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Oh Please Don't Throw Me into that Brady Patch, Ms. Pelosi!
posted at 8:26 pm on July 23, 2009 by Dafydd ab Hugh
I can understand corruption; simple venality is easily fathomed: A person with a broken moral compass (or none at all) sees ethical behavior as mere obstacle, so he finds a way to squirm around it to get what he wants anyway.
But what offends me most about nearly every act of political corruption is the sheer stupidity of it: Nine times out of ten, by acting unethically, the corrupt damage themselves far worse than if they'd simply done right. Call this "etholution in action," or perhaps the third law of ethical physics: For every unethical action, there is an opposite and equal (or greater) backlash.
Illustrative example forthcomes…
According to Roll Call (the magazine run by liberal Democrat Morton Kondracke, formerly of the Beltway Boys), Democrats are trying to suppress Republicans critical of ObamaCare by denying them franking privileges to communicate with their own constituents about the current ObamaCare legislation being written in Congress… unless they cease disagreeing about the plan's effect and adopt the Democrats' position instead:
House Republicans are crying foul and claiming that the Democrats are using their majority to prevent GOP Members from communicating with their constituents.
The dispute centers on a chart created by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Republican staff of the Joint Economic Committee to illustrate the organization of the Democratic health care plan.
At first glance, Brady's chart resembles a board game: a colorful collection of shapes and images with a web of lines connecting them.
But a closer look at the image reveals a complicated menagerie of government offices and programs that Republicans say will be created if the leading Democratic health care plan becomes law.
In a memo sent Monday to Republicans on the House franking commission, Democrats argue that sending the chart to constituents as official mail would violate House rules because the information is misleading.
(My apologies for the "printer friendly" version; but rather unaccountably, it's the only version that doesn't require a subscription to Roll Call.)
For those unfamiliar with the term, "franking privileges" means free postage for congressmen to mail their constitutents, so long as the communications are not out and out campaign mailers ("Vote for me!").
Whenever your representative or senator sends you a newsletter or vote alert, he doesn't have to pay postage. The privilege is important, because otherwise some congressmen with smaller budgets — usually minority members, since the budgets are controlled by the majority — might be unable to communicate with the people they represent in their own districts.
As you probably guess, this is a fearsome weapon in corrupt hands: If the majority selectively denies franking privileges for the minority, it can control the debate by silencing opposition. And that appears to be exactly what is happening in this case: Democrats are trying to silence Republicans, while allowing their own side to send as much free mail supporting ObamaCare as it wants, so long as it's careful to phrase the support as mere "explanation" or "description" — exactly what they want to stop the GOP from doing.
The hook that Democrats hang their decision on is that they say Rep. Brady's flowchart is "false and misleading." Now those terms have regular definitions, but each also has a tendentious redefinition supplied by the Left: According to the leftist lexicon, what advances leftism is "true," and what retards leftism is, by definition, "false." But of course, they must make some nod, a fig leaf, towards a party-neutral reason; that's the least they can do.
Never let it be said that the Democrats fail to do the least they can do! I haven't read the entire memo — I can't find a copy — but here are the only specific examples of the Brady chart being either false or misleading that Roll Call mentions:
- "The chart's illustration of low-income subsidies is also 'misleading and false,' Democrats argue."
- "Democrats argue that the chart depicts a 'Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund' that is 'simply a recipient of IRS funds, with no outflow. … This is false.'"
The first accusation is nothing more than an assertion with no specifics. That particular box (red rectangle with sharp corners, west sou'west on the Brady flowchart) reads, "Low-Income Subsidy (families with 4x poverty level);" but the Democrats fail to tell us — or Roll Call fails to quote them, which seems unlikely — why this is "false" and what the actual elligibility test is.
Had Democrats given specifics, Republicans could respond by explaining why they believe the "four times" figure is more accurate than the Democrats' figure; since Democrats gave us nothing, we throw this one in the dustbin.
The second accusation at least has specificity… but it's arguably false, as a quick glance at the chart itself (linked above) demonstrates. The Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund (HIETF) is a red rectangle with rounded corners in the northwest corner of the flowchart. You will notice that is has an input from the yellow IRS diamond (as Democrats note).
But there is also a thin, red line connecting the HIETF with the Treasury Department — a white elipse just northeast of the HIETF box. Alas, that line has no arrowhead, so we do not know if it is a one-way connection, and if so, which way it points.
The Democrats assume that means it's one-way… pointing from Treasury to the HIETF. But it could just as easily be a passthrough from HIETF, through Treasury (which must cut checks), to the Public Health Investment Fund, which is another red, round-cornered rectangle about midway between east and west on the north side (we're still following the thin, red line).
