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Decreased fibrosis during corticosteroid therapy of autoimmune hepatitis.
Reduction in hepatic fibrosis and reversibility of cirrhosis has been described in chronic liver disease. Our goal was to determine changes in fibrosis and the frequency of histological cirrhosis in corticosteroid-treated autoimmune hepatitis (AIH). Three hundred twenty-five liver specimens from 87 treated patients were reviewed in batch under code by one pathologist and graded by the Ishak method. Fibrosis scores improved (3.4+/-0.2 versus 2.6+/-0.2, P=0.0002) during 63+/-6 months, and histological activity indices decreased concurrently (6.8+/-0.5 versus 2.1+/-0.2, P<0.0001). Fibrosis scores improved in 46 patients (53%) during 57+/-7 months and did not progress in 23 patients during 62+/-12 months. The fibrosis score improved more commonly in patients who had improvement in the histological activity indices than in others (61 versus 32%, P=0.02), and the frequency of histological cirrhosis decreased from 16% (14 patients) to 11% (10 patients). Fibrosis commonly improves or does not progress during corticosteroid therapy of AIH, and histological cirrhosis may disappear. Improvements in fibrosis are associated with suppression of inflammatory activity. Improvement or prevention of fibrosis may be a common but unheralded advantage of corticosteroid therapy.


Q:

Getting data from list with a List of the Api Field Names

Been looking around for an alternative to manually writing the Api Field Name to display the data in an sObject List.
Normal Example:
<apex:repeat value="{!myCustomObjectList}" var="co">
     <apex:outputText value="co.customObjectFieldApiName1__c" />
     <apex:outputText value="co.customObjectFieldApiName2__c" />
     <apex:outputText value="co.customObjectFieldApiName3__c" />
</apex:repeat>

Instead of doing this for each row was playing around with using a List<String> of the field Api Names and iterating through that within the repeat.
Example (of what I'm trying to do):
In Controller:
List<String> customObjApiFieldNames = new List<String>

for (String s : schemaFieldSet) {
    SObjectField fieldToken = schemaFields.get(s);
    DescribeFieldResult selectedField = fieldToken.getDescribe();
    customObjApiFieldNames.add(selectedField.getName());
}

In VF Page:
<apex:repeat value="{!myCustomObjectList}" var="co">
     <apex:repeat value="{!customObjApiFieldNames}" var="coField">
         <apex:outputText value="co.coField" />
     </apex:repeat>
</apex:repeat>

Of course this example doesn't work, so am looking for something along similar lines.

A:

This will work you just need to change it little bit. For dynamic iteration of fields we pass them is sObject. This is similar with map iteration on visualforce.
  <apex:outputText value="co[coField]" />

The only thing you need to make sure here is you provide correct API name


Q:

Setting Url to a WebView

I am trying to set an image to a WebView for my app.
I am using the below code to set the image to my WebView,
  String imageUrl =  " file:///android_res/drawable/dinner_menu.png";
    WebView wv = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.yourwebview);
    wv.getSettings().setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
   wv.loadUrl(imageUrl);

This works fine for Android 2.2 and higher.
But if I try to run the code in 2.1 or lower, it shows an error as,
The requested file was not found /android_res/drawable/dinner_menu.png.
Can anyone help me out.

A:

Try putting your image in your assets folder, and load it using:
WebView webView = new WebView(this);
webView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/dinner_menu.png");
setContentView(webView);

It should work on earlier versions of Android, but you'll need to manually manage using different versions of your image for different screen sizes / densities.


ENTERTAINMENT

Most Americans have felt the sting of rising health care costs at one point or another. Those most affected, however, by skyrocketing medical fees, pricey prescription drugs and expensive insurance premiums are society's most vulnerable: children and seniors.

Federal and state governments have collectively and individually introduced legislation intended to make health care more accessible, but confusion in the federal legislation and lack of funding for state proposals will prevent these initiatives from making a big enough impact. A national health plan is needed to ensure that America's most fragile citizens are protected.

Nov. 15 marked the beginning of the new Medicare prescription drug plan. Instead of being excited about the change and the seemingly vast amount of options to them, eligible senior citizens are confused. The plan is expected to cost over $700 billion over the next 10 years and is the largest expansion of Medicare in the past 40 years.

Medicare offsets much of the cost of the new drug plans, which are administered by insurance companies. Before deciding on one of the several dozen plans available, seniors must first figure out which plans work with other state and federal assistance programs. Then, they have to decide which plans their local pharmacist is registered with.

When all these factors are considered, many are learning they don't have much choice at all. Seniors have until May to enroll in a plan; if they miss the deadline, they'll have to pay a late-enrollment penalty, adding deadline pressure to an already confusing and stressful selection process.

The change in Medicare's prescription drug plan isn't the only health care-related reform happening in the country. Gov. Rod Blagojevich, D-Ill., has introduced his All Kids plan, which makes affordable insurance available to the children of working parents. The legislation would make insurance available to about 125,000 children across the state.

In Massachusetts, the Legislature is negotiating competing plans to cover all of the state's half-million uninsured residents. Oklahoma recently started to enroll small companies and their employees in a program that would offset insurance premiums for company-paid health insurance; they expect the plan would cover 50,000 to 70,000 people.

While the state plans are encouraging, it's simply not enough. Reform has to begin at the national level.

People of color have a lot at stake here. The vast majority of Black children and seniors are un- or under-insured. By advocating for a comprehensive, nationally funded health plan, we can ensure that our community's most valuable resources — our youth and our elders — are cared for.

The poor state of America's health care system directly affects the African American community; for us, making sure the system is reformed is, literally, a matter of life and death.

If you're a senior and you need help figuring out the new Medicare drug program, call 1-800-633-4227 or visit medicare.gov.

Judge Greg Mathis is chair of the Rainbow PUSH-Excel Board and a board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.


/******************************************************************************
 *
 * Copyright(c) 2007 - 2011 Realtek Corporation. All rights reserved.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 * under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
 * published by the Free Software Foundation.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
 * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
 * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
 * more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
 * this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
 * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110, USA
 *
 *
 ******************************************************************************/
#ifndef __RTW_TDLS_H_
#define __RTW_TDLS_H_

#include <drv_types.h>

#ifdef CONFIG_TDLS
/* TDLS STA state */
#define	TDLS_STATE_NONE				0x00000000	//default state
#define	TDLS_INITIATOR_STATE			0x10000000
#define	TDLS_RESPONDER_STATE			0x20000000
#define	TDLS_LINKED_STATE				0x40000000
#define	TDLS_CH_SWITCH_ON_STATE		0x01000000
#define	TDLS_PEER_AT_OFF_STATE		0x02000000	//could send pkt on target ch
#define	TDLS_AT_OFF_CH_STATE			0x04000000
#define	TDLS_CH_SW_INITIATOR_STATE	0x08000000	//avoiding duplicated or unconditional ch. switch rsp.
#define	TDLS_APSD_CHSW_STATE		0x00100000	//in APSD and want to setup channel switch
#define	TDLS_PEER_SLEEP_STATE		0x00200000	//peer sta is sleeping
#define	TDLS_SW_OFF_STATE			0x00400000	//terminate channel swithcing
#define	TDLS_ALIVE_STATE				0x00010000	//Check if peer sta is alived.

