1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a telephone ring sensing savior and more particularly pertains to a new telephone security system for providing an alarm system connected to the telephone.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of a telephone ring sensing savior is known in the prior art. More specifically, a telephone ring sensing savior heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 5,283,816; U.S. Pat. No. 3,582,557; U.S. Pat. No. 2,550,076; U.S. Pat. No. 4,493,947; U.S. Pat. No. 4,057,798; and U.S. Pat. No. Des. 378,753.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new telephone security system. The inventive device includes a telephone being adapted to be connected to a telephone line and having a housing and a face plate member being removably disposed upon a top of the housing; and also includes a control member being adapted to be connected to the telephone line; and further includes a detection assembly being connected to the ringer-inducer member for sensing an emergency; and also includes a user notification assembly being connected to the telephone for notifying a user of an emergency.
In these respects, the telephone security system according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of providing an alarm system connected to the telephone.
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of telephone ring sensing savior now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new telephone security system construction wherein the same can be utilized for providing an alarm system connected to the telephone.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail is to provide a new telephone security system which has many of the advantages of the telephone ring sensing savior mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new telephone security system which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art telephone ring sensing savior, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a telephone being adapted to be connected to a telephone line and having a housing and a face plate member being removably disposed upon a top of the housing; and also includes a control member being adapted to be connected to the telephone line; and further includes a detection assembly being connected to the ringer-inducer member for sensing an emergency; and also includes a user notification assembly being connected to the telephone for notifying a user of an emergency.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that a will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new telephone security system which has many of the advantages of the telephone ring sensing savior mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new telephone security system which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art telephone ring sensing savior, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new telephone security system which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new telephone security system which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new telephone security system which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such telephone security system economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new telephone security system which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new telephone security system for providing an alarm system connected to the telephone.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new telephone security system which includes a telephone being adapted to be connected to a telephone line and having a housing and a face plate member being removably disposed upon a top of the housing; and also includes a control member being adapted to be connected to the telephone line; and further includes a detection assembly being connected to the ringer-inducer member for sensing an emergency; and also includes a user notification assembly being connected to the telephone for notifying a user of an emergency.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new telephone security system that effectively makes use of all the telephones on the premises to warn the occupants of an emergency situation.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new telephone security system that allows the user to distinguish between emergency and non-emergency situations.


Geek Stuff

18-year-old Jessica Terry suffered from stomach pain, diarrhea, vomiting and fever for eight years. She often missed school and her doctors were unable to figure out the cause of her sickness. Then one day in January someone was finally figured out what was wrong with Jessica. That person was her. While looking under a microscope at slides of her own intestinal tissue in her AP science class, Jessica noticed an area of inflamed tissue called a granuloma, which is an indication of Crohn’s disease. “It’s weird I had to solve my own medical problem,” Terry told CNN affiliate KOMO in Seattle, Washington. “There were just no answers anywhere. … I was always sick.”


I was so upset when I posted some of that that I missed a couple of details and may not have been clear enough on the order of how things were supposed to go. For example, with reselling the 2 boards, that was supposed to be later after we had recouped most of the money from resales. From reading one of my posts it sounds like I implied they were supposed to be immediately resold and that is not the case. When someone pisses you off bad enough you don't always think/type as clearly as you should. I think I forgot to mention also, the MCUs were also supposed to be decapped and replaced. That could have happened quickly if he actually cared about doing it because Dr. Decap was active at the time. Other than that, this is what happened:

I would rather die than to pay someone to hoard a dump or to pay ransom on a hoarded dump. If he would have released the dump and kept the ebay thing going from reselling community bought boards both from his garage and mine the money back would have been paid back from recycle funds within about a year. He would rather feel power over people than to preserve another game.

This recent situation was the final straw I'm ever dealing with with him. He's never coming back to MW and this will never be resolved between us because it's too far broken. We were supposed to make back the money from reselling boards he has in his garage (only the ones that were bought through the dumping project and MW/community/Randy) and DU community bought boards and then the later resale of the actual 2 boards Bygone and Wyvern which are worth a ton in Japan and we had someone there who could sell them for us. Instead, one day he up and tried to change the deal on me and decided he didn't want to sell anymore of his community bought boards and wanted me to just pay all the money back and him just keep the boards. I should have banned him back then in 2010 when he did this but I wanted things to go best for mame. Well I'm not doing that anymore.

This was the final straw with him trying to benefit from my misfortune with the IRS and bringing up this crap once again. Judging from what he has said, who knows, maybe his memory is so bad now that he forgot what we originally agreed to and believes himself? I don't know. The agreements were made pretty quickly while the auctions were live. I remember very clearly the day he tried to change the agreement into his new rules though and how pissed it made me. I accept some of the responsibility because it was really stupid of me to get into a monetary agreement of any type with someone like him.

What he always tries to do is rally people against some other dumper or collector and then he tries to use that to get people on his side because they now have a common enemy. It's a really pathetic move used in politics. I know people think it's some personal ego thing or whatever for both of us but it's not. I could not care less about "being the best dumper" or whatever. I never even wanted to start dumping. I only started to save money on shipping and to be able to resell/recycle funds - because that will end with more stuff in mame. I was able to put up with most of his ego garbage for over a decade for the benefit of mame, but I can only deal with so much, and now he's gone way over the line to the point of no return.

I've said before, both on-list and in my 2012 update that I felt this was unlikely to be resolved and we'd be best off finding a new board.

The game isn't THAT rare, one did change hands in Asia not too long ago and we could literally have had a dump (sans MCU unfortunately) at that point except the guy I know simply wasn't working on the day it came in and by the time he was it was packaged up for shipping out. Price paid was around the $1000 mark. It's also a game that has been dumped before (although hoarded) because I believe one of the Japanese music player apps 'supports' it.

There are also records of it appearing in Italy, so I have a feeling the PCBs may well be buried somewhere around there too if that one hasn't fallen into the hands of some unfriendly collector yet.

The same sh*t would have kicked off if we'd got another dump tho because Guru is adamant that he wants the $6000 he feels he is owed, or at least that's what he was saying on Mamedev, so other stuff would have almost certainly ended up hoarded instead.

It's a shame people can't just focus on what's important, and sorting the rest out later, even if it means dragging each other through the courts or something (because at this point it's clearly a matter of principals) but egos seem to be a problem for most dumpers, that's actually why I much prefer working with the .it guys because they quietly just get on with doing good work.

I'm surprised anybody still bothers to donate at all after all the broken promises on the too-good-to-be-true decap offers which really do appear to have been too good to be true for the real interesting cases but I guess there are people who don't want to give up hope completely.

Well if you want broken PCBs, legs snapped off and me spending most of the time in A&E because I managed to solder my ballsack to the circuit boards then by all means tool me up, and I'll let you and Guru do the actual drivers instead.

Or if this is the usual Guru-style bash about how I never actually put any money in then I'll use my usual response that what I put in is time, lots of it, most of my free time for the past 10+ years. I have no current income, and due to circumstance that is often the case.

For one thing you're grossly exaggerating the difficulty of dumping most stuff, like socketed roms, a complete klutz could do it if they follow directions from an experienced dumper and an eprom programmer manual. There's also for example the stuff Randy and I used to do with finding boards and raising funds, that would also count as getting your hands dirty and anyone could do it if they do enough research. I'm not judging and don't care what you do or how you do it, but you make every effort not to get your hands dirty like refusing to upload roms you add to the source. Again, I don't care, I'm just saying, it must be really easy to throw things out like "court" talk when you never take a risk.

Believe me, I *am* a complete klutz when it comes to technology stuff, I've managed to break PC cards removing them from my PC on multiple occasions.

I keep an eye out for interesting boards, I keep an eye out for interesting posts, I actively try to work with people to ensure things are done correctly, and emulated in a timely manner, or at least that the dumps are good. A lot of that is grunt work, but also needs somebody with an idea of what to look out for when it comes to early indications of problems (eg somebody who can actually gfx decode and the like)

I also work to raise awareness for things, keep some level of interest, promote what's being done, and try to make even the dull parts sound interesting by showing why if looked at from a different point of view than 'crappy game' they can be both interesting and important. That 25k word document didn't write itself overnight.

I don't like to beg for money. I say court, because unless you're happy seeing people throw $3000 at Guru (and I'd be surprised if he doesn't say 'oops, I raised it to $6000' once he gets that) instead of actually going towards DU stuff then there is likely no other way it can be resolved. Who is in the right / wrong doesn't bother me, what bothers me is users are being pissed all over, devs have been in the past pissed all over, and the actual game is suffering, all because of some stupid power game. It's likely Taito don't even have the ROM data for it either, so until it gets emulated they probably can't even put it in one of their own retro packs.

