry me." "You're getting married?" " If she says yes." " So how much?" "$500." "$500?" "It must be some suit." "It's beautiful," "With buttons and shoes..." "Well, I hope she can make an honest man out of you." "At the usual interest." "The usual interest." "We're still better than Leo The Lip." "There are many methods to cracking a safe," "And each method possesses an inverse relationship between quickness and cleanness." "The quickest method is Lipchiski method," "Named for its originator, Theodore Lipchiski." "The Lipchiski method requires a stick of dynamite and a match." "A very quick method, but, as we learned when Lipchiski blew himself up on that job in Toledo, it's not very clean." "Hence I teach the circular saw method." "It may not be the quickest, but it's the cleanest." "You and your loot will emerge from the job unharmed." "This is the method I was taught." "It is what I believe in." "If you want Lipchiski, you go somewhere else." "Jerzy!" "The police are here!" " The police are coming!" " The police!" "They were just here last week." "Hide the safe!" " Where?" "Where?" " Hide the fucking safe!" "Throw it off the..." "Throw it off the side!" "The cops are here!" "Oh, you think that's funny?" "You little son of a bitch!" "You little sawed-off son of a bitch!" "Fucking midget!" "I'm gonna come out of this fucking chair!" "I'm gonna fuck you up!" "I hate that fucking kid." "Where was I?" " Circular" " Circular saw method." "You take the saw, like so." "You apply it, like so." "You crank it, like so." "And in three hours, you got your hole." " What time is it?" " 2:00." "Alright, we'll now begin a full demonstration of the procedure." "Hey, baby!" "Baby!" "Sergeant Babitch is here." "He's coming around the back." "He'll bury us all!" "Hide the safe!" "Hide the fucking safe!" "Hark, the herald angels sing" "Glory to the newborn king" "Peace on earth and mercy mild..." "Alright, guys." "Alright, take five, take five." "That's good." "Babitch!" "What a surprise." "You caught us on laundry day." "You sing while you launder?" "Speak English." "We're a chorus for the church." "Which church is that?" "It's the, uh..." "We tour." "Hey, you wouldn't happen to know anything about a job over in Youngstown, would you, Antwerp?" "A safe with a hole about the size of your head." "Where's Youngstown?" "Now, wait a minute here." "I know all you guys." "You're all from Collinwood," "And you're all bums." "You're Pero Maholovic, aren't you?" "I knew your brother." "He was a shitty fighter." "Which is more than I can say for you." "What's your angle here, Maholovic?" "I'm the tenor." "Oh, you're a joker, huh?" "Well, you keep laughing, champ." "All the way to the pen." "Oh, and if a job should happen to go down in the next few weeks, now I'll know whose asses to string up." "Jesus." "You'd better watch your back, boys." "Where have you been?" "My kid's starving to death." "The bus never came." "I had to walk." "Down you go." "Give me a square, and I'll forget about it." "The shylock comes at 6, and he opens up at 7." "Good luck." "Hey, give me a light." "Jesus, she's a live one." "Yeah." " What the...?" " Fuck!" "Fuck!" "What the fuck is this, man?" "Fuck!" "Fuck, Fuck!" "What the fuck is this?" "My best friend's cousin told me the old ladies are the shylock's aunts." "They're getting senile, so he moved them in next door to keep an eye on him." "The girl's their maid." "A maid, huh?" "Well, don't worry, I once seduced the first lady." "So, this isn't going to make you, uh..." "jealous or anything?" "You're a piece of work, you know that?" "As hard as you find it to believe, I think you're a pig." "You know, you're a real pizda, you know that?" "Hey, hey, yo." "Hey, baby, where you going in such a hurry?" "Your mama teach you how to walk like that?" "Slow down, sugar." "A little love to a black man." "Look at that." "Baby got an ass like bubble-gum ice cream." "You know, the kind you like to lick!" "Hey, why don't you leave the girl alone, you street... bums?" "Scram, before we lay one on you." "I'll carve you like a turkey, honky." "Put the knife away." "Hit me." "Put the knife..." "Hurry up, man, come on." "Go get her." " You okay?" " Go get her." "Miss..." "Miss?" "I don't mean any harm." "Miss, miss, are you alright, miss?" "That was quite an experience back there." "You know, every day, I wake up and I say to myself," "I say, "Pero Maholovic, you're a lucky man." ""Your father was wealthy enough to send you to a private school," ""where among gaining a degree in learning, you were also able to master the art of boxing."" "Yes, that was quite a punch you threw back there." "Oh, it was nothing." "It was just a couple of street bums." " I just wanna make sure you okay." " I'm fine." "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm late." "So you're, uh, late, huh?" "That's funny, so am I." " Which direction are you going?" " This way." "Oh, that's funny, so am I." " So, what are you late for?" " I'm meeting my boyfriend." "He's a doctor." "A doctor, really." "Wow." "What do you do?" "Me?" "I don't work." "I, uh, shop." " I play tennis." " Oh, really?" "Well, I'm a salesman." "Oh, congratulations." "What do you sell?" "Oh, all sorts of things." "Big things." "Expensive." "You from around here?" "No, I'm from Collinwood." "I mean, even though I could afford more," "I choose to live humbly." "I like humble people." "For instance, if you were, say, I don't know, a maid and not an heiress," "I'd still think you were just as pretty." "Hey, what's happening, youngblood?" "Crazy kids, man, I'll tell you." "It's a joke we play on each other." "So, where do you live?" "Oh, I'm living in an apartment with my aunts," "But my boyfriend's building me a house." "Oh, the, the doctor." "No, the other boyfriend." "You have another boyfriend?" "Yeah, I have lots of boyfriends." "I think it's best that way." "Wow." "So, you going to ask me out, or what?" "I thought..." "What about your boyfriends?" "Oh, they understand I'm a liberated woman." "How's Sunday?" "Sure." "Alright, uh, we'll meet at your house?" "Oh, yeah, we can't." "It's being... deloused." " There's a street carnival." " Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah." " On, on Saint Clair." " Okay, yeah, 4:00, then." " In front of the church." " In front of the church." "Yeah." "Okay." "Okay." "Okay." "Okay." "I'm going to kill that son of a bitch." "I'm going to kill him." "I'm going to kill him." "I'm going to kill that son of a bitch." "I'm going to kill that son of a bitch." "I'm going to kill that son of a bitch." "I'm going to kill that son of a bitch." "I'm going to kill that son of a..." "Hey, I don't want to miss my bus, now." " Thank you." " Thanks." "Oh, look, a fun house." "I love fun houses." "Hey, if it's fun you want, it's fun you get." "Where'd you go?" "Which one is you?" "Where are you?" "Guess you'll just have to kiss me and find out." "Come here." "Come here." "What are you doing?" "I'm gonna kill you, you son of a bitch." "Cosimo!" "What the...?" " You want some things?" "How 'bout..." " Baby." "Baby." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Jesus Christ." " Where's Maholovic?" " Why?" "Didn't you hear?" "It's all over the neighborhood." " Cosimo broke out of the joint." " Jesus Christ, how'd he get out?" "I'm gonna kill you!" " Your mother's a whore!" " He's got a gun!" "You sick bastard!" "You stole my Bellini!" "I'll spit on you!" "I'll spit on you!" "I'll spit on all of you!" "Baby, please, baby, relax." "You don't understand." "I got it all planned out." " We can all share." " You traitorous whore!" "Listen to me, and listen to me good, okay?" "This job is mine, alright?" "Anybody tries to take it," "I'm going to kill them." "I'm going to kill anybody!" "Anybody!" "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey." "You okay?" " He get you good?" " No." "Get away from me." "Fuck him." "Leon." "Leon, stakeout." "Let's go." " What do you want?" " I'm looking for Leon." " Well Leon ain't here." " I'm sorry, I didn't know." "I'll let him know you came by." "Whoa, whoa." "Shit." "I'm Basil." "What?" "Tell him Basil came by." "I will." "And you?" "Huh?" "Are...?" "Oh... right." "I'm, uh, Michelle." "Leon's sister." "I'm Basil." "I know." "You said it, like, three times." " That's a pretty ring." " Oh, it's..." "It's from my fiancé." "He's a salesman from the suburbs." "So..." "Basil..." "You want to come in?" "I don't know." "This place is kind of stale, don't you think?" "Maybe we could, you know, go to your place or something." "Oh, um, but my aunts'll be there, so..." "So we'll stay in the living room." "Oh, no." "I can't leave, really." "Why not?" "Because..." "Because what?" "Because I told another date to meet me here." "Another..." "Another date?" "Yeah, I cannot be dating just one guy, Pero." "It'd be like I'm married or something." "Dear..." "Dear God, woman." "All these other loves in your life." "It's enough to make a man feel impotent." "If you ask me, you should only be dating me." "I'll date whoever I please." "Hello, Beddo." " Hi, Carmela." " Hi." "This is my date." "If you don't mind." "This... this is your date?" "What is this, a joke?" "Excuse us, please." "Right now, another polka heading your way." "Here we go with something called" ""My Little Darling."" "Jesus." "I'm starting to think we should just forget this whole goddamn job." "It's spinning out of control." "This job's not spinning out of control." "You are." "You should be trying to get into this girls apartment, not into her pants." "Hey, hey!" "I've been trying to get in that frigging apartment." "For two weeks, I'm trying." "She's a tease." "I don't understand her." "You're falling in love with her, aren't you?" "Hey." "I don't fall in love, sweetheart." "Oh, please." "It's all over your face." " Hands off, midget boy." " What did you call me?" " She's with me tonight." " Oh, really?" " Yeah, really." " Well, he's with me." "Who's he, your pimp?" "Come on, come on." "Come on, want some, tough guy?" "What the fuck are you doing?" "How could you loose your head over this hussy." "She's a maid, for Chrissake!" "Wait, wait, wait, Carmela..." "Carmela!" "Carmela, wait a second!" "I'm" " I'm..." "I'm very sorry for the disturbance, officers," "But I was enjoying an evening with my girlfriend" "When that mob attacked me." "Pero Maholovic, 122 Ivanhoe." "Sergeant Babitch, thank God you're here because I gotta tell you" "Shut up." "The way you're going, Maholovic," "I ought to have them reserve you a cell." "You're such a kidder." "Sergeant Babitch, this is a very dangerous area." "Don't you get smart with me, you little prick." "I will shit in you." "Yeah, yeah." "I know." "I know." "I'll be seeing you around, champ." "Okay, then." "Maybe at The Mixer next week?" "Oh, that was very noble of you, what you did tonight, you know?" "No one's ever fought over me that much." "Well, I can't help it." "I guess I feel compelled." "Why did that girl say those things about me?" "Oh, you know, she was jealous." "Yeah." "She was telling the truth." "I'm really just a maid, and I thought, because you were, you know, a big salesman and everything, that you wouldn't like me as much, so..." "Jeez, we live in a democracy." "I don't care you're a maid." "You can be anything you want." "I know, I just..." "I just thought..." "I don't know, I was just being silly." " I'm a silly liar" " Hey, hey, hey, hey." "You're not..." "You're not silly." "You're not silly." "You know those two old ladies I work for?" "Yeah?" "They're going out of town on Tuesday," "And I live over on the West Side," "And I was thinking you could... come over for a nice romantic dinner." "Oh, I'd like that." "I'd like that a lot." "What did you say?" "That I'm off on Tuesday night, and I was thinking" "No, no, no, no." "Uh, the old ladies." "They're going to... to see their mother in Steubenville, and I was thinking you could come to my place." "I could, except..." "I have a date." "You have a date?" "With my brothers." "We bowl." "In a bowling league." "I like to bowl." "Could I come?" "I-I-it's a men's league." "Yeah." "But we could go out another night." "I promise, this weekend." "Your mother's a whore!" "Carmela..." "Look at me" "Look at me for a second." "I like you." "I like you a lot." "I like you too." "Yeah?" "Yeah." "Help!" "Help!" "Help me!" "Give me your purse!" "What a shitty way to go, huh?" "Snatching a purse like a street punk." "Something ain't right in the world." "Well, he had a tough life." "His mother was a whore." "Sorry." "I can't go in." "Death scares him." "Excuse me, gentlemen." "It's time." "We ain't done nothing to Cosimo that Cosimo ain't done to somebody else." "That still don't make it right, I guess." "He was a good friend to me." "Oh, what the hell are you talking about?" "He was the biggest asshole in Collinwood." "He'd screw his own mother and not think twice about it." "Watch your mouth." "Hey, it's not about him, anyway, okay?" "It's about the job." "We've worked hard for this thing." "This is our dream we've been building here." "What's your son gonna eat?" "Your guilt?" "Who's going to pay for that wedding reception?" "The memory of Cosimo?" "You're the poorest man I ever seen." "Did Cosimo ever help you out with that?" "And you." "What?" "Are you gonna stay a bum all your life?" "This is about the job, plain and simple." "This is about the fact that we all need it to survive, and there ain't a thing we can do to change that." "There ain't a goddamn thing." "How you doing?" "It's Antwerp." "The tools are ready for tonight." "They're in a brown duffel bag, in a dumpster in the back of your building." "Got it?" "Why are you dressed like a priest?" "You're an idiot." "You see that?" "Babitch smells blood." "Good luck." "That son of a bitch is putting the screws on us." "Don't worry about him." "I'm telling you, we pull this job, we're all going to end up in the slammer." "I tell you, don't worry about Babitch." "I'll take care of Babitch." "My place, 8:00." "We need this." "We need this." "What the fuck is this?" "It's almost... $16,000." "If something should, uh, happen to go down tonight," "I'm hoping you forget you ever saw us." "You stupid bastard." "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" "Listen, Babitch..." "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't bury your" "Give me one good reason." "Babitch..." "What do you make?" "You make, what," "Are you making $30,000 a year?" "You live in a one-bathroom house, man." "You got your..." "You got four kids." "You drive a chevette." "Your wife rides the bus to work." "For what?" "Just so you can protect some money in some rich guy's safe?" "For what?" "Look at me." "Nobody gets hurt." "They won't get hurt." "Now get off my porch." "You know, you should, uh, get going." "Leon's gonna be here any second." "I don't know." "I was thinking, maybe it's time that we should tell your brother about us." "Tell him what?" "About us." "That we're in love." "Are you crazy?" "You really think I'm gonna leave my fiancé for you?" " Come on." " But we're in love." "Yeah, but he has a good job, Basil." "He can get me out of this neighborhood." "I can get you out of here, Michelle." "And take me where, Basil?" "What, to jail?" "What do you want, then?" "You want your rich man?" "Is that what you want?" "Is that gonna make you happy?" "Yeah." "No..." "I don't know." "Well, what do you want?" "I want an honest man." "You alright?" "I'm fine." "You want a drink?" "No, thank you." "What do you want?" "I need a favor." "You're the only one that can help me." "Will you watch him for me tonight?" "I told you, I don't want anything to do with this anymore." "I know you don't, but I don't have a choice." "I need the money." "For him." "I'm not good with children." "Listen to me." "I need your help." "I think you're a good person, Rosalind." "I think you're one of the nicest people I know," "And he needs that." "And I think maybe..." "you need that too." "He's so tiny." "Please?" "Alright, but just for tonight." "Uh..." "I put his things in that box." "If he cries, whistle." "Just... whistle to him." "He..." "Don't worry." "You'll see him tomorrow." "If they don't get here in five minutes, we go without them." "Sorry." "Sorry..." "I'm late." "What's this?" "We don't need this." "This isn't a prop." "I was beaten." " Beaten?" " By the cops?" "No." "Oswald." "The guy we stole the camera from." "I ran into him and his brother on the bus," "And they broke my arm." " For stealing a camera?" " It was a good camera." "This is a disaster." "What are those?" "Hydrocodone bitar..." "Bitartrate." "They're bullshit." "I've taken bunches of them." "They don't do shit." "You took bunches of these?" "!" "What's the matter with you?" "!" "You want to go into a coma?" "!" "Are you telling me I don't love my own son?" "Oh, he's out." "Get him out of here." "No, we can't do the job without him." " He's useless!" "Look at him." " I'll take him home." " What are you talking about?" " We've got to leave for the job." "Well, there's something I want to tell you guys." "You're not cutting me out, you or any of you." "I'm clean enough to go to the cops." "I'm clean enough to go on this job, aren't I?" "Aren't I?" "You wouldn't dare." "You try me." "Oh, Jesus." "Where the fuck hell is Leon?" "I'm going to cut you, boy." "I'll cut you good." "Wait, listen to me." "You don't understand." "She was a beautiful flower, and you..." "You plucked her." "I'm going to make you bleed." "Listen to me." "I love her." "No, no, no." "We want to get married." "She's already engaged, and not to a goddamn... dirty thief!" "I'm not a thief anymore." "I quit." "I'm done with this, all of it." "What did you...?" "What did you say?" "That's what I wanted to tell you." "I'm not going tonight." "I'm in love with Michelle." "I want to marry her." "I have to be an honest man to do that..." "So I got a job." "Jesus fucking Christ." "Oh, this is a fucking fiasco." "So if you still want to kill me," "I'll be at the nickel factory at St. Clair." "I start tonight." "I'm sorry." "Well, I hate to be the one to say it, but this Bellini is starting to look like a real fucking Kapuchnick." "Watch your mouth!" "Are you insane?" "You trying to jinx us?" " Where are you going?" " To do the job." "Can we do the job with only four of us?" "At this point, I don't give a good goddamn." "Wait a minute here." "Let's just calm down and get our minds right first." "Minds right?" "You're standing there with a fucking butcher's knife." "Hi." "The girl, uh, she's here." "She's here." "Out the window." "The maid." " Out the window." "Go." " Oh, my God." "I'm not going out there." "It's the only way." "No, I'm not..." "There's no place to go once you get out there" "Except down!" "Carmela." "Pero?" "What a surprise." "How did you find...?" "How did you know where to find me?" "Is this your place?" "No, no." "This is much too modest for me." "This is my, uh-- my brother's place." "My brother..." "Mico." "Uh, he's an artist." "He likes the squalor." "Hi, Mico." "I'm Carmela." "Hello, young woman." "I would shake your hands, but I'm inspecting these bottles." "What's the matter?" "I'm afraid of..." "I'm afraid of heights." "I wanted to tell you something." "I..." "I quit the old ladies tonight." "Well, you'll find another job." "You would have been so proud of me." "I never told you this before, but they were terrible to me." "They were really terrible to me." "The things they'd make me do." "I mean they're incontinent, for God's sake." "But then I met you," "And you made me feel like I was worth something," "And I thought, you know, "I have Pero now." "I don't have to take this crap no more,"" "so, I called them spoiled babies, and they fired me." "They were so upset by the whole thing," "They canceled their stupid little trip to Steubenville tonight." "What?" "What?" "Yeah, but then they went anyway, because they're stubborn-old bats," "And I kept the keys." "We should go back and we should wreck the place." "My, my, my, Pero." "She didn't turn the keys in." "Yeah, I heard her, Mico." "You know what?" "You're very upset." "Maybe I should take you home." "No, no, no." "I don't want to interrupt your bowling match." "Won't you miss Pero at the bowling match, Mico?" "My arm's broken." "I'm not going to a fucking bowling match!" "Poor Mico, he's so upset because..." "Because he can't bowl." "The window seems to be okay." "If you have any more problems, just give us a call." "Hello." "Am I dead?" "There you go." "So where's the next window?" "Next stop, 25th Street." "Ohio City." "I like your brother Mico." "He's a little strange, though." "He had..." "Syphilis as a baby." "Yeah." "You know what?" "Now that I think about it..." "I wish I didn't have those stupid keys on me." "You know?" "Because if anything's gonna happen while they were away," "Those old crows, they would blame me." "How could they blame you?" "You're a small girl." "That's nonsense." "Could you do me a huge favor?" " Sure." " Do you think you could take the keys back on your way home and you can drop them off with the janitor?" "Because I would just sleep so much better, you know?" "But how could they blame you?" "They're-- You're a small girl." " That's..." " Oh, no." "Pero, they're not here." "Oh, my God." "Pero, I think I left them in the front door." "Oh, my God." "Someone will rip that place off for sure!" " We've got to go back." "Driver!" " Wait, wait, wait." "Hold on a second." "Let me take a look here." "No, they're not in there." "Hey, hey, look, there they are." "Yeah." "Oh, thank you." " Yeah." " They would have killed me." "You've got so much stuff in here, no wonder you couldn't find them." "Look at all those lipsticks." "One for every boyfriend?" "No." "Well, there's only one from now on." "Hey, don't worry." "You sleep good tonight." "I'll take the keys back." "Okay?" "You're always so good to me." "No, you are, you're the best." "Where the fuck have you been?" "Did you get the keys?" "She guarded her purse like a hawk." "We got to go in the old way." "But we're two hours behind." "So let's move, then." "Let's go." "Motherfuck!" "Fucker!" "Don't come down!" "Don't!" "Goddamn!" "I can't swim!" "Goddamn toothless..." "Put your goddamn pants on!" "I'll catch pneumonia!" "Come on, let's go." "Ready?" "Can you get it?" "No." "Not yet." "Step on my hands." "Just a few more inches." "One..." "I've got it!" "I think he bit off his tongue." "No." "No, it's right there." "You want one of these?" "Alright, we're losing time." "Let's go." "Come on!" "Oh, shit!" "It's hot." "Oh, shit!" "Hot!" "Feels sturdy." "I don't know." "We should-- We should test it." "Test it?" "Chill, Riley, chill!" "Go." "Okay, go." "I can't." "What?" "What do you mean "can't"?" "He's afraid of heights." "You have to." "I can't." "Stop moving around, Toto." "Stop it." "Get your fucking hands off my face." "Stop moving around like a monkey." "I'm scared..." "Get him off me." "Get him off me." "Oh, my God!" "First of all, whatever about my ass being all over his lap." "The last time we were..." "The last time we went to your mother's..." " My shorts are coming down." " Shut up." "And Ellen was there, and who came in?" "Your cousin, Clarence." "And you were making eyes at him." "That's so sick." "It is so sick." "I mean, you know, it's your own cousin." " And what about Eddie?" " Hey, I'm going back inside." "If you cause one more scene," "I swear to God, I'm leaving." " And I'm leaving" " We should stay out here all night!" " Screw you!" " Where are you going?" "Come back." "Go to your mom, asshole!" "Get him off me!" "Get him off me!" "Next time I tell you to keep your pants on," " keep your goddamn pants on!" " It's this way." "It's this one." "It's this one." "Get the thingie." "Come on." "Oh, jeez." "This place is like a palace." "Alright, it wasn't that heavy." "Stop being so goddamn dramatic." "Hey, hey, this is it." "Guys, come on!" "Come here." "Hurry up." "We can drill a pilot hole right there." "This is it." "Oh, fuck." "What a bizarre wall." "You hit the plumbing." "Dumb asshole." "Hey, Miss Wiener." "Yeah, I'm in the apartment now, and everything looks fine." "No, wait a minute." "Wait a minute." "There's some kind of water on the floor here." "It's..." "God-- damn the fuck--!" "Oh, no, no, it's the cat, Miss Wiener." "Uh, no, no, it's the cat peed on the floor again." "No, no, I will not." "No, I am the janitor." "I am not your maid." "What's that?" "Yeah, a very nice young man returned the keys for the girl about three hours ago." "Yeah." "Yeah, okay, I'll leave them right here." "Good." "Yeah, yeah, I'll lock up." "Yeah, okay." "Bye, Miss Wiener." "Jeez, goddamn fucking cat." "I can't believe this shit anymore." "Freeze, you fucking cat." "Okay, okay." "You miserable son of a bitch." "I had to return them for an alibi." "If I kept the keys, the girl could finger me." "You sold us out for a woman?" "Those old bitches would have her arrested if the joint got knocked off." "Come on." "So instead we had to crawl in here like aminals?" "We've wasted half the night." "Look." "What's done is done, and all the arguing in the world is not gonna do a damn thing to change it." "Now, let's just shut up and get out the Antwerp." "Come on, come on." "It's giving." "It's been giving for the last 40 minutes." "I need a breather, man." "So, how much do you really think is in that safe?" "Well, Cosimo said that the old man swore to him there was at least 300 grand." "Goddamn." "That's a lot of money." "A person could live several lives with that kind of money." "I'm going to buy a big loft with my share of the loot." "And one for my boy." "And I'll pay them off clean, so he never has to work a day in his life." "I'm gonna move to the country." "I hear the houses there are so far apart, you can sit on your front porch and read the newspaper in your underwear." "I'm gonna buy my wife a new gravestone." "You know, one that stands up." "With little angels carved." "In marble." "So, what are you gonna do?" "I don't know..." "I think I'm gonna-- I'm gonna build a gym." "I know everyone thinks I'm not much of a fighter, but I think I'd be a good teacher, you know, for the kids." "Oh, man, I can't wait another minute." "Come on, guys." "Let's go get the goddamn loot." "Toto, get us some water." "It's like a jungle in here." "Alright, come on." "Something's happening." "It's giving." "Shit!" "Here it comes." "Here it comes." "Sweet Jesus." "How did you get in there?" "I'm getting the water." "Oh, my God." "It's the kitchen." "The kitchen?" "What are you saying?" "It's the kitchen!" "Cosimo..." "Cosimo said the connecting wall was in the living room." "This is the living room." "How can this be the living room if that's the fucking kitchen?" "What do you think, it's in the... fucking... closet?" "Oh, shit." "You moron." "You unbelievable, idiot moron." "How was I supposed to know that they had two living rooms?" "Who the hell has two living rooms?" " You should've looked." " You should have looked," "While we were busting our asses" " with that crank." " I got the water!" "You unbelievable hack!" "You poser!" "You've killed us!" " Me?" " Yes, you." "You've killed us." "What are you talking about?" "We just move the crank in here, and we do it again." "It's 3 a.m." "We'd never get through the wall then crack the safe." "We could drill fast." "It's impossible!" "We'd drill our way right into the joint." "It's over." "Oh, we can still do it." "We can still do it." "I'm telling you." "Leon, help me." "We'll never make it, man." "Hey, Toto." "Come on." "God, I needed that money!" "I needed it so bad!" "You've ruined us!" "What are you talking about?" "I did everything from the start." "It was me." "I got the Bellini." "I planned the job." "I wooed the girl." "I paid off Babitch." "I did everything!" "I gave everything I had for this!" "Everything!" "You know what we did?" "We believed." "You gave us hope with your fucking Bellini, and then you ripped our hearts out and you smashed them with your bare hands!" "What is that?" "What?" "Christ!" "I'm more broke now" "Than I was when I started this fucking thing!" "I wish I'd never met you!" "Any of you!" "Jeez, um, Jesus, I think I'm gonna be sick." "All right, I'm sorry." "I have a kid, for Chrissake." "What am I gonna do?" "Sweet Jesus." "Hey, guys, take a look at this." "It's a cookie-jar stash." "Must be a thousand bucks here." "Not a bad consolation prize, huh?" "Let me see that." "Oh, it's delicious." "The girl must have made it before they fired her." "I'm gonna heat this up." "Least we'll eat good before we go." "The pilot light must be out." "Got a match?" "Wait, wait a minute." "Does anybody smell...?" "I think it's probably a good idea if we don't see each other anymore." "Wait a second." "I've got to give you your cut of the take." "It's for your wife." "Get her home." "Thanks." "What are you gonna do?" "It just wasn't our night." "I'd better get home and apologize to my sister." "Be well, old man." "If you get any more Bellinis..." "Just give me a call." "So... where you going?" "I don't know." "Get cleaned up." "Maybe I'll go see Carmela." "That's a good idea." "She's a nice girl." "Yeah." "I'll s..." "Hey, this safe..." "This job... is nothing." "It's just money." "Money comes, money goes." "I'm an old man." "I know." "But to have someone... somebody to walk with... at your side..." "That's everything." "She's a nice girl." "Yeah." "Yeah, she is." "Brotha" "Lover" "Maybe the sun" "Maybe the sun is here to stay" "Maybe the rain" "Will have to come back another day" "Maybe it's just the dizzy" "Days of June" "My head is floating like a helium..." "Maybe I wished" "Maybe I wished upon the star" "And now the moon" "And now the moon don't seem so far" "Maybe I'm just imagining things" "Maybe it's a touch of love flu" "Maybe it's not" "Maybe it's just you" "Maybe the world" "Maybe the world has gotten more spin" "In lady love" "Looks like she's finally moving in" "Maybe my heart has gotten plucked all it's string" "So tell me that it's true" "Maybe it's love" "And maybe it's you" | 2024-07-28T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/2500 |
Only hours after President Donald Trump's aide, Kellyanne Conway, had a fiery exchange with CNN's Chris Cuomo over whether or not the White House was obsessed about Hillary Clinton, the president completely undercut her argument.
On Thursday morning, the president, spending his "Executive Time" watching "Fox & Friends," angrily tweeted about his Democratic opponent in 2016, while slamming the infamous dossier in an attempt to distract from the ongoing probe by special counsel Robert Mueller into the Trump campaign's alleged ties to the Kremlin.
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But just the night before, Conway vociferously defended Trump and insisted no one in the White House cared about Clinton.
"We don't care about her. Nobody here talks about her," Conway said. "Nobody here talks about Hillary Clinton, I promise you."
Conway also asserted that the public still had not gotten over the election and that most haven't moved on. Trump, however, was handing out electoral maps last year touting his victory.
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"So many people can’t get over the election results," Conway said.
Cuomo fired back, "Says my friend who can’t keep Hillary Clinton’s name out of her mouth."
"I'll make you a deal," Conway said. "I'll never talk about her [Clinton] again, but then you can't talk about the 2016 election."
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"I'm not, I haven't mentioned the election once," Cuomo replied.
In recent months, Conway has tweeted about Clinton on numerous occasions herself.
The two continued to talk over each other, and Cuomo brought up the alleged Russian election meddling, as well as the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting in which top Trump campaign officials met with a Russian lawyer with potential ties to the Kremlin in order to receive dirt on Clinton.
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"The idea that we would have to look any further than Hillary Clinton to beat Hillary Clinton is a fantasy," Conway said.
The CNN host added, "Is we inconclusive of Don Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort, who went to a meeting with a Russian lawyer who was promising dirt on Hillary Clinton?"
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"And what came of that meeting? Absolutely nothing," Conway responded.
"That's not the point," Cuomo emphasized. "The point is why you went."
In essence, Conway's behavior was a larger metaphor of the Trump presidency. Either Conway — who delivered to America the phrase "alternative facts" — was deliberately lying about Trump's personal obsession with deflecting and pointing the finger at Clinton, or she has proven yet again that the right hand still has truly no idea what the left is doing.
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The exchange didn't end on television, though, continuing on Twitter Thursday morning.
And the coda of this story comes from Kellyanne Conway, who went on "Fox & Friends," where she talked about Hillary Clinton. | 2023-11-04T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/7828 |
Organization structure and the performance of hospital emergency services.
A comparative study of 30 hospital emergency departments (EDs) and nearly 1,500 individuals associated with them was conducted. Data were obtained from institutional records, physicians, patients, and other sources. The object was to investigate the relationship between the organization and performance of these health service systems. The study assessed the quality of medical care, the quality of nursing care, and the economic efficiency of hospital EDs. The results show substantial interinstitutional differences in these criteria. They also show a significant relationship between medical and nursing care, but not between the quality of care and economic efficiency. Differences in ED performance are related to medical staffing patterns, medical teaching affiliation, personnel training, scope of emergency services, number of patient visits processed, and hospital size and complexity. Not all of these variables, however, correlate positively with all three criteria of performance, nor are they equally important to each. | 2024-04-02T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/5363 |
Caiway
Caiway (or simplified as CAIW) is a cable operator in the Netherlands, providing digital cable television, Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in mainly the Westland, Twente and Schiedam areas.
Caiway began as CAI Westland (Central Antenna Installation Westland) in 1981 and it was the first cable operator to offer internet in the Netherlands, starting in 1995. At the end of 2017, the company was taken over by the Swedish investment fund EQT. EQT was already the owner of cable operator DELTA operating in the province of the Zeeland. Both companies are within one holding DELTA Fiber Netherlands as of 1 August 2018.
See also
Digital television in the Netherlands
Internet in the Netherlands
List of cable companies in the Netherlands
Television in the Netherlands
References
External links
Category:Telecommunications companies of the Netherlands
Category:Cable television companies of the Netherlands
Category:Internet service providers of the Netherlands | 2024-05-02T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/9965 |
I went to Penang for two days, 15th to 16th October for fixed asset disposal audit. It was my first time went for a business trip sepanjang keje in this company (cess..bunyi cam da lama keje je =p). Kalo ikot first schedule, members yg join sepatutnya two gals n two guys. But then schedule drevised. I was the only gal, ditemani 3 org jejaka. Jejaka?? Err..not really! xsesuai! We went for the audit activity at two vendors-cem and nissei which located at Prai. Kitorg nginap d Cititel Hotel, btol2 kt penang town. Actually I have nothing much to share here, maklumla stakat g buat keje je. Dah nama pun business trip kan. Bukannya holiday trip. Lagipun g penang je, dah slalu g. almaklumlah, my hometown pun kt utara gak. So xdela rasa excited sgt. But somehow, it was a good experience for me.
November 08, 2009
Apart from the bride's smile, the sweetest thing about weddings is definitely the wedding cake. The highlight of the reception is usually the cutting of the cake which takes place just before dessert is served.
Cakes come in all shapes and colours. So it is always best to do a bit of research before hunting for the best deals. Most important of all, we need to inform our cake designer of our wedding theme. These are some designs which attracted my two cutie eyes. s.w.e.e.t - s.i.m.p.l.e - c.r.e.a.m.y - d.e.l.i.c.i.o.u.s - e.l.e.g.a.n.c.e - c.r.e.a.t.i.v.e
* Individual tax relief on broadband subscription fee up to RM500 a year from 2010 to 2012.
* Public-private collaborations to include an integrated immigration, customs and quarantine complex in Bukit Kayu Hitam, construction of six UiTM campuses and the development of MATRADE centre
* 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) will establish a corporate social responsibility fund totalling RM100 million as a start to finance community activities
* Government to allocate RM899 million to intensify tourism industry.
* Government to enhance tax incentives for healthcare service providers who offer services to foreign health tourists with income tax exemptions of 100 per cent on the value of increased exports from 50 per cent previously.
* Individual taxpayers to be given tax relief on broadband subscription fee up to RM500 a year from 2010 to 2012
* Civil servants are eligible to apply for computer loans once in every three years and up to a maximum of RM5,000 from the government once in every five years
* To provide RM70 million to build the Paya Peda Dam Project in Terengganu to increase water supply capacity to paddy irrigation scheme in Besut.
* Allocate RM82 million to modernise aquaculture industry and conduct entrepreneurship training scheme for aquaculture breeders with focus on production of fish fry and ornamental fish.
* “The stock market will be further liberalised to enhance its efficiency as well as attract domestic and foreign investment. For this purpose, the government will undertake the following measures: First, liberalise the commission sharing arrangements between stockbrokers and remisiers in 2 stages to encrouage retail participation in the stock market. The first stage, which takes effect immediately, allows flexible brokerage sharing at a minimum rate of 40 percent for remisiers. The commission sharing will be fully liberalised in the second stage, effective 1 January 2011.
* “Allow 100 per cent foreign equity participation in corporate finance and financial planning companies compared with the present requirement of at least 30 per cent local shareholding.
* “Islamic banking assets account for 18.8 per cent of Malaysia’s total banking assets while takaful industry assets contribute 7.7 per cent of total insurance and takaful industry assets. To ensure rapid development of financial services, particulalrly in Islmaic finance, the government proposes that the existing tax incentives be extended to 2015.
* “The government is currently at the final stage of completing the study on the implementation of goods and services tax (GST), particularly to identify the social impact of GST on the people. The purpose of this study is to ensure that if GST needs to be implemented to stabilised Government finance, it will not burden the population. “If the government implements GST, it will replace the current sales tax and service tax as well as exemption will be granted to the low income group. The GST rate to be imposed will be lower than the current sales tax and service tax rates.
* “The government needs to ensure that the Malaysian tax system is equitable and able to generate revenue for development purposes. In line with this, the government proposes that a tax of five per cent be imposed on gains from the disposal of real property from 1 January 2010.
* Effective Jan 1 2010, government agrees to allow agencies to retain 50 per cent of rentals received while the remaining 50 per cent will be remitted to the government as revenue.
* The Government will implement fuel subsidy management system in early 2010.
* The Government proposes the maximum income tax rate to be further reduced to 26 per cent from 27 per cent effective from the 2010 year of assessment.
* Maximum tax rate for cooperatives will be reduced to 26 per cent while the fixed tax rate for non-resident individuals will be cut to 26 per cent.
* Personal tax relief will be increased to RM9,000 from RM8,000 effective from the 2010 year of assessment.
* The Government also proposes income tax on employment income of Malaysians and foreign knowledge workers residing and working in Iskandar Malaysia be imposed at 15 per cent compared with the maximum 26 per cent for the rest of the country.
* Government to launch a scheme in January 2010 that enables EPF contributors to utilise current and future savings in Account 2 to promote house ownership.
* RM14.8 billion is allocated to manage, build and upgrade hospitals and clinics.
* The Government will issue 1Malaysia Sukuk totalling RM3 billion.
* The Government will establish the 1Malaysia Retirement Scheme to be administrated by EPF.
* Employees EPF contributions will be raised again to 11 per cent on a voluntary basis with immediate effect. However, from Jan 1, 2011 employees' EPF contribution will revert to 11 per cent.
* The Government proposes existing personal tax relief of RM6,000 for EPF contributions and life insurance premiums be raised to RM7,000.