#define	TPK_RESEND_COUNT				301
#define 	CH_SWITCH_TIME				10
#define 	CH_SWITCH_TIMEOUT			30
#define	TDLS_STAY_TIME				500
#define	TDLS_SIGNAL_THRESH			0x20
#define	TDLS_WATCHDOG_PERIOD		10	//Periodically sending tdls discovery request in TDLS_WATCHDOG_PERIOD * 2 sec
#define	TDLS_ALIVE_TIMER_PH1			5000
#define	TDLS_ALIVE_TIMER_PH2			2000
#define	TDLS_STAY_TIME				500
#define	TDLS_HANDSHAKE_TIME			2000
#define	TDLS_ALIVE_COUNT				3
#define	TDLS_INI_MACID_ENTRY			6

/* TDLS */
#define TDLS_MIC_LEN 16
#define WPA_NONCE_LEN 32
#define TDLS_TIMEOUT_LEN 4

struct wpa_tdls_ftie {
	u8 ie_type; /* FTIE */
	u8 ie_len;
	u8 mic_ctrl[2];
	u8 mic[TDLS_MIC_LEN];
	u8 Anonce[WPA_NONCE_LEN]; /* Responder Nonce in TDLS */
	u8 Snonce[WPA_NONCE_LEN]; /* Initiator Nonce in TDLS */
	/* followed by optional elements */
} ;

struct wpa_tdls_lnkid {
	u8 ie_type; /* Link Identifier IE */
	u8 ie_len;
	u8 bssid[ETH_ALEN];
	u8 init_sta[ETH_ALEN];
	u8 resp_sta[ETH_ALEN];
} ;

static u8 TDLS_RSNIE[]={	0x01, 0x00,	//version shall be set to 1
						0x00, 0x0f, 0xac, 0x07,	//group sipher suite
						0x01, 0x00,	//pairwise cipher suite count
						0x00, 0x0f, 0xac, 0x04,	//pairwise cipher suite list; CCMP only
						0x01, 0x00,	//AKM suite count
						0x00, 0x0f, 0xac, 0x07,	//TPK Handshake
						0x00, 0x02,
						//PMKID shall not be present
						};

static u8 TDLS_WMMIE[]={0x00, 0x50, 0xf2, 0x02, 0x00, 0x01, 0x00};	//Qos info all set zero

static u8 TDLS_EXT_CAPIE[] = {0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x50, 0x20};	//bit(28), bit(30), bit(37)

//	SRC: Supported Regulatory Classes
static u8 TDLS_SRC[] = { 0x01, 0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x0c, 0x16, 0x17, 0x18, 0x19, 0x1b, 0x1c, 0x1d, 0x1e, 0x20, 0x21 };

void rtw_reset_tdls_info(_adapter* padapter);
int rtw_init_tdls_info(_adapter* padapter);
void rtw_free_tdls_info(struct tdls_info *ptdlsinfo);
void issue_nulldata_to_TDLS_peer_STA(_adapter *padapter, struct sta_info *ptdls_sta, unsigned int power_mode);
void init_TPK_timer(_adapter *padapter, struct sta_info *psta);
void init_ch_switch_timer(_adapter *padapter, struct sta_info *psta);
void init_base_ch_timer(_adapter *padapter, struct sta_info *psta);
void init_off_ch_timer(_adapter *padapter, struct sta_info *psta);
void init_tdls_alive_timer(_adapter *padapter, struct sta_info *psta);
void init_handshake_timer(_adapter *padapter, struct sta_info *psta);
void free_tdls_sta(_adapter *padapter, struct sta_info *ptdls_sta);
#ifdef CONFIG_WFD
void issue_tunneled_probe_req(_adapter *padapter);
void issue_tunneled_probe_rsp(_adapter *padapter, union recv_frame *precv_frame);
#endif //CONFIG_WFD
void issue_tdls_dis_req(_adapter *padapter, u8 *mac_addr);
void issue_tdls_setup_req(_adapter *padapter, u8 *mac_addr);
void issue_tdls_setup_rsp(_adapter *padapter, union recv_frame *precv_frame);
void issue_tdls_setup_cfm(_adapter *padapter, union recv_frame *precv_frame);
void issue_tdls_dis_rsp(_adapter * padapter, union recv_frame * precv_frame, u8 dialog);
void issue_tdls_teardown(_adapter *padapter, u8 *mac_addr);
void issue_tdls_peer_traffic_indication(_adapter *padapter, struct sta_info *psta);
void issue_tdls_ch_switch_req(_adapter *padapter, u8 *mac_addr);
void issue_tdls_ch_switch_rsp(_adapter *padapter, u8 *mac_addr);
sint On_TDLS_Dis_Rsp(_adapter *adapter, union recv_frame *precv_frame);
sint On_TDLS_Setup_Req(_adapter *adapter, union recv_frame *precv_frame);
sint On_TDLS_Setup_Rsp(_adapter *adapter, union recv_frame *precv_frame);
sint On_TDLS_Setup_Cfm(_adapter *adapter, union recv_frame *precv_frame);
sint On_TDLS_Dis_Req(_adapter *adapter, union recv_frame *precv_frame);
sint On_TDLS_Teardown(_adapter *adapter, union recv_frame *precv_frame);
sint On_TDLS_Peer_Traffic_Rsp(_adapter *adapter, union recv_frame *precv_frame);
sint On_TDLS_Ch_Switch_Req(_adapter *adapter, union recv_frame *precv_frame);
sint On_TDLS_Ch_Switch_Rsp(_adapter *adapter, union recv_frame *precv_frame);
void rtw_build_tdls_setup_req_ies(_adapter * padapter, struct xmit_frame * pxmitframe, u8 *pframe);
void rtw_build_tdls_setup_rsp_ies(_adapter * padapter, struct xmit_frame * pxmitframe, u8 *pframe);
void rtw_build_tdls_setup_cfm_ies(_adapter * padapter, struct xmit_frame * pxmitframe, u8 *pframe);
void rtw_build_tdls_teardown_ies(_adapter * padapter, struct xmit_frame * pxmitframe, u8 *pframe);
void rtw_build_tdls_dis_req_ies(_adapter * padapter, struct xmit_frame * pxmitframe, u8 *pframe);
void rtw_build_tdls_dis_rsp_ies(_adapter * padapter, struct xmit_frame * pxmitframe, u8 *pframe, u8 dialog);
void rtw_build_tdls_peer_traffic_indication_ies(_adapter * padapter, struct xmit_frame * pxmitframe, u8 *pframe);
void rtw_build_tdls_ch_switch_req_ies(_adapter * padapter, struct xmit_frame * pxmitframe, u8 *pframe);
void rtw_build_tdls_ch_switch_rsp_ies(_adapter * padapter, struct xmit_frame * pxmitframe, u8 *pframe);
void rtw_build_tunneled_probe_req_ies(_adapter * padapter, struct xmit_frame * pxmitframe, u8 *pframe);
void rtw_build_tunneled_probe_rsp_ies(_adapter * padapter, struct xmit_frame * pxmitframe, u8 *pframe);