Emulation is about doing a service to the community and often the creators of the original games, not all this nonsense.

I agree with you there is a stupid power game going on but Guru is the only one playing. If people want to give their hard earned money to someone who is filthy rich for hoarding a game they already partially paid for then they are welcome to. I'm not going to get into some stupid game where I try to pull the donations another way. For one thing that's exactly the type of emudrama crap that Guru lives for. For another thing, I don't take donations anymore because of the IRS.

Nobody likes begging for money. I don't like solder work either or reselling or standing in line at the post office etc. It's crap I do/did to preserve games.

Saying court means you don't understand basics of copyright law. I'm going to sue him for not releasing an unauthorized copy of a copyrighted game onto the internet or what exactly are you thinking could happen.

Who is right or wrong has to matter. If you throw that out then I'm not even interested in continuing to talk to you about it.

I'm not saying court due to copyright law, I'm saying if he thinks you owe him this money, and has evidence of such in any way that could be seen as a contract then maybe that's what needs doing because the fundamental issue here seems to be that each of you think the other has changed the terms of some agreement and thus money is owed. Of course the cost involved with that would probably be greater than just saying shit happens and getting on with things, but like I said, it seems to be that at least for Guru it's a matter of principal at this point.

For the rest the point I'm making is that I'll do emulation, I'll do a bit of PR, I'll work with people, that's my role. That helps you, it helps MAME, and it helps people get an understanding of what's going on.


Fashionable bullshit (and why I left Hiddenharmonies)

In this post, I will talk about a intellectual trend (and a rather trendy one it seems among some) that I perceive as having some influence among certain types of China watchers such as those at this site (hiddenharmonies). As some of you may be from that site, I will also explain that that trend is also my primary reasons for leaving the site having posted there for 2 years and been a editor there for about 1 year under the pseudonym of melekatus but now wanting to start my own blog about China and the west.

Some of the writers on that site, are poseurs of the worst kind. They are no better than many of the rabidly anti-Chinese crowd they rail against in their posts. It is an extremely ideological site now straying away from its professed aim to bridge understanding between China and the west.

Everything Chinese (or what they erroneously believe to be Chinese) must be defended at all costs (including paying the price of truth). Everything western (or what they erroneously believe to be western) must be attacked. This is nothing more than a nationalist site. You can see it in almost all their posts now.

When I first joined the site, there were some good articles and there is also presently the sporadic good article (such as from Maitreya e.g. who unfortunately doesn’t post that often). But over the last year or so the quality has taken a drop and the the site traffic has been losing ground understandably. I am convinced that many of the main writers of the blog (other than myself and Maitreya) are not capable of writing well or thinking in a clear and logical way. Clarity, well argued (reasoned and evidenced) posts are absent being replaced by jargon, fluff, rambling ideological nonsense.

I emailed one editor and told him of my dissatisfaction and said that I wanted to leave taking my posts with me. I was going to post one more post on a response to another poster/editor (one of the leading perpetrators of said bad writing). But as I was about to post my response, I had found that I wasn’t able to. My posting privileges had been taken away by the other editor. He emailed me back saying that I was banned from posting because I accused him of making “mistakes” “errors, and having “confusions” (in his own words). Clearly anyone who cannot handle criticisms of their views because someone says they had made “mistakes” and “errors” has a large and fragile ego.

My posts generate quite a bit of traffic for that site. They are among the most popular for a reason. They are well written, and well argued and don’t have any ideological fervor. A clear contrast to many of the others. So it is understandable why they don’t want to remove my posts as they carry more than their fair share of attracting readers to the blog. I’ve been at odds with many of them ever since I started blogging there but clearly removing someone’s posting privileges right before they are about to leave is a petty move by a very small individual.

This individual is a Taiwanese American (“Allen”) who is leading the charge in what I saw as the primary reason for the drop in quality of the blog. In my last post, I also included an addendum to explain why I decided to leave (which Allen has since edited out some of the content).

Much of his posts are replete with insincerity, obscurantist jargon and outright bullshit. To get an idea of the post modern sensibility to which he (and another blogger there by the name of “black pheonix” [sic]) seem to subscribe to. They do an incredible disservice to their professed goal of increasing understanding between China and the west.

Criticisms of postmodernism is as old as postmodernism itself. There is no clear definition of what postmodernism is and this is not just because it is a diverse area of study but because it is so obscure even postmodernists themselves are confused by what they are doing. But basic tenants seem to be an rejection of objective truth, objective reality (which some of the editors have explicitly denied) and an espousal of moral relativism. Postmodernists often use jargon they barrow from other fields (such as science, philosophy, law, etc) and use these terms in silly ways in which they don’t even seem to understand to defend their already muddleheaded positions. Unfortunately I see the postmodern sensibility among many of today’s youth and educated privileged classes. In postmodernism, they seem to see criticism of whatever that ails society. It’s fashionable. It seems to espouse viewpoints that defend tolerance for different cultures and ways of life (this often takes the form of different kinds of relativism)

Just as one example of the bullshit that the site has unfortunately sunk to. In a recent comment thread, I argued against (moral and cultural) relativism. Allen commented saying that Einstein’s theory of relativity showed that moral relativism is true (in fact he said it showed everything was relative). In his words,

Perhaps you can say this is a sort of absolutism – but you are stretching word. It is declaring a universal truth – unlike Einstein’s relativity – that all truths / measurements are relative.

I then commented that he had completely misunderstood Einstein’s theory of relativity and in fact, the theory doesn’t even show that everything in physics was “relative” (in fact, I pointed out that it presupposes that the speed of light is absolute for all observers, thus not relative). I explained that bringing up the theory is just a pretentious red herring. He then denied having referenced Einstein’s theory of relativity (while continuing to post gibberish about it in subsequent comments thinking that it availed moral relativism) and accused me of bringing it up. You can read our comments here. This is disingenuous to the extreme.

This is not the first time this same individual has been caught BSing. In the past he has made repeated nonsense threads and comments such as claiming that Hume’s moral philosophy was inspired by his “Christian” beliefs. Anyone who is even superficially informed about Hume or the history of philosophy knows what a howler this is. Hume is known as arguably the greatest religious skeptic in western philosophical history (and there’s been many great religious skeptics). He has claimed patently false claims even after being shown otherwise. He also conflates several meta-ethical issues (which any sophomore philosophy major should be able to distinguish). This kind of obstinate bullshitting is reminiscent of some journalist I had the displeasure of dealing with. This is an individual who has explicitly claimed he is well-informed by science and western philosophy (anyone who has studied basic college level physics knows that the theory of relativity presupposes the absolute speed of light and that moral error theory is different from moral relativism which he conflates in a morass of fuzzy thinking). These are just two of the many examples of this outright bullshitting nonsense. Most of his posts, in the words of the physicist P.M. Dirac, aren’t even wrong. They are so confused and incoherent that they are quite literally nonsense (they contain no sense, no real meaning). These are just the most recent examples I am aware of. I have essentially stopped reading many of the other’s posts because they have sunk so low in quality. I can give so many other examples but I think you get the idea.

This trend of nonsense and bullshit is what I take a trend that I see common among many young people who subscribe (consciously or unconsciously) to post modernist sensibilities. For example, Allen’s use of Einstein’s theory of relativity is strikingly reminiscent of Bruno Latour’s use of the theory to justify cultural relativism. See this classic article by Richard Dawkins published in the journal Nature. I quote his paper.

This kind of pedantic and erroneous use of scientific and philosophical terms without actually understanding them is common among not just post modernists but those who have an ideological agenda to spread.

Also see the Sokal hoax, a hoax pulled off by the physicist Alan Sokal. Sokal essentially used random postmodernist jargon words combined with technical terms in physics to write a paper that was utter nonsense but flattered the egos of postmodernists by citing them liberally and impressing them with the patina of rigor and technicality (without it being actually rigorous or technical) and yet got it published in the influential postmodernist journal “Social Text”. Sokal claimed that this proved that postmodernist “literature” was a shame. See the wiki.

