862 F.2d 1398
Richard M. ROSENTHAL, Plaintiff-Appellant,v.Jane FONDA, et al., Defendant-Appellee.
No. 87-5659.
United States Court of Appeals,Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted Aug. 1, 1988.Decided Dec. 13, 1988.

Lawrence B. Steinberg, Wyman, Bautzer, Kuchel & Silbert, Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.
Stanton L. Stein, Stein & Kahan, Santa Monica, Cal., for defendant-appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Before FLETCHER, CANBY and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges.
CANBY, Circuit Judge:

1
Richard Rosenthal appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Jane Fonda and four of her related corporations.  The district court determined that New York law controlled this dispute and that New York's statute of frauds barred Rosenthal's claim against Fonda for breach of an oral contract.  On appeal, Rosenthal contends that California, not New York, law should control this action and that California's statute of frauds does not bar his oral contract claim against Fonda.  In addition, Rosenthal contends that even if New York law does properly control, his contract with Fonda is not barred by New York's statute of frauds.  We affirm the district court's holding that New York's statute of frauds controls and that it serves to bar Rosenthal from enforcing this oral contract against Fonda.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

2
This action arises out of the twelve year relationship between Jane Fonda and her former attorney and general business manager, Richard Rosenthal.  In 1968, Fonda, a California resident, retained the services of a New York law firm.  She entered into an oral agreement with the firm that she would pay five percent of her earnings as compensation for the firm's services.  Rosenthal, an attorney with the firm, assumed responsibility for a large share of the firm's activities on Fonda's behalf.  In 1971, the law firm dissolved and in 1972, Rosenthal began to represent Fonda as an independent private practitioner.  Rosenthal alleges that in April of 1972, he and Fonda entered into an oral contract whereby he agreed to continue performing a variety of services for Fonda and she, in turn, agreed to pay him ten percent of all gross professional income derived from the projects that were initiated during his tenure.

3
Rosenthal continued to represent Fonda from his New York office.  In 1978, Rosenthal and his family moved to California, at Fonda's request, so that he could be closer to her and represent her more efficiently.  Despite relocating, Rosenthal maintained a home and an office in New York.  Fonda discharged Rosenthal approximately two years later, on May 30, 1980.

4
Rosenthal brought suit against Fonda in California district court to recover commissions on projects that were initiated during his tenure and produced or continued to produce income after his termination.  The district court granted Fonda's motion for partial summary judgment, holding that New York's statute of frauds applied and served to bar Rosenthal's oral contract claim unless Fonda was equitably estopped from asserting the statute as a defense.  After a bench trial on the equitable estoppel issue, the district court granted Fonda's motion for a directed verdict, ruling that she was not equitably estopped from asserting the defense.1   Accordingly, the court entered judgment for Fonda.

DISCUSSION

5
We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1291.  Rosenthal appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Fonda, thus, we review the court's decision de novo.    KL Group v. Case, Kay & Lynch, 829 F.2d 909, 914 (9th Cir.1987).  See also Ledesma v. Jack Stewart Produce, Inc., 816 F.2d 482, 484 (9th Cir.1987) (district court's conflict of law determination is reviewed de novo ).

6
Rosenthal contends that the district court should have applied California, not New York, law to resolve this dispute.  The district court correctly recognized that a federal court sitting in diversity must apply the conflict of law rules of the forum.  Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Mfg. Co., 313 U.S. 487, 496, 61 S.Ct. 1020, 1021, 85 L.Ed. 1477 (1941).  This case comes from the United States District Court for the Central District of California;  therefore, California's conflict of law rules apply to determine whether California or New York law should properly control this case.  California utilizes the "governmental interest" analysis in deciding conflicts of law.  See Liew v. Official Receiver and Liquidator, 685 F.2d 1192, 1195-96 (9th Cir.1982).

7
The application of California's governmental interest analysis requires three steps.  Liew, 685 F.2d at 1196.    First, the substantive law of each state must be examined to assure that the laws differ as applied to this transaction.  Second, if the laws do differ, the court must determine whether a "true conflict" exists in that both New York and California have an interest in having its law applied.  Finally, if a true conflict exists, the court must determine which state's interest would be more impaired if its policy were subordinated to the policy of the other.  Id.  The conflict is resolved by applying the law of the state whose interest would be most impaired if its law were not applied.  Id.

8
I. Do The Laws of the Two States Differ?

9
The principal issue in this dispute is whether Rosenthal's breach of oral contract claim is barred under the statute of frauds provision that requires that all contracts not to be performed within one year be in writing.  Textually, the relevant New York and California provisions of the statute of frauds are essentially identical.  New York's statute of frauds provides that "[e]very agreement, promise or undertaking is void or unenforceable unless it or some note or memorandum thereof be in writing and subscribed by the party to be charged therewith, or his agent, if such agreement, promise or undertaking, by its terms is not to be performed within one year from making thereof ..." N.Y.Gen.Oblig.Law Sec. 5-701.  Similarly, California's statute provides that "[t]he following contracts are invalid, unless the same, or some note or memorandum thereof, is in writing and subscribed by the party to be charged or by his agent:  1. An agreement that by its terms is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof ..." Cal.Civ.Code Sec. 1624.1.

10
The district court found that while these two provisions are facially identical, they are interpreted differently.  The court correctly determined that in California, Rosenthal's employment contract with Fonda, terminable at the will of either party, would fall outside the bar of the state's statute of frauds because it is capable of being performed within a year.  See Eisenberg v. Insurance Company of North America, 815 F.2d 1285, 1291 (9th Cir.1987).  California's one year provision is interpreted literally and narrowly.  Plumlee v. Poag, 150 Cal.App.3d 541, 198 Cal.Rptr. 66, 71 (1984).  Only those oral contracts which "expressly preclude performance within one year" or that "cannot possibly be performed within one year" are unenforceable.  Id.;  White Lighting Co. v. Wolfson, 68 Cal.2d 336, 66 Cal.Rptr. 697, 701, 438 P.2d 345, 349 (1968);  see Robards v. Gaylord Brothers, Inc., 854 F.2d 1152 (9th Cir.1988).  In this case, Fonda could have discharged Rosenthal after he had worked for her for six months;  therefore, this contract was capable of being performed within one year.  Moreover, California's statute of frauds does not invalidate oral employment contracts that call for the payment of commissions after one year or upon termination of the employment relationship.  White Lighting, 66 Cal.Rptr. at 701-02, 438 P.2d at 349-50.    Thus, Rosenthal's oral contract with Fonda would not be barred under California's statute of frauds.

11
In New York, however, while a typical employment contract with no fixed term is not barred by the statute of frauds, Fisher v. Ken Carter Industries, Inc., 127 A.D.2d 817, 512 N.Y.S.2d 408, 409 (1987), a commission sales arrangement that extends beyond the employee's termination or that has no specific time frame has repeatedly been held to be one that cannot be performed within one year.  See Zupan v. Blumberg, 2 N.Y.2d 547, 161 N.Y.S.2d 428, 429, 141 N.E.2d 819, 822 (1957);  Urvant v. Imco Poultry, Inc., 325 F.Supp. 677, 683-85 (E.D.N.Y.1970), aff'd, 440 F.2d 1355 (2d Cir.1971) (summarizing New York case law applying the one year provision to continuing commission arrangements).  The New York rule was enunciated in McCollester v. Chisholm, 104 A.D.2d 361, 478 N.Y.S.2d 691 (1984), aff'd, 65 N.Y.2d 891, 493 N.Y.S.2d 310, 482 N.E.2d 1226 (1985):

12
A service contract of indefinite duration, in which one party agrees to procure customers, or accounts, or orders on behalf of the second party, is not by its terms performable within one year--and hence must be in writing and signed by the party to be charged--since performance is dependent, not upon the will of the parties to the contract, but on that of a third party.

13
Id. at 692.

14
The key element in deciding whether New York's statute of frauds applies to bar a commission sales agreement is whether the defendant can unilaterally terminate the contract, discharging all promises made to the plaintiff including the promise to make commission payments.  See North Shore Bottling Co. v. C. Schmidt & Sons, Inc., 22 N.Y.2d 171, 292 N.Y.S.2d 86, 90, 239 N.E.2d 189, 191 (1968).  If commission payments are due under the contract after one party has fully performed, the contract, by its own terms, cannot be performed within a year because there is no way the defendant can unilaterally terminate the contract.  See Shirley Polykoff Advertising, Inc. v. Houbigant, Inc., 43 N.Y.2d 921, 403 N.Y.S.2d 732, 733, 374 N.E.2d 625, 626 (1978) (contract providing that advertising agency receive $5,000 a year for every year the advertisement is used cannot be performed within one year).  See also Urvant, 325 F.Supp. at 685-86 (Under New York law, the statute of frauds is applicable "where nothing in the commission contract contemplates its fulfillment within a year and no term or event controlled by the parties will bring the contract to an end with its promises discharged.").

15
In the present case, Rosenthal contends that Fonda promised him a percentage fee every time a project initiated during his tenure generated income.  Fonda could not unilaterally terminate this contract once Rosenthal performed because she would continue to owe Rosenthal money under the contract for as long as his projects generated income.  Moreover, Fonda's liability to perform under the contract and make commission payments to Rosenthal is dependent not upon her will, but upon the will of others who may elect, for example, to exhibit her works.  This contract, therefore, would be barred under New York's statute of frauds as one that by its own terms could not be performed within a year.