int update_sgi_tdls(_adapter *padapter, struct sta_info *psta);
u32 update_mask_tdls(_adapter *padapter, struct sta_info *psta);
#endif //CONFIG_TDLS

#endif


c be 799 + (0 - n) + 8. Suppose -20*a = -19*a - c. Is a prime?
False
Suppose -4*r = -2*k + 10172, 25438 = -2*k + 7*k - 2*r. Suppose 0 = -3*m + k + 2649. Is m prime?
True
Let c = -54471 + 114332. Is c prime?
False
Suppose -4*o + 47053 = -d - 3358, 3*o - 37824 = 3*d. Is o a prime number?
True
Let k(o) = -12 - 1 + o**3 + 26*o**2 - 41*o - 2*o**2. Suppose 4*b + 107 = -3*l, 7*l + 125 = -5*b + 5*l. Is k(b) prime?
True
Suppose 5205677 = o - 2*g, 5*o = 19*g - 23*g + 26028427. Is o prime?
False
Let w = 173 - 146. Suppose 0 = w*z - 114099 + 672. Is z a prime number?
True
Let f(y) = -y**2 + 20*y - 19. Let h be f(19). Suppose h = 81*k - 77*k + 72. Is k/(-6)*8997/9 prime?
True
Suppose -212*f - 277*f = -118*f - 17162831. Is f a composite number?
False
Is -63*10/(-45) - -16367 a composite number?
False
Suppose -54*s + 56*s = 4. Suppose 0 = 4*o + s*u + 9 - 7, 0 = -5*u - 15. Is (-3 - (-434)/4)/(o/6) composite?
True
Suppose 0 = 3*p - 12*u + 16*u + 20245, -5*p - 33759 = -2*u. Let b = 9558 + p. Is b a prime number?
False
Let c(b) = -47*b + 31. Suppose 4*y - 56 = 5*s, -7*y + 9 = -s - 4*y. Let f be c(s). Suppose 24*r - f = 19*r. Is r prime?
False
Suppose 4*x - 5*x - 57 = 2*a, 3*a = -2*x - 116. Let s = 67 + x. Let b(o) = 605*o + 17. Is b(s) composite?
True
Suppose 0 = -4*u + c - 9 - 24, 5*u + 30 = 5*c. Let a be ((-5)/(-6) - 6/u)*-4. Is -46*((-4)/a)/((-16)/132) composite?
True
Let z = 2052 + 11065. Is z a prime number?
False
Let a(t) = 1435*t + 946. Is a(31) prime?
False
Let c(t) = -4*t**2 + t. Let o be c(-2). Let w be 16/10*(-3)/(o/15). Suppose -r - w*v + 7 = -80, v = 5. Is r prime?
True
Suppose -5*x - 5*p + 4765955 = 0, 5*x - 4481732 - 284221 = -4*p. Is x a composite number?
True
Let p = 73 + -93. Is p/90 - 119434/(-18) prime?
False
Let q = 499558 + 202543. Is q a composite number?
False
Suppose -4*y + 8*y = -c + 5329, 4*c = 4*y + 21256. Is c composite?
True
Let b be 2/3*(-30 + 33). Suppose -9054 - 18119 = -4*o + 5*g, 3*o + b*g = 20351. Is o a composite number?
True
Suppose 88 = -4*d - 4*v, -4*v + 5*v = 2*d + 35. Let j = d - -12. Let r(k) = -31*k + 16. Is r(j) a prime number?
True
Let q = 64806 - 33943. Is q a composite number?
True
Let k be 0 + 29 + 6/(-6). Is (14/k)/(2/20156) a prime number?
True
Let g = 122 - 182. Let b = g + 45. Let p = 32 - b. Is p prime?
True
Let h = 1871858 + -1202853. Is h a composite number?
True
Let o(t) = 455*t - 934. Is o(45) a composite number?
False
Let l(f) = f**3 - 7*f**2 + 13*f - 22. Let o be l(6). Let w(z) = -z**3 + 27*z**2 - 5*z + 19. Is w(o) composite?
False
Let v be (4 + 156/(-42))*(-14)/(-4). Is (-11 - (13 + -421))*(v + 0) a composite number?
False
Let i be (-105)/(-42)*(-68)/2. Let l = i - 69. Is (l/3 - -3)*-3 a prime number?
False
Let t be 24/96 - (-34)/(-8). Is (t + 21/6)*-198206 composite?
False
Let o(p) = 678*p - 40. Let j be o(13). Let m = 6653 + j. Is m composite?
False
Let a = 98 - -1. Suppose a*g - 16230 = 93*g. Is g prime?
False
Let f be (-13)/(39/(-18)) - 3. Let w(s) = 2*s**3 - 7*s**2 + 6*s - 7. Let r be w(f). Suppose -r*v + 469 = 5*v. Is v prime?
True
Suppose -1509*d + 1408*d = -23003861. Is d a composite number?
True
Suppose 4*b - 23829 = 2935. Suppose -10*j - b = -47181. Is j composite?
False
Let k = -7786 - -16049. Is k composite?
False
Is 1*(13405 - 36/(-6)) composite?
False
Let f(r) be the second derivative of 5*r - 7/2*r**2 + 0 + 1/2*r**3 + 9/4*r**4. Is f(4) composite?
True
Suppose -2*f + 3188 = -1206. Let j(i) = -2*i**3 + 41*i**2 + 111*i + 104. Let u be j(24). Let r = u + f. Is r a prime number?
False
Suppose 0 = -4*u - 3*q + 1866, u + q - 333 = 133. Suppose 18063 = -29*y + 56*y. Suppose 4*b - b = 3*i - u, 5*b - y = -4*i. Is i a prime number?
False
Let k be (-3)/(-6)*(-43 + 17). Let x(v) = -3*v**3 - 21*v**2 + 39*v + 8. Is x(k) a composite number?
False
Suppose -11538 = 46*r - 82516. Suppose -2*g - 44 = h, -2*h - 80 = g - 5*g. Is r*((-56)/h + 1/(-3)) prime?
True
Let x = -2734 - -3837. Suppose 4*r - 3035 = -2*b + x, 2*b = 5*r - 5195. Is r a prime number?
False
Let k be 58 + -2 + (8 - 3). Suppose 3*r + 8*t = 12*t + k, -4 = -2*t. Is r a composite number?
False
Let l(j) = -j**3 + 37*j**2 + 39*j - 620. Is l(27) a composite number?
False
Suppose 2*h = 8, -2*f - 3*h + 2*h = -13430. Let d = 32796 - f. Is d prime?
True