“The Sokal affair, also known as the Sokal hoax,[1] was a publishing hoax perpetrated by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University. In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to Social Text, an academic journal of postmoderncultural studies. In subsequent publications, Sokal claimed that the submission was an experiment to test the journal’s intellectual rigor and, specifically, to investigate whether “a leading North American journal of cultural studies – whose editorial collective includes such luminaries as Fredric Jameson and Andrew Ross – [would] publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors’ ideological preconceptions”.[2]

The article “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity“, published in the Social Text Spring/Summer 1996 “Science Wars” issue, proposed that quantum gravity is a social and linguistic construct. At that time, the journal did not practice academic peer review and did not submit the article for outside expert review by a physicist.[3][4] On its date of publication (May 1996), Sokal revealed in Lingua Franca that the article was a hoax, identifying it as “a pastiche of left-wing cant, fawning references, grandiose quotations, and outright nonsense…structured around the silliest quotations [by postmodernist academics] he could find about mathematics and physics”.[2]“

It seems that this trendiest of intellectual trends has infected some of those who propound to spread “harmony” and “understanding” in international relations. While superficially carrying an heir of tolerance by espousing relativism (which they seem to take as a kind of tolerance), any view point contrary (seeing it as a mistake or error) is treated with intolerance. It has spread to many of the other posters on that blog. Not coincidentally, both Allen and the other leading perpetrator on Hiddenharmonies of such pettifogging are both lawyers by profession. As I made comments to the effect in the past, lawyers are not like scientists or philosophers or mathematicians. They don’t care about the truth. They have been literally trained to use words in misleading, canting ways to sway people from the truth. The truth is, is that much of that site has now become almost wholly mired in such superficiality and it is essentially worthless now. As if that wasn’t bad enough, some of the friends of the site seemed to be obsessed with antisemitic conspiracy theories and links to these “friends” bring the credibility of the site down. I don’t want my writing to be associated with that kind of trash. It’s understandable why I don’t want my writing to be put on that site anymore.

So this site is the official site of my writing. I disown my writing there and have transferred many of the posts here. As I said to one of the editors before I left who tried to convince from leaving, “You may be more tolerant of such bullshit but I can’t standby without shoveling and flushing”.

And so that’s how this site will be run. There will be zero tolerance of such bullshitting. If I’m wrong, I want others to show me where I’ve went wrong and I expect the same attitude from others. Not endless pettifogging using concepts one doesn’t understand just to “win” your case (or save your ego). I’d rather have this site be of very few quality comments then one with a lot of poorly written, poorly reasoned, confused and erroneous comments like Hiddenharmonies is now.

I’ve been an avid reader of your posts in Hiddenharmonies since 2012 and it was not long ago when I realize you left there. To tell you the truth, my views toward the world are in many ways similar to yours and I am curious if you’re planning to write a new post in this fabulous blog.


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President Trump and members of his family are in India for an official state visit, and they were welcomed with a massive rally:

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi says "Namaste Trump" with massive rally for the U.S. president https://t.co/Eg4QWLf981 pic.twitter.com/T2OLhMtiuf — TIME (@TIME) February 24, 2020

"America will always be faithful and loyal friends to the Indian people." Pres. Trump says "America loves India" to thousands of attendees at rally in the world's largest cricket stadium as he begins his first official visit to the country. https://t.co/9aBwbQ7xpK pic.twitter.com/PuvxZtVFvw — ABC News (@ABC) February 24, 2020

President Trump is on his first official trip to India, where he visited the famed Taj Mahal and saw large crowds turn out to greet him in PM Modi’s heartland of Ahmedabad. @kaitlancollins reports.https://t.co/EkWljQ0WPC pic.twitter.com/0oWLGcGOq7 — New Day (@NewDay) February 24, 2020

But CNN being CNN, they were obviously looking for an angle that would give the anti-Trump Resistance something to chew on, and it looks like they found one:

President Trump — whose diet is often a rotation of steaks, burgers and meatloaf — faces a potential shock as he prepares to travel to India, where Hindus are the majority and cows are revered as sacred. https://t.co/jMfBqB2OV8 — CNN (@CNN) February 23, 2020

Modi is a devoted vegetarian & plans to serve vegetarian food to President Trump, according to people familiar with the planning. Trump will sit for several meals while he's in India, including a lunch and a formal banquet.@Kevinliptakcnn @vmsalama https://t.co/m2jmZiOcsK — Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) February 24, 2020

CNN can always be counted on for the hottest of takes.

Happy Monday. Will this be the dumbest headline of the week? https://t.co/u5GiikjZeE — Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) February 24, 2020

Serious reporting folks https://t.co/WfUjX03SRG — Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) February 24, 2020

Oh no. Shock! The president is in India for 36 hours and there is no beef. He'll starve!!! https://t.co/OD9Ytehc8X — Gerry Callahan (@GerryCallahan) February 24, 2020

This was a collabation of 3 writers — Josh (@JoshsBurnerAcct) February 24, 2020

That might even be better than CNN’s previous bombshell:

The sequel to "Two Scoops of Ice Cream" https://t.co/9SgEeNo2b5 — Scribe Light (@Scribe_Light) February 24, 2020

They’re constantly outdoing themselves!

Did you know food has never, ever been transported in planes before? Literally never. Trump will starve — Revenge of Ross Perot's Pony Soldier (@MaryCohen68) February 24, 2020

CNN seems to be positioning itself to put the @TheBabylonBee out of business. https://t.co/vpDNzoyfMA — Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) February 24, 2020

There sure are some gems in there:

"The President, whose diet is often a rotation of steaks, burgers and meatloaf, faces a potential shock" — Angus T. Kirk (@angusparvo) February 24, 2020

So Trump is an uncultured buffoon who has never traveled abroad in his life? I'm sure the President is aware of Hindu culture and beef consumption. — Angus T. Kirk (@angusparvo) February 24, 2020

"People familiar" say Trump once ate two steaks in one day! pic.twitter.com/5dY4wlW59Q — Angus T. Kirk (@angusparvo) February 24, 2020

"A person close to the President" says he's never seen Trump eat a vegetable! Well, other than salad. pic.twitter.com/MDSpJhSyhF — Angus T. Kirk (@angusparvo) February 24, 2020

But this is the best. The real Taj Mahal, not Trump's casino in Atlantic City pic.twitter.com/BTBZLubrUc — Angus T. Kirk (@angusparvo) February 24, 2020

If Trump ever goes to Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas CNN will also no doubt feel compelled to point out that it’s not the actual place where Caesar slept.


The Pig Rifle

This is a gun I found in the woods on a hog hunt... It had been out there so long the stock had rotted off it... Brought it home and started to work on it and this is the final product... Its a old Marlin/Glenfield 60

This is the barrel and tube we pryed out of it... The stock had rotted off and the receiver and trigger gaurd had oxidized up pretty solid... The receiver trigger gaurd and internals for the trigger group and some internals from the receiver were basically what we salvaged also used some of the old tube to extend the newish stainless one... Had the bipod layin around so we anodized that same with the rings... Stock is a stockys stock haha... The barrel and tube are used and we just polished them back up... Stripped the receiver sanded out all the pits and polished it up same for the trigger gaurd... The trigger is very interesting its got set screws in it now to take out the slack and over travel its very crisp and not heavy by any means.... Its one heck of a shooter... Use 16 gauge shells for targets at 100 yrds... It is pillar bedded and jb bedded


Survival to patency of low level infections with Trichuris muris in mice concurrently infected with Nematospiroides dubius.
Large, single-pulse laboratory infections with Trichuris muris are rejected by mice before patency, but low-level infections of fewer than 20 worms survive for long periods. Data are presented to show that the threshold at which an effective immune response takes place is significantly higher in mice concurrently infected with Nematospiroides dubius. In control CFLP mice trickle infections did not survive to maturity but in the slower responder C57 Bl10 mice egg production began on Day 35 and continued for a further seven weeks, with some mature worms present at autopsy. Concurrent infection with N. dubius resulted in trickle infections, T. muris surviving much better than in control mice, although these still showed some resistance to T. muris. It is suggested that the results support the hypothesis that T. muris elicits concomitant immunity in the host. Thus, the first worms to establish survive to patency at which time they can no longer be removed by the host, but once the immunological threshold has been exceeded incoming larvae are rejected by the host. Such a survival strategy would be very useful to T. muris in the wild.


Q:

postfix: accepting all email addresses for a domain except for a few

In sendmail, I can have a catchall address and reject email going to certain addresses in my aliases or virtusertable files:
adm@example.com                        error:5.1.1:550 User unknown
apache@example.com                     michael
root@example.com                       michael
daemon@example.com                     error:5.1.1:550 User unknown
dbus@example.com                       error:5.1.1:550 User unknown
ftp@example.com                        error:5.1.1:550 User unknown
@example.com                           catchall

But the above doesn't work in the postfix maps - it tries to deliver to the error: address.
What's the right way to accomplish this in postfix?