16
II. Does A "True Conflict" Exist?

17
Because the substantive law of California and that of New York differ when applied to this oral contract, we must next determine whether both New York and California have an interest in having their own law applied.  Liew, 685 F.2d at 1196.    If only one state has a legitimate interest in the application of its law, there is no real problem;  the law of the interested state should control.  Hill v. Hill, 193 Cal.App.3d 1118, 238 Cal.Rptr. 745, 748 (1987).

18
California, as the forum state, has an interest in having its law applied to this case.  See Hill, 238 Cal.Rptr. at 749.    "Generally, the preference is to apply California law, rather than choose the foreign law as a rule of decision."    Strassberg v. New England Mut. Life Ins. Co., 575 F.2d 1262, 1264 (9th Cir.1978).  As the forum, a California court will conclude that a conflict is "false" and apply its own law unless the application of the foreign law will "significantly advance the interests of the foreign state."    Id.  See also S.A. Empresa de Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense v. Boeing Co., 641 F.2d 746, 749 (9th Cir.1981).  California presumably also has an interest in the enforcement of oral contracts involving one of its domiciliaries, although it may be questioned whether it is interested in applying its rule to protect a domiciliary of New York when New York would not protect him.

19
New York can be said to have an interest if the policies underlying its statute of frauds would be advanced when the law is applied to this transaction.  See Fleury v. Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 698 F.2d 1022, 1025 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 464 U.S. 846, 104 S.Ct. 149, 78 L.Ed.2d 139 (1983).  The district court correctly found that New York's statute of frauds is meant to protect not only the state's residents, but also nonresidents who employ New York agents.  See e.g., Intercontinental Planning, Ltd. v. Daystrom, Inc., 24 N.Y.2d 372, 300 N.Y.S.2d 817, 826, 248 N.E.2d 576, 582 (1969) (construing policy behind provision of New York's statute of frauds requiring that finder's fee agreements be in writing).  In O'Keeffe v. Bry, 456 F.Supp. 822 (S.D.N.Y.1978), the court found that Georgia O'Keeffe, a New Mexico resident who had employed the services of a New York agent, had brought her business to New York and was thus entitled to the protections of New York's statute of frauds.  Id. at 828.    See also Haydu v. Hospital For Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute, 557 F.Supp. 577, 580 (S.D.N.Y.1983) (New York is interested in protecting nonresidents to create a stable financial center that will attract out-of-state business).  Thus, New York has an expressed interest in extending the protections of its statute of frauds to nonresidents, like Fonda, who choose to employ or do business with New York residents.

20
In addition, New York has sufficient contacts with this transaction to justify a significant interest in having its own law applied.  See Robert McMullan & Son, Inc. v. U.S. Fidelity & Guaranty Co., 103 Cal.App.3d 198, 162 Cal.Rptr. 720, 723 (1980) " '[w]ith the governmental interest approach, "relevant contacts"...  are not disregarded, but are examined in connection with the analysis of the interest of the involved state in the issues....' " (quoting Dixon Mobile Homes, Inc. v. Walters, 48 Cal.App.3d 964, 972, 122 Cal.Rptr. 202, 207-08 (1975)).  Rosenthal was a New York resident, licensed to practice law only in New York, at the time he entered into the contract with Fonda.  In addition, he performed many years of service under the contract from his New York office;  it was not until 1978 that Rosenthal became licensed to practice law in California and moved to Los Angeles.  Even after he moved, Rosenthal maintained a home and office in New York.  These contacts with New York serve to support New York's interest in having its own law apply to govern this transaction.  Thus, both California and New York have a legitimate interest in having their own law apply to this case.

21
III. The "Comparative Impairment" Analysis.

22
Under the third step in California's governmental interest analysis, the conflict between New York and California law must be resolved by applying the law of the state whose interest would be most impaired if its law were not applied.  Liew, 685 F.2d at 1196.    The district court held that New York's stricter statute of frauds should be applied because New York has an interest in protecting more people than California and California's interest would not be frustrated by the application of New York law.

23
New York courts have made it clear that New York has a strong interest in protecting out-of-state residents, even while making it easier to prove liability against its own residents, in order to encourage the national use of New York services.  See O'Keeffe, 456 F.Supp. at 828.

24
It is true that California has some interest in applying the one year provision of the statute of frauds very narrowly to promote the enforceability of otherwise valid oral contracts.  See Plumlee, 198 Cal.Rptr. at 71.    It is also true that one of the parties to the oral agreement is a domiciliary of California.  Nevertheless, California does not have a strong interest in applying its policy against its domiciliary in order to protect a New York plaintiff that New York has no interest in protecting.2

25
In addition, the parties' reasonable expectations were probably that New York law would apply to their contract.  See Roesgen v. American Home Products Corp., 719 F.2d 319, 321 (9th Cir.1983) (California forum will not apply California law when the facts indicate that the parties' only reasonable expectations were that the law of a foreign state would apply).  Fonda sought out a New York law firm to represent her interests and Rosenthal was a New York resident, licensed to practice law in New York, when he entered into this agreement.  The contract was "substantially performed" by Rosenthal from his New York office.  See id.    Rosenthal entered into the oral agreement with Fonda in April, 1972 and carried out his services from New York until 1978, when he moved to Los Angeles.  Fonda terminated his services approximately two years later.  Thus, the bulk of their agreement was performed by Rosenthal in New York.  These facts indicate that the parties would have reasonably expected New York law to govern their agreement.  Thus, the district court correctly concluded that New York's policies would be most impaired if its law were not applied.

CONCLUSION

26
Under California's three step governmental interest test, the relevant statute of frauds provisions in California and New York produce different results when applied to this transaction, each state has an interest in having its own law applied, and New York's interest would be most impaired if its policies were subordinated to California's policies.  Thus, the district court correctly determined that New York's law should govern this dispute.  Rosenthal's oral fee agreement with Fonda would be barred under New York's statute of frauds as an agreement that cannot, by its own terms, be performed within one year.  Accordingly, the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Fonda is AFFIRMED.

1
 Rosenthal does not appeal the district court's ruling on the question of estoppel

2
 We note that under recent legislation, California now requires certain attorney-client contracts to be in writing.  See Cal.Bus. & Prof.Code Sec. 6147 (West Supp.1988) (oral contingency fee contract voidable at option of plaintiff;  attorney may recover only a reasonable fee);  id. at Sec. 6148 (contract for attorney's services must be in writing in any case in which it is reasonably foreseeable that total expenses to client, including attorney's fees, will exceed $1,000)


Glenn Chong

Glenn Ang Chong (born July 12, 1974) is a Filipino politician. He was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives, representing the Lone District of Biliran. He hold the position for three (3) years before he lost his re-election bid to Rogelio J. Espina, twin brother of Gerardo Espina, Sr.

Personal life
Chong was born on July 12, 1974 in Naval, Biliran. He is a lawyer and certified public accountant by profession. He obtained his Doctor of Humanities (Honoris Causa) degree in University of San Carlos.

Political career
He won his election in 2007 by defeating former Representative Gerardo Espina Sr., who had held the seat from 1995 to 2004, making him the very first representative of Biliran who do not belong to Espina political clan.  He sought for re-election in 2010 and 2013 but lost twice to Rogelio Espina. He ran under Lakas-Kampi and PMP party, respectively.

Chong was a candidate for Senator of the Philippines in the 2019 Philippine general election.

Ambush
Glenn A. Chong's father, Charlie, was ambushed but was unhurt, on the street fronting his Biliran house on June 7, 2008. His 2 bodyguards were killed while another was seriously wounded by 4 armed men which included "Saul," a policeman assigned to the Naval police headquarters who was arrested. Chong accused his family's political enemies for the attack, since his father filed a 2007 graft case against Biliran Gov. Rogelio Espina with the Ombudsman.

Richard Red Santillan, Chong's close-in aide, was ambushed on December 9, 2018. His body was recovered the following day. 30 bullet holes were found in Chong's car, which Santillan was driving at the time of ambush. Atty. Chong is a vocal Smartmatic critic, having testified about electoral fraud in both Senate and Congressional hearings. Santillan was with a female companion in the said car. He was on the way to bring the lady home when the ambush happened. The woman also perished. The Public Attorney's Office will file charges against cops behind the alleged shootout.

