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The invention relates to a tool-holder mandrel for fitting to a rotating machine.
The rotating machine may notably be a drill or an electric screw driver.
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2023-12-27T01:27:05.828072
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https://example.com/article/1327
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Unless we act soon insect biodiversity and ecological systems will crash. The cost of mass insect extinctions to humanity on a global scale would of course be disastrous: from pollination, insects supporting biodiversity and as an increasingly important foodstuff for human populations the loss to our planet would be irredeemably bad.
In the UK the National Trust and Wildlife Trust among others are doing their best to preserve and restore meadows, however their efforts are but a drop in the ocean compared to the meadowland that has been lost since the 1940s. 97% of meadows have been torn up and turned into intensive agricultural land or has been built upon. These massive habitat losses have decimated wildlife and biodiversity in our countryside in the UK and pesticide usage in agriculture has compounded the problem.
I believe that parliament seriously needs to consider robust and bold strategies to restore swathes of meadows, as charities cannot achieve this without legislative support, to further restrict harmful pesticides, and to encourage sustainable farming methods. The UK must become a world leader in the fight against loss of biodiversity in nature and show that ecological considerations must be at the forefront of politics and business if the future is not going to look very bleak.
Please do also sign https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241327
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2024-01-17T01:27:05.828072
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https://example.com/article/7230
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The politics of abortion are already vexing vulnerable senators from both parties on the 2018 ballot.
Two of the most endangered senators up for reelection next year, West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin and Nevada Republican Dean Heller, are being targeted by their opposition for stumbling over the issue recently. And there's plenty more in store: If the Senate calls up a bill to repeal Obamacare, controversy over Planned Parenthood funding will come to the fore — ensuring the 2018 campaign won’t lack for that perennial lightning rod.
Manchin told POLITICO that he’s prepared for a politically charged vote, and that he would continue to support federal funding for Planned Parenthood as long as the four-decade-old ban on the use of federal money for abortions remains in place.
"It’s a shame if that’s all they have,” Manchin said of Republicans trying to make an issue of his Planned Parenthood votes conflicting with his personal opposition to abortion. "These are social issues, not political issues. You are what you are — I was born and raised that way. Life is very sacred to me."
The GOP attacked Manchin after he met last week with David Daleiden, the conservative filmmaker behind undercover videos that appeared to show Planned Parenthood representatives discussing potential sales of fetal tissue. The meeting gave anti-abortion activists hope that he would vote to cut off federal funds for the organization, a position he took in 2015 soon after the Daleiden tapes emerged.
But Manchin voted in March to safeguard state funds for Planned Parenthood, cheering pro-abortion rights activists, and said in an interview that he would consider changing his vote on cutting off federal money for the group if the "horrible accusations" made by Daleiden's tapes are proved true. Daleiden remains embroiled in an ongoing criminal probe in California related to that sting.
"Manchin has always branded himself as a pro-life politician, but as he’s getting pressure from the left — he has a primary opponent now — he’s been trying to make inroads with them," one Senate GOP aide said. "He’ll say whatever it takes to get elected."
Indeed, Republicans are lashing Manchin for taking a picture with a "We Don't Need Planned Parenthood" sign during his meeting with anti-abortion activists — two weeks after posing alongside an "I Stand With Planned Parenthood" sign.
Heller is facing jabs of his own from Democrats after telling constituents last month that he would “protect” Planned Parenthood — only to explain later that he voted to yank its federal funds to protest its involvement in abortions. The Democratic super PAC American Bridge slammed him for trying "to pretend to support Planned Parenthood."
The influential women's-health organization spent big in Nevada in 2016 against former GOP Rep. Joe Heck, who lost his race to Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.). Planned Parenthood is already citing Nevada polling that shows 49 percent of voters in the state would be less prone to supporting candidates who vote to defund it.
Heller has long voted to pull Planned Parenthood money, however, despite initially describing himself as an abortion-rights backer before his 2006 House election. Manchin's shift in votes, by contrast, makes him a potentially easier mark for his political opposition.
And while Democrats vow to use Heller's support for defunding the group against him in his reelection, Manchin is already facing trouble — in the form of challengers from the left and right in addition to deep-rooted skepticism from abortion-rights groups.
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"There are personally pro-life senators" beyond Manchin in the Democratic fold who "don’t take anti-choice votes," NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue said in an interview.
Citing Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), "who says he’s personally pro-life, but has a 100 percent voting record" with abortion rights groups, Hogue added: "Do I think anti-choice votes will be something Democratic senators will have to explain? I do, actually."
The group of Democrats who have identified as personally anti-abortion but have consistently supported funding for Planned Parenthood include Kaine and Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey. Both Manchin and Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) voted to protect the group's funding this year but supported yanking its federal money in 2015. All four face difficult reelection fights next year.
Casey said in an interview that Manchin "has been honest" about his position and has joined a united Democratic front in support of family-planning programs designed to further drive down the number of abortions. (The nation's abortion rate declined between 2004 and 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.)
"If Republicans are going to attack candidates like Joe Manchin, who’s working to create and foster common ground, I think it’s a losing argument," Casey added. "I think Joe will win the argument and get reelected."
The toughest political vote for Manchin and Heller looms later this year, when Senate GOP leaders are expected to bring their own Obamacare repeal bill to the floor. The House’s repeal plan halts Medicaid money for Planned Parenthood, and one senator or another is certain to force the issue in the upper chamber as well.
If the Senate bill embraces the House position, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has said she’ll seek to strip that provision. And if the Senate's health care bill doesn't take aim at Planned Parenthood, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) or another conservative is likely to pursue a vote to target the group. Under the same powerful procedural rules that allow Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to repeal Obamacare with only GOP votes, the Senate bill would be open to a flurry of amendments.
Heller does not support the House Obamacare repeal bill, but he has no quarrel with its steep cuts to Planned Parenthood, spokeswoman Megan Taylor said.
"Senator Heller has worked hard to improve women's access to health care and the quality of care they receive," Taylor said by email. "While he doesn't have a problem with many of the health care services Planned Parenthood offers to women, he is opposed to providing federal funding to any organization that performs abortions and is supported by taxpayers' dollars; he has a long record that reflects his position."
Mallory Quigley, spokeswoman for the anti-abortion rights group Susan B. Anthony List, predicted that the Senate's initial health care bill would strip Planned Parenthood money, and she urged Democrats who have voted with abortion foes to return to the fold.
"We have so many pro-life allies, chief among them the Senate majority leader," Quigley said in an interview. "So I strongly believe this will be included. And it’s really important that it be bipartisan."
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2024-01-11T01:27:05.828072
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https://example.com/article/7257
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Q:
PrintWriter very slow flush() and print(). Multithreads and sockets
I have this weird problem with my (multithreaded) server when I get more than 500 players connected simultaneously, the PrinterWriter take more than 100 seconds or more (2 minutes) to finish flush() or print() sometimes.
Here is the code:
public static void send(Player p, String packet)
{
PrintWriter out = p.get_out();
if(out != null && !packet.equals("") && !packet.equals(""+(char)0x00))
{
packet = Crypter.toUtf(packet);
out.print((packet)+(char)0x00);
out.flush();
}
}
the printWriter is something like this:
_in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(_socket.getInputStream()));
_out = new PrintWriter(_socket.getOutputStream());
If I add the keyword synchronized to the send() method, the whole server starts to lag every 2 seconds, if I don't then some random player starts to lag for no reason.
Anyone have any idea ? Where is this coming from? What should I do?
A:
The print writer is wrapped around a socket's output stream, so I'm going to guess and say that the socket's output buffer is full, and so the write/flush call will block until the buffer has enough room to accommodate the message being sent.
The socket send buffer may become full if data is being written to it faster than it can be transmitted to the client (or faster than the client can receive it).
Edit:
P.S. If you're having scalability problems, it may be due to using java.io (which requires one thread per socket) instead of java.nio (in which case a single thread can detect and perform operations on those sockets which have pending data). nio is intended to support applications which must scale to a large number of connections, but the programming model is more difficult.
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2024-04-16T01:27:05.828072
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https://example.com/article/2758
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The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday revoked the law license of a Wadsworth attorney convicted last month of trafficking in a dangerous drug.
Harry E. Jackson, 65, of 5534 State Road, is spending four years at Lorain Correctional Institution in Grafton on a charge of aggravated drug trafficking and two counts of complicity in aggravated drug trafficking involving bath salts. The charges are second- and fourth-degree felonies.
Jackson, who was convicted after pleading guilty to the charges in Summit County Common Pleas Court, owns The Odd Corner — a tobacco supplies store at 360 E. Exchange St., Akron. Undercover police reported they bought bath salts from a store clerk there on March 23, 2012.
At the time of his conviction, Jackson was not practicing law and his law license is listed as inactive on several online directories of lawyers.
In addition to prison time, Jackson was fined $25,000 and his driver’s license was suspended for five years at his Oct. 11 sentencing hearing before visiting Judge Judy Hunter.
Jackson had three codefendants — Daniel I. Dearment, Dannielle L. Hileman and Eugene B. Hoover — and all have been convicted.
The investigation was completed by University of Akron police in conjunction with city police.
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2023-09-27T01:27:05.828072
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https://example.com/article/8596
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Q:
Jquery mobile load external page and keep it
Im trying to load an external jquery mobile page into my main page with:
$.mobile.pageContainer.pagecontainer("load", "./pages/test1/test1.html", {});
and i want to keep it in the dom, even when im going back from that page.
Is there a way to do that? becouse when back key is presses, the page is removed from the html.
A:
Have you looked at setting data-dom-cache="true" on the page:
http://api.jquerymobile.com/page/#option-domCache
This will keep loaded pages in the DOM.
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2024-03-23T01:27:05.828072
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https://example.com/article/6609
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826 P.2d 1016 (1992)
111 Or.App. 476
OWEN DEVELOPMENT GROUP, Inc., and Peter O. Eslick, Petitioners,
v.
CITY OF GEARHART, Respondent.
LUBA 91-107 & 91-123; CA A72723.
Court of Appeals of Oregon.
Argued and Submitted January 27, 1992.
Decided February 26, 1992.
*1017 Jeff H. Bachrach, Portland, argued the cause, for petitioners. With him on the brief was O'Donnell, Ramis, Crew & Corrigan, Portland.
William R. Canessa, Seaside, argued the cause and filed the brief, for respondent.
Before RICHARDSON, P.J., and DEITS and DURHAM, JJ.
RICHARDSON, Presiding Judge.
Petitioners seek review of LUBA's dismissal of their appeal from what they describe as a "land use decision," contained in a letter by the Gearhart city administrator. LUBA concluded that there was no final reviewable land use decision. We affirm.
In 1985 and 1986, respectively, the city approved petitioners' applications for preliminary and final development plan approval and a conditional use permit for a shopping center. The property is located in a mixed residential-commercial zone that has no permitted uses and that allows as conditional uses those that are permitted in two of the city's commercial zones (C-1 and C-2). The 1985 application recited that the "final configuration of the center is approximate and schematic until final lease arrangements can be made." The city's 1985 decision stated:
"The applicant has stated in his testimony that the retail shopping center proposed will likely include a food market, a drug store, a variety store, a junior department store, a restaurant, a financial institution and other retail shops. These are all uses permitted in either the C-1 or C-2 Zoning Districts and are therefore included as permitted conditional uses within [this] Zone."
In 1991, a development permit was issued. Petitioners and city personnel disagreed about the uses that would be allowed in the center. Although the city provides no declaratory or interpretive land use procedures, petitioners applied to the city for an "interpretation" of the 1985 decision. They asserted that, under it, they were entitled to include in the shopping center all uses that are allowable in the C-1 and C-2 zones. The city planning commission took no action on the request for an interpretation except to discuss it during a regular meeting. A majority of the commission's members expressed a more restrictive view than petitioners' about what uses had been approved by the 1985 decision. The "consensus" was memorialized in the administrator's letter to petitioners, from which they purported to take their appeal to LUBA.[1] The letter states, in material part:
"Since you were present, you know that no formal motion, resolution or order was approved by the Commission. The Commissioners did, however, express their feelings as to the intended projects when polled by the Chairman. By his count and mine, as well, the consensus was that any of the five major, specifically named businesses could be located in the larger complex without further approval required. Those businesses are a financial institution, a restaurant, a grocery store, a variety store and a drug store. Any other retail stores in the complex would require conditional use approval as they were not specifically approved during the original approval process.
"It is reasonable for you to assume that as the building official, I will act in accordance with this interpretation in issuing permits and/or business licenses."
The city moved to dismiss the LUBA appeal on the ground that neither the letter nor any of the events leading to it was a final land use decision that came within LUBA's jurisdiction. LUBA agreed, as do we. Petitioners argue that the letter embodies a discretionary decision in the form of a declaratory ruling that, as a practical matter, resolves any issues that they might raise through an application for *1018 a "formal" land use decision. According to petitioners,
"[t]he city's position is that it will only issue a final reviewable decision regarding the uses allowed in the shopping center when the petitioners have built the center and applied for an occupancy permit or business license for a particular retail store. The city administrator's letter states how the city will respond to such a request for an occupancy permit or business license. Petitioners should not be required to exhaust the futile remedy of building an entire shopping center in order to get an appealable determination out of the city."
Petitioners also rely on Medford Assembly of God v. City of Medford, 297 Or. 138, 681 P.2d 790 (1984), cert. den. 474 U.S. 1020, 106 S.Ct. 570, 88 L.Ed.2d 554 (1985), where the court held that the city's declaratory interpretation, under an ordinance that provided for that procedure,[2] constituted a reviewable land use decision. However, the facts in City of Medford were quite different from those in this case, and the differences demonstrate why petitioners are wrong here. The petitioner in City of Medford operated a church on property zoned for that purpose. It subsequently opened an elementary school and was notified by a city official that the school use required a conditional use permit. The interpretation that the petitioner sought was that no permit was required under the relevant zoning ordinance provision. The Supreme Court concluded:
"The [city's] resolution is a `land use decision' under ORS 197.015(10), which defines `Land use decision' to mean, among other things, a `determination made by a local government' concerning the `application' of a zoning ordinance. This formal determination is a basis for LUBA review even though it is only declaratory. The procedure provided by the city is analogous to the declaratory order provided by the state Administrative Procedure Act in ORS 183.410, which serves as a basis for review in the Court of Appeals." 297 Or. at 140, 681 P.2d 790. (Footnote omitted.)
In this case, conversely, petitioners did not seek an interpretation of an ordinance; instead, they sought an interpretation of an earlier land use decision. The purpose of their application was to obtain permission for a prospective use by maintaining that it had already been granted, rather than by asking for an independent decision in which the city could determine whether the proposed use was permitted under the zoning ordinance.[3] Stated differently, petitioners did not ask 481 for the "application of a zoning ordinance"; rather, they sought permission for a use without the direct application of the zoning ordinance.
In Terraces Condo. Assn. v. City of Portland, 110 Or. App. 471, 823 P.2d 1004 (1992), we were presented with a corollary of petitioners' argument. The petitioners there had sought and obtained from the city a favorable interpretation of an earlier variance decision. They argued that, because the city's action entailed the interpretation of a land use decision rather than the application of a land use regulation, the action was not a land use decision subject to LUBA's review. We rejected that argument and concluded that "the `interpretation' of a variance necessarily involves the *1019 application of the land use regulations under and from which the variance was allowed." 110 Or. App. at 477, 823 P.2d 1004.
It may be that the city here could have indulged in the same fiction that the city and the parties in Terraces Condo. Assn. did, with the same result on any reviewability question. However, the city was also free not to do that and to insist as it did that petitioners not obtain a land use decision without applying for one in accordance with its established procedures. As for petitioners' contention that the effect of the city's action is to require that they "exhaust the futile remedy of building an entire shopping center" in order to obtain an appealable decision, that is simply not the remedy that they must exhaust. They may proceed under section 3.780 of the ordinance, see n. 3, supra, or, possibly apply for a conditional use permit or other land use decision concerning a prospective use, just as they did in 1985.[4]
The underlying thesis of petitioners' argument is a form over substance one, with which we are not unsympathetic. They understand the 1985 decision to have granted what the city and LUBA have concluded that they must apply for now. However, petitioners are not free to invent their own procedures rather than following those that the law prescribes. If they are not certain enough to act on their understanding that the 1985 decision gives them what they want, they must apply for a decision about the uses that are in doubt.