A:

This can be accomplished using the check_recipient_access directive (main.cf).
Add a file that lists the email addresses (followed by reject) and point the above directive to that file.
e.g.  check_recipient_access hash:/etc/postfix/deny
/etc/postfix/deny:
denied_user@domain.tld reject

Remember to reload your configuration files - and perhaps restart postfix.
For more information, see: http://www.postfix.org/RESTRICTION_CLASS_README.html and http://www.postfix.org/access.5.html


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Simply teaching literacy to young people at-risk is not enough. The demonstration project developed multiple approaches to helping the young people overcome a wide variety of challenges.

Overcoming social and emotional barriers was a necessity in the demonstration project. Many, though not all, of the students at the New School experienced highly turbulent lives, family instability, violence, and substance abuse — all of which interfered with their ability to focus on their school work and develop productive behaviours. Many exhibited survival strategies — from disassociation and introversion to aggressive antagonism — that likely helped protect them from physical and emotional harm but was counterproductive in a learning environment. In order to help the students undo some of these negative survival strategies, the program provided workshops on community building, group decision making, conflict resolution, and problem-solving.

In addition to lacking basic literacy skills, the students had limited background knowledge, and did not know how to learn. Because they couldn’t read the textbooks and productively engage in classroom discussions, around grades seven or eight many of the students began to tune out, act out, and effectively drop out of formal education, whether they were present or not. By 10th grade they lacked critical background knowledge on which to build new academic learning. Moreover, the students had to learn the basics of how to listen attentively, take notes, engage productively in discussions, and follow-through on assignments.

The basic knowledge and skills required for success in high school had to be taught explicitly to the students along with instruction in literacy skills and academic subjects. Young adults who drop out of school and later enroll in an adult education program also require assistance in overcoming social and emotional barriers and learning the basics of how to learn.


1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an article of manufacture for controlling invertebrate pest behavior generally, and, more particularly, to an article of manufacture for preventing Asian lady beetles and similar other insects from gaining entrance to dwellings and similar other building structures and the methods of using/manufacturing the same.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The lady bug, commonly referred to as the Asian lady beetle, is a pest as well as a beneficial organism. Admittedly, Asian lady beetles become “pests” mainly by their presence in unwanted areas as is the case in dwelling infestations or infestations in similar other building structures. It is noted that Asian lady beetles generally do not feed on or damage anything in the traditional home and, further, do not generally bite people or pets, do not infest stored food and do not destroy household furnishings. Asian lady beetles generally do not carry diseases harmful to humans or pets, nor do they usually breed indoors. However, when large numbers of Asian lady beetles take up residence in a dwelling or similar other building structure, they will crawl over walls, windows, light fixtures and most any other surface, thus becoming a nuisance. It will be seen that the sheer number of Asian lady beetles which may infest a dwelling or similar other building structure can become highly problematic, thus leading to a need for controlling these pests.
Because the Asian lady beetle is a tree-dwelling insect, dwellings and similar other building structures situated in forested areas are especially prone to infestation. Suburban and landscaped industrial settings adjacent to wooded areas have also had large Asian lady beetle aggregations. Asian lady beetles congregate in large numbers during the late fall rather than disperse to spend the winter (overwinter) individually under bark or in leaf litter, as do most other lady beetles. Asian lady beetles prefer to cluster on the sides of dwellings and similar other building structures, eventually working their way into the building through small cracks or crevices, or natural breaks in the window panes, door jams or foundations as the temperatures decrease. Essentially, the congregating Asian lady beetles are seeking a suitable place to overwinter. Once inside the building, Asian lady beetles hibernate, until the first warm days of late winter or early spring, when they seem to come to life again and begin crawling about.
Asian lady beetles tend to be attracted to lighter colored buildings and especially to those that are illuminated by the sun (typically the south or southwest side of a given building structure). Darker colored buildings or buildings in the shade are less likely to encounter Asian lady beetle infestation. After spending the winter months tucked away in a wall void or other secluded place, becoming active in late winter, Asian lady beetles often find themselves inside the dwelling rather than outside. At this time Asian lady beetles tend to begin seeking an escape to the out-of-doors. This reawakening may take place over several weeks, depending on temperatures and the size of the population.
Once Asian lady beetles have established themselves in the dwelling or similar other building structure, there are not many treatment options. However, it is well known that prevention of Asian lady beetle infestation is perhaps the best of all treatment options, which is best achieved in the autumn. To help prevent Asian lady beetles, cluster flies, box elder bugs (and other pests of the sort having similar infestation habits) from entering dwellings and similar other building structures in the autumn, most experts in the pertinent art have recommended applying or spraying fast-acting, residual synthetic pyrethroids around eaves, attic vents, windows, doors, under-fascia lips, soffits, siding (including under lips) and any other possible points of entry, concentrating on the south and southwest sides. Further, known mechanical means of preventing Asian lady beetles and habitually similar other pests include sealing cracks and utility service openings with caulk, fixing broken window screens and door jams, plugging cracks in the foundation or roof as well as similar exclusion-type activities which help prevent the entry of Asian lady beetles into the dwelling or similar other building structure.
The state of the art, however, has proved largely ineffectual in preventing Asian lady beetles and habitually similar other pests from entering and infesting a dwelling. Residual sprays, having been applied to dwellings or building structures quickly become ineffectual due to environmental conditions. Further, spraying dwellings and similar other building structures with pesticide often results in large quantities of pesticide being wasted. Further, implementing fully effectual mechanical means of exclusion (eg: tightly screening windows, louvers, air vents, and tightly caulking all cracks around windows, chimneys, trim, splits and holes in siding) can be very time consuming and expensive.
What is needed therefore is a more efficient, inexpensive, less time consuming method or article for preventing Asian lady beetles and habitually similar other pests from entering a dwelling or building structure. In this regard, an article that places an effective amount of pesticide adjacent to points of entry would be useful, particularly for homeowners/business owners who are desirous of keeping windows and siding free from excess pesticide. Further, an article that decreases the potential amount of excess pesticide that may come into contact with passersby would be greatly beneficial.
It is noted that the prior art is replete with examples of inventive solutions for controlling general pest or insect behavior. Among these inventions are many disclosures, which teach the use of pesticide-impregnated or repellent-impregnated fabrics to repel insects from the fabric. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 279,852, which issued to Atkins, discloses a bale band or tie treated with an insect repelling composition to render the same insect proof, substantially as described in the specification of this patent. Further, in this vein, U.S. Pat. Nos. 339,810; 676,375; 2,555,330; 2,564,663; and 2,768,927 all disclose fabric impregnated with various types of specific insect repelling compositions.
Further, U.S. Pat. No. 2,911,756, which issued to Geary, discloses an Insect Combatting Device. This invention teaches a device comprising a flexible sheet backing, a normally tacky, pressure sensitive adhesive untied to one surface of said backing, an absorptive layer united to the other surface of said backing and a layer containing an insect attractant and an insecticide united to said absorptive layer, which layer is preferably of a tacky/sticky nature so as to entangle the attracted insect.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,765,982 ('982 patent), which issued to Ronning et al., discloses an Insect Control Device. This invention comprises alternatively woven or non-woven group of fibers, which fibers have a sustained release insect control agent self-adhered thereto. The compositions and device disclosed control insect activity by providing an effective level of the control agent in the area where control is desired for an extended period of time. The desired area of control is essentially left open-ended. The fibers are of a specific type as outlined in the '982 patent.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,916,580, which issued to Shober et al., discloses a Method of Pest Control. This invention teaches a netting impregnated with insect repellent, which netting is then positioned around the area to be protected, such as a pillow, mattress, or domestic pet bed. The specific application is designed to control the movement of house dust mites.
There are further several uncovered United States patents, which teach the use of color to attract insects. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,896,695, which issued to Walker, discloses a Device for Controlling Crawling or Flying Insects. This invention comprises brightly colored luminescent paint to attract insects. Further U.S. Pat. No. 5,992,087, which issued to Chu et al., discloses a Whitefly Trap. This invention does not require bait or adhesive but does utilize the principle of attracting insects through the use of color, in this case the color yellow.
It is noted after a review of the prior art, however, that none of the prior art patents teach the use of pesticide-impregnated, felt-like fabric for adhesive attachment to dwellings or building structures adjacent to points of entry, which fabric is specifically colored to attracts pest to the fabric for contact treatment thereof and the accordant prevention of dwelling infestation.