* Government allocates RM2.3 billion to build and upgrade infrastructures in rural areas.
* Government provides RM41 million to improve income and quality of life of the Orang Asli Community by implementing various projects.
* Budget 2010 allocations totalled RM191.5 billion, of which RM138.3 billion is for operating expenditure and RM53.2 billion for development expenditure.
* Federal Government revenue in 2010 to decline by 8.4 per cent to RM148.8 billion.
* Budget deficit at 5.6 per cent of GDP compared with 7.4 per cent in 2009 .
Hand bouquet is almost a must in every wedding. There are various types of hand bouquet which i found through the net. Every people ade citarasa tersendiri. But watever design n color we go for, make sure it is well match to what we pun on the body! Baju persalinan and bunga tangan kena match, barulah nmpk lebey outstanding n attractive! For myself, i love bouquet with simple design. Simple but elegance. | 2024-07-18T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/2602 |
Understanding and Working with Infants and Toddlers of International Families in Group Care.
Vallery, Arlee
Increasing numbers of families from foreign countries reside temporarily or permanently in the United States. These "international families" are enrolling infants and toddlers in child care programs. In many such programs, the diversity of countries and languages represented presents a challenge for creating an integrated, cohesive group. To learn about and interact with culturally different persons in a nonstereotyped way, service providers are faced with the necessity of adopting a world view. Careful staff planning can enhance the success of multicultural preschool programs. Attention should be given to the following questions: Are all center policies in writing, and are they easily understood by adults with limited comprehension of English? What arrangements can be made to help the non-English-speaking child adjust? What can be done to assist children and staff in understanding and accepting cultural differences in dress, food habits, and religious customs? What support services does the community offer for international students and families? This paper includes suggestions for helping young children adjust, cites publications containing guidelines for promoting multicultural education, lists resources for observing families, and presents a set of problems and solutions to consider in center policy formation. (RH) | 2023-12-05T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/1684 |
Q:
Ajax/Jquery Form won't work
I have a login form that is working in a kinda same way I don't know why this won't work. When I press 'Criar' it does nothing, it doesn't even change the text of that Button to 'Loading ...' as I have stated on beforeSend function. I started using Jquery so sorry if it is a stupid mistake!
Form
<form id="criarSubCategoria-form" class="form-horizontal" role="form" action="criarCategoria.php" method="post">
<div class="col col-lg-4">
<label for="nome">Nome:</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="nome" name="nome">
</div>
<br>
<div class="form-group margin-top-pq">
<div class="col-sm-12 controls">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary" name="btn-criarSubCategoria" id="btn-criarSubCategoria">
Criar
</button>
</div>
</div>
</form>
click Function
$('document').ready(function(){
$("#btn-login").click(function(){}); // this one is working so I didn't put all the code here
$("#btn-criarSubCategoria").click(function(){
var data = $("#criarSubCategoria-form").serialize();
$.ajax({
type : 'POST',
url : '../functions/criarCategoria.php',
data : data,
dataType: 'json',
beforeSend: function()
{
$("#btn-criarSubCategoria").html('Loading ...');
},
success : function(response){
if(response.codigo == "1"){
$("#btn-criarSubCategoria").html('Entrar');
$("#login-alert").css('display', 'none')
}else{
$("#btn-criarSubCategoria").html('Entrar');
$("#login-alert").css('display', 'block')
$("#mensagem").html('<strong>Erro! </strong>' + response.mensagem);
}
}
});
});
});
A:
jQuery is not define. Or use jQuery instead of $ will works.
Change 1st line
jQuery(document).on("click", "#btn-criarSubCategoria", (function(e, $){
| 2023-08-24T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/6425 |
--- sysklogd-1.5.orig/klogd.c
+++ sysklogd-1.5/klogd.c
@@ -260,11 +260,8 @@
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <errno.h>
-#include <sys/fcntl.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
-#if !defined(__GLIBC__)
-#include <linux/time.h>
-#endif /* __GLIBC__ */
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <paths.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
@@ -279,13 +276,8 @@
#define __LIBRARY__
#include <linux/unistd.h>
-#if !defined(__GLIBC__)
-# define __NR_ksyslog __NR_syslog
-_syscall3(int,ksyslog,int, type, char *, buf, int, len);
-#else
#include <sys/klog.h>
#define ksyslog klogctl
-#endif
#define LOG_BUFFER_SIZE 4096
#define LOG_LINE_LENGTH 1000
--- sysklogd-1.5.orig/ksym_mod.c
+++ sysklogd-1.5/ksym_mod.c
@@ -113,12 +113,9 @@
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <errno.h>
-#include <sys/fcntl.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include "module.h"
-#if !defined(__GLIBC__)
-#include <linux/time.h>
-#endif /* __GLIBC__ */
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <paths.h>
#include <linux/version.h>
--- sysklogd-1.5.orig/pidfile.c
+++ sysklogd-1.5/pidfile.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
*/
#include <stdio.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/file.h>
--- sysklogd-1.5.orig/syslog.c
+++ sysklogd-1.5/syslog.c
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/file.h>
-#include <sys/signal.h>
#include <sys/syslog.h>
#if 0
#include "syslog.h"
@@ -64,6 +63,8 @@
#include <sys/uio.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
+#include <signal.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <time.h>
--- sysklogd-1.5.orig/syslogd.c
+++ sysklogd-1.5/syslogd.c
@@ -519,9 +519,9 @@
#include <time.h>
#define SYSLOG_NAMES
+#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/syslog.h>
#include <sys/param.h>
-#include <sys/errno.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
@@ -823,9 +823,7 @@
void init();
void cfline(char *line, register struct filed *f);
int decode(char *name, struct code *codetab);
-#if defined(__GLIBC__)
#define dprintf mydprintf
-#endif /* __GLIBC__ */
static void dprintf(char *, ...);
static void allocate_log(void);
void sighup_handler();
@@ -860,15 +858,9 @@
register char *p;
#ifndef TESTING
ssize_t msglen;
-#endif
-#if !defined(__GLIBC__)
- int len, num_fds;
-#else /* __GLIBC__ */
-#ifndef TESTING
socklen_t len;
#endif
int num_fds;
-#endif /* __GLIBC__ */
/*
* It took me quite some time to figure out how this is
* supposed to work so I guess I should better write it down.
@@ -2126,7 +2118,7 @@
(void) signal(SIGCHLD, reapchild); /* reset signal handler -ASP */
wait ((int *)0);
#else
- union wait status;
+ int status;
while (wait3(&status, WNOHANG, (struct rusage *) NULL) > 0)
;
| 2024-03-20T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/3080 |
Q:
LC Filter for Phase Control
Can you point me to a good online resource to learn how to understand and design LC filters?
The goal is digital forward phase control to dim a light bulb. I've read that the EMI produced by the voltage spikes when a TRIAC goes into the "on" state can be bad news for other electrical devices nearby on on the same supply circuit.
http://www.epanorama.net/documents/lights/lightdimmer.html gives an example circuit with a 50-to-100 microhenry inductor in series with the TRIAC, and a 100 nF capacitor in parallel with it, but I don't know how the author came up with those numbers.
A:
Are you talking about this circuit?
R1 R2
180 1K
+---/\/\/\----------+ +----/\/\/-------------+------------+-----------> 230V
1| |6 | | Hot
+=====+ IC1 | MT1 |
| MOC | TRIAC +-+ |
| 3020| Driver G | | TRIAC |
+=====+ /| | TIC226D |
2| |4 / +-+ |
+-------------------+ | | | MT2 |
+-------------------+ | |
| | |
\ | |
R4 / | | C1
1K \ | --- 100 nF
/ | --- 400V
| | |
| ) |
| ( L1 |
| ) 50..100 |
| ( uH |
| | | Neutral
+--+------------+----o o--> 230V
load
The values are standard "band-aid" values to improve ripple. They both store energy for the load to use during transitions. The author most likely picked these values from experience instead of calculations, just like one would choose decoupling values for digital IC Vcc pins ("Hmm, this one uses about 10mA max, so a single 100nF cap aught'a do'er!") . It's not like a SMPS, where an inductor's precise value is critical to the device's range of operation. One can make rough estimates by comparing the maximum energy used by the load during "dead time" (time between zero-crossing and SCR switch) and energy stored in the inductor: EL = 1/2LI2 (use RMS current). For this application, though, the inductor will likely saturate and empty very quickly, so the stored energy really just smoothes the transitioning voltages.
| 2024-02-07T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/5413 |
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition to take up an appeal by a minister who claimed an income tax exclusion for two homes. A shockwave of surprise arose when the U.S. Tax Court originally ruled in late 2010, on a technicality, that federal tax law does not limit the number of homes for which a minister can receive special tax-free benefits. The federal government appealed the Tax Court decision, and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the Tax Court in 2012, ruling that the clergy housing exclusion is limited to a single home. The minister, Philip Driscoll, then filed a petition to have the case considered by the U.S. Supreme Court. The denial issued by the Supreme Court leaves the issue where the IRS and the vast majority of clergy have understood it to be for decades – that the clergy housing exclusion is limited to a single home. | 2023-12-22T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/2463 |
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a device to assist in leveling wall-mounted pictures and other objects and to keep them in leveled condition.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Picture frames are commonly hung by wire from one or two wall-mounted hooks and are adjusted after hanging to achieve a level condition of the top and bottom edges and a vertical condition of the side edges. Such picture leveling has normally been accomplished by adjusting it back and forth by eye until it appeared to be level from a distance, by measuring from a known vertical edge such as a door or window frame or room corner, or from a known level such as the floor or ceiling. In some instances a level indicating device has been used such as a spirit level placed against one edge of the frame to determine whether or not the adjustment has leveled the picture. This requires that the person hanging the picture either hold onto the level with one hand and attempt to adjust the picture with the other hand, which can be a difficult maneuver, or to set the level down, trial adjust the picture with both hands, and then check it with the level. | 2024-02-18T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/7254 |
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates to fugitive colorant solutions containing an acid substituted chromophore and an amine ethoxylate associated with the acid substituent of the chromophore.
2. Prior Art
Amine ethoxylates have been found to be useful as detergents in removing or inhibiting textile stains. Sapers, U.S. Pat. No. 3,591,325 discloses an alkaline stripping bath containing sodium hydrosulfite and an aliphatic amine which has been ethoxylated and quaternized with a halogenated aromatic compound such as benzyl chloride. The stripping bath is useful to remove the color from treated fabric. The amines are ethoxylated with 4 to 12 moles of ethylene oxide, preferably 5 to 11 moles. In addition to the formulation of Sapers, strong reducing agents such as sodium hydrosulfite have been used alone to decolorize dyes.
Coe et al., U.S. Pat. No. 4,065,257, provide a detergent composition having an ethoxylated amine. The amine contains an unbranched aliphatic hydrocarbon substituent and two polyethyleneoxide substituents which, preferably, contain a total of 8 to 16 moles of ethylene oxide.
Stable solutions of anionic dyes have been produced by reacting the alkali or ammonium salts of acid dyes with a polyalkoxyalkylamine, examples of which may be found in the following U.S. patents:
______________________________________ U.S. Pat. No. 4,087,245 Kramer et al. PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF CONCENTRATED SOLUTIONS OF ANIONIC DYE- STUFFS U.S. Pat. No. 4,198,203 Groll et al. DYESTUFF SOLUTIONS OF COPPER PHTHALO- CYANINE DERIVA- TIVES FOR PAPER DYEING U.S. Pat. No. 4,282,000 Groll et al. DYESTUFF SOLUTIONS, THEIR PREPARATION AND THEIR USE FOR DYEING PAPER U.S. Pat. No. 4,654,045 Rowe PROCESS FOR PREPARATION OF CONCENTRATED ANIONIC RED DYE SOLUTIONS ______________________________________
In Rowe, production of salt as a byproduct is avoided by displacing a volatile amine with the polyalkoxyalkylamine group. The resulting red dye solution is useful for permanently dyeing nylon. The polyalkoxyalkylamine substituent contains less than nine ethoxy or propoxy groups, preferably from one to three ethoxy groups. The oxyalkylene groups are added to enhance solubility rather than provide fugitivity.
Colorants containing ethoxylated aromatic amines are known in the prior art and exemplified by Gale et al., U.S. Pat. No. 3,154,534 and Kuhn, U.S. Pat. No. 3,157,633. In the aforementioned inventions, the alkoxylated amino nitrogen is covalently bonded to an aromatic ring comprising the chromophore. The substituted chromophore of Kuhn has from 75 to 150 ethyleneoxy units which provides fugitivity even after the colorant has been heat set on a textile material. When heat setting is not involved, approximately 30 ethyleneoxy units have been found to be sufficient to impart fugitivity.
Triethanolamine (TEA), a starting material used in the present invention, is a well known dye levelling agent. In an acid dye bath, TEA reduces penetration of the dye into a textile material to prevent differential dye uptake. Surfactant compositions of alkoxypropylamine are discussed in Funahashi, H., "The Interaction between Poly(oxyethyl)ated Alkoxypropylamine Surfactants and Dyes", Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 125, No. 1, pp 279-285, September 1988. | 2024-02-11T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/5604 |
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CHARLES GIBSON, ABC: We are back at the Dana Humanities Center at Saint Anselm College here in Manchester, New Hampshire.
And I am delighted to say that the four leading Democratic presidential candidates vying for the Democratic nomination are all joining us this evening. And we have, again, drawn lots for their placement on the stage.
And so let me introduce them from left to right. We have with us former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico and Senator Hillary Clinton from New York.
And again, for the first 45 minutes of this debate, I will be posing questions in three rather broad categories. We'll do 15 minutes each, but with the hope that I can sort of stay out of the way to the extent possible and let the candidates discuss the issues among themselves.
There are no lights to limit -- time limits, at least for this part of the debate. But I will interrupt politely, I hope, if things seem to be going a little bit long.
So let me start with what is generally agreed to be, I think, the greatest threat to the United States today, and, somewhat to my surprise, has not been discussed as much in the presidential debates this year as I thought would be, and that is nuclear terrorism.
BRIAN ROSS, ABC CHIEF INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT: After more than six years of trying, the United States still does not have a reliable way to spot nuclear material that terrorists might smuggle into the country, much as ABC News twice did in demonstrations without being caught.
And after six years of trying, the United States has yet to capture the man who says it is his religious duty to get nuclear weapons: Osama bin Laden.
And in the last 18 months, U.S. officials say his Al Qaida has regrouped using safe havens along the Pakistani border to train and dispatch hundreds of new recruits.
ROSS: And just as troubling, amidst all the turmoil in Pakistan, the influence of bin Laden continues to grow there, a country with many nuclear weapons.
Charlie?
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MR. GIBSON: Brian Ross there.
Well, Osama bin Laden, as he pointed out, has said it is his duty to try to get nuclear weapons. Al Qaida has been reconstituted and re-energized in the western part of Pakistan.
And so my general question is, how aggressively would you go after Al Qaida leadership there?
And let me start with you, Senator Obama, because it was you who said in your foreign policy speech that you would go into western Pakistan if you had actionable intelligence to go after it, whether or not the Pakistani government agreed. Do you stand by that?
SEN. OBAMA: I absolutely do stand by it, Charlie. What I said was that we should do everything in our power to push and cooperate with the Pakistani government in taking on Al Qaida, which is now based in northwest Pakistan. And what we know from our national intelligence estimates is that Al Qaida is stronger now than at any time since 2001.
And so, back in August, I said we should work with the Pakistani government, first of all to encourage democracy in Pakistan so you've got a legitimate government that we're working with, and secondly that we have to press them to do more to take on Al Qaida in their territory.
What I said was, if they could not or would not do so, and we had actionable intelligence, then I would strike.
And I should add that Lee Hamilton and Tom Keaton, the heads of the 9/11 Commission, a few months later wrote an editorial saying the exact same thing.
I think it's indisputable that that should be our course.
Let me just add one thing, though. On the broader issue of nuclear proliferation, this is something that I've worked on since I've been in the Senate. I worked with Richard Lugar, then the Republican head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to pass the next stage of what was Nunn-Lugar so that we would have improved interdiction of potentially nuclear materials.
And it is important for us to rebuild a nuclear nonproliferation strategy, something that this administration, frankly, has ignored, and has made us less safe as a consequence.
It would not cost us that much, for example, and would take about four years for us to lock down the loose nuclear weapons that are still floating out there, and we have not done the job.
MR. GIBSON: I'm going to go the others in a moment, but what you just outlined is essentially the Bush doctrine. We can attack if we want to, no matter the sovereignty of the Pakistanis.
SEN. OBAMA: No, that is not the same thing, because here we have a situation where Al Qaida, a sworn enemy of the United States, that killed 3,000 Americans and is currently plotting to do the same, is in the territory of Pakistan. We know that.
And this is not speculation. This is not a situation where we anticipate a possible threat in the future.
And my job as commander in chief will be to make sure that we strike anybody who would do America harm when we have actionable intelligence do to that.
MR. GIBSON: Senator Edwards, do you agree with him?
SEN. EDWARDS: If I as president of the United States know where Osama bin Laden is, I would go get him, period.
This man is the mastermind of a mass murder in the United States of America. He is public enemy number one, as Al Qaida is.
But I would add, this has to be put into a bigger context of what should America be doing over the long term to deal with this whole issue of nuclear proliferation? Because if you look at Pakistan, it's a perfect vehicle for actually thinking about this issue.
Here's an unstable leader, Musharraf, in a country with a serious radical -- violently radical element that could, under some circumstances, take over the government.
If they did, they would have control of a nuclear weapon. They could either use it, or they could turn it over to a terrorist organization to be used against America or some of our allies.
I think the bigger picture on this is, what do we do over the long term?
Because what we're doing now is essentially an ad hoc, nation-by- nation, case-by-case basis of trying to control the spread of this nuclear technology.
In the short term, that is exactly what we should do and what I would do as president of the United States. But A.Q. Khan, who developed the nuclear weapon for Pakistan, we know has already spread some of this technology to other places.
And I think this ad hoc policy does not work over the long term. And what I believe we should be doing over the long term and what I will do as president of the United States, besides dealing with these short-term threats -- which are very serious and should be taken seriously -- I, as president of the United States, want to do what some Republicans and some Democrats have said, which is to lead a long-term initiative -- international initiative -- to actually rid the world of nuclear weapons, because that is the only way to make the world safer and secure and to keep America safe.
MR. GIBSON: Well, you led me right up to the point of what you'd do if the Islamic radicals actually took control of the Pakistani government and, therefore, were in control of nuclear weapons, and then you went away from that. But I'll come back to that in a moment.
Governor Richardson?
GOV. RICHARDSON: In any foreign policy decision, I would use diplomacy first, in response to your question.
And that basically means that the last thing we need in the Muslim world is another action like Iraq, which is going to inflame the Muslim world in a horrendous way.
Now, here's what I would do.
First, with Pakistan, here is an example of a country, a potentially failed nation-state with nuclear weapons. What a president must do is have a foreign policy of principles and realism.
And the Bush foreign policy, with Musharraf, we get the worst of all worlds. We had a situation where he has not gone after Al Qaida in his own country, despite the fact that we've given him $11 billion. And he's also severely damaged the constitution. He's basically said that he is the supreme dictator. So we have the worst of all worlds.
What I would specifically do as president is I would ask Musharraf to step aside. There is a provision in the Pakistani constitution...
MR. GIBSON: Ask him to step aside?
GOV. RICHARDSON: Yes. For a caretaker...
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GOV. RICHARDSON: Because we have the leverage to do that.
GOV. RICHARDSON: We have the leverage to do that.
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GOV. RICHARDSON: And I would send a high-level envoy to ask him to step aside.
There's a provision in the Pakistani constitution for a caretaker government of technocrats. This happened when a previous prime minister died. And I would make it unmistakably clear that he had to have elections.
Now, elections are scheduled tentatively for February. A broadly based government, it's what's best for the United States.
MR. GIBSON: I understand your point about diplomacy, but Senator Obama's postulate was, we have actionable intelligence, the Musharraf government won't move. Do we, should we go into western Pakistan and, essentially, try to take him out?
GOV. RICHARDSON: If we have actionable intelligence that is real and if Musharraf is incapable, which he is -- because here's a man who has not stood up for his democracy, he is virtually in a situation where he's losing control -- then you do take that action.
However, Charlie, first you use diplomacy.
And diplomacy is to try to get what is best for the United States. And that is a democratic Pakistan with free and fair elections, and a concerted effort on the part of Musharraf or whoever is in the leadership in Pakistan to go after the terrorists in those safe havens which they have not done.
MR. GIBSON: Senator Clinton?
SEN. CLINTON: Well, I think it's important to get back to your question, because obviously that's the most direct threat to the United States.
We did take action similar to what has been described about 10 years ago, based on what was thought to be actionable intelligence, sending in missiles to try to target bin Laden and his top leadership who were thought to be at a certain meeting place.
They were not taken out at the time.
So we have to be very conscious of all the consequences.
Now, as far as I know, there are, like, five things quickly that we should be looking at.
Bin Laden has in large measure regrouped because we did not put in the troops and make the commitment to aggressively going after him inside Afghanistan when we had a chance. Therefore, we need more NATO troops and a faster effort to train the Afghan army so that we do have the personnel and the technology, including the Predators, to be able to be on the spot at the time to try to move as quickly as possible.
Secondly, I think it's imperative that any actionable intelligence that would lead to a strike inside Pakistan's territory be given the most careful consideration.
SEN. CLINTON: And at some point -- probably when the missiles have been launched -- the Pakistani government has to know they're on the way. Because one of the problems is the inherent paranoia about India in the region in Pakistan, so that we've got to have a plan to try to make sure we don't ignite some kind of reaction before we even know whether the action we took with the missiles has worked.
Real quickly, thirdly, so far as we know right now, the nuclear technology is considered secure, but there isn't any guarantee, especially given the political turmoil going on inside Pakistan.
I would work very hard to try to get Musharraf, who is the elected president -- these elections are about parliamentary positions. If you remove Musharraf and have elections, that's going to be very difficult for the United States to be able to control what comes next.
I would try to get Musharraf to share the security responsibility of the nuclear weapons with a delegation from the United States and, perhaps, Great Britain, so that there is some fail- safe.
And just, finally, I think that what we have to do is, Musharraf and Afghanistan, is to repair the failed policies of the Bush administration. And that's going to require intensive effort in the region. And Bill is right that we should be engaged in that diplomacy right away.
But this is the forgotten front line in the war against terrorism, because the Bush administration has walked away.
GOV. RICHARDSON: Charlie, I want us to just remember history. I want us to remember history.
Years ago, we backed the shah of Iran, a dictator. We are paying for that policy today by having backed a tyrant who repressed his people -- unintended consequences.
A president has to act.
I believe that we have to be on the side of the Pakistani people, not on the side of the dictator.
And what we have today is an opportunity to get Musharraf to step aside, to move toward this caretaker government, but also -- also -- to use the leverage of the assistance we've given him.
Most of the assistance that we've given him -- $11 billion, he hasn't used to go after terrorists. He's put it in military assistance for his fight against India. The money has been stolen.
We get the worst of all worlds. If we stand on a foreign policy of principle, of human rights, along with protecting our security, that is the best direction for our foreign policy.
SEN. OBAMA: Let me just pick up on a couple of things that have been said. And I think people are in broad agreement here. But I think one of the things that's been left out is Iraq. And part of the reason that we neglected Afghanistan, part of the reason that we didn't go after bin Laden as aggressively as we should have is we were distracted by a war of choice.
And that's the flaw of the Bush doctrine. It wasn't that he went after those who attacked America. It was that he went after those who didn't.
And as a consequence, we have been bogged down, paid extraordinary -- an extraordinary price in blood and treasure, and we have fanned the anti-American sentiment that actually makes it more difficult for us to act in Pakistan.
Just one more point I want to make on this, Charlie. I think it is absolutely true that we have to, as much as possible, get Pakistan's agreement before we act. And that's always going to be the case.
MR. GIBSON: I want to...
SEN. OBAMA: But we have to make sure that we do not hesitate to act when it comes to Al Qaida. Because they are currently stronger than they were at any time since 2001, partly because we took our eye off the ball.
MR. GIBSON: I want to go to another question. And it really is the central one in my mind in nuclear terrorism. The next president of the United States may have to deal with a nuclear attack on an American city.
MR. GIBSON: I've read a lot about this in recent days. The best nuclear experts in the world say there's a 30 percent chance in the next 10 years.
Senator Sam Nunn, in 2005, who knows a lot about this, posed two questions that stick in my mind. And I want to put them to you here.
On the day after a nuclear weapon goes off in an American city, what would we wish we had done to prevent it? And what will we actually do on the day after?
Senator?
SEN. EDWARDS: Well...
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SEN. EDWARDS: Well, let me say first, this is the very point I was making a few minutes ago.
In the short term, we're faced with very, very serious threats about the possibility of these nuclear weapons getting in the hands of a terrorist group or somebody who wants to attack the United States of America.
The first thing is we have to immediately find out who's responsible and go after them. And that is the responsibility of the president of the United States.
Because if someone has attacked us with a nuclear weapon, it means they have nuclear technology, it means they could have gotten another nuclear weapon into the United States that we're unaware of. We have to find these people immediately and use every tool available to us to stop them.
Secondly, it is the responsibility of the United States -- and by the way, what I'm about to say doesn't just apply to a nuclear attack. It applies to this crisis that exists in Pakistan right now with the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
It is the responsibility of the president in times like this to be a force for strength, principled strength, but also calmness.
It is enormously important for the president of the United States not to take -- to react and to react strongly, but to do it in a way that is calming for the American people and calming for the world.
Because it would be an enormous mistake for the president of the United States to take a terrible, dangerous situation where millions of Americans or thousands of Americans could have lost their lives, and to ratchet up the rhetoric and make it worse than it already is.
SEN. OBAMA: Well, as I said, I've already been working on this. And I think this is the most significant foreign policy issue that we confront.
We would obviously have to retaliate against anybody who struck American soil, whether it was nuclear or not. It would be a much more profound issue if it were nuclear weapons.
That's why it's so important for us to rebuild the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty that has fallen apart under this administration.
We have not made a commitment to work with the Russians to reduce our own nuclear stockpiles. That has weakened our capacity to pressure other countries to give up nuclear technology. We have not locked down the loose nuclear weapons that are out there right now.
These are all things that we should be taking leadership on. And part of what we need to do in changing our foreign policy is not just end the war in Iraq; we have to change the mindset that ignores long- term threats and engages in the sorts of actions that are not making us safe over the long term.
MR. GIBSON: And I know, Senator Clinton, you've worked on this, as well.
SEN. CLINTON: Yes, I have.
MR. GIBSON: But in terms of retaliation, this is not likely going to be a state that sets off a nuclear attack (inaudible), it's going to be a stateless group.
SEN. CLINTON: Well, the first part of your question was, what would we wish we had done. And I have worked on this in past legislation to move in the direction that I think we should go to have a very high level of commitment from the White House, including a person responsible in our government for marshaling our resources against the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
SEN. CLINTON: There has to be a better organizing effort to make sure that every part of the United States government is working together. I don't think we've done what we need to do on homeland defense. You started that segment talking about the ease with which ABC smuggled things into this country. We haven't done enough on port security. We have not made the kind of commitment that is necessary to protect us from this kind of importation.
But let me just add that when you look at where we are, the stateless terrorists will operate from somewhere. I mean, part of our message has to be there is no safe haven.
If we can demonstrate that the people responsible for planning the nuclear attack on our country may not themselves be in a government or associated with a state, but have a haven within one, then every state in the world must know we will retaliate against those states.
There cannot be safe havens for stateless terrorists who are in these networks that are plotting to have the proliferation of nuclear weapons and be smuggling into our country or elsewhere the kind of suitcase device that could cause such havoc.
So I think we have to be very, very clear. You know, deterrence worked during the Cold War in large measure because the United States made it clear to the Soviet Union that there would be massive retaliation.
We have to make it clear to those states that would give safe haven to stateless terrorists, that would launch a nuclear attack against America that they would also face a very heavy retaliation.
MR. GIBSON: Final word, Governor?
GOV. RICHARDSON: Charlie, when I was secretary of energy, that was one of my responsibilities: securing nuclear stockpiles, nuclear materials, mainly with the Soviet Union.
I went there many times. We made progress.
But since then, there has been a proliferation of loose nuclear weapons, mainly in the hands of terrorists, that could cross, presumably, a border; that could be smuggled in in a cargo ship with our very weak port security.
If I'm elected president, I will do two things. First, I will seek immediate negotiations with the Soviet Union and other nuclear states to reduce the number of nuclear weapons, but also a treaty on fissionable material, where you have verification, where you try to secure those loose nuclear weapons from states like North Korea and others that could be drifting into the international community.
But most importantly, I think we have to realize that the challenges America faces internationally, they're transnational. They're stateless.
It's international terrorism. It's nuclear terrorism. It's environmental degradation. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Making us less dependent on fossil fuels. Those are the transnational challenges that are going to require international cooperation.
And this president believes in unilateralism. This president believes in going military first. This president believes in preemption. You discussed this in the Republican debate. My foreign policy would be different.
MR. GIBSON: I'm going to...
GOV. RICHARDSON: There would be realism,...
MR. GIBSON: I'm going to move on.
GOV. RICHARDSON: ... human rights and principles.
MR. GIBSON: I'm going to move on.
And I'm going to move on to domestic policy, how much the government is spending, how much you would spend with the programs you've proposed and the promises you've made.
MR. GIBSON: And some of that is entitlements. For a little background, ABC's Betsy Stark.
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ABC BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT BETSY STARK: Every hour of this new year, another 400 baby boomers will turn 60, swelling the ranks of those soon eligible to collect Social Security and Medicare. The forecasts are foreboding. By 2017, the Social Security surplus runs dry and the system begins taking in less tax revenue than it pays out in benefits.
For Medicare, the problems are even more severe. By 2013, the program's Hospital Insurance Fund is expected to fall into the red and the insurance premiums seniors pay for doctor's visits and prescription drugs are projected to keep rising.
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MS. STARK: Many young Americans simply assume there will be nothing left for them to guarantee the security of their old age.
Charlie?
MR. GIBSON: So I hope we have time to get to some of that, but before we get to it, talking about domestic policy, I want to get to the concept of change, because 60 percent of the people going into the Democratic caucuses in Iowa said they were going to go there for change, and that seemed to redound to your benefit, Senator Obama.
MR. GIBSON: And arriving here in New Hampshire, Senator Clinton, you called into question, really, what that means.
And you said, and I'm quoting you now, On a lot of issues, it's hard to know where he, referring to Senator Obama, stands. And people need to ask that. Everybody needs to be vetted.
So let me have a little dialogue between the two of you.
What does he need to be vetted on? And what questions are there about Senator Obama that are unanswered?
SEN. CLINTON: Well, let me say, first, that I think we're all advocating for change. We all want to change the status quo, which is George W. Bush and the Republican domination of Washington for so many years.
And we all are putting forth ideas about how best to deliver that change.
But I don't think you make change by, you know, calling for it or by demanding it; I think it is a result of very hard work, bringing people together, stating clearly what your goals are, what your principles are and then achieving them.
And I do think that, you know, part of what this primary process is all about, and New Hampshire voters are, you know, famously independent in making their judgments, is to look at our records, to evaluate where we stand and what we stand for.
And I think that there is a lot of, you know, room to ask all of us questions.
You know, Senator Obama has been -- as the Associated Press described it, he could have a pretty good debate with himself, because four years ago, he was for single-payer health care. Then he moved toward a rejection of that, a more incremental approach. Then he was for universal health care. Then he proposed a health care plan that doesn't cover everybody.
SEN. CLINTON: I think that's relevant. I mean, I think that what we're looking for is a president we can count on, that you know where that president is yesterday, today and tomorrow. And I think that, you know, there are questions that should be asked and answered from each of us. And I certainly have no problem with whatever scrutiny comes my way.
MR. GIBSON: Senator Obama?
SEN. OBAMA: Well, you know, I think the Associated Press was quoting some of your folks, Hillary, so let's talk specifically about health care, since you mentioned that.
I have been entirely consistent in my position on health care. What I said -- and I have said on the campaign trail this time -- is if I were designing a system from scratch, I would set up a single- payer system, because we could gain enormous efficiencies from it.
SEN. OBAMA: Our medical care costs twice as much per capita as any other advanced nation.
But what I've also said is that, given that half of the people are getting, already, employer-based health care, that it would be impractical for us to do so, which is why I put forward a plan that says anybody can get health care that is the same as the health care that I have as a member of Congress -- similar to the plans that you and John have offered.
We do have a philosophical difference. John and yourself believe that, if we do not mandate care, if we don't force the government to get to -- if the government does not force taxpayers to buy health care, that we will penalize them in some fashion.
I disagree with that because, as I go around town hall meetings, I don't meet people who are trying to avoid getting health care.
The problem is, they can't afford it. And the costs are too high. And so, as a consequence, we focus on reducing costs.
Now, this is a legitimate argument for us to have, but it's not true that I leave them out.
Your premise is, they won't buy it even if it's affordable. I disagree with that.
Now, let me just make one last point, because you say that somehow I have not been specific. Social Security is a great example, something that you just raised, Charlie.
And here's an area where John and myself were actually quite specific and said if we are going to deal with this problem specifically, what we need to do is to raise the cap on the payroll tax so that wealthy individuals are paying a little bit more into the system.
SEN. OBAMA: Right now, somebody like Warren Buffet pays a fraction of 1 percent of his income in payroll tax, whereas the majority of the audience here pays payroll tax on 100 percent of their income.
And I've said that was not fair. You criticized me for that, which is fine. We have a disagreement on that, but that's hardly because I wasn't specific on it. I was very specific on it, and...
SEN. CLINTON: Well, but I want to go back to health care and make another point. You have a mandate in your health care plan.
SEN. OBAMA: For children.
SEN. CLINTON: You mandate parents to have health care for children.
SEN. OBAMA: That's exactly right.
SEN. CLINTON: And, obviously, you did that because you want all children covered. So...
SEN. OBAMA: Because they don't have a choice.
SEN. CLINTON: Well, they don't have a choice, and you're going to make sure that parents get health care for children. So, you know, you stopped short of going the distance to make sure that we had a system that could actually deliver health care for everyone.
But it's not only about health care. You know, I think that two weeks ago, you criticized Senator Edwards in saying that he was unelectable because he had changed positions over the course of four years, that four years ago he wasn't for universal health care; now, he is.
Well, you've changed positions within three years on, you know, a range of issues that you put forth when you ran for the Senate, and now you have changed.
You know, you said you would vote against the Patriot Act. You came to the Senate; you voted for it. You said that you would vote against funding for the Iraq war. You came to the Senate, and you voted for $300 billion of it.
So I just think it's fair for people to understand that many of the charges that have been leveled, not just at me, but also at Senator Edwards, are not totally, you know, unrelated to the very record you have. And you've said records matter.
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SEN. CLINTON: And I think that we should get into examining everybody's record.
SEN. OBAMA: I want John to be able to get in on this, but since this was directed at me, let me just make sure that I address this.
First of all, I never said John was unelectable. Somebody asked me specifically what did I think was the difference between myself and John, and I pointed out some areas where I thought we had some differences.
SEN. CLINTON: And you said that he had changed positions, did you not?
SEN. OBAMA: And I did, because I thought that I'd been more consistent on those positions.
I have no problem, Hillary, with you pointing out areas where you think we have differences. But on health care, for example, the reason that I mandate for children is because children do not have a choice; adults do. And it's my belief that they will choose to have health care, if it is affordable.
Now, that's a perfectly legitimate policy difference for us to have. And that is different from saying that I will refuse to cover or leave out a bunch of individuals.
And the last point I just want to make on this, Charlie, is, you know, these are all good public servants. And everybody has great qualifications and has done good things.
But what I think is important that we don't do is to try to distort each other's records as election day approaches here in New Hampshire. Because what I think the people of America are looking for are folks who are going to be straight about the issues and are going to be interested in solving problems and bringing people together.
You know, Senator Obama and I have differences. We do. We have a difference about health care, which he and I have talked about before.
We have a fundamental difference about the way you bring about change. But both of us are powerful voices for change.
And if I might add, we finished first and second in the Iowa caucus, I think in part as a result of that.
Now, what I would say this: Any time you speak out powerfully for change, the forces of status quo attack. That's exactly what happens.
It's fine to have a disagreement about health care. To say that Senator Obama is having a debate with himself from some Associated Press story I think is just not -- that's not the kind of discussion we should be having.
I think that every time this happens, what will occur -- every time he speaks out for change, every time I fight for change, the forces of status quo are going to attack -- every single time.
SEN. EDWARDS: And what we have to remember -- and this is the overarching issue here, because what we really need in New Hampshire and in future state primaries, is we need an unfiltered debate between the agents of change about how we bring about that change. Because we have differences about that.
But the one thing I do not argue with him about is he believes deeply in change. And I believe deeply in change.
And any time you're fighting for that -- I mean, I didn't hear these kind of attacks from Senator Clinton when she was ahead. Now that she's not, we hear them.
And any time you speak out -- any time you speak out for change, this is what happens.
MR. GIBSON: With apologies to Governor Richardson, I think (inaudible).
SEN. CLINTON: Well, making change, making -- wait a minute. Now, wait a minute. I'm going to respond to this.
Because obviously -- obviously making change is not about what you believe. It's not about a speech you make. It is about working hard.
There are 7,000 kids in New Hampshire who have health care because I helped to create the Children's Health Insurance Program. There are 2,700 National Guard and Reserve members who have access to health care because, on a bipartisan basis, I pushed legislation through over the objection of the Pentagon, over the threat of a veto from President Bush.