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CPA enhances Ca2+ entry in cultured bovine pulmonary arterial endothelial cells in an IP3-independent manner.
Studies of rat aorta revealed that cyclopiazonic acid (CPA), an inhibitor of the endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ pump, released endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) and relaxed the muscle. We have used CPA to elucidate how this inhibitor of Ca2+ uptake into internal stores affects K+ channels and Ca2+ entrance in cultured bovine pulmonary endothelial cells using patch-clamp techniques. CPA increased a Ca(2+)-dependent outward K+ current for many minutes, presumably as a consequence of the unbalanced leakage of Ca2+ from internal stores and Ca2+ entrance across the cell membrane. An expected consequence of this activation of the outward current change is hyperpolarization of the cell membrane and increased driving force for Ca2+ entry. CPA activated the influx of extracellular Ca2+ through nonselective cation channels. Ca2+ influx through nonselective cation channels could help maintain intracellular Ca2+ concentration elevation and EDRF release. CPA also reduced the inwardly rectifying K+ current. Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) in the patch pipette also produced an increase in outward K+ currents, which were Ca2+ dependent. After depletion of Ca2+ internal stores by CPA, the response to IP3 was abolished. Heparin in the patch pipette reduced the increase in outward currents induced by bradykinin, an agonist known to raise IP3 and to release Ca2+, but did not prevent CPA-induced increases in outward current. Thus CPA acts to elevate Ca(2+)-activated currents in endothelial cells by a mechanism independent of IP3-induced release, and this may lead to EDRF release both directly and as a consequence of Ca2+ entry through nonselective cation channels driven by an increased electrical gradient for Ca2+.


It's hard to find evidence of fatal accidents that were caused by "distracted drivers". Occasionally they do happen, but they are hard for accident investigators to prove.

This whole "distracted drive" campaign is just another witch hunt for the various police agencies. Drunk driving arrests at sobriety checkpoints have dropped to such a low number that the police now use them to seize vehicles that are unregistered.

A few years back, there was a big push to put children in car seats, and before that--there was some hysteria about seat belts. The Legislature even passed a law giving the police the right to look into your car as you were driving to see if you were "belted up".

It's really time to look towards the day when cars are self-driving, and we can put an end to this constant refinement of the nanny state--brought to us, in large part, by Joe Simitian.

Posted by Resident
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on May 14, 2012 at 1:39 pm

Distracted driving comes in many forms. I recently was in the right hand lane where the car in the left hand lane was driving erratically. As we both stopped at the red light, I could plainly see the driver with a spoon in one hand and a yogurt in the other.

Contrary to what Wilson states it isn't that hard to find examples. I found these 3 in about one minute with Google. I'm sure there are others. I don't consider it a "nanny state" to enact laws against this kind of patently dangerous behavior. If somebody does something stupid that puts themselves at risk be my guest. However, when it involves potentially killing me or my kids you just lost my sympathy.

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Well, I guess there wasn't a blue wave or a red wave; instead, there was just kind of a puke green splash. The Democrats took the House, by a pretty small margin, beginning at least two years of a divided Congress. And they’ll almost certainly screw it up because they are dumb, crazy, and bad.

It’s annoying to lose anything, especially to a party that is so manifestly unworthy, but the nature of an electorate that is split 50/50 is splitting. Chin up. Remember, we have the other half of Congress and the presidency and the courts too, so our agenda is not totally stalled. If you are going to lose anything, lose the House. It’s the Maroon 5 of our governmental institutions – always there, but no one really likes it.

We won more seats in the Senate, meaning Cocaine Mitch’s expanded cartel is going to be pushing even more conservative judges into our lib-infested courts. It was pretty great. Beto crashed his party’s $70 million car into Ted Cruz and skateboarded away from the wreck. Rick Scott scraped out a narrow win and will now have six years on the national stage where people around the country will wonder “Wasn’t he the lead singer for Midnight Oil?”

And we’re rid of Bob Corker and Jeff Flake – ahoy, Conservative, Inc., they’re now available to headline your cruises! On the downside, we still have the useless Ben Sasse, until a real conservative primaries him, and Utah decided it would be funny to send us Mitt Romney for some reason that remains unclear. Get ready for his binders full of virtue signaling to the very same media that humiliated him in 2012. But in general, the Fredocon contingent is definitely in decline.

No, you never win by losing, but there is opportunity for the GOP in this win. When life gives you lemons, you should take those lemons, sell them, and buy beer. While the loss of the House is annoying, Trump has options because he can play it successfully whether the Democrats make the smart move – pretending to be bipartisan – or do what they are inclined to do and act like horrible creepy fascist weirdos. Nancy Pelosi’s problem is that though she’s smart enough to see that “Everybody hug” is the smart play, her insane caucus is likely to demand the horrible creepy fascist weirdo option.

Pelosi outlined the foundations of a bipartisan charade in her odd victory speech with the clown car crew that will make up the new House leadership Tuesday night. Infrastructure programs and drug price reform were her top objectives. The thing is, both ideas are shovel-ready for Trump to steal.

After all, Trump was promising an infrastructure plan back during his campaign; it was the GOP that was stalling it, not the Democrats. He should push the infrastructure program he always wanted, and dare the Democrats to oppose him. If he wants to be really aggressive, he should aim it towards minority communities that the Democrats have traditionally paid attention to right before elections and then ignored for the next two years. He should insist that those communities get a share of the work and the skill training that goes with it, and he should go to them and take credit for it. Polls already show minority approval of Trump is higher than for any other Republican – time to push that.

And Trump has no lingering attachment to conservative doctrine that would stop him from brutalizing Big Pharma for its drug price shenanigans. The giant drug companies still manage to exploit Republicans who defend them with talk of “free markets” and stuff – when it comes to these corporations, the quotation marks are appropriate. Big Pharma pushed Obamacare down our throats and has been paying off the GOP suckers to do its duty work for decades because of Muh Capitalism. But if their monopolies and scams are capitalism, get us some Che T-shirts because even the Republican mainstream is getting tired of water-carrying for the pill-pushers. When Hugh Hewitt, a solid guy with his finger on the weak pulse of the establishment, starts railing about their perfidy on his radio show, they’re prime to be dumped.

Remember how Bill Clinton triangulated after the 1994 election? That's the model. As my new book Militant Normals: How Regular Americans Are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy, explains, Normal Americans are not bound by ideology – they are mad at being shafted, and when they see Canadians paying a fraction of what it costs for their Humira, they get ticked. One of the nice things about the Trump era is that we are now woke to the fact that big corporations are not necessarily paragons of capitalism but rather socialists dressed up as capitalists to complete the grift. Trump won’t hesitate for a second to join the Dems in neutering the drug companies’ ability to do what they’ve been doing to us for years.

Now, the smart move for the Democrats is to go along and rack up accomplishments, because these purple districts that just elected Democrats want to see progress. These are not the hardcore commie lefty districts you find on the coasts. These are suburban districts, with vast numbers of unsatisfied, neurotic college-educated women who are scared of Trump, and who are probably secretly attracted to his virility – it’s weird and there’s no need to explore that further. Regardless, they would happily vote for the usual old-school GOP dork in normal elections, and even though this time they sent a bitter, frustrated message, they are still suckers for politicians who “get things done.” But the leftist crew from the coastal urban kale-munching strongholds are the ones with the seniority and the ones who will guide the Democrat Party over the next two years. And they do not want to work together for a brighter tomorrow.

No, they want all #resistance, all of the time, and they are going to do everything they can to appease their looney base by launching investigations and screaming and yelling. That's not going to help the newbies keep those new House seats in 2020. It’s going to be especially funny when all these rookies who promised the suckers back home they would never vote for that San Francisco liberal monster get strong-armed into casting their very first vote for Mistress Nancy.

And if they decide to obstruct and agitate, then Trump can be in opposition to them and run against the do-nothing House in 2020. Nobody is better than Trump when he has an enemy. I’m kind of hoping the Democrats choose the path of jerkiness just for the nicknames he’ll bestow in his tweets.

Oh, and please, impeach him over Russia Treason Traitor stuff. Please. Toss the Trump in that briar patch and he’ll be president forever.


Q:

Android If else condition error

I dont know why the following codition is always reuturning false even when its TRUE. What im comparing is result from a user entered text in a string variable 'classNameGlobal' and a second result from a DB query resulting a string value from a column of table. Whenever i run the control switches to else condition not running the if part -.-
Please have a look.
String result[];
result = new String[cursor.getCount() - 1];
int i = 0;
while (cursor.moveToNext()) {
        result[i] = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex("name"));
        i++;
    }

 classNameGlobal = className.getText().toString().toUpperCase().trim();

Note: All if the above code is written in onclick method except for that result array declaration. Also, Im using the same method for string being stored in database i.e. im converting it to upper case and then triminng any extra white spaces !!! Even when im dumping the results from query and tat of user entered string. Both ARE SAME. NOW why do im always keeping getting this else part running but not the if part -.- The method im using to compare the results from database query and user entered string is:
 for (int b = 0; b < result.length; b++) {

                if (classNameGlobal == result[b]) {
                    Log.d(TAG, "Inside if condition now : " + result[b] + " \t" + classNameGlobal);

                    db.execSQL("drop table if exists " + classNameGlobal);

                    /* Deleting Code File */
                    this.deleteFile(classNameGlobal + ".txt");

                    Toast.makeText(
                            this,
                            classNameGlobal + " Database Dropped Successfully ",
                            Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

                    break;

                } else {
                    Toast.makeText(
                            this,
                            "No Such Database Exists",
                            Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

                }

            }

A:

In Java, compare String contents with the equals method.  Comparing with the == operator just checks whether two references are pointing to the same object.
So, change
classNameGlobal == result[b]

to
classNameGlobal.equals(result[b])


Ethical issues in human organoid and gastruloid research.
Research involving human organoids and gastruloids involves ethical issues associated with their derivation as well as their current and future uses. These include unique issues related to the extent of maturation that can be achieved in vitro or through chimeric research, as well as fundamental ethical considerations such as those concerning the provenance of human biomaterials and the use of gene-editing technologies. Many of these issues are not specifically addressed by existing ethics oversight mechanisms, but these mechanisms might be easily extended to help ensure that human organoid and related research moves forward in an ethically appropriate manner.