The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for separating contaminants from paper stock and defibering undefibered waste paper in the field of industries using waste paper pulp as stock such as paper pulp and fiberboard industries.
Screening is generally composed of coarse and fine screening stages.
In the coarse screening stage, relatively large contaminants are removed, using a screen plate with holes usable for relatively high consistency (2 to 4%) of stock slurry in order to reduce in quantity the contaminants to be transferred to the fine screening stage.
In the fine screening stage, fine contaminants not removable by the above-mentioned hole screen plate are removed, using a screen plate with slots suitable for relatively low consistency (0.5 to 2%) of stock slurry so as to facilitate passing of the stock through the screen.
Generally, efficiency or ratio of removing contaminants in a screen is closely related with reject ratio. Increase and decrease of reject ratio lead to enhancement and lowering of contaminant removal ratio, respectively. Attempt to reduce the reject ratio in an ordinary screen will tend to cause plugging of the screen plate or plugging of a reject valve due to increased reject consistency. Even if such plugging may be averted, extreme reduction of the reject ratio would worsen the effect of removing contaminants as shown in FIG. 1, failing to obtain good screening effect. Increase of the reject ratio to a certain extent is therefore required for obtaining pulp with less quantity of contaminants. However, increase of the reject ratio means reduction of yield.
Generally, in order to overcome this problem in a screen stage, a reject ratio of 20 to 25% is selected, over which the curve shown in FIG. 1 becomes dull and the contaminant removal ratio is less affected, and reject is re-processed by a so-called "multiple cascade flow" system to reduce the reject ratio in the whole of the system. In a typical cascade flow employed, reject of a primary screen is processed by a secondary screen and the accept stock is brought to accept of the primary screen. Reject of the secondary screen is processed by a tertiary screen and the accept stock is returned to the feed stock of the secondary screen. Only reject of the tertiary screen is discharged out of the system. Generally, stock slurry consistency in a screen becomes higher than the consistency of the feed stock and therefore the feed stock used for the cascade manner is required to be diluted with water into appropriate consistency for the screen.
On the other hand, paper stock to be fed to a screening stage is in the form of defibered suspension of waste paper in water by a defibrator, usually called a pulper. Defibering performance of the pulper is not in linear relationship to defibration time period (motive power). In comparison with initial defibering performance, subsequent defibering performance is decreased. That is, defibering efficiency is satisfactory up to a certain level of defibration [i.e., defibered stock/(defibered stock+undefibered stock)] and higher motive power is required for defibration over the level. In order to defiber the stock which has been defibered to the certain level, a device generally called "secondary defibrator" is widely used. Typical secondary defibrators are a closed pulper type defibrator and a high-speed defibrator. Such secondary defibrators also have defibering performance which is not in linear relationship to motive power and are effective for use at a zone or portion of the system where undefibered waste paper is accumulated.
To defiber undefibered waste paper is very significant for improvement of production yield since the undefibered waste paper shows the same behavior as contaminants to be removed in screening stages.
In FIG. 2 which is a flow sheet of a conventionally used screening process for waste paper stock pulp slurry, reference symbol a represents a tank to receive waste paper stock slurry which has been defibered by a pulper (not shown). In a coarse screening stage A, reference symbols b, c and d represent primary, secondary and tertiary coarse screening screens, using hole screen plates, respectively; g, a high-speed defibrator for defibering reject of the primary coarse screening; and e, f and m, tanks. In a fine screening stage B, reference symbols h, i, k, and 1 represent primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary fine screenings, using slot screens, respectively; j, a high-speed defibrator for defibering reject of the secondary fine screening screen; and n, o and p, tanks. In FIG. 2, solid lines represent pulp lines and dotted lines, lines of reject including undefibered waste paper.
In FIG. 2, usual screens with hole screen plates are used in the coarse screening stage A. Reject of the primary screen b is processed by the high-speed defibrator g to defiber undefibered waste paper accumulated in the reject. In the fine screening stage B, a quaternary cascade system with slot screens is used and the reject of the secondary screen is processed by the high-speed defibrator j.
In FIG. 2, nine apparatuses with screens, seven tanks with agitators and seven pumps are required. For automatic operation, various instruments are further required such as pressure control for each screen and level control for each tank.
Instead of defibering waste paper, the waste paper may be ground by a refiner. Such grinding is however directed to crushing not only the undefibered waste paper but also contaminants such as plastics and is different from the defibration in which contaminants such as plastics and wooden pieces are passed without crushing, and therefore has a deteriorated degree of screening compared with the defibration. Also, the stock slurry consistency in the grinding is as high as 15 to 25% while in the defibration, the stock must be diluted to have the consistency of 1 to 4% because of the above difference.
As described above, the more the number of screens for cascade is increased, the more the degree of screening and production yield can be enhanced, but the more the scale and cost of the facilities increase.
To solve the above problems, there have been various proposals to provide a system in which a screening section is combined with a defibering section or with a grinding section.
For example, Japanese Patent 1st Publication No. 62-90391 (JP-A-62-90391) proposes "a screening apparatus with reject reducing means" which processes pulps with vegetable fiber of 6 to 15% in consistency. A grinding zone is provided adjacent to a screen with a cylindrical screen plate and the reject is decreased in quantity by grinding the reject of the screen into pulpiness. However, when this apparatus is used for waste paper pulp, there arise the following problems:
(1) Unlike vegetable fiber pulp, waste paper pulp includes not only the undefibered waster paper but also contaminants such as plastics and metal pieces. If these contaminants are ground and mingled in the accept, the product quality is decreased. PA0 (2) A consistency suitable for the grinding is 15 to 25%. In the case of waste paper pulp, if the reject of the screen is condensed to this range of consistency, plugging tends to occur in the screen. If meshes of the screen are enlarged for prevention of such plugging, then the contaminant removal ratio is reduced. PA0 (3) After the grinding, contaminants remain in the pulp. To remove them, another screen is required.
On the other hand, the inventors have made various experiments to find that, when waste paper pulp slurry is screened, reject not passing through a screen is accumulated more and more and its consistency is increased as the slurry flows through a screening section, deteriorating the separation effect, and that the separation effect may be improved if such condensed reject is diluted in the screen.
To solve the above problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method and an apparatus for screening waste paper in which a single screen has screening and defibering sections and reject after the defibration is diluted and re-separated, thereby increasing contaminant removal ratio and production yield and achieving space- and cost-saving and simple system control.
To attain the above object, an apparatus according to a first aspect of the present invention comprises
a cylindrical casing having a stock inlet at one end thereof, a reject outlet at the other end thereof and an accept stock outlet between the ends thereof, PA1 a cylindrical screen plate concentrically fixed to define a space between an inner surface of said casing and said screen plate, PA1 an annular defibration stator concentrically disposed adjacent to an end of said screen plate near said reject outlet, PA1 a rotor rotated around an axis of said casing, PA1 said casing partitioned into an inlet chamber communicated with said stock inlet and with a space inside said screen plate, an accept chamber outside said screen plate and communicated with said accept stock outlet and a reject chamber communicated with said reject outlet, PA1 said rotor having scraper blades faced to said screen plate for preventing plugging of the screen, a defibration rotor faced to said defibration stator and a dilution chamber opened to said reject chamber, PA1 dilution openings extending through a peripheral wall of said dilution chamber and spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction so as to pass dilution water toward said screen plate between axial ends of said screen plate, PA1 facing surfaces of said defibration stator and said defibration rotor being divergent toward said reject chamber, and PA1 a dilution water nozzle in said casing adjacent to said dilution chamber for feeding dilution water to said dilution chamber. PA1 a cylindrical casing having a stock inlet at one end thereof, a reject outlet at the other end thereof and a plurality of accept stock outlets between the ends thereof, PA1 cylindrical front and rear screen plates concentrically fixed to define a space between an inner surface of said casing and said screen plates, PA1 an annular defibration stator concentrically disposed between said front and rear screen plates, PA1 a rotor rotated around an axis of said casing, PA1 said casing partitioned into an inlet chamber communicated with said stock inlet and with a space inside said front screen plate, accept stock chambers disposed outside said screen plates and communicated with said accept stock outlets and a reject chamber communicated with said reject outlet, PA1 said rotor having scraper blades faced to said screen plates for preventing plugging of the screen, a defibration rotor faced to said defibration stator and a dilution chamber opened to said reject chamber, PA1 dilution openings extending through a peripheral wall of said dilution chamber and spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction so as to pass dilution water toward said screen plates and PA1 a dilution water nozzle in said casing for feeding dilution water to said dilution chamber.
An apparatus according to a second aspect of the present invention comprises
In the first aspect of the present invention, waste paper stock pulp slurry containing undefibered waste paper is introduced into the screen to separate the slurry into a high quality stock passing through the screen plate and a reject not passing through the screen plate. Said high quality stock is sent to a next stage as accept. Said reject is passed through the gap of the defibrator comprising said defibration stator and said defibration rotor adjacent to said screen plate so that undefibered waste paper in said reject is defibered and the reject is increased in pressure and is discharged into the reject chamber where it is diluted with dilution water and circulated through the dilution chamber to said screen, the reject being partly discharged out of the system.
In the second aspect of the present invention, waste paper stock pulp slurry containing undefibered waste paper is introduced into a front screening section to separate the slurry into a high quality stock passing through the front screen plate and a reject not passing through the front screen plate. Said high quality stock is sent to a next stage as accept. Said reject is passed through the gap of the defibrator comprising said defibration stator and said defibration rotor adjacent to said front screen plate so that undefibered waste paper in said reject is defibered. The slurry thus processed for defibration is sent to the rear screening section disposed adjacent to said defibrator and is separated into a high quality stock passing through the rear screen plate and a reject:not passing through the rear screen plate. Said high quality stock is sent to a next stage as accept. Said reject is discharged out of the system through the reject outlet. Dilution water is supplied to the front and rear screening sections through the rotor.
Embodiments of the present invention will be described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.