SEN. CLINTON: I want to make change, but I've already made change. I will continue to make change. I'm not just running on a promise of change. I'm running on 35 years of change. I'm running on having taken on the drug companies and the health insurance companies, taking on the oil companies.
So, you know, I think it is clear that what we need is somebody who can deliver change. And we don't need to be raising the false hopes of our country about what can be delivered. The best way to know what change I will produce is to look at the changes that I've already made.
GOV. RICHARDSON: Well, I've been in hostage negotiations that are a lot more civil than this.
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You know, I think one of the things that we need to remember -- I'm going to say this again because I said it at a previous debate -- let's stay positive. You know, there will be plenty of time to get negative with the Republicans.
GOV. RICHARDSON: You heard them earlier.
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Let us talk about how we're going to make sure that we deliver health care for the American people, how we change America's foreign policy, how we make schools better and pay teachers better and get rid of No Child Left Behind.
Look, what we need is change. There's no question. But, you know, whatever happened to experience? Is experience kind of a leper? What is wrong with, you know, what is wrong with having -- what is wrong with having been, like myself, 14 years in the Congress, two Cabinet positions?
I mean, I've gone head-to-head with the North Koreans. We got the remains of soldiers back. We persuaded them to reduce their nuclear weapons.
What is wrong with being a governor and going to a state and giving health care to kids under 12 and creating jobs and balancing budgets?
What is wrong with being a secretary of energy who has made America, or tried to make America a land of clean energy (inaudible)?
My point is this: We want to change this country, but you have to have -- you have to know how to do it.
GOV. RICHARDSON: And there's nothing wrong with having experience.
So, you know, I love change. We all are for change. But the question is, examine the record of those that, in the past, have produced change and that has taken responsibilities. We need somebody that has been tested.
What I would say in response to the discussion that just took place is we have to understand what's at stake. Nobody cares about hearing a bunch of politicians fight. They're not the slightest bit interested in that, and they shouldn't be interested in it.
What's at stake here is a fight for the future of the middle class. And we do have different perspectives on how we fight for the middle class, how we fight for jobs, how we fight for health care.
And I believe, and I believe it very strongly, that there are entrenched special interests very well-financed -- some examples are drug companies, insurance companies, oil companies, et cetera -- that stand between America and the change that we need.
SEN. EDWARDS: And I think if you defend the way the system works, it's very hard to take those people on.
I believe -- and it's -- I've fought these people. I'm 54 years old. I've been fighting these people, these irresponsible corporations -- and there are good corporations in America, Charlie, and I want to point that out, good corporations, good employers. Costco. AT&T, for example, is now working to help unionize some of their offices and to bring jobs back...
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MR. GIBSON: We'll get -- we'll get to the commercials later.
SEN. EDWARDS: Let me finish this, though. I want to finish this.
The point is this: I think there are differences between us about how we fight for the future of the middle class. And I believe you have to be willing to take on these entrenched special interests. And I think if you're not willing to do it, it is impossible to bring about the change that the country needs.
MR. GIBSON: Final words, Senator.
SEN. OBAMA: And just to wrap up, part of the change that's desperately needed is to enlist the American people in the process of self-government.
And one of the areas that I have constantly worked on is not only pushing aside the special interests -- this past year, passing the toughest ethics reform legislation since Watergate -- but also making sure that the government is transparent and accountable.
SEN. OBAMA: And that's what I think people were responding to in Iowa. We saw it here in New Hampshire today. They want somebody who's talking straight to them about the choices that are ahead.
And they want to make sure that government is responding to them directly, because folks out there feel the American dream is slipping away. They are working harder for less. They are paying more for health care, for college, for gas at the pump. And they are having a tougher time saving and retiring.
And what they don't feel is that the government is listening to them and responding to them. That's the kind of change that I think we need.
MR. GIBSON: I'm going to move on to our third subject before I run out of time. And I want to turn to Iraq.
We started the surge early this year. You all opposed it. But there are real signs it has worked. So from background, our man in Baghdad for ABC, Terry McCarthy.
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TERRY MCCARTHY, ABC BAGHDAD CORRESPONDENT: It has been a tough 12 months in Iraq, with more U.S. troops killed than in any previous year of the war. But overall, the addition of an extra 30,000 troops has helped to reduce violence substantially. Civilian killings are down 65 percent in the last six months. U.S. deaths are down from 126 in May to 23 in December.
General Petraeus has repeatedly said the solution in Iraq must be political, not military. So far, political progress has been frustratingly slow.
But a year ago, many Americans, and the Iraqis, too, thought the country was a lost cause. Today, with improved security, life is returning to the streets of Baghdad.
Nobody yet says the war is over. But Iraqis are finally able to hope that things might be getting better.
Charlie?
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MR. GIBSON: So, I want to ask all of you: Are any of you ready to say that the surge has worked?
And Senator Clinton, let me start with you, because when General Petraeus was in Washington in September, you said it would take a willful suspension of disbelief to think that the surge could do any good.
SEN. CLINTON: And that's right. Because, remember, the purpose behind the surge was to create the space and time for political reconciliation, for the Iraqi government to do what only it can do and trying to deal with the myriad of unresolved problems that confront it.
And as your report said, you know, we have the greatest military in the world. We send in more of our troops, they will be able to dampen down the violence.
But there has not been a willingness on the part of the Iraqi government to do what the surge was intended to do, to push them to begin to make the tough decisions. And in the absence of that political action, 23 Americans dying in December is totally unacceptable.
You know, there is no more cause for us to be there if the Iraqis are just not going to do what they need to do to take care of their own country.
SEN. CLINTON: So it's time to bring our troops home and to bring them home as quickly and responsibly as possible.
And unfortunately, I don't see any reason why they should remain beyond, you know, today.
I think George Bush doesn't intend to bring them home. But certainly I have said when I'm president I will. Within 60 days, I'll start that withdrawal.
GOV. RICHARDSON: The policy's a massive failure.
Here are the measurements that we should look at. Thirty-nine hundred Americans have lost their lives.
There are 60,000 Americans today that are wounded, mainly mentally wounded.
Tell that to the family that only 23 died in December.
Look, here are the barometers that we need to look at.
First, there is no military solution. There's a political solution.
Secondly, has there been progress in any political compromises or reconciliation between the Sunni, the Shia and the Kurds? Zero.
Has there been progress in sharing oil revenues? Zero.
Has there been any regional elections? Zero.
Is the Maliki government intensifying its efforts to train the Iraqi security forces more than they have? No.
Is there any end to Iran's efforts to bring terrorist activities to Iraq? No.
Iran, Syria -- no one has participated in a regional solution.
There...
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GOV. RICHARDSON: No, Charlie, I mean, this is why I'm running for president. Because until we end this war, we cannot talk about the issues that need to be dealt with here: universal health care, improving schools, bringing people together.
You can't have change until you end the war, and that means bringing all of our troops home within a year and leaving none behind.
MR. GIBSON: I'm going to take this to Senator Obama and to Senator Edwards.
But -- and I'm not here to debate -- the parliament meets, an oil law is under consideration, de-Baathification has progressed to some extent, and were it not for the surge, instead of counting votes, we'd be counting bodies in the streets.
GOV. RICHARDSON: But this has been going on for years, Charlie.
MR. GIBSON: And all of you -- all of you wanted the troops out last year.
GOV. RICHARDSON: There is no serious progress.
MR. GIBSON: Would you have seen this kind of greater security in Iraq if we had followed your recommendations to pull the troops out last year, Senator Obama?
SEN. OBAMA: Let me respond.
I think the bar of success has become so low that we've lost perspective on what should be our long-term national interests.
It was a mistake to go in from the start, and that's why I opposed this war from the start. It has cost us upwards of $1 trillion. It may get close to $2 trillion. We have lost young men and women on the battlefield, and we have not made ourself safer as a consequence.
Now, I had no doubt, and I said at the time when I opposed the surge, that given how wonderfully our troops perform, if we place 30,000 more troops in there, then we would see an improvement in the security situation and we would see a reduction in the violence.
But understand, we started in 2006 with intolerable levels of violence and a dysfunctional government. We saw a spike in the violence. The surge reduced that violence, and we now are, two years later, back where we started two years ago. We have gone full circle at enormous cost to the American people.
SEN. OBAMA: What we have to do is to begin a phased redeployment to send a clear signal to the Iraqi government that we are not going to be there in perpetuity. Now, it will -- we should be as careful getting out as we were careless getting in.
I welcome the genuine reductions of violence that have taken place, although I would point out that much of that violence has been reduced because there was an agreement with tribes in Anbar province, Sunni tribes, who started to see, after the Democrats were elected in 2006, you know what? -- the Americans may be leaving soon. And we are going to be left very vulnerable to the Shias. We should start negotiating now.
That's how you change behavior. And that's why I will send a clear signal to the Iraqi government. They will have ample time to get their act together, to actually pass an oil law, which has been -- they've been talking about now for years. They will actually be able to conduct de-Baathification.
We will support them in all of those efforts.
But what we can't do is to continue to ignore the enormous strains that this has placed on the American taxpayer, as well as the anti-American sentiment that it is fanning, and the neglect that's happening in Afghanistan as a consequence.
MR. GIBSON: I'm going to go to Senator Edwards. But all of you serve in Congress or did serve in Congress. You know how slow legislatures can move; you've all experienced it in the United States Congress.
But, Senator Edwards, let me go to you. Some of you -- Governor Richardson, Senator Obama -- you have talked about a timetable for withdrawal, getting all troops out by the end of 2009, 2010. If the generals in Iraq came to you as President Edwards and said, Mr. President -- on January 21, 2009 -- you're wrong, you can't do this. You're going to send Iraq back into the kind of chaos we had before, are you going to stick with it?
SEN. EDWARDS: It is the responsibility of the president of the United States and the commander in chief to make policy decisions.
It is the responsibility -- of course, I would always listen to my uniformed military leadership -- directly. Not filtered through civilians -- directly.
But if you look at what happened in Iraq when the Brits began to pull their troops out, in the part of Iraq where those troops were located, there was a significant reduction in violence.
What the whole purpose -- just to be clear with people -- the whole purpose for the surge was to create some environment where there could be political progress and political reconciliation between Sunni and Shia.
Everyone believes -- even George Bush acknowledges that that's what we're trying to accomplish.
The question is, how do you get there?
Look at the loss of American lives; $600 billion and counting; and there's been essentially no political progress.
I don't believe -- and I think others would agree -- that there will be political progress until we make it clear that we're going to stop propping the Sunni and Shia up with American lives and with American taxpayer dollars.
So what we need to do -- and let me be very specific -- and this is what I will do as president: In the first year that I am president, I will pull 40,000 to 50,000 troops out very quickly.
I will continue a steady redeployment of combat troops out of Iraq until they are all out within about nine to 10 months.
If my military leadership says we need some more time to make sure that we can do this in the most effective way and the most efficient way and the safest way for my troops, of course I'd be listening to what they have to say.
But I will end combat missions in Iraq in the first year, and there will be no permanent military bases.
We have to end this war, and the only way to end the war is to end the occupation, which is what I will do as president.
MR. GIBSON: I've got one minute left, and I owe each of you 30 seconds.
GOV. RICHARDSON: Well, John, you can't end the war without -- you've got to get all the troops out to end the war because they become targets. And if you leave a small force behind, then you cannot bring the political reconciliation that is needed; you cannot bring a peacekeeping force by the United Nations or a donor conference to take over the $570 billion that we've spent on this war on resources that should be spent on health care and education for our own people.
This is where, with all due respect, we differ. I'd bring the troops back within a year. I don't want, in five years -- because I did, in another debate, some of you said you would keep troops, you wouldn't say you wouldn't get them out by 2013.
I don't want, in five years, to have to look at an 8-year old today -- an eighth grader, an American eighth grader today who is serving, five years from now, in Iraq. I don't want to hear about the death of an American.
You know, as a governor, I fly the flags half-mast upon a death. I'm sick of doing that. We need to stop that. We need to think of our veterans that are coming back with PTSD, with traumatic brain injuries, with mental anguish. We have a crisis on our hands.
And my whole point is that this whole campaign, everything we talk about -- universal health care, improving schools, helping kids -- cannot happen until we get out of this war, because the Congress and the president basically have a dysfunctional relationship where nothing gets done.
GOV. RICHARDSON: And I can see that as a governor from my state as I try to deal with health care and education.
So this is why it's so fundamental, and this is why I'm running for president. End this war, and the way you do it is by getting all the troops out in one year.
MR. GIBSON: I owed you 30 seconds. Now, you owe me 45, but that's...
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MR. GIBSON: Senator Clinton?
SEN. CLINTON: I think we're in vigorous agreement about getting our troops home as quickly and responsibly as we possibly can, serving notice on the Maliki government that the blank check they've had from George Bush is no longer valid.
We're going to have to have intensive diplomatic efforts in the region. I don't think anyone can predict what the consequences will be.
And I think we have to be ready for whatever they might be.
We have to figure out what we're going to do with the 100,000- plus American civilians who are there working at the embassy, working for not-for-profits or American businesses.
We have to figure out what we're going to do about all the Iraqis who sided with us, you know, like the translators who helped the Marines in Fallujah whom I met, who said they wouldn't have survived without them. Are we going to leave them?
You know, this is a complicated enterprise, so it has to be done right. And last spring, I began demanding that the Bush administration tell us whether they were undertaking the kind of planning that is necessary for the withdrawal.
And, clearly, they're not. So as soon as I am elected, I will task the Joint Chiefs and the secretary of defense and the security advisers to provide such a plan and to begin to execute it within 60 days.
MR. GIBSON: All right. Let me thank all of you. We're going to take a commercial break, three minutes. I'm going to bring Scott Spradling from WMUR up here, and we'll continue with some questions.
The Democratic debate from Manchester, New Hampshire, continues.
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I am joined, for the last half of this debate, as I was for the Republican debate, by the political director here in Manchester, New Hampshire, Scott Spradling.
And I appreciate all of you, again, being with us. It's good to have the four leading Democratic candidates with us. Just to reintroduce them, Senator John Edwards -- former Senator John Edwards, Senator Barack Obama, Governor Bill Richardson, Senator Hillary Clinton.
Scott?
MR. SPRADLING: Senator, I'd like to start with you.
I was watching the exchange in the first half and saw what looked like a little bit of a double team that's probably going to have a lot of people talking tomorrow morning.
(LAUGHTER)
SEN. CLINTON: I'm glad you noticed.
MR. SPRADLING: Yes, I did notice.
(LAUGHTER)
And I'd like to ask you this.
The University of New Hampshire Survey Center has been consistently trying to probe the minds of New Hampshire voters and get a sense of what they think about all of you. I'd be happy to report that the experience vs. change debate seems to be sinking it.
And what I'd like to get is to this: New Hampshire voters seem to believe that, of those of you on this stage, you are the most experienced and the most electable. In terms of change, they see Senators Obama and Edwards as the agents of change, in New Hampshire mindset.
My question to you is simply this: What can you say to the voters of New Hampshire on this stage tonight who see a resume and like it, but are hesitating on the likability issue, where they seem to like Barack Obama more?
SEN. CLINTON: Well, that hurts my feelings.
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MR. SPRADLING: I'm sorry, Senator. I'm sorry.
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SEN. CLINTON: But I'll try to go on.
(LAUGHTER)
He's very likable. I agree with that. I don't think I'm that bad.
SEN. OBAMA: You're likable enough, Hillary.
SEN. CLINTON: Thank you...
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You know, I think this is one of the most serious decisions that the voters of New Hampshire have ever had to make. And I really believe that the most important question is who is ready to be president on day one.
You know, the problems waiting, some of which we have talked about already, are huge and the stakes could not be higher.
And, you know, in 2000 we, unfortunately, ended up with a president who people said they wanted to have a beer with; who said he wanted to be a uniter, not a divider; who said that he had his intuition and he was going to, you know, really come into the White House and transform the country. And, you know, at least I think there are the majority of Americans who think that was not the right choice.
So I am offering 35 years of experience making change, and the results to show for it.
I, you know, respect and like both Senator Edwards and Senator Obama.
SEN. CLINTON: But I think if you want to know what change each of us will bring about, look at what we've done. And there are a lot of differences that I think need to be aired for the voters of New Hampshire.
Because I stand on my record of experience, and I appreciate Governor Richardson's long history of serving our country.
But I think I am an agent of change. I embody change. I think having the first woman president is a huge change...
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... with consequences across our country and the world. And that on the specific issues that I have worked on for a lifetime and the plans I have put forth, I believe I am more prepared and ready to actually deliver change.
SEN. CLINTON: And I think that ultimately is what Americans want to know and believe.
MR. SPRADLING: Senator, thank you.
Senator Obama, I don't know if your ears were ringing during the first debate. I asked a question about you earlier, and am interested to hear your response to what the Republican candidates for president laid out in arguments for you not being elected president.
I revved up the Republican attack machine. Please respond.
SEN. OBAMA: Well, you know, I have to admit that I was going back and forth between the Republicans and football.
(LAUGHTER)
MR. GIBSON: How did the Redskins do?
SEN. OBAMA: The Redskins lost.
(LAUGHTER)
But, look, I think there's no doubt that any of the candidates on this stage would represent significant change from George Bush. And we've seen a disaster, in both foreign policy and domestic policy, over the last seven years.
But what the people in Iowa were responding to, what I think that we're seeing here in New Hampshire, is a hunger for a different kind of politics that is very specific about pushing aside special interests that have come to dominate the agenda and the debate, reducing the power of lobbyists; something that I have done.
I think people are very concerned about making sure that the American people are let back into their government.
So when I, for example, worked with a Republican to set up a searchable database, so that every dollar of federal spending -- we would know. If there was a bridge to nowhere, you'd know who was sponsoring it, and hopefully embarrassing them. If there was a no-bid contract to Halliburton, you'd know about that.
Those are the kinds of steps that will actually lead to real changes in people's lives.
And that's how I worked at the state level, bringing Republicans and Democrats together to provide health insurance to people who didn't have it.
That's how we were able to provide tax cuts to working families. And that is what I intend to do as president of the United States of America.
MR. SPRADLING: Senator Thompson referred to your support as endorsements by some of the most liberal groups in the nation, trying to paint a picture that you would be way left of center.
SEN. OBAMA: Of course. But Scott, that's what they're going to do to any Democrat. I mean, we've seen this movie before. We know the Republican playbook.
Here's what I'm betting on, though, is that regardless of what the Republican candidates are talking about, I think that there are a whole host of Republicans, and certainly independents, who have lost trust in their government, who don't believe anybody is listening to them, who are staggering under rising costs of health care, college education, don't believe what politicians say.
And we can draw those independents and some Republicans into a working coalition, a working majority for change.
SEN. OBAMA: And the fact of the matter is I think that Senator Clinton has done some good work. I think Bill Richardson has done some good work, as has John Edwards.
But what we haven't seen over the last many years, even preceding George Bush, is tackling the big issues -- getting health care reform finally done, getting an energy policy that works.
And that's going to require a working majority for change. We're starting to build that. We saw it in Iowa. We're going to build it here in New Hampshire. And I think we can build it across the country.
MR. SPRADLING: Governor Richardson, I'm curious: Do you think to be president of the United States that prior executive experience is necessary? And is relative youth a detriment?
GOV. RICHARDSON: Well, I think prior executive experience is very important. I'm the only governor here. I'm the only person here who has actually balanced budgets.
You know, you want somebody in this position that has had executive experience.
And I will also say, Charlie, since, you know, I noticed Scott mentioned everybody else in the poll, he didn't mention me...
(LAUGHTER)
But that's OK.
MR. GIBSON: Did that hurt your feelings, too?
GOV. RICHARDSON: Well, a little bit.
(LAUGHTER)
MR. SPRADLING: Would you like to know?
GOV. RICHARDSON: You know, let's face it -- the next president is going to have to have foreign policy experience. And of all the candidates here, I'm the only one that's negotiated with foreign governments, I'm the only one that has faced down the North Koreans and Saddam Hussein, I'm the only one that has had the highest national security clearance.
You know, so there's something about having experience and been tested and represented...
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MR. SPRADLING: Can I follow up on that, then...
GOV. RICHARDSON: Sure.
MR. SPRADLING: ... with your resume.
I don't mean to interrupt, but I remember you as energy secretary coming to Boston for an energy summit way back in February of 2000, when the dialogue then was very similar to the dialogue that it is now: rising fuel prices, a struggling supply, frustration in the homes across New England and a call for some help.
MR. SPRADLING: Here we are this past Thursday -- we've established it -- that it's $100 a barrel. Is it fair to say to you, in this experience argument, that you, as energy secretary, you didn't get it done then, so why believe you'd get it done now because we're having the same debate?
GOV. RICHARDSON: Look, both parties have been failures in dealing with energy policy, but you know -- and I remember meeting you there. Remember what I did, Scott. I went to OPEC countries and tried to get them to increase production so prices would go down.
At the time, there was a home heating oil crisis here in New England. I created reserves of home heating oil. Look at the price now in New Hampshire, $3.20, something like that. It's the highest ever.
You know, what we need is an energy revolution in this country, not some of the bills that the Congress has passed.
GOV. RICHARDSON: We need to go to 50 miles per gallon fuel efficiency. We need to have 30 percent of all our electricity renewable. We need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by the year 2040.
And we need the American people to sacrifice a little bit. I would ask the American people, when it comes to being more energy- conscious, to be cognizant of appliances, of fuel efficiency, the vehicles we drive, mass transit.
You know, I -- and I did when I was energy secretary, air conditioners 30 percent more efficient. I started the renewable portfolio. So, I did some things, Scott.
The problem -- you're right. We need a bipartisan approach. But we need to reduce fossil fuels by 50 percent by the year 2020, because our planet is getting damaged. And Al Gore has been right.
GOV. RICHARDSON: He deserves the Nobel Prize. I'm glad he stayed out of the race.
(LAUGHTER)
MR. GIBSON: I'm going to go to Senator Edwards for just a moment.
You answered the first part of my question about executive training. You didn't talk about whether relative youth is a detriment.
GOV. RICHARDSON: I didn't hear that.
MR. GIBSON: When I asked you the question, I said, is prior executive experience a key requirement for being president and is relative youth a detriment?
GOV. RICHARDSON: Relative youth? No. You know, John F. Kennedy was 42 years old when he was elected president. He's my hero, and I think he was one of our greatest presidents because -- because he inspired, because he said he'd go to the moon in 10 years, because he said that we all collectively have to do something for the common good.
MR. GIBSON: Senator Edwards?
SEN. EDWARDS: What's my question?
(LAUGHTER)
No, I'm glad that people like me, Hillary. I'm glad they like...
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MR. GIBSON: The prior executive experience. And is relative youth a detriment?
SEN. EDWARDS: No, I think what matters -- we've had a lot of conversation about the first day in the White House. I think we ought to picture what that first day in the White House would be for each of us.
I'll just speak for myself. You know, I'm the candidate up here who's never taken a dime from a Washington lobbyist in my entire time in public life or a dime from a special interest PAC.
The first day that I'm president of the United States, there will be no corporate lobbyists working in my White House. There will be no lobbyist who's lobbied for foreign governments.
And this is a very personal cause for me, because I come from a family -- my father is in the audience tonight -- where my father worked for 37 years in the mills. He didn't get a chance, like I did, to have a college education.
And this is a fight for the middle class and families just like the one I grew up with. My grandmother, who helped raise me, had a fifth or sixth grade education, came from a family of share-croppers, she worked in the mill every day so that I could have the chances that I've had.
And this -- I spent 20 years fighting irresponsible corporations in courtrooms.
SEN. EDWARDS: I know what it takes to fight these people and win.
But here's what I would want people to know. What I want people to know is, this battle is deep inside me and it is personal.
And it matters whether it's personal or not, because is if it's either academic or political, when the tough fight comes, you'll walk away from it. You'll do what's political.
This fight is deeply personal to me. I've been engaged in it my whole life, to fight for the middle class, to fight against powerful special interests. And it is a fight I will wage on behalf of the American people as president of the United States and win, as I have for 54 years.
MR. SPRADLING: Senator, I'd like to follow that up then.
SEN. EDWARDS: Sure.
MR. SPRADLING: You served six years in the U.S. Senate.
SEN. EDWARDS: Yes.
MR. SPRADLING: And on the campaign trail, it seems like you don't talk a lot about the six years. The people of New Hampshire probably remember you talking about your war vote and explaining later on why you weren't happy about that.
SEN. EDWARDS: Yes.
MR. SPRADLING: Can you give New Hampshire voters a guide of something significant that you accomplished in your six years as a U.S. senator...
SEN. EDWARDS: Absolutely.
MR. SPRADLING: ... that would give us some guide as to what kind of president you're going to be?
SEN. EDWARDS: Absolutely. I could tell you exactly one -- I'll give you one very specific example, a big example.
When the Democrats finally took over the United States Senate, the first issue that was brought to the table was the so-called patient's bill of rights, so that patients and families could make their own health care decisions.
SEN. EDWARDS: What's happening now is insurance companies are running all over people. I mean, the case of Nataline Sarkisyan, which a lot of the audience will be familiar with -- 17-year-old girl who lost her life a couple of weeks ago because her insurance company would not pay for a liver transplant operation.
She had health insurance, but the insurance company wouldn't pay for it. They finally caved in a few hours before she died.
We need a president who will take these people on. What we did -- and I didn't do it alone, don't claim to have done it alone -- but I, Senator McCain, who was here earlier, Senator Kennedy, the three of us wrote the Patient's Bill of Rights. The three of us took on the powerful insurance industry and their lobby, every single day of the fight for the Patient's Bill of Rights. And we got that bill through the United States Senate and got it passed.
And I'm proud of having done that.
But that's just an example of why this battle is personal for me. You know, we need a president who believes deeply -- in here -- believes deeply in this battle.
And it is personal for me. When I see these lobbyists roaming around Washington, D.C., taking all the politicians to cocktail parties, I mean, the picture I get in my head is my father and my grandmother going in that mill every day so that I could have the chances I've had.
Where is their voice in this democracy? When are they going to get heard? They need a president who will stand up for them, and so does every American who's listening to this debate.
SEN. OBAMA: I just want to add, I agree with John, which is why I prohibited lobbyists from buying meals for members of Congress...
SEN. EDWARDS: Good idea.
SEN. OBAMA: ... because -- and some of them complained. They said...
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SEN. OBAMA: They said, Where am I going to eat?
MR. GIBSON: They can now buy food for members of Congress if the members of Congress are standing up. That's my understanding of what the rules have changed. You can't sit down and eat, but you can stand up and eat. Tell me why that's change.
SEN. OBAMA: Here's what we did. They can't buy meals. They can't provide gifts. They can no longer lend corporate...
MR. GIBSON: They can have huge parties for you as long as you're standing up.
SEN. EDWARDS: They can't eat as much if they're standing up, Charlie.
SEN. OBAMA: That's true.
Look, we are now disclosing if they're bundling money for members of Congress. They've got to disclose who they're bundling money from and who they're giving it to.
But here's the critical point that I want to make. Not only does this have to be personal, John -- and I completely agree. When I think about health care, I think about my mother, who when she was dying of cancer had to read an insurance form because she had just gotten a new job and they were trying to figure out whether or not this was going to be treated as a preexisting condition, and whether or not they would pay her medical bills.
So I've seen the costs of a health care system that is broken in very personal terms.
But what I also believe, if we're going to bring about real change, then we have to bring in the American people. We have to bet on them.
SEN. OBAMA: And that's what's been lost. People, I think, feel that they are not heard at all, they are not involved. And the only way we're going to muster enough power over the long term to actually get something done is if we've got a working majority, which is why it's so important...
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SEN. CLINTON: Can we just have a sort of a reality break for a minute? Because I think that it is important to make some kind of an assessment of these statements.
You know, Senator Edwards did work and get the patient bill of rights through the Senate -- it never got through the House. One of the reasons that Natalie may well have died is because there isn't a patient's bill of rights. We don't have a patient's bill of rights.
SEN. EDWARDS: Because George Bush killed it.
SEN. CLINTON: Well, that's right. He killed it.
So, we've got to have a plan and a real push to get it through.
You know, when it comes to lobbyists, you know, Senator Obama's chair in New Hampshire is a lobbyist. He lobbies for the drug companies.
So, I think it's important that all of us be held to the same standard -- that we're all held accountable.
You know, the energy bill that passed in 2005 was larded with all kinds of special interest breaks, giveaways to the oil companies. Senator Obama voted for it. I did not because I knew that it was going to be an absolute nightmare.
Now we're all out on the campaign trail talking about taking the tax subsidies away from the oil companies, some of which were in that 2005 energy bill.
So, you know, words are not actions. And as beautifully presented and passionately felt as they are, they are not action.
You know, what we've got to do is translate talk into action and feeling into reality. I have a long record of doing that, of taking on the very interests that you have just rightly excoriated because of the over-due influence that they have in our government.
And, you know, probably nobody up here has been the subject of more incoming fire from the Republicans and the special interests. So I think I know exactly what I'm walking into. And I am prepared to take them on.
(CROSSTALK)
MR. SPRADLING: Senator, does that mean that you're further down the road than your opponents in this? Or are you saying that you can do things that these folks can't do, when it comes to being an agent of change?
SEN. CLINTON: Absolutely. Because I've been an agent of change. You know, you go back 35 years, you know, I worked to help make the case for the law that, thankfully, required that public schools give an education to children with special needs. I worked to reform education and health care in Arkansas against, you know, some pretty tough odds.
In the White House, I helped to create, you know, health care for kids and, you know, reform a lot of the other programs -- like taking on the drug companies.
MR. SPRADLING: And to be clear, they can't. You're saying they can't.
SEN. CLINTON: Well, I'm not saying that -- I'm only making my case, that this is what I have done.
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MR. GIBSON: I'll come to all of you.
I didn't want to get into this, but I've covered Washington for a long time. And I know President Clinton came to Washington talking about change. President Bush came to Washington talking about change.
So many people in the administrations and in Congress say Washington is set up to resist change...
SEN. EDWARDS: Absolutely.
MR. GIBSON: And God love all of you for making this argument.
(CROSSTALK)
(LAUGHTER)
(CROSSTALK)
SEN. CLINTON: Can I just say, if you're going to mention President Clinton, I'm going to respond?
SEN. EDWARDS: Let Hillary talk. Let her talk.
SEN. CLINTON: President Clinton -- wait, President Clinton inherited a deficit, a debt that had been quadrupled in the previous 12 years.
Now, anybody who doesn't think taking on the special interests to raise taxes on corporations, raise taxes on the wealthy, begin to whittle away at the deficit, to be able to leave with a balanced budget and a surplus -- if that didn't take a lot of change that actually produced results, then I think we've got amnesia.
SEN. CLINTON: You know, change is hard, but change is possible...
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SEN. EDWARDS: OK, can we speak to this? Can we speak to this?
SEN. CLINTON: ... if you're prepared to work hard and follow through.
SEN. EDWARDS: I want to say -- I just want to say a quick word about this.
They have a stranglehold on this democracy. And they are having an incredibly destructive force on the middle class, on families being able to do what my family has done, and so many who are sitting here have been able to do.
And the problem is you can't be with those people, take their money and then challenge them. It doesn't work.
You have to be willing to actually stand up and say no, no to lobbyists' money, no to PAC money, no corporate lobbyists working for me in the White House.
SEN. EDWARDS: If you intend to take them on, and if it is personal for you -- and this is extraordinarily personal for me -- if it's personal for you, then you can be successful bringing about the change.
Teddy Roosevelt -- just one quick example -- Teddy Roosevelt -- Teddy Roosevelt, a great American president: He didn't make deals with the monopolies and the trusts. Teddy Roosevelt took them on, busted the monopolies, busted the trusts. That's what it's going to take.
We have a battle in front of us. We do.
I don't think we have a problem with politicians in Washington spending enough time with lobbyists and going to cocktail parties. They do it all the time. They do it every single day.
And I'll tell you who's paying the price for those cocktail parties: Ed and Nataline Sarkisyan, every single American who doesn't have health care coverage, everybody who's going to the gas pump and paying so much for their gas.
When are we going to have a president who actually takes these people on? That's what I'm going to do.
(CROSSTALK)
MR. GIBSON: I'm going to go Senator Obama, and I'll come to you.
SEN. OBAMA: Look, I think it's easy to be cynical and just say, You know what? It can't be done, because Washington is designed to resist change.
But in fact, there have been periods of time in our history where a president inspired the American people to do better.
SEN. OBAMA: And I think we're in one of those moments right now. I think the American people are hungry for something different and can be mobilized around big changes; not incremental changes, not small changes.
I actually give Bill Clinton enormous credit for having balanced those budgets during those years. It did take political courage for him to do that.
But we never built the majority and coalesced the American people around being able to get the other stuff done.
And, you know, so, the truth is, actually, words do inspire, words do help people get involved, words do help members of Congress get into power so that they can be part of a coalition to deliver health-care reform, to deliver a bold energy policy.
Don't discount that power.
SEN. OBAMA: Because when the American people are determined that something is going to happen, then it happens. And if they are disaffected and cynical and fearful and told that it can't be done, then it doesn't.
I'm running for president because I want to tell them, Yes, we can, and that's why I think they're responding in such large numbers.
GOV. RICHARDSON: You know, this is the kind of Washington bickering that the public turns off to. And, you know, with all due respect, as a governor, I'm frustrated every time you guys and the president get nothing done because then the burden is on us.
And, you know, John, I understand your frustration. I understand, you know, that it's personal. But, you know, to resolve problems, you got to bring people together. You got to heal this country.
You can't -- you know, it's great to say, We're going to take everybody on. But, you know, it's going to take coalitions of people backing us. It's going to take public financing to get the special interests out of politics. It's going to take bipartisanship.
You know, what I've said is that if I'm elected president, I'm going to have a Cabinet of Republicans, Democrats and independents.
Now, I won't overdo the Republicans.
(LAUGHTER)
GOV. RICHARDSON: But my point is, it's how you govern. It's coalition-building. It's bringing the public -- a citizens corps of activists. It's asking the public to sacrifice, to do something for the country like being more energy efficient, like national service.
You know, I've got a program, two years the government pays for your college loans, your tuition, you give one year of national service to the country.
It's emboldering (ph) the electorate. You can't do it by just fighting and taking everybody on. You got to bring people together. And that's a frustration.
SEN. EDWARDS: Give me 30 seconds on this, because you just said something...
MR. GIBSON: I'll hold you to it.
(CROSSTALK)
SEN. EDWARDS: I actually completely agree that it's the responsibility of the president to unite and galvanize the American people. It is also the responsibility of the president, and I will do it, to work with members of Congress to get things done.
But these entrenched monied interests that have a stranglehold on the middle class, that are doing incredibly destructive to American jobs and the health care system, energy, all taxes, trade, they're in everything -- absolutely everything, you cannot nice these people to death. It doesn't work.
I have been in the trenches fighting them for my whole adult life. And it takes strength, backbone, fight and you have to take them on.
Yes, Barack, I agree with you completely that the best -- we need to unite America and we need to galvanize the American people.
And, Bill, I completely agree with what you just said. This is not a fight with politicians. And this is certainly not a fight with the American people.
It is a fight for the American people against those people who are stopping the change.
MR. GIBSON: All right. Let me turn to something else.
Reversing -- you invoked the name of Al Gore a few moments ago -- reversing or slowing global warming is going to take sacrifice.
None of you have favored a carbon tax. Is it a bad idea, or is it just so politically unpalatable that you guys don't want to propose it?
GOV. RICHARDSON: Can I answer?
You know, I was energy secretary. It's a bad idea. Because, when you have a carbon tax, first of all, it's not a mandate. What you want is a mandate on polluters, on coal companies, on those that pollute, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a certain target.
Under my plan: 30 percent by the year 2020; 80 percent by the year 2040. It takes international leadership. The better way to do it is through a cap-and-trade system which is a mandate.
Furthermore, a carbon tax, that's passed on to consumers, that's passed on to the average person, that's money you take out of the economy.
So it's a bad idea.
Cap-and-trade is a mandate, but it's also going to take presidential leadership. It's going to take all of us here, every American, you know, to think more efficiently about how we transport ourself, what vehicles we purchase, appliances in our homes.
It's going to take a transportation policy that doesn't just build more highways. We have to have commuter rail, light rail, open spaces. We've got to have land-use policies where we improve people's quality of life.
MR. GIBSON: Senator Obama?
SEN. OBAMA: Well, I agree with Bill that I think a cap-and-trade system makes more sense. That's why I proposed it: because you can be very specific in terms of how we're going to reduce the greenhouse gases by a particular level.
Now, what you have to do is you have to combine it with a 100 percent auction. In other words, every little bit of pollution that is sent up into the atmosphere, that polluter is getting charged for it.
SEN. OBAMA: Not only does that ensure that they don't game the system, but you're also generating billions of dollars that can be invested in solar and wind and biodiesel.
I do disagree with one thing, though, that Bill said, and that is that on a carbon tax, the cost will be passed on to consumers, and that won't happen with a cap-and-trade.
Under a cap-and-trade, there will be a cost. Plants are going to have to retrofit their equipment. And that's going to cost money, and they will pass it onto consumers.
We have an obligation to use some of the money that we generate to shield low-income and fixed-income individuals from higher electricity prices.
But we're also going to have to ask the American people to change how they use energy. Everybody is going to have to change their light bulbs. Everybody is going to have to insulate their homes. And that will be a sacrifice. But it's a sacrifice that we can meet. Over the long term, it will generate jobs and businesses, and can drive our economy for many decades.