Q:

Data attribute overrides base class method: Python

I have a class named SearchQuery and I named a data attribute as query (type: String); but the base class has a class method query(). So my SearchQuery class is as follow:
class SearchQuery(ndb.Model):
    query = ndb.StringProperty()

Now when I write:
SearchQuery.query()

I get:
TypeError: 'StringProperty' object is not callable

How do I call the query method? I will change my data member name but before changing I have to copy the data. For copying, query() has to be called.

A:

You don't need to call it at all; SearchQuery.query() is equal to ndb.Query(kind="SearchQuery")


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Thirty-one people have died and another 250 have been injured after three bombs where detonated in Brussels, Belgium.

Shortly before 8AM local time on Tuesday, two explosions hit Zaventem airport in Brussels. Following the airport blast another was released inside Maalbeek metro station in the heart of the Belgium capital.

The airport attack killed 11 and injured at least 92 while the metro station blast killed 20 and injured another 130 people. There is growing concern due to the Maalbeek metro station’s proximity to predominant European Union buildings, which house the Council of the EU, the UN regional office and the EU Commission Headquarters.

ISIS has since claimed to have conducted both the airport and metro attacks.

Federal police said this image shows the suspects at Brussels airport before the bombs where detonated. Federal police are currently searching for the man on the right.

CCTV footage has now been released of three suspected assailants, none of whom identities are known, inside Zaventem airport. Two of these men are wearing black gloves on their left hands which are believed to be concealing the detonators. Mayor of Zaventem, Francis Vermeiren has told reporters he suspects the bombs were carried in their bags.

The two men in black very likely “committed a suicide attack” according to federal prosecutor, Frederic van Leeuw. Belgian police have instigated a series of raids and extensive manhunt for the third man.

After a day of lock down some transport lines and routes have been reopened. According to an official statement from Brussels Airport it is unclear when the airport will open again.

“All flights and other operations at Brussels Airport have been cancelled for the day. The airport site has been entirely evacuated to give the public prosecutor and the police enough room to meticulously carry out their investigation into the explosions at the airport.”

“At this moment it is impossible for us to say when operations will be resumed. There is much damage and we do not have access to the building as the investigation is still underway. As soon as more information is available, we will inform the public.”

At a press conference earlier today Belgian prime minister, Charles Michel announced the country would have three days of national mourning.

“What we feared has happened… It is a common fight, it is a fight without boarders.”

“We are determined to defend our freedom.” Michel concluded.

Vigils have been progressively taking place across the country, the most notable being in the famous Place de la Bourse.


Thursday, September 22, 2016

There is always more about Asters, isn't there? Living with Asters is a bit like living with kids - every time you think you have something figured out you discover something else that throws all your ideas out on their ears. Asters are always that one step ahead of us...

I took a short walk down to the edge of my Marsh and inspected some of the Asters in bloom now.

One (former) Aster, now to be known as Oclemena acuminata, is Whorled Aster. It's a handy one for the woods garden as it does very well in shaded and dry conditions. It spreads mildly, unlike some members of this clan, but is easily pulled if it gets out of bounds. It's short, about 16" high, always looks healthy, and blooms late.

The flowers are a sort of 'shabby chic' for the garden.

This one, with a much prettier flower, is Purple-stemmed Aster, or Swamp Aster, Symphyotrichum puniceum. It likes life damper, and sunnier, than what suits Whorled Aster. You see it quite often at the edges of marshes or streams, rising above all the shorter plants.

The flowers are comparatively large and usually some shade of blue. I have only once seen a white one, and have so far managed to keep my mitts off, but I'll visit it once the seeds ripen. Easy to grow, but it does need moisture.

Another one that seems to like a bit of water at its feet is Flat-topped White Aster, Doellingeria umbellata. This flower cluster isn't really typical, usually they are more flat-topped, but I liked its graceful posture. This Aster can get quite tall; I have it over 6' in the back of my property although the ones here are only about 3'. The books say 'single stalks' but it does form colonies, somewhat like Goldenrods do. A big, robust plant for a wet spot, much loved by bees, wasps and other wingy things.

When I went to photograph the Flat-topped Aster above, I also found a number of plants of what I think must be Symphyotrichum ciliolatum, Fringed Blue Aster. Hard to be sure, but the leaves and flowers are as described in the books. It's the habitat that doesn't match. J. Semple in Cultivated and Native Asters of Ontario calls it a 'calciphile' and describes the typical habitat as 'open woods'. Here it grows along the edge of the marsh (probably acidic) and quite near the water.

Here's one which I can't identify. Tall, about 4', well-leaved all the way down, sturdy and healthy looking, it has spread to be a large patch here. It's in full sun, fairly damp, poor soil. The stems all have some degree of 'zig' to them, and most have the dark spots you see here. The flowers vary from white to very pale pink.

Any guesses?

And if you like guessing, how about this one? I found a number of these beside the Marsh. They tended to be about 2 to 2 1/2 feet tall, single-stemmed, with rough but healthy leaves. The flowers were all white, with the centres (the disc flowers) starting out yellow, becoming purple, and then fading to brown. Quite large for an aster. The leaves are also fairly wide for an aster and clasp the stem at their bases.

Could this be Eurybia radula, Rough-leaved Aster? That's not supposed to occur here, only being known from further North.The leaves fit the description, the flowers sort-of fit, but the location is off.

Wonder what it is...

Next post I'll take a look at some of the dry-land Asters I have here, and if you think you're confused now, just wait!

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Actually, I'm not so sure I want to look back at August! It was hot. It was dry. Very hot, and very dry. It was all I could do to keep up with watering the things in pots and the few ferns I had managed to get planted early in the summer, but general weeding and gardening was pretty much impossible. The Hillside was hard as a rock, no weed came out without serious efforts with large tools and/or explosives... the Sampler Garden was full of slightly wilted things I really didn't want to know about, and planting anything new was just a short cut to a dead something new. So it was a month just to endure; come to think of it, that's not so unusual for August.

Let's look on the bright side, of course there was one. August is Daisy Month, no question, and Daisies are Yellow Flowers, also no question, so I put together a mix of Yellow Daisies just to enjoy their variety. A lot of these are seedlings from a long-ago package of Rudbeckia seeds. The variety was called, if I remember rightly, 'Cherokee Sunset'. The flowers were supposed to be yellow/orange and double but I got no doubles and very few straight yellows. But the seedlings still appear all over the place and I like the different shapes, sizes and colours. I threw in a few other daisies just for fun.

Nothing exotic here, just dependable performers. Do you know them all?

One curious thing, which I had not noticed before, is the way Rudbeckia fulgida flowers nod at sunset. Every evening when I left the Studio to go back to the house I went past several clumps of these in the Herb Garden and it really looked odd. Every morning they were brightly upright again.

Have they always done this and I never noticed? Or is it something to do with the dry summer? This is the one that was so popular a few years back, called 'Goldsturm'. The books don't tell you, but be warned, it seeds around like the dickens.

Coneflowers, Echinacea species, seemed to actually like the dry weather. My yellow one, E. paradoxa, bloomed it's head off, more flowers on the plant than I've ever seen before. I grew a few seeds from it last year, and they finally bloomed. I expected more yellow Coneflowers but what I got instead was a bit humorous. I got dingy pale buff pinkish flowers shaped like E. paradoxa, that is, with large drooping petals, and colours somewhere between the purple of the purple Coneflowers and the yellow. Luckily some of the other plants in the patch were quite lovely, including this pale pink one.

My E. tennesseensis bloomed for the first time. Every plant had flowers that started out with a 'crook' to their necks, then straightened out. The flowers (and the plants) are much smaller than E. purpurea, and more delicate. The colour is a rich pink-violet.

My Sand Hill garden was a mess. The Horsetails and the Coreopsis (daisies again) and the grasses spent the summer in mortal combat. I'm not sure if anybody won. It actually looked not too bad, but the part of me that insists on weeding felt tired just looking at it. Surprisingly, a lot of small Delphiniums came up in between all the 'weeds', as did a lot of brown Foxgloves. Yes, brown. This was Digitalis ferruginea. It is a narrow spire of brown and pale cream flowers, long-lasting and actually quite attractive. It mixes with grasses very happily.

Had enough pinkness and yellowness and daisy-ness? Here's one of the small Delphiniums as a palate-cleanser:

Now let's forget August and look ahead to September and, hopefully, eventually some rain.

Know and Grow:

Native Plant Events

Check out some of the links below for events, news, and possible sources of native plants in the Ottawa Valley!

(if you know of a local native-plant-related event or a source you'd like to see listed here, please get in touch.)

Native Plants sale at the Fletcher Wildlife Garden. June 2, 2018, 9:30am to 12:30pm. Meet other native plant lovers, talk to knowledgeable gardeners, buy new native plants for your garden. Check out their website, www.ofnc.ca, or find them on Facebook.