Jane Onyanga-Omara and Thomas Maresca

USA TODAY

Divers, drones and sonar equipment were deployed Tuesday in the recovery operation for the Lion Air plane and the 189 people it was carrying after the aircraft crashed into the Java Sea on Monday, amid reports that it malfunctioned the previous day.

Lion Air said in a statement that rescuers sent 24 body bags to a police hospital in the Indonesian capital Jakarta for identification and that the airline flew more than 180 grieving relatives of those aboard to the capital.

It said the recovery of the passengers, crew and the 2-month-old Boeing plane was ongoing.

Specialist ships and a remotely operated underwater vehicle were searching for the plane’s hull and flight recorder, which authorities believe will not take long to find because of the relatively shallow 115 foot depth of the waters where the plane crashed.

Flight JT 610 took off at 6:20 a.m. local time Monday and crashed just 13 minutes later. The flight was bound for the city of Pangkal Pinang on Bangka – Indonesia's ninth-largest island – when it lost contact.

Its pilot had requested clearance to return to the airport just 2-3 minutes after takeoff, which aviation experts said indicated a technical problem.

The disaster has reignited concerns about safety in Indonesia’s fast-growing aviation industry, which was recently removed from European Union and U.S. blacklists.

The president of Lion Air, Edward Sirait, told reporters Monday that the plane had a technical issue on its previous flight but said it had been resolved according to the manufacturer’s procedures. He did not provide any specific details on that incident.

Two passengers on the plane’s previous flight from Bali to Jakarta described numerous issues that caused concern.

Indonesian TV presenter Conchita Caroline said in an online post that boarding of the flight Sunday was delayed by more than an hour and when the plane was being towed, a technical problem forced it to return to its parking space.

She said passengers sat in the cabin without air conditioning for at least 30 minutes listening to an “unusual” engine roar, while some children vomited from the heat, until staff faced with rising anger let them disembark.

After about 30 minutes of passengers waiting on the tarmac, they were told to board again while an engine was checked.

Caroline said she queried a staff member but was met with a defensive response.

“He just showed me the flight permit that he had signed and said he said the problem had been settled,” she said. “He treated me like a passenger full of disturbing dramas even though what I was asking represented friends and confused tourists who didn’t understand Indonesian.”

Another passenger, Alon Soetanto, told TVOne the plane dropped suddenly several times in the first few minutes of its flight.

“About three to eight minutes after it took off, I felt like the plane was losing power and unable to rise. That happened several times during the flight,” he said. “We felt like in a roller coaster. Some passengers began to panic and vomit.”

His account is consistent with data from flight-tracking sites that show erratic speed, altitude and direction in the minutes after takeoff. A similar pattern is also seen in data pinged from Monday’s fatal flight. Safety experts cautioned, however, that the data must be checked for accuracy against the plane’s so-called black boxes.

The Boeing 737 MAX series has only been in commercial operation since 2016, and this is the first crash involving the aircraft, a single-aisle plane used for short-haul flights. The plane, which has a capacity of up to 210 passengers, has received 4,783 orders by airlines, with 219 fulfilled as of September 2018, according to company data.

Lion Air, which was founded in 1999, has had some safety and maintenance issues in the past and was banned from flying into European airspace from 2007 until 2016. The U.S. lifted a decade long ban in 2016. The airline had a crash in 2004 that killed 25 and has had a number of other incidents, including a crash landing in the sea near Bali in which all 108 passengers survived.

The Australian government announced on Monday that it was instructing all government officials and contractors not to fly Lion Air until the findings of the crash investigation are clear.

Contributing: The Associated Press


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The worst archibishop ever

The new archbishop of San Francisco isn't just a conservative. All the bishops appointed by this pope are conservatives. The new guy overseeing the Catholic Church in one of the most socially liberal parts of the world is a genuine culture-warrior, someone who (literally) says that same-sex marriage is the work of the devil and who wanted to make the use of contraception a mortal sin.

has cultivated one of the most theologically conservative worldviews imaginable. Especially when it comes to sexual matters, Bishop Sal is conservative and uncompromising.

What I hear through the Catholic rumor mill is that the Vatican folks who screen candidates for these jobs gave the pope a list of three names. He rejected them all and chose Cordileone.

So now the center of the crazy-looney-here-comes-the-devil branch of the Church has a powerful throne here in San Francisco. What this is going to do, of course, is drive gay people, and liberals, and moderates, and pretty much everyone who's sane to question why they even stay in the Catholic Church. And maybe, as one gay Catholic told me, that's exactly what Rome has in mind -- get rid of the malcontents and the thinkers until the Catholic Taliban is all that's left.

I suspect Bishop Sal is going to have some problems in his new assignment.


Q:

How to use awk variables in regular expressions?

I have a file called domain which contains some domains. For example:
google.com
facebook.com
...
yahoo.com

And I have another file called site which contains some sites URLs and numbers. For example:
image.google.com   10
map.google.com     8
...
photo.facebook.com  22
game.facebook.com   15
..

Now I'm going to count the url number each domain has. For example: google.com has 10+8. So I wrote an awk script like this:
BEGIN{
  while(getline dom < "./domain" > 0) {
    domain[dom]=0;
  }
  for(dom in domain) {
    while(getline < "./site" > 0) {
      if($1 ~/$dom$)   #if $1 end with $dom {
        domain[dom]+=$2;
      }
    }
  }
}

But the code if($1 ~/$dom$) doesn't run like I want. Because the variable $dom in the regular expression was explained literally. So, the first question is:
Is there any way to use variable $dom in a regular expression?
Then, as I'm new to writing script
Is there any better way to solve the problem I have?

A:

awk can match against a variable if you don't use the // regex markers.
if ( $0 ~ regex ){ print $0; }
In this case, build up the required regex as a string
regex = dom"$"

Then match against the regex variable
if ( $1 ~ regex ) {
  domain[dom]+=$2;
}

A:

First of all, the variable is dom not $dom -- consider $ as an operator to extract the value of the column number stored in the variable dom
Secondly, awk will not interpolate what's between // -- that is just a string in there.
You want the match() function where the 2nd argument can be a string that is treated as the regular expression:
if (match($1, dom "$")) {...}

I would code a solution like:
awk '
  FNR == NR {domain[$1] = 0; next}
  {
    for (dom in domain) {
      if (match($1, dom "$")) {
        domain[dom] += $2
        break
      }
    }
  }
  END {for (dom in domain) {print dom, domain[dom]}}
' domain site


918 F.2d 84
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,v.CITY OF SPOKANE, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 90-35118.
United States Court of Appeals,Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Oct. 5, 1990.Decided Oct. 31, 1990.As Amended on Grant of Appellee's Motion For ClarificationNov. 27, 1990.

Laurie Flinn Connelly and Michael A. Nelson, Asst. City Attys., Spokane, Wash., for defendant-appellant.
Gary R. Allen, David English Carmack, and Kenneth W. Rosenberg, Attys., Tax Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff-appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington.
Before SKOPIL, O'SCANNLAIN and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges.
FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judge:

1
The United States brought this action against the City of Spokane ("the City") and Spokane's Manager of Finance, Peter Fortin, to preclude the collection of a tax on the gambling proceeds of a local unit of the American National Red Cross, and to recover back taxes, together with interest.  The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the United States1 and the City appealed.  We affirm.