Suppose 0 = j - 5*o - 14746, -86949 = -4*j - o - 28028. Is j a prime number?
True
Let n(b) be the first derivative of 6*b + 60*b**2 + 13*b + 23 + 25*b**2. Is n(6) a composite number?
False
Suppose 110*j = 1515647 + 924263. Is j prime?
False
Let f(k) = 1075*k**3 - 7*k**2 + 2*k + 15. Is f(4) composite?
False
Suppose 4*n + 5928 = 14592. Let k = n - 760. Is ((-2 - -1) + k)*1 a composite number?
True
Is (2/(266/(-135541)) + (-6)/(-57))*-19 prime?
False
Suppose -5*x + 6482 = 2122. Suppose 24*c = 20*c + x. Suppose -6*b + c = -280. Is b a prime number?
True
Suppose -166 = -6*x + 926. Is (x/(-35) + 5)*-18215 a composite number?
False
Suppose -s - 3*r + 1 = 0, -5*r + 11 = 2*s + 2*s. Suppose 3*g + 5 = -s*c + 27, -c + 9 = -g. Suppose c*i = 2*i + 5995. Is i composite?
True
Let h = -3681 + 10935. Let t = -4837 + h. Is t prime?
True
Let j(x) = 10*x**3 - 8*x**2 - 8*x - 17. Let z be j(-7). Let q = 6286 + z. Is q a prime number?
True
Let w(h) = -6*h - 68. Let a be w(-10). Is (5 - -236)*-2*20/a a composite number?
True
Let b(n) = 283*n - 31 + 30 + 150*n + 311*n. Is b(5) a prime number?
True
Let c = -293530 + 413079. Is c composite?
False
Let h(x) = 32058*x - 703. Is h(20) composite?
False
Let n(y) = 17*y + 17*y - 57*y + 63*y**2 + 3 + 18*y. Let q(h) = -h + 9. Let x be q(5). Is n(x) a composite number?
False
Let v be (-56)/336 - 67/(-6). Suppose 4*z + 73747 = n, 2*n - v*z - 147461 = -14*z. Is n composite?
True
Let t(y) = 165*y**2 - 68*y - 413. Is t(-30) a prime number?
False
Suppose 4*s - 28 = 84. Let v be (5/2)/(14/s). Suppose -v*u + 947 = -2538. Is u prime?
False
Suppose 12*i - 15*i + 4*z + 76985 = 0, 0 = -5*i - 4*z + 128255. Suppose -4*h + i = 5*j, -5*h - 5243 + 15522 = 2*j. Is j prime?
False
Let w be (807/(-2))/(6 + 135/(-20)). Let x = 836 - w. Suppose -553 - x = -p. Is p a composite number?
True
Suppose 155*f - 49078363 = -176*f. Is f a prime number?
False
Suppose 6*g - 4*z = 9*g + 5874, 0 = 2*g - 2*z + 3902. Let w be (1 + 3752)/((-8)/8). Let v = g - w. Is v a composite number?
True
Let r(h) = 111*h**2 + 24*h - 3653. Is r(-79) composite?
True
Suppose -11*x + 8*x + 192 = 0. Let u = 66 - x. Suppose -a - i = -4*a + 5871, -4*i - 3914 = -u*a. Is a composite?
True
Suppose -65 = 16*t - 21*t. Let a(z) be the second derivative of z**4/2 - 5*z**3 + 5*z**2/2 + z + 1. Is a(t) a prime number?
False
Let p(d) = -d**3 + 16*d**2 - 27*d + 26. Let x be p(14). Suppose 30*t - x*t = -1270. Is t composite?
False
Let y(q) be the first derivative of 10*q**3/3 - 21*q**2/2 - 8*q + 46. Is y(13) a prime number?
True
Let s(a) = a**2 - 4*a - 2. Let i be s(5). Let l(k) = k**3 - 2*k**2 + k - 1. Let q be l(i). Suppose -5*z = q*z - 35936. Is z a prime number?
False
Suppose -25*d = -125*d + 5403939 + 5197761. Is d composite?
True
Suppose -7*k + 1981 = -490. Suppose 4*u - 2931 = k. Is u prime?
True
Let k(l) = 63*l + 4. Suppose 10 + 0 = -2*b. Let g be k(b). Let y = 692 + g. Is y a prime number?
False
Let o be (39/2 + -4)*2. Let i = o - 27. Is (i - 27/6)*-422 a prime number?
True
Let g(b) = b. Let o(h) = -46*h - 7 + 0 + 149*h. Let y(v) = -2*g(v) - o(v). Is y(-4) a composite number?
True
Suppose 3*m = -m + 4*v + 44, 0 = 4*v + 20. Suppose -m*y = 21384 - 107832. Suppose 6*g - y = -2*g. Is g a composite number?
False
Is (-31677997840)/(-16020) - 1/9*(-2 - -3) a composite number?
False
Let s = 72 - 74. Let w(r) = 3*r - 22. Let a be w(9). Is 656 + (s + a - 6) prime?
True
Suppose 3*a + 557*b - 378309 = 554*b, 3*b - 252212 = -2*a. Is a prime?
True
Let t be (27/(-9))/(1 - 0). Let x be t + ((-2620)/(-5))/4. Is (x - -2) + -4 + 3 composite?
True
Let r(v) be the third derivative of 0*v - 2/3*v**3 + 1/24*v**4 - 9*v**2 + 0. Is r(14) a prime number?
False
Let i = -6017 + 22265. Suppose -g + i = 2*g. Suppose g = 13*h - 6505. Is h prime?
False
Suppose -34390154 = -60*b - 27*b - 131*b. Is b composite?
True
Let g = 158769 + -49826. Is g a composite number?
False
Suppose 0*d - w - 6433 = -5*d, 0 = 2*d + 2*w - 2578. Let k = 2109 - d. Let v = k + -485. Is v composite?
False
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Senator Kerry and His Political Party

The Glair - Senator Kerry and His Political PartyA Psycho-Political Assessment of Democratic Candidates and the Democratic Party

Every election I make a biographical and psychological study of important candidates and their backgrounds before deciding and predicting how an election will conclude prior to it actually occurring.