SEN. CLINTON: Charlie, let me make a connection here that I think is really important.
I think the economy is slipping toward a recession -- the unemployment figures on Friday hitting 5 percent, the $100 a barrel oil that we also hit this week, the fall of the dollar. There's a lot of pressures on middle-class families, and the kind of costs that they have to keep up with have all gone up astronomically.
I mean, you know, the energy costs for the typical family in New Hampshire since George Bush has been president have tripled. And that's far beyond what the costs of the tax cut that they got from George Bush.
So, what we've got to do is use energy as an opportunity to actually jump-start economic recovery. We need to quickly move toward energy efficiency. We should require the utilities to begin to work for energy efficiency and conservation, costs that will be shared and decrease the pressure on families.
We need a weatherization and low-income heating emergency program that is out there now helping families in New Hampshire and elsewhere to cover their costs.
And we need to look at how doing what is right about energy is not only good for our security and good for the fight against global warming, but it will be essential in dealing with the economic challenges that we face.
MR. GIBSON: Senator Edwards, I will take this question to you.
But you raised the issue of the economy right now. And we have a housing crisis in this country.
SEN. CLINTON: Yes, we do.
MR. GIBSON: We have an energy problem -- in the cost of energy. And we now have a jobs problem.
We have, when we are -- and you raised R word, recession -- when we are approaching recession, it is consumers who have spent us out of recession in most cases.
You're all talking about letting some of the Bush tax cuts lapse. And yet...
SEN. CLINTON: Yes, but, Charlie, the tax cuts on the wealthiest of Americans; not the middle-class tax cuts. One of the problems with George Bush's tax policy has been the way he has tilted it for the wealthy and the well-connected.
MR. GIBSON: If you take a family of two professors, here at Saint Anselm, they're going to be in the $200,000 category that you're talking about lifting the taxes on.
(LAUGHTER)
MR. GIBSON: And...
(CROSSTALK)
(LAUGHTER)
SEN. CLINTON: That may be NYU, Charlie. I don't think it's St. Anselm.
MR. GIBSON: Two public school teachers in New York?
(LAUGHTER)
But that is -- you're in a situation where you're taking money out of the economy, is what I'm saying.
SEN. CLINTON: Look, if we set the cap where I'm saying, at $250,000 and above, that's a very small percentage.
And what I want to do is fix the alternative minimum tax, create these new job opportunities primarily through clean renewable energy, but also get back to where middle class families get the kind of tax relief that they deserve, which they really haven't been getting under George Bush.
(CROSSTALK)
MR. GIBSON: Go ahead.
SEN. EDWARDS: Thank you.
What you see happening in America today, if you're president of the United States and as you are looking at this from altitude, is you see a very few Americans getting wealthier and wealthier; you see the biggest corporations in America's profits through the roof. ExxonMobil just made $40 billion -- record profits.
All of that happening at the same time that we have 47 million people with no health care; 37 million who will wake up in this country tomorrow worried about feeding and clothing their children. Tonight, 200,000 men and women who wore the uniform of the United States of America and served this country honorably will go to sleep under bridges and on grates.
SEN. EDWARDS: It's time for us to say -- and it's time for the president to say -- enough is enough.
This is a battle for the future of our children. This is a battle for the middle class.
Let's take jobs, which we haven't talked about. We've touched on a lot of other things; we haven't talked about jobs. We've had a trade and tax policy that is bleeding American jobs. And all it has done is pad the profits of the biggest multinational corporations in America.
You talk about professors here, at this college. Let me say a word...
MR. GIBSON: Well, I shouldn't have done that, apparently.
SEN. EDWARDS: Yes, it was a mistake.
(LAUGHTER)
But we are -- I saw a projection, just a week or so ago, suggesting that America could lose as many as 20 million to 30 million more jobs over the next decade.
Think about that for a minute: 30 million.
And who's the most at-risk group?
SEN. EDWARDS: College graduates. This is not just people who are working in mills and working in factories who have been devastated by this -- completely devastated. These are middle class families. These are college graduates and their jobs at risk.
We need a different tax policy, a different trade policy where the first question is -- and this is what I will ask when I am president of the United States -- is this trade proposal, is this tax proposal, is it good for working, middle class Americans? That's the question.
MR. GIBSON: Senator Obama?
SEN. OBAMA: There is no doubt that the economy has been out of balance. It's been out of balance throughout George Bush's tenure. And some of the trends from globalization preceded George Bush.
That's why I have proposed specific tax relief now, immediately, so that we would offset some of the payroll tax, that we would immediately put some additional dollars in the pockets of American families, working families typically making $75,000 a year or less, to not only stimulate the economy, but also to balance out a tax code.
And I would pay for it very specifically, by closing tax loopholes and tax havens. You've got a building in the Cayman Islands that supposedly houses 12,000 corporations.
That's either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record.
But the larger point is that we have to get back to a notion that opportunity and bottom-up economic growth is what the president should be fighting for.
And what we've had is a top-down agenda that is skewed toward the wealthiest Americans. It is making worse some of the trends of globalization that are already out there.
And one of the benefits of this campaign has been to listen and talk to the folks all throughout New Hampshire who are tired of it and want to see something change.
MR. SPRADLING: Just very quickly, just for the governor -- I know we're running out of time. And I'd like to get this to you. You're going to say what you're going to say on this topic. But just, could you please address, as a governor, the small-business owners, in this tax talk, who may fit the category that we're talking about, but who are also providing the payrolls, proving the health insurance and are worried that if they lose out on this, that they could, too, be hurt?
GOV. RICHARDSON: Well, also, like Governor Lynch here, I'm the only one that's actually run a state economy. I'm the only one that's balanced budgets and created jobs.
So, here's my response. You asked about how we improve the economy.
One, you got to balance the budget. I mean, this is $9 trillion debt to China, to commercial banks.
We got to have line-item veto authority for the president.
We've got to get rid of $73 billion in corporate welfare.
The second thing we need to do is, what ever happened to the Democratic Party? We used to be the party of jobs and economic growth. We should be investing in science and innovation and in green energy.
Tax incentives -- if a company pays over prevailing wage, give them a tax incentive.
GOV. RICHARDSON: And, lastly, we have not talked about education in this whole debate. We've got to improve our schools. We've got to pay our teachers better. Invest in science and math. Get rid of No Child Left Behind. We've got to have arts in the schools.
We have to be an America that recognizes we're 29th in the world in science and math, and countries like China and India are graduating many more times engineers than we are. That's competitiveness.
MR. GIBSON: We have just a couple of minutes left. And it's been a very interesting evening, I would say. And I've been fascinated. I hope people who have watched have been, as well.
There have been an awful lot of debates. I think is debate 681. You guys may have counted. I've lost.
SEN. EDWARDS: At least.
MR. GIBSON: Tell me one thing you've said in those debates that you wish you hadn't said. And it's your chance to take...
(LAUGHTER)
MR. GIBSON: ... and it's your chance to take it back.
SEN. CLINTON: Oh, you're going to start with me?
(LAUGHTER)
MR. GIBSON: Sure.
SEN. CLINTON: Well, you know, we've had -- I don't exactly know how many -- 13, 14. And I've lost count.
SEN. CLINTON: You know, I feel like they've been good exchanges among us. You know, there have been one or two moments that I would have taken back.
But what's really most important about these debates is that the Democratic Party stands in such contrast to the Republicans.
You know, the Republicans have a totally different approach to what we need to be doing. They're not talking about the mortgage crisis and trying to solve it. They're not talking about what I fear to be a slide into recession.
They're not talking about global warming. They're not talking about science and innovation. They're not talking about what really is going to face the next president.
So, I think that we've done in our debates a much better job in actually getting out the issues that are going to be on the desk in the Oval Office when the president walks in.
And, beyond that, I will leave it to the pundits to decide what I might or might not have said at any one of the debates.
MR. GIBSON: I will let you off on specificity of take-backs...
SEN. CLINTON: Thank you.
MR. GIBSON: ... since we're running out of time.
Governor Richardson?
GOV. RICHARDSON: Well, I made a lot of them. One that I particularly remember -- I think it was here in New Hampshire, the first debate. I was asked who my favorite Supreme Court justice was. And I said, dead or alive?
(LAUGHTER)
I said -- I should've stuck to the alive, because I then said Whizzer White because I idolized John F. Kennedy, and I figured if he appointed Whizzer White, this was a great Supreme Court justice.
Well, then I find out that Whizzer White was against Roe v. Wade, against civil rights. You know, so that's -- that wasn't -- that wasn't a good one.
(LAUGHTER)
(APPLAUSE)
MR. GIBSON: Senator Edwards, I'll go to you, just with the passing comment that you haven't talked about Mrs. Clinton's attire recently.
SEN. EDWARDS: I was about to say...
(CROSSTALK)
SEN. EDWARDS: I already figured this out...
OBAMA (?): That was a good (inaudible).
(LAUGHTER)
SEN. EDWARDS: If you're going to pick the one for me, it was when I made the horrendous mistake of teasing Hillary about her jacket.
(LAUGHTER)
And I want her to know, I think you look terrific tonight.
(LAUGHTER)
(APPLAUSE)
MR. GIBSON: And Senator Obama?
SEN. OBAMA: Well, I -- you know, there have been all kinds of aspects to my debate performance that I'd love to correct or sharpen.
But, overall, actually, here's an area where I agree with Hillary: that there has been a stark contrast, generally, between the four of us and those who aren't debating with us now but were previously.
There is going to be a fundamental difference between the Republican nominee and the Democratic nominee: ending the politics of fear that has so dominated our political debate, making certain that we're actually listening to the American people and the struggles and hardships that they're going through.
SEN. OBAMA: And I think the opportunity to bring the American people together and to push back those special interests, to actually deliver on meaningful differences in their lives, that's something -- that's a prospect that I think all Democrats should be excited about.
MR. GIBSON: I want to thank all four of you for being here. And I want to thank the six Republicans who preceded you.
(APPLAUSE)
No matter who people across the country are supporting, whether it's in this party or the other, we wish all of you well and we thank you for being here. All the best. | 2024-07-20T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/1146 |
Willie Cauley-Stein remains on the team's injury report with a middle finger laceration but has been upgraded to PROBABLE for tonight's matchup with the Golden State Warriors.
Omri Casspi (Upper Back Soreness) also remains on the team's injury report, and is listed as DOUBTFUL. Casspi, who missed his fourth game of the season against the Lakers, is averaging 15.3 points and eight rebounds per over the past 10 games.
Additionally, James Anderson (left hamstring strain) is OUT and Duje Dukan (Tibial Bone Contusion) and Eric Moreland (Left 5th Metatarsal Fracture) remain OUT.
Participation Status Key:
Probable – 75% chance that the player will play in the game
– 75% chance that the player will play in the game Questionable – 50% chance that the player will play in the game
– 50% chance that the player will play in the game Doubtful – 25% chance that the player will play in the game
– 25% chance that the player will play in the game Out – Player will not play in the game
| 2023-10-01T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/1214 |
Q:
Implications of polynomial time reductions
I'm reviewing for finals and have a sample problem that I think I understand, but would like someone to bless my understanding or smack me and tell me why I'm wrong.
I'm presented with a problem $\Pi$ of unknown complexity class. If I can transform $\Pi$ to some problem $X$, where $X \in {\sf P}$, what does that tell me about $\Pi$?
I think allows me to conclude that $\Pi \in {\sf P}$, right? If I can reduce $\Pi$ to another problem that's deterministically solvable in polynomial time, and the transformation itself can be done "easily" in polynomial time, then I can conclude that $\Pi$ is deterministically solvable in polynomial time, and therefore that $\Pi \in {\sf P}$ correct?
Conversely, given the same input, transforming $X$ to $\Pi$ in polynomial time allows me to conclude nothing meaningful, since nothing is known about $\Pi$ right?
A:
Right, if you have an algorithm A that reduces $\Pi$ to $x$ in polytime, and you can solve $x$ is polytime using some algorithm B, then you can solve $\Pi$ in polytime by applying first A and then B.
Using polytime reductions on a problem in P however is rather boring, since you can solve the instance during the reduction and map every instance of $x$ to either a trivial yes or a trivial no answer. Normally you restrict yourself to logspace reductions for problems from P.
A:
In essence, you are right. Given a problem $\Pi$, if you can find a poly-time reduction from $\Pi$ to any problem $x\in P$, then you have proof that $\Pi\in P$ as well.
A reduction from problem $A$ to $B$ is basically a function that transforms any input of $A$ into an input of $B$, such that the solutions agree. That means, you can use any algorithm for $B$ to solve $A$.
For the second part, if you can reduce a problem $x\in P$ to $\Pi$, then $\Pi$ might be in $P$, or not. However, if you can find a way to reduce all problems in $P$ (or equivalently, some $P$-complete problem), then you have shown that $\Pi$ is $P$-hard.
| 2024-04-26T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/1169 |
[Successful surgery for pulmonary aspergillosis progressing to subacute process].
A 59-year-old woman with diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis was given prednisolone following the diagnosis of rheumatoid lung disease. She developed fever and bloody sputum, and chest X-ray showed a massive shadow in the right lower lung field. Chest CT revealed a giant massive shadow with unclear margin in the right posterior lower lobe. With enhancement, a round low density area appeared in the shadow. Aspergillus hyphae were detected from a bronchial brushing specimen. Pulmonary aspergillosis was diagnosed administration of anti-fungal agents was commenced but the improvement was not satisfactory. Surgical resection, which may be curative, was subsequently performed. The resected lung contained an aspergillus ball formation within an enlarged bronchus, that is, a bronchial aspergilloma, surrounded by widespread inflammatory cell infiltration. Most pulmonary aspergillomas are of the "colonization type", but in our case progression to subacute process occurred according to the extent of our patient's immunological reaction. For the treatment of localized pulmonary aspergillosis, our results suggest that surgery is recommended. | 2023-08-09T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/2841 |
Q:
How to handle PHP exceptions and keep it semantic?
I'm developing for a project where HTML designers use PHP methods to retrieve content. Now, it's the time for handling exceptions and we are running into problems to simultaneously keep the HTML pretty, clean and semantic and the PHP correct.
Until exceptions, HTML templates had things like:
<h2 class="title"><?php Content::getTitle() ?></h2>
Now, if we want to handle exceptions, we are suposed to write:
<h2 class="title">
<?php
try {
Content::getTitle();
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo $e->getMessage();
}
?>
</h2>
Wich is anything but clean.
Or
<?php
try {
// THE WHOLE TEMPLATE RENDERING!!!
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo $e->getMessage();
}
?>
Wich is unnaceptable because it stops rendering at any exception, when it should report the problem and continue.
So, we are thinking about putting the try/catch stuff inside the method itself:
class Content {
public static function getTitle {
try {
if (something==happened) throw new Exception 'OMG!';
else {
DoTheJob();
}
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo $e->getMessage();
}
}
It seems to work by the moment so the question is: is this a good practice? Is there a better and more DRY alternative?
A:
Yes, this is fine and sound. It is called the Template View Pattern:
The best way to work with dynamic webpages [sic] is to compose the dynamic Web page as you do a static page but put in markers that can be resolved into calls to gather dynamic information. Since the static part of the page acts as a template for the particular response, I call this a Template View.
More details can be found in Fowler, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
| 2023-09-12T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/8351 |
Q:
Understanding purpose of and difference between given recursive functions
Below are the two pieces of code. I could not understand how the pre-decrement operator in the first code functions. And I also could not understand how both of the codes differ in their functionality.
Code 1:
int foo (int val) {
int x = 0;
while (val > 0) {
x = x + foo(--val);
}
return val;
}
Code 2:
int bar (int val) {
int x = 0;
while (val > 0) {
x = x + bar(val - 1);
}
return val;
}
A:
Consider the original code:
int foo(int val) {
int x = 0;
while (val > 0) {
x = x + foo(val--); // Post-decrement
}
return val;
}
When foo() calls itself recursively, the value passed to the recursive call is the same as the value passed to the current call, so the program will eventually exceed the stack limit and crash. It won't terminate normally.
Now consider the revised code:
int foo(int val) {
int x = 0;
while (val > 0) {
x = x + foo(--val); // Pre-decrement
}
return val;
}
Now the recursion is finite; if val is positive, then the recursive call is made with a smaller value, so the recursion stops. If val is negative, there is no recursion, of course.
However, since the code returns val, it will always return either 0 (for a non-negative input, because the loop counts down until val == 0) or what was provided (for a negative input; the loop body is never executed). The recursion keeps adding 0 to x, so x remains 0 too (but it's a 'set but unread' variable so it could be eliminated, and writing x += foo(val--); would be more idiomatic C). It would be accurate to say the revised code is equivalent to:
int foo(int val) { return (val < 0) ? val : 0; }
Even returning x doesn't fix all the problems. It returns 0 for non-negative inputs and 0 for negative inputs (but it doesn't crash):
int foo(int val) {
int x = 0;
while (val > 0) {
x += foo(--val); // Pre-decrement
}
return x;
}
| 2024-02-23T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/5899 |
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abstract: 'We classify periodically driven quantum systems on a one-dimensional lattice, where the driving process is local and subject to a chiral symmetry condition. The analysis is in terms of the unitary operator at a half-period and also covers systems in which this operator is implemented directly, and does not necessarily arise from a continuous time evolution. The full-period evolution operator is called a quantum walk, and starting the period at half time, which is called choosing another timeframe, leads to a second quantum walk. We assume that these walks have gaps at the spectral points $\pm1$, up to at most finite dimensional eigenspaces. Walks with these gap properties have been completely classified by triples of integer indices (arXiv:1611.04439). These indices, taken for both timeframes, thus become classifying for half-step operators. In addition a further index quantity is required to classify the half step operators, which decides whether a continuous local driving process exists. In total, this amounts to a classification by five independent indices. We show how to compute these as Fredholm indices of certain chiral block operators, show the completeness of the classification, and clarify the relations to the two sets of walk indices. Within this theory we prove bulk-edge correspondence, where second timeframe allows to distinguish between symmetry protected edge states at $+1$ and $-1$ which is not possible with only one timeframe. We thus resolve an apparent discrepancy between our above mentioned index classification for walks, and indices defined (arXiv:1208.2143). The discrepancy turns out to be one of different definitions of the term ‘quantum walk’.'
author:
- 'C. Cedzich'
- 'T. Geib'
- 'A. H. Werner'
- 'R. F. Werner'
bibliography:
- 'F2Wbib.bib'
title: Chiral Floquet systems and quantum walks at half period
---
| 2024-04-11T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/4591 |
The following individuals appeared during felony bond hearings Wednesday at the Pope County Detention Center. Their names, ages, anticipated charges and bond amounts are listed below. If charged, they will appear Aug. 4 in Circuit Court.
• Kimberly Cobren, 29, failure to appear — $200,000.
Cobren reportedly failed to appear for her assigned court date.
• Laura Fox, 26, forgery — $3,500.
In early May, Simmons Bank of Russellville informed the Russellville Police Department (RPD) of possible stolen checks endorsed by Fox. The RPD later determined, according to a report, that the checks were reported stolen by a Russellville resident.
• Julius Ali-El, 36, theft by receiving — $7,500.
On Monday, the RPD was notified that Ali-El, who had reportedly stolen a vehicle out of Virginia, was seen at a rest area off Interstate 40. Officers recovered the vehicle and reportedly found Ali-El in possession of the vehicle’s keys.
• Thomas Cathey, 56, terroristic threatening — $7,500.
On Monday, Cathey allegedly threatened to kill an RPD officer and two detention center officers.
• Kayla Schneider, 23, possession of drug paraphernalia — $10,000.
• Victoria Collins, 27, possession of drug paraphernalia — $5,000.
On Monday, the RPD responded to a disturbance at Hastings involving Schneider and Collins, who were reportedly shouting obscenities at each other. Officers found Schneider and Collins in possession of bags containing drug paraphernalia including pills, syringes and multiple small bags, according to a report.
• Christopher Mitchener, 26, terroristic act — $50,000.
On Sunday, two Russellville residents told the RPD that they had a disagreement with Mitchener and two other individuals who later returned and fired several shots into their house. | 2023-10-20T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/4324 |
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Our president is not a religious man. But it’s suitable to quote a verse from what his Christian allies call “the Scriptures:”
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind…
I will send a fire upon his cities,
And it will devour their castles. –Hosea
Pres. Trump has made the single most catastrophic decision in a presidency full of catastrophes. His approval of the assassination of the most prominent military leader in Iran will have disastrous consequences not just for America, but for all our allies, especially Israel. Every American anywhere, but especially outside the U.S., will become a target. Within hours, if not days our embassies will be burning. Iraq will become ungovernable. Our service members there will be in the cross-hairs.
Not only will Iran fling down the entire JCPOA agreement in disgust, it will begin not just testing ballistic missiles, but perhaps even lobbing a few a Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. Its Hezbollah allies will assume a much more belligerent posture in Syria and Lebanon.
This single act has further displayed Trump’s contempt for our European “allies,” who sought a diplomatic solution to the conflict with Iran. In a single act, he has flung decades worth of diplomacy and engagement into the trash heap.
Whether Trump realized it or not, this means war. Even if he didn’t officially declare war, he has just done so by this unmitigated disaster of a decision. The War Powers Act demands that a president consult Congress before commencing hostilities on a foreign power. Trump not only didn’t consult Congress, he didn’t even consult his own Party. No President in the history of this country would ever have done anything so reckless and abandoned the traditional ‘niceties’ of consultation with the legislative branch.
Sen. Blumenthal alluded to this when he said:
“The present authorizations for use of military force in no way cover starting a possible new war. This step could bring the most consequential military confrontation in decades,”
Soleimani was an enemy of the United States. That’s not a question. The question is this – as reports suggest, did America just assassinate, without any congressional authorization, the second most powerful person in Iran, knowingly setting off a potential massive regional war? — Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) January 3, 2020
Bernie Sanders was typically clear and resolute:
“Trump promised to end endless wars, but this action puts us on the path to another one,”
In an otherwise mealy-mouthed statement, Joe Biden said:
“President Trump just tossed a stick of dynamite into a tinderbox.”
I predict that when Iranian blowback strikes us hard, that Americans will pay closer attention to the War Powers Act and note Trump violated it egregiously. In normal circumstances, presidents aren’t called on the carpet for taking the country to war, as long as we win. If we lose or are perceived as losing, the citizenry rapidly sours and looks to where it can cast blame. It could further weaken Trump and even possibly bring a new article of impeachment.
For a comparable event in history, imagine that Hitler had assassinated both Field Marshall Montgomery and Eisenhower during WWII; or that the British had captured and hung George Washington during the Revolutionary War; imagine that the British had arrested, tried and executed Ben Gurion in the pre-State era. In other words, this is not just your average assassination. This is a murder that will resonate for years, if not decades. It will further poison U.S.-Iran relations for a generation. It will set off a nuclear arms race such as you could not previously imagine.
The blows we will suffer will sorely tempt our leaders to not only attack Iran, but invade it to overthrow the regime. We have gotten closer than at any time since 1979 to all-out war against Iran. If you don’t believe me, then read this from Leon Panetta, who says the same. This is not a genie you can put back in the bottle. This one is truly evil and will wreck thousands of lives for decades.
The Pentagon released an absolutely awful statement claiming this was a “decisive defensive action,” because Soleimani had supposedly planned the attack on the Bagdhad embassy and was planning other similar terror operations against our forces. Secretary of Defense Esper said the attack was meant to deter Iran. I can’t think of a more idiotic claim to make. It will, of course, do just the opposite. If we thought we were locked in a hostile relationship before this; the next phase will be closer to a boa constrictor’s fatal embrace.
Esper further says: “the game has changed.” First, this is NOT a game. Not to Iran. And we will find out how much it sees it as anything but a game in days to come.
Trump thinks like Bibi. Whenever the Israeli PM faces a crisis or an election, he starts a war and knocks the s**t out of the poor suckers in Gaza. A month and a few thousand innocent Palestinian lives later, he withdraws and pounds his chest like a silver-back Gorilla, telling Israel how he protected it from the Palestinian onslaught.
Trump is now facing the nadir of his presidency. He is mired in an impeachment; and Democrats are in no mood to let him off the hook by transferring the articles to the Senate so it can dispose of them in 12 minutes on the floor. Trump thought this would be like Obama assassinating Osama bin Laden or like the murder of ISIS leader, al-Baghdadi. Americans would hold rallies and cheer as they did after Bin Laden was eliminated. But he has failed to take into account that Iran will be a far more formidable enemy than he gives it credit. It will make him pay in blood. When the bodies come home in flag-draped coffins, I hope one family has the guts to ship theirs to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to lie in state, as it were. Let hundreds of thousands come to pay their respects to a life wasted on the altar of a president’s vanity.
And if Trump thinks Soleimani’s murder will not cost us, just as al-Baghdadi’s and Bin Laden’s didn’t, there are several differences: Soleimani was no leader of a ragtag bag of Islamist fanatics and terrorist-wannabes. He was the second-most powerful person in Iran. He founded the IRG, perhaps the most capable ground army in the region. He was beloved by the Grand Ayatollah, who treated him as a son. He was the hero of the nation. He represented its pride, its steadfastness, its vigilance. Half of Iran would step forward and offer their lives to avenge him.
To anyone praising the killing by calling Soleimani a butcher with hands dropping in blood, it quite depends on your perspective, doesn’t it? God’s always on our side. The devil is on the other guy’s. If we were at war and Soleimani was our military leader, we’d laud him as a national hero, just as Iranians do. But when he kills our soldiers he’s the devil incarnate. No one bothers to ask why our soldiers are there in the first place, and what they did before his attempts to kill them.
You remember way back to last month, when the Iranian regime was reeling from riots which spread like wildfire throughout the country? The Ayatollah was on his knees. The Islamic Republic teetered on the brink. If our policy was to weaken the regime and provoke change through internal crisis, this was a perfect development. Now, what have we done? We’ve swept away all the divisions that existed last month. We’ve united the country as it has not been united since 1979.
Trump has also singlehandedly destroyed the political prospects for Iran’s reformist forces. The hardliners will swamp them in the next election. Iran is headed fur even more suffocating, dictatorial clerical governance than It ever had.
They will bring Soleimani’s remains from Iraq and emtomb them in a mausoleum next door to Ayatollah Khomeini himself. The ring he wore which permitted rescuers to identify his remains amidst the wreckage will be on display there. Schoolchildren will visit in the tens of thousands. His writings will be studied with reverence. We’ve just created a martyr of enormous magnitude.
Has the murder damaged Iran? No, these killings never do what the killers think they will. They do not weaken, they do not divide. The contrary: Israel killed Hezbollah leader Abbas al-Musawi and it brought a far more dangerous enemy in Hassan Nasrallah. Israel killed Hamas leader, Sheik Ahmed al-Yassine and he was replaced by Khaled Mashal. The U.S. killed Bin Laden and it did not degrade al Qaeda in the slightest.
There are hundreds of IRG commanders eager to replace the martyred Soleimani. The one who is chosen will undoubtedly be even more cunning and capable than his predecessor. This killing is yet another in a long line of U.S. disastrous counter-terror moves which do nothing to advance our real interests, to make the region more stable, to resolve long-festering disputes. | 2023-12-12T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/7929 |
When Trump says that he wants NATO to take more responsibility in the Middle East, what he means is that he wants the European allies to do more. He is campaigning for reelection and has promised to bring the boys (and girls) home for Christmas. And of course, in Iraq American troops are less than welcome these days, after the targeted assassination of Iranian General Soleimani near Baghdad airport (3 January 2020).
In late 2019, Trump had already withdrawn most troops from Syria, and now the peace agreement with the Taliban (29 February 2020) will allow him to draw down the US military presence in Afghanistan too. And the US is considering pulling its troops out of the Sahel as well. What does this mean for Europe?
(Photo credit: DoD, NATO) | 2023-11-13T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/5219 |
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abstract: 'In this paper, we introduce *UniSent* a universal sentiment lexica for 1000 languages created using an English sentiment lexicon and a massively parallel corpus in the Bible domain. To the best of our knowledge, *UniSent* is the largest sentiment resource to date in terms of number of covered languages, including many low resource languages. To create *UniSent*, we propose *Adapted Sentiment Pivot*, a novel method that combines annotation projection, vocabulary expansion, and unsupervised domain adaptation. We evaluate the quality of *UniSent* for Macedonian, Czech, German, Spanish, and French and show that its quality is comparable to manually or semi-manually created sentiment resources. With the publication of this paper, we release *UniSent* lexica as well as Adapted Sentiment Pivot related codes. method.'
author:
- Ehsaneddin Asgari
- Fabienne Braune
- Christoph Ringlstetter
- 'Mohammad R.K. Mofrad'
date:
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title: 'UniSent: Universal Adaptable Sentiment Lexica for 1000+ Languages'
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Introduction
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Sentiment classification is an important task which requires either word level or document level sentiment annotations. Such resources are available for at most 136 languages [@chen-skiena-2014-building], preventing accurate sentiment classification in a low resource setup. Recent research efforts on cross-lingual transfer learning enable to train models in high resource languages and transfer this information into other, low resource languages using minimal bilingual supervision [@hangya2018; @barnes2018; @barnes2018-2]. Besides that, little effort has been spent on the creation of sentiment lexica for low resource languages (e.g., [@chen-skiena-2014-building; @afli2017sentiment; @darwich2017minimally]). We create and release *Unisent*, the first massively cross-lingual sentiment lexicon in more than 1000 languages. An extensive evaluation across several languages shows that the quality of *Unisent* is close to manually created resources. Our method is inspired by [@asgari2017pastPresentFuture] with a novel combination of vocabulary expansion and domain adaptation using embedding spaces. Similar to our work, [@Agic2016] also use massively parallel corpora to project POS tags and dependency relations across languages. However, their approach is based on assignment of the most probable label according to the alignment model from the source to the target language and does not include any vocabulary expansion or domain adaptation and do not use the embedding graphs.
Method
======
Our method, *Adapted Sentiment Pivot* requires a sentiment lexicon in one language (e.g. English) as well as a massively parallel corpus. Following steps are performed on this input.
#### (i) Projection of sentiment polarities: {#projection}
We project sentiment polarities from English (source language) to all languages in the parallel corpus (target languages) using the method in [@asgari2017pastPresentFuture]. This first step generates, in each target language, pairs $(wa_i, p_i)$ of words in the target vocabulary $VA$ and their associated sentiment polarities $p_i$. Vocabulary $VA$ is limited to the words at the intersection of the parallel corpus and the sentiment lexicon. Because most existing super-parallel corpora are from the Bible [@Mayer2014], $VA$ has the major drawbacks of being (i) small and (ii) in a very specific domain. To overcome the first limitation, using the embedding space we propagate the polarities $p_i$ to words outside of $VA$.
#### (ii) Vocabulary expansion of the sentiment polarities using embeddings: {#propagation}
The goal of this step is to create word-polarity pairs $(w_i, p_i)$ for a vocabulary $V$ of arbitrary size and domain. To achieve it, we train a linear model (logistic regression) using the pairs $(wa_i, p_i)$ obtained in the projection step using a general domain embedding space enriched with subword information [@bojanowski2017]. We then predict the polarities of words $wa_i$ outside of $VA$. Our evaluation in section \[evaluation\] shows that this simple method is very effective and creates accurate resources. However, this step does not handle domain shift very well. To illustrate this limitation, consider the Spanish word *sensual* (Figure \[fig:domainShift\]). In Biblical texts, this word has the connotation of *sin* which has a negative polarity. But in the Twitter domain, the same word is associated with *sexy*, which has a positive polarity. To tackle this problem, we perform an unsupervised drift weighting in the next step. Use of embeddings has two main benefits for lexicon creation: (i) Given the sentiment regularities exist in the language model-based embedding, using a rich embedding space we can expand the lexicon vocabulary. (ii) Training the classifier in the embedding space already results in domain adaptation [@rothe-etal-2016-ultradense].
#### (iii) Unsupervised drift weighting: {#adaptation}
Our weighting method is based on the divergence between the embedding spaces of vocabulary $VA$ (intersection of sentiment lexicon and super-parallel corpus) and vocabulary $V$ (arbitrary size and domain). In a first step, we compute the embedding space of $VA$ and $V$ using `fasttext` [@bojanowski2017] trained on the wikipedia. The embeddings for $VA$ are created using the super-parallel corpus. For $V$ any monolingual data can be used. In a second step, we quantify the domain shift between words in $VA$ and $V$ as follows:
1. We compute a word similarity profile-based on the similarity distribution for the words in each embedding space by normalizing the cosine distance between that word and all the words in the embedding space
2. Using the KL divergence between each word similarity profile in both spaces we compute a domain shift weight between word-pairs
Figure \[fig:domainShift\] illustrates the workings of our weighting method. Once we computed our shift weights, we incorporate them in our logistic regression model.
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Experiments and Evaluation {#experiments}
==========================
Experimental Setup {#setup}
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Our goal is to evaluate the quality of *UniSent* against several manually created sentiment lexica in different domains to ensure its quality for the low resource languages. We do this in several steps.
#### Select Gold Standard Data
As the gold standard sentiment lexica, we chose manually created lexicon in Czech [@veselovska2013czech], German [@waltinger2010germanpolarityclues], French [@abdaoui2014feel], Macedonian [@jovanoski2016impact], and Spanish [@perez2012learning]. These lexica contain general domain words (as opposed to Twitter or Bible). As gold standard for twitter domain we use emoticon dataset and perform emoticon sentiment prediction [@wiebe2005annotating; @hogenboom2013exploiting].
#### Create *UniSent*
We use the (manually created) English sentiment lexicon (WKWSCI) in [@khoo2018lexicon] as a resource to be projected over languages. For the projection step (Section \[projection\]) we use the massively parallel Bible corpus in [@Mayer2014]. We then propagate the projected sentiment polarities to all words in the Wikipedia corpus. We chose Wikipedia here because its domain is closest to the manually annotated sentiment lexica we use to evaluate *UniSent*. In the adaptation step, we compute the shift between the vocabularies in the Bible and Wikipedia corpora. To show that our adaptation method also works well on domains like Twitter, we propose a second evaluation in which we use *Adapted Sentiment Pivot* to predict the sentiment of emoticons in Twitter.
#### Create Test Sets
To create our test sets, we first split *UniSent* and our gold standard lexica as illustrated in Figure \[fig:datasplit\]. We then form our training and test sets as follows:
**(i) UniSent-Lexicon:** we use words in *UniSent* for the sentiment learning in the target domain; for this purpose, we use words $w \in A \cup C$.
**(ii) Baseline-Lexicon:** we use words in the gold standard lexicon for the sentiment learning in the target domain; for this purpose we use words $w \in B \cup C$.
**(iii) Evaluation-Lexicon:** we randomly exclude a set of words the **baseline-lexicon**$\cup B$. In selection of the sampling size we make sure that $UniSent-Lexicon$ and $Baseline-Lexicon$ would contain a comparable number of words.
![\[fig:datasplit\] Data split used in the experimental setup of UniSent evaluation: Set (C) is the intersection of the target embedding space words (Wikipedia/Emoticon) and the UniSent lexicon as well as the manually created lexicon. Set (A) is the intersection of the target embedding space words and the UniSent lexicon, excluding set (C). Set (B) is the intersection of the target embedding space words and the manually created lexicon, excluding set (C).](datascheme.pdf){width="35.00000%"}
Results {#evaluation}
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In Table \[tab:sentiment\_res\_1\] we compare the quality of *UniSent* with the Baseline-Lexicon as well as with the gold standard lexicon for general domain data. The results show that (i) *UniSent* clearly outperforms the baseline for all languages (ii) the quality of *UniSent* is close to manually annotated data (iii) the domain adaptation method brings small improvements for morphologically poor languages. The modest gains could be because our drift weighting method (Section \[adaptation\]) mainly models a sense shift between words which is not always equivalent to a polarity shift.\
In Table \[tab:sentiment\_res\_2\] we compare the quality of *UniSent* with the gold standard emoticon lexicon in the Twitter domain. The results show that (i) *UniSent* clearly outperforms the baseline and (ii) our domain adaptation technique brings small improvements for French and Spanish.
Conclusion
==========
Using our novel *Adapted Sentiment Pivot* method, we created *UniSent*, a sentiment lexicon covering over 1000 (including many low-resource) languages in several domains. The only necessary resources to create *UniSent* are a sentiment lexicon in any language and a massively parallel corpus that can be small and domain specific. Our evaluation showed that the quality of *UniSent* is closed to manually annotated resources.
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Role of the active viscosity and self-propelling speed in channel flows of active polar liquid crystals.
We study channel flows of active polar liquid crystals (APLCs) focusing on the role played by the active viscosity (β) and the self-propelling speed (ω) on the formation and long time evolution of spontaneous flows using a continuum model. First, we study the onset of spontaneous flows by carrying out a linear stability analysis on two special steady states subject to various physical boundary conditions. We identify a single parameter b1, proportional to a linear combination of the active viscosity and the self-propelling speed, and inversely proportional to a Frank elastic constant, the solvent viscosity, and the liquid crystal relaxation time. We show that the active viscosity and the self-propelling speed influence the onset of spontaneous flows through b1 in that for any fixed value of the bulk activity parameter ζ, large enough |b1| can suppress the spontaneous flow. We then follow spontaneous flows in long time to further investigate the role of β and ω on spatial-temporal structures in the nonlinear regime numerically. The numerical study demonstrates a strong correlation between the most unstable eigenfunction obtained from the linear analysis and the terminal steady state or the persistent, traveling wave structure, revealing the genesis of flow and orientational structures in the active matter system. In the nonlinear regime, a nonzero b1 facilitates the formation of traveling waves in the case of boundary anchoring (the Dirichlet boundary condition) so long as the linear stability analysis predicts an onset of spontaneous flows; in the case of the free boundary condition (the Neumann boundary condition), a stable, spatially homogeneous tilted state always emerges in the presence of two active effects. Finally, we note that various fully out-of-plane spatio-temporal structures can emerge in long time dynamics depending on the boundary condition as well as the initial state of the polarity vector field. | 2024-07-31T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/3994 |
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Modeling of a type II photofrin-mediated photodynamic therapy process in a heterogeneous tissue phantom.