There are two ways to interpret that thin, red line connecting HIETF and Treasury:
- The line means two-way monetary traffic: HIETF receives money from the Treasury Department, and it also sends money through Treasury to other targets via the Public Health Investment Fund… funding favored Democratic constituents — institutional, corporate, and private.
- Or, Republican ninnies think the trust fund only collects money and never dispurses any; it just accumulates billions upon billions of dollars for no apparent reason.
The Democratic memo wants you to believe the latter; but this doesn't even make sense from a Republican perspective; it's a serious breech of ethics, if not the law, if HIETF will funnel money through the Public Health Investment Fund to left-leaning entities; but a bloated reserve of gigadollars in a big tank somewhere not only wouldn't benefit Democrats, it wouldn't even fit the Republican narrative of profligate Democratic spending!
So we have two possible interpretations of a statement (or flowchart, in this case): One is rational and fits the narrative of the folks making the statement; the other does not fit that narrative, and is totally doltish to boot. The simple logic of Occam's Razor compels us to adopt the former interpretation — not the ludicrous latter one.
But let's get to the real point at last. What has been the effect of the Democrats' corrupt stifling of Republican opposition to ObamaCare? Let's see:
Republicans quickly embraced Brady's chart, and over the past week about 50 Members have posted it on their Congressional Web sites or used it in a floor speech. It has also been posted on the home page of the Republican National Committee.
Odd… the flowchart appears to be getting out anyway, despite the best efforts at Democratic corruption. But wait, let's take a step backwards… because in addition to appearing on Republican websites, it has also now been discussed in Roll Call — and the chart is on that website, too.
But as they say with the Ginzu knives, that's not all! Roll Call is a very distinguished magazine — and it's run by a liberal! So unlike stories in, e.g., the Washington Times or Weekly Standard, the controversy over mailing the flowchart will very likely leak out from Roll Call and into other magazines, newspapers, and elite media sources. In fact, the longer the fight rages, the greater the chance that the flowchart will get on television, and the attempted suppression discussed on radio, and both story and chart printed in major newspapers across the nation.
By contrast, had the Democrats simply allowed the Republicans to mail their blasted mailer, (a) it would only have gone to people in districts that are already Republican; and (b) it would probably be thrown into the trash unopened by the great majority of its recipients… as they routinely do with all mailings from their representatives and senators. To put it bluntly but honestly, the Democrats' own corruption now guarantees a hugely wider distribution of Rep. Brady's flowchart: Far more people will see it and read it than ever would have opened the original mailer.
The Democratic culture of corruption that led them to try to suppress the speech of their GOP opponents has already produced, and will continue to produce, a virulent backlash against the Democrats themselves, generating dramatically increased exposure of the exact damaging flowchart they tried to suppress.
Somehow, someway, Brer Republican managed to trick Brer Democrat into flinging the Brady flowchart into the briar patch. Once again, the Left has overreached and outsmarted itself. But I reckon Democrats just can't help it; as Uncle Remus said — or at least as he's quoted at Disneyland's Splash Mountain ride — "You can't run away from yourself — there ain't no place that far!"
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Re: display of graphics primitives
dsmithy wrote:
> Why do you have to place graphics primitives in the Graphics[ ]
> expression in order for them to be displayed graphically? Why doesn't,
> for example, Circle[ ] display as a graphic in StandardForm? Why must
> it be Graphics[Circle[ ]]?
> Thank you.
I think the real point here is that primitives are not really much use,
except in combination - I mean suppose you output a circle at
coordinates (3,4) what does that mean if you don't have other
primitives, each with their own coordinates?
If Circle[...] displayed as a circle, it would actually be a hindrance
because you could not examine graphics expressions except in InputForm.
It is often handy to take a graphics object g (say) and display its
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Turned all the settings to what I'd use in FM4, simulation steering, lines off, manual with clutch, etc... but it still felt a lot different than what I was expecting. I think it was really geared more towards bros, hence the stupid watch on the drivers lift arm and the "music". Also, I think you get points for smashing stuff. Really? Not sure if I'll buy it, I like the concept, but the execution.... I won't buy it on release day like I did with FM3 and FM4.
spent about an hour with it last night. I'm finding it hard to like.. just too 'dirt' for me. the cameras, menus, narrator, etc were driving me crazy.
also, there's nfw my stock lancer on street tires can hold that line at 100mph.
Drift Car Build! - now with drift car content!
Benny and the jets - Just your average air cooled 911 adventure
I'm very surprised that there is no photo mode, at least in the demo. I'm also a little bummed that all of the roads are basically fenced in just beyond the edges of the road. What good is all that open space if you can't drive on it?