Pontiac Gardens and Gifts Tour - includes gardens such as Beaux Arbres where plants and seeds are available. August 4 and 5, 10am to 4pm both days.

Beaux Arbres Open Garden Day, August 26, 11am to 4pm. Visit a fabulous native plant garden, perhaps pick up some plants at the same time. More info at their website.

Events at Pine Ridge

Wildflowers Day/Native Plants Sale: Postponed to June 17, 2018, 10am to 4pm. Rain or shine! Small potted native plants, including ferns, garden art, discussions, tour, tea-in-the-tent. Come visit and learn more about native plants and enjoy a day at Pine Ridge!

Fern Day - July 22, 2018. A day of all things Fern! Garden tour (almost all native Ottawa Valley ferns), fern art, fern snacks, tea... Please email me if you would like to come!


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Q:

How to separate a json data in javascript

I am very new to js, now i have a json data which was passed by backend to my js file. The json data is like the following:
{
Vivo:{Time:[20190610,20190611],Price:[2000,2000]},
Huawei:{Time:[20190610,20190611],Price:[3000,3000]},
Maxvalue:3000
}

the json data i get is by the following code:
fetch('/Tmall') //Tmall is the url i go to fetch data
.then(function(response) {
return response.json();
}).then(function(Data) {

...
}

Next I will process the data to present at the front-end, but i don't know how to assign the Data to two different argument:
Cellphone =
{
Vivo:{Time:[20190610,20190611],Price:[2000,2000]},
Huawei:{Time:[20190610,20190611],Price:[3000,3000]}
}

Max = {Maxvalue:3000}

Here is what i tried to do, i used if-is the key to separate the data from the original one, but it dosen't work
    var Cellphone = {}
    for (var i = 0; i < Data.length; i++)
    {
      if (Data.key[i] != 'Maxvalue'){
        Cellphone.push(Data[i])
      }
    }

A:

You can use Object.keys() combined with Array.prototype.filter() and Array.prototype.map().
Code:

// Your `Data` response...
const Data = {Vivo:{Time:[20190610,20190611],Price:[2000,2000]},Huawei:{Time:[20190610,20190611],Price:[3000,3000]},Maxvalue:3000};

// Logic
const Cellphone = Object.keys(Data)
  .filter(k => k !== 'Maxvalue')
  .map(k => ({ [k]: Data[k] }));
const Max = { Maxvalue: Data.Maxvalue };

console.log('Cellphone:', Cellphone);
console.log('Max:', Max);


Attorneys for right-wing media mogul Alex Jones are arguing that he should not be sued for defamation because, they say, when the inflammatory radio host broadcasts lies and conspiracy theories to his millions of viewers, he is merely stating his opinion, not facts.

Jones is currently fighting to dismiss three defamation lawsuits against him and his Austin-based site Infowars brought by parents who lost their children in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre and a 24-year-old man who was, without any evidence, falsely identified as the Parkland shooter.

In a crowded Texas courtroom this week, two separate hearings set the framework for Jones' mounting legal battle over whether he should be held responsible for what he says and publishes on his platforms. For years, Jones, who has a massive, cultlike following, has unabatedly peddled conspiracy theories to an ever-growing number of fans, many of whom believe them to be the truth.

As a result, his sweeping fanbase has targeted, harassed, and attacked survivors of terror attacks and mass shootings and family members of victims, as well as other completely innocent people.

In the five years since a shooter killed 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Connecticut, Jones has aired several segments accusing the parents who lost their children of being "crisis actors" fabricating their anguish as part of an elaborate, government-backed plot to push a gun control agenda.

Now, a host of them are fighting back. Veronique De La Rosa and Leonard Pozner, whose 6-year-old son, Noah, died in the Sandy Hook shooting, and Marcel Fontaine, a Massachusetts man whom an Infowars "reporter" falsely identified as the Parkland shooter after finding his photo from days before the shooting on 4chan, a fringe website, are all taking action.

Each party is seeking more than $1 million in damages, though neither of them showed up in court because, their attorneys say, they are too "terrified to go out in public."

"These people have had to relocate and are fearing for their lives. These parents had to move hundreds of miles away from where their child is buried and a young man suffers from debilitating anxiety because of what this man has said," said Mark Bankston, an attorney with Farrar & Ball, who is representing three cases filed in Texas against Jones. "These are some of the most egregious cases of false information in the history of this country."

Jones is currently facing five defamation suits: three in Texas; one in Connecticut, in which six more families of students killed in Sandy Hook demand reparations for being accused of lying about their children's deaths; and another in Virginia connected to the Charlottesville white supremacist rally.

The cases highlight an increasingly common, murky intersection of incendiary content on the internet, the people responsible for creating it, and the legal ramifications of posturing misinformation as truth. They also raise a "very interesting question of law" as to whether a person like the parent of a mass shooting victim can become an "involuntary" public figure by speaking out about their experience, state District Judge Scott Jenkins explained Wednesday.

The judge has about a month to decide whether to let the lawsuits proceed.

Mark Enoch, Jones' attorney, is arguing that his client is a commentator and that he doesn't really mean what he says: He's espousing his opinions and is thus protected under the First Amendment. He also began the hearing by reminding the court that his client has admitted that the shooting occurred and wanted “to reiterate the fact that he is sorry for their loss.”

Jones is seeking more than $100,000 from the Pozners to cover his court costs, citing the Texas Citizens Participation Act, which aims to protect people's right to free speech without fear of retaliatory, costly lawsuits.

“Maybe it’s fringe speech. Maybe it’s dangerous speech, but it is not defamation,” Enoch told the judge in court on Wednesday, according to Reuters. "That is rhetorical hyperbole at its core.”

To hammer home this point, Enoch and his team played about 40 minutes of an Infowars episode called "Sandy Hook Vampires Exposed," which lashed out at Muslims and outlined why he thinks the Sandy Hook shooting was a "false flag" created by the government.


Head Down (essay)

"Head Down" is a non-fiction essay by Stephen King that first appeared in The New Yorker in 1990 and was later republished as part of his 1993 short story collection, Nightmares & Dreamscapes. It also pairs with another work in that collection, Brooklyn August.

Plot
The essay chronicles the 1989 season for his son Owen's Little League baseball team, Bangor West. He takes the reader through the ups and downs of the season, giving details of every game, as well as  practice sessions and time on the road while focusing on the reactions of the players and the coaches. This builds to the team winning a hard-fought victory in the final game of the tournament to become the Maine State Champions. The team then goes forward to the Eastern Regional Tournament, only to be beaten in the second round.  However, the story ends on a high note as the team coach, Dave Mansfield, is honored as amateur coach of the year by the United States Baseball Federation. The team also featured eventual Major League pitcher Matt Kinney.

References

External links
King's official website

Category:American essays
Category:Works originally published in The New Yorker


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Feature

Walking the talk: Compulsory te reo Māori in schools

Thursday 14th September 2017

Opinions are divided.

Should te reo Māori be made compulsory in all New Zealand schools? In the education sector, in Māoridom, and among political parties who are weighing in on this kaupapa this election year. This is a divisive topic.

Eight young Māori working in education and te reo revitalisation programmes across Aotearoa give their honest opinions about what the reality is, and what they believe should be prioritised.

Te reo Māori should be compulsory in schools. The problem is the quality of language. If strategies are made to guide, and support te reo Māori teachers, our aspirations may be met. In addition, I have a name. If students learn to pronounce words and Māori names, te reo Māori and Māori names will be empowered as a starting point for all.

The debate of making te reo Māori a compulsory subject in schools has been going on for too long, and while this happens the number of language speakers slowly decline. Let’s create strategies to improve the proficiency and to grow the number of language teachers. Then let’s teach our kids 5-10 years old, so they have an understanding of the world they live in and of their ancestral lands, because they are the leaders of tomorrow. Aotearoa needs to love and grow te reo together, to ensure its survival, but to also see its uniqueness and its beauty.

Shanan Gray(Te Aitanga a Hauiti), primary school teacher

Te reo Māori fluency: Basic understanding

Shanan Gray

I strongly believe implementing te reo Māori should be compulsory within our schools. By implementing te reo, it gives us the opportunity to start with the basics to get a strong grounding, and understanding of how our language should be used within a learning environment. Also, from learning the basic reo it encourages all non-Māori speakers to learn at their own pace.

As a teacher in a mainstream school and in a school that has 95 percent Māori population, I have seen the mana and pride te reo Māori has given to our young leaders of tomorrow. Our tamariki need to be exposed to their culture and heritage to understand their identity. Every day we see the hungry minds that want to know more about te reo and therefore we need to feed their minds. If we start off small and do things effectively we will grow as a nation.

Nicki Glover (Te Aitanga a Hauiti), Primary School Teacher

Te reo Māori fluency: Work in progress

Nicola Glover

It is a national language of our country. It is in danger of being lost. It is our responsibility not only as teachers but as New Zealanders to not let this happen. The biggest hurdle preventing this from happening is teacher confidence and capability. The Ministry of Education should focus less on national standards, and more on working alongside teachers and experts, to provide us with quality professional development so teachers feel confident in incorporating tikanga and te reo into the everyday life of their classroom.