BACKGROUND

2
The American National Red Cross is a unique charitable institution.  It was created by the United States to perform such exceedingly important public functions as aiding "the sick and wounded of Armed Forces in time of war," and carrying on "a system of national and international relief in time of peace" to mitigate "the sufferings caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods, and other great national calamities...."  36 U.S.C. Sec. 3.  Eight of its fifty governors are appointed by the President of the United States and one of those eight acts as the principal officer of the corporation.  36 U.S.C. Sec. 5(a).  While the organization must support itself from public donations and other sources, the United States does supply it with a permanent headquarters building.  36 U.S.C. Sec. 13.  The financial reports of the organization are audited by the Department of Defense.  36 U.S.C. Sec. 6.

3
The Inland Northwest Chapter of the American National Red Cross has been a chartered local organization since 1914.  As such it is a local unit of the American National Red Cross.  36 U.S.C. Sec. 4a.  We will hereafter refer to the American National Red Cross as the "Red Cross" and the Chapter as the "INC".  However, since the INC is a unit of the Red Cross, what we say about the rights and duties of the Red Cross also applies to the INC.

4
The State of Washington authorizes bona fide charitable or non-profit organizations to conduct bingo, pull-tab, and punchboard games.  Wash.Rev.Code Sec. 9.46.0311 (1988).2   The Red Cross is an organization that comes within that definition.  Wash.Rev.Code Sec. 9.46.0209.  At the same time, the State of Washington authorizes cities to tax certain of the proceeds of those gambling activities--Wash.Rev.Code Sec. 9.46.110--and since 1982 the City has levied a gambling tax upon the INC.  Spokane, Wash.Ord. Sec. 8.40.020 (1982).

5
For some time, the INC paid that tax without apparent protest, but in February of 1986 it did protest and requested a refund of all gambling taxes paid since July 1, 1980.  The request was denied.  The United States then brought this action to obtain the refund, with interest, and to enjoin any further levies.

6
Cross motions for summary judgment were filed, and the district court ultimately entered a judgment which required the disgorgement of prior exactions by the City, together with prejudgment interest from the date of the demand for refund.  The district court further directed that the City cease further imposition of the tax.  This appeal followed.

JURISDICTION AND STANDARD OF REVIEW

7
The district court had jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1331, and we have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291.

8
We review the grant of summary judgment de novo.  Kruso v. International Tel. & Tel., 872 F.2d 1416, 1421 (9th Cir.1989), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 110 S.Ct. 3217, 110 L.Ed.2d 664 (1990).  On constitutional questions, this court reviews findings of fact for clear error, and mixed questions of fact and law de novo.  State of Nevada Employees Ass'n Inc. v. Keating, 903 F.2d 1223, 1226 (9th Cir.1990);  La Duke v. Nelson, 762 F.2d 1318, 1322 (1985), modified, 796 F.2d 309 (9th Cir.1986).  Questions of law are reviewed de novo.  United States v. McConney, 728 F.2d 1195, 1201 (9th Cir.)  (en banc), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 824, 105 S.Ct. 101, 83 L.Ed.2d 46 (1984).

DISCUSSION

9
Two major issues confront us.  First, is the Red Cross an instrumentality of the United States which is immune from this kind of taxation?    Second, if it is, should the INC have been granted a refund of the back taxes?    We will discuss each of these issues in turn.

A. The Red Cross Is Immune from This Tax

10
One of the hoariest principles of federal-state governmental relations is that no state can impose a tax upon an instrumentality of the United States Government.  As the Supreme Court, speaking through Chief Justice Marshall, eloquently stated in M'Culloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S.  (4 Wheat.) 316, 431, 4 L.Ed. 579 (1819), that principle is bottomed upon certain important axioms:

11
That the power to tax involves the power to destroy;  that the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create;  that there is a plain repugnance in conferring on one government a power to control the constitutional measures of another, which other, with respect to those very measures, is declared to be supreme over that which exerts the control, are propositions not to be denied.

12
Nor can it be said that a little taxation, or taxation of just one function or instrumentality, is proper.  M'Culloch also dealt with those possibilities.  The Court said:

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We are not driven to the perplexing inquiry, so unfit for the judicial department, what degree of taxation is the legitimate use, and what degree may amount to the abuse of the power.  The attempt to use it on the means employed by the government of the Union, in pursuance of the constitution, is itself an abuse, because it is the usurpation of a power which the people of a single state cannot give.

14
M'Culloch, 17 U.S.  (4 Wheat.) at 430.    The Court continued:

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If the states may tax one instrument, employed by the government in the execution of its powers, they may tax any and every other instrument.  They may tax the mail;  they may tax the mint;  they may tax patent-rights;  they may tax the papers of the custom-house;  they may tax judicial process;  they may tax all the means employed by the government, to an excess which would defeat all the ends of government.  This was not intended by the American people.  They did not design to make their government dependent on the states.

16
M'Culloch, 17 U.S.  (4 Wheat.) at 432.

17
Nothing could be more forcefully established, and while those principles alone do not demonstrate that the Red Cross is an instrumentality of the United States, there can be no doubt that it is.  The Supreme Court made that clear in Department of Employment v. United States, 385 U.S. 355, 358, 87 S.Ct. 464, 467, 17 L.Ed.2d 414 (1966) where it said, "[W]e hold that the Red Cross is an instrumentality of the United States for purposes of immunity from state taxation levied on its operations, and that this immunity has not been waived by congressional enactment."

18
At first blush that would appear to dispose of this issue, but the City claims that accretions to the M'Culloch doctrine make it inapplicable to the INC activities which were taxed here.  That claim is based upon a misreading of the authorities.

19
The City first points to Federal Land Bank v. Board of County Comm'rs, 368 U.S. 146, 82 S.Ct. 282, 7 L.Ed.2d 199 (1961), a case in which the Supreme Court struck down a tax levy on the Federal Land Bank, an instrumentality of the United States.  In so doing, the Court indicated that if the activity being performed is not within the authority granted to the instrumentality, for example if it were illegal, taxation may be appropriate.  Federal Land Bank, 368 U.S. at 152-56, 82 S.Ct. at 287-89.    That, however, has no application whatever to this case.  There can be no doubt that the Red Cross can engage in activities designed to earn money.  In fact, because it is not, for the most part, funded with tax dollars, it must engage in many fund raising activities if it is to survive.  While we do not suggest that the Red Cross can engage in illegal activities in pursuit of its goals, there is nothing illegal about the gambling activities the INC engaged in here.

20
But the City claims that there is still another string to its bow, for some activities of agencies of the United States can be taxed.  Here again, when gazing upon the authorities cited one must be purblind if one is to overlook the distinctions between those authorities and this case.

21
Thus, in James v. Dravo Contracting Co., 302 U.S. 134, 58 S.Ct. 208, 82 L.Ed. 155 (1937), a private independent corporation that had contracts with the United States complained about the taxation of its gross receipts.  The Court declined to find that a tax on the private entity was a tax upon the government or its instrumentalities, even though the effect of the tax could, in theory, be felt by the government.  James, 302 U.S. at 161, 58 S.Ct. at 221.    That is not this case;  the Red Cross is no mere private contractor, it is a United States instrumentality.  The same analysis applies to United States v. New Mexico, 455 U.S. 720, 102 S.Ct. 1373, 71 L.Ed.2d 580 (1982).  There, too, a tax on the receipts of private contractors was attacked;  there, too, the tax was sustained.  The Court indicated that the mere fact that a contractor acts as an agent of the government does not mean that it is an agency or instrumentality of the government.  It does not mean that the contractor stands in the government's shoes.  455 U.S. at 735-36, 102 S.Ct. at 1383.    The entities in question were not so integrated into the structure of the government that its tax immunity devolved upon them.  Rather, it was realistic to view them as the private entities they were--entities "independent of the United States."    455 U.S. at 738, 102 S.Ct. at 1385.    When dealing with entities of that stripe, it is necessary to be extremely careful about parsing their various activities when they claim that a tax falls directly on the United States.  The same does not apply when one is dealing with an acknowledged government instrumentality such as the Red Cross.  To do so in that instance would engage the courts in the unfit inquiry that M'Culloch warned against.  17 U.S.  (4 Wheat.) at 430.    Private independent contractors may be agencies because they act as agents.  They are not to be confused with instrumentalities like the Red Cross which are agencies because they were created to carry out functions of the government itself and are, therefore, imbedded in the structure of the government to that extent.3   As the Supreme Court has said, "both the President and Congress have recognized and acted in reliance upon the Red Cross' status virtually as an arm of the Government."    Department of Employment, 385 U.S. at 359-60, 87 S.Ct. at 467.    The Court agreed with that characterization.