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I don't feel that Dumbstep music and Dirt menu. Other than that this should be really great open road racing game.
D/L'd and played the demo for about an hour last night.
* Physics don't feel as good as FM4 to me. More HP and custom suspension setup might help. Couldn't hardly get the Lancer to slide, with all assists off. Mustang was much better. Will rent to be sure.
* Graphics are GORGEOUS.
* Music blows major chunks, but I always turn that off anyways.
* Demos should show a glimpse of all aspects of the game. No idea how you go about buying, tuning, painting. Not in the demo.
* Really not feeling the sound on the Lancer. Mustang was better. Renting to be sure.
I'll rent this some weekend and give it a proper shakedown, but so far it's a "wait and buy after it gets cheap" title for me.
I was under the impression you couldn't customize the suspension... Just add aftermarket parts and such...
Ya its not the best physics or anything close to forza 4 but I'm keeping my reservation for the lce. I enjoy it. Could it be a bit more realistic? Sure but atleast its not like burnout or ridge racer.
Im not buyin the game but they just added this car..
I was able to pull off a 40k plus drift in the viper while
Fooling around on one of the roads you are not supposed to be on
I'm not really a drifter. But I can also get the Evo loose and slide with out the e brake. And the mustang slides all over the place.
I'm sure more power is gonna help.
This game is gonna be a blast. Yes the music sucks but I'm glad you can turn it off easily unlike the forza 4 demo
Driving While Awesome Podcast. Give it a listen.
Sure, some new players might not get it at first, as is always the case...
But they can just add parts and not tune. Tuning should always be available for those who want to.
Interesting to see if you're right.
Reviews are starting to come out (does that seem early to anyone else?)
To those that think this will play like the FM series : Yougottabekiddingme, seriously? Give you head a shake.
I think it's awesome - perfect blend of Dirt/TDU/Forza and even Burnout...Graphics are great, arcade handling, sweet car list, great visuals...the perfect game to have fun with. This isn't a SIM, this is an arcade/open world racer with the FM assets to help pay for the development of the series haha...100% purchase
We are giants, with stars at our fingertips
The biggest detractor for me, aside from every car seemingly being equipped with racing slicks, is the "fenced-in" aspect. Why have a free roam, open environment game if you're just going to confine the action to the roads.
Driving While Awesome Podcast. Give it a listen.
Without this true free-roam aspect, Horizon is nothing more than a collection of point-to-point races like Need for Speed or even Forza itself; certainly nothing ground-breaking.
I'm sure it will be a fun game and lots of people will play tons of hours on it. Those are the people that should get their moneys worth Dlc and all. I know I'd play it for a month or two and it get tossed aside. For me id be spending a lot of money for little return.
Where titles like gt2/3 and forza, I play for years on end. Until the next one comes out. I get my moneys worth with those titles. The 4000 cr dlc right out of the gate. Made me really look deep on if I want to get involved because I will buy the extras. Couldn't justify it. I know my market. I like car games where the cars are the star. There will be plenty that will be perfect fit for this game.
XBL: Skip Fourplay
I agree about the fenced in roads being a bummer. I was trying to explore some areas to see if I could find a "barn find" or something, but so few buildings were accesible that it was just discouraging. It felt like I would just have to grind along the fence to find the breakable parts that might lead me to a possible barn find.
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A significant Neuroscience internship or research experience is required for this minor during a student's junior year. Students may take Neuroscience 492: Neuroscience research OR Neuroscience 493: Internship (0-5 credits) to fulfill this requirement. In addition, students other significant professional experience deemed sufficient by the Neuroscience Committee may also fulfill this requirement. During the senior year, students are required to take Neuroscience 495: Capstone seminar.
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BARAK OBAMA: I never said I was a liberal, I said I was a pragmatist. If I could only figure out a pragmatic health insurance plan.
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text: Much of this frustration is coming from the last game attended. The first half was fine, I was sitting in front of an older gentleman and another lady who knew their Pistons. The 2nd half a group of eight people come and sit behind me, all were drinking at one of the bars up until then, they sat behind us for the whole 3rd qtr and talked about everything except basketball, didn't know a single player on the floor, and almost spilled beer on my fiancée. Watching a team that won't try, playing for a GM (who even when his hands weren't tied by an incompetent owner) is doing nothing and having to sit around a bunch of fake fans who actually cheer louder for the opposition than they do their own team is too much for me to bear, I guess I'll catch every game for free in my basement with my affordable beer in my fridge.