I have done this all the way back to Clinton, who was the first national candidate upon whom I conducted a thorough biographical and psychological study. In conducting such studies I always try to find biographers, and assessment and analysis pieces from authors who are both friendly towards and antagonistic towards a particular candidate.

I shocked my friends when GW Bush ran against Gore by proclaiming before the election had even been conducted that based upon his biographical, political, and psychological profile that Al Gore had no intention at all of being president. He only ran because his father had wanted him to become president, and he only accepted the nomination and only secured the nomination because he was owed the position, that he felt he had earned it from past loyal, party service. And because he felt a reciprocal duty towards his party and his father’s memory and past aspirations for him in becoming president. But he never internally desired to be president, or ever wanted to be president. In this sense Al Gore was very similar to George Herbert Walker Bush, who also never really wanted to be president in the same sense as his son, or felt he had a destiny to be President, as did Reagan and GW Bush. Rather, the elder Bush felt he was owed the position after Reagan’s last term, not that he was destined for it, or even really deeply desired it. Bush the Elder was a maintenance and administrative personality, not a man convinced of a momentous reform nature or a personal and private destiny to lead, as was the case with his son. (This does not mean that when push came to shove the Elder Bush was a bad leader, merely not a passionate and self-convicted leader.)

After the debacle in Florida began I also shocked many of my friends by announcing before the events were concluded that Al Gore would be the first to withdraw any claim on the office, as he had no intention of actually becoming president (he merely wanted to convince himself and the public that he had made a good try), and that furthermore he would not bother to run again in the next election cycle. Gore still had the ghost of his father to bury, and as is evident from his current stand on many national and international issues, that ghost still drives him hard.

Then came the Kerry-Bush race and after conducting a second detailed biographical and personality profile on Bush, and my first detailed study on John F. Kerry it became evident to me as well that Kerry would never become president and that he indeed had no intention of becoming president. He did not want the job. That in fact he would do everything possible to sabotage his own candidacy, whereas Bush would do everything possible to assure his own re-election. So once again I surprised and shocked my friends and family by declaring months before the election that Bush had already won and that Kerry had no intention of winning the office, that he would sabotage any chance he had of actually winning (just as I had told them that Gore was going to do before he failed his own election).

Even though these pre-election predictions seemed amazing to many of my friends (and many told me that they did not understand how I could have possibly accurately predicted what I did when I did because my predictions contradicted all pre-election polling and evidence) in truth, they were very easy predictions to make. I even told everyone on what basis I had made these predictions and what exact methods I had used in making my biographical and psychological assessments, down to citing specific biographical and personality incidents in the prior lives of each individual candidate. Men do not usually stray far from their own true natures and characters, politicians being no exception of any kind. As a matter of fact, in most cases, politicians are the types of men whose behavior is strikingly easy to analyze and predict. And predicting elections is fundamentally, all other things being even, really just a matter of predicting the behavior of the various candidates involved in that election.

Bill Clinton is the only national Democrat figure I have studied in the past twenty years or so who has convinced me that he indeed both intended and desired to win. Even though I worked to help elect Dole I knew in my heart by studying both men that Clinton intended to be re-elected, and that Dole was like the Elder Bush, he expected the nomination of his party from past loyal service, but he had no real intention of ever being president. If Dole had become president it would have been by accident, not intention.

Now we come to this election cycle and I more firmly perceive something that I have suspected (and told my friends on more than one occasion) for a long time, but could not be sure the extrapolation was a correct one, and that is, the Democratic Party as a whole (not just individual candidates) has deeply baptized itself with what I’ll call, the “Kerry Corona.” This is a normally invisible to normal sight aura of self-sabotage that demands and directs some action or series of actions by various members of the Democratic Party before important and major elections to assure a predetermined result of political failure.

They simply do not intend to win. It is not a set of coincidental blunders, or a series of seemingly unrelated events and behaviors that signify bad luck, poor management, misunderstanding, or misdirection. They simply, deep down, as an in-bred, or adopted (it doesn’t matter which, the result is the same) psychological and political impulse have no intention of succeeding. And this impulse (for which the nation can be immensely grateful for a whole host of reasons involving; security, economics, taxation, reform, international affairs, etc.) leads them to strap on the metaphorical homicide/suicide vest before each determinative election. And then explode it prematurely in the manner likely to yield the most destructive sphere of self-inflicted damage that it is possible to achieve.

After this particular election cycle is concluded, and ends in a result very different from current Democratic hopes (for indeed few of them have any real confidence that it will end as they hope, but rather as they expect) they will of course begin the common post-election autopsy examination, and process of distributing blame. And a large measure of that blame will fall to radically liberal members of the party, such as Pelosi and to the scapegoats of the perennial Democratic sin of internal sabotage, such as Kerry.

But the constant and consummate ability of the Democrats to draw fire relentlessly upon their own position, telegraph their most blatant public ideologies (when they would do far better to camouflage their public ideals behind private subterfuge) to a disbelieving and naïvely lethargic populace, and to expose their own most easily exploited vulnerabilities to rest of the world, is a congenital defect of their most inward nature. After all every organization is a result of the individuals who fill the ranks of that group, and the actions of every party depend upon the actions of those individuals who compose the corporate nature of that society of like-minded peoples. The Democrats see themselves, and have for decades, as an Army of One (unlike the military they so often criticize) bent upon a personal yet ultimately flawed campaign of individual sabotage and self-aggrandizement. And because each individual Democrat is his own worst enemy, an entire party of Democrats is a corporate and Byzantine conspiracy of both personal and collective habitual wrack and ruin. They earn, by hard labor and direct intention, the profit of their own penury. Because they have no leader, they have no leadership, because each high ranking Democrat sees himself or herself as a Law Unto Themselves, they breed no law but that of political chaos, economic catastrophe, utter taxation, and national vulnerability. And in the end, when it really counts most to them, and to the nation as a whole, they breed political suicide.

Here’s to many more decades of Democrats doing what they do best, public political failure. See you at the after-party.