Petitioners also argue that, having dismissed their appeal, LUBA was required to transfer the case to the circuit court under ORS 19.230(4):
"A notice of intent to appeal filed with the Land Use Board of Appeals pursuant to ORS 197.830 and requesting review of a decision of a municipal corporation made in the transaction of municipal corporation business that is not reviewable as a land use decision or limited land use decision as defined in ORS 197.015 shall be transferred to the circuit court and treated as a petition for writ of review. * * *"
We do not agree with petitioners' reading of the statute. We construe the words "not reviewable as a land use decision * * * as defined in ORS 197.015" to mean that the subject matter of the controversy is outside the statutory definition of the term. We do not agree with petitioners that the statute was meant to give circuit courts jurisdiction over land use issues simply because local decisions that can only be made through the land use process are not properly or completely formalized and therefore do not qualify as final decisions over which LUBA can exercise its jurisdiction. See ORS 197.015(10).
Affirmed.
NOTES
[1] Petitioners also contended that a land use decision is reflected in the commission minutes and that the city erred by not permitting them to appeal the commission's decision to the city council. The analytical underpinnings for those contentions are essentially the same as those on which petitioners base their argument that the letter embodied a land use decision, and our disposition applies to all of petitioners' contentions.
[2] The Supreme Court found it unnecessary in City of Medford to decide whether its holding could apply when there is no declaratory procedure under the local legislation. We also do not reach that question.
[3] Section 3.780 of the city's zoning ordinance provides, with respect to permits of the kind in question:
"1. The applicant and successors shall agree in writing to be bound by the conditions prescribed for approval of the development. The approved final plan and stage development schedule shall control the issuance of all building permits and shall restrict the nature, location, and design of all uses. Minor changes in an approved preliminary or final development plan may be approved by the Building Official if such changes are consistent with the purposes and general character of the development plan. All other modifications, including extension or revisions of the stage development schedule, shall be processed in the same manner as the original application and shall be subject to the same manner [sic] as the original application and shall be subject to the same procedural requirements."
[4] We do not imply that the meaning of the 1985 and 1986 decisions is not relevant to the disposition of an application. Indeed, section 3.780 suggests that those decisions may be quite relevant.
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2024-03-21T01:27:05.828072
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https://example.com/article/3090
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Q:
Supremum of a sine integral
Let $M_T=\int\limits_{0}^{T}\frac{\sin(t)}{t}dt$ be a sine integral.
Why is $2\displaystyle\sup_{T}M_T < \infty$?
A:
$$\int_{0}^{T}\frac{\sin\left(t\right)}{t}dt=\overset{\infty}{\underset{n=0}{\sum}}\frac{\left(-1\right)^{n}}{\left(2n+1\right)!}\int_{0}^{T}t^{2n}dt=\overset{\infty}{\underset{n=0}{\sum}}\frac{\left(-1\right)^{n}T^{2n+1}}{\left(2n+1\right)!\left(2n+1\right)}<\infty$$
for the Leibniz's criterion, $\forall T\in\mathbb{R}^{+}$. Furthermore note that $$\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{\sin\left(t\right)}{t}dt=\int_{0}^{\infty}\mathfrak{L}\left\{ \sin\left(t\right)\right\} \left(s\right)ds=\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{1}{s^{2}+1}ds=\frac{\pi}{2}$$where $\mathfrak{L}$ is the Laplace transform.
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2023-12-04T01:27:05.828072
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https://example.com/article/3345
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using System.Collections;
using NitroxClient.GameLogic.InitialSync.Base;
using NitroxModel.DataStructures.GameLogic;
using NitroxModel.Packets;
namespace NitroxClient.GameLogic.InitialSync
{
public class EscapePodInitialSyncProcessor : InitialSyncProcessor
{
private readonly EscapePodManager escapePodManager;
public EscapePodInitialSyncProcessor(EscapePodManager escapePodManager)
{
this.escapePodManager = escapePodManager;
}
public override IEnumerator Process(InitialPlayerSync packet, WaitScreen.ManualWaitItem waitScreenItem)
{
EscapePodModel escapePod = packet.EscapePodsData.Find(x => x.Id.Equals(packet.AssignedEscapePodId));
escapePodManager.AssignPlayerToEscapePod(escapePod);
yield return null;
escapePodManager.SyncEscapePodIds(packet.EscapePodsData);
}
}
}
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2024-05-05T01:27:05.828072
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https://example.com/article/5211
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Expression and localization of protein kinase C theta isoform in mouse testis.
Protein kinase C (PKC) is encoded by a complex of a gene family, and its multiple isoforms are expressed in various mammalian tissues. The objective of this study was to investigate the expression and localization of a PKC theta isoform in mouse testis. PKC theta displays the highest homology to PKC delta, lacks the Ca2+-binding C2 domain and, thus, belongs to the subfamily of Ca2+-independent PKC enzymes which also includes the delta, epsilon, zeta and eta isoforms. We analyzed the PKC theta mRNA and protein by Northern blotting, in situ hybridization, and immunohistochemistry. In testes of normal mice, signals of PKC theta isoform expression were detected specifically in the interstitial cells of testes. The expression of PKC theta isoform was also detected in testes of germ cell-deficient W/W(v) mice. These results suggest that PKC theta isoform has the specific biological functions in the interstitial cells of testis.
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2024-02-27T01:27:05.828072
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https://example.com/article/9656
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In ten years, I'll be ten years older. Yeah, duh, you might be thinking. Obvious things can often be more revealing to think about than non-obvious things, though. I'm 41 today, and in ten years I'll be 51. Assuming all the clothes I have today could somehow survive another ten years of washing and wearing, would I still want to wear them as a fifty-one-year-old?
The first question is one of size. What size will I be in ten years? There are three distinct types of answers to this question.
I have no idea - how could I possibly know that?Same size I am right now, obviously, because I am a marble statueI will have reached the fitness goal for which I am currently on track.
Ten years ago, I was 31. Yes, yes, you can count too. Past Self: Age 31 was coming down from our top weight at age 29. At that time, we had at least four different sizes of clothes in the closet. Our goal weight was 18 pounds heavier than I am today. We hadn't yet bought into the concept that there is a method of being at Healthy Weight for My Height and deviating only over a small range. We were still caught in this idea that body weight is either genetically determined, or a function of the weather. It just happened.
I've worn eight different clothing sizes in my adult life, and spent at least a year at each of those sizes. Now I've been the same size for three years. I have a solid understanding of exactly what behavior patterns on my part will eventually result in physical changes that are reflected in each of those clothing sizes. Size 14 involved a lot of fried food. The Pepsi and Pringles Diet worked for me! I didn't get below a size 6 until I learned to cook vegetables. (NB: and eat them)
I can look around my yoga class at the gym, see that there are ladies present in their fifties, sixties, and seventies, and surmise that if I keep doing what I'm doing today, I will probably look a lot like them when I reach that age. In ten years, I will probably be very similar to the size I am today, only with better posture.
The second question is one of style. Will I still like the same stuff in ten years? Will it still be somewhat fashionable?
If I have one wish as I get older, it is that I will care progressively less and less what other people think of me. That includes clothes. If I want to wear something woefully out of sync with the trends of the day, I most likely will. That's never been anything that stopped me before.
On the other hand, I've already started to feel sad when I find myself contemplating clothes meant for younger women. At my size, dignified, professional clothing is vanishingly rare. Everything is meant for going to the beach, hanging out at the mall, or going to high school. That's my impression anyway. If I change my mind ten years from now and want to dress like a teenager, I can always go to those shops and find something. For today, when I look at what's in my closet, I can ask myself, Does this look like something 51-Year-Old Future Me would want to wear?
The third question is a simple one of climate. Will I still be living here? Am I likely to move north and need warmer clothes? That's possible, and that's an issue I can resolve if I decide to make that change. In the meantime, I have only to ask myself how often I wear what I have now. I only need to dress for extreme cold for a few days a year, so I don't have to keep as many coats and scarves as I used to when I lived in Oregon. Other people may find that they don't need nearly as many pairs of shorts, tank tops, etc.
The fourth question is one of use. Are these clothes going to be usable in ten years?
I loathe shopping. Always did, and I loathe it even more now that it's so hard to find smaller clothes. When I find something I like, I now wear it into a rag. When I split the back seam of my favorite jeans, I seriously contemplated trying to patch them before acknowledging that they were a lost cause. There is no way any of the clothes I have now will survive another ten years of use. Not the socks, not the pajamas, not even those rarely worn winter clothes.
The fifth question is a bit more complex. If I am so emotionally attached to a particular item that I intend to hang onto it for another ten years, no matter what, will it still work with anything else I have? Certain garments only wind up being worn in combination with certain others. That includes jewelry, shoes, specialty undergarments, and anything else that makes it feel like an 'outfit.' If any elements of the prize outfit aren't going to make it, does that reflect on the wearability of the treasured piece?
The purpose of this exercise is to reexamine our wardrobes in terms of our future needs. We tend to want to keep things because we feel that we made a commitment to them in the past. We invested money. We liked being that size, or at least, we liked it better than the size we are now. We are alienated by the trends we currently see in the mall, and we're alarmed at having to let go of the familiar in favor of the disconcerting. (I'm from a generation that believes Tights Are Not Pants). We find ourselves with closets, drawers, and piles of unwearable clothing, things that Present Self can't use and doesn't need. Present Self often misses Past Self, even though Past Self is the same lazy, selfish brat who spent all our money and kept leaving us all those stacks of messy papers and dirty dishes. It can really help to look forward and imagine what Future Self is going to want.
Not sure about you, but whenever my Future Self calls me, she always asks for more money. She always gives me an earful about any annoying chores I've put off and saved for her to do. She often picks on me about my fashion choices, hairstyle, dietary habits, etc. I recognize the same things I complain about to Past Self. One of the few thing I can do for Future Self today is to do a bit of culling and let go of clothes neither of us will ever wear.
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2023-08-04T01:27:05.828072
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https://example.com/article/8932
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Differences between sodium-dependent and desipramine-defined [3H]imipramine binding in intact human platelets.
Measurements of sodium-dependent [3H]imipramine binding to intact human platelets from 20 human volunteers were made and compared to desipramine-defined binding, a method commonly employed in population studies of platelet [3H]imipramine sites. The density (Bmax) of sodium-dependent [3H]imipramine sides in platelets was significantly lower (449 +/- 36 sites/platelet) and the affinity (Kd) significantly higher (1.15 +/- 0.12 nM) than those obtained when excess desipramine was used to define specific binding (Bmax 654 +/- 33 sites/platelet, p less than 0.001; Kd 1.52 +/- 0.11 nM, p less than 0.001). There was no significant correlation between the density (Bmax) of sodium-dependent and desipramine-defined binding in individual subjects, suggesting that a different proportion of sites are labeled under the two assay conditions. No age-dependent variation was found in either Kd or Bmax values of sodium-dependent or desipramine-defined [3H]imipramine binding. The results suggest determination of sodium-dependent [3H]imipramine binding to intact platelets may be a useful measure for the estimation of [3H]imipramine recognition sites relevant to the serotonin uptake in studies of patients with affective disorders.
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2024-03-21T01:27:05.828072
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https://example.com/article/3330
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81 So.2d 254 (1955)
May PIKE
v.
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
6 Div. 470.
Supreme Court of Alabama.
March 24, 1955.
Rehearing Denied May 19, 1955.
Further Rehearing Denied June 23, 1955.
Gibson, Hewitt & Gibson, Birmingham, for appellant.
Edw. W. Smith and John A. Boykin, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., and Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville, Birmingham, for appellee.
Copeland & Copeland, Gadsden, Jas. H. Willis, Birmingham, amici curiae.
MAYFIELD, Justice.
A statement of this case appears in the dissenting opinion. The primary question here for consideration is whether or not the appellee Telephone Company was justified in removing the appellant's telephone. The appellee's asserted justification of this act was that it had received notification from Eugene "Bull" Connor, Commissioner of Public Safety of the City of Birmingham, that this telephone was being used for "illegal purposes".
It is clear that the Telephone Company, like any other public utility, which is granted a monopoly, has a duty to serve the general public impartially, and without arbitrary discrimination. This right of service extends to every individual who complies with the reasonable rules of the Company. The subscriber is entitled to equal service and equal facilities, under equal conditions. 86 C.J.S., Tel. & Tel., Radio & Television, § 71, p. 83; City of Birmingham v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co., 234 Ala. 526, 176 So. 301.
*255 It is equally clear that the Telephone Company may properly refuse to furnish its service for a purpose or business which is patently illegal or a public nuisance. But, mere suspicion that such service is desired for purposes contrary to the public interest will not justify refusal. 86 C.J.S., Tel. & Tel., Radio & Television, § 65, p. 80; Western Union Telegraph Company v. Ferguson, 57 Ind. 495.
In Andrews v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., D.C., 83 F.Supp. 966, 968, 969, the defendant Telephone Company received a letter from the United States Attorney stating that the plaintiff (subscriber) was using his telephone in violation of the gambling statutes and requested that the telephone be discontinued. When the Telephone Company complied with the request of the United States Attorney, the subscriber brought a petition for injunctive relief. There the court said:
"A public utility, such as a common carrier, a telegraph company, or a telephone company, must serve all members of the public without discrimination or distinction. * * * that a person may be of bad character does not deprive him of the right to receive service from a public utility. * * *
"* * * a telephone company may refuse to furnish or may discontinue service that has been furnished if the service is used for a criminal purpose, such as violation of the gambling statutes. The burden of proof, however, is on the public utility to establish the fact that the service is being used or is about to be used for a criminal purpose. * * *"
In the above cause, the tariff of the Telephone Company contained a provision that service could be discontinued if any law enforcement agency advised that it was being used, or will be used, in violation of law. Speaking of this tariff provision and the letter of the United States Attorney, the court said:
"* * * Obviously, if this provision of the tariff is to be literally construed, it is not valid. A public utility may not deprive a member of the public of his rights to service merely because it receives a notice from a law enforcement agency that he is using the service for illegal purposes. A public utility may refuse, and, in fact, must, refuse, service if to its knowledge the service is being used for illegal purposes. This fact must, however, be established. To confer what would amount to judicial power on a law enforcement officer and to exercise such power ex parte would be violative of due process of law and would deprive members of the public of their legal rights. * * *
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"The effect of the letter from the United States Attorney is another matter. Its function, as the Court sees it, is none other than merely to convey information to the telephone company and place the telephone company on notice of what the United States Attorney believes the situation to be. The telephone company, for example, may have a right, if it sees fit to do so, to request the United States Attorney to disclose whatever evidence he has in support of the information contained in the notice. The telephone company must make its own decision whether the evidence is sufficient to justify discontinuance of the service. The company acts at its peril. * * *"
In the instant case, as far as the record reveals, there was not even a "tariff" of the telephone company to justify their discontinuance of this appellant's telephone service. We do not think this point controlling, however, and agree with the reasoning of the above case that the Telephone Company could not have adopted a valid tariff in this particular. Such a "tariff" would have been a denial of due process of law.
In that portion of the opinion in People v. Brophy, 49 Cal.App.2d 15, 29, 30, 120 *256 P.2d 946, 954; dealing with whether receipt by the Telephone Company of a letter from the State Attorney General stating that Brophy was using his telephone in bookmaking and requesting its removal would constitute a defense in a suit by Brophy against the Telephone Company for removal of the telephone, the court said:
"It is evident * * * that the law vests no authority in the office of the Attorney General to order a telephone company to discontinue its service, and this being true, the telephone company was not bound to abide by the order of the Attorney General, as was done in the circumstances disclosed by the record herein.
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"* * * the so-called affirmative defense was invalid and therefore raised no issues. In both substance and effect it amounted to no more than a recital of certain information that respondent telephone company had received, and the source thereof added nothing to its value as a defense." [Emphasis supplied.]