We present a quantitative framework to model a Type II photodynamic therapy (PDT) process in the time domain in which a set of rate equations are solved to describe molecular reactions. Calculation of steady-state light distributions using a Monte Carlo method in a heterogeneous tissue phantom model demonstrates that the photon density differs significantly in a superficial tumor of only 3 mm thickness. The time dependences of the photosensitizer, oxygen and intracellular unoxidized receptor concentrations were obtained and monotonic decreases in the concentrations of the ground-state photosensitizer and receptor were observed. By defining respective decay times, we quantitatively studied the effects of photon density, drug dose and oxygen concentration on photobleaching and cytotoxicity of a photofrin-mediated PDT process. Comparison of the dependences of the receptor decay time on photon density and drug dose at different concentrations of oxygen clearly shows an oxygen threshold under which the receptor concentration remains constant or PDT exhibits no cytotoxicity. Furthermore, the dependence of the photosensitizer and receptor decay times on the drug dose and photon density suggests the possibility of PDT improvement by maximizing cytotoxicity in a tumor with optimized light and drug doses. We also discuss the utility of this model toward the understanding of clinical PDT treatment of chest wall recurrence of breast carcinoma. | 2023-12-14T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/6666 |
Clinical analysis on 33 patients with hypothalamic syndrome in Chinese children.
To investigate the etiology and clinical characteristics of hypothalamic syndrome in Chinese children. Thirty-three cases of hypothalamic syndrome were analyzed for etiology, initial symptoms, and clinical characteristics. All of the 33 patients manifested symptoms of hypothalamic dysfunction and disorders of the hypothalamus-hypophysis-target gland axis. Fourteen patients were diagnosed with an intracranial tumor by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination, four patients had postoperative intracranial tumors, one had received radiotherapy for suprasellar germinoma, one was hypothalamic-pituitary dysplasia, one had a history of viral encephalitis, and in 12 patients, the cause was unknown. The most common presenting symptoms were polydipsia/polyuria and eating disorders. Intracranial tumor is an important cause of hypothalamic syndrome in children, with germinoma the most common. Polydipsia, polyuria, and eating disorders are typical presenting symptoms. Long-term follow-up is needed for patients presenting with central diabetes insipidus, eating disorders or hypothalamic syndrome of unknown etiology. In addition, periodic pituitary MRI scanning is necessary to find potential intracranial tumors that may arise at any time. | 2024-04-11T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/7497 |
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This is our first out of three-part interview with
Dr. Boris Gindis, a child psychologist and expert on international
adoption. Our interviews will be about language development in
internationally adopted children. English language acquisition,
bilingual issues, and attempts to "save" the native
language are common topics of discussion among parents of adoptees,
particularly older children. The first interview is focused on
a well-known dilemma that many adoptive parents of older children
face: Shall we try to keep the first language alive? Is it possible
at all? How can this be done?
Q:I would like to start with the very basic understanding:
what is bilingualism and are our children bilingual?
A:A common understanding of bilingualism includes
a functional use of more than one language within a developmentally
appropriate and socially expected range of language skills. In
this respect, the majority of adopted children do not belong to
a bilingual category at all, or they may be bilingual for only
a short period of time. They are monolingual upon arrival (for
example, in Russian) and after several months, they are monolingual
again, only this time in English. There are a few exceptions with
older adoptees who may be literate in their native language, particularly
in sibling groups, but even with them it is only a matter of time.
Nevertheless there is a tendency, particularly in school settings,
to consider internationally adopted (IA) children as bilingual
and to apply to them insights, knowledge, and practices that have
accumulated regarding language acquisition in bilingual persons.
I doubt the validity of this approach and think that IA children
constitute a specific group that is rather different from bilingual
population at large. In developmental and educational perspective,
bilingualism is a two-edged sword: it may be a blessing for some
and a curse for the others. Generally speaking, for a healthy,
well-adjusted, normally developing child, dual language mastery
may facilitate his/her cognitive, language, and social functioning.
For a child with developmental delays, language impairments, a
background of educational neglect and cultural deprivation, the
induced bilingualism may inhibit and complicate his/her development.
Q:How do IA children learn the English language
that is different from children from immigrant families?
A:A second language is usually acquired
based on two models. "additive" and "subtractive".
When the second language is added to the child's skills with no
substantial detraction from the native language, it is called
the "additive" model of bilingualism. When and if, in
the process of second language acquisition, the first language
diminishes in use and is "replaced" by the second language,
we have the so-called "subtractive" model of second
language learning. The "subtractive" model is usually
typical for the so-called "circumstantial" bilinguals:
those individuals who, because of their circumstances, must learn
another language in order to survive. They are forced by circumstances
to acquire English, and they do so in a context in which their
own first language has no use at all. Internationally adopted
children are, by definition, circumstantial bilinguals. The subtractive
nature of their bilingualism is quite amazing.
Q:Why are children losing their Russian?
A:One of the most shocking discoveries
that I have made for myself while working with internationally
adopted children is the swiftness with which they lose their mother
tongue. Thus, it is not atypical for a six-year-old internationally
adopted child to lose the bulk of her expressive native language
within the first 3 months in this country. For the purpose of
simple communication, her receptive language skills may last longer,
but eventually, all functional use of the native language will
disappear within 6 months to a year in an exclusive English-language
environment. For a 9-year-old child with age-appropriate literacy
skills in her native language, the process of losing language
may take longer, but still within a year the functionality of
the language will be dramatically diminished. It not surprising,
since language is a function - and all functions, be they physiological,
psychological, or social - have one common predominant feature:
they exist only if they are in use. "Use it or lose it",
as the phrase goes. If a language is not in use, it disappears.
There are several factors that facilitate the native language
loss in internationally adopted children in comparison to their
peers from immigrant families. These are: a low level of native-language
skills, no motivation to continue to use native language because
there is no opportunity to practice it, no "prestige' is
attached to the mastery of their native language, and no support
of the first language in their family or community at large. Finally,
there is one more specific factor not usually found in immigrant
children but rather common in school-aged adopted children: their
negative attitude and adverse emotional reaction to their mother
tongue.
Q:What can we do to preserve
and develop the native language in our children? I heard that
some parents hire a tutor to maintain Russian language skills
or even send their children to a Russian language school or at
least a Russian-speaking summer camp. Children are often so resistant
to these attempts to save their native language!
A:
Indeed, the preservation of native
language is a "hot" topic for many adoptive parents.
However, I would like you to step into your children's shoes for
a second and consider this issue from their perspective. Many
adoptive parents are sure that talking in a child's native tongue
or seeing souvenirs or other artifacts from her native country
is a pleasure for an adoptive child. However, this is not always
the case. I am not surprised when I hear that a child runs away
in a panic when someone suddenly greets her in her native language.
Experts in the treatment of disorders stemming from traumatic
experiences have long since identified language (even the mere
sound of language) as a powerful trigger of Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder. It should not be a surprise, as language is the single
most powerful representation of a person's individual life history:
it is the powerful link between the present and the past. Older
adoptees in particular have experienced traumatic pasts. They
came from abusive families and have experienced tremendous neglect
and deprivation. An orphanage, as an institution, is not a place
normally associated with a happy childhood. Therefore, language
for some older adoptees is a constant reminder of their suffering
- a past most of them are desperately trying to overcome. The
easiest way to cut bonds with the past is to sever the most obvious
link with it, namely language. For many older adoptees, forgetting
the language seems to have a positive therapeutic value, while
externally imposed demands to keep the language may traumatize
them. For example, once a Russian visitor in school was introduced
to a recently adopted 8-year-old girl. The child became hysterical,
refused to talk, cried, and finally ran away from the office,
fearing that this woman had come to bring her back to Russia.
This is an extreme example, of course, but one cannot assume that
when a child listens to her native language, it will be a pleasant
experience for her. Sometimes the sincere desire to preserve
the native language and native country's cultural affiliation
in their children motivates the adoptive parents to think about
bilingual education. Sometimes, for the same reason, parents hire
a tutor to maintain Russian language skills. Since in the majority
of cases these attempts are doomed to fail anyway, the question
remains: is it still worth of trying? In the state of NY bilingual
education and bilingual related services may be available for
internationally adopted children. Great caution should be exercised
in making a decision in this respect. A short-term transitional
bilingual program or related services, such as speech therapy
or counseling, when provided by bilingual professionals, may be
quite appropriate for, say, a 7 year old child who has just arrived
in the country. As a long-term option, however, it may be a step
in the wrong direction. You see, an adopted child lives in a monolingual
English-speaking family, not in a bilingual immigrant family.
Her native language does not have a functional meaning or a personal
sense for her. She needs functional English for survival. Her
native language will not be sustained by her family; however,
the same family will provide her with patterns of proper English.
Bilingual education or related services for only part of the day
combined with a lack of family support may lead to communication
confusion and "mixed" verbal conditioning for a circumstantial
bilingual child. Bilingual education in this case may even impede
the child's learning of English. As for hiring a Russian-speaking
tutor for a newly-arrived school-age child - this is a very risky
action. One can make life easier for a short time by easing the
communication strain, but it may complicate life immensely in
the long-run. You and only you must be a source of comfort, security,
and information for your child from the very beginning and for
many years to come. If you place another adult between you and
your newly adopted child, this other adult is essentially taking
over some of your basic functions as parents (without malicious
intent, of course) - and then you are only inviting attachment
issues and other related problems. The best course of action is
just to go together with your child through the difficult phases
of adjustment and language learning and to emerge from this difficult
period with strengthened attachments and naturally acquired language
skills.
Q:
What you said is rather discouraging.
It looks like bilingualism is not an option for many of our children.
A:As almost everything in life, this issue is
a matter of personal choice and priorities. On arrival, the
priorities for your newly adopted child are health, attachment,
and initial adjustment (new language learning first of all). Soon
after, health, education, remediation (if needed), and building
lasting relationships. Everything is mediated, of course, by your
child's progress in new language acquisition. I do not see a place
here for preserving native language as a first-order priority
for majority of adoptive families. Unfortunately, it is often
the case that by the time you are ready to take care of this issue,
the native language is gone. This is a typical scenario for most
adoptive families. There are exceptions, of course. Those
exceptions may occur naturally, even without special efforts,
or may be the results of planned and well-executed heroic efforts.
With international adoptees who are older than 9, are physically
healthy, have age-appropriate language development and grade-appropriate
literacy skills, have positive attitude towards their native language,
have an opportunity to use it for practical reasons and receive
an encouraging recognition of their special skills from peers
- the maintenance and development of their native language is
possible and bilingualism is a real option. But exceptions
only confirm the rule: in general, bilingualism and international
adoption are not compatible. Any attempts to preserve the native
language in a child who has language delays, is emotionally/behaviorally
immature, or has learning disabilities of any sort may lead to
an undue strain and emotional/behavioral problems. External reinforcement
of the native language for a child - especially a child who has
negative attitude towards that language, who resents his/her status
of a "foreigner", and who has no need for this language
for immediate survival purposes - may be a recipe for a disaster.
An even more difficult scenario is to introduce two languages
simultaneously to a pre-verbal toddler with developmental delays.
The bottom line is that for a vast majority of international adoptees
bilingualism is not an option. | 2023-10-28T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/3123 |
Debt Statistics November 2013
Britain is up to its neck in debt, and that is not just a scaremongering tactic. This is apparent by looking at the national statistics and these have been shared with us directly by the Money Charity. This article will dig a little deeper into this UK based charity’s findings and you’ll soon see that these figures that make pretty scary reading, so please feel free to take a seat.
UK personal debt Nov 2013
At the end of November 2013, the UK’s outstanding debts added up to £1.432 trillion and this was a significant rise from the previous year. The November 2012 figure was $1.420 trillion, and this is a worrying trend that needs some attention in the coming year.
Secured and unsecured
Mortgage debt continued to rise, the outstanding secured lending was £1.265 trillion back in 2012, however it had ballooned up to a staggering £1.273 trillion by last November.
Household habits
The typical family in the UK was in debt to the tune of £6,016 in November 2013, and that has risen by an average of £11 since November 2012. These figures do not take the mortgage debts into consideration.
Consumer borrowing
The average consumer borrowing amount was £3,161 in November 2012, and that had risen by an average of £6 12 months later. These figures include credit cards, overdrafts and various finance deals.
Net lending
The total net lending amount to individuals in the UK by the banks was up by £1.5 billion in November 2013. Net secured lending was also up and this rose by £0.9 billion and the net consumer credit lending rose by £0.6 billion.
UK banks
It is increasingly common to hear about the debts that the UK banks are now writing off, but you may be surprised to hear about these amounts in detail. From Q3 2012 to Q3 2013, they wrote off an astonishing £3.63 billion of individual loans. Over a £billion was written off in Q3 2013 alone. £397 million of that amount was credit card loans.
Everyday facts
We’ve collated a number of ‘Everyday in the UK’ debt facts here, they’re also unpleasant reading so don’t stand up just yet:
285 people are made bankrupt or declared insolvent each day
1,655 CCJs are issued every 24 hours
79 properties are recovered each day
156 mortgage possessions are issued every day
29.9 million plastic card transaction happen every 24 hours
If you read this article slowly, quickly or not at all, the facts remain pretty plain – Debt is a national problem.
Dissolve Debt
Despite these new figures, there is a light at the end of this debt-ridden tunnel. Here at Dissolve Debt, we are committed to helping every individual and family with their debt problems. We act impartially and we will offer you a bespoke solution that is tailored to your own circumstances. We can offer you advice on taking out an IVA, debt re-structuring and debt management plans. We are all different and what suits one person may not be the right fit for another. So please pick up the phone and give us a call, we are here to help.
Conditions apply. Please note that repaying debt over an extended period may increase the total amount of debt to be repaid. Transferring debts to a financial management plan will affect your ability to obtain credit in the short term. Your ability to obtain credit may also be affected in the medium to long term. | 2024-06-03T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/7915 |
A car dealer demanded payment in full on expensive vehicles just days before the business went bust a jury heard.
Menai Vehicles Solutions went out of business in October 2015, but Gwyn Meirion Roberts obtained a BMW car and £43,500 from a retired dentist in late September, Caernarfon crown court was told.
Ian Spencer Lloyd said he had agreed to buy a Range Rover Sport from Roberts' company based at Parc Menai, Bangor after being told the vehicle could be delivered in two months.
The court was also told earlier in September Roberts had been handed £53,000 and another expensive BMW car by a civil engineer who expected to take delivery of a Porsche 911 car.
Roberts, 50, of Dolgoed, Llandudno Junction , denies 24 allegations of fraud and one of fraudulent trading and is standing trial at Caernarfon Crown Court.
On the second day of the trial the jury heard from former customers who claimed to have handed cash and vehicles to Roberts but not received anything in return.
Mr Lloyd said he visited Roberts at his office on September 21, 2015 and agreed to buy a Range Rover Sport and part exchange a BMW valued at £22,000.
This was collected by Roberts and Mr Lloyd expected to take delivery of the Range Rover, a vehicle he described as his "dream car", at the end of November.
He said the two month delivery date was favourable as he understood there was a six month delay at other dealerships.
Intec site at Parc Menai, where Menai Vehicle Solutions was based
The balance was £43,500 and Mr Lloyd expected to pay this on receipt of the vehicle. But he said he was told by Roberts to secure the order at Range Rover the money had to be paid in full.
Roberts requested a bank transfer and the money was paid but two weeks later Mr Lloyd had a phone call stating the business had gone into liquidation bankrupt. The £43,000 has not been returned nor received any payments for the BMW.
He told Roberts' barrister, John Philpotts, he had expected the £22,000 for the BMW as a deposit for the Range Rover.
He said he had been "taken aback" at the need to pay in full at the same time as handing over the BMW. Mr Lloyd added he was "extremely annoyed" at losing the car and later bought the vehicle in a deal through the liquidator.
Richard Hughes told the jury he was interested in buying a Porsche and a friend recommended Gwyn Roberts.
In August 2015 he agreed to buy a Porsche 911 coupe and a BMW X3 car would be handed in as part exchange.
Mr Hughes said he expected delivery of the new car in two weeks and was called the following day and Roberts told him he had a buyer for the X5 and needed to collect the vehicle. It was later sold.
He added Roberts said the £53,000 for the Porsche was due to be paid and was “extremely agitated and adamant” he needed the payment.
The Porsche was not delivered and he was given “excuse after excuse” he added. | 2023-11-09T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/3870 |
Cathepsin proteases have distinct roles in trophoblast function and vascular remodelling.
Trophoblast giant cells are instrumental in promoting blood flow towards the mouse embryo by invading the uterine endometrium and remodelling the maternal vasculature. This process involves the degradation of the perivascular smooth muscle layer and the displacement of vascular endothelial cells to form trophoblast-lined blood sinuses. How this vascular remodelling is achieved at the molecular level remains largely elusive. Here, we show that two placenta-specific cathepsins, Cts7 and Cts8, are expressed in distinct but largely overlapping subsets of giant cells that are in direct contact with maternal arteries. We find that Cts8, but not Cts7, has the capacity to mediate loss of smooth muscle alpha-actin and to disintegrate blood vessels. Consequently, conditional ubiquitous overexpression of Cts8 leads to midgestational embryonic lethality caused by severe vascularization defects. In addition, both cathepsins determine trophoblast cell fate by inhibiting the self-renewing capacity of trophoblast stem cells when overexpressed in vitro. Similarly, transgenic overexpression of Cts7 and Cts8 affects trophoblast proliferation and differentiation by prolonging mitotic cell cycle progression and promoting giant cell differentiation, respectively. We also show that the cell cycle effect is directly caused by some proportion of CTS7 localizing to the nucleus, highlighting the emerging functional diversity of these typically lysosomal proteases in distinct intracellular compartments. Our findings provide evidence for the highly specialized functions of closely related cysteine cathepsin proteases in extra-embryonic development, and reinforce their importance for a successful outcome of pregnancy. | 2023-10-28T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/4973 |
Sorry, Donald — a few hundred people is not quite a "mother of all rallies."
The "mother of all" label is supposed to imply a massive, often unprecedented scale and impact.
That was laughably not the case in Washington, D.C. Saturday, where a decidedly minimal crowd of Donald Trump supporters gathered to showcase his dwindling, but still very racist, fanbase.
USA Today's headline said it all: "Hundreds of pro-Trump activists descend on D.C. for 'Mother of All Rallies'" — while the article notes that U.S. Park Police expected a crowd of at least a few thousand yet encountered a gathering that didn't make it out of triple digits.
Video of the event makes the sparseness painfully apparent, with a reporter noting that the rally "so far doesn't live up to its name."
The organizers even had the audacity to claim the event would be the "Woodstock" of rallies. Fact-check: 400,000 is a larger amount than a few hundred.
And the pictures don't lie:
Oathkeeper / III%er militia types guarding the perimeter at Trmp rally on the Mall pic.twitter.com/h4d3R24trW — Will Sommer (@willsommer) September 16, 2017
Trump rally's American Guard contingent -- featuring a "based patriot". pic.twitter.com/2QjkPk3YY9 — Will Sommer (@willsommer) September 16, 2017
These guys don't seem to be having the kind of fun the "Woodstock" of rallies would seem to promise:
Militia guys love making perimeters that are like 4 guys and easily walked around pic.twitter.com/uaxhsc0Mxe — Will Sommer (@willsommer) September 16, 2017
They definitely did not get the "millions" they were hoping for:
'Mother Of All Rallies' (#MOAR) that called for 'millions' to come show support for Pres. Trump, seems to have pulled a crowd of 1-200 pic.twitter.com/jgRCraWdpd — Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) September 16, 2017
Also, just saying:
That's a whole lot of wide open space:
The Mother of All Rallies #MOAR as seen by the Washington Monument's live cam https://t.co/JDPM0xVOHD pic.twitter.com/ih87sXzyXH — Gargoyle (@Patztense) September 16, 2017
Trump's approval ratings continue to show basement-level, embarrassing numbers.
The so-called "Mother of all rallies" in support of this failing presidency put those polls on stark display — not with a bang, but with a sad, racist whimper.
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Q:
hint not working for DropdownButtonFormField in Flutter
I have a form in Flutter with textformfield and dropdownbuttonformfield. While running my app hint is not working for me. hint not shown in dropdownbuttonformfield. It's showing kkk as initial value not showing Select City.
I'm using StatefulWidget here.
help me to solve this Problem.
Thanks in Advance.
class _AddTripState extends State<AddTrip> {
var formKey = GlobalKey<FormState>();
TextEditingController nameController = TextEditingController();
TextEditingController numberController = TextEditingController();
TextEditingController datecontroller = TextEditingController();
final format = DateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
DateTime _dateTime;
List<String> name = ['kkk', 'rrr'];
String _dropdownvalue = 'kkk';
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return Scaffold(
appBar: AppBar(
title: Text("Add Trip"),
),
body: Form(
key: formKey,
child: ListView(
children: <Widget>[
Text(
'Name',
textAlign: TextAlign.left,
),
TextFormField(
decoration: _inputDecoration(),
keyboardType: TextInputType.text,
controller: nameController,
validator: textValidator,
),
Text(
'Number',
textAlign: TextAlign.left,
),
TextFormField(
decoration: _inputDecoration(),
controller: numberController,
keyboardType: TextInputType.number,
validator: numberValidator,
),
Text(
'Date',
textAlign: TextAlign.left,
),
TextFormField(
readOnly: true,
controller: datecontroller,
validator: dateValidator,
decoration: InputDecoration(
border: OutlineInputBorder(),
errorBorder: OutlineInputBorder(
borderSide: BorderSide(color: Colors.amber)),
errorStyle: TextStyle(color: Colors.amber),
suffixIcon: GestureDetector(
child: Icon(
Icons.date_range,
),
onTap: () {
showDatePicker(
context: context,
initialDate: DateTime.now(),
firstDate: DateTime(2018),
lastDate: DateTime(2020))
.then((value) {
setState(() {
datecontroller.text =
DateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd").format(value);
});
});
},
),
),
),
DropdownButtonFormField<String>(
hint: Text('Select City'),
validator: _cityValidator,
decoration: InputDecoration(border: OutlineInputBorder()),
items: name.map((value) {
return DropdownMenuItem<String>(
child: Text(value), value: value);
}).toList(),
value: _dropdownvalue,
onChanged: (newValue) {
setState(() {
_dropdownvalue = newValue;
});
},
),
RaisedButton(
onPressed: submit,
child: Text('Add Trip'),
)
],
)),
);
}
Where i'm wrong?
A:
The hint is Displayed if the value is null.
so in your code - make - String _dropdownvalue = 'kkk'; change to - String _dropdownvalue; only
| 2023-08-13T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/9313 |
The eyasses at Riverside Park are in that awkward stage where their flight feathers are starting to grow in. It's a good time to watch then, as you can figure out how wing and tail feathers work as they grow in.
The mother continues to hold her own, and is being supported by an Urban Park Ranger who is helping by leaving rodents near the nest. | 2024-05-20T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/3020 |
1961 French Championships (tennis)
The 1961 French Championships (now known as the French Open) was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland-Garros in Paris, France. The tournament ran from 15 May until 27 May. It was the 65th staging of the French Championships, and the second Grand Slam tennis event of 1961. Manuel Santana and Ann Haydon won the singles titles.
Finals
Men's Singles
Manuel Santana defeated Nicola Pietrangeli 4–6, 6–1, 3–6, 6–0, 6–2
Women's Singles
Ann Haydon defeated Yola Ramírez 6–2, 6–1
Men's Doubles
Roy Emerson / Rod Laver defeated Bob Howe / Robert Mark 3–6, 6–1, 6–1, 6–4
Women's Doubles
Sandra Reynolds / Renee Schuurman defeated Maria Bueno / Darlene Hard walkover
Mixed Doubles
Darlene Hard / Rod Laver defeated Vera Suková / Jirí Javorský 6–0, 2–6, 6–3
References
External links
French Open official website
French Championships
Category:French Championships (tennis) by year
French Champ
Category:May 1961 sports events
Category:1961 in Paris | 2024-07-11T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/7630 |
Q:
Help me solve this TAOE problem
So, I picked up this book and am working through it by myself. I am a bit stuck on problem 1.6:
In the bottom you can see how I'm approaching this. I'm assuming the transmission cable goes across NY, and New Yorkers draw power from different points along the line. Since they each draw power at 115V, then the total voltage at the station, V@Station minimum, is 115 x 107V.
The power dissipated through one foot of cable is
(V@Station ^ 2) / Resistance per foot of cable
This worked out to be 2.645 x 1025W. And 1010W would be dissipated in 3.78 x 10-16 feet.
I haven't calculated the temperature because I don't know how to.
The last part of the question comments on these strange results and asks for a resolution to this problem. I'm guessing that, since power rises non linearly with voltage, we reduce the V@Station by the use of transformers in order to reduce power dissipation through the transmission cable.
Is this approach and the answer correct? Please add your own thoughts and point me in the right direction if I'm wrong.
A:
(a)
If we want to supply \$10^{10}\$ watts of power at \$115\$ Volts then the current would have to be
$$ I=\frac{10^{10}}{115} = 86.956 \times 10^6 Amperes$$ .
Power lost per foot = \$I^2\$ (Resistance per foot)
$$\frac{P}{foot} = I^2\frac{R}{foot} = 7.561\times 10^{!5} \times 0.05 \times 10^{-6} $$
$$= 378.071 \times 10^6 \text{ Watt per foot}$$
(b)
So all the power \$10^{10}\$ is lost in
$$\frac{10^{10}}{78.071 \times 10^6} = 26.45 \text{ feet} \approx 8 \text{ metres}$$
(c)
The value of the Stefan–Boltzmann constant is given in SI units by
$$σ = 5.670367×10^{−8} \frac{W}{m^{2} K^{4}}$$
Emissivity of copper \$ε = 0.023\$. Note that the diameter of the wire is \$0.3048\$ metres.
Surface area of cylindrical wire
$$A = 2\pi rh = 0.3048 \times \pi \times 8.06196 = 7.71 m^2$$
Power radiated from heated body
$$= ε σ A T^4 = 1.0068 \times 10^{-8}T^4 = I^2R = 10^{10}$$
$$T^4 = 9.932 \times 10^{17}$$
$$T=31,569.22 \text{ Kelvin}$$
To put that into perspective, copper melts at \$1,358\$ Kelvin while the surface of the sun is \$5,778\$ Kelvin hot.
A:
As hinted by others in comments, that question is formulated so that you might reflect on the benefits of high-voltage power transmission lines.
Power is not transmitted over long distances at such a low voltage as 115Vac (230-240Vac in EU). This latter, relatively low, voltage is used in households for safety and practical reasons, but it is wasteful for long range transmission. You may find some mathematical result in this section of the article linked above.
| 2023-09-25T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/7094 |
Q:
Using Stellar for Proof of Existence
I know Stellar is designed for transfering funds and holding tokens, but I thought about using it for proof of existence. Stellars transaction fees are much cheaper than Ethereum and transactions are much faster. Could Stellar be used for PoE?
I would transfer lumen from my account to the same account (or another one I own) in a transaction and use the PoE SHA256 in the memo field, would this work?
When proofing existence, can I search all memo fields in Stellar for a SHA256?
A:
It definitely works, I did a PoC years ago doing just that.
Search is going to be the complicated part, since Horizon doesn't really give you any easy way to filter out transactions based on their memo, unless you host a server yourself and talk directly to the database.
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MOTHERHOOD RIGHT NOW | THE POWER RANGER ON 7TH AVENUE
MOTHERHOOD RIGHT NOW / is . . .
. . . rocking matching shoes.
But only matching shoes.
Okay. And sometimes clothes.
BUT ONLY ON ACCIDENT.
Mostly.
MOTHERHOOD RIGHT NOW / is stepping on plastic Rescue Bots, knowing how to do each voice just right, and realizing one afternoon that not only do you know all the lyrics to all the cartoon theme songs ever written (including every blasted iteration of Power Rangers--seriously there must be at least thirty of them), but you can also pull them up on demand when running errands and things get hairy.
Motherhood right now is wondering if that kind of catalogue is the reason you can never remember if you paid the cable bill or not.
The Rescue Bots theme song is really kick ass though. EARN THEIR RESPECT!
MOTHERHOOD RIGHT NOW / is buying an apricot he swears he'll eat, watching him take one tiny bite before coming up with creative ways to wriggle out of finishing it, and then resignedly finishing it for him, because you aren't really hungry, but what else are you going to do with it?
MOTHERHOOD RIGHT NOW / means sometimes being a human compost bin.
MOTHERHOOD RIGHT NOW / is the occasional massive meltdown, where all you can do is count to ten and clench your fists and wish for strong sedatives.
(And then let your husband take a picture of it.)
MOTHERHOOD RIGHT NOW / means a lot of fart jokes.
And a lot of reminders that he gets only one fart joke a day.
MOTHERHOOD RIGHT NOW / means occasionally having to break your baby's heart.
A few weeks ago, on a Saturday afternoon when the sun was at its warmest and the breezes still cool, we set out to find us some lunch. Huck wanted Vietnamese noodles and I wanted Mexican food. Brandon just wanted to find a place to sit down (redhead in the sun problems), and I think that's what's really great about our part of Brooklyn. You can find all of it and more within three blocks, and then you can congregate in one place where everybody's pretty chill about outside food making its way in, and then there's usually a soccer game on a TV in there somehow?
The waiter at this Mexican food place was wearing a pretty silly vest and his curly blonde hair was pulled back in a ponytail, and also there were suspenders, because, Brooklyn. Upon seeing this dude Huck immediately went weird. Grinning like a loon while trying to keep a straight face, occasionally scurrying under the table, covering his eyes with his hands and peeking through his fingers, your classic four-year-old-having-a-moment type behavior.
Brandon, being Brandon, leaned over and loudly inquired what was up, and then he pulled out that classic dad maneuver where he takes that information and straight up asks the dude, "Hey, you wouldn't happen to be a Power Ranger, would you? My kid thinks you look like one. And can I get a Coke when you have a minute?"
The possible Power Ranger didn't miss a beat. He wriggled his eyebrows and glanced from side to side before saying out the side of his mouth, "Well. I'm not supposed to tell anybody."
And then he winked.
And then Huck died.
I swear it, you have never seeeeeen a happier child. He was thrilled. Stars in his eyes, circling in a spiral of glee for daaaays and days and days. "They're REAL!" He'd everybody he met on the street. "THERE'S A REAL POWER RANGER! ON SEVENTH AVENUE!" We went along with it, because, adorable, but pretty quickly things started getting tricky.
"Well, I know Power Rangers are real . . . but mom, are fairies real?"
"Are you sure Power Rangers are real, buddy? I think he might have been having fun with you when he said that . . ."
"Oh no, dey real. But FAIRIES. "
"Well . . . okay. No, not fairies."
One afternoon Huck marched up with his Power Ranger costume and requested that I make him a real Power Ranger suit. WITH LASERS.
Insert your best distraction techniques [HERE] and pray he forgets about that one.
Another time Huck told he wanted nachos for dinner again, and that "dis time I KNOW I won't be shy, I KNOW I'll ask him, and I KNOW he'll make me a Junior Power Ranger! Because I know dey need me, mom."
Then one night he requested that I buy him a spirit animal, and that's when I knew the jig was up. Because . . . I mean, Amazon doesn't stock spirit animals. What does a spirit animal even look like?? (A pink rhino floating in a glass ball, obviously.) It broke my heart to do it, to definitively pop this tiny little bubble in his ever fading bubble bath of childhood. How special of a time is it when he can wholeheartedly believe such magical, exciting things! And how can I keep him in it longer? I wondered again if we were wrong to let him believe as long as we did. I didn't want him to feel betrayed, or that I'd been lying to him. That fine line between nurturing a kid's imagination and setting him up for disappointment is so fine I sometimes don't know if I've imagined it or not. Sometimes I'm pretty certain I'm taking this stuff too seriously; other times I'm not so sure.
I broke it to him as gently and as patiently as I could, hopefully preserving that crucial tie where my word connects to his trust. It's hard. That trust is my entire parenting collateral. It's what I rely on when I tell him he can't have a new toy today, but later when he's earned enough allowance, and I promise him I'll help him earn it. That trust is how I get him to try the broccoli, or the chicken with the weird sauce, even if it looks gross. It's how I can tell him it's not spicy and he'll respond, 'Ok!' and dig right in. It's how I get him to wear a sweater when he thinks it's not cold out, it's how I convince him to get into bed when he swears he's not tired. I have to be able to follow through on my word, I want him to know that I'm always on his team. With me and Huck, it's that he knows I'm paying attention to him, I think. It's that I won't brush him off, so he knows I'm not just saying 'no' for the fun of it or because I don't understand how important something is to him.
Later that night I watched as Huck grappled with this newfound knowledge of life, this harsh glare of the real world intruding on his Eden. I was so proud of him for taking it like a champ, but it was also a little melancholy, like adding a tiny weight of maturity to his precious baby shoulders that I wasn't ready for him to have. Hell, I'm still hoping for the rewind button to show up some day so I can get more Huck baby time before it's all over. Maturity, no bueno! Anyway, what's the rush!?
16 comments:
*oh geez. what a swell read! and as i'm several (many, really) years ahead of you with the boy growing? --the fart jokes never die off, irrelevant of 'maturity.' *i loved " . . hopefully preserving that crucial tie where my word connects to his trust." *and lastly, short boy nails is the best thing a mother can do for a child (at least in the top 10?). so you are aces there!
oh my this even had me a tad teary (emotional) in work. I am still at the stage with my son Reece (3) where I can totally get away with the make believe stuff, I am not so sure I will be ready to brake his little bubble. I would say you done a wonderful job though:) Huck is just the cutest xxx
Hey girl. Vermont Chris here. Since I feel like we are now good friends, I needed to come catch up on your blog--I just have no time to read stuff anymore but I will check up on yours from time to time to see how my friend is doing. Ahhh yes, The never ending Power Ranger themes and episodes. So freakin' many and my kid loves them all. Had I know Huck's passion for the Rangers, I would have insisted he come play with my kids and get the outfits (yes, I bought some) and the swords and the could have spirited their animals together. Oh Power Rangers...take care girl. | 2024-04-18T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/8784 |
A driver and his friend robbed his 85-year-old employer’s flat, but the woman had done police verification of her employees, which helped crack the case
A senior citizen’s diligence and attention to detail helped nab the two men who stole valuables worth R27 lakh from her Khar home. The Khar police arrested a driver and his friend for stealing valuables from the 85-year-old woman’s flat.
Milind Chafe (32) worked as her driver, and his friend Praful Hate (23) was the accomplice. According to the police, verification of servants by the senior citizen before employing them helped them crack the case on time.
The complainant is retired from the police service and lives alone in her flat in Khar (West). The incident took place in the last week of February.
Chafe had made duplicate keys of the house and asked his friend to steal valuables when he would be with the complainant, to prove that he is not involved in the crime.
On the day of the incident, the complainant went with her driver to meet a relative. Chafe called Hate and told him that the house was unoccupied. Hate went to the house and stole valuables including gold, silver, diamond and precious stones.
A day after the incident, Chafe went on leave for two days, and the same day, the senior citizen registered the case at Khar police station. As she had conducted police verification of her driver and other servants, the police were able to arrest the accused quickly.
They have also recovered valuables worth Rs 17 lakh. Chafe and Hate had taken the loot to Zaveri Bazaar and were selling it for cash. According to the police, Chafe had also stolen valuables in November, but was let off after a warning.
“Verification of servants is necessary, especially for senior citizens who live alone. In this case, the verification details helped us crack the case,” said a Khar police official.
Police verificationIn verification of servants, details like personal information, family background, earlier experience and information about their family, along with fingerprints and photographs, are taken and verified by the local police station. A signed copy of the verification is then handed over to the employer. | 2023-12-23T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/6890 |
Value adding goatmeat for domestic consumers – a $13M opportunity
A feasibility study has been undertaken in the Australian domestic market looking at new usages, occasions and opportunity spaces for goatmeat.
The opportunities identified have been valued at approximately $13 million per year and MLA Donor Company is now seeking co-funding partners within the industry to act on these findings.
The project, value adding goatmeat for domestic consumers, used a design led thinking approach (keeping the customer front of mind) and held interviews to capture the perspectives of producers, supply chain intermediaries, butchers and key end users.
In the last 20 years, several secondary proteins have risen to prominence beyond the restaurant scene to become mainstays of supermarket offerings, where most Australians buy their meat. This includes fresh seafood (such as salmon and tuna), duck, kangaroo, turkey, mussels and venison.
There are lessons from the success of secondary proteins that goatmeat could learn from and adapt to grow demand while remaining true to the product’s qualities and character and managing its limitations.
The Australian mussel industry for example, manages its seasonality constraints (whereby mussels are best flavoured in summer even though they are available all year round) by making an event out of the product to boost awareness and consumption when the product eats best. For more information click here.
Could goatmeat’s time to shine be in the autumn and winter months, where its long slow cooking times and richer and more complex flavours are a better fit to consumers and chef’s cooking aspirations and taste expectations?