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Encephaloduroarteriosynangiosis for hemorrhagic moyamoya disease: long-term outcome of a consecutive series of 95 adult patients from a single center.
OBJECTIVEThe objective of this study was to investigate long-term outcomes after encephaloduroarteriosynangiosis (EDAS) for the treatment of hemorrhagic moyamoya disease (MMD) and identify the risk factors for recurrent hemorrhages.METHODSThe authors retrospectively reviewed 95 patients with hemorrhagic MMD who were treated with EDAS at 307th Hospital PLA. Clinical features, angiographic findings, and clinical outcomes were investigated. Rebleeding incidences were compared between anterior or posterior hemorrhagic sites. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to estimate rebleeding risks after EDAS.RESULTSThe average age at symptom onset was 37.1 years (range 20-54 years) for adult patients. The ratio of female to male patients was 1.16:1. In 61 of 95 hemorrhagic hemispheres (64.2%), the anterior choroidal artery (AChA) or posterior communicating artery (PCoA) was extremely dilated, with extensive branches beyond the choroidal fissure, which only occurred in 28 of 86 nonhemorrhagic hemispheres (32.6%). Fifty-seven incidences were classified as anterior hemorrhages and 38 as posterior. Sixteen of 95 patients (16.8%) suffered cerebral rebleeding after a median follow-up duration of 8.5 years. The annual rebleeding rate was 2.2% per person per year. The incidence rate was higher for the posterior group than for the anterior group, but this difference was not statistically significant (p > 0.05). Cox regression analysis revealed that the age of symptom onset (OR 1.075, 95% CI 1.008-1.147, p = 0.028) was a predictor of rebleeding strokes.CONCLUSIONSThrough long-term follow up, EDAS proved beneficial for patients with hemorrhagic MMD. Dilation of the AChA-PCoA is associated with the initial hemorrhage of MMD, and rebleeding is age-related. Patients with hemorrhagic MMD should undergo follow-up over the course of their lives, even when neurological status is excellent.


Se for deg en James Bond-film. En av de gamle, med Sean Connery eller Roger Moore i hovedrollen. Oppdraget er å redde verden fra de onde planene til en eksentrisk superskurk. På veien har helten blitt tatt til fange og ført til det gale geniets hemmelige base: En gigantisk uthult vulkan eller fjelltopp, utstyrt med atomvåpen eller andre planetutslettende innretninger.

Det er slik den ser ut, den gigantiske underjordiske basen ved Bodø hovedflystasjon. «Anlegg 96». Til og med navnet passer perfekt.

Skulle tåle atomangrep

– Hver av dørene veier over 50 tonn. De skulle tåle atomangrep, forteller Olav Aamoth (80) og peker på to enorme stålporter som stikker ut av fjellet.

Selv om de rustne dørene nå er trukket inn for godt, er de så store at de nesten føles truende når vi går forbi.

– Tunnelen foran inngangen går i en slak bue som er åpen i begge ender. Trykkbølgen fra en atomeksplosjon går rett gjennom fjellet og vekk fra åpningen, forklarer Aamoth mens han går mot gangen som leder inn til anlegget.

Aamoth er pensjonert pilot og tidligere Generalinspektør for luftforsvaret. I 20 år, midt under den kalde krigen, var han stasjonert her oppe. I fire av årene som sjef for den topphemmelige flybasen.

Atomsikkert: Tunnelen bak Olav Aamoth (80) går i en slak bue gjennom fjellet. – Trykkbølgen fra en atomeksplosjon skulle ledes vekk fra selve inngangen. Foto: Håvard Lior / NRK

Langs veggene står høye stabler med store militærgrønne kasser. Gamle flydeler, slitte snøploger, kanoner, raketter og annet ubestemmelig utstyr som har hopet seg opp siden basen ble stengt.

Hemmelige rom Foto: Håvard Lior / NRK Ekspandér faktaboks NRK har besøkt seks norske anlegg som har vært hemmelige eller stengt for allmennheten.

Det eldste anlegget er fra 1800-tallet - det nyeste var ferdig i 1995.

I seks episoder tre helger på rad presenterer vi en nettdokumentar fra disse anleggene, som er en viktig del av norgeshistorien.

Ved et angrep skulle fjellanleggene sikre at noe av flyvåpenet var intakt og kunne angripe andre veien. Fra Bodø kunne våre fly trenge langt inn i Sovjet. Olav Aamoth, jagerpilot under den kalde krigen.

– Et unikt anlegg

100 meter lenger inne, bak grønn, blafrende plast, ligger selve anlegget. Beskyttet av et steintak på nesten 25 meter, ligger de enorme flyhangarene. To parallelle haller som går nesten 200 meter inn i det massive fjellet. Her kunne man lett plassert et middels kjøpesenter. Alt hugget inn i en lav, gresskledd høyde, bare noen hundre meter fra Bodø sentrum.

På grunn av sin nærhet til Sovjetunionen var dette i 60- og 70-årene en av de viktigste militærbasene i hele Vest-Europa. Det gjorde det samtidig til et av de mest attraktive målene for sovjetiske atombomber.

Norge hadde tre slike baser, en i Bodø, en i Bardufoss, litt lenger nord, og på Flesland utenfor Bergen. Men anlegget i Bodø er unikt, forteller Aamoth. Hit kom militærtopper fra hele verden for å se.

Dovregubbens hall: Det er enorme dimensjoner over Anlegg 96. Det tidligere topphemmelige fjellanlegget kunne romme over 25 jagerfly. I dag bruker Flymuseet den ene hangaren som lager for gamle krigsfly. Foto: Håvard Lior / NRK

Tanken var at her inne skulle pilotene gjemme seg, sammen med jagerflyene de førte, fra angrepet de trodde måtte komme. Anlegg 96 var selvforsynt med strøm, luft og vann, så her kunne de overleve, hermetisk avstengt fra resten av verden. Når atomskyen hadde lettet, kunne krigsflyene rulle ut av fjellet, angripe fienden og forsvare restene som måtte være igjen.

Aamoths gamle avdeling, 331-skvadronen, ble selv øremerket for å bære atomvåpen. Som en del av en hemmelig NATO-plan fra 1958, begynte de norske pilotene å øve på de spesielle teknikkene for å slippe slike våpen.

– For oss, på 50-tallet, var det en selvfølge. Ble det krig, så var det med atomvåpen. Alle forventet det. Så det er klart vi følte oss priviligerte her inne, sikrere kunne vi ikke ha det, forteller han og finner lysbryterne.

Anlegg 96 Foto: Håvard Lior / NRK Ekspandér faktaboks • I 1958 startet arbeidet med det topphemmelige fjellanlegget, som sto klart til bruk i desember 1960. • Anlegg 96 kunne beskytte inntil to jagerskvadroner ved et kjernefysisk angrep på Bodø hovedflystasjon. • Med en gulvflate på over 8000 kvadratmeter, er det den største fjellhangaren i Norge. • Består av to store fjellhaller på over 200 meter, beskyttet av 20-25 meter fjell. Anlegget er gass- og lufttett, med egen strøm og vanntilførsel. • Ble stengt for operativ tjeneste i 1995. Brukes i dag av Forsvaret som lager og til trening i urban krigføring. • Den ene hallen brukes av Flymuseet i Bodø til lagring av gamle museumsfly. De håper å få vernet anlegget som museum om den kalde krigen. Kilde: Forsvaret. Norsk luftfartsmuseum.