In Giordullo v. Cincinnati & Suburban Bell Telephone Co., Ohio Com.Pl., 71 N.E.2d 858, 859, 860, the plaintiff brought an action to recover damages for the withdrawal of telephone service from the plaintiff's premises and to compel defendant to restore plaintiff's service. In its answer the telephone company alleged that the Chief of Police had requested that plaintiff's telephone be removed claiming that he was using his telephone for bookmaking. On demurrer by plaintiff, the court said:
"The telephone company required the plaintiff to get the OK of the Chief of Police before it would give plaintiff telephone service and withdrew the same upon the request of the Chief of Police, all without any hearing as to the gambling chargesthat is police government pure and simple. [Emphasis supplied.]
"The court agrees with counsel too that such a hook-up between the Telephone Company and the Chief of Police is in utter disregard of the fundamental rights of the citizenry of this city; but the court must disregard the alleged hook-up in passing upon plaintiff's demurrer except to say that the Telephone Company can not excuse its actions in withdrawing plaintiff's telephone service on the claim that it did so upon the request of the Chief of Police.
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"If that is true (that plaintiff was using the telephone for bookmaking) it seems to the court that the defendant had the right to withdraw plaintiff's telephone service. When it comes to the trial of this case the Telephone Company will be required to prove that defense by preponderance of the evidence and the letter of the Chief of Police requesting defendant to withdraw plaintiff's telephone service will not even be proper evidence in the case." [Emphasis supplied.]
In Shillitani v. Valentine, 184 Misc. 77, 53 N.Y.S.2d 127, 131, 132, the petitioner sought a writ of mandamus to compel the restoration of telephone service. Petitioner's telephone had been removed by the police at the time of his arrest for bookmaking. On his acquittal of the charge, petitioner applied to the telephone company to have telephone service restored. The police department did not approve the restoration of his telephone and for that reason the company refused to restore it.
The holding of the court in granting the writ was, in part, as follows:
"* * * a telephone company may not refuse to furnish service and facilities because of mere suspicion or mere belief that they may be or are being used for an illegitimate end; more is required (People v. Brophy, 49 Cal.App.2d 15, 120 P.2d 946, supra; Western Union Tel. Co. v. Ferguson, 57 Ind. 495); nor because the character of the applicant is not above reproach, *257 nor because such person is engaged in immoral or illegal pursuits, where they have no connection with the service applied for. Godwin case, supra. [Godwin v. Carolina Tel. & Tel. Co., 136 N.C. 258, 48 S.E. 636, 67 L.R.A. 251, 103 Am.St.Rep. 941, 1 Ann.Cas. 203.] * * *
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"Neither the police commissioner nor the police department has any jurisdiction or authority over the matter of furnishing, discontinuing or restoring telephone service to the public, nor in any other way, so far as I am aware; his or its approval or disapproval in that regard are meaningless insofar as any legal effect is concerned; they possess no more power in that respect than a stranger; each is utterly without such power whatever, however much the views and attitude of the commissioner or the department may by indirection be enforced, as, for example, by the arrangement or understanding between the police and the telephone company, * * *."
The appellate division modified the order of the trial court so as to direct a dismissal of the petition upon a finding that the petitioner was, in fact, using his telephone for criminal activities. 269 App.Div. 568, 56 N.Y.S.2d 210. On appeal to the Court of Appeals, the holding of the appellate division was affirmed, 296 N.Y. 161, 71 N.E.2d 450, 451. The court said in part:
"Since the record justifies the conclusion that petitioner was engaged in conduct violative of section 986 of the Penal Law, it follows that he failed to establish * * * a clear legal right to the relief sought. Under the circumstances of this case, there was no warrant for compelling the telephone company to reinstate its service for petitioner.
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"Neither the Police Commissioner nor the Police Department is given any authority by statute to pass upon or regulate applications for telephone service, or to require a telephone company to withhold or discontinue its service. * * *
"Whether or no service should be terminated or discontinued is a decision that must be made by the telephone company. That poweras well as dutyrests with the public utility, and it may not delegate the one or avoid the other. True, the company is free to consult with the Police Department or with any other law enforcement agency, and may be guided in its action by the advice received. But whether the action is justified or warranted must be determined by the telephone company upon the facts presented. * * *"
Shillitani v. Valentine, supra, was followed in Whyte v. New York Telephone Co., Sup., 73 N.Y.S.2d 138, and in Dees Cigarette & Automatic Music Co., Inc., v. New York Telephone Co., 184 Misc. 269, 53 N.Y.S. 651, wherein the respondent Telephone Company was ordered to reinstall petitioners' telephones. In both cases, the Company had refused service on the request of the police department. We are aware that the courts of several jurisdictions have taken a contrary view; nevertheless, we are convinced that the rule enunciated in the foregoing cases is sound and should be followed by the courts of Alabama. The cases supporting the contrary view are ably collected in the dissenting opinion and require no further comment.
Upon its factual situation, the instant case is even weaker than the cases which we have heretofore reviewed. A contrary holding would be particularly disturbing when we consider the questions which are left unanswered by the Company's plea. This plea does not even allege that the appellant's telephone was, in fact, being used in a manner which would justify its removal. The allegation is merely that the appellee received notice from Eugene "Bull" Connor, Commissioner of Public Safety, and was thereby ordered to remove the telephone. The letter from Commissioner *258 Connor, which the company claims clothes them with immunity, merely states that the telephone is being used for "illegal purposes."
Attached to the letter to the Company from the Commissioner was a list which included remarks concerning one Louis Pikepresumably the husband of appellant. It was stated that Louis Pike "is a well-known lottery operator in the city." As was stated in the foregoing cases, the questionable character of the telephone subscriber is not justification for a Company, which holds a monopoly, to discontinue the service. Obviously, this principle is doubly applicable where both the character and the occupation of the person assailed is someone other than the subscriber.
"Criminal" and "illegal" are not interchangeable terms. While it is argued by the appellee that the "illegal" use referred to concerned bookmaking operations, such does not appear in the notice received by the Telephone Company. Stripped to its bare essentials, Commissioner Connor's letter makes two allegations against Louis Pike. First, that he "operates a negro beer joint". Regardless of whether such activity be laudable, it is not criminal or even "illegal". Secondly, that Pike operates the Joe Louis Lottery House and has at least three cases pending in the various courts. The "pendency" of a criminal case cannot be used as a predicate for punitive action under the American system. The present tendency and drift towards the Police State gives all free Americans pause. The unconstitutional and extra-judicial enlargement of coercive governmental power is a frightening and cancerous growth on our body politic. Once we assumed as axiomatic that a citizen was presumed innocent until proved guilty. The tendency of governments to shift the burden of proof to citizens to prove their innocence is indefensible and intolerable.
We are not able to glean from the bare conclusions set up in the letter of the Commissioner, whether it is claimed that the "illegal" use of the telephone was by the appellant, her husband, or a total stranger. From aught that was alleged in the plea, except for the conclusion of the Commissioner, no "illegal" use of any type was made of this telephone by any one.
The notice alleged to have been received by the Telephone Company was couched in the terms of a direct order from the Commissioner of Public Safety. What is the source of Mr. Connor's authority to issue such an order? We know of none. And we hold that none exists.
If we took a contrary view, it would naturally flow and follow that the telephone company would be justified in acting on the notice of any over-zealous law enforcement official who, without evidence, and on mere suspicion, is impressed with the bad character or occupation of a particular telephone subscriber. The letter from Commissioner Connor set up in the plea is no defense. It is the Telephone Company's burden to show that the use being made of the telephone did, in fact, justify its removal.
These depredations of a subscriber's legal right to telephone service constitute a denial of due process guaranteed by the Constitution of 1901, art. 1, § 6. The gratuitous and arbitrary action of a police official is no justification for an abridgement of this right. To hold that the Telephone Company is justified in discontinuing service by "order" of a police official would require judicial recognition of a police power which does not exist. The bald assertion of an executive officer, be he the Attorney General of the United States or a constable of some remote beat, cannot be accepted as a substitute for proof in the judicial process. No presumption arises as to the sufficiency of evidence based on a law enforcement officer's conclusions.
Appellee's plea No. 2 alleged no defense to the cause of action and the nisi prius court erred in overruling the challenging demurrer.
Reversed and remanded.
SIMPSON and STAKELY, JJ., concur.
*259 LAWSON, J., concurs in the result.
LIVINGSTON, C. J., and GOODWYN and Merrill, JJ., dissent.
GOODWYN, Justice (dissenting).
Appellant, plaintiff below, brought action at law against appellee claiming damages for cutting off or discontinuing her telephone service. As last amended, the complaint consisted of three counts. Count 1 charged appellee with "negligently" cutting off telephone service; count 2, with "wantonly" cutting off such service; and count 3, with "willfully, wantonly, maliciously, intentionally, and wrongfully" cutting off such service. Appellee's demurrer to the complaint, as last amended, was overruled. Thereupon appellee entered two pleas. The first was a plea of the general issue. Plea 2 was as follows:
"Plea 2. On April 6, 1951, the defendant was engaged in business in the City of Birmingham, Alabama, as a public utility furnishing intrastate and interstate telephone service to the public.
"Prior to April 6, 1951, a telephone with call number 6-9171 was installed by defendant in a place of business at 1535 Twentieth Street, Ensley, being operated by plaintiff or plaintiff and her husband, and said telephone was therein on April 6, 1951, and was the only telephone in said premises either on April 2nd, 1951, or April 6, 1951.
"Defendant further avers that it received a letter dated April 2, 1951, from the Commissioner of Public Safety of the City of Birmingham, Alabama, who was at the time the responsible law-enforcing agent of said City, and who was in charge of its Police Department, advising the defendant that the said telephone facilities furnished by the defendant at the said premises known as 1535 Twentieth Street, Ensley, a place within the corporate limits of the said City and subject to its police jurisdiction, were being used for illegal purposes, and directing the defendant to remove said telephone facilities. Said letter was in words and figures as follows:
"`April 2, 1951
"`Mr. C. L. Lott, District Manager,
"`Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company,
"`Birmingham 3, Alabama
"`Dear Mr. Lott:
"`This is your order to remove the attached list of telephones which are used for illegal purposes. These telephones are not to be reconnected without a Court order or advice from me.
"`Sincerely yours,
"`/s/ Eugene "Bull" Connor Commissioner of Public Safety.'
"Attached to said letter was the list of telephones referred to therein, which, in the part thereof here pertinent said:
"`Lewis Pike, white, male, lives at 1117 Thirteenth Avenue, South, and has telephone listed 4-3075 and 4-1420. Lewis Pike also operates a negro beer joint at 1535-20th St. EnsleyTelephone 6-9171. He is a well-known lottery operator in the City, operating the Joe Louis Lottery House and has at least three cases pending in the various Courts.'
"The defendant avers that, acting in compliance with the order contained in said letter from the Commissioner of Public Safety of the said City, a communication was addressed to the plaintiff under date of April 5, 1951, by the defendant in words and figures as follows, to-wit:
"`We have information which indicates that the telephone facilities and service being furnished you by this company have been used in connection with unlawful activities. Therefore, this is to notify you that on April 6, 1951, all telephone service at the present time being rendered *260 to you at 1535-20th Street, Ensley, will be discontinued.
"`/s/ C. L. Lott
"`District Manager.'
"Said communication was delivered to the person in charge of said premises at or immediately preceding the time of the removal of said telephone facilities, and the defendant did, on April 6, 1951, remove said telephone facilities with call number 6-9171 from said premises, viz.: 1535 Twentieth Street, Ensley, in an orderly, lawful and proper manner and unless this be wrong, defendant was guilty of no wrong on the occasion complained of."
The appellant demurred to plea 2, assigning thirty-eight separate and several grounds. The demurrer being overruled, appellant moved for a non-suit, which was granted. This appeal presents for review the propriety of the action of the court in overruling the demurrer to plea 2.
As I see it, the question presented for decision is whether, under the facts averred in plea 2, appellee was justified in discontinuing appellant's telephone service. Specifically, the question is whether appellee, in removing appellant's telephone pursuant to the instructions from the Commissioner of Public Safety of the City of Birmingham, was justified in accepting the order of said Commissioner as reasonable cause to believe that the telephone was being used for an illegal purpose. Appellant's insistence is that appellee, as a public utility, must serve the public without discrimination and that she has been unjustly discriminated against by the discontinuance of her telephone service; that plea 2 does not show that either she or her husband personally used the telephone for illegal purposes nor that they had any notice or knowledge that it was being used for illegal purposes or that they permitted any one to use said telephone for illegal purposes. It is further contended that the discontinuance of service deprived her of her property without due process of law in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
The position taken by the Telephone Company is that the instructions from the Commissioner of Public Safety for removal of appellant's telephone because of its use, as stated in said instructions, for illegal purposes, constituted reasonable cause for the Company to believe the telephone was being illegally used, thus justifying its removal.
It does not appear that this question has heretofore been before this court. However, it has been dealt with in other jurisdictions, but not with unanimity in the decisions.
My research discloses that when the question has been considered in other jurisdictions, there has usually been involved the reasonableness of a statute, a rule of a state or federal regulatory body, or a rule of the public utility. It is apparent that our problem, as presented by the pleadings, is somewhat different. Here, no statute or rule is involved. The question, then, simply stated, is whether the Telephone Company, in the absence of a statute or rule on the subject, is justified in discontinuing service when requested to do so by a responsible law enforcement officer who represents to the Company that such service is being used for illegal purposes. (As I see it, the principle applicable here would likewise be applicable if a statute or rule were involved.) My view is that the Telephone Company is justified in relying on the representations of such law enforcement officer as to the illegal use of the service and, accordingly, should not be liable for damages when service is discontinued at the request of such officer.
It is generally held that a public utility, by reason of the very nature of its business, is obligated to furnish "its service or commodity to the general public, or that part of the public which it has undertaken to serve, without arbitrary discrimination." 73 C.J.S., Public Utilities, § 7 b, p. 999. But it cannot be required to furnish service, for illegal purposes. *261 52 Am.Jur., Telegraphs and Telephones, § 93, p. 123; Nichols, Public Utility Service and Discrimination, Chap. VII, § 9, p. 196. As thus stated in 52 Am.Jur., Telegraphs and Telephones, Cum.Supp. § 84.1:
"It is the duty of a telephone company to furnish service and facilities without discrimination in favor of or against anyone who will pay the applicable tariff rate and abide by the reasonable regulations of the utility. But a telephone company's duty to furnish service is limited to lawful service, and it cannot be compelled to furnish service for purposes which are illegal, * * *."
In the light of these principles, is it not a reasonable and practicable rule of law which says that a utility is justified in discontinuing service when a responsible law enforcement officer notifies the utility that such service is being used for illegal purposes and requests that the service be discontinued because of such illegal use? I think so; and this conclusion finds support in the following cases, among others: McBride v. Western Union Tel. Co., 9 Cir., 1948, 171 F.2d 1, 3, 4; King v. Seamon, Fla., 1952, 59 So.2d 859, 861; Dade County News Dealers Supply Co. v. Florida Railroad & Public Utilities Commission and Dade County News Dealers Supply Co. v. Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co., Fla., 1950, 48 So.2d 89, 90; Hagerty v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co., 1940, 145 Fla. 51, 199 So. 570; Dente v. New York Telephone Co., Sup., 1944, Westchester County, 55 N.Y.S.2d 688, 690, 691, 692; Application of Manfredonio, 1944, Westchester County, 183 Misc. 770, 52 N.Y.S.2d 392, 393; People ex rel. Restmeyer v. New York Telephone Co., 1916, 173 App.Div. 132, 159 N.Y.S. 369, 370.
In the case of McBride v. Western Union Tel. Co., supra [171 F.2d 3], appellant sought to compel the telegraph company to restore wire service to him. The company based its refusal to restore service on Federal Communication's Tariff Regulation 219(8) which provided as follows:
"`Facilities furnished under this tariff shall not be used for any purpose or in any manner directly or indirectly in violation of any federal law or the laws of any of the states through which the circuits pass or the equipment is located, and the telegraph company reserves the right to discontinue the service to any drop or connection or to all drops and connections when it receives notice from federal or state law enforcing agencies that the service is being supplied contrary to law.'"