I don’t think te reo Māori should be made compulsory in schools, though I do agree with the overarching sentiment that the pool of Māori speakers is declining. However, the issue is that the majority of New Zealanders do not understand the history of te reo in its entirety. There is little love for te reo. It is regarded only as a language with a widespread presumption that there is no value in it. When we teach te reo, we need to teach in its entirety.

There’s more value in compulsory New Zealand history being taught in our schools. Among other things, students will learn the hardships that Māori and our language have faced, and the nuances to this living language. Hopefully, perspectives will change, people will empathise and understand that it is not just a language but will understand Te Reo as a whole.

Where is the place in this for whanau outside of the classroom or the school? Or will we leave the revitalisation of our language to schools? There are 24 hours in a day, 6 of those hours a student is at school, about ½ -1 hour is spent on te reo Māori. For Māori immersion schools, 6 hours the students spends in a Māori language environment, then they leave school and return to speaking English. What happens in the other 18 hours? Is that all spent speaking our reo? Of course, this does not apply to everyone, but it does to most, especially Māori language speakers.

A person must want to follow that path, and must work hard to achieve what they want. The survival and life of te reo Māori belongs in our homes, the role of schools in this case should be to add to what the student has learnt at home.

In the sphere of language revitalisation, the country of Ireland is a shining star. In Ireland, the Gaelic language was made compulsory in schools, from pre-school to high-school. However, there are problems. Firstly, it is difficult to hear the language being spoken in public places. Secondly, some people have been put off the language as a result. Possibly, the reasons why these difficulties occurred is holding the language at school before ensuring its use in the communities. The language is relegated to the schooling environment, and remains there. Perhaps it’s the perception that schools are the foundation for language learning.

However, we know that it is instead families, communities, and iwi – they are the true foundation. Firstly, prioritise a fluent community. Then transfer this to New Zealand schools.

Not yet! There are too few available and competent at teaching te reo Maori to learners, even in Maori communities. In reality, there are small communities where te reo is freely spoken, however it is difficult to hear Maori being spoken in all its intricacies; formally or informally with a Maori worldview at the core.

Currently I am a teacher at a kura Māori. The above applies when attending inter-school gatherings for kura Māori. At these gatherings Westernised perspectives are heard through inarticulate Māori spoken by both students and their teachers. If there are some in Māori schools unable to articulate Māori from a Māori perspective, can mainstream schools be expected to do so?

Who will develop the appropriate published resources, tools and technology? Who will monitor the quality of those resources? Who will pay for those resources? These are substantial issues to me, and no doubt I am not the only person or teacher who thinks this way. Lest it be said I am deficit thinking towards the people of our country, no way!

In order for those uninformed to turn to te reo Māori they must learn. That’s it in a nutshell! However, at this time, we are unable to teach in all schools ensuring the integrity of te reo Māori remains intact. The quality and spirit of the language will dilute in the absence of good teaching practice, experts in this field, and people who really understand the language to teach. Tried now, I fear te reo Māori will transform into English merely cloaked in what seems to be a Mäori language. Initially te reo Māori, eventually English.

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Ted Cruz Grills Neil Gorsuch on The Ultimate Question

Kind of amusing, in a geeky way. The left is freaking out because this is obviously an effort to "humanize" Gorsuch and make him "relatable." That, they believe, is a dishonest strategy, because it takes away from their own strategy of dehumanizing Gorsuch and making him unrelatable.

I mean, when Al Franken was attempting to prove Gorsuch's deep partisanship based on his knocking on doors in support of his mother's bid for local minor office when Gorsuch was 8 years old, that was plainly a line of questioning just based on facts and evidence.

So much so that Gorsuch rolled his eyes at the unfunny former TV monkeyclown.

But Cruz's attempt to distract from Gorsuch's campaigning-for-mom scandal was just out of bounds, wasn't it?:

Senator @TedCruz starts off his questioning of Neil Gorsuch with a "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" reference. https://t.co/JiIwljBdkj pic.twitter.com/GbjVJNd8kY — ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) March 21, 2017

Cruz's mind seems to be running towards the cosmological lately.

President Trump signed a bipartisan bill Tuesday that funds NASA programs and maps out a plan to send a manned mission to Mars. The NASA Transition Authorization Act, which was co-authored by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., distributes $19.5 billion for the space agency�s 2018 fiscal year (beginning Oct. 1). The bill also calls for NASA to draft a plan for a manned mission to Mars in the 2030s. The bill closely aligns with Trump�s $19.1 billion budget proposal for the agency. Money will be delegated for deep space exploration, refining the International Space Station, commercial partnerships, and planning for the mission to Mars. The bill also "authorizes a space technology program" the White House said in a statement. "It is the first time in seven years we've had a NASA authorization bill," Sen. Cruz said, joking with President Trump that he could now "send Congress to space." "We could. What a great idea that could be," Trump responded.

I'm sure CNN's Jake Tapper will be hyperventilating about Trump "threatening" members of Congress with being space-keelhauled.


Results of an indoor air pollution investigation.
After the opening of a new elementary school in fall 1986, several members of the school's staff noticed symptoms they attributed to the workplace. An investigation by the Occupational Safety and Health Branch (OSHA) of the Alaska Department of Labor found no major health problems and concluded that fireproofing at the school may have caused a petroleum-like odor. In fall 1987, parents reported illness in their children that they attributed to school attendance. Subsequent epidemiologic investigation found that student and staff absentee rates were not increased and were similar to other schools in the district. Testing conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) confirmed that the petroleum-like odor was due to the fireproofing. Toxicologic information and the results of air sampling confirmed that no adverse health effects would be expected from the product. By working together with NIOSH, OSHA, the school district, and a consulting mechanical engineer, deficiencies in the school's ventilation system were discovered and immediately corrected with interim engineering changes. Only by bringing multiple agencies together and openly sharing findings with concerned parents and staff were the problems at the school resolved.


A new Greenpeace report has ranked the world’s 30 biggest cosmetics and personal care companies on their commitment to tackling the issue of microbeads in their products.

The problem with microbeads

Microbeads are a type of microplastic that can be found in our personal care products such as toothpastes, face washes, scrubs and shower gels.

They are tiny plastic particles that are added for their exfoliating properties, but sometimes for aesthetic purposes only.

Microbeads are so small (under 5mm) that they bypass sewage filtration systems and go straight into the sea, where they can attract toxic chemicals and be consumed by marine life.

‘These plastics go straight down our drains and into the sea. There they can cause serious harm to marine life by being eaten and leaching out toxic chemicals. They can even travel up the food chain and end up in the seafood on our plate – the health consequences of which are still unknown.’ LOUISE EDGE

Senior Oceans Campaigner at Greenpeace UK

GSK and Reckitt Benckiser

The UK companies ranked in the report are GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Reckitt Benckiser.

GSK, which owns brands including Sensodyne toothpaste, ranked fifth from bottom in the survey due to its restrictive definition of microbeads and its failure as yet to adopt a formal and transparent commitment to phase out their use.

Reckitt Benckiser, which owns brands such as Dettol and Vanish, placed in the top half of the table – but its commitment to phase out microbeads doesn’t cover all types of plastics or all of their products.


Students, teachers and visitors with a valid concealed- carry permit later this week will be able to bring handguns to a CareerTech campus — as long as they keep them in their locked vehicles.

CareerTech officials said they have talked with students, faculty and staff about the new law.

None of the campuses are planning to install metal detectors to make sure the weapons remain out of the school, but some are considering hiring extra security officers.

Oklahomans who have concealed gun permits are authorized by the state to carry the weapons, but commit a crime when they leave their gun inside their vehicle on a CareerTech campus. Backers of the bill say adult students who carry a handgun for self-protection reasons worried about the risk of being arrested when leaving their gun in their car on a CareerTech parking lot; most high school students still will be unable to bring a gun in their vehicles because persons must be at least 21 years old to get a concealed carry permit.


Technology insight: metabonomics in gastroenterology-basic principles and potential clinical applications.
Metabonomics-the study of metabolic changes in an integrated biologic system-is an emerging field. This discipline joins the other 'omics' (genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics) to give rise to a comprehensive, systems-biology approach to the evaluation of holistic in vivo function. Metabonomics, especially when based on nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, has the potential to identify biomarkers and prognostic factors, enhance clinical diagnosis, and expand hypothesis generation. As a consequence, the use of metabonomics has been extensively explored in the past decade, and applied successfully to the study of human diseases, toxicology, microbes, nutrition, and plant biology. This Review introduces the basic principles of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and commonly used tools for multivariate data analysis, before considering the applications and future potential of metabonomics in basic and clinical research, with emphasis on applications in the field of gastroenterology.


Ingredients

How to make it

Preheat oven to 35o degrees.

Spread about 1/3 of the brown sugar in the bottom of a 9x13" bakinf dish.

Slice each hot dog in 6 pieces and wrap each piece with 1/3 slice of bacon. Secure with toothpicks. Arrange half of the bacon wrapped dogs in a single layer over the sugar in the baking dish. Sprinkle another 1/3 of sugar over them. Top with another layer of bacon dogs,followed by remaining sugar. Cover dish with aluminum foil.

Bake 45 to 60 mins,stirring a few times. Once bacon is crisp,remove the dish from oven and transfer contents to slow cooker. Set on high for about 10 mins,then set to low to keep warm.