22
In a final bid to deflect the inexorable force of the law in this area, the City asserts that the Red Cross is not really a tax exempt instrumentality of the government, because we have said that it is not an agency for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act.  See Irwin Memorial Blood Bank v. American Nat'l Red Cross, 640 F.2d 1051, 1057 (9th Cir.1981).  That is an astonishing proposition.  It suggests that we, in effect, overturned Department of Employment when we decided Irwin Memorial Blood Bank.    We did no such thing.  What we did decide was that given the purposes and the background of the Freedom of Information Act, the Red Cross was not an agency within the meaning of that statute.  To extrapolate from that holding to the area of the law which we must deal with here would be a serious logical and semantic error.  It would insist that an entity incorporated by an act of Congress to carry out essentially public functions is not exempt from taxation as it struggles to accomplish those purposes.  It would insist upon that even when the entity's activities are lawful, necessary and in pursuit of its duties as an instrumentality of the United States.  It would insist upon that based on the fallacy that a word which has a meaning in one context must have the selfsame meaning when transplanted to an entirely different context.  We must eschew that extrapolation.

23
It follows that the City improperly imposed the gambling tax upon INC.

24
B. The City Must Disgorge the Taxes It Collected

25
The City asserts that even if the tax is invalid, it should not be required to reimburse the INC for the taxes which have already been collected.  Discussion of that claim requires analysis of two sub-issues.  Should the decision here be given retroactive effect, and, if so, what remedy is proper?

26
While the issues sometimes seem to be entangled, the Supreme Court has recently been at some pains to untangle them.  See American Trucking Ass'ns, Inc. v. Smith, --- U.S. ----, 110 S.Ct. 2323, 110 L.Ed.2d 148 (1990).  In American Trucking, the Court pointed out that retroactivity must be decided by use of the analysis outlined in Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson, 404 U.S. 97, 92 S.Ct. 349, 30 L.Ed.2d 296 (1971).  That does not, however, answer the remedy question, a question usually left to the states themselves to work out.  American Trucking, 110 S.Ct. at 2330.    See also Probe v. State Teachers' Retirement Sys., 780 F.2d 776, 782-84 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 476 U.S. 1170, 106 S.Ct. 2891, 90 L.Ed.2d 978 (1986), where we, in effect, recognized and applied the distinctions.

27
Because we need not consider the question of remedy if the effect of our decision is not retroactive, we will first consider retroactivity.4

28
Our retroactivity analysis must apply the three-part Chevron Oil test:

29
First, the decision to be applied nonretroactively must establish a new principle of law, either by overruling clear past precedent on which litigants may have relied ... or by deciding an issue of first impression whose resolution was not clearly foreshadowed....  Second, it has been stressed that "we must ... weigh the merits and demerits in each case by looking to the prior history of the rule in question, its purpose and effect, and whether retrospective operation will further or retard its operation."  ...  Finally, we have weighed the inequity imposed by retroactive application, for "[w]here a decision ... could produce substantial inequitable results if applied retroactively, there is ample basis in our cases for avoiding the 'injustice or hardship' by a holding of nonretroactivity."

30
404 U.S. at 106-07, 92 S.Ct. at 355 (citations omitted).

31
Our decision striking down this tax does not meet the tests of nonretroactivity.  We overrule no precedent here and we do not decide an issue of first impression.  As we have shown, our determination regarding the status of the Red Cross does not proceed from some obscure and half-formed idea only now wrested into the light of day.  Rather, it proceeds from a long, if sometimes wavy, line of Supreme Court authority.  This alone indicates that retroactivity is required.  See Ashland Oil, Inc. v. Caryl, --- U.S. ----, 110 S.Ct. 3202, 3205, 111 L.Ed.2d 734 (1990) (per curiam).  However, we will also look to the other elements.  We are dealing with a fundamental principle that precludes the taxation of United States governmental functions.  Retroactive operation of our decision will surely foster a proper respect for that principle by encouraging local entities to tread carefully when they impose taxes on entities like the Red Cross.  Finally, no inequity results from retroactive application.  It is true that the City may already have used the tax money, but at the very least it should have entertained the gravest doubts about its right to collect the tax in the first place.  Against that is the inequity to the INC which would be wrought were it forced to forego its claim to recover.5   Therefore, this decision will apply retroactively.

32
We turn then to the question of relief.  That the INC is entitled to relief can hardly be questioned.  It is true that the exact form of relief is often left to the local governmental entity when a tax is struck down as unconstitutional.  However, that is typically done in cases where there is a commerce clause violation which can be remedied in any one of a number of ways.  See, e.g., Ashland Oil, 110 S.Ct. at 3205;  American Trucking, 110 S.Ct. at 2330;  McKesson Corp., 110 S.Ct. at 2252.    That approach has no application here, for here, purely and simply, a tax has been exacted from a federal instrumentality.  The only logical relief, aside from precluding further taxation, is to order the improperly taken monies refunded.  That was the course adopted in Department of Employment, 385 U.S. at 357, 87 S.Ct. at 466.    It is the course the district court adopted;  it is the course we adopt today.CONCLUSION

33
The Red Cross is a United States Government instrumentality which is immune from state and local taxation when it is lawfully pursuing its mandated purposes.  Here, the INC was engaged in fundraising by lawfully conducting certain gambling activities.  The City erred when it levied a tax on those activities.

34
Thus, the City must cease making that levy and must refund back taxes paid by the INC since November 21, 1982, together with interest from February 28, 1986, the date that the INC made its demand.

35
AFFIRMED.

1
 United States v. City of Spokane, 734 F.Supp. 919 (E.D.Wash.1989)

2
 The citations to the Washington Code are to the current version of that law.  Earlier versions were to the same effect, as far as the issues on this appeal are concerned

3
 California State Bd. of Equalization v. Sierra Summit, Inc., 490 U.S. 844, 109 S.Ct. 2228, 104 L.Ed.2d 910 (1989), and Washington v. United States, 460 U.S. 536, 103 S.Ct. 1344, 75 L.Ed.2d 264 (1983), which also uphold taxation of a bankruptcy trustee's sales and private construction contractors' income, respectively, apply the same principles and are to the same effect

4
 There is much jurisprudential debate about the propriety of any such analysis in the area of the constitution.  See American Trucking, 110 S.Ct. at 2343 (Scalia, J., concurring).  We, of course, cannot enter the arena.  We leave the battle to other gladiators

5
 There is no assertion that this action is barred by the statute of limitations.  Nor is there a claim that payment under protest was required by Washington law.  Cf. McKesson Corp. v. Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco, --- U.S. ----, 110 S.Ct. 2238, 2243-44 n. 4, 110 L.Ed.2d 17 (1990)


Waikinya Clanton, the associate director of community engagement for the Democratic National Committee, talked about the importance of black voters to the Democratic Party at an event in the Marvin Center Amphitheater Monday night.

A top member of the Democratic National Committee came to the Marvin Center Amphitheater Monday night for an event about the role of the black vote in the Democratic Party.

The discussion, organized by the GW College Democrats, the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the GWU Black Men’s Initiative and the Black Girl Mentorship Program, featured Waikinya Clanton, the DNC’s associate director of community engagement, who talked about need to make black voters feel valued as a core part of the party’s base.

”We want each person to know there is something for them,” she said. “Everyone has a place in this party.”

Clanton said it should be the role of the entire party to promote and highlight issues important to the black community.

“You don’t have to be black to understand black issues,” she said. “You don’t have to be black to want to support black issues.”

Clanton recounted a history of efforts to disenfranchise black voters, including voter suppression through closed polls and broken down election machines. She said U.S. elections have continued to struggle to incorporate all voices of the electorate, an issue she called both “disgusting” and extremely challenging to fix.

“We understand that voting isn’t just a right, but a responsibility,” she said.

Clanton added that 2016 was the first time some black voters in the deep south felt that they could go to the polls without needing protection, highlighting cases in Georgia and Montgomery County, Ala. She also emphasized that the DNC is working to expand voter protection hotlines, providing training on dealing with voter harassment and – if necessary – providing lawyers in areas where voter suppression remains a threat.

Clanton also discussed the need to “stay attentive” and hold elected officials accountable for campaign promises. She pointed to gerrymandering as an example of representatives attempting to control their time in office by shaping districts that will be friendly to their policies.

“You should never let a person ask you to vote for them without asking them what they are going to do about X, Y and Z,” she said.

Clanton gave audience members the opportunity to register to vote during the event if they hadn’t already signed up.

She added that the most important goal for the party should be bringing people from all walks of life to the table and including them in a discussion about the issues facing the country.


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