The court there said:
"The telegraph company was notified by the Attorney General for California in writing that such illegitimate use of the drops was being made in several cities in California and by the Sheriff of Kern County, California, that such use was being made in the city of Bakersfield, California. McBride does not complain that the places of such illegal misuse are not sufficiently described, but that the statement of the notices of illegal use are not substantiated. We do not agree that the notifying officers are required to supply to the telegraph company the probative facts to be adduced in court in the trial of the cases of violation stated in the notices.
"McBride's complaint contained two causes of action. We can see no essential difference between them. In both he states that the telegraph company should be `required by order of the court to continue to supply plaintiff with such facilities.' (Emphasis supplied.) He contends, however, that his second cause of action requires the telegraph company to disregard the notices of the law enforcement officers because they concern a past wrongdoing and treat it as beginning de novo a litigation for the supplying of the telegraphic and drop services which the company refuses him.
"The effect of such a construction would make nugatory the provisions *262 of Section 219(8). A new illegal use would follow to be stopped only long enough for the bringing of another such suit as here. The process of law violation would continue indefinitely with only minor stoppages by an impotent Attorney General. The telegraph company may rely on the Attorney General's and the county sheriff's notices as sufficient to justify the telegraph company's refusal to restore the services, which, as both complaints describe it, would be a continuing of past services." (Emphasis supplied.)
In Hagerty v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co., supra, the Attorney General of the United States advised the telephone company that Hagerty was using the company's facilities to promote lottery schemes in Florida and elsewhere and demanded that the service be discontinued on pain of being held to account for aiding and conspiring in the violation of the Federal anti-lottery laws. The Attorney General of Florida also advised the telephone company that Hagerty "was using its telephone facilities to aid in the maintenance of gambling houses or in the promotion of gambling" contrary to the laws of Florida, and requested that the service be discontinued. In response to these demands, the telephone company notified Hagerty that service would be discontinued. Hagerty thereupon filed his bill in equity and secured a temporary restraining order directed to the company prohibiting it from discontinuing the service. The company filed its answer interposing as a defense its right to discontinue service because of the alleged violation of state and federal laws and the demand made on it by the state and federal prosecuting officers. The trial court upheld the answer of the telephone company. On appeal, the Florida Supreme Court has this to say [145 Fla. 51, 199 So. 571]:
"Here we are concerned with the power of a court of equity to relieve a public service corporation from furnishing a service in the face of a threat of prosecution. * * * The law is well settled that the aid of a court of equity to prevent the discontinuance of telephone service which is being used to facilitate book making in violation of the law or in the promotion of any other gambling scheme or device will not be enforced. * * *
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"We therefore hold that the answer of the Telephone Company presents a good and legal defense to the bill of complaint * * *."
In the later Florida cases of Dade County News Dealers Supply Co. v. Florida Railroad & Public Utilities Commission and Dade County News Dealers Supply Co. v. Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co., supra, the Supreme Court of that state held that the telephone company was warranted in discontinuing service to the News Dealers Supply Co. when notified to do so by the Florida Attorney General because such service was being used for unlawful purposes. There under consideration was Rule 1592 of the Commission which became effective on April 1, 1950. Said rule contained the following:
"Whenever any such utility is notified in writing by any state or Federal law enforcement officer acting within his apparent jurisdiction, either directly or through this Commission, that certain telephone or telegraph facilities or any part thereof, are being used or have been used in violation of any Federal law or the laws of the State of Florida, then such utility shall disconnect and remove such facilities and discontinue all telephone and telegraph service rendered over said facilities."
Pursuant to this rule, the telephone company notified the News Dealers Supply Co. that the Attorney General of Florida had demanded that all facilities furnished by the telephone company to said Supply Company be discontinued, and that, therefore, all such services would be terminated. A bill was filed and a temporary restraining order was issued to prevent the telephone company from interfering with the telephone service then being furnished. *263 On hearing in the trial court said restraining order was dissolved and the bill dismissed. On appeal, the Supreme Court of Florida said [48 So.2d 90]:
"The first point for consideration is whether or not appellee, Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company was warranted in discontinuing its telegraph and telephone service to Dade County News Dealers Supply Company when notified to do so by the Attorney General on the ground that it was being used for unlawful purposes.
"We think this question requires an affirmative answer. Chapter 364, Florida Statutes 1941, F.S.A., authorizes the Commission to regulate and control telephone and telegraph companies. Section 364.20 authorizes the Commission to adopt the rule under attack and provides that it shall be reasonable and just and such as ought to have been made in the premises. The rule does no more than enact the law as it existed at the time and there is not the slightest suggestion that the rule is arbitrary or unreasonable or in some other way may work an injustice on the appellant or its patrons. We think the following cases conclude the question: Hagerty v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co., 145 Fla. 51, 199 So. 570; Tracy v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co., D.C., 37 F.Supp. 829; Hagerty v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co., D.C., 59 F.Supp. 107; McBride v. Western Union Telegraph Co., 9 Cir., 171 F.2d 1." [Emphasis supplied.]
The opinion in King v. Seamon, supra, discloses that Rule 1592, considered in the Dade County News Dealers Supply Co. Cases, supra, was subsequently enacted into law. In construing such enactment, the court cited with approval the construction of the rule as announced in the Dade County News Dealers Supply Co. Cases, supra.
In Application of Manfredonio, supra, the petitioner's telephone service was discontinued and the telephone removed by the telephone company, acting upon request of the Mt. Vernon Police Department which informed the telephone company that the telephone was being used by petitioner for gambling and bookmaking. Petitioner brought suit for restoration of telephone service. The court said:
"The first question is: Had the telephone company the right to act upon the request of the police department without an independent investigation of its own? The court holds that it was the duty of the respondent to so act, otherwise it might well run the risk of becoming a party to criminal activities and also because sound public policy requires it in the first instance to aid the authorities in their efforts to enforce the law. The police department refuses to rescind its request and the respondent declines to restore the service without such rescission or by order of the court. In this stand the court holds that the telephone company is within its rights."
In the later case of Dente v. New York Telephone Co., supra [55 N.Y.S.2d 689], telephone service was discontinued by the telephone company "after it had received a letter from the Chief Inspector of the Mount Vernon Police Department, the purport of which was, that he had received information from the New York Police Department, with other information, which led him to believe that the telephone in question was being used for an unlawful purpose, to wit, bookmaking, and requested the respondent [telephone company] to forthwith discontinue the service, and not to reinstate the same without the approval of the Police Department." The court said:
"The service was thereupon discontinued, which was taken in accordance with the long established practice of the respondent, namely, to terminate a subscriber's service upon the request of the police, whenever the police claim it is being used allegedly to violate the law, and not to restore the same until *264 the police officials had approved the restoration of the service. * * *
"The question here presented is, was the respondent justified in discontinuing the service upon a mere naked request of the police authorities, without any independent investigation of its own that there was reasonable grounds to believe that the telephone was being used for an unlawful purpose? In other words, was there legal right to refuse petitioner telephone service upon the mere action of the police department objecting to the furnishing of such service, especially where the action of the police department may be arbitrary, unreasonable and discriminatory, and based on mere suspicion? Or does the telephone company have to wait until there has been either a conviction showing the unlawful use of the phone, or some court action on the part of the police authorities? Here, concededly none was taken.
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"The courts of this State have repeatedly given sanction to the basic proposition or rule that where the Police Department has objected to and disapproved of furnishing of telephone service on the ground that it is being used for an unlawful purpose, the telephone company has a legal right to refuse such service. * * *
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"What steps must the telephone company take before discontinuing the service at the request of the Police Department? Must it conduct a separate and independent investigation of its own, for which concededly it has no facilities? Or is it justified in relying upon the representations of the law enforcing authorities that they have information that the phone is being used for unlawful purposes?
"It was conceded upon the argument that if the telephone company had knowledge of its own that one of its phones was being used for an unlawful purpose, then it would be its duty upon its own initiative to discontinue the same. Is the rule different when the company is informed by the law enforcing authorities that the phone is being so used? Does the law require that a telephone company shall at its peril determine the legality of an order of the Police Department directing a telephone service be not restored to premises in which the police have requested a removal of the service for alleged illegal use?
"I am mindful that the position of the respondent may frequently work hardship and injustice, and here the evidence obtained by the Police Department, that the law was being violated, is tenuous.
"Following the memorandum of Mr. Justice Davis of this Department, in Application of Manfredonio, 183 Misc. 770, 52 N.Y.S.2d 392, I hold that the telephone company was within its rights in discontinuing service upon the request of the Police Department without an independent investigation of its own. * * *"
In People ex rel. Restmeyer v. New York Telephone Co., supra, the proceeding was to require the telephone company to furnish telephone service to the relator. The telephone company had removed the telephone from relator's saloon upon complaint of the police authorities that the premises and telephone were being used by the relator in conducting a pool room for receiving and registering bets on horse racing. On the question of whether service should be restored, the court said as follows [173 App.Div. 132, 159 N.Y.S. 370]:
"The affidavit of Officer Beine is quite circumstantial in describing the betting transactions carried on by the relator, and leaves no room for doubt that the relator was persistently violating the law against pool selling and using his telephone as an important factor in that illegal business. Beine is corroborated in every particular by Officer Canfield. In view of these facts *265 the police were justified in regarding the relator's place as an unlawful resort, and their request to the telephone company to discontinue the telephone service therein was entirely proper and in the interest of law and order. It is certainly not an unlawful or oppressive use of police power to interrupt telephone service by arrangement between the police and the telephone company in a case where the telephone is being used, as it was in this case, to carry on a criminal business. Speaking generally, the telephone company is bound to furnish service to all who pay its proper charges and obey its reasonable regulations, but it is not required to furnish such service to those who are reasonably sure to use it for an illegal purpose."
Although there is authority to the contrary, Andrews v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., 1949, D.C.D.C., 83 F.Supp. 966, 968, 969; Giordullo v. Cincinnati & Suburban Bell Telephone Co., Ohio Com. Pl., 1946, 71 N.E.2d 858, 859; People v. Brophy, 1942, 49 Cal.App.2d 15, 120 P.2d 946; Whyte v. New York Telephone Co., Sup., 1947, New York County, 73 N.Y.S.2d 138, 139; Shillitani v. Valentine, 1945, New York County, 184 Misc. 77, 53 N.Y.S.2d 127, 130, 131, 132, 134. I am persuaded that the principle approved in the line of cases hereinbefore discussed is fair, reasonable and practicable and, being in aid of law enforcement, accords with sound public policy. Therefore, I respectfully dissent from the majority holding. It is to be noted that appellant is not without recourse to have her right to telephone service judicially heard and determined. Code 1940, Tit. 48, §§ 57, 63, 79.
LIVINGSTON, C. J., and MERRILL, J., concur in the foregoing opinion.
On Rehearing.
MAYFIELD, Justice.
Counsel for the appellee insist with great vigor that Section 6 of the Constitution of Alabama 1901 affords no protection against an abuse of "due process of law" except in criminal cases. In support of this position they cite the holding of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island in Sepe v. Daneker, 76 R.I. 160, 68 A.2d 101, and Taglianetti v. New England Tel. & Tel. Co., R.I., 1954, 103 A.2d 67, construing a provision of the Rhode Island Constitution similar to art. 1, § 6 of the Alabama Constitution of 1901. Regardless of what position the Supreme Court of Rhode Island may have taken in the interpretation of their own Constitution, the Supreme Court of Alabama has consistently and repeatedly required due process of law in civil, as well as criminal cases. In the civil case of Almon v. Morgan County, 245 Ala. 241, 246, 16 So.2d 511, 515, it was said:
"Procedural due process, broadly speaking, contemplates the rudimentary requirements of fair play, whether in a court or an administrative authority, which include a fair and open hearing before a legally constituted court or other authority, with notice and opportunity to present evidence and argument; representation by counsel, if desired; and information as to the claims of the opposing party, with reasonable opportunity to controvert them. Garrett v. Reid, 244 Ala. 254, 13 So.2d 97; Shields v. Utah Idaho Cent. R. Co., 305 U.S. 177, 59 S.Ct. 160, 83 L.Ed. 111; Morgan v. United States, 304 U.S. 1, 58 S.Ct. 773, 82 L.Ed. 1129; 42 Amer.Jur. 479; Frahn v. Greyling Realization Corp., 239 Ala. 580, 195 So. 758."
In State ex rel. Steele v. Board of Education of Fairfield, 252 Ala. 254, 260, 40 So.2d 689, 695, which was a petition for mandamus, this court, in speaking of an administrative hearing, said:
"While no particular form of procedure is prescribed for such hearings, due process must be observed. Such is the rule generally as to hearings provided for by statute before administrative agencies. (Citing cases.) * * *"
*266 In the case of Zeigler v. South & North Ala. R. R. Company, 58 Ala. 594, 598, 599, Justice Stone said:
"`Due process of law undoubtedly means, in the due course of legal proceedings, according to those rules and forms which have been established for the protection of private rights * * *. They were intended to secure the individual from the arbitrary exercise of the powers of government, unrestrained by the established principles of private rights and distributive justice.'Cooley Cons.Lim. 355.
"Due process of law implies the right of the person affected thereby to be present before the tribunal which pronounces judgment upon the question of life, liberty, or property, in its most comprehensive sense; to be heard, by testimony or otherwise, and to have the right of controverting, by proof, every material fact which bears on the question of right in the matter involved. If any question of fact or liability be conclusively presumed against him, this is not due process of law." [Emphasis supplied.]
The cases of Wise v. Miller, 215 Ala. 660, 111 So. 913; Life & Casualty Ins. Co. of Tennessee v. Womack, 228 Ala. 70, 151 So. 880; Byars v. Town of Boaz, 229 Ala. 22, 155 So. 383; Ridge v. State ex rel. Tate, 206 Ala. 349, 89 So. 742, are all civil cases. In each of these cases, in discussing whether there was or was not a denial of due process, the court assumed as axiomatic that due process of law in civil cases is constitutionally guaranteed in Alabama. In our most recent pronouncement on this subject, in the case of Phillips v. Hinkle, Ala., 78 So.2d 800, 804, decided March 10, 1955, this court quoted the language in Dearborn v. Johnson, 234 Ala. 84, 173 So. 864, 867, as follows:
"`Nor do we think the invalidity of this act is to be rested upon the theory of a denial of due process of law. Our cases recognize, in line with the authorities generally, that the due process clause of the Constitution (section 6) is applicable to tax proceedings, and it was so declared by this court in State Tax Commission v. Bailey & Howard, 179 Ala. 620, 60 So. 913; State Tax Commission v. Tennessee Coal, Iron & R. Co., 206 Ala. 355, 89 So. 179. It only remains to ascertain what is necessary to meet the requirements of due process. * * *'"
While it is true, as argued by appellee's counsel, that art. 1, § 6, Constitution of Alabama 1901, begins "That in all criminal prosecutions, the accused * * *", it must be remembered that in the instant case the supposed justification for removing appellant's telephone was that the appellant was accused of using the telephone for criminal purposes. Art. 1, § 6, supra, continues "nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, except by due process of law; * * *." [Emphasis supplied.]
In addition to the protection afforded appellant by the law of Alabama, the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal constitution prohibits any State of depriving any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law. Even Rhode Island admits this provision of the Federal Constitution is applicable to civil cases. Notice and hearing, which were denied the appellant before her telephone was summarily removed, are the backbone of due process. The Supreme Court of the United States in the Alabama case of Simon v. Craft, 182 U.S. 427, 21 S.Ct. 836, 45 L.Ed. 1165, said:
"The proceedings in a state court, in order to constitute due process of law under U.S.Const. 14th Amend., need not be by any particular mode, if they constitute a regular course of proceedings in which notice is given of the claim asserted, and an opportunity afforded to defend against it." [Emphasis supplied.]