Beskyttet krigsfly

Når lysene langsom slår seg på, forstår man dimensjonene over anlegget: På det høyeste hever det buede taket seg nesten 10 meter over gulvet. Gulvplatene i betong hviler på store stålfjærer, slik at flyene ikke skulle bli ristet i stykker av vibrasjonene fra en atomeksplosjon.

Da anlegget var i drift sto rekke på rekke med sølvglinsende jagerfly her inne. Sammen med drivstoff, ammunisjon og alt det andre som måtte til for å holde skvadronen kampklar.

– Om dagen ble flyene fra 331-skvadronen hentet ut av fjellet og satt i vanlig drift. Noen i beredskap og resten på trening eller andre oppdrag. På natta ble de kjørt tilbake i fjellet, forklarer Aamoth.

Ved et angrep på flyplassen kunne anlegget beskytte mellom en og to skvadroner, et sted mellom 25 og 50 jagerfly. På gulvet viser slitte, men fremdeles godt synlige markeringer hvordan flyene skulle stå.

Mellom de store hovedhallene ligger fem mindre haller. Over flere etasjer er det gjort plass til verksteder, sovesaler, lagerrom og en egen kommandosentral. Nå er alt i forfall. For å spare penger er ventilasjonen skrudd av, og rommene er kraftig angrepet av fukt og råte. Langs veggene vokser de store, grågrønne muggflekkene seg stadig større. På det sprukne gulvet ligger stein og maling som har løsnet fra taket.

Når du kom inn i dette fantastiske anlegget var det litt som å komme inn i Dovregubbens hall. Det var stort og det var spennende! Olav Aamoth, jagerpilot under den kalde krigen.

– Vi ventet på angrep

På utsiden, et par hundre meter unna Anlegg 96, ligger en mindre hangar. Rett ved flystripen. Her sto to jagerfly i døgnkontinuerlig beredskap. Klar til «Scramble», å rykke ut på 15 minutters varsel dersom alarmen gikk og fientlige fly nærmet seg. Flyene som sto i Anlegg 96 var en del av denne beredskapen.

– Flyene våre sto alltid klare, ferdig tanket og med skarpe våpen og missiler. I et lite rom var det satt opp små køyer hvor vi kunne sove, forteller Aamoth.

De visste aldri hva slags oppdrag de kunne få. Kom det beskjed fra bakkekontrollen om krigsoppdrag, var de alltid beredt. Uansett tid eller vær. Det var en del av jobben.

– Fikk vi ordre om å åpne ild, vel... Da var det bare to brytere og avfyr. Vi var NATOs fremste linje, så vi måtte holde kruttet tørt, sier den erfarne jagerpiloten.

Mister Starfighter: Olav Aamoth har flydd det meste av norske jagerfly. Bak den pensjonerte piloten står hans gamle jagerfly av typen F-104 Starfighter. – Det er et svært vakkert fly. Det var noe helt spesielt med Starfighteren. Foto: Even Kjølleberg / NRK

Strengt hemmelig

Anlegg 96 sto klart i perioden da frykten for et globalt, kjernefysisk ragnarok var på sitt aller sterkeste. Siden anlegget var hemmeligstemplet frem til sent på 90-tallet, er det vanskelig å si noe om selve byggingen, men det meste ble betalt av NATO. I september 1958 var daværende forsvarsminister Nils Handal på besøk i Bodø. I sin rapport skrev han blant annet at arbeidet med anlegget gikk som planlagt.

Nøyaktig hvor mye det skulle tåle, ble av naturlige årsaker aldri testet. Utgangspunktet var at det skulle stå imot det kraftigste fra Sovjetunionens atomarsenal. Men allerede i 1962 hadde atombombene blitt for store for den lave knausen, og selv ikke mektige NATO kunne få fjelltaket til å vokse seg tykkere. To år senere gikk man derfor bort fra tanken om at Anlegg 96 skulle fungere som totalbeskyttelse mot atomvåpen.

Anlegget fikk da en annen funksjon, og ble til daglig brukt av 331-skvadronen som vedlikeholdsplass og hangar for jagerflyene. I en krigssituasjon ville anlegget også bli brukt av andre NATO-allierte som skulle operere fra flystasjonen.

Slik var situasjonen frem til 1995. Da ble Anlegg 96 tømt og stengt for operativ militær bruk.

Vil verne anlegget

Med jevne mellomrom høres fremdeles drønn fra jagerflyene som letter fra flystripen på utsiden. Oppgaven for de «nye» F-16-flyene i Bodø er fremdeles å avskjære fremmede fly som nærmer seg norsk luftrom. «Fienden» heter ikke lenger Sovjetunionen, men ellers er det meste som da Aamoth tjenestegjorde her. Både flytypene de avskjærer og hvor de kommer fra, er det samme som under den kalde krigen.

Anlegg 96 er fremdeles en del av et aktivt militært område, men er stort sett forlatt av Luftforsvaret. Nå brukes den ene hallen av Flymuseet i Bodø, noen hundre meter unna flystripa, til å lagre gamle fly som ikke står på utstilling. De håper å verne deler av anlegget, som museum over den kalde krigen.

«Honest John»: En gammel rakett står stuet bort i den ene hangaren. Typen bærer navnet «Honest John», og kunne utstyres med atomvåpen. Foto: Håvard Lior / NRK

Et titalls krigsfly står nå parkert i fjellet. Noen norske, men også flere med utenlandske markeringer. Her står «fienden», representert med et Mig-23 med markeringer fra gamle Øst-Tyskland. Et stykke unna står en gammel Mig-15 med Sovjetunionens røde stjerne på den slitne flykroppen.

– Jeg synes det er vemodig... Å se det forfalle. Jeg håper noen vil ta vare på dette, det bør jo være en naturlig del av Flymuseet, sier Aamoth og kikker bort på de slitne jagerflyene.

Nå står de bare som en skremmende påminnelse om noe som heldigvis aldri skjedde.