Effects of interleukin-1 beta, interleukin-6, and tumor necrosis factor on sensitivity of dorsal root ganglion and peripheral receptive fields in rats.
This study was designed to characterize the effects of low doses (0.5-5 ng) of pro-inflammatory cytokines, interleukin-1 beta (IL-1beta), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and tumor necrosis factor (TNF), on the neural activity of dorsal root ganglion (DRG) in rats. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of cytokines (IL-1beta, IL-6, and TNF) on the somatosensory neural response of DRG. The release of inflammatory cytokines by an injured disc may play a critical role in pain production at nerve endings, axons, and nerve cell bodies. Herniated disc tissue has been shown to release IL-1beta, IL-6, TNF, and other algesic chemicals. Their effects on nerve endings in disc and adjacent tissue may lead to low back pain and their effects on dorsal root axons and ganglia may lead to sciatica. Exposed lumbar DRGs were investigated by electrophysiologic techniques. Sham (mineral oil), control (carrier solution), or IL-1beta, IL-6, or TNF at doses of 0.5, 1, and 5 ng were applied over the DRG. Baseline discharge rates as well as mechanosensitivity of the DRG and peripheral receptive fields were evaluated over 30 min. Applications of IL-1beta at 1 ng resulted in an increase in the discharge rate, 5 ng resulted in an increased mechanosensitivity of the DRG in group II units. Similarly, after 1 ng TNF applications, group II units also showed an increase in mechanosensitivity of DRG and peripheral receptive fields. At low doses IL-1beta and TNF sensitization of receptive fields were observed. The responses observed in the group II units indicate that a sub-population of afferent units might have long-term effects modifying the sensory input to the central nervous system. This study provides added evidence to the role of cytokines in modulating afferent activity following inflammation.


Comparison of placental PTEN and beta1 integrin expression in early spontaneous abortion, early and late normal pregnancy.
PTEN seems to play an important role in cell cycle, growth, migration, and death. Integrins are cell surface receptors that play a role in the regulation of cell proliferation, differentiation, implantation, and embryogenesis. PTEN inhibits beta1 integrin signaling. The objective of this study is to investigate the expression of PTEN and beta1 integrin in placental tissues of early spontaneous abortion and first and third trimesters of normal pregnancy. A total of 43 placental tissue samples were evaluated using immunohistochemistry for PTEN and beta1 integrin. Group 1 included placental tissues of volunteer termination of normal pregnancy during the first trimester (5-10 wk gestation). Group 2 included placental tissues of normal vaginal delivery at the third trimester of pregnancy (36-40 wk gestation). Group 3 included placental tissues of pregnancy termination because of spontaneous abortion during the first trimester (5-10 wk gestation). PTEN expression of villous trophoblast was decreasing as the pregnancy advanced. PTEN staining of decidual cells was significantly stronger in tissue samples from early spontaneous abortion than in tissue samples from early and late normal pregnancy (p=0.003, p=0.001, respectively). There was no significant difference between beta1 integrin expression of villous trophoblast and decidual cells in three groups. Our findings suggest that altered patterns of PTEN expression may be associated with abortion, but it seems that beta1 integrin does not contribute to this process as a signaling protein. Further evaluation is needed to highlight this subject.


The committee said a key part of its inquiry will focus on the impact of the UK leaving the EU and the likely implications for the free movement of EU nationals.

It will examine the importance of low-skilled or seasonal immigration to the Scottish economy and investigate how this could be replicated post-Brexit.

Committee chair Pete Wishart said: “Scotland is proud to be a multi-cultural nation whose population is made up from people all across the world and it is widely acknowledged that continued migration from EU and non-EU nations is essential to our future success.

“In the last Parliament, this committee repeatedly heard that the current immigration system doesn’t meet the needs of Scotland and Brexit raises new questions about how easy it will be for EU nationals to move here in the future.

“This inquiry will seek to establish what Scotland’s future migration needs will be and how these can be met.”


“electric bicycle kit +mens electric bikes”

Your product will be shipped to its final destination to arrive in 2 business days or faster. If your order is placed before the 11 a.m. PST cutoff time, then it will ship that day and arrive 2 business days later. If your order is placed after the 11 a.m. PST cutoff time, we will do our best to process it the same day but may need an extra day.

Mike is a partner and adviser to Electric Bike Technologies. Mike has been a professional investor and salesperson in the financial sector for the past 20 years. “It’s a great space to be in and and I believe there is a lot of upside potential”

Though rear-wheel versions are available, most e-bike conversion kits are for the front wheel. They are easier to fit. However, they do change the balance of the bike, and brakes should also be uprated to cope with the additional weight. We’re not aware of any front hub motors on purpose-built electric bikes.

We’re completely independent, so you can trust our test results and reviews. Sure, we get offered free samples, but that might compromise our investigations – so we never accept them. We perform deep product research, interviewing experts and consulting with product owners to find out what’s best. An electric bike’s style and construction are important factors to consider before making a purchase.

I have cerebral palsy and have used a powerchair since I was three…. About a year and a half ago I applied for a grant from the Challenged Athlete Foundation for a handcycle. While I was waiting for letters to go out I worked out at the gym. I was talking to my trainer about handcycles. I explained that because all of the weight was behind the drive wheel in…

Specialist off-road electric bikes aren’t legal for road use, so we’re not spending a lot of time on them in this review. However, you may be interested in learning a few facts about these monstrosities. They’re lightweight yet tough with fat, all-terrain tires, advanced brakes, and speeds in excess of 50 mph.

Fat e-bikes might seem excessive to some, but we sort of love the concept—especially for riding in deep sand or powder. In addition to being over-the-top and on-trend, the bike has some awesome features, and the fact that Haibike has been on the market with its sporty electronic assist mountain bike line since 2009 (and has been constantly refining it) speaks to the demand for e-bikes. The FatSix is just one of the ultra-niche e-bikes which Haibike offers. (There’s even a dual suspension mountain e-bike in the line.) The bikes are designed and built specially to be e-bikes, not just mountain bikes with motors slapped on. The FatSix features a Bosch motor and an Xduro crankset.

South Korea’s women’s curling team, known as the “Garlic Girls,” became the unexpected stars of the Olympics by reaching the finals. WSJ visited their garlic-producing hometown to understand an improbable curling craze that will be remembered far beyond the Pyeongchang Winter Games.

E-bikes use rechargeable batteries, electric motors and some form of control. Battery systems in use include sealed lead-acid (SLA), nickel-cadmium (NiCad), nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) or lithium-ion polymer (Li-ion). Batteries vary according to the voltage, total charge capacity (amp hours), weight, the number of charging cycles before performance degrades, and ability to handle over-voltage charging conditions. The energy costs of operating e-bikes are small, but there can be considerable battery replacement costs. The lifespan of a battery pack varies depending on the type of usage. Shallow discharge/recharge cycles will help extend the overall battery life.

HR-727 (Passed by the 107th Congress) defines what a “low speed electric bicycle” is. More importantly, that law states in Section”D” as follows: This section shall supersede any State law or requirement with respect to low-speed electric bicycles to the extent that such State law or requirement is more stringent than the Federal law or requirements referred to in subsection (a).”

eBay determines trending price through a machine learned model of the product’s sale prices within the last 90 days. “New” refers to a brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item, and “Used” refers to an item that has been used previously.

Power-assist: Also known as pedal-assist bikes, these are the bicycle equivalents of hybrid cars: they’re designed to be pedaled quite a lot of the time and electrically powered either when you’re tired or when you feel like a bit of electric help (when you’re going up hill, for example). Unlike full-power bikes, they don’t have hub motors; instead, there’s a separate electric motor mounted near the rear wheel and driving it either through the gear sprocket or simply by pressing against the rear tire. Where a hub motor is difficult or impossible to pedal without any power (because you’re effectively turning it into a generator), power-assist motors turn easily with little or no resistance when you pedal. That gives power-assist bikes much greater range than hub-motor ones (as much as 80–145km or 50–90 miles).

If you choose an E-bike (which is heavier than a non-assist version), you will have it for the entire trip. If you are used to riding a higher-performance lightweight bike, you may prefer to choose such a bike and take advantage of our on-tour van transport for the uphill stretches.

Two years ago, CEO Chris Cocalis of Pivot Cycles — which sells high-end mountain bikes — found that U.S. bike shops weren’t interested in stocking ebikes. Some retailers warned Cocalis that they’d drop the brand if it came out with an electric bike. Some traditionalists had feared excess wear on trails, but research has since shown that not to be the case.

Whether the terrain is flat or hilly impacts the distance you can travel, as does the weight of the bike, your own weight, the gearing available on the bike, and how much juice you give it. We suggest that a distance of 10 to 20 miles is a realistic expectation. Of course, if you’re prepared to do at least some pedaling, you can extend that dramatically.

The GenZe app works through Bluetooth connection on the 200 series e-Bikes only. The app can be used to understand range and battery life, plan routes, track ride history, and measure exertion. The 200 series e-Bikes also come with a phone mount and integrated USB charger to keep you charged and connected while you ride.

Once you experience the fully proportional torque sensing pedal assist system, you can’t imagine riding anything else. Our already world-class assist system has been refined to be more intuitive and insanely smooth.