Eminent counsel for the appellee next argue that due process was not violated *267 because the scope of Title 48, Sections 57, 63 and 79, Code of Alabama 1940, are broad enough to countenance an appeal by the appellant, to the Public Service Commission to have her telephone service restored. By the same token, if the police commissioner's request was based on fact rather than mere suspicion, he had a right to apply to the Public Service Commission for an order directed to the telephone company to discontinue the subscriber's telephone; and thereby afforded the appellant notice and hearing as required by due process in advance of his summary action.
Distinguished counsel for the City of Birmingham says, in his brief amicus curiae:
"We feel that in the fight for law and order and against lawlessness in all forms the courts should not be astute to place obstacles in the way of effective crime prevention by the duly constituted law enforcing agencies, or to deprive such agencies of any rational and effective means of crime prevention."
The same argument might be made on behalf of wire tapping, involuntary confessions, unreasonable search and seizure, and suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. However, it is the experience of the English-speaking people that due process and the other fundamental guarantees of the Bill of Rights are the cornerstone of individual liberty, and that these basic rights can neither be disregarded nor eroded away by the winds of an ever-strengthening executive branch of the government.
The application for rehearing is denied.
SIMPSON and STAKELY, JJ., concur.
LAWSON, J., concurs in the result.
LIVINGSTON, C. J., and GOODWYN and MERRILL, JJ., dissent.
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A large number of different types of fixtures are designed for displaying merchandise in stores. Stores often have pegboard walls, slot walls, and/or wire grid walls for supporting and displaying merchandise in addition to various floor fixtures on which merchandise may be placed or hung for display. Various types of brackets are designed for engaging different types of walls and display fixtures for holding the merchandise. Slot walls are provided with vertically spaced horizontal slots. In section, the slots have a "T" shape. Different types of displays are typically secured to the slots using brackets having an offset or "Z" shaped upper edge. The upper edge of the bracket fits into the slot and the bracket is held in place by the edge engaging the slot. Such a bracket is not capable of engaging a wire grid wall or a horizontal hang bar. One type of wire grid wall consists of a grid wires welded together into a grid forming 3 inch squares. The wires typically are up to gauge O, or 0.3065 inch diameter. However, other wire sizes and grid spacings also are used. A common hang bar is a steel bar of about 0.12 inch thick by about 0.5 inch high. The hang bar is horizontally mounted on a wall or on a floor or counter display fixture. Displays which are supported on wire grid walls and hang bars typically include one or more inverted "U" shaped brackets. The brackets generally have a gap sized to closely engage the wire or hang bar. Two different size brackets are used for typical hang bars and wire grid walls. If the bracket is too loose on the wire or on the bar, the display can move and may lack stability. The brackets used for wire grid walls and hang bars have not been suitable for use on slot walls.
One type of retail store display fixture has pairs of spaced horizontal wires. The display fixture may sit on a counter for holding jewelry, for example. The wires may be 11 gauge or smaller, or up to 0.120 inch diameter and may have a spacing in each pair of about 0.5 inch. A greater spacing is provided between the pairs of wires. Jewelry or other small merchandise may be hung on the wires. Or, many brackets designed for engaging a hang bar also may be supported on a wire pair.
In the past, a bracket designed for engaging one type of wall system or display fixture generally was not suitable for use with other types of wall systems, display fixture or hang bars. If a store has displays including, for example, slot walls and either wire grid walls or hang bars, separate sets of brackets were required for use with each. Ira single bracket could be designed for use with multiple types of fixture and wall constructions, the required inventory of brackets would be reduced and the display cost for a store would be reduced.
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[Effect of external gamma radiation on shortening the life expectancy and rates of the formation of absorbed doses from incorporated 239Pu in dogs].
External gamma irradiation of dogs with doses of 103.2 and 51.6 mC/kg combined with the effect of inhaled plutonium-239 accelerates the formation of absorbed doses in secondary organs of the radionuclide deposition by 41.7 and 2.4 times, respectively, whereas the dose of 25.8 mC/kg is ineffective. As estimated by the rate of 239Pu accumulation and by the life span shortening, the minimum effective and the maximum ineffective doses are 104.8 and 80.5 cGy and 89.2 and 79.2 cGy, respectively.
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Factor IXa is a plasma serine protease involved in the regulation of blood coagulation. While blood coagulation is a necessary and important part of the regulation of an organism's homeostasis, abnormal blood coagulation can also have deleterious effects. For instance, thrombosis is the formation or presence of a blood clot inside a blood vessel or cavity of the heart. Such a blood clot can lodge in a blood vessel blocking circulation and inducing a heart attack or stroke. Thromboembolic disorders are the largest cause of mortality and disability in the industrialized world.
Blood coagulation involves three distinct phases: initiation, priming and propagation.1,2,3 Initiation involves binding of tissue factor (TF) to activated factor VII, a circulating coagulation factor. Blood, in general is not exposed to TF which is a transmembrane protein expressed on extravascular cells. Vascular injury causes the TF-bearing cells to be exposed to blood, and initiates the coagulation process.1
The TF/VIIa complex activates factors IX and X.1,4 Factor IXa is relatively unstable in plasma and diffuses toward activated platelets. Factor Xa on the other hand, is unstable in plasma and is rapidly inhibited by TF pathway inhibitor and antithrombin III.1,5,6 Factor Xa binds factor Va on the surface of TF-bearing cells.1.7 In turn, the Xa/Va complex generates a small but sufficient amount of thrombin to cause platelet activation.1,8,9
Thrombin activates platelets and coagulation factors in the priming phase.1,2 Thrombin binds and cleaves platelet protease-activated receptors (PAR1 and PAR4), triggering a signaling cascade that catalyzes platelet activation and release of factor V from platelet α granules. Thrombin also activates factors V, VIII, and XI.1
It is during the propagation phase that thrombin generation is maximized on the surface of platelets. The primed, activated platelets bind the IXa/VIIIa “tenase” complex. Additional IXa is generated by factor XIa on the platelet surface.10 The IXa/VIIIa complex, in physical proximity to Va, recruits factor X to the platelet surface for activation. The Xa/Va complex on the platelet surface is protected from TF pathway inhibitor and antithrombin III.11,12
Enzymology studies have shown that activation of factor X by IXa/VIIIa is nearly 50× more efficient than activation by factor VIIa/TF.13 The platelet Xa/Va complex generates a “burst” of thrombin, resulting in a stable fibrin-platelet clot.1
The cell-based model of coagulation highlights the importance of the IXa/VIIIa complex in clot formation. Factor IXa therefore represents an excellent target for anticoagulant therapy.1 There is a need for effective inhibitors of factor IXa in order to treat or prevent thromboembolic disorders.
Vijaykumar et al., Biorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters (2006), 16 (10), 2796-2799, discloses hydroxy pyrazole based factor IXa inhibitors.
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‘Quakerism should have consequences’
Nearly 100 Friends from 14 monthly meetings found unity Saturday in their commitment “to being a safe place for the LGBTQ+ community.” The Quaker gathering of worship for the conduct of business formally recognized “that it has not always been a safe place in the past.”
The minute – drafted from the floor and approved after nearly 12 minutes of discussion and edits – was a surprise to some. Just over an hour earlier, before taking a break, acting clerk David Peyton reported to the meeting his sense that there was no clarity or unity: “This meeting is saying we’re not ready. We don’t know what we want to build. Maybe we don’t want to build anything.”
But after the break, A.J. Mendoza acknowledged for the first time in the meeting that there were gender and sexual minorities in the room.
“Every LGBTQ person in this room is perfect – is not sinful.” Mendoza countered the notion some had shared that there isn’t yet unity to stay or to leave Northwest Yearly Meeting, pointing to the fact that gender and sexual minorities don’t get that choice. “To hear people talk about not wanting to move to a new home while I’m sleeping in the street is not good medicine…. I’m asking you to adopt the position of somebody who can’t go back. Quakerism should have consequences.”
Elijah Walker reminded the group that the reason for this gathering is that affirming churches “were forced out of a larger body of churches. A handful of communities said they want to be a safe space. We want to hold that leading in mind.”
After several more shared, a woman highlighted the fact that the feeling in the room changed after the break. “I grew up in church, and I’ve never heard someone declare before a body of believers that ‘God loves you’ as an LGBT person.” The woman said she’s 22 years old, and “I pray that no youth has to go 22 years before hearing in front of a body of believers that God loves them.”
Bernie Bosnjak announced during a potluck supper that Hillsboro Friends would be available for another gathering on Saturday, March 18. That weekend had been set aside for a Portland-area gathering. Bosnjak said anyone interested in helping to plan or host the gathering should contact Forrest Cammack, the clerk of that quarterly meeting.
Clyde Parker extended an invitation to a yearly-meeting-organized gathering at Eugene Friends on Saturday, April 22.
Of the four churches being removed from Northwest Yearly Meeting – Camas, Eugene and West Hills all had representatives at the meeting. A representative from Klamath Falls shared via Facebook that she was unable to make the trip up for this gathering. Friends from the following meetings were also present, although many made clear that they were present as interested individuals, not necessarily as representatives of their meetings:
Bridge City – North Pacific Yearly Meeting
Freedom – independent, unaffiliated
Hillsboro
Newberg
North Seattle
North Valley
Reedwood
Silverton
South Salem
Spokane
Tigard
David Peyton clerked the meeting, and Krissi Carson served as recording clerk. Elders for the meeting were Bernie Bosnjak, Gil George, Lynn Holt, Jim Miller, Greg Morgan, Catherine Olson and Elijah Walker.
Click here for minutes from the meeting.
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Persistent ovarian masses and pregnancy outcomes.
To determine if persistent ovarian masses in pregnancy are associated with increased adverse outcomes. This is a retrospective cohort of 126 pregnant women with a persistent ovarian mass measuring 5 cm or greater who delivered at two university hospitals between 2001 and 2009. Maternal outcomes included gestational age (GA) at diagnosis, delivery and surgery as well as miscarriage, preterm birth (PTB), ovarian torsion and hospital admission for pain. Neonatal outcomes included birth weight, respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), intra-ventricular hemorrhage (IVH), death and sepsis. A total of 1225 ovarian masses were identified (4.9%) in 24,868 patients. A persistent ovarian mass was found in 0.7%. Average GA at diagnosis was 17.8 weeks. Miscarriage rate was 3.3%. Average GA at delivery was 37.9 weeks. Of the patients, 8.5% had ovarian torsion, 10.3% had admission for pain and 9.3% had PTBs. The mean cesarean delivery rate was 46.3%. The average neonatal weight was 3273 g. There was one neonatal death in this cohort. The rate of RDS was 2.8%, IVH 0.9% and neonatal sepsis 1.9%. The most common surgical pathologic diagnosis was dermoids (37.6%). No overt malignancies were seen. A persistent ovarian mass in pregnancy does not confer an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes.
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Economic Watch; Debate on Puerto Rico's Future Has a Bottom Line
This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.
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If President Bush and Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon have their way, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico will get the chance next year to vote on joining the Union or casting it off forever.
For many supporters of a binding referendum, the principle of free choice matters more than the choice that will be offered among the three alternatives: statehood, independence and retention of commonwealth status. And as enabling legislation inches its way through e Congress and the debate in Puerto Rico builds momentum, practical questions of jobs and government benefits, not national or cultural integrity, are looming largest.
''Only in Puerto Rico,'' said John Stewart, a consultant to the commonwealth's Economic Development Administration, ''do the taxi drivers refer to sections of the Federal tax code by their numbers.''
Effects Would Be Momentous
The economic consequences of a change in political status would be momentous for the island's 3.4 million inhabitants.
Statehood would make Puerto Ricans eligible for billions of dollars more a year in food stamps, medical insurance and income support payments, and this might explain why statehood narrowly leads the commonwealth option in early polls.
But even advocates of statehood or independence concede that under either option the loss of Federal tax benefits linked by law to commonwealth status would lead to an initial decline in employment and would force sharp cutbacks in the size and reach of local government. Computer simulations by the Congressional Budget Office suggest that growth would be slowed one to two percentage points a year into the foreseeable future.
The best hope in the long run, economists on all sides seem to agree, is that statehood or independence would shatter the sense of Puerto Rico as an economic appendage of the United States, stimulating the savings and enterprise that are needed to break the island free of its dependency.
Puerto Rico's commonwealth status carries with it a unique package of privilege and penalty. Its residents cannot vote in Presidential elections. Nor are they entitled to all the social benefits available to residents of the 50 states.
Current Benefits
But Puerto Ricans are American citizens, free to live where they choose. If they live in Puerto Rico, they pay no Federal income tax. And under a benefit that is crucial to the island's economy, subsidiaries of American businesses in Puerto Rico enjoy unrestricted access to American markets but pay no Federal taxes on profits.
That benefit (Section 936 of the United States Tax Code) and the commonwealth's own generous tax incentives for new businesses have induced hundreds of manufacturers to build plants in Puerto Rico. Most are makers of pharmaceuticals, chemicals and electronics equipment, industries that are well positioned to transfer to their island subsidiaries the profits they earn on the mainland from intangible assets like patents and trademarks. And as a result of this encouragement of highly automated industries, relatively few jobs have been created for each dollar of investment.
But so many tax-sheltered investment dollars have been attracted to the island that the overall effect on the size and shape of the Puerto Rican economy has been enormous. Output per person grew at a remarkable 5 percent a year in the 1950's and 60's. The rate of growth plunged to about 1 percent in the mid-1970's after the virtual collapse of the island's tax-sheltered oil refining industry, but it has picked up to 3.6 percent over the last five years.
The overall economic performance, supplemented by substantial infusions of Federal aid and borrowed capital for improvements, has been superb. The densely populated, resource-poor island now enjoys a living standard far above that of any Caribbean or Latin American nation.
The catch, says Bernard Wasow, an economist at New York University, is that the Puerto Rican economy has been cultivated as a fragile orchid, seemingly incapable of blossoming outside the Federal hothouse. Manufacturing, virtually all of it free from Federal corporate taxes, accounts for 40 percent of its output, while agricultural production accounts for only 1.5 percent, far below the level one might expect to find in the tropics.
Labor Costs Are High
And labor is in great oversupply on the island. But Mr. Stewart says the effects of Federal minimum wage laws, which have kept worker compensation high by island standards, and the unlimited right of workers to move to the mainland, where they are drawn by higher salaries and greater diversity in employment, have kept labor costs close to levels in the United States. Per capita output in Puerto Rico is two-thirds that of Singapore, Mr. Stewart notes, but worker compensation is twice as high. This discourages the growth of labor-intensive industries, like tourism and apparel, that might absorb excess workers.
Not surprisingly, elected officials in the commonwealth are under chronic pressure to provide the well-paying jobs that private employers cannot. One in four Puerto Rican workers is employed by the Government, and at a cost that Puerto Rico would be hard pressed to cover without Federal aid and tax revenue from the corporations on the island drawn there by the tax breaks.
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Either change in status contemplated in the referendum would upset this equilibrium. The Congressional Budget Office confirms that under statehood, Federal aid to individuals would increase to $5 billion by 1995 from $2 billion now, and would provide about one-third of the island's personal income.
The loss of preferred tax status for corporations could prove devastating to the productive economy. The Congressional Budget Office asserts that without the tax incentives, manufacturers would scale back investment in their plants by one-third to one-half. As a result, the rate of economic growth would slow, increasing unemployment by four to seven percentage points by the year 2000. KMPG Peat Marwick, a consulting firm working for partisans of the commonwealth option, predicts that 145,000 jobs, or one in six, would be lost.
Many supporters of the statehood option concede that there would be disruptions in manufacturing, but they believe that the losses would be made up quickly by businesses attracted by the opportunity of expanding into the 51st state.
But if they are wrong, Puerto Rico's economic problems would multiply.
Cutbacks in the Offing
Any reduction in Section 936 profits or wage income would cut into Puerto Rico's tax revenue and its ability to borrow capital for development. Under statehood, it could not easily make up the loss by raising the personal income tax. Indeed, there would be pressure to reduce tax rates because middle- and upper-income families would be required to pay Federal taxes for the first time.
Consequently, says Jose Villamil, a private economic consultant in San Juan, the government would be forced to cut back. That need not be a bad thing, even in the eyes of statehood proponents. Michael McKee, a Washington-based consultant to the party that supports statehood, sees benefits in a sell-off of money-losing enterprises owned by the commonwealth. But there is little doubt that jobs would be lost.