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FADS1 and FADS2 Polymorphisms Modulate Fatty Acid Metabolism and Dietary Impact on Health.
Variants in the FADS gene cluster modify the activity of polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) desaturation and the lipid composition in human blood and tissue. FADS variants have been associated with plasma lipid concentrations, risk of cardiovascular diseases, overweight, eczema, pregnancy outcomes, and cognitive function. Studies on variations in the FADS genecluster provided some of the first examples for marked gene-diet interactions in modulating complex phenotypes, such as eczema, asthma, and cognition. Genotype distribution differs markedly among ethnicities, apparently reflecting an evolutionary advantage of genotypes enabling active long-chain PUFA synthesis when the introduction of agriculture provided diets rich in linoleic acid but with little arachidonic and eicosapentaenoic acids. Discovering differential effects of PUFA supply that depend on variation of FADS genotypes could open new opportunities for developing precision nutrition strategies based either on an individual's genotype or on genotype distributions in specific populations.


The Year of the Rat: How to Invest

The Chinese calendar proclaims this as the Year of the Rat. Based on the behavior of economies and financial markets over the past few months, investors would be forgiven for thinking that a plague has descended upon the financial system. But on occasion it is useful to step back from the day-to-day shenanigans of markets and take a bird’s-eye view of events.

When it comes to evaluating how well people “read” the macro picture of financial markets, it is important always to distinguish between skill and luck. And it is really only with the passing of time, or evolvement of a number of market cycles, that one can separate the wheat from the chaff.

Donald Coxe, Global Portfolio Strategist of BMO Financial Group, is one of a select group of analysts that have been remarkably right on the “big picture” outlook for many years. My market views essentially concur with Donald’s investment recommendations as published in the January edition of Basic Points, entitled “The Year of the Rats”. I have therefore deemed it opportune to share his words of wisdom with you in the paragraphs below.

1.

The financial crisis is not centered in stock markets. Its primary locus is in financial derivatives, and in their impact on the stock prices of leading banks. Until the downward drift of bank stocks and the upward drift of derivative debt yields are reversed, the stock market will continue to slide. Keep overall equity exposure to minimums, and emphasize quality.

Commodity stocks are at risk to the extent that the financial frauds and foolishness are able to abort the global economic recovery. A US recession would be good news only for gold stocks. It would be bad news for base metal and steel stocks, and negative news for oil stocks. Agricultural stocks should not be hurt, except that major bear raids will likely spew blood broadly across stock markets.

4.

Any panic-driven selloffs in commodity stocks are unlikely to take them off the top-performers lists for more than a few weeks. They are not just fair-weather friends. Not only are most of the majors very cheap on a forward-earnings basis, but mining and oil companies that ordinarily search for resources in remote regions will take advantage of selloffs to acquire reserves in politically safe regions at bargain cost. Coming out the other side of this slowdown, these stocks will experience big increases in their absolute and relative PEs. Someday a big Sovereign Wealth Fund is going to decide that bailing out banks isn’t as profitable as owning matchless reserves of minerals.

5.

Food price inflation should strengthen through the year. It could be offset by broad price declines across the US economy as it struggles with recession, but it is becoming embedded in the global economy and will be a challenge for many years. It will produce a full-blown crisis when a major crop failure occurs.

6.

The Canadian dollar trades right around parity. It might not climb sharply higher if a US recession is confirmed, because of the impact on the industrial sector and tourism. It remains a fundamentally strong currency, and the greenback remains a fundamentally weak currency. Canadian borrowers should borrow in greenbacks.

7.

Gold’s move has been dramatic, but retail investors in North America and Europe have not yet shown signs of true gold fever. That means there is still substantial upside. Soaring silver and platinum prices confirm that this gold move is no mere spastic twitch. The expression “as good as gold” in reference to Treasuries and other US debt instruments should be restricted to use as a warm-up joke at investment policy meetings.

8.

Defence stocks have solidly outperformed the S&P for most of the Bush presidency. Iraq and Afghanistan have run down a wide range of Pentagon inventories and a new generation of fighter jets cannot be postponed much longer. No matter who wins the presidency, these companies should continue to prosper.

9.

Sovereign Wealth Funds have been buying US banks. Wall Street cites these purchases as evidence of great value in bank stocks. For nations that are overweight Treasuries in their holdings and underweight influence in American politics, swapping Treasuries for bank equities and convertibles makes sense. That does not necessarily mean that the stocks are great value for investors who cannot get other – unspecified – returns on their investments.

10.

Use panic days to strengthen your equity portfolio, buying the agricultural, gold and oil stocks you will want to own after the bear retreats to his cave – and selling stocks that are too dependent on US consumers. Retain your quality base-metal stocks: they may well be taken out by other mining companies, or a Sovereign Wealth Fund.

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The US small cap bear market may be overshooting because investors haven’t analyzed the likely improved competitive positions of companies whose principal competitors were bought by Private Equity or are Canadian or European companies hurt by the weakening dollar.


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This article opens by discussing what paradigm change is and why it is needed. Then it describes the new AECT initiative, "FutureMinds: Transforming America's School Systems," beginning with its purpose (to help state departments of education to facilitate paradigm change in school districts), the fundamental ideas underlying the initiative (e.g., mindset change, invention process, broad stakeholder ownership, consensus-building process, and participatory leadership), and the strategy by which the FutureMinds Initiative operates. (Contains 1 footnote.)


The applicants have already provided a main shaft device for machine tools comprising a tool holder removably fixed to the front of a main shaft driven for rotation, the tool holder comprising a holder main body, a chuck and a cutting tool stopper member. The main shaft supports the holder main body, and the chuck is mounted to the front of the holder main body. The cutting tool stopper member is mounted at the center of the holder main body, closely touching the rear end of a cutting tool clamped by the chuck, the stopper member controlling a backward displacement of the cutting tool. Cutting fluid mists fed inwardly into the rear of the main shaft through a mist passageway formed at the center of each of the cutting tool stopper member and the cutting tool spout from the front end surface of the cutting tool.
The cutting tool stopper member forms a straight cylindrical single member. The inner hole thereof is straight and has the same caliber in its optional longitudinal position.
Generally, the above-mentioned main shaft device has a marketable cutting tool mounted thereon. The caliber of a mist hole is suitably determined in accordance with an outer diameters or the length, of a cutting tool main body, the type of cutting tool or for the cutting tool maker's own peculiar reasons. Generally, the caliber of the mist hole has a size for passing a sufficient quantity of cutting fluid mists for various machining operations by the cutting tool.
In the above-mentioned main shaft device, the ability for feeding the cutting fluid mists from the main shaft to the cutting tool is made sufficient to carry out general various machining operations. Accordingly, cutting fluid mists arriving at the inside of the cutting tool after flowing out of the cutting tool stopper member spout from the front end surface of the cutting tool in a flow rate depending on the caliber or length of the mist passageway in the cutting tool.
Therefore, in many machining operations, too much cutting fluid mist comes to spout from the front end surface of the cutting tool, thereby wasting of cutting fluid mist and contaminating the machining environment with cutting fluid mist.
The present invention aims to provide a main shaft device for machine tools that can overcome the above problems.