Even what you choose to wear can effect if cops give you a second look or not. Riding with no helmet, or riding with a full faced helmet (even though safer) can draw unwanted police attention to you.

^ Jump up to: a b c Chi-Jen Yang (2010). “Launching strategy for electric vehicles: Lessons from China and Taiwan” (PDF). Technological Forecasting and Social Change (77): 831–834. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-03-31.

Brakes: Caliper brakes (the type found on ordinary bicycles) are common on e-bikes, but disk brakes offer better stopping power. In wet conditions, however, initial braking can be slowed as you first clear water from the disk. It’s a minor thing, and you soon get used to it.

Over the years our lineup has grown, and as a result, the offering has become more complicated it needs to be. Specifically, this year we introduced a 500w geared motor option to the lineup and that has created some redundancy. Before outlining changes, we would like to ensure everyone that we will be stocking enough inventory of previously sold parts for a long enough time to ensure all warranties…

We Can Build It. Built by hand in Pennsylvania, mostly by Harry and Alec. Custom Wheelbuilding Some people don’t know that we build every one of our wheels here by hand in Pennsylvania. This lets us control each step of the process, ensuring that the spokes are uniform, straight, and undamaged, allowing us to apply spoke-prep to the spokes, oil to the nipple seats, and inspect the rims before…

The Ace of Spades Go! is the perfect combination of style, substance and power. This limited-edition cruiser e-bike is outfitted with the Bosch Performance System offering four levels of power support from Eco to Turbo mode, putting all the power in your hands. Or feet, as it were.

Electric bicycles are already popular in Europe and in China, which has more e-bikes than cars on its roads. Now, manufacturers are marketing e-bikes in the U.S., promoting them as a “green” alternative to driving.

Full-power: These bikes are designed for minimal pedaling over relatively short distances. They have large batteries and powerful hub motors and they tend to be big, sturdy, and heavy. Bikes like this are for people who love cycling but hate pedaling! Since you’re using power all the time, the range is limited (typically 16–30km or 10–20 miles).

The most influential definition which distinguishes which e-bikes are pedelecs and which are not, comes from the EU. From the EU directive (EN15194 standard) for motor vehicles, a bicycle is considered a pedelec if:

This past July 1st we moved our location to Croydon, PA and doubled our space. Additionally we’re looking to hire at least 2 additional employees! This is all to support our expanding conversion kit business and to support some new business we have planned starting in September (more to come on that soon). We would like to thank every single one of our customers, partners, associates and fans for your…

China is the world’s leading manufacturer of e-bikes, with 22.2 million units produced in 2009. One of the biggest manufacturers of E-bikes in the world is Geoby. Production is concentrated in five regions, Tianjin, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, and Shanghai.[71] China exported 370,000 e-bikes in 2009.[72]

Written by Gaston Daigle. Gaston is an admin and key contributor at the popular Endless Sphere Technology Forum Batteries and battery packs, the lifeblood of your electric bicycle Plug and play?… not always that easy and certainly not very simple for most of us.. or is it? A good Lithium battery pack can cost as much, and often even more than the rest of your electric bike kit. Picking the right…


Generalized tonic-clonic seizures detected by implantable loop recorder devices: diagnosing more than cardiac arrhythmias.
Both syncope and seizures are important causes of recurrent, unexplained episodes of loss of consciousness. Implantable loop recorders have identified serious arrhythmias in patients with repeated syncope; however, implantable loop recorder detection of seizures is less well established. The purpose of this study was to provide in-depth analysis of a characteristic myopotential pattern recorded by implantable loop recorders during generalized tonic-clonic seizures. Fourteen patients with refractory, video-EEG-documented epilepsy (complex partial, atonic, tonic, or generalized tonic-clonic seizures) underwent implantable loop recorder placement as part of a study protocol evaluating cardiac rhythm abnormalities in patients at high risk for sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. Twelve generalized tonic-clonic seizure episodes were detected by the implantable loop recorder in six patients. Implantable loop recorder and EEG recordings of generalized tonic-clonic seizures were identical and revealed a tonic phase (sustained, rapid, high-frequency myopotentials) transitioning to a clonic phase (periodic bursts of high-frequency myopotentials with a decelerating burst frequency from 3-6 Hz to 1-2 Hz) prior to seizure termination. With the nonprogrammable bandpass filter of 0.85 to 32 Hz in the implantable loop recorder, all generalized tonic-clonic seizure episodes had escaped automatic detection and required activation by family members. None of the 76 nongeneralized tonic-clonic seizure episodes recorded on the implantable loop recorder in the 14 patients exhibited the stereotypical tonic-clonic pattern that defines generalized seizures. Recognizing this specific myopotential pattern on an implantable loop recorder might help diagnose generalized tonic-clonic seizures as a cause of recurrent, unexplained episodes of loss of consciousness. Having a programmable bandpass filter in the implantable loop recorder might increase its diagnostic yield for such patients.


Q:

Catastrophic backtracking issue

I am running into an issue with a regex pattern when no match is found.
The regex pattern that I use is:
^(?:".*?",){4}"(?:.*?)Cookie:\s(?:.*?)Routing=(.*?);

As test data I use something in the likes of:
"a","b","c","d","POST: /portal/start.asp HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: myhost\r\nCookie: w1n0_er=xxxx; routxing=yyyy;"x","x","x","x","x","x","x","x","x","x","x","x","x","x","x","x","x",

When the 'routing' parameter is found, all works well. However, when the routing parameter is not found by excluding it from the test data, the regex keeps searching. I found out by other posts that this is caused by catastrophic backtracking but I cannot seem to find a way to avoid it.

A:

Narrowing your question to:

How to avoid catastrophic backtracking?

Regex side: Be as specific as possible, as Rawing said in his comment, changing ".*?" to "[^"]*" will reduce drastically the number of required backtrack for the engine.
Input site: When possible, reduce the input to the smallest part you need without loosing information. Here, changing your input from:
"a","b","c","d","POST: /portal/start.asp HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: myhost\r\nCookie: w1n0_er=xxxx; routxing=yyyy;"x","x","x","x","x","x","x","x","x","x","x","x","x","x","x","x","x",

to
"POST: /portal/start.asp HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: myhost\r\nCookie: w1n0_er=xxxx; Routing=yyyy;"

and regex to:
^".*?Cookie:\s.*?Routing=(.*?);

will help a lot.


New York investor buying office towers near O'Hare

A New York real estate investment firm is jumping into the hottest office market in the Chicago suburbs with a trophy office complex near O'Hare Airport.

Adding to its mixed Chicago property portfolio, Angelo Gordon has reached an agreement to buy the 835,000-square-foot Presidents Plaza office towers for $148 million from a joint venture of PGIM Real Estate and GlenStar Properties.

The $177-per-square-foot deal for the pair of 12-story buildings at 8600 and 8700 W. Bryn Mawr Ave. stands to end a 12-year ownership run for PGIM and GlenStar, which paid $129 million for the buildings in 2006, according to Cook County property records.

Chicago-based GlenStar, which leases the buildings, will retain a minority stake in the property, according to industry newsletter Real Estate Alert, which first reported the news. Spokesmen for the ownership companies could not be reached for comment, and a spokesman for Angelo Gordon declined to comment.

GlenStar and PGIM are cashing out on the buildings amid a tight market for office space near O'Hare, which makes it an attractive investment for a buyer to drive up rents.

Office vacancy in the O'Hare submarket was 16.4 percent as of the end of 2017, far below the 23.3 percent average for all Chicago suburbs and the lowest vacancy rate among the six suburban submarkets tracked by real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle.

At Presidents Plaza, Angelo Gordon will take over buildings that are 92 percent occupied, according to Real Estate Alert, but with in-place rents that are 13.1 percent below market rate, according to a JLL marketing flyer.

The largest tenants in the building include the headquarters of hardware retailer True Value, health care services provider AIM Specialty Health and Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, according to real estate information company CoStar Group.

Presidents Plaza will be Angelo Gordon's only office property in the O'Hare submarket, according to research firm Real Capital Analytics, but it has plenty of other buildings in its local portfolio.

The company last fall partnered with Chicago-based Centrum Realty & Development to buy a Kmart in Avondale for $16.5 million, which they plan to redevelop for retail tenants.

Angelo Gordon also has ownership stakes in downtown Chicago office buildings at 200 W. Jackson Blvd. and the Citadel Center at 131 S. Dearborn St., as well as industrial and self-storage facilities throughout the Chicago area, according to Real Capital.

Editor's note: A previous version of this story misstated the status of the Kmart in Avondale.


Woman dies after parade float, car collide

LAPEER TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a woman has died and several others have been injured after a modified float carrying people to a parade collided with a car about 60 miles northwest of Detroit.

An older woman driving the car died at the scene Saturday morning after she turned in front of the float on a road in Lapeer County’s Lapeer Township. Her identity hasn’t been released.

Sheriff’s Detective Sgt. Jason Parks says that nine people on the float were hurt — two seriously — but other details about their conditions weren’t available.

The Associated Press left a message for Parks.

The truck float, which resembles a steam locomotive but is legal for the road, was heading to the Metamora Days Parade.