Forming an independent nation would also mean the phasing out of Federal aid. And without Federal money, Mr. Wasow, the New York University economist, said, ''Puerto Rico could become the inner city of the Caribbean.'' Moreover, the new nation could have serious problems in replacing the capital now being borrowed from Wall Street or in attracting companies like those lured there by tax incentives.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the cost of borrowed capital would rise by at least two percentage points, because interest on the bonds of an independent Puerto Rico would be fully taxable to American investors.
Puerto Rico would become eligible for help from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. But the line for assistance is already long, and with the breakup of the Soviet empire, it is likely to get much longer.
Independence's Edge
But an independent Puerto Rico would have a significant edge over a Puerto Rican state in attracting corporate investment. United States law gives American companies a $1 tax credit for every dollar they pay in foreign taxes. So if Puerto Rico were to set its tax equal to the Federal rate and then plow much of the revenue into subsidies that made the island a more attractive place to operate, it might win a corporate following.
But Mr. Stewart, the commonwealth's consultant on development, is skeptical. If that strategy is so promising, he asked, ''Why don't other third world countries try it?'' Most, he notes, can already offer foreign corporations the advantage of far lower labor costs.
The strongest economic cases for statehood and independence rest on the idea that the Puerto Rican economy must change radically to achieve its potential. Partisans of statehood make much of the intangible benefits of stability conferred by full partnership in the Union. A more mixed blessing might be the harsh lesson in modern capitalism, as Puerto Ricans discovered that local government could no longer afford to be the employer of last resort, and that tax breaks could no longer substitute for entrepreneurial spirit in creating good jobs.
What applies to statehood applies in spades to independence. ''Instead of being a rich Caribbean country,'' Mr. Wasow said, Puerto Ricans now think of the island ''as a poor part of the U.S.''
Were the island to go it alone, Puerto Ricans might be willing to make the sacrifices that have permitted nations like South Korea and Singapore to make the leap into self-sustained growth. Specifically, they might accept lower wages to increase employment and become competitive internationally. They might also curtail consumption to pay for the capital that now comes entirely from Wall Street and the Federal Government.
''Statehood or independence could have big payoffs 15 years down the road, but the risks are enormous'' Mr. Villamil said. ''Commonwealth is a safe bet.''
A version of this article appears in print on May 15, 1990, on Page A00018 of the National edition with the headline: Economic Watch; Debate on Puerto Rico's Future Has a Bottom Line. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe
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4/21/2005
Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel: "Blade: Trinity star Wesley Snipes has sued New Line Cinema, writer-director David Goyer and executive producer Toby Emmerich in a wide-ranging federal lawsuit seeking more than $5 million in damages, Variety reported. In the suit, filed April 18 in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Snipes alleges that, in violation of his contract, the director, screenplay and supporting cast of Blade: Trinity were forced on him. He also claims he's still owed a portion of his fee and that he was harassed and defamed because of his race, the trade paper reported. New Line declined to comment to Variety.
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Voters will face a maze of new requirements in November
Oskar Mosco, 35, traveled from Santa Barbara, California, to protest in front of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Protesters gathered in Public Square throughout the week. Mosco doesn’t support Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton for president. He felt that both candidates do not represent what the majority of Americans want in a president. (Emily L. Mahoney/News21)
By Emily L. Mahoney | News21. Published Aug. 20, 2016.
CINCINNATI — With the presidential election less than three months away, millions of Americans will be navigating new requirements for voting – if they can vote at all – as state leaders implement dozens of new restrictions that could make it more difficult to cast a ballot.
Since the last presidential election in 2012, politicians in 20 states passed 37 different new voting requirements that they said were needed to prevent voter fraud, a News21 analysis found. More than a third of those changes require voters to show specified government-issued photo IDs at the polls or reduce the number of acceptable IDs required by pre-existing laws.
“We have two world views: the people that think voter fraud is rampant and the people who want to push the narrative that it’s hard to vote. The bottom line is neither is true,” said Republican Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, who has been sued several times over his state’s removal of some voters from the registration rolls, elimination of same-day registration and curbs to early voting. “I believe that both political parties are trying to push a narrative that suits their agenda.”
Adding to the uncertainty for millions of voters, not all the changes may be in place for the November election because some were limited or overturned by court decisions still subject to appeal.
A Donald Trump campaign sign and Ohio state flag decorate the backyard of Kathy Miller, the Mahoning County chairwoman for Trump, in Boardman, Ohio. Miller is leading a grassroots movement encouraging Democratic voters to vote for Trump in November’s general election. (Emily Mills/News21)
The Hancock County courthouse is in the county seat of Sparta, Georgia. Across from the courthouse a Confederate flag is wedged into the bricks of the Civil War memorial dedicated to those who served in the Confederacy. Sparta’s population is nearly 80 percent black. (Roman Knertser/News21)
A Donald Trump campaign sign and Ohio state flag decorate the backyard of Kathy Miller, the Mahoning County chairwoman for Trump, in Boardman, Ohio. Miller is leading a grassroots movement encouraging Democratic voters to vote for Trump in November’s general election. (Emily Mills/News21)
The Hancock County courthouse is in the county seat of Sparta, Georgia. Across from the courthouse a Confederate flag is wedged into the bricks of the Civil War memorial dedicated to those who served in the Confederacy. Sparta’s population is nearly 80 percent black. (Roman Knertser/News21)
The new voting requirements, enacted in states mostly in the South and Midwest, were nine times more likely to have been passed by Republican legislatures than those controlled by Democrats, and almost five times more likely to have been signed by a GOP governor, the News21 analysis found.
In addition to requiring voter ID, they reduced the number of days voters can cast ballots in person before Election Day, placed new restrictions on voter registration drives, eliminated opportunities to register and vote on the same day, or moved up deadlines to register and still vote on Election Day. Republican-controlled Texas and Wisconsin passed the strictest voter ID laws, while North Carolina and Ohio are among those that eliminated same-day registration and reduced early voting days.
“These laws can be explained by partisanship and by race,” said Wendy Weiser, director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, a legal civil rights advocacy group. “It’s hard to reconcile these actual laws with the stated purpose. The more reasonable and likely explanation is political self-interest. Voting laws are a way to restrict voters you think are more likely to vote for the other side.”
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, an early 2016 Republican presidential candidate, told News21 that such criticisms are unfair. “It’s a discriminatory statement to say that in today’s society, people regardless of race or status aren’t able to get photo ID, particularly when the state provides it for free,” he said. Days earlier, a federal court ruled that, for the November election, Wisconsin must offer those without photo ID the option of signing an affidavit swearing to their identity, a decision that was later overturned by a federal appeals court.
Those were part of a flurry of court rulings in late July and early August that struck down, weakened or altered new voting requirements in Wisconsin, Texas, North Carolina and North Dakota because, the courts concluded, the laws would disenfranchise people of color. In some cases, judges ruled that the laws’ discriminatory effect was intentional.
By contrast, some Democrat-controlled states, mostly in the West and New England, have passed laws that gave voters the option to register every time they walk in to a motor vehicles office or at the polls on Election Day, made it easier to vote early or have converted their elections to entirely vote-by-mail.
The Two Lights Lighthouse sits above the rocky cliffs in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The building is still an active lighthouse, though only the eastern light is used today. Maine and Vermont are the only states where felons never lose their right to vote, even while incarcerated. (Roman Knertser/News21)
Republican state leaders and conservative advocates of voter ID and other new requirements have insisted that they are necessary to prevent voter fraud and protect the integrity of elections. But a 2012 News21 50-state analysis of cases since 2000 found that the rate of voter fraud is infinitesimal compared with the total number of voters nationwide and that in-person voter impersonation on Election Day — the type of fraud voter that photo ID is designed to prevent — is virtually nonexistent. A 2016 update, in which News21 revisited five sample states that enacted new voting requirements to reduce fraud, again found few convictions for voter fraud and none for voter impersonation.
The ongoing political and legal wars over voting rights date to the mid-2000s, when the first new state voting requirements were enacted. Their number greatly increased after the 2010 off-year election, in which Republicans more than doubled the number of states they controlled – from nine to 20 – with majorities in state legislatures and the governor's party, according to a News21 analysis of data from the National Conference of State Legislatures. Democrats, by comparison, lost control of five states, going from 16 to 11. Party control remained divided in the other states.
A 2014 study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that laws requiring specific kinds of voter ID in Kansas and Tennessee depressed voter turnout in those states in 2012, with African-Americans and young voters disproportionately affected. Ten state-specific and nationwide studies within the GAO report found that African-Americans and Latinos were always less likely to have the required voter ID than whites, and Native Americans and Asian-Americans were frequently at a similar disadvantage.
David Castorena, 24, of Chandler, Arizona, stands in the street of a small, largely Latino community in Arizona where he attends church. Castorena said he does not plan to vote in the November election because he thinks Donald Trump will win either way. (Roman Knertser/News21)
Brittany Middlebrooks, 26, is part of the grassroots Amos Project in Cincinnati. The group works to combat recent name removals from voter registration lists. Middlebrooks was diagnosed with lupus, which makes it hard for her to walk, but her passion and dedication for her work pushes her to get out and help her fellow voters in Washington Park. (Roman Knertser/News21)
Wahoua Vue, president of the Hmong 18 Council Inc., stands outside of the Hmong festival in St. Paul, Minnesota. The council began as a nonprofit group focused on community culture, but it also is educating Hmong people about voting. (Phillip Jackson/News21)
Mikah Carlos studies at Arizona State University and lives in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. She said a poll worker refused to let her use her tribal ID to vote in a recent election in Arizona. (Roman Knertser/News21)
David Castorena, 24, of Chandler, Arizona, stands in the street of a small, largely Latino community in Arizona where he attends church. Castorena said he does not plan to vote in the November election because he thinks Donald Trump will win either way. (Roman Knertser/News21)
Brittany Middlebrooks, 26, is part of the grassroots Amos Project in Cincinnati. The group works to combat recent name removals from voter registration lists. Middlebrooks was diagnosed with lupus, which makes it hard for her to walk, but her passion and dedication for her work pushes her to get out and help her fellow voters in Washington Park. (Roman Knertser/News21)
Wahoua Vue, president of the Hmong 18 Council Inc., stands outside of the Hmong festival in St. Paul, Minnesota. The council began as a nonprofit group focused on community culture, but it also is educating Hmong people about voting. (Phillip Jackson/News21)
Mikah Carlos studies at Arizona State University and lives in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. She said a poll worker refused to let her use her tribal ID to vote in a recent election in Arizona. (Roman Knertser/News21)
The National Commission on Voting Rights, a civil rights advocacy group, similarly contended in a 2014 report that minority populations were more likely to be disenfranchised by voter ID requirements and reductions in early voting and same-day registration, new restrictions for voter registration drives and limits on the restoration of voting rights for felons who have served their sentences.
Richard Hasen, an expert in voting law trends and a professor of political science and law at the University of California, Irvine, told News21 he believes the nation is now at a turning point because of the recent court decisions overturning new voting requirements in some states.
“In the past, courts seemed to be divided on partisan and ideological lines on how to approach these cases, but in 2012 and now in 2016 we see the courts becoming skeptical of what appears to me to be Republican overreaches in making it harder to register and to vote,” he said. The court decisions could deter more states from instituting similar laws, Hasen added, because “it signals they are not going to have an easy path.”
However, a June 2016 report by a collection of civil rights advocacy groups, including the ACLU and the NAACP, cited problems with minority and low-income voter access in the presidential primaries of several states that had implemented new voting requirements. These “warning signs,” the groups said, indicated that the new laws could still affect the outcome of November’s presidential election.
In Ohio, for example, recent changes to voter ID requirements, same-day registration and early voting could affect a tight election, according to Melissa Miller, a political science professor at Bowling Green State University. “The question becomes what kinds of changes to voter laws make it easier versus harder for those who don’t tend to vote,” Miller said. “I think the effects tend to be marginal, but occasionally you’ll get an election like 2000 where a particular swing state — in that year it happened to be Florida, it could be Ohio in 2016 — where the result may be very, very close.”
As Shelby County’s attorney in Alabama, Frank “Butch” Ellis successfully sued the U.S. Department of Justice over provisions of the Voting Rights Act that prevented certain states, primarily in the South, from passing voter laws without approval from the DOJ. (Produced by Pinar Istek/News21)
Some states put new voting requirements in place only after the 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Shelby County v. Holder case negated the provision in the 1965 Voting Rights Act that required them to clear such changes in advance with the U.S. Justice Department. For example, Texas enacted one of the strictest photo ID laws in the country in 2011, only to have its implementation blocked by the federal government. But on the same day in 2013 on which the Shelby County decision was handed down, state officials announced that the ID law would finally be enforced. While it has since been ruled to be discriminatory four times by federal courts, it was kept in place while the state appealed those decisions.
“We think it’s perfectly reasonable when you need to show a photo to pick up your kids from school, sometimes to pick up your pet from the kennel, that it’s OK to show a photo to prove that you are the person who is voting,” Republican Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a co-author of the voter ID law, told News21.
The plaintiffs in the Texas court case argued that the law amounts to a modern poll tax because many voters without photo ID are low-income people who, without driver’s licenses, faced trips of 90 minutes or more via public transportation to government offices to pay for and obtain the required forms of ID.
It wasn’t until July 2016 that another appellate ruling kicked the case back to a lower court to determine ways to make it easier for Texans without ID to vote, after the court found that more than 600,000 lacked the required ID. Then, for the November election, the plaintiffs and the state reached an agreement to allow people without ID to have their votes count if they sign a sworn statement.
On Aug. 1, a federal judge blocked a strict photo ID law in North Dakota from being enforced for the November election. The judge concluded that the state’s 2013 law, which only allowed four types of acceptable government-issued ID, would cause undue burdens for Native Americans, especially when “voter fraud in North Dakota has been virtually non-existent.”
After the Shelby County decision, North Carolina’s Republican-majority Legislature passed legislation that eliminated same-day registration, required a photo ID to vote and reduced the number of early voting days, eliminating one of the two Sundays for it. Early voting has been popular among African-Americans in the South, including the “souls to the polls” tradition of going to the polls together after church services on the Sundays leading up to Election Day.
The North Carolina law was struck down in July, when the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that its provisions “target African-Americans with almost surgical precision,” noting that they are “disproportionately Democratic.” Eliminating one of the Sundays for early voting “comes as close to a smoking gun as we are likely to see in modern times,” the appellate court said.
In the months following Shelby County v. Holder, North Carolina lawmakers passed an extensive voting rights bill known as the “monster law.” Residents of Durham share their stories about how these laws affected their voting rights and the community as a whole. (Produced by Taylor Gilmore/News21)
North Carolina state Sen. Ron Rabin, who helped pass the law, told News21 that it still allowed 10 days of early voting and that same-day registration caused voter confusion. “Let people be responsible for themselves once in a while and what their duties are as a citizen,” Rabin said, “as opposed to keep trying to spoon-feed them everything, or give them everything.”
The Shelby County decision also undermined the Justice Department program that had monitored elections in states and localities previously covered under the Voting Rights Act. Now, Justice can only send observers to where they are ordered by a federal court. Otherwise they must get local permission to enter polling places. There are just seven counties or cities in five states that will fall under court-ordered observation for the November election, according to a Justice spokesman, compared with the 11 states where observers formerly had authority under the Voting Rights Act because of a history of discrimination.
In downtown Sparta, Georgia, a man drives through the center of town in his truck. Sparta is embroiled in a lawsuit over the recent removal of names from voter registration rolls. Last year, the county board of elections sent teams door to door asking residents if their neighbors still lived next door. (Roman Knertser/News21)
Steven H. Wright, a federal observer coordinator for the Department of Justice from 2007 until 2012, said this will leave a “gaping hole” in the government’s ability to investigate and sue over unjust election practices. “If you call a polling place and you ask, ‘Are you complying with federal law?’ they're going to say, ‘Yes,’ because no one is going to admit they're violating federal law. The only way (to make sure) is to have people in the polls,” he said. “If you're concerned about voter fraud the only way you can verify that happens is through federal observers. And likewise, if you’re concerned about people being turned away, the observers are going to see that.”
Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Texas, announced in May that he, along with other Democrats, were forming the Congressional Voting Rights Caucus to kick-start support for a Democrat-proposed bill to revitalize the Voting Rights Act. So far, no Republicans have joined the caucus.
“You look at some of the things that happened after the 1960s and after the Civil Rights Movement and after the Voting Rights Act, we’ve made lots of gains, lots of strides, but there’s definitely been, sadly, some things Republicans have done to scale back that momentum,” Veasey told News21. “There’s a lot of work we still have to do.”
Methodology:
Although more than 1,400 election-related laws have been passed across the country since 2012, along with countless nonlegislative procedure changes such as executive orders, News21 arrived at 37 new requirements based on predetermined categories found to most affect voting access and which are often repeated in multiple states. Not all 37 of these changes are still in effect, as courts have sometimes ruled a state could not continue to enforce certain rules based on their effect on voting access, or at least forced a state to weaken the original provision.
Louis A. “Chip” Weil Fellow
Emily Mahoney is a master’s degree student at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where she also received her bachelor’s degree. She has investigated asset forfeiture use by Arizona law enforcement and reported from Mexico, Hungary and Slovakia as part of the borderlands program. Her stories have been published in USA Today and The Arizona Republic.
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It has been pointed out already in what respect we are free to call an improvement in the quality and an increase in the quantity of products economic progress. If we apply this yardstick to the various phases of the cyclical fluctuations of business, we must call the boom retrogression and the depression progress. The boom squanders through malinvestment scarce factors of production and reduces the stock available through overconsumption; its alleged blessings are paid for by impoverishment. The depression, on the other hand, is the way back to a state of affairs in which all factors of production are employed for the best possible satisfaction of the most urgent needs of the consumers.
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Oral administration of inducible nitric oxide synthase inhibitors reduces nitric oxide synthesis but has no effect on the severity of experimental colitis.
Increased concentrations of nitrate and nitrite (the breakdown products of nitric oxide) in the serum and faeces of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) suggests that increased synthesis of nitric oxide occurs in IBD. The aim of this study was to assess aminoguanidine (AMG), a selective inhibitor of inducible nitric oxide synthase, with regard to its effectiveness as a nitric oxide inhibitor and as a modulator of inflammation in trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid (TNBS)-induced colitis. Colitis was induced in Wistar rats. Selective (AMG) and non-selective (1-nitroso-arginine methyl ester (1-NAME)) inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase were given in the drinking water. Colonic citrulline and arginine concentrations were assessed using high-performance liquid chromatography. The severity of colitis was assessed by a macroscopic scoring system. Both 1-NAME and AMG successfully reduced nitric oxide synthesis. There was no evidence of substrate depletion in the colonic wall. Neither of the agents reduced the severity of colonic inflammation. Oral administration of nitric oxide synthase inhibitors reduced nitric oxide synthesis in the colonic wall. This study does not provide evidence to support a role for nitric oxide in the pathogenesis of colonic inflammation in TNBS colitis.
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The Swedish domestic security agency has noted a rising "xenophobic and radical nationalist current" in Sweden, also alerting to budding approaches between the white power movement and unorganized xenophobic groups.
The agency, known as SAPO, says these groups, which are active online, "can become a driving force for individuals to commit xenophobic offenses."
SAPO didn't name any groups, but listed the trend among "seven threats against Sweden in the coming year" in its annual report presented Thursday.
Other threats included Russia — whose "antagonistic intention has the greatest consequence for Sweden's security"— propaganda, the overall terror threat from radical Islamists, technology development and the "changing abilities" of the United States, resulting in "less predictability in international relationships."
SAPO said Russia, China and Iran are increasingly conducting intelligence activities in Sweden.
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Deutsche Bank's Succession Plans Are In Shambles -- Look At Who They're Considering
Josef Ackerman intends to step down as Deutsche Bank's CEO no later than 2013, and a major wrench just got thrown into successful plans.
The odds-on favorite of many was Bundesbank President Axel Weber, but then he shocked everyone and took over the reins at UBS this April.
Many now believe that the clear-cut choice would be the head of the corporate and investment banks, Anshu Jain, but there is also widespread belief that the fact Jain is not German (he is from India) will cause Deutsche Bank officials to chose a native successor or make Jain co-CEO with another.
We've compiled a list of the front-runners, provided background, listed the pros and cons, and provided some odds.
Pros: Loyal employee that has proven himself consistently as he has risen through the internal ranks. As youngest member of Management Board, his appointment would signal a commitment to the bank's ongoing evolution.
Cons: He's the youngest member of the board and might lack the seasoning. Could be turned to in the future.
Pros: Fitschen is an institution within Deutsche Bank and has the kind of far-reaching relationships both within and without the bank that will be necessary for a new chairman. He is also heading the search committee for the new chairman.
Cons: At 62, he is close to retirement and considered too old by many inside the bank. He is also rumored to be not terribly popular amongst younger executives at Deutsche Bank.
Fun fact: Fitschen met his wife while on assignment for Deutsche Bank in Asia during the 1980's.
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Author explores belief and remaking habit loops
THE POWER OF HABIT: WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO IN LIFE AND BUSINESSBy Charles DuhiggPublished by Random House, $28
Have you ever left home on your day off and, after a moment of distraction, found yourself driving to work? This is the “habit loop” in action.
Have you ever struggled against any bad habit that left you feeling powerless? In The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg, a New York Times investigative reporter, seeks to understand exactly how habits work and how we can control them.
He divides the book into three sections: the individual, organizations and societies. Although many of the stories are inspirational, Duhigg isn’t just interested in the positive effects of habits. He also weaves together the fascinating, sometimes heartbreaking stories of people who fought but didn’t succeed in changing destructive habits.
What exactly is a habit and how much control do habits have over our lives? Duhigg seeks an answer to these questions where one might expect, the cutting edge of brain science. In particular, he traces scientists’ efforts to understand how some people seem to retain memory in spite of having the memory-critical areas of their brains destroyed by accident or disease.
What emerges is that persistent “habit loop,” the process by which the brain learns to repeat an action in an automatic way. Over time, what begins as a choice requiring thought and mental effort becomes an unconscious pattern, in other words, a habit. I can remember the intense concentration learning to drive required and now it is effortless.
Duhigg uses this insight to develop the thesis that if we understand how habits work we can change them. He describes how companies have already used this knowledge to subtly influence consumers’ buying habits and sometimes create new ones. Claude Hopkins created one such habit when he got millions of Americans to brush their teeth every morning and made million of dollars by getting them to do so with Pepsodent.
When Duhigg describes how existing habits can be remade, he illustrates his point by tracing the story of Tony Dungy’s success. It is perhaps a bit surprising that the first African-American coach to win a Super Bowl and the only coach to make it to the playoffs 10 years in a row attributes his achievement to remaking habits and “belief.” Here the book veers away from science and toward an even more surprising conclusion.
But to get there, Duhigg first tells the story of Bill Wilson and Alcoholics Anonymous. As the author points out, AA’s methods have almost no grounding in science and yet millions credit the program with saving their lives. How can this be explained? Here, Duhigg picks up a common thread between the inner workings of AA and Dungy’s football teams that leads directly to the most provocative idea in the book: Faith is the key to changing habits. Duhigg argues that in both cases faith is essential to the process.
This is immediately evident in AA’s 12-step program. Seven of the steps mention God or spirituality directly and step three illustrates the depth of commitment required, “[We] made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.”
When researchers began looking for a correlation between religious belief and how long people stayed sober, they uncovered an astonishing pattern. Simply identifying triggers and replacing habits worked most of the time until a stressful event occurred and individuals began drinking again. Those who believed a higher power had entered their lives, however, were more likely to stay sober.
Duhigg concludes, based on this and other evidence, that faith is the key to making new habits permanent. He also argues persuasively that the positive effects of faith spill over into other aspects of people’s lives as they come to believe not just in a higher power but in themselves.
The book takes up other fascinating stories, of Olympian Michael Phelps, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. In each, belief plays a critical role. Duhigg explores the inner workings of large organizations, such as Procter & Gamble, Target and Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church. In these examples, too, success is more about understanding and transforming habits than personal belief.
The author closes with his own experiments in habit change designed to help him lose weight. He invites the reader to take a second look at the routines of daily life, confident in the power to change them.
I did just that when I finished the book. I’ve learned from my own experiments that this is more than a self-help book and that Duhigg is clearly on to something. This book will be very successful and I highly recommend it.
[Julien Carriere is assistant professor of French and Italian at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky.]
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REMARKABLE PROGRESS MADE BY NEPAL TOWARDS PEACE, DEMOCRACY, BUT SUSTAINED SUPPORT OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NEEDED, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD
REMARKABLE PROGRESS MADE BY NEPAL TOWARDS PEACE, DEMOCRACY, BUT SUSTAINED SUPPORT OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NEEDED, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD
7 November 2008
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REMARKABLE PROGRESS MADE BY NEPAL TOWARDS PEACE, DEMOCRACY, BUT SUSTAINED
SUPPORT OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NEEDED, SECURITY COUNCIL TOLD
Special Representative Says Mission Might Need Extension Beyond
23 January 2009 to Continue Monitoring Cantonment Areas for former Combatants
Despite the remarkable progress made by the people of Nepal towards peace and democracy, the extended assistance of the United Nations Mission there (UNMIN) and sustained support of the international community was needed, Ian Martin, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the Mission told the Security Council this afternoon.
Addressing the 15-member body along with the representative of Nepal, Mr. Martin noted that the Secretary-General, in his visit to the Himalayan country last week, had said that the recently elected Constituent Assembly was the most inclusive legislative body in the country’s history. However, he had added that the political transformation in the Himalayan country must go hand in hand with social and economic transformation; steady progress in the peace process would ensure international support.
Introducing the Secretary-General’s report, he said it described the process by which the Assembly had elected a President, Vice-President and Prime Minister, as well as the long negotiations which led to formation of a coalition Government, led by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) as the largest party and comprising two others of the four largest parties, with the Nepali Congress remaining in opposition.
He said that, according to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda”, the priorities of the Government were completing the peace process, ensuring the drafting of the new constitution and achieving rapid economic progress. There were major challenges in each area, but UNMIN’s mandate related directly to the peace process.
In describing the tasks that remained before the Mission had completed its work, he noted the difficulties in forming a special committee responsible for the supervision, integration and rehabilitation of the former Maoist combatants, which would simplify UNMIN’s monitoring responsibilities. Once the committee began to function, he added, it would face many difficulties because of widely differing views regarding the extent to which Maoist army combatants should or should not be integrated into the State Army. He said that the discharge from the Maoist army cantonments of some 4,000 personnel under the age of 18 in May was not dependent on the special committee, but had been long overdue.
He said he shared the desire of the Security Council to bring UNMIN’s mandate to completion as soon as possible. The Secretary-General wanted to drawdown further and close the Mission in a manner that did not jeopardize the peace process and ensured continuing international support for consolidating peace. However, in discussions with the Secretary-General last week, the Prime Minister had said that the Mission’s presence at the cantonments would remain necessary pending integration and rehabilitation. Even under the most optimistic assumptions, that process could now not be expected to end by January, within the Mission’s current mandate. The Secretary-General had asked that if a further extension was to be requested by the Government, it should be made as soon as possible.
He envisaged that any recommendation to the Council in response to such a request would be for a substantially smaller presence. Experience in various countries, however, had demonstrated the dangers of failing to address successfully the issue of former combatants and the risks that that could pose to stability.
That key aspect of the peace process and the need for cooperation among Nepal’s political parties must be seen in the wider context of their implementation of commitments, he said. The 25 June agreement reiterated many of those commitments, but commissions provided for in the agreements were yet to be formed and compensation of victims of the conflict, as well as investigation into the fate of those who disappeared, the return of displaced persons and property seized and legitimization of youth groups still needed to be pursued. The Madhesi parties also demanded inclusion in all processes, as promised. While fully respecting that the peace process was Nepali-driven, the United Nations had offered its support to the fulfilment of such commitments, as well as to the drafting of the new constitution and protection of human rights. The Secretary-General, he said, had called on all parties in Nepal to cooperate towards the achievement of those goals.
“Our aim is the earliest possible completion of the Mission’s mandate,” he said. “But also the sustained and intensified support of the United Nations system and international community to the peace, development and change which the people of Nepal have demanded.”
Nepal’s representative, Madhu Raman Acharya, said that the success of his country’s peace process lay, indeed, in full national ownership, as well as inclusiveness. The political leadership had taken into account the broader aspiration of the Nepalese people for peace and democracy. The Constituent Assembly was finalizing its procedural rules and it was expected to start drafting the constitution soon. The Government was committed to resolving all remaining issues in the spirit of dialogue and accommodation and in accordance with the comprehensive peace agreement. It had already constituted the special committee to finalize the issue of integration and rehabilitation of the former rebel combatants in cantonments monitored by the United Nations. The Special Committee was expected to reach its decision on the issue soon.
UNMIN’s presence would not be required after the process of managing the cantonment of armed forces and weapons was completed, he said. If that process went beyond the end of the current mandate on 23 January 2009, the Government, in consultation with the special committee and the political parties, might request an extension of UNMIN’s mandate as soon as such a decision was reached. In that case, UNMIN’s presence, which had been already significantly downsized, might be required for another six months maximum, with further adjustment, with a view to allowing it to terminate itself by that time.
Taking note of the Secretary-General’s remarks about the consolidation of cantonments in the report, he said that such rearrangement might unnecessarily complicate the process and exacerbate the already poor infrastructure and facilities in the cantonments. It could also unwittingly prolong the rehabilitation and integration process, which were key to logically conclude the peace process. The Government was committed to taking measures to expedite implementation of the special committee’s decisions, so that UNMIN could complete its task in line with the Security Council’s mandate.
After those two statements, Saul Weisleder of Costa Rica, which holds the Council presidency for November, took the floor in his national capacity to welcome progress in Nepal, but also to call for bringing to justice those who had committed crimes during the armed conflict. He supported the Nepalese Government’s intention to set up a truth and reconciliation commission, and to investigate the whereabouts of missing persons and bolster the rule of law. He urged the Constituent Assembly to do its very best to achieve agreement and move forward in drafting a new constitution. He also expressed concern over slow progress in disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants, expressing the hope that funds provided by the Peacebuilding Fund would make it possible to speed up the process. Costa Rica, he said, would be ready to consider a limited extension of UNMIN’s mandate, if requested by the Secretary-General or the Government of Nepal. He warned against withdrawing the Mission in haste or maintaining a larger mission than was required.
The meeting began at 3:05 p.m. and ended at 3:40 p.m.
Background
The Council had before it the report of the Secretary-General on the request of Nepal for United Nations assistance in support of its peace process (document S/2008/670), which commends the parties in the Asian country for their commitment to consolidating democracy, but also states that “understandable” delays in forming the Government have not led to the “hoped for progress” to allow the United Nations special political mission in the country, known as UNMIN, to wind down by its mandate’s end next January, as previously called for by the Council.
Nepal, which in 2006 emerged from a decade-long civil war between Government and Maoist forces claiming 13,000 lives, abolished its 240-year-old monarchy in May and is now the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. Established in January 2007, UNMIN’s mandate includes the monitoring of the management of arms and armed personnel of both the Maoist and Government forces. The report notes that an agreement reached in late June by the Seven-Party Alliance calls for integration and rehabilitation of the Maoist army to wrap up within six months. The Secretary-General says that the establishment of a special committee to oversee that process was crucial.
Until that special committee begins its work, it is impossible to predict how soon it will be able to take key decisions and how long will be needed for their implementation, he says, adding that there will be “substantial disagreements to be overcome”. He calls on Nepal’s Government to move as rapidly as possible to create conditions conducive to the completion of UNMIN activities, expressing regret that the status-of-mission agreement still has yet to be signed by officials.