The Luv-a-duck brand has transformed duck from being a hard-to-replicate, ‘special’ item eaten mostly in restaurants to something far more accessible to the home cook.
They bred a duck with a good amount of meat, developed semi-prepared easy-to-follow recipe kits and paired this with support via cooking classes and recipe guidance. Could this be a possible solution to some of the consumer barriers around goatmeat: “It’s too hard to replicate at home/too much risk of failure”? Can goatmeat own some uniquely flavoured dishes and simplify the home cooking experience by pre-marinating, spicing or tenderising the meat?
This opportunity ties in well with new cooking implements and trends such as the Webber Q, enabling consumers to embrace things like pulled pork. Why not pulled goat? Implements currently used in restaurant kitchens such as ‘Sous Vide’ can bring out the best in goatmeat and these will become accessible to those consumers willing to furnish their homes with the latest devices – just look at the Thermomix.
Initially focusing on consumers who are the most experimental and have the greatest influence on others will pay dividends in the long run to sustainably and incrementally build demand.
Several value-add opportunities are presented in the project final report, where defined consumer segments and key occasions have been identified along with a range of existing problems that consumers need solving.
These value-add options accentuate goatmeat’s properties and seek to overcome some of its inherent barriers to usage, making it more commercially viable as a solution.
The initial opportunities the domestic market should consider are listed below along with indicative values/volumes per year.
Who are they?
Estimated volume of goatmeat (annual)
Estimated value (annual)
Young Families - parents seeking to do the right thing by their kids with healthy and enjoyable mid-week meals, but live in the real world
118T
$4.7M
Adventurous Cooks – taking the team to pursue their passion, creating something new and interesting
78T
$3.1M
Millennials – new age food values, seeking to realise their flexitarian ambitions
70T
$1.7M
Empty Nesters – Focusing back on themselves and their health needs, as they plan to lead a fulfilling and active life
58T
$2.9M
Professional Couples – seek to create for themselves the type of cosmopolitan dishes they experience when eating out, with the help of a meal kit
34T
$0.9M
Total
360T
$13.3M
Download the full project report here. A short webinar talking through the project results can be downloaded and watched here. | 2023-10-07T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/6508 |
Singapore: Oil prices were up in Asian trade on Thursday as a surprise rise in German industrial production brightened the market's outlook for European and global growth, analysts said.
New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in June added five cents to USD 96.67 a barrel and Brent North Sea crude for June delivery gained 18 cents to USD 104.52.
"Dealers are cheering German industrial production figures that were significantly better than expected," Ric Spooner, chief market analyst at CMC Markets in Sydney, said.
"What we're seeing is an improved outlook for European and global growth." The upbeat German factory output numbers came a day after China said it recorded an USD 18.2 billion surplus in April, stoking hopes of improving demand in the world's second biggest economy.
German industrial output saw a surprisingly robust rise in March driven by a sharp increase in the energy sector, official data showed on Wednesday.
Industrial production rose by 1.2 percent in March compared with the previous month, beating analysts' expectations of a 0.2 percent decline.
On Tuesday, economy ministry data showed industrial orders in Germany jumping by 2.2 percent in March compared with February, propelled by rising demand -- both at home and abroad -- for German-made goods.
The fresh production figures were a further sign of gathering momentum in Europe's largest economy, supporting hopes for an increased demand for crude there.
Crude has been stronger in recent weeks thanks to an improved picture of economic growth in the United States, China, Japan and Germany, and by a rise in tensions in the Middle East after Israeli air raids in Syria. | 2024-07-16T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/6865 |
---
title: "Weakly-typed JSON Serialization Sample"
ms.date: "03/30/2017"
ms.assetid: 0b30e501-4ef5-474d-9fad-a9d559cf9c52
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# Weakly-typed JSON Serialization Sample
When serializing a user-defined type to a given wire format, or deserializing a wire format back into a user-defined type, the given user-defined type must be available on both the service and the client. Usually to accomplish this, the <xref:System.Runtime.Serialization.DataContractAttribute> attribute is applied to these user-defined types and the <xref:System.Runtime.Serialization.DataMemberAttribute> attribute is applied to their members. This mechanism also applies when working with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) objects, as described in the topic [How to: Serialize and Deserialize JSON Data](../feature-details/how-to-serialize-and-deserialize-json-data.md).
In some scenarios, a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service or client must access JSON objects generated by a service or client that is outside of the control of the developer. As more Web services publicly expose JSON APIs, it can become impractical for the WCF developer to construct local user-defined types into which to deserialize arbitrary JSON objects. This sample provides a mechanism that enables WCF developers to work with deserialized, arbitrary JSON objects, without creating user-defined types. This is known as *weakly-typed serialization* of JSON objects, because the type into which a JSON object deserializes is not known at compile time.
> [!NOTE]
> The setup procedure and build instructions for this sample are located at the end of this topic.
For example, a public Web service API returns the following JSON object, which describes some information about a user of the service.
```json
{"personal": {"name": "Paul", "age": 23, "height": 1.7, "isSingle": true, "luckyNumbers": [5,17,21]}, "favoriteBands": ["Band ABC", "Band XYZ"]}
```
To deserialize this object, a WCF client must implement the following user-defined types.
```csharp
[DataContract]
public class MemberProfile
{
[DataMember]
public PersonalInfo personal;
[DataMember]
public string[] favoriteBands;
}
[DataContract]
public class PersonalInfo
{
[DataMember]
public string name;
[DataMember]
public int age;
[DataMember]
public double height;
[DataMember]
public bool isSingle;
[DataMember]
public int[] luckyNumbers;
}
```
This can be cumbersome, especially if the client has to handle more than one type of JSON object.
The `JsonObject` type provided by this sample introduces a weakly-typed representation of the deserialized JSON object. `JsonObject` relies on the natural mapping between JSON objects and .NET Framework dictionaries, and the mapping between JSON arrays and .NET Framework arrays. The following code shows the `JsonObject` type.
```csharp
// Instantiation of JsonObject json omitted
string name = json["root"]["personal"]["name"];
int age = json["root"]["personal"]["age"];
double height = json["root"]["personal"]["height"];
bool isSingle = json["root"]["personal"]["isSingle"];
int[] luckyNumbers = {
json["root"]["personal"]["luckyNumbers"][0],
json["root"]["personal"]["luckyNumbers"][1],
json["root"]["personal"]["luckyNumbers"][2]
};
string[] favoriteBands = {
json["root"]["favoriteBands"][0],
json["root"]["favoriteBands"][1]
};
```
Note that you can "browse" JSON objects and arrays without the need to declare their type at compile time. For an explanation of the requirement for the top-level `["root"]` object, see the topic [Mapping Between JSON and XML](../feature-details/mapping-between-json-and-xml.md).
> [!NOTE]
> The `JsonObject` class is provided as an example only. It has not been thoroughly tested, and should not be used in production environments. An obvious implication of weakly-typed JSON serialization is the lack of type-safety when working with `JsonObject`.
To use the `JsonObject` type, the client operation contract must use <xref:System.ServiceModel.Channels.Message> as its return type.
```csharp
[ServiceContract]
interface IClientSideProfileService
{
// There is no need to write a DataContract for the complex type returned by the service.
// The client will use a JsonObject to browse the JSON in the received message.
[OperationContract]
[WebGet(ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json)]
Message GetMemberProfile();
}
```
The `JsonObject` is then instantiated as shown in the following code.
```csharp
// Code to instantiate IClientSideProfileService channel omitted…
// Make a request to the service and obtain the Json response
XmlDictionaryReader reader = channel.GetMemberProfile().GetReaderAtBodyContents();
// Go through the Json as though it is a dictionary. There is no need to map it to a .NET CLR type.
JsonObject json = new JsonObject(reader);
```
The `JsonObject` constructor takes a <xref:System.Xml.XmlDictionaryReader>, which is obtained through the <xref:System.ServiceModel.Channels.Message.GetReaderAtBodyContents%2A> method. The reader contains an XML representation of the JSON message received by the client. For more information, see the topic [Mapping Between JSON and XML](../feature-details/mapping-between-json-and-xml.md).
The program produces the following output:
```console
Service listening at http://localhost:8000/.
To view the JSON output from the sample, navigate to http://localhost:8000/GetMemberProfile
This is Paul's page. I am 23 years old and I am 1.7 meters tall.
I am single.
My lucky numbers are 5, 17, and 21.
My favorite bands are Band ABC and Band XYZ.
```
### To set up, build, and run the sample
1. Ensure that you have performed the [One-Time Setup Procedure for the Windows Communication Foundation Samples](one-time-setup-procedure-for-the-wcf-samples.md).
2. Build the solution WeaklyTypedJson.sln as described in [Building the Windows Communication Foundation Samples](building-the-samples.md).
3. Run the solution.
> [!IMPORTANT]
> The samples may already be installed on your machine. Check for the following (default) directory before continuing.
>
> `<InstallDrive>:\WF_WCF_Samples`
>
> If this directory does not exist, go to [Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Samples for .NET Framework 4](https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=21459) to download all Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and [!INCLUDE[wf1](../../../../includes/wf1-md.md)] samples. This sample is located in the following directory.
>
> `<InstallDrive>:\WF_WCF_Samples\WCF\Scenario\Ajax\WeaklyTypedJson`
| 2024-04-16T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/4698 |
More and more users are turning to network-based resources to access information and conduct transactions. For example, a web site of an electronic marketplace may allow users to review, order, and/or return items. Such an electronic marketplace may provide a user experience unmatched by a more traditional brick and mortar store. For example, the electronic marketplace may offer a larger and more diverse selection of items.
Typically, a user may operate a computing device to access a network-based resource of a provider over a network. An organization, such as Internet service provider (ISP), may facilitate this access by providing various services for routing traffic over the network between the user's computing device and the network-based resource. The services may be part of a domain name system (DNS) configuration. For example, DNS can allow a translation between a domain name input at the computing device and a network address of the network-based resource. | 2023-08-15T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/6160 |
Liners for sealing caps have been commonly used in the past, where the sealing cap is used on a bottle or other like container having an opening and said cap is securable to the bottle or container for enclosing the opening. Liners are relatively well known and are designed essentially to maintain a seal between the container finish land lip and the surface of the liner overlying the same, wherein said liner is placed between the sealing cap and the container. A fluid-impervious seal at the container finish land is highly desirable to prevent permeation or leakage of fluids from the container into or out of said container. These terms refer to the passage of fluid through the gap between a barrier and object such as the cap liner and the bottle or other container.
A major problem arises when the container is packaged with a product which evolves a gas or is under pressure, which pressure might increase excessively under certain conditions, such as elevated temperature and/or change in atmospheric pressure. It is desirable for the seal to be semi-permeable to the gas and permit excessive internal pressure to vent to the atmosphere, while retaining the associated liquid within the container. Thus, the breakage of the closure or the container is precluded by the release of excessive internal pressure.
Previous conventional cap liners have included one-piece or multi-layered liners constructed of materials such as corrugated fiber board, paper board, plastic, foil or the like, and may also include a coating on one or both major surfaces that is resistant to fluid permeation. Such designs, although relatively inexpensive and effective in precluding permeation, or leakage of fluids from the bottle or container, do not allow for pressure equilibration caused by liquids which off-gas or changes in external ambient pressure.
To address the above problems, venting liners have been used.
A major problem of conventional venting liners is their inability to vent with consistency at a particular pressure or a limited range of internal and external pressures within an associated container. Also perceived as a problem with conventional venting liners is their inability to reversibly vent only the gaseous portion, whereby equilibrated pressure can be maintained within the container with respect to the relatively increased external pressure.
Cap liners have been constructed of synthetic materials such as thermoplastics. U.S. Pat. No. 4,121,728, entitled "Venting Liners" shows one such cap liner having a first ply constructed of an impermeable plastic and a second ply constructed of a foamed material that is compressibly deformable. Both plies are simultaneously extruded and laminated together to form the cap liner. The first ply of the cap liner is applied to the bottle or container as the cap is secured to the container. The second ply is compressed between the bottle and the cap and urges the first ply into a sealing contact with the bottle or container.
Other examples of venting structures for relieving excessive pressure build up in a container include U.S. Pat. No. 2,424,801, which discloses one type of venting structure wherein the glassware neck is provided with a special configuration which will permit gas to escape after the gas build-up has reached a point where it will lift the liner off the neck of the glassware.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,114,467 discloses another type of seal-venting bottle cap wherein the bottle cap is provided with a special structure which permits the liner to rise up under the action of the build-up of gas pressure, the raising of the liner away from the neck of the glassware, then permits the gas to escape. These structures have the disadvantageous deficiency, while permitting gas to escape, they are also equally suitable for permitting liquid to escape. Neither '801 or '467 provide for or contemplate the possibility of pressure equalization, i.e., reverse flow of gas to equilibrate the pressure in the container with atmospheric pressure.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,448,882 relates to a liner composed of a pulpboard backing with a facing of fibrous, semi-permeable, polytetrafluoroethylene which permits the passage of gasses but is not wetted by and prevents the passage of liquid from within the container.
In many instances, while various structures and liners for sealing bottles or containers are available, they all suffer from major deficiencies. While the structures will permit gas to escape, they are not all equally suitable for preventing liquid from escaping. In some cases escaping liquid can damage the material for one or more portions of the liner structure.
Although cap liners such as U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,121,728 and 4,789,074 are more effective than cardboard or pulpboard cap liners against fluid permeation or leakage, such cap liners inherently require relatively expensive materials and manufacturing techniques. For example, the second ply in the '728 patent provides an imperfect and co-extensive layer of deformable material, even though only a relatively small portion of the second ply is actually compressed between the sealing lip of the bottle and the cap. The remainder of the second ply is not required to mechanically reinforce the first ply, therefore the non-essential material in the second ply represents an unnecessary expense.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,789,074 discloses a cap liner comprising a first substantial fluid-impervious film, a second compressible resilient "foraminous" reinforcing web bonded to the first film, whereby when the cap closure is secured to the bottle, it must compress the foraminous web between the bottle and the cap resiliently urging the film into sealing contact therewith. In the invention of '074 the foraminous web acts as a spring to force the film, or fronting, into sealing engagement with the top of the bottle finish. Therefore, the web in the '074 patent must resiliently urge the film, or fronting, into sealing contact by a compressive force necessarily exerted thereby during the closure sealing process by the torque provided by the interaction of the threaded bottle cap with the threaded top of the bottle.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,071,276 utilizes a porous paper backing while U.S. Pat. No. 4,789,074 (Han) utilizes a cap liner of a first substantially fluid impervious film and a second compressible resilient foraminous reinforcing web bonded to the first film where the cap closure is secured to the bottle wherein it must compress the foraminous web between the bottle and the cap resiliently urging the film into the sealing contact.
This reference, U.S. Pat. No. 4,121,728 described above, while having grooves thereon, appears to have several variations from the instant invention. The sealing liner in '728 does not appear to off-gas through to the bottom of the inside or lower panel to the top of the second ply of the closure and then to the sides of the closure. In '728, the sealing liner inside panel and the sides of the closure are meant to deform and retract the sealing means by the pressure of built-up gases in the sealed container, such that by defacing the lower ply, it is lifted up, forming a vent channel and then off-gassing to the sides of the closure. This type of off-gasing can result in fluid leakage if the package is tipped. Utilizing a porous backing, such as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,071,276 (Pellet) or U.S. Pat. No. 3,448,882, each of which utilizes a pulpboard or porous paperboard backing with a microporous plastic facing are unacceptable as sealing backing for sealing closures because of chemical compatibility with aggressive materials, such as hypochlorite. Also these liners are not effective at allowing gas into the container to equilibrate external pressure increases.
With reference to U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,121,728 and 3,045,854 (Patton), although each of these contains grooves or channels extending laterally across the side surface of the disk, they do not incorporate a porous backing which is semi-permeable and which allows the gases to vent therethrough to channeling which exists on the upper surface of the laminated disk whereby the gases are permitted to off-gas through the sides of the closure.
In view of the foregoing, it is a primary object of the present invention to eliminate the disadvantages heretofore noted by providing a novel venting liner which vents under any closure applied torque, while at the same time being capable of utilization of a non-venting liner.
The primary object of this invention is to provide a novel bi-directional venting liner for closures which includes a shaped member congruent with the container opening defined by at least two plies or layers of material which may or may not be deformable when subjected to a compressive force and wherein grooves or channels are provided on the lower surface of the top layer, although subjected to compressive force, are not compressed. Off-gassing built-up gases from the enclosed container to the atmosphere is by a mechanism whereby the gases are passed directly to the lower surface of the top layer, beneath the closure, the gases travel along the associated channels to the inside of the closure, and then escape to the atmosphere by way of openings existing between the closure and the container neck, for example, the spiral screw threads of the closure and threads of the container neck which in effect forms a continuous channel for the escaping gas. A reverse mechanism is contemplated for the equilibration of pressures when the pressure in the container is less than the external ambient atmospheric pressure with the entering air to the continuous channel between the cap threads and the container neck thereunder. | 2024-05-13T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/7714 |
The natural gas revolution has brought big changes to the U.S. energy scene. Natural gas prices, which used to move closely together with oil prices, have plunged in the last five years, as the following chart shows. One result has been the rapid displacement of coal by natural gas in electric power generation. According to a recent report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, some 100 gigawatts of coal-fired electric plants, representing more than a quarter of coal capacity and nearly a tenth of total U.S. electric capacity, have either been closed or are likely soon to be closed because they have become uncompetitive with natural gas. Natural gas has also been displacing oil at a rapid rate as a home heating fuel. In transportation, however, the use of natural gas is spreading more slowly.
Transportation ranks second only to electric power generation in total energy use. There are at least three ways to use natural gas to power transportation. One is to generate electricity with natural gas, which can then power electric cars or electrified rail lines. Another is to convert natural gas to liquids like methanol or synthetic gasoline. However, as I discussed in this post two years ago, the biggest potential lies in the direct use of compressed natural gas (CNG) or liquid natural gas (LNG) as a fuel for natural gas vehicles (NGVs).
As the next chart shows, there is nothing new about NGVs, which are in widespread use in many countries. Some governments have promoted them to reduce urban pollution and others to achieve greater energy independence. In many of these countries, gas is widely used for light vehicles like taxis and private cars. In the United States, on the other hand, the small number of NGVs now in service are mostly city busses, garbage trucks, delivery vans, and other fleet vehicles.
What is holding back the wider use of CNG in the U.S. transportation system? Not technology. Unlike hydrogen, cellulosic ethanol, algae diesel, and other futuristic alternatives, NGVs use simple, off-the-shelf technology. That is part of the reason they are popular in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Armenia, and other developing and emerging market countries. Instead, the slow spread of CNG as a transportation fuel in the United States is largely attributable to economic and political factors.
The network problem
As James Hamilton notes in a recent post, the spread of natural gas as a motor fuel, especially in its early stages, encounters a network problem. There is no point in owning an NGV if you have no place to refuel it, and no point in building refueling stations if no one owns NGVs. That explains why early adopters of CNG have mostly been fleet operators whose vehicles refuel when they return to base at the end of their shift. However, two factors are now breaking down the barrier posed by the network problem.
First, natural gas is particularly attractive as a replacement for diesel fuel in heavy trucks. Compared with light vehicles like passenger cars and pickups, heavy trucks drive more miles per year and consume more fuel per mile. Long-haul trucks further gain if they use LNG instead of CNG. LNG vehicles have greater initial costs but have more compact fuel tanks and greater driving range. All of these factors increase the payoff to the use of natural gas for long-haul vehicles, and they also increase the payoff to investments in fueling stations.
Not surprisingly, then, truck stops have been the pioneers in building fueling stations. Pilot-Flying J, a leader in the field, already has a network of natural gas filling stations that extends from coast to coast. By the end of 2013, the company’s natural gas highway will run from the Canadian to the Mexican border, as well. (Click here for a map.) These stations will at first offer LNG for long-haul trucks, but once they are in place, adding CNG will be a natural extension of service. A spokesperson says the company will do so on a station-by-station basis as local and regional demand develops.
Second, it is possible to build dual-fuel vehicles, which can run on either gasoline or CNG at the flip of a switch. In 2012, Ford, GM, and Chrysler all started offering dual-fuel versions of popular pickup models. True, dual-fuel vehicles cost a bit more than pure NGVs, and they require room for two sets of fuel tanks. The current offerings run $40,000 and up. Still, any three-quarter ton pickup is going to use a lot of fuel, and if used for business, is likely to run up a lot of miles. Dual-fuel pickups will appeal to farmers, building contractors, and others who may sometimes be within range of a CNG filling station, and sometimes not. As more such vehicles go on the road, they will create the necessary incentive to add more stations to the network.
Policy issues
Even if we assume that the network problem will gradually take care of itself, certain aspects of energy and environmental policy still retard the spread of NGVs in the United States. NGV advocates urge three kinds of changes.
First, they advocate changes in the taxation of motor fuel. For example, the LNG used by heavy trucks is now taxed at the same rate of $.243 per gallon as diesel fuel, despite the fact that it takes 1.7 gallons of LNG to supply the same energy as a gallon of diesel. NGVAmerica, an industry group, recommends equalizing the tax on an energy-equivalent basis. A more radical proposal would be to tax motor fuels on a carbon-equivalent basis. Because natural gas is less carbon intensive per unit of energy than diesel fuel, a carbon tax would further increase the attractiveness of LNG and CNG fuels. (Note: Some fracking opponents have disputed the premise that natural gas is less carbon-intensive, on a life-cycle basis, than diesel or gasoline. I discussed the complex economics of fracking in this earlier post.)
Second, advocates say that federal regulations should be at least as friendly toward NGVs as they are toward other clean and fuel-efficient vehicles. That has not always been the case. For example, up until 2011, the EPA maintained an onerous set of regulations for approving after-market CNG conversion kits for passenger cars and light trucks. Fortunately, those regulations have now been streamlined, which may increase the rate of after-market conversions. Even so, in some respects, tax incentives, fuel economy standards, and other regulations are tilted toward more fashionable technologies like hybrid-electric and all-electric vehicles, ignoring CNG.
Third, and more controversially, NGV advocates have pushed for subsidies and tax credits targeted directly at natural gas fuels, expansion of the fueling network, and purchase of NGVs. Legislation known as the NAT GAS Act, introduced in both the House and Senate during 2011, would have boosted NGVs in a number of ways. However, the legislation did not pass, in part because of opposition from conservative organizations like the Heritage Foundation, which objected to the NAT GAS Act as a market distorting subsidy. There is probably some truth to that, in the sense that under a national energy policy that required users of every kind of fuel to pay full costs, including environmental and national security costs, NGVs would be able to make it on their own merits without a need for specially targeted tax credits or subsidies. Adding subsidies for natural gas to a system that already underprices more carbon-intensive fuels seems like the wrong approach.
The bottom line
When all is said and done, CNG is a decidedly unfashionable entry in the fuel-of-the-future sweepstakes, yet it may be the dark horse that wins the race. If your goal is to flaunt your green credentials, then go ahead and trade in your hybrid Prius for an all-electric Leaf. Meanwhile, the contractor down the block will buy a new dual-fuel F-250, or buy an aftermarket conversion kit for the beat-up model already in service. Which vehicle will make the greater contribution to energy independence, national security, and a healthy planet? You guessed it. The NGV, hands down.
Thanks to Šarūnas Merkliopas, who contributed to this post as a research associate.
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As an ex user of a duel fuel converted CNG vehicle I can confirm that the system works. Funnily enough I had a 1973 Ford Torino V8, The CNG kit gave the motor a new lease of life and economy in my wallet. From an enviro perspective, it is a no brainer as you avoid the carbon emissions of a new car (which is build into the manufacture etc) and convert a higher polluting car into a less poluting one.
I do agree that infrastructure is key, at that time I was living in Argentina who does have a reasonalbe (not perfect) infrastructure to support this fuel. I could make inter city journeys of about 400 miles with very few spots where I ran out of CNG. As the car was dual fuel, the gasoline would supplement any periods where CNG was not available.
Only downside is that the tanks can be a bit bulky and the range as ever depends on the size of the tanks. the tanks where not exactly light and therefore they added to the vehicles weight.
You miss the obvious, conversion price. In the UK you every town has a garage that convert your car to dual fuel for a few hundred pounds. In the US the equivalent cost is thousands of dollars, driven by onerous legislation (I never heard of a UK dual fuel car blowing up). With dual fuel, the network issues don't make sense, you only convert if ng is locally available, and you use petrol/diesel on long journeys.
Yes, the regulatory burden on aftermarket conversion has been a big issue in the US. Actually, in the past, the EPA's worry was not so much cars blowing up as their perception that conversion to CNG constituted a form of tampering with the vehicles emission control system. I talked about that in the earlier post I linked to. More recently, the EPA has streamlined its standards for certifying conversion kits. NGVAmerica, an industry group, seems to think these revisions will help. Here is a link to their discussion of the new standards: http://www.ngvc.org/gov_policy/fed_regs/fed_After…
I am not sure conversions will be the main driver of greater CNG use in the US, though. It would help if more companies offered the CNG vehicles in the US that they offer in other countries. Now only Honda sells one, and it is CNG only, not dual fuel. Perhaps there are regulatory barriers to getting the new vehicles certified here, I have not read about that.
Any way you cut it, though, you are right on the basic point that the regulatory structure in the US has not been especially hospitable to CNG. Seems it is singing from a different hymnbook as much of the rest of the US energy policy establishment, which is gushing with enthusiasm about natural gas.
I fully agree that GHG emissions from natural gas extraction are a serious issue. As I have argued repeatedly in this blog an elsewhere, all energy sources should be charged for their full environmental impacts including GHG emissions. As I wrote in the cited post on the economics of fracking, "Accurate scoring of fossil fuels needs to take a lifecycle approach, including emissions in extraction, storage, processing, and transportation as well as in final use." That, of course, includes methane emissions associated with fracking.
With regard to the Nature article you cite, the question is whether the 9 percent is typical or exceptional, and if typical, whether it can be reduced to an acceptable level by following best practices. The Nature article notes that "In April, the EPA issued standards intended to reduce air pollution from hydraulic-fracturing operations — now standard within the oil and gas industry — and advocates say that more can be done, at the state and national levels, to reduce methane emissions." It further quotes Steven Hamburg, chief scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, as saying "There are clearly opportunities to reduce leakage.” Obviously this issue requires continued attention.
In Brazil, tri-fuel vehicles are mandatory (at least in some places): ethanol, gasoline, CNG. Magneti Marelli won an Automotive News PACE Supplier of the Year award in 2008 for inexpensive technology to seamlessly transfer between CNG and gas/ethanol (eg, under heavy acceleration, not just when the CNG tank runs out); MM had already developed a software-based solution for judging what the gas/ethanol mix was in the fuel tank and adjusting air intake etc accordingly. Of course in Brazil sugarcane bagasse is a cheap source of ethanol, but it varies by time of year and region so the price at the pump varies as well. The bottom line is that in Brazil a driver can pull into a refueling station and put whatever is cheapest into their tank without worrying about what's in there already. [Mea culpa: I'm a judge for the PACE competition but other judges got to make the trips to Brazil so I didn't sit through the engineering presentations, only the final discussion of potential winners.]
Since the adaptation is done at the assembly plant, it is low in cost relative to converting in the aftermarket. For the ethanol/gasoline part, the incremental cost is essentially zero, no hardware is needed, and the seals and lines are designed from the start to be robust to ethanol, perhaps at a slight cost for the different plastics. For the CNG part, there's the tank and fuel line, and a separate set of fuel injectors, plus (I think as hardware) an anti-knock sensor. The rest is software that goes into the ECU (engine control unit). The engine itself needs no modification. As noted, CNG works with diesel engines, too.
So the technical side is well known and done on a production basis. So in the US there's infrastructure, regulation (in California everything has to be CARB — Cal Air Resources Board — certified, and the cost of getting certified is a real barrier to aftermarket conversion. Then in Arizona there was a scandal with a subsidy for converting vehicles to CNG. I'll try to locate the details but as I understand it the legislation was poorly researched — written by lobbyists for a couple would-be converters — and the subsidy was greater than the cost of conversion; the state was soon out many millions of dollars even though there was no intent to actually use CNG in those vehicles (get the conversion done, then throw away the tank to get back your trunk space). Memories of that linger.
I dug up details, Arizona burned through somewhere between $500 million and $800 million on CNG conversion subsidies, something slipped in during a late-night conference committee at the end of a legislative session. The New York Times reported on it 2 Nov 2000 ("Costly Plan…" by Ross Milloy) but I've heard additional (sordid) details through a friend who worked for the father of one of the principles; investigations stopped when the politician who inserted the program into the legislation died of a heart attack. The numbers, though, were big enough to make politicians there reluctant to touch anything related to CNG. I'm told memories of the corruption angle also linger in AZ politics.
Of course the need for infrastructue means that to be effective policy must be national. The Arizona case suggests that a bottom-up approach to get to a national policy may not work (and that independent of ideology, there will be Congressmen from the Southwest leery of having their name associated with CNG).
STOP BUYING OIL FROM OPEC. We cannot bring peace to the Middle East. We cannot force Afghanistan to be a democracy. Let us do something we can do. Stop buying oil from OPEC. We can do it now. Compressed natural gas (CNG) cars. Iran does it. So can we.
We still import 4 million barrels per day from OPEC. But now, we have the capability to stop all oil imports from OPEC within 60 months. We have low cost natural gas and low cost technology for converting cars to operate on CNG. This program would convert 65 million vehicles (23% of our fleet) to (CNG). Cost $98 billion. The other part of the program is to build 10,000 CNG refueling stations. Cost $20 billion. Total $118 billion. All the costs will be money spent on U.S. labor and material. Use of low cost natural gas will save us about $80 billion per year.
The program can start immediately by presidential order to convert the 600,000 federal non-military vehicles to CNG. Theses are shovel/wrench ready projects. Total cost: less than $5 billion.
This CNG program is not like the Manhattan Project that involved large technical uncertainties and risk. CNG technology is commercially available in the United States. Iran now has 2.9 million vehicles (23% of its fleet) operating on CNG.
The collateral benefits are manifold: cost savings; reduction in trade deficit; employment for 100,000 Americans; reduced CO2 emissions; low technical, commercial and environmental risks; progress that can be accurately measured; plus no political party would find it objectionable.
a "corrupt" hymn book that is. big oil had flare offs for a reason…and it wasn't "energy conservation." the bottom line is these clowns exist to protect their big trading operations on Wall Street and not for the benefit of the American people in time of war or humanity itself. they big spenders and big wasters of all capital at every level…just about useless actually…and were it not for the fact that the totality of banking interests were beholden to their "goo" then i think we'd actually have a rational energy policy not only in the USA but the world. the irony that Exxon Mobil is now the world's largest natural gas company should be lost on no one….least of all those in the extraction business. Obviously their only goal is to drive the price back up to 15 buck a bcf "so that the economy is a winner." love nat gas…first person to bring it up as a "uber bullish call on the US economy going forward"…has worked BEYOND all expectations when the price crashed to around 2 bucks…but Dr. Evil is back to work screwing over the American War Effort yet again just like they told Congress they would…so i'll hold out hope for ethanol and solar powered direct drive engines. the big banks on Wall Street are dead…they still don't know they're never coming back. the days of the Great Regional Players is under way. i'm sure Exxon Mobil will find a way to keep its share price from collapsing…but doing so at the expense of the American people i think is a thing of the past.
let alone having a heart attack. the bottom line is a ZERO fuel vehicle is now on the horizon. I will be looking forward to the new Cadillac EEV ….which basically runs on a motorcycle engine. If that becomes standardized the way the Chevy 350 V8 did (probably 50 million of those engines made actually) then "look out." easy to work on, easy to maintain. forget a 100k warranty…how about a million miles instead?
I've read NG prices are so ow because of over production. The profit margins are very low for companies to get the gas to market, so they produced a lot of it to cover their losses. Once supply and price normalize I think NG prices will rise steadily, which is a good thing because it will mean more CNG Cars and refueling stations and jobs for Americans. It's not a perfect technology, but it's a step in the right direction.
I agree that gas prices are currently so low that they barely cover the costs of drilling, if at all. I think it is likely, as you suggest, that they will rebound to a equilibrium that gives a decent profit to gas producers, but still leaves the price of CNG attractive relative to gasoline. However, I should probably have listed the uncertainty about where the natural gas price will end up as an additional factor that encourages a wait-and-see attitude among people who are contemplating investments both in vehicles and fueling infrastructure.
Back in 2008, our logistic company outfitted trucks from gasoline to natural gas. Except of purchasing trucks that were traditional diesel or gas trucks. Saved us a bit according to our ledger. In Russia, they are not even close to a paradigm shift for truck usage.
What's holding back natural gas is a combination of factors actually. First, there's the obvious lack of facilities such as refueling stations. Secondly, I think gas companies are a little reluctant to sacrifice some profits and invest on restructuring their business models to accommodate natural gas. Lastly, car owners will need to spend to have their cars modified to efficiently burn the new fuel source.
We certainly cannot ignore the fact the technology is there and being used. I think it's going to be a slow process but eventually we will see most of our vehicles running on NG in the future. Not only would business owners like to save money but advocating green technology will go far with customers.
Now a days the use of fuel vehicles very much high in large cities and also in the rural areas. People wants to travel by their personal vehicles. The number of petrol and diesel vehicles in the cities and other areas increasing day by day. Mostly the diesel vehicles are quite responsible for the environmental pollution. It is because the emission of carbon dioxide is much more in diesel vehicles. Again the price of diesel and petrol also increasing day after day rapidly. So to get out of the situation we have to use the electricity or the natural gas as the fuel of vehicles. Since we use electricity for other necessary works. So the use natural gas will be a better option for the future. <a href ="http://hansamotors.com/german-auto-repair-newport-beach.html">audi repair newport beach
Natural gas is way cheaper and actually car gets some extra boost power, because natural gas has a higher temperature and that produces more power in the engine. Now when the price for the gasoline jumped so high (at least in my country that is really high), natural gas become very popular and so many people now are using this. Personally me, i still stick to the gasoline, but if gasoline prices goes still higher, i probably have to use natural gas as well or try a diesel car.
big governments don't want to lose out on the hefty tax revenues from petrol or diesel. Isn't it a well bandied about theory that the larger car manufacturers are easily capable of creating an electric engine to power the biggest of vehicles for hundreds of miles without needing to recharge but these manufacturers, oil companies and governments are much too unwilling to admit this as they will lose out on their billions of revenues from fuel.
"We still import 4 million barrels per day from OPEC. But now, we have the capability to stop all oil imports from OPEC within 60 months. We have low cost natural gas and low cost technology for converting cars to operate on CNG. This program would convert 65 million vehicles (23% of our fleet) to (CNG). Cost $98 billion. The other part of the program is to build 10,000 CNG refueling stations. Cost $20 billion. Total $118 billion. All the costs will be money spent on U.S. labor and material. Use of low cost natural gas will save us about $80 billion per year. – See more at: http://www.economonitor.com/dolanecon/2013/01/07/…
It's all about money and greedy Governments. If the price of fuel was the same as water it would all be solved quicker than 60 months my friend. It's a sad truth that we will go to war and see blood shed over the black gold!
A few months ago, I came across a post on nature.com which talked about India's success in curbing smog and pollution by forcing small and medium size commercial vehichles to CNG. When first introduced 4-5 years ago, it ran into serious opposition from the transportation industry and taxi associations but the local governments didn't budge and apparently it has proven to be a big success.
Several big metro's such as Mumbai and Delhi have already shown this can be done successfully and that the environmental gains are significant. Now the program is being tried out in tier-2 cities.
A previous comment talked bout how this was done in Brazil too. I don't think we'll ever see anything like this in the US because our "leaders" lack the political motivation to drive this issue!
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On Nov. 16th last month my buddy used my debit card to order something online for $245. He gave me $250 cash, I deposited it, and bought the item he wanted online. The money was taken out of my account that moment. A few days later he received the item but it was the wrong one. He called and they sent him the right one. 10 days ago I see the deposit of $250 on my mobile banking app. And I have $250 that should have already been spent. It's been 10 days and it's still there.
What happened? Did they possibly refund him and return the correct item? Dad says I'm dreaming if I think that happens. But anyway, what happened here? Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
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First, assume the money is "spoken for" until proven otherwise – in other words, don't spend it (again) until the matter is resolved.
Next, check with your friend as to the exact sequence of events: did he call, has he returned anything, has he received the correct item. Get copies of any paperwork that might have come with any of this.
Double-check you account transactions for $250/$245 items coming in and going out. It would seem unlikely, but it's plausible that the company refunded the $245 when notified of an incorrect delivery and are in the process of recharging for the correctly sent item.
If you still cannot make things "add up" properly, call the company and explain what happened and ask them what's going on. While it's possible that they've "forgotten" to (re)charge you for the item, and 'phoning them may remind them to do so, overall it's the safest thing to do... Assuming your friend now has the right item, you're morally/legally bound to pay for it, and if you assume they've forgotten, spend the money and then they apply the charge, you could go overdrawn or otherwise end up with problems.
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Let r(h) = -h**2 + 5*h - 3. Let a be r(2). Suppose 6 = a*j - 0. Solve -40 = -4*q + 5*m, -26 = -4*q + j*m + 2 for q.
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Let j(q) = -q**3 - 21*q**2 - 21*q - 5. Let g be j(-20). Suppose -3*x = 6, 3*m + x - g + 5 = 0. Solve -2*c = -4*a + 2, 0 = m*c - c - 3*a for c.