In the meantime, he says, his Special Representative has urged the parties to consider interim measures that could simplify UNMIN’s monitoring responsibilities, including the consolidation of cantonment sites. When related decisions are taken by the Government, it will be possible to assess whether and when further reductions in the number of arms monitors can be planned. The Mission’s overall staffing is already below its authorized level, and management will continue to seek opportunities for further reductions, such as filling only essential vacancies that arise and completing the transfer of activities to the United Nations country team.
The report urges the international community to continue its support for the country to ensure that it successfully completes its peace process. “While the main emphasis now should be on peacebuilding through economic and social development and on the drafting of the new constitution, experience in various countries has demonstrated the dangers of failing to address successfully the issue of former combatants and the risks that this can pose to durable stability,” the Secretary-General says.
He reiterates the importance of sustaining the cooperation among political parties “on which the peace process was founded and which has brought it so far”. Although the Nepali Congress, lead by former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, has chosen not to join the Maoist-led coalition Government, he welcomed its pledge to help draft the new constitution and conclude the peace process.
He also praises the commitments made by current Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal -- who goes by the name Prachanda -- on his commitments to multi-party democracy and to protecting human rights.
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Q:
SQL query select unique images from multiple tag_id
I have a sql table similar to the one below. And I want to bring back unique results where tag_id matches multiple items.
So if I want to find each image_id that has the tag_id = 106 and 73 I would like it to bring back image_id 12345714 and 12345712.
I've tried doing
SELECT *
FROM tag_relationship
WHERE tag_id
IN ( 106, 73 )
But this brings back
id image_id tag_id
61 12345706 73
70 12345712 73
72 12345712 106
76 12345714 73
77 12345714 106
I've also experimented with GROUP BY, but that doesn't seem to be quite right.
Sample of full table:
image_id can have the same number in different rows, but will have a different tag_id.
id image_id tag_id
1 12345679 63
2 12345679 83
3 12345680 74
4 12345680 108
5 12345680 75
6 12345683 103
7 12345682 87
8 12345682 105
9 12345682 74
10 12345682 81
11 12345683 79
12 12345683 109
13 12345689 111
14 12345689 69
15 12345690 104
16 12345687 110
17 12345687 69
18 12345687 91
19 12345687 93
20 12345687 63
21 12345692 69
22 12345692 104
23 12345692 80
24 12345692 76
25 12345693 74
26 12345693 99
27 12345693 96
28 12345693 94
29 12345691 63
30 12345691 69
31 12345697 92
32 12345697 76
33 12345698 74
34 12345699 97
35 12345698 94
36 12345699 98
37 12345698 81
38 12345699 105
39 12345697 91
40 12345694 100
41 12345694 101
42 12345694 94
43 12345694 74
44 12345696 78
45 12345696 95
46 12345696 112
47 12345701 113
48 12345701 114
49 12345700 94
50 12345700 91
51 12345700 90
52 12345702 87
53 12345702 115
54 12345702 80
55 12345702 74
56 12345704 78
57 12345705 83
58 12345705 84
59 12345704 63
60 12345705 104
61 12345706 73
62 12345706 64
63 12345706 86
64 12345706 88
65 12345706 89
66 12345713 80
67 12345713 115
68 12345713 81
69 12345717 63
70 12345712 73
71 12345717 64
72 12345712 106
73 12345717 79
74 12345712 74
75 12345709 76
76 12345714 73
77 12345714 106
78 12345715 68
79 12345716 116
80 12345715 69
81 12345716 71
A:
SELECT image_id
FROM tag_relationship
WHERE tag_id IN ( 106, 73 )
GROUP BY image_id
HAVING COUNT(*) = 2
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2023-12-05T01:27:05.828072
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Foreign travellers commandeer a public roadside toilet, turn it into a storage locker
By Staff
A public lavatory or a storage locker? The smell and the toilet should have alerted the travellers to the intended use of the green shed. Photo/Halla Eyþórsdóttir Facebook.
The Icelandic Road and Coastal Authority has recently added public lavatories along the Ring Road and at popular destinations around Iceland. The facilities, erected at 30 different locations, are intended to deal with the growing numbers of travellers and the lack of public lavatories at most destinations.
Questionable use of a public toilet
However, when an employee of the IRCA showed up to clean the toilets at the parking lot by Fossárbrú bridge, an abandoned bridge over a river in Berufjörður fjord, one of the toilets had been locked with a small padlock. Halla Eyþórsdóttir, who discovered the padlocked toilet was at first unsure what to do, but decided to break the lock, as it had clearly not put up by the IRCA or other legal authorities.
“Last night when I came to clean the lavatories I was baffled to discover one of the toilets had been padlocked shut by someone. I was unsure what to do, but I decided I had to cut the lock to enter the toilet. When I opened the door I discovered the toilet had been stacked full of luggage.”
Halla posted photos of the scene to Facebook. The backpacks and suitcases which had been stacked inside the toilet probably belonged to a couple of travellers who were lying sound asleep in a rental car parked nearby. “This is not ok,” Halla adds in her Facebook post.
One person who commented on the post wondered why Halla didn’t flush the luggage down, while others suggested she should have confiscated the baggage or charged the travellers for storage.
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2024-05-14T01:27:05.828072
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Some items may take longer to be made available for pickup if a product is currently not in stock. A staff member will contact you where this occurs.
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EL PASO, Texas — A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced an Ecuadorian couple to federal prison for their roles in an illegal alien smuggling conspiracy uncovered during an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone sentenced Paul Esteban Estrella Villota, 40, of Cuenca, Ecuador, and his wife Magaly Alemania Malagon Sandoya, 42, to six years and five years in federal prison, respectively. Judge Cardone also ordered both defendants each to pay a $5,000 special assessment and be placed on supervised release for three years after they the complete their prison terms.
Earlier this year, both defendants pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit alien smuggling for financial gain resulting in bodily injury, which included a smuggled girl being repeatedly raped by her smugglers. Estrella and Malagon have remained in federal custody since HSI special agents arrested them Aug. 12, 2015, in Orlando, Florida.
The investigation into this smuggling organization began Nov. 4, 2013, after HSI El Paso special agents encountered two male juveniles in a suspected stash house. According to court documents, HSI special agents learned that Estrella and Malagon were the ring leaders of an alien smuggling organization that smuggled juveniles into the United States.
The investigation revealed that Nov. 22, 2012, a co-defendant, Diana Marcial, 25, smuggled a 2-year-old El Salvadoran child through El Paso’s Bridge of the Americas Port of Entry as an identity imposter. Marcial used her own child's birth certificate to facilitate the smuggling. When the toddler’s mother, Wendy Heredia-Mejia, was arrested attempting to enter the United States as an identity imposter, Heredia-Mejia identified Marcial as the individual who had crossed with her son.
HSI special agents contacted Marcial, who returned the child to law enforcement agents. As a result, Marcial was convicted of making a false statement to authorities about the legal status of the child she brought into the United States claiming to be her own. She was sentenced to a year of probation and six months’ home confinement.
On Nov. 6, 2013, a 35-year-old mother of one of the juveniles discovered by HSI El Paso special agents two days earlier, was arrested at the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry after she tried to enter the United States as a document imposter. The entry document she presented at the border was valid, but was in the name of another person. Arnulfo Delgado Salas, 46, a co-defendant, was the driver of the vehicle in which she was a passenger. Salas, who was later arrested, was set to plead guilty in May 2016 to making a false statement, but absconded prior to his sentencing hearing. He is considered a fugitive.
Court records show that the man who arranged for the 35-year-old mother and her child to be smuggled into the United States was a man she met in Ecuador. The man, whom she knew as “Paul,” charged her $15,000 each to smuggle her and her child. She paid him $6,000 up front. The woman positively identified Estrella as the man to whom she paid the smuggling fee. On March 28, 2014, she was sentenced to time served (just over five months’ incarceration) after pleading guilty to false impersonation in an immigration matter.
On March 16, 2014, U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested another national of Ecuador near Clint, Texas, after she illegally entered the United States. Court records allege she told HSI special agents that a woman by the name of “Magi” arranged her smuggling travels from Ecuador to the United States, even though an Ecuadorian smuggler named “Paul” originally was to bring her to the United States.
On Nov. 16, 2014, U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Border Patrol agents encountered another national of Ecuador near Mount Cristo Rey in Sunland Park, New Mexico. During an interview with HSI special agents, that individual identified Estrella and Malagon as the smugglers with whom he entered into a smuggling agreement to bring his daughter into the United States. Court records show he agreed to pay them $14,000.
Furthermore, the girl’s father told HSI special agents on Feb. 25, 2015, that he made arrangements to pay $14,500 to a smuggler he knew only as “Magi” to smuggle his daughter from Ecuador through Mexico into the United States.
While in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the girl was kept in a stash house by Estrella and Malagon’s co-conspirators. At that stash house, these co-conspirators repeatedly raped her before dropping her off in Mexico immediately south of Clint, Texas.
Waldemar Rodriguez, special agent in charge of HSI El Paso, credited the team effort of other Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agencies locally and abroad that participated in the investigation.
“HSI will not relent against human smugglers who treat people like a mere commodity,” said Rodriguez. “This case should resonate loud and clear: HSI special agents and our law enforcement partners will work tirelessly to identify, arrest and prosecute those responsible for illegally transporting people into and through our country.”
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Q:
Should I index an integer column which is already ordered?
I have a table like the picture below, I want to index two columns of this table (user_id, question). The type of all columns is int. The user_id and the question_id columns are foreign keys.
CREATE TABLE user (
user_id int(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
username varchar(50) DEFAULT NULL,
password varchar(60) DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`user_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
CREATE TABLE question (
question_id int(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
question varchar(60) NOT NULL,
answer varchar(60) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`question_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8
CREATE TABLE answer (
user_id int(10) NOT NULL,
question_id int(10) NOT NULL,
score int(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
timer int(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
FOREIGN KEY (user_id) REFERENCES user(user_id),
FOREIGN KEY (question_id) REFERENCES question(question_id)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
A lot of "updating" and "reading" query goes to this table. As you can see these two columns are already ordered because every time a user signup I will add the user's id in the user_id column and the numbers from 1 to 300 to the question column. the query is something like this:
UPDATE score SET user_score_for_question = 20 WHERE user_id=400 AND question=100
Question1: since "user_id" and "question" columns are already ordered, Is it necessary to index them or not?
Question2: If I should index those columns, since I always use "user_id" and "question" together, how is the correct way to index these columns? I not familiar with "hash index" and "unique index" which one should I use?
A:
Inserting in an order does not mean that is a natural order in the table.
Put a composite primary key on:
user_id, question_id
A second index on question_id is optional.
It would only be used if you are searching on question_id only.
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2023-09-19T01:27:05.828072
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White Revolution was a participant or observer in the following events:
Stormfront logo. [Source: Don Black]According to an article by the Washington Post, owners and operators of racist, white supremacist Web sites such as Stormfront (see March 1995) report a large increase in traffic, apparently sparked by Senator Barack Obama (D-IL)‘s recent naming as the Democratic nominee for president. Billy Roper, a former member of the neo-Nazi National Alliance (see 1970-1974 and Summer 2005) and now the chief of an Arkansas group called White Revolution, says: “I haven’t seen this much anger in a long, long time. Nothing has awakened normally complacent white Americans more than the prospect of America having an overtly nonwhite president.” Deborah Lauter, the civil rights director for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), says: “[W]e’re finding an explosion in these kinds of hateful sentiments on the Net, and it’s a growing problem. There are probably thousands of Web sites that do this now. I couldn’t even tell you how many are out there because it’s growing so fast.” The white power organizations acknowledge that they have little chance to derail Obama’s candidacy, so instead some of them say they are using it to energize their membership and reach out for new members. The Post reports, “[t]he groups now portray [Obama’s] candidacy as a vehicle to disenfranchise whites and polarize America.” The groups have helped foster the debunked rumors that Obama is a Muslim, that his books are overtly racist, that his wife Michelle is a radical black activist who hates “whitey,” and other claims. Stormfront’s owner, Don Black, says that since 1995, he has tried to make his site a “central meeting place for the white power movement.” Obama’s nomination is helping him fulfill his vision, he says. Black has 40 moderators running 54 message boards that welcome over 40,000 unique visitors every day. Posters on Stormfront complain that Obama represents the end of “white rule” and the beginning of “multiculturalism.” They fear that he will promote affirmative action, support illegal immigration, and help render whites, who make up two-thirds of the US population, “the new minority.” Black says: “I get nonstop emails and private message from new people who are mad as hell about the possibility of Obama being elected. White people, for a long time, have thought of our government as being for us, and Obama is the best possible evidence that we’ve lost that. This is scaring a lot of people who maybe never considered themselves racists, and it’s bringing them over to our side.” David Duke, Black’s former mentor and a former Ku Klux Klan leader, says his Web site’s traffic has doubled. White supremacist Dan Hill, who runs an extremist group in northern Michigan, says his cohorts are more willing to “take serious action” and plan rallies to protest politicians and immigration; he says he recently drove to an Obama rally and tried to “get a riot started or something.” Roper says White Revolution receives about 10 new applicants each week, more than double the norm. Ron Doggett, who helps Duke run a white power group called EURO in Virginia, says: “Our side does better when the public is being pressured, when gas prices are high, when housing is bad, when a black man might be president. People start looking for solutions and changes, and we offer radical changes to what’s going on.” Duke says: “One person put it this way: Obama for president paves the way for David Duke as president. This is finally going to make whites begin to realize it’s a necessity to stick up for their own heritage, and that’s going to make them turn to people like me. We’re the next logical step.” Doggett worries that an Obama presidential victory may doom the white supremacist movement, saying: “What you try not to think about is that maybe if Obama wins, it will create a very demoralizing effect. Maybe people see him in office, and it’s like: ‘That’s it. It’s just too late. Look at what’s happened now. We’ve endured all these defeats, and we’ve still got a multicultural society.’ And then there’s just no future for our viewpoint.” [Washington Post, 6/22/2008]
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Some of the most beautiful women in the world hit the Victoria's Secret glittery runway yesterday for the company's annual fantasy lingerie show. There were diamond studded bras, neon light wings and …
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Q:
AsyncTaskLoader vs AsyncTask
Since Honeycomb and the v4 Compatibility Library it is possible to use AsyncTaskLoader. From what I understand, the AsyncTaskLoader can survive through config changes like screen flips.
Is it recommended to use AsyncTaskLoader instead of AsyncTask? Does LoaderManager get in the picture too?
But I haven't found any good example(s) about how to correctly use the AsyncTaskLoader. The docs also provide no examples. Can anyone provide some good examples.
A:
You can have a look at the compatibility library's source code to get more info. What a FragmentActivity does is:
keep a list of LoaderManager's
make sure they don't get destroyed when you flip your phone (or another configuration change occurs) by saving instances using onRetainNonConfigurationInstance()
kick the right loader when you call initLoader() in your Activity
You need to use the LoaderManager to interface with the loaders, and provide the needed callbacks to create your loader(s) and populate your views with the data they return.
Generally it should be easier than managing AsyncTask's yourself. However, AsyncTaskLoader is not exactly well documented, so you should study the example in the docs and/or model your code after CursorLoader.
A:
When compare AsyncTaskLoader vs. AsyncTask, as you may know when you rotate your device screen, it may destroy and re-create your activity, to make it clear let image rotate your device while networking transaction is going on:
AsyncTask will be re-executed as background thread again, and previous background thread processing was just be redundant and zombie.
AsyncTaskLoader will be just re-used basing on Loader ID that registered in Loader Manager before, so avoid re-executing network transaction.
In summary, AsyncTaskLoader prevent duplication of background threads and eliminate duplication of zombie activities.
A:
AsyncTaskLoader performs the same function as the AsyncTask, but a bit better. It can handle Activity configuration changes more easily, and it behaves within the life cycles of Fragments and Activities. The nice thing is that the AsyncTaskLoader can be used in any situation that the AsyncTask is being used. Anytime data needs to be loaded into memory for the Activity/Fragment to handle, The AsyncTaskLoader can do the job better.
There are a few issues with using AsyncTasks, though:
Configuration changes can mess things up
Pausing an activity doesn’t pause the AsyncTask
A fair amount of boilerplate code (which means more possible errors)
AsyncTaskLoader doc
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