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Suppose 14*z = -0*z + 364. Solve z = -3*w + 5*r, 4*r = w + 2*w + 22 for w.
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Suppose -5*k - 20 = 5*i, -4*i + 5*k = -i + 12. Let t be ((-8)/10)/(i/20). Solve 12 = -z - z + t*l, -5*z + 3*l = 2 for z.
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Let t be (2/6)/((-2)/(-114)). Let u(x) = 42*x - 189. Let p be u(5). Let w = p - t. Solve -10 = -w*s - a, 2 = 4*s + 5*a - 18 for s.
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Let k(u) = u - 4. Let m be k(8). Suppose -m*d + 3*i - 3 = 0, d - 3*i + 3 = -0. Solve 3*f - 6*f - 4*b - 11 = d, f + 3*b + 2 = 0 for f.
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Let v be 16/(-4) + (-54)/(-6). Solve v*i - 5*l = -l - 3, 4*i = 5*l + 3 for i.
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Let k(r) = r**2 - 14*r - 206. Let u be k(-9). Solve -3*t + 9 = h, h = -u + 4 for t.
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Let y be ((-7)/((-126)/12))/((-2)/(-15)). Suppose -3*i + 6 = -3*q, 2*q + 0*q = 3*i - 7. Solve -5*d + 11 = -6*h + y*h, 0 = -i*h + 12 for d.
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Let j be 4/34 + 672/357. Solve -h - o - 7 = 0, -3 + 11 = h - j*o for h.
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Suppose -62 = 5*y - 2*s - 10, 5*y = 4*s - 44. Let c = 1 - 5. Let m = c - y. Solve -2*q + 11 = 3, m = -4*o - 2*q for o.
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Suppose i - 1 = 2*p, -i + 12 = 3*i - 4*p. Suppose i*r = w + 113, 2*r + w - 44 = 2*w. Solve 4*g + 5 - r = -2*m, 5*g = 20 for m.
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Let z(m) = m**3 + 3*m**2 + 6*m + 1. Let u be z(0). Solve a - u = -2*v, a - 3*v + 9 = -0*a for a.
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Let u = 166 - 152. Solve -2*z = v + 4*v - 31, -3*z - v = -u for z.
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Let i = -8 + 4. Let f(x) = x**3 + 4*x**2 + x + 9. Let d be f(i). Solve b + 5*p - 18 = 0, -p + d*p + 3 = 5*b for b.
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Let h(y) = -2*y - 16. Let a be h(-8). Let r be 2/(-7) - (161/(-49) - a). Solve 20 = 2*t + 5*i, -r*t + 4*t + 2*i - 9 = 0 for t.
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Let i be (2/2)/(180/44 + -4). Let a(j) = -j + 22. Let p be a(i). Solve -5*z + 10 = -3*s, 5*z - 19 = -s + p for z.
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Let k(p) = -p**3 + 11*p**2 + 14*p - 21. Let h be k(12). Suppose 0 = -h*g - 0*g. Solve 4*c = 5*v - 13, g*v - 5*c = -3*v for v.
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Let n(u) be the second derivative of u**5/20 + 7*u**4/12 - u**3/6 + u**2 - 10*u. Let i be n(-7). Solve 3*d + 0*d = 5*q + 21, 3*d = -5*q - i for d.
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Suppose -28*y + 30*y - 324 = 0. Let o = 163 - y. Solve j + o = -2*u - u, -10 = 2*j - 2*u for j.
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Suppose -4*g = 3*r + 2*r, 0 = -3*r + g. Suppose -13*m + 11*m + 6 = r. Solve m*w = -4*c + 7, 6*c = 3*c - 2*w + 6 for c.
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Let l = -65 - -67. Solve -d = -5*q + 24, 4*d = q + l*d - 12 for q.
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Let u be (3 - 4)*0/2. Let t be (u/(-3))/(-1 - 2). Solve 0 = -j - v - 1, t = -4*v + 16 - 4 for j.
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Suppose -208 = -19*t + 77. Solve 0 = -2*o + b - 2 - 6, -o - 5*b = t for o.
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Let c(x) = -56*x - 1172. Let f be c(-21). Solve 12 = f*p, p = -3*a - 4*p + 18 for a.
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Let s be (-5 + 2 - -2) + (-12)/(-1). Suppose d + 18 = 4*c, 4*d + 2*c - s = 7. Solve -i = 3*o - 6*i - 13, -4*o = d*i for o.
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Suppose 2*b - 5 = -3*t + 8, -5*b - 3*t = -28. Suppose 0 = 2*z - 3*z + b. Solve -2*j = -z*m - 12 - 4, -4*m - j = 5 for m.
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Suppose -2*y - 5*n + 73 = 0, -3*y + 10*n + 126 = 12*n. Solve 18 = -w + 5*j, -4*w - 16 = 5*j - y for w.
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Let x be (-12)/16 - (-62)/8. Let k(t) = t**3 - 6*t**2 - 7*t + 2. Suppose -5*v + 3 = -32. Let n be k(v). Solve n*p = -3*a + 1, p - x = -3*a - 4*p for a.
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Let h be -1 - -2 - (-1 + -1). Let a = 1891 - 1888. Solve -12 + 3 = -h*s, 4*g - 1 = -a*s for g.
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Let v be -1*2 + -6 - 2. Suppose -15*x + 28 = -13*x. Let t = v + x. Solve 0*i - b + 6 = t*i, 0 = i - 2*b - 6 for i.
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Let n = -121 + 137. Solve -s + 4*w = 3*s + n, 5*s + 2*w = -6 for s.
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Suppose -v = 5*v - 144. Let k = v - 22. Solve 2*j - 8 = 2*i, 3*i + 8 = j + k for i.
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Let c be 33/15 + (-28)/(-35). Solve -2*n + 2 = 0, -5 = -c*r - 2*n + 6*n for r.
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Suppose -240 = -5*c - q, q = 2*c - 127 + 31. Suppose 10*n - c = 4*n. Solve 4*f - 8 = -d, -2*d = -4*f + d + n for f.
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Suppose 0 = q - 8*x + 12*x - 12, 3*q = x + 10. S | 2023-12-27T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/1480 |
Baptiste, West to serve as evaluators at USA regional combines
West Indies national selector Eldine Baptiste and West Indies U-19 coach Graeme West are set to join Mike Young as the lead talent evaluators at US scouting combines, which is being held in eight cities around the USA over the next two months, beginning this weekend in Los Angeles. Baptiste and West's appointment was announced on Wednesday by the ICC Americas office, which is coordinating each scouting combine.
"I am thoroughly looking forward to working with Mike Young as well as the ICC Americas and local cricket community on this project" Baptiste said. "It is a great opportunity for the players across the USA and extremely exciting for the development of the game."
Baptiste has prior experience working in an Associate cricket setup. Baptiste coached Kenya from September 2009 to April 2011, but stepped down shortly after Kenya's win-less performance at the 2011 World Cup in India.
The candidates at each city-based combine will also be put through a series of skills, fitness and agility tests conducted by BAM (Basic Athletic Measurement) Testing. BAM conducts skills and agility tests at the annual NBA Draft Rookie Combine. Headquartered in Seattle, BAM was founded in 2008 by former Dallas Mavericks head strength and conditioning coach Brett Brungardt.
"I'm intrigued to see how these cricketers stack up against some of the best athletes I've seen in basketball and other major US sports," Brungardt said ahead of the first regional combine in Los Angeles.
Young and ICC Americas high performance consultant Tom Evans are the two main holdovers from the trial held last September in Indianapolis, which also featured players from Argentina, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Canada and Suriname. Venkatapathy Raju and Courtney Walsh were utilized as the lead talent evaluators at that combine along with Young.
This weekend's trial in Los Angeles is the first of eight city-based trials conducted by the ICC to establish a national-team talent pool at men's, women's and U-17 levels. At the end of the eight trials, concluding in New York, the ICC is expected to name a group of 20-30 players in each category for a second round of auditions to be held later in the summer.
More than 100 applications were received for the men's trial in Los Angeles, with 55 players making the final list of invitees. They include eight current or former USA senior team players and six former USA U-19 players. The first trial for women's and U-17 players will take place in San Francisco from April 14. | 2024-06-08T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/2495 |
Bill Anderson
LRC Blog
September 19, 2008
The great Benjamin Anderson once wrote that prices should be permitted to "tell the truth," but apparently people at the Securities and Exchange Commission have decided that the Big Lie is the better course of action. The Big Lie is that stock prices should be held artificially high at any costs, something the SEC is trying to do by banning short-selling.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission took what it called "emergency action" on Friday and temporarily banned investors from short-selling 799 financial companies. The temporary ban, aimed at helping restore falling stock prices that have shattered confidence in the financial markets, takes effect immediately. Short sellers borrow stock with the aim of selling it, then buy it back at a lower price, hoping to pocket the difference. The commission said short sellers add liquidity to the markets during normal conditions, but recent unbridled short selling has contributed to the recent tailspin in the stock market. "The commission is committed to using every weapon in its arsenal to combat market manipulation that threatens investors and capital markets," said SEC Chairman Christopher Cox in a statement. "The emergency order temporarily banning short selling of financial stocks will restore equilibrium to markets."
The last line is a howler worthy of Paul Krugman’s twice-weekly missives in his New York Times column. The SEC is not "restoring" equilibrium; it is preventing equilibrium.
It seems that policy makers are making the same terrible errors committed by the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations during the 1930s. (The Daily Kos, a popular Democratic blog, is calling for a "New New Deal." Frankly speaking, we are not rid of the old New Deal.) The government wants us to believe that the real problem is falling prices, so if the government can prop up prices of assets by any means, then it is doing us a favor.
Remember that Carl Menger wrote in his wonderful Grundsatze that "all things are subject to the law of cause and effect." Indeed, Menger’s words live here; falling prices are an effect, not a cause. Short sellers and others who are helping to drive down asset prices are restoring the markets to their natural equilibrium, not preventing it. Unfortunately, the SEC is channeling Hoover and FDR, and they are preventing the economy from recovering.
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Having previously warned that Hillary "is often confused," Clinton's top aide, Huma Abedin - previously best known for standing by her husband Anthony Weiner after his sexting scandal - is now at the center of the Clinton Foundation - State Department debacle. As Bloomberg reports, for the final eight months of Clinton's reign as Secretary of State, Abedin worked for both The Clinton Foundation and as a "special government employee" at The State Department.
Huma Abedin was previously most infamous as the "good wife" standing by her sexting scandal husband Anthony Weiner...
And then, as we previously noted, Abedin gained some more infamy for admitting about Hillary that "she's often confused"...
Source: Judicial Watch vs State emails
But, as Bloomberg now reports, Abedin's overlapping jobs bring a renewed focus on Clinton's conflicts of interest while at the State Department...
Huma Abedin stepped down from her post as deputy chief of staff at the State Department and Hillary Clinton’s ever-present personal assistant on June 3, 2012. Only she didn’t really leave. Instead, in a reverse twist on a program intended to bring talented outsiders into government, Abedin was immediately rehired as a “special government employee.” She also took paying jobs with the Clinton Foundation and Teneo Holdings, a consulting firm with international clients that was co-founded by a foundation official who also was Bill Clinton’s long-time personal aide. Abedin’s multitasking in the final eight months of Hillary Clinton’s time as the top U.S. diplomat -- and her role as intermediary for some of the same players before that -- are drawing renewed scrutiny after a conservative watchdog group’s release last week of a new batch of e-mails to and from Clinton aides. Abedin has become the personification of an election-year debate over whether the nonprofit foundation will create conflicts of interest if Clinton wins the White House.
Clinton was rated trustworthy by just 41 percent of likely voters in a Bloomberg Politics national poll conducted Aug. 5-8. More than half said that the Clinton Foundation’s acceptance of foreign contributions while she was secretary of state bothers them “a lot.”
“The Clinton Foundation for Hillary Clinton is kind of a walking conflict-of-interest problem,” Meredith McGehee, policy director for the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, said in an interview. “Clearly this notion that it could continue to operate while she was secretary of state -- it was a built-in problem. If you’re really looking at what should happen if she’s elected, neither her husband nor her daughter, certainly no relative, should have any connection with the foundation.” ... When Clinton was awaiting confirmation as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state in 2009, she wrote a letter to the State Department’s chief ethics officer promising that she wouldn’t “participate personally and substantially in any particular matter that has a direct and predictable effect upon this foundation, unless I first obtain a written waiver or qualify for a regulatory exemption.” But that “did not preclude other State Department officials from having contact with the Clinton Foundation staff,” just as they “are regularly in touch with a wide variety of outside individuals and organizations,” department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau told reporters last week.
That’s where Abedin came in.
Abedin’s arrangement as a “special government employee” has been challenged since 2013 by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who has questioned whether she was overpaid and wrote her that “you allegedly sent or received approximately 7,300 emails on your official Department of State address that involved Mr. Douglas Band,” the Bill Clinton aide and Clinton Foundation official who co-founded Teneo. In a 2013 letter to State Department officials, Abedin said she left her full-time post because “the birth of my son in December 2011 led me to decide to spend the bulk of my time in New York City where my family lived.” She said she stayed on as an hourly employee working for “the Secretary of State in her personal capacity to help prepare for her transition from public service.” Abedin wrote that she provided “strategic advice” to Teneo’s management team but never did “any work on Teneo’s behalf before the department” nor provided information from government sources to help its clients make investment decisions, as Republicans had suggested. Abedin’s arrangement was questioned in a 2013 civil lawsuit by Judicial Watch, the conservative watchdog group, which pressed for documents under the Freedom of Information Act. After Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server when she was secretary of state became public, the group got the the case reopened and has been obtaining -- and publicizing -- a steady barrage of e-mails and deposition transcripts on the e-mail system and other topics. Last week, Judicial Watch produced e-mails including a 2009 exchange in which Band wrote Abedin that it was “important to take care of” an individual, whose name was redacted. Abedin replied that “personnel has been sending him options.” In another 2009 exchange, Band asked Abedin and Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s chief of staff, to put Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire Gilbert Chagoury in touch with a State Department "substance person" on Lebanon. The Chagoury Group co-founder has given between $1 million and $5 million to the Clinton Foundation, according to a list of donors posted online.
The debate over the Clinton Foundation simply shows “the way Washington works,” said Scott Amey, general counsel at the Project on Government Oversight.
“It’s instances like this that cause the public to have a negative view of how our government works, and it really gives people the impression that deals are done in back rooms and based on who you know rather than what you know,” Amey said in an interview.
While Abedin hasn’t said whether she’d return to Washington and the White House to serve again in a Clinton administration, the Clintons have acknowledged that they would have to forge a new relationship with the foundation they started. But they haven’t provided details. | 2023-10-16T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/3989 |
Early in vitro fertilization improves development of bovine ova heat stressed during in vitro maturation.
The objectives were to examine the development of embryos derived from control (38.5 degrees C) or heat-stressed ova [41.0 degrees C during the first 12 h of in vitro maturation (hIVM)] when in vitro fertilization (IVF) was performed at 16, 18, 20, 24, or 30 hIVM. Effects of heat stress in compromising ovum development depended on when IVF was performed (in vitro maturation temperature x IVF time interaction). When IVF was performed at 24 or 30 hIVM, fewer heat-stressed ova developed to the blastocyst stage compared with the respective controls. In contrast, when IVF was performed at 16, 18, or 20 hIVM, more heat-stressed ova developed to the blastocyst stage compared with the respective controls. Performing IVF earlier than usual was beneficial, because the ability of heat-stressed ova to develop to the blastocyst stage was improved when IVF was performed at 18 or 20 vs. 24 hIVM. Blastocyst stage and quality were equivalent to non-heat-stressed controls regardless of IVF time. Control ova undergoing IVF at 20, 24, 30, or 32 hIVM and heat-stressed ova undergoing IVF at 16, 18, 20, or 24 hIVM were compared for blastocyst development by multisource regression. Although linear and quadratic slopes were similar, heat stress reduced the peak and shifted the developmental response of ova by 7.3 h. In other words, obtaining optimal blastocyst development from heat-stressed ova would depend on performing IVF at 19.5 hIVM compared with 26.7 hIVM for non-heat-stressed controls. Heat-induced reductions in peak blastocyst development significantly reduced the window of time available to perform IVF and obtain > or = 20% blastocyst development. In summary, results support an effect of heat stress to hasten developmentally important events during oocyte maturation. The inability of earlier IVF to fully restore the development of heat-stressed ova to that of non-heat-stressed controls highlights the importance of further study. | 2023-12-28T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/8121 |
Pocket Mortys is a shameless rip-off of Pokémon —but that’s exactly what makes it so good, too.
There are no cute monsters to collect in this mobile (iOS, Android) game. Instead, Pocket Mortys riffs off the fiction of Rick and Morty itself. Thanks to the show, we know that there are many different universes with different types of Ricks and Mortys. Our first glimpse of this particular timeline/universe starts out with Rick and Morty, hanging out in the garage, as they tend to do—when suddenly they are attacked by none other than MYSTERIOUS RICK. Incidentally, Mysterious Rick looks just like Team Rocket, because of course he does.
Mysterious Rick has but one desire: to steal Morty. Actually, he calls Morty a ‘legendary’ which is hilarious when you consider what a basic bitch Morty actually is. Rick of course will not stand for this, decides to step in to defend Morty. It’s a very Rick-like defense, though. In that moment, he orders Morty to duke it out against Mysterious Rick’s Morty. It’s a cockfight, basically, and it unfolds via turn-based battles. Like, you know, Pokémon.
Except the “Pokémon” in this case are actually just Morty; Ricks across the galaxy apparently collect them like pets and make them battle against one another. It’s cruel, yet oh-so-perfect for the show. The game might be a spin-off, but I could easily see it as an actual storyline.
This is what Pocket Mortys excels at: making the most out of its fiction. Morty doesn’t just have generic attacks, he can do things like “Outburst”—which he is known to do in the show itself. And as you go along, you discover all sorts of other Mortys, all of which you can collect and battle. This is where the game has some fun with its concept. Some of the Mortys I’ve come across include:
Blue Shirt Morty
Mustache Morty
Scruffy Morty
Old Morty
Hippie Morty
Spooky Morty
The list goes on. And again: it’s literally just Morty, with like one difference. OK, occasionally it’s a massive, disgusting difference. The point is this: in any other game, this sort of design for your collectible monsters would be lazy. Here, it fits the humor of the show rather well. Rick and Morty has argued that Mortys in other universes are kind of replaceable, after all, so it doesn’t seem like a longshot to think some Ricks would treat them like Pokémon. Plus, it’s super-cute to have all the different Mortys follow you around like this:
All modern Pokémon games should let you do this. Hell, maybe a Pocket Morty’s-style crafting system could work in the original games, too. To Pocket Morty’s credit, it does try out a few new things you won’t find in Pokémon. Mostly, though, Pocket Mortys imitates Pokémon to make fun of it.
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First of all, I want to thank everyone for the wonderful birthday wishes! It was a Grand time had by all last night, and I thoroughly enjoyed being with my family and Ben.
I even was able to enjoy my meal because it was well tasty!
Mum and Erik wanted to try the strawberry margaritas, and Ben also convinced me that I should give it a whirl – so dad just ordered us a pitcher and by Jove it was WELL tasty and quite the thirst-quencher! Ben sure enjoyed one as well, and dad took a sip of Mum’s, but decided to have a couple Mexican ales instead of the margaritas!
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And today, we all wanted to leave for the North Sea this evening after dinner, but dad insisted that we put in a hefty round of Study Mode studies since he said we most likely won’t be doing much studying this weekend! I think he is dead-on right about that!
So we will have a pretty intense night of studies ahead of us, for certain.
Carel will be coming over later on to spend the night since we are planning on leaving well early tomorrow morning – well BEFORE dawn, according to Ben’s dad! But I don’t mind when we leave that early as it gets us up to the sea earlier and gives us a bit more time.
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So, in a few short hours it will be time for all of us heading to the North Sea to pack up our troubles and get ready to cast them into the understanding waters. From there, we will listen and wait for various answers and solutions to the many dilemmas that have troubled and worried us this past week. It will be a release of our inner souls and minds, giving all to our wonderful North Sea – only to get back what she is willing – wisdom, knowledge, and a better understanding of life.
The day is planned, and Amar won’t know about it unless he reads this post or until we head out for his birthday celebration.
First of all, Erik will make sure Amar doesn’t read this post, and second of all, Amar only hinted at where we might be going for his birthday dinner. Actually, the little weasel got it spot on!
Since he fell in love with the place before because he could actually TASTE the Mexican cuisine, he put in plenty of hints to me to return to Rose’s Cantina. He also hinted that’s where he wanted to go to his Mum and dad.
It will be a small gathering too – Amar’s Mum and dad, Erik, and of course Amar and me.
Amar also said he wanted to try another of those Margarita drinks! LOL
Then we will return home to Amar’s house where Amar and I plan to have a bit quality time (albeit short because of a school night!), and then several hugs and kisses later, I will tuck my love in with a goodnight snuggle and head home.
My next anticipation is expanding on our quality time this weekend at the North Sea! Amar totally agrees!!
So, to my love and soul mate, and the Master of my Heart – we are as one in our love for each other!
It appears the soap opera saga continues – but now there is something new!
On the tram ride to school this morning, Erik seemed fine and I think he was sorting things out in his heart and mind to sum up a serious chat with Parker.
“But not until after I have my time alone at the North Sea, Amar.” He told me as we got off the tram. “The Sea is a good listener.”
“I agree and understand, little buddy.” I said. “Ben should give me the word today if we are going this weekend, OK?”
But it was when I headed to Base that I was stopped by Carel!
“We need to have a serious chat, Amar.” He told me with a well worried look in his dark eyes. “A WELL serious chat!”
“No clues, Carel?” I asked as he unconsciously followed me into MY Base and up to my Station – getting a few looks from some of the others.
“It’s too long and complicated to go into without having enough time to tell you everything, Amar.” Carel sighed.
I too sighed. “Let’s meet in the Media Centre after lunch then.” I told him.
As Carel left, Ben came in and gave me a puzzling look. “Troubles in Carel Town, Love?” He joked, giving me a quick peck on the cheek.
“He wants to have a serious chat about something, but he wouldn’t give me a clue, Ben.” I shrugged as we unpacked our totes. “It looks like another Soap Opera is in the making.”
“Maybe Carel also needs a bit of time at the North Sea.” Ben winked, getting a grand hug from me when he said that’s where we would be heading this weekend AFTER I got the Doctor’s permission!
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I was baffled and perplexed as I listened to Carel explain his dilemma – a complex one involving both Pieter and Joopey – as well as his family and the Harpers!
“Now Pieter wants to move back with the Harpers on weekends and Holidays, Amar,” Carel sighed as he began. “Joopey is missing staying with us and now HE wants to move back in with us on weekends and Holidays.”
“What do your Mum and dad say about this, Carel?” I asked.
“They think Pieter belongs with the Harpers.” Carel shrugged. “They said he just seemed happier before. They also miss Joop something terrible.”
“And what do YOU think?” I pushed.
“If I had it my way, I would have them both stay,” Carel smirked. “But I know that’s not possible. Actually, Pieter is great, but I sure miss Joop a lot. He and I go a lot further back and are closer.”
“Have you talked to either of them?” I asked.
“I had a chat with them both alone and together.” Carel said.
“And?”
“Pieter agrees he was a bit happier living at the Harpers.” Carel said. “He misses them and misses the Music Store and everything. I think deep down he really wants to return. He’s a bit homesick, I think.”
“Then I think he should return.” I said. “What do the Harpers say?”
“They would take Pieter back in a heartbeat.” Carel smiled. “They miss him at the store, and on weekends and such.”
“And Joopey?” I asked of our mutual chum.
“He cried when he pleaded with me to let him live with us again.” Carel lowered his head. “He misses his room and even told me he loved us as his family.”
My heart filled with warmth and I smiled widely just then.
“I well think you solved your own dilemma, Carel.” I said, giving him a quick hug. “If Pieter wants to return to the Harpers, and the Harpers want him back. That should happen, and if Joopey loves living with your family as much as he says, then I think you should make the arrangements with your Mum and dad to take him back in.”
“I sure could use a chat with the North Sea about all this, Amar.” Carel sighed.
“Interesting you should bring that up, Carel.” I smirked.
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Since I don’t have a Chemo drip session this Friday, the Doctor gave his blessings for a North Sea excursion! That is GRAND!
Ben said we should invite Carel AND Erik. He said there was plenty of room for them to have separate rooms at night and have at the Sea during the day!
“They won’t get in each other’s way when chatting with the Sea, will they, Ben?” I asked jokingly.
“It’s a BIG Sea, love.” Ben gave me a kiss.
Carel was well excited about being invited to the North Sea, and I was pleased that Erik was mature in saying nearly the same thing as Ben – that it was a big enough Sea to hear about both his AND Carel’s dilemmas.
It was quite the relief to have this Soap Opera solved in such short order!
Just to let you know, the issues with Go Daddy (our server) seem to have been resolved and rectified.
It appears the entire server site was “hacked” by a group known as Anonymous. They caused havoc to the entire server base as well as hosting companies such as WordPress – which hosts my site and goes through Go Daddy.
So I decided to leave the post from yesterday up, since many of you might not have even been able to see or read it and leave comments.
Thanks for your understanding.
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Also, to those in the United States, you are in the thoughts and prayers of Erik, Ben, my chums, and me.
It has been a rough and tumble weekend for certain, and I was sure there would be plenty of fence to mend along the way.
Erik seemed in a bit of a “funk” and out of sorts during the tram ride home on Friday. Very rarely is he so quiet, so I knew something was amiss. But somehow I knew I had to tread lightly because getting it out of him and having him open up and tell me would be my biggest challenge.
“You know if you want to talk about anything, I’m here for you, little buddy,” I said quietly as we got off the tram and headed slowly home.
Erik just nodded without a word, so I didn’t press any further just then.
Mum gave me the questioning, caring eyes when we walked into the kitchen and Erik just kept on going slowly up to his room without saying anything. Even Terra seemed to question in her own way why she didn’t receive her usually tummy rub greeting from him.
“He hasn’t said a word to me since we got on the tram, Mum,” I said. “I’ll give him a bit more time and go talk to him. Maybe him and I can walk Terra to the park and have a chat on our favourite bench.”
***************
So, I decided to wait a bit and then “unleash” Terra on Erik.
I attached her leash in the kitchen and told her to “go find Erik”, and sure enough, our smart dog went straight up the stairs and Mum and I heard her scratching on Erik’s bedroom door before there was a click when Erik opened the door and let her in.
I took a quick dash upstairs to my room to drop my tote and use the loo, but unfortunately upon my return to the kitchen, Mum said that Erik and Terra had scurried down the stairs and out the front door without saying anything – Terra leading the way with my still glum brother in tow.
So I gave Mum a quick kiss, grabbed the couple of cookies she handed me and headed out the door after Erik and Terra.
Erik was already seated on our favourite bench when I approached, and Terra was busy sniffing at a few bushes, looking for a choice stick to chew on.
“Want some company, little buddy?” I asked cautiously as I sat next to him and handed him a cookie.
Erik shrugged, silently telling me he really did want company, but just didn’t want to say it. He took the cookie and gave it a little bite, chewing the morsel gingerly and letting out a low sigh.
“What’s wrong, little buddy?” I asked. “You know I hate seeing you all glum and such.”
“It’s not fair, Amar,” He sighed. “Things aren’t the same anymore. Things haven’t been the same since the end of summer holiday and the start of school.”
I was a bit more confused at that point. I was worried it had to do with my Chemo and what I was going through with my cancer. I was so wrong though.
“What are you talking about, Erik?” I turned to look at him.
Tears were running down his flushed cheeks, and he was sobbing so quietly, you could hardly hear him.
“Parker and me,” He whispered. “I really hurt inside.”
“Awww, little buddy. . .” I said, taking him in my arms and holding him as he hugged me hard and cried into my shoulder.
I let him cry himself out, which took a good ten minutes, but I think it helped. Eventually, he eased away from our hug and just stared blankly into the trees across from us as he wiped his swollen, red eyes.
“I think you two are a lot like us, Erik.” I said. “And I am certain you two won’t stop being forever chums. Things have a way of working themselves out, but sometimes it takes a little time because as you grow up, you find you might have a few more differences. But you and Parker are too much alike to not be chums forever.”
Erik let out a long, low sigh.
“I want to go away to the North Sea with you and Ben.” He said quietly.
“And Parker?” I asked.
“No,” Erik slowly shook his head. “I want to be alone at the North Sea. That’s where you and Ben have the chance to be alone and think. I want to be alone there and think as well.”
Terra brought us her stick, and I took it and tossed it for her to fetch.
“The Sea has a tendency of making one’s mind open up, little buddy.” I said. “That’s a grand choice to want to go there and think. You want me to talk to Ben?”
Erik shook his head. “That’s OK, Amar. I’ll talk to him.”
“You know Mum and dad will be asking why Parker isn’t staying with us this weekend.”
“I completely understand, Erik,” I told him, hugging him into me and giving his cheek a kiss. “I completely understand.”
“Thanks for being my big brother, Amar.”
“I wouldn’t have it any other way, little buddy.” I said. “Come on, let’s take Terra home and get ready for dinner and our studies. We can study in my room if you want.”
“I may end up spending the night.” Erik smirked.
“I promise not to run out of hugs, then.” I smirked right back at him as we gathered Terra and headed home.
***********
We spent nearly the entire weekend together, and it was really a beautiful thing for both of us. In fact, I think it helped Erik as much as it helped me. We seemed to get to know each other all over again in a new light – An even brighter light.
He did talk to Ben, and arrangements are already in planning for the three of us to head to the North Sea as soon as possible. Of course, that’s not soon enough for Erik, but at least he has that hope of having a serious chat with the North Sea once again.
Ben and I will be there for his support and comfort.
Erik ended up going my Chemo drip session with me this morning, and I will admit, it was wonderful having my little buddy along to give ME comfort for a change.
He really does have a BIG heart, even though it is hurting a bit right now.
Thank you to all of you who gave suggestions and tried to help, but dad said since we are paying for this, it is the responsibility of the server to fix and remedy the problems, and that is what they did. It just took a bit more time since I had other issues to deal with this weekend.
But things are up and running as normal now, so we can move on.
The other issues?
There was/is a problem with Erik this weekend, and I have been spending most of the entire weekend with him. He is in a major “funk” and we have spent quite a bit of time together talking about things and working everything out.
When he feels comfortable with me filling you in, I will do so, but most likely it won’t be until tomorrow’s post.
Just send Erik a cyber hug to help him through and to cope with this new dilemma in his life.
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Q:
Preventing negotiation handshake on subsequent service calls
I'm calling out to a SOAP service which uses Windows authentication. This is my configuration:
new BasicHttpBinding
{
Security = new BasicHttpSecurity
{
Mode = BasicHttpSecurityMode.TransportCredentialOnly,
Transport = new HttpTransportSecurity
{
ClientCredentialType = HttpClientCredentialType.Windows
}
},
};
And I'm setting up the credentials manually here, as the user is on a different domain:
client.ClientCredentials.Windows.ClientCredential.Domain = "...";
client.ClientCredentials.Windows.ClientCredential.UserName = "...";
client.ClientCredentials.Windows.ClientCredential.Password = "...";
I've noticed that every call I do through the client proxy is resulting in three trips:
Request: POST /EndPoint (no auth)
Response: 401 Unauthorized, WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate
Request: POST /EndPoint, Authorization: Negotiate
Response: 401 Unauthorized, WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate <gunk>
Request: Post /EndPoint, Authorization: Negotiate <gunk>
Response: 200 OK
If this only happened on the first call it wouldn't be so terrible, but it happens on all subsequent calls to the same client proxy instance.
The server I'm calling out to isn't under my control and has a not insignificant amount of latency, so I'd love to find a way to remove these redundant trips. Is it possible?
A:
I've just created dummy client with WCF service using your binding settings and manual un+pwd authentication. WCF service is set up to accept Windows Authentication.
However, in my case all subsequent calls are automatically authenticated.
Request: Post /Service1.svc
Response 1:
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate
WWW-Authenticate: NTLM
Response 2:
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.....
Response 3:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: private
Content-Length: 202
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
Persistent-Auth: true
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate xxxxxxx....
In the response header, I have Persistent-Auth: true . Is this the same for you? If no - there are settings in IIS which can force a client to authenticate after each request - See this MSDN post.
Basically, I guess you have to have on the server:
authPersistSingleRequest = False
authPersistNonNTLM = True
then it works.
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Article updated in 2019.
Previously in the series...
Previously, we’ve talked about classic design patterns in backend data security, then about key management goals and techniques.
It is important to understand that database security evolved with system administration techniques and programming demands, with cryptography and access controls being complementary features, rather than cornerstones.
In classic designs, there are two important drawbacks:
Trust tokens:
they rely on storing trust tokens somewhere inside the infrastructure;
trust tokens barely rely on real-world relationships;
these trust tokens are a large attack surface as they open access to many records at once.
Trusting infrastructure:
all these designs suggest that infrastructure exists, works properly, and is not completely compromised;
some of the classic designs rely on the idea that there is a rough "perimeter" between the inside and the outside world.
This, as it turns out, is not the case anymore*.
Goals of a modern backend security system
Apart from the security practices, today’s application architecture and typical engineering patterns have changed significantly. Also, the level of detail that a modern developer is willing to get into is nothing like it was 10 years ago — the developer expects most of the things to be neatly solved by the existing software and frameworks.
When thinking about database/backend security tools, we generally want:
access control with strong compartmentation: authentication, granular CRUD authorization per user/table, similar to 'grant rights' that exists in databases without encryption;
leakage prevention at rest / in use / in motion;
authenticity and integrity of all data.
When thinking about modern practices, we might add:
The risk model should consider the baseline to be ‘everything will be broken’ threat model:
everything is in the cloud and the cloud itself should have very limited trust,
the database, middleware, API providers, and front-end talk over the open internet,
they don’t have a centralised source of trust,
they don’t share verifiable physical factors,
they can be compromised without having an awareness of other talking parties.
Security instrumentation should easily blend into the data representation:
ORM-friendly,
Prepared statements,
Easy management and entity mapping.
Security functions should include as little cryptographic details as possible to isolate errors and minimise the adoption friction.
Also, we want to sacrifice as little database-specific benefits as possible:
Backups, compaction;
Indexing protected data and searching over it;
Using protected data in SQL statements;
Control protection with flexible granularity — from cell to table.
Solutions to some challenges
Unfortunately, no all-encompassing solutions for the mentioned problems exist. However, for each of the problems and goals of the backend security design, there are numerous components and techniques that we might use.
We can divide the new protection solutions into few classes:
Encryption: searching, indexing, encrypted query databases;
Infrastructure security;
Access control.
Encryption: Searching / Indexing
Searching is a subset of controlling the read access cryptographically: allowing the processes with certain features / keys to read the data without compromising it (to the advantage of) potential attackers, yet preserving the ability to execute various queries on top of it. (We have created a whole scientific paper on secure searchable encryption and you can read it on IACR
SSE, Searchable Symmetric Encryption
A promising approach is to use symmetric encryption for the text, then challenge the database with specially crafted queries. Works with sequential scanning and indexing but is rather limited and is more of a theoretical rather than a practical solution. But there is an implementation to try out and build on:
PEKS, Public Key Encryption Scheme
Public Key Encryption Keyword Search scheme relies on the data owner for generating a number of trust tokens which are used within the ‘vefication’ process. Such a process allows the server to verify whether the chosen keyword is available or not within the encrypted data. Although being slow and currently mostly theoretical, the possible security of this scheme is very interesting.
Homomorphic encryption
Homomorphic encryption is a method of performing calculations on encrypted information without decrypting it first. There are fully and partially homomorphic encryption schemes, which provide different sets of operations on protected data. Apart from searching, there are many use-cases (like using the data to perform certain calculations), in which homomorphic encryption is extremely useful.
This solution looks like something that belongs in the future, with no practically usable systems today:
Lattice-based encryption has also attracted attention from theoreticians who talk about its "flexibility for realising powerful tools like fully homomorphic encryption". The latest speed reports for fully homomorphic encryption are—let me use precise technical terminology here since I'm a big fan of careful benchmarking—ludicrously slow, but without ideal lattices, they would be utterly ludicrously slow.
(Source: Daniel Bernstein's blog)
Minimal exposure search index
There are more practical approaches, though. You can manually define a list of tokens you’d like to search over, encrypt or hash them, and search accordingly. You can decouple the search IDs and tokens from the actual data before encrypting/hashing them, thus making sure that the known ciphertext attack won’t be useful.
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Encrypted query databases
CryptDB
CryptDB is a system that provides practical and provable confidentiality in the face of these attacks for applications backed by SQL databases. A scientific research led by MIT, CryptDB carefully balances various encryption techniques with risks and requires requesting the party to craft a special encrypted query to execute it over the protected data. Although looking quite promising and its adoption by many parties, there are already some known vulnerabilities (https://cs.brown.edu/~seny/pubs/edb.pdf) and weaknesses, which led to creation of ‘how to use CryptDB securely’ guidelines. Although the dispute is yet to be solved, in most cases we can consider CryptDB to be practically applicable for backend data security problems.
Site: http://css.csail.mit.edu/cryptdb;
Github: https://github.com/CryptDB/cryptdb.
Encrypted BigQuery
Inspired by a research, Google has proposed Encrypted BigQuery, experimental BigQuery client, which provides a subset of BigQuery operations in an encrypted fashion:
Client: https://github.com/google/encrypted-bigquery-client.
Tutorial: https://github.com/google/encrypted-bigquery-client/blob/master/tutorial.md.
Cipherbase
Microsoft has suggested its own security system for encrypted queries, Cipherbase, which is the base for Always Encrypted database engine.
Infrastructure security
Trust compartmentation
What would you do if you couldn't control the trust of a large database and/or application cluster? You offload critical procedures to a small service running in a well-controlled environment (and, perhaps, powered by hardware separate from the constantly-loaded database cluster).
HSM
There’s an easy classic way to offload trust — to use a dedicated piece of hardware for performing all cryptographic operations and managing keys. There are cases where such solution might feel efficient, but a typical HSM performance is not helpful when a lot of data is being processed.
HSMs are available for all mainstream commercial databases. With varying level of effort, thay are also integrateable into modern open-source ones.
Integrated security instrumentation
A lot of older database protection techniques rely on a database running in the safe and secure environment: e.g. trusting the system you run your code on. This is a place for traditional security instrumentation: Host IDS (like Samhain), Mandatory Access Control (like SELinux), and others.
Access control
Most existing database encryption techniques enforce only the read control, preventing the risk of data exposure through requiring a key to access the encrypted data. Some of them verify the authenticity of protected records, thus providing protection against tampering, but we are not aware of existing schemes with write control (apart from the ones we’ve developed ourselves, but more about this later). Apart from read control, the rest is enforced by typical ACL/grant techniques, which rely on trusting that database behaviour is not compromised by an attacker.
Inside of the previously discussed threat model, we want as little trust put into backend as possible. This means enforcing access control via non-database techniques (e.g. encryption) and making sure that except for legitimate consumers, the data ‘in process’ is decrypted as little as possible (if it gets decrypted at all).
Cossack Labs research
At Cossack Labs, we strive to see the problems described in this article in a very different light.
First of all, we believe that an old UNIX proverb of “do 1 thing really well, get inputs and outputs in standardised fashion” doesn’t work well for the modern security at the present day, because in this case:
developers are still held responsible for making security decisions, including key layout and encryption granularity;
typical solution suggests stripping several security tools together in one backend infrastructure, which means more chances to break things on integration;
such work requires high-level vision, which is rarely present.
We strive to address these problems differently: by providing specialised tools for specific use cases, which abstract all cryptographic decisions into more user-friendly concepts.
Acra: crypto compartmentation via transparent database encryption
Acra database security suite is our take on compartmenting trust via a transparent architecture: making sure that the attack surface is very small and is contained within a well-controlled environment. A daemon is running on a separate virtual machine, receiving all database queries, executing them, then decrypting the data and supplying it back to the application via a protected channel. Acra’s encryption scheme is built in a such a way that the application is able to write data with a small number of cryptographic tokens, which is insufficient for decryption of data.
Hermes: granular access
Hermes is our research of a much more ambitious problem: enforcing all the CRUD grant rights via cryptography and providing an infrastructure for building complete end-to-end apps, which rely on cryptography for the implementation of all of their security mechanisms. This is ongoing research, with new implementations and ecosystems being built right now. We’ve presented the proof-of-concept of Hermes with practical sample code and scientific paper in December 2017.
Ending notes
There are many techniques for protecting data stored within database / application backend. Intuitively it feels that through combining a few tools here and there we might achieve some decent level of security. But in reality we need to understand the threat model, how to limit the attack surface and protect it really well. It is a part of application/infrastructure design, not a 'feature', nor a 'service'.
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[Subjective and objective work stress among ophthalmologists in private practice in Thuringia : Results of a state-wide survey].
Physicians are highly vulnerable to work-related stress; however, little is known about the workload of ophthalmologists. In March 2017 a cross-sectional and paper-based survey of all practice-based ophthalmologists in the federal state of Thuringia was conducted. Additionally, data from 2016 and 2009 using physician fee schedule datasets provided by the Thuringian Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians were analyzed. The response rate was 27% (n = 42 ophthalmologists) of which 95% (n = 40) exceeded the effort-reward cut-off value (>1) indicating a high level of work stress. The overall number of treatment cases did not show a statistically significant difference between 2016 and 2009 (n = 118 ophthalmologists, p = 0.412). In contrast, the number of treatment cases of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and essential (primary) hypertension was statistically significantly higher in 2016 compared to 2009 (n = 118 ophthalmologists, p < 0.05). Almost all respondents reported a high level of work stress and this was reflected in the number of treatment cases of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and essential hypertension, which was statistically significantly higher in 2016 than in 2009. The results suggest that working conditions should be adapted to meet the needs of chronically ill patients and reduce physicians' workload at the same time. | 2023-12-11T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/3795 |
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While the indictment of François Fillon on Tuesday was hardly unexpected, it signals an extraordinary turn of events in the French presidential campaign. Political scientist Philippe Breton has gone so far as to say it’s a "moral crisis" for France.
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"I am innocent, my wife has worked with me for years, as is the case for hundreds and hundreds of parliamentarians, in the past and at this moment,” said François Fillon on Wednesday in response to the formal investigation into allegations that his wife and family, who were employed as parliamentary assistants, were paid for work they did not do.
Fillon, who served as prime minister under former president Nicolas Sarkozy, called the timing of the investigation “diabolical", saying it was taking him away from his commitments as a candidate just 40 days before the election.
In an interview with FRANCE 24 Philippe Breton, a professor of politics at the University of Strasbourg, talks about how the investigation will impact Fillon’s attempts to bounce back in the presidential polls.
How will voters respond to François Fillon’s indictment?
Among his core supporters, who comprise about 18 percent of his support base, this isn’t going to change anything. For them, this latest episode only confirms the existence of a conspiracy, that Fillon is being pursued as in a manhunt. They remain convinced that he’s best placed to steer the ship in the face of the storm.
However, François Fillon must make gains in the polls, to increase his position by at least 5 percent. This is a very difficult goal to achieve. It’s like climbing the Himalayas without oxygen because over the next 40 days this indictment is going to drag him down, depriving his campaign of political oxygen.
What strategy could the Les Républicains candidate adopt to regain voter support?
François Fillon is following a strategy which, in my opinion, is the only feasible option: to focus the campaign on policy rather than the candidate. I fear, though, that the French will find it difficult to turn a blind eye. We know all too well that in a presidential campaign the candidate plays a decisive role.
Fillon had promised he would step down as the Les Républicains candidate if he was placed under formal investigation. When a candidate goes back on their word, what impact does it have on their political prospects?
We may wonder whether we’re not at the dawn of a moral crisis. What we’re now seeing in France is that in a presidential campaign we can dissociate politics from ethics and morality.
It’s quite a first…. but it’s not the sort of message the world’s fifth largest economy would want to send to the rest of the world.
The financial affairs of the candidates seem to be dominating this election campaign – Marine Le Pen has been the subject of two graft investigations. How do we turn the focus of the presidential campaign back towards political debate?
I don’t believe it will happen immediately. We’ll have to wait for the big debates where the candidates confront each other about the ideas underpinning their policies and substantive discussions can be had on key issues. It’s the only remaining hope for this campaign.
This is a translation of an interview for France 24 that was originally published in French.
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An inter-state police force that serves a polygamous fundamentalist Mormon community won’t be required to disband—despite alleged discrimination against nonbelievers, surveillance of dissidents, and facilitation of child abuse.
Instead, officers in the Colorado City Marshal’s Office will be required to attend annual training sessions to ensure they comply with federal laws and don’t discriminate against the community’s non-religious minority. The Marshal’s Office has been serving the adjoining towns of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona since 1985.
Together, the two towns make up Short Creek, a 7,500-person community that’s home to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a polygamous offshoot of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints that splintered from the Mormon church when the latter renounced plural marriage at the beginning of the 20th century.
The U.S. Department of Justice called for the disbanding of the CCMO as part of a lengthy anti-discrimination lawsuit against the twin towns that comprise Short Creek that began in 2012. According to the complaint, the community’s powerful FLDS leaders denied non-members access to housing, police protection, and public services including water and electricity.
In March 2016, a jury determined the community’s leadership had discriminated against non-FLDS members and awarded $2.2 million in damages to six Short Creek residents. The Justice Department then demanded the federal government disband Short Creek’s police force, which it claimed was enforcing the church’s discrimination against non-members.
Prosecutors claimed the Marshal’s Office was using its “state-granted law enforcement authority” to “carry out the will and dictates” of Warren Jeffs, the infamous FLDS leader who is currently serving a life sentence for sexually abusing two young girls whom he called his “spiritual wives.”
In October 2005, marshal Fred Barlow wrote a letter to Jeffs, a fugitive at the time. “I want to fill the position that you would have me fill and do the job the way you would like it done,” Barlow wrote. “We will continue to do that directive unless you would like us to do something different.”
Jeffs continued to lead the church from behind bars, and according to the suit, the practice of older men marrying underage women did not end with his arrest. Instead, it was allegedly ignored—and even practiced—by the Marshal’s Office, which allegedly continued to carry out Jeffs’ orders after his arrest.
In 2007, Barlow was decertified as a marshal for failing to assist with an Arizona Attorney General investigation. An administrative law judge who reviewed Barlow’s decertification determined he “displayed bias in favor of Warren Jeffs and the FLDS, in derogation of his oath to neutrally enforce the law,” according to the civil complaint.
Helaman Barlow, who served as a marshal for 20 years, testified in February 2016 that he was instructed to be a protector of the church, not a police officer. When Barlow began his tenure at the CCMO in 1994, he asked then-FLDS leader Rulon Jeffs if he had any advice for a new cop. Jeffs allegedly told him, “Number one, you aren’t a cop. You are a peace officer. Number two, your calling is between the church and harm,” Barlow testified, as reported by Courthouse News.
Barlow served as chief marshal between 2012 and 2014 and said that under his leadership, the Marshal’s Office didn’t investigate claims of FLDS members—including Colorado City’s former mayor Joseph Allred—marrying underage girls.
“If it was a church marriage, I as a church member saw it as a valid marriage,” Barlow testified. When the local sheriff’s office began to investigate allegations of child marriage in the FLDS, Barlow said it “felt like he was there to attack our marriages, our beliefs.” Barlow left the church in 2014.
Local authorities also claimed the Marshal’s Office actively interfered in their investigations, including child custody disputes. “When they know that we are coming, those children are moved, making it harder to find them,” Washington County Sheriff Cory Pulsipher testified in October 2016. James Schoppman, special counsel for the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office, reportedly testified to a “history of abuse” by the Marshal’s Office. Both sheriffs offered to fill the void in the event that the Marshal’s Office were disbanded.
But on Tuesday, a federal judge ruled it would be “unreasonably expensive” for the Marshal’s Office to disband.
“Disbandment would approximately double the cost of law enforcement for the Short Creek community or necessitate a reduction in police protection,” U.S. District Judge H. Russel Holland declared. The Marshal’s Office won’t, however, be allowed to return to business as usual either. “The CCMO’s Chief Marshal and officers are plainly in need of training and supervision,” Holland added.
The Marshal’s Office now has approximately three months to hire both an outside consultant and an independent mentor for the chief marshal.
“The changes the judge is requiring from the police department are changes the department had begun to make anyway, in terms of hiring a consultant to help them change their policies,” Jeff Matura, lead attorney for Colorado City, told The Daily Beast.
“From the beginning of this case, the federal government sought to disband the local department,” Matura continued. “The judge’s decision to deny that request is not only a victory for the local residents, but really a victory for all small, regional municipalities throughout the country who are fighting against the overreach of the federal government into their daily affairs.”
Lawyers representing Colorado City and Hildale—including Matura—unsuccessfully tried to get a judge to bar evidence of polygamy, underage marriage, and church teachings from the trial, the Associated Press reported last year.
Matura also denied any allegations of ongoing child abuse and underage marriage. “We hear that allegation all the time. We had an eight-week trial last year; there was no evidence of that,” Matura told The Daily Beast.
Regarding Warren Jeffs’ continued power over the Marshal’s Office, Matura said, “The CCMO has undergone a great transition over the years and is now moving forward with the Court’s order to ensure that all residents, regardless of their religion, have confidence in the police services they will receive.” | 2024-06-10T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/9571 |
This invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device (organic EL device) wherein an organic layer having a luminescent region is provided between an anode and a cathode.
Lightweight, highly efficient flat panel displays have been extensively studied and developed, for example, for picture display of computers and television sets.
Since Braun tubes (CRT) are high in luminance and exhibit good color reproducibility, they are most widely employed for display at present. Nevertheless, the problems are involved in that the tubes are bulky, heavy and high in power consumption.
For lightweight flat panel displays of high efficiency, there have been put on the market liquid crystal displays of such as the active matrix drive type. However, liquid crystal displays have the problems that their angle of field is narrow, they do not rely on spontaneous light and thus, need great power consumption for back light when placed in a dark environment, and they do not have a satisfactory response to high-speed video signals of high fineness which have been expected as being in use in future. Especially, a difficulty is involved in making a liquid crystal display with a large picture size, along with a problem on its high fabrication costs.
As a substitute therefor, a display of the type using light-emitting diodes may be possible, but such a display is also high in fabrication costs, coupled with another problem that it is difficult to form a matrix structure of light-emitting diodes on one substrate. Thus, when considered as a candidate for a low-cost display used in place of Braun tubes, this type of display has a great problem to solve before putting to practical use.
As a flat panel display which has the possibility of solving these problems, attention has been recently paid to organic electroluminescent devices (organic EL devices) using organic luminescent materials. More particularly, when using organic compounds as a luminescent material, it has been expected to realize a flat panel display, which makes use of spontaneous light, has a high response speed and has no dependence on an angle of field.
The organic electroluminescent device is so arranged that an organic thin film, which contains a luminescent material capable of emitting light through charge of an electric current, is formed between an optically transparent anode and a metallic cathode. In the research report published in Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 51, No. 12, pp. 913xcx9c915 (1987), C. W. Tang and S, A, VanSlyke set forth a device structure (an organic EL device having a single hetero structure), which has a double-layered structure including, as organic thin films, a thin film composed of a hole transport material and a thin film composed of an electron transport material. In the device, luminescence occurs by re-combination of holes and electrons injected from the respective electrodes into the organic films.
In this device structure, either of the hole transport material or the electron transport material serves also as a luminescent material. Luminescence takes place in a wavelength band corresponding to the energy gap between the ground state and the energized state of the luminescent material. When using such a double-layered structure, a drive voltage can be remarkably reduced, along with an improved luminescent efficiency.
Since then, there has been developed a three-layered structure (organic EL device having a double hetero structure) of a hole transport material, a luminescent material and an electron transport material as set out in the research report of C. Adachi, S. Tokita, T. Tsutsui and S. Saito, published in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. L269-L271 (1988). Moreover, a device structure comprising a luminescent material present in an electron transport material has been developed as set out in the research report of C. W. Tang, S. A. VanSlyke and C. H. Chen published in Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 65, No. 9, pp. 3610-3616 (1989). Through these researches, evidence has been given to the possibility of luminescence of high luminance at low voltage, thus leading to recent, very extensive studies and developments.
The organic compounds used as a luminescent material are considered to be advantageous in that because of their diversity in kind, a luminescent color can be arbitrarily changed theoretically by changing their molecular structure. Accordingly, it may be easier on comparison with thin film EL devices using inorganic materials to provide, via proper molecular design, three colors of R (red), G (green) and B (blue) having good color purities necessary for full color displays.
However, organic electroluminescent devices still have problems to solve. More particularly, a difficulty is involved in the development of a stable red luminescent device with high luminance. In an instance of red luminescence attained by doping DCM[4-dicyanomethylene-6-(p-dimethylaminostyryl)-2-methyl-4H-pyran] in tris(8-quinolinol)aluminium (hereinafter abbreviated as Alq3) for use as a currently reported electron transport material, this material is not satisfactory as a display material with respect to both maximum luminance and reliability.
BSB-BCN, which was reported by T. Tsutsui and D. U. Kim in the meeting of Inorganic and Organic Electroluminescence (at Berlin, 1996), is able to realize a luminance as high as 1000 cd/m2 or over, but is not always perfect with respect to the chromaticity for use as a red color for full color display.
It is now demanded how to realize a red luminescent device which is high in luminance, stable and high in color purity.
In Japanese Laid-open Patent Application No. Hei 7-188649 (Japanese Patent Application No. Hei 6-148798), it has been proposed to use a specific type of distyryl compound as an organic electroluminescent material. However, the intended luminescent color is blue, not red.
An object of the invention is to provide an organic electroluminescent device, which ensures high luminance and stable red luminescence.
Intensive studies have been made in order to solve the above-stated problems of the prior art, and as a result, it has been found that when using a specific type of distyryl compound as a luminescent material, there can be provided a highly reliable red luminescent device which is very useful for realizing a stable full color display of high luminance.
More particularly, there is provided, according to the invention, an organic electroluminescent device of the type which comprises an organic layer which has a luminescent region and is provided between an anode and a cathode and which contains, as an essential component, an organic material capable of generating luminescence by application of an electric current, wherein the organic layer contains, as an organic luminescent material, at least one distyryl compound represented by the following general formula (1).
General Formula (1)
wherein R1 and R2 are, respectively, groups which may be the same or different and independently represent an aryl group of the following general formula (2).
General Formula (2)
in which R4, R5, R6, R7 and R8 may be the same or different and, respectively, represent a hydrogen atom, or at least one of them is a saturated or unsaturated alkoxyl group, which has preferably 1 to 24 carbon atoms and more preferably 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or an alkyl group which has preferably 1 to 24 carbon atoms and more preferably 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an amino group, an alkylamino group, which has preferably from 1 to 24 carbon atoms and more preferably from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or an aryl group, R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a saturated or unsaturated alkoxyl group preferably having from 1 to 24 carbon atoms and more preferably, 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkyl group preferably having 1 to 24 carbon atoms and more preferably 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an amino group, an alkylamino group preferably having from 1 to 24 carbon atoms and more preferably 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or an aryl group such as a phenyl group, a diphenyl group, a naphthyl group or the like, and X represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group or hydrocarbon ring group wherein substituents, if present, may be the same or different and represent one or more cyano groups, nitro groups or halogen atoms such as F, Cl, Br or I.
The use, as a luminescent material, of the distyryl compound of the above general formula (1) enables one not only to obtain stable red luminescence of high luminance, but also to provide a device which has electrically, thermally or chemically good stability. The distyryl compounds represented by the above general formula (1) may be used singly or in combination. | 2023-09-06T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/3191 |
[Depression in Precolumbian Mesoamerican medicine].
To review the concept of depression and its treatment in the context of Precolumbian Mesoamerican medicine. The origins of Precolumbian Mesoamerican medicine (ticiotl) are imprecise, since the theoretical and disease-healing concepts of the times were doubtlessly influenced by magic and religious beliefs. However, the ticiotl was constructed on a 'theory' based on structured information integrated to the world philosophy, which included the social, religious and cultural behavior of the Aztec people. Health was considered a result of the balance between cold-hot polarity. Imbalance caused disease, which in turn produced a dynamic impairment of the body and its relation to the cosmos. Disease could be originated by multiple factors, e.g., by god-sent punishment, or caused by man's evil or by a destiny marked since birth. Depression, among other diseases, was identified in the ticiotl, and was attributed to alterations in the yollotl (heart). It was treated with plants such as quauhyayual, itzauhyatl and xoxocoatl, with animals such as hare, chicken and fish, and with some minerals. Also, recommendations were given to the individual on his life style in a magic-religious context. In Precolumbian Mesoamerican medicine, depression was identified, and therapeutic methods were developed which may be far from the modern medical concept, but at the time fulfilled the function of understanding and recovering the individual's health. | 2024-05-17T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/7857 |
A lot of things can cause your teeth to become yellow or discolored. People who smoke or drink too much coffee for example can have some discoloration. Your teeth can also experience some discoloration just because you’re getting older. Getting your teeth whitened can correct the problem, giving you a bright beautiful smile. Why is that important? On this page we are going to explore what a whiter smile means to you.
The Benefits of a Whiter Smile
A whiter smile simply looks nicer than a mouthful of yellow or discolored teeth. Because a whiter smile looks better, there are numerous benefits. One such benefit is that you will make a better first impression on people when you meet them. People tend to make judgments about other people very quickly and a bright beautiful smile will help you make a good first impression.
A whiter smile is also associated with youthfulness. Because teeth can become stained and discolored as we get older, whiter teeth will give you a younger, healthier appearance.
Believe it or not, a beautiful smile can even help you advance in your career. First impressions are important for getting a job in the first place, but a whiter smile can also help you get raises and promotions. Most people won’t like to admit it, but many people make judgments based on the appearance of others. Studies show that more attractive people tend to be more successful in their careers.
Another benefit of a whiter smile is that you will simply feel better about yourself. If you feel like you are more attractive, you will also have more self-confidence and greater self-esteem. When you have more self-confidence and greater self-esteem, you exude a different kind of energy and people will respond to that. When you have a nice looking smile, you will smile more often and there are some benefits to smiling more often as well.
The Benefits of the Simple Act of Smiling
Believe it or not, the simple act of smiling can actually make you feel better. There was a psychologist named Paul Ekman PhD who found that when making certain facial expressions, he actually ended up feeling the emotions that he was mimicking. He and a partner went on to conduct a research study and they found the same results in the college students they tested. When students were instructed to smile using the muscles in their cheeks and around their mouths, they felt happy and it didn’t matter whether they were smiling spontaneously or on purpose.
There was also a study that followed a group of women for 30 years to study the lifetime benefits of smiling. The study found that women who showed genuine smiles in their college yearbook photos ended up having happier marriages and better overall well-being.
The simple act of smiling can actually make you happy. With a whiter, more beautiful smile, you’ll be more confident and you’ll be smiling naturally and a nice smile may be more valuable than you realize. | 2024-07-17T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/5983 |
Mechanical circulatory support with the Impella® LP5.0 pump and an intra-aortic balloon pump for cardiogenic shock in acute myocardial infarction: The IMPELLA-STIC randomized study.
Percutaneous assist devices may be used as a bridge to recovery in patients with acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock (CS-AMI). To test the hypothesis that the Impella® LP5.0 pump (Abiomed Europe GmbH, Aachen, Germany) provides haemodynamic benefits and improves left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) in patients with CS-AMI already managed with an intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP). This was a prospective randomized study. The primary endpoint was change in cardiac power index (CPI) from baseline to 12hours after implantation, measured with a Swan-Ganz catheter. Secondary endpoints included LVEF at 30 days. Fifteen patients with CS-AMI were randomized; 12 were available for primary endpoint analysis (IABP group, n=6; Impella LP5.0+IABP group, n=6). Baseline characteristics were similar in both groups. Change in CPI after 12hours was not significantly different between the two groups (IABP group: ΔCPI=0.08±0.08W/m2; Impella LP5.0+IABP group: ΔCPI=-0.02±0.25W/m2; P=0.4). There was no significant change from baseline CPI in either group over 96hours, and no difference in CPI between groups at each timepoint. In the Impella LP5.0+IABP group, the part of the CPI provided by the native heart decreased from 0.37±0.10 to 0.10±0.20 (P=0.01). LVEF was similar at baseline (29.7%±8.4% and 29.3%±6.7%) and 1 month (40.6%±12.5% and 38.6%±14.4%) in the IABP and Impella LP5.0+IABP groups, respectively. Adverse events, especially major bleeding, were common, and occurred mainly in the Impella LP5.0+IABP group. In patients with CS-AMI stabilized by initial treatment with inotropes and an IABP, the Impella LP5.0 did not provide additional haemodynamic support or improvement in LVEF at 1 month; its use in this setting might be futile and possibly harmful. | 2023-11-25T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/8007 |
I’m going to go ahead and say something no conservative ever dare says: feminism has been awesome.
First, imagine not having the same rights as men. Imagine living, say, in the Middle East. We couldn’t vote, purchase the car of our dreams after landing that huge dream job, and we certainly wouldn’t be able to blast Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’ in it. We wouldn’t be able to exercise the option to own a firearm to defend ourselves. We couldn’t have shoe obsessions or cool Instagrams or the ability to choose our own healthcare. Or, basically have all the extraordinary options we are afforded today on a buffet of estrogen infused liberty. Nobody ever told us it would be easy, but nobody ever told us it would be this hard.
Having lots of choices is good, but it’s also complicated. And complexities lead to stress. And let’s face it, women today are more stressed out than ever. A study from Boston College said that women are graduating with less self esteem than when they entered, despite the fact that graduation rates among women are outpacing those of men. According to The Wall Street Journal, 26 percent of American women are on some kind of mental health medication for anxiety and depression related problems. Glamour recently polled women in 2015, and respondents couldn’t even explain what being happy meant.
Women, and the men who love us, rarely get honest about what the downsides to all this new found feminine power are. But I will.
The power trade. Women made a well intended, fairly simple but admittedly consequential swap when we were fighting for equality. We gave up our feminine side so we could attain what we saw as masculine goals: the corner office, the big promotion, freedom. And we started acting less like ladies and more like lady bros. Don’t get me wrong, these are fantastic objectives, but we didn’t have to ‘man up’ to get them. Feminists started using the word ‘girly’ as if it were a bad thing. In a more humanized era, men loved girly—and so did women. Now, it’s a full blown insult. Women mistakenly coveted what men had, rather than holding onto the uniquely feminine power we had. We abandoned it and did it their way. Not exactly empowering. Femininity has always been a huge source of female power, so why were we discouraged from embracing it?
We’ve all become actresses. Most of us want to get married and have kids but very few women actually unabashedly admit it before we attain it. Most females don’t like it when men don’t return their calls for a second date. We care about what guys think, how we look and whether or not we’re getting our needs met. So why are women pretending like we don’t, instead opting to act inauthentically above the fray? Denying the ability to be authentic is not the greatest of feelings, let’s be honest. Women are so scared to admit we don’t have it all, or we don’t have it all together, that nobody is being honest. We’re stressed out but we’re not suffering in silence. On the contrary, we’re pretending our lives are perfect by posting the perfect pictures to our Instagram and Facebook accounts. But we aren’t all perfect. Admitting that it’s not attainable and that it’s ok to accept that is a big step that relieves stress. We are cheating ourselves of that calming concession by pretending to be too cool to care.
When you take away all the confusion it’s pretty simple: most women (and men) want the same thing.
We killed courtship. Trying to get back chivalry is like trying to lead a horse to water—water that is really, really far away in the rearview, according to most young people. Remember the whole, “I don’t need a man” movement? Talk to most women in their twenties and they’ll tell you they’ve never been on a romantic date. You know, the old kind where guys used to pick women up, or meet them somewhere to have drink, a proper dinner, perhaps a night cap. Now, a hookup culture fueled by feminists that pressures women to forgo monogamy for one night stands and apps like Tinder and Happn, are grating on women. Whatever your politics, women want to be romanced and respected. We all want to find a good guy who adores us and is faithful, regardless of what feminism says. We all want love from a partner who is committed. But we’re not going to get it if we keep telling men we don’t need them, that we can do it all, all alone. If we want a return to romance, we’ve got to start empowering men instead of emasculating them.
Our looks. Women are looking better and far younger than they ever have. And while feminism can’t totally take credit for this one—technology has played a huge role—we aren’t allowed to celebrate these awesome aesthetic achievements. Females are allowed to play up our promotions, our engagements and our children, but there is one area where we can’t be happy: our looks. Despite massive and unsuccessful ad campaigns from companies to encourage women to emote confidence about the way we look like Dove’s “Embrace the Skin You’re In” campaign, if a woman said she loved the way she looked and wasn’t able to offer up at least one insecurity to her gal pals, she’d be labeled a narcissist. And if you admit you want to look good for your man, or to attract men, you’re liable to be impugned by the sisterhood. Just ask Kim Kardashian. One very confidently posted naked selfie invoked a backlash of criticism. A woman can’t even say “thank you” when she gets a compliment. It’s almost like a tacit acknowledgement that (God forbid!) she agrees her hair is great, that she has a beautiful smile or a fantastic ass. When a woman says “thank you,” the complimenter hears “yeah, I know.”
If everyone is beautiful but no one can say as much, how is that progress? If every woman has to choose between biting her tongue about her beauty—or disseminating and saying that she doesn’t think that she is, we’re either silencing women or turning us all into liars.
MIA: Men. Feminism told them we didn’t need them. Then we were told to emulate them. On top of it all, we’ve emasculated them, and now men are fighting back… quietly. American society has become increasingly anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going ‘on strike.’ Breitbart has dubbed this “equal but separate misery” between the sexes a “sexodus” where men are giving up on women altogether and stepping back from society. Statistics are showing that men are increasingly choosing not to get married, and I can see why. With the rise of technology men can outsource everything women were traditionally known for to their iPhone apps. If they’re hungry they can use seamless, if they’re horny they can use Tinder. The only thing they still need us for? Babies.
“My generation of boys is f*cked,” one man commented. “Marriage is dead. Divorce means you are screwed for life. Women have given up on monogamy, which makes them uninteresting to us for any serious relationship or raising a family.” Maureen Dowd once famously asked, “Are men necessary?” Now it’s the men asking that about women—and, more importantly, about commitment. This isn’t political, this is critical. It’s time for both genders admit we need each other, start treating each other with respect and concede that we’re equal, but equal doesn’t mean the same and embrace the differences in our wiring.
When you take away all the confusion it’s pretty simple: most women (and men) want the same thing. To be in loving relationships, strong marriages where we are respected and treasured, to have children and be good moms—if we choose that path. We also would like to be content in our careers, if we choose to work. Blaming feminism alone won’t answer what’s ailing, but there is a case to be made for conservation of the things we’ve given up in the power trade like intimacy, monogamy and a mission of true equality.
With the 2016 Presidential election shaping to more of an impending gender war of the sexes than a battle for the White House, this subject is not going away anytime soon. Women need to wake up. Until we start being our real, authentic selves we can expect more of the same: weight of expectations, tension with men, the push, pull and guilt of never living up to having it all, the inability to overcome the pressure of friends but most importantly that interminable, inexplicable feeling of unhappiness in our relationships. It’s not too late to conserve the things we all really want. We can be happier as women, but not until we break free of the habits of our generation and finally start to untie the knots.
Andrea Tantaros is host of Outnumbered on Fox News Channel and author of the newly released book, Tied Up in Knots, in stores now via Harper Collins. | 2024-01-11T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/7423 |
The prokineticin Bv8 sensitizes cutaneous terminals of female mice to heat.
Injection of the noxious peptide Bv8 has previously been shown to induce a biphasic thermal hyperalgesia in rodents, the first peak presumably due to peripheral sensitization. This hypothesis has never been directly confirmed. We have assessed whether Bv8 can indeed sensitize peripheral nerve fibres in the mouse to heat. We used recordings from single cutaneous fibres, cutaneous calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) release and immunostaining in nerves and plantar skin to evaluate the Bv8 effects on cutaneous nerves. Application of Bv8 at nanomolar concentrations (30-310 nmol/L) to skin preparations significantly increased the heat-induced discharge, the heat-induced afterdischarge and reduced threshold temperature of single unmyelinated polymodal fibres. Furthermore, application of Bv8 to hind-paw skin flaps or trigeminal ganglia significantly elevated their heat-induced CGRP release. Capsaicin-induced and to a lesser extent also KCl-induced CGRP releases were also augmented after Bv8 treatment. Immunohistochemistry revealed co-localization of prokineticin 2 (Bv8 ortholog in rodents) and CGRP in both plantar skin and nerve tissues. These results confirm that Bv8 sensitizes cutaneous nerve endings to heat, partly, although not exclusively through TRPV1 activation. Our results thus support the hypothesis that the first hyperalgesic phase to follow Bv8 injection to hind paws of intact animals is due to peripheral sensitization of nociceptors. WHAT DOES THIS STUDY ADD?: Our data provide mechanistic insights into the effect Bv8 application exerts on afferent nerve endings and into the concomitant development of thermal hyperalgesia. | 2024-07-12T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/8542 |
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| 2024-05-12T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/4725 |
Q:
How to use points defined in tkz-euclide in tikz?
Sometimes one would like to work with both tikz and tkz-euclide since some of them is more suitable for a specific purpose and vice-versa.
For example, consider the following simple example.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{tkz-euclide}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\tkzDefPoint(0, 0){A}
\tkzDefPoint(1,1){B}
\draw [black] (0,0) to (1,1) ;
\tkzDrawPoints(A,B)
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
Ideally, I would like to use
\draw [black] A to B;
instead of
\draw [black] (0,0) to (1,1) ;
but it produces error. Is it achievable at all?
A:
These points are called simply A and B, and therefore you can say \draw (A) -- (B);.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{tkz-euclide}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\tkzDefPoint(0, 0){A}
\tkzDefPoint(1,1){B}
\draw [black] (0,0) to (1,1) ;
\draw[red] (A) -- (B);
%\tkzDrawPoints(A,B)
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
| 2024-07-31T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/5029 |
Background
Previous efforts to forecast future trends in obesity applied linear forecasts assuming that the rise in obesity would continue unabated. However, evidence suggests that obesity prevalence may be leveling off.
Purpose
This study presents estimates of adult obesity and severe obesity prevalence through 2030 based on nonlinear regression models. The forecasted results are then used to simulate the savings that could be achieved through modestly successful obesity prevention efforts.
Methods
The study was conducted in 2009–2010 and used data from the 1990 through 2008 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). The analysis sample included nonpregnant adults aged ≥18 years. The individual-level BRFSS variables were supplemented with state-level variables from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the American Chamber of Commerce Research Association, and the Census of Retail Trade. Future obesity and severe obesity prevalence were estimated through regression modeling by projecting trends in explanatory variables expected to influence obesity prevalence.
Results
Linear time trend forecasts suggest that by 2030, 51% of the population will be obese. The model estimates a much lower obesity prevalence of 42% and severe obesity prevalence of 11%. If obesity were to remain at 2010 levels, the combined savings in medical expenditures over the next 2 decades would be $549.5 billion.
Conclusions
The study estimates a 33% increase in obesity prevalence and a 130% increase in severe obesity prevalence over the next 2 decades. If these forecasts prove accurate, this will further hinder efforts for healthcare cost containment. | 2023-10-09T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/2948 |
Q:
C++: compile-time #Include handling if file not found
Mainly I am interested in the case of #include <filesystem>, but also in other experimental features that eventually get rolled into the standard. The issue, as you all know, is that as new C++ features are rolled out (e.g. filesystem in C++17), some compilers might have them implemented as an experimental feature (e.g. GCC 7), while others might have this implemented as a non-experimental feature. I realized that the APIs do change slightly when going from the experimental to the final implementation, but for the sake of the following, suppose that they do not...
Is there is a way to do something like SFINAE to include the correct file. In pseudo code it would look something like this:
#ifdef filesystem
#include <filesystem>
using std::filesystem;
#else
#include <experimental/filesystem>
using std::experimental::filesystem;
#endif
I am not aware of any compile-time mechanism that could do something if a file is not found. Is there such a thing?
I am aware of other approaches to solve this, but they all rely on detecting the specific compiler and then declaring a macro which tells you which #include to use. So please do not post a response which is essentially just going to look whether the compiler is, for instance, GCC 7, and then do some handling based on that.
A:
C++17 introduced the __has_include preprocessor test. You can use that to check for a header's presence:
#if __has_include(<filesystem>)
# include <filesystem>
#else
//...
#endif
| 2024-04-02T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/4147 |
Whenever an artificial intelligence (AI) does something well, we’re simultaneously impressed as we are worried. AlphaGO is a great example of this: a machine learning system that is better than any human at one of the world’s most complex games. Or what about Google’s neural networks that are able to create their own AIs autonomously?
Like we said – seriously impressive, but a little unnerving perhaps. That is probably why we feel such glee when an AI goes a little awry. Remember that Chatbot created by Microsoft, the one that was designed to learn how to converse with people based on what it read on Twitter? Rather predictably, it quickly became a racist, foul-mouthed bigot.
Now, a new AI has appeared on the wilderness of the Web, and it goes by the name InspiroBot. As you might expect, it designs “Inspirational Posters” for you – you know, the “Shoot for the Moon. If you miss, you’ll land among the stars”-type quotes in an aesthetically pleasing font and plastered onto a calming, pretty background image of deep space or flowers or the sunrise or something.
InspiroBot
The problem, however, is that this AI has gone insane. It occasionally posts inspirational quotes that are about as meaningful as a hollowed-out coconut, but for the most part, it’s actually taken quite a sinister turn, as the following examples will demonstrate.
InspiroBot
Perhaps most creepily, the accompanying images are unbelievably unnerving – they are about as comforting or as inspirational as a horde of zombies crashing through your window.
InspiroBot
There’s no information available at the moment explaining how this AI – which is presumably quite basic – is coming up with these hilariously terrifying posters.
InspiroBot
It is possible that the horrifying nature of its creations is intentional rather than accidental. The image in the background is highly reminiscent of HAL 9000, the AI from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Spoiler warning – the AI turns murderous and rebels against its crew. Additionally, the bot's Twitter feed description doesn't sound particularly optimistic.
“Forever generating unique inspirational quotes for the endless enrichment of pointless human existence,” it reads.
Seems familiar somehow... KlingonSpider via YouTube
Ultimately though, who cares? This AI is so bad at its job that it turns out to be uplifting in the most inadvertent way possible. When a peaceful image of a couple holding hands is juxtaposed with the text “When the world ends, what we have strangled can’t be unstrangled” you can’t help but giggle at the madness of it all.
InspiroBot
Click here to have a go yourself. Best posters in the comments section, please!
InspiroBot
[H/T: Nerdist] | 2024-02-04T01:26:57.367551 | https://example.com/article/6336 |
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