text: First,1. your first set of plugs could be bad due to age2. Your second set of plugs could just be bad period (not unheard of to get bad plugs new out of box)3. Check your air filter...if something isn't right it might be blocking air into the intake which might cause the bike to run rich. If running a K&N is it over oiled?4. What pipes are you running? And have you check your exhaust gaskets5. Try the battery trick just to be sure.6. Have you checked your O2 sensor? They do go out ocassionally. There are checks for them online and if I recall all you'd need to do is disconnect it from under the seat and use a standard voltage meter to check the resistance.7. Double check your wires under the tank. Its fairly easy to pinch and damage those wires as well as the little hose under there.8. Check for damaged wires at or near your ECU under the seat. Unlikely but it can happen.Last, and this is just a remote possiblity...look inside the bottom of your air box...is it thick (dripping thick) with oil? if anything more than a film of oil is in there you could be pushing oil out the Crank case vent at the top of the rear cylinder and into the intake. Normal amounts aren't a big deal but if you had bad rings, it could push a ton of oil out and gum up your carbs. Simple check is to check if your oil is low and double check the airbox when you change the filter.


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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Director's Seminar with Senator Jack Reed, (D-RI) in the Belfer Center Library (L369).
Jack Reed is Rhode Island's senior U.S. Senator and a champion for middle-class families. Born and raised in Cranston, Rhode Island, his father, Joe, was a World War II veteran and Cranston school janitor who worked his way up to become custodial supervisor of the city's school system. His mother, Mary, was a homemaker who was unable to go to college herself, but made sure her three children studied hard and had the opportunity to pursue a higher education. The Reed family benefited from the GI Bill and Jack's parents instilled in him the importance of serving your country and giving back to your community.
After graduating from West Point in 1971 near the top of his class and receiving an active duty commission in the Army, Reed earned a Master's degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School. Reed served on active duty in the 82nd Airborne Division as an Infantry Platoon Leader, a Company Commander, and a Battalion Staff Officer before teaching at West Point as an Associate Professor within the Department of Social Sciences. Reed went on to earn a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1982.
Reed served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives before the people of Rhode Island elected him in 1997 to succeed U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell (D-RI) as Rhode Island 46th U.S. Senator. He strives to continue Pell's legacy of ensuring that higher education is accessible and affordable for all students with the drive and determination to succeed.
Reed currently serves on three key committees in the U.S. Senate: Appropriations, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Interior & Environment; Armed Services, where he leads the Subcommittee on Seapower; and Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, where he helped write key parts of the landmark Wall Street reform law and successfully pushed for the creation of the powerful new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to help give American families the tools to fight unfair and abusive financial products and services.
Reed and his wife, Julia Hart Reed, have a daughter, Emily.
Today, Senator Reed continues to utilize the lessons he learned growing up in Cranston, which were deepened in the Army and tested in the halls of Congress, to stand up and speak out for the hard-working families who are the heart and soul of our country. As space is limited for this event, RSVPs will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. Belfer Center Seminars are strictly off-the-record. By requesting to attend the seminar, you agree that you will comply with the Belfer Center's strict policy against recording or disclosing the contents of the seminar. Your access is conditioned on your compliance with these restrictions. Should you violate these rules, the Center will pursue all available legal options and you will be excluded from all future events.


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You have suceded admirably in undermining my ego. I feel undergunned and depressed. Thanks.
Your friend,
When I first learned of Ed Hubel's "12 Gauge From Hell" the Voices said, "you could shorten one of those and chamber a barrel for a Saiga-12." For those who aren't familiar with the 12gaFH, it's a .729 caliber wildcat cartridge. The forming instructions begin with, "first you take some .50 BMG brass and blow it out straight..." You'd have to shorten one considerably to get it into a Saiga-12, though.
However, it just came to my attention there's another big bore that might be might be more appropriate - the Winchester .70-150.
from Wikipedia:
"The .70-150 Winchester is a hypothetical American centerfire rifle cartridge.
Appearing on cartridge boards of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1888, it may have been nothing more than a display novelty based on a brass 12-gauge shotshell (rather than the paper cases common at the time, or plastic frequently seen today), shortened and necked-down slightly.[1] Only one rifle was ever chambered for it, and it was never offered commercially."
Bullet diameter .705, neck .725, rim .870, case 2.18, OAL 2.63, recommended twist 1:16. 900 grain bullet.
The levergun and cowboy action forum hits say Winchester made more than just one rifle, and that the Model 1887 shotgun (the one Arnie carried in Terminator 2) could be had in .70-150 through 1905.
Either way, Winchester *did* make a .70-150, and it can be formed from a 12 gauge brass case, and it should fall into the same "destructive device" antique exemption as the .577 Snider and the big Nitro Express cartridges.
So, if your .500 S&W or .50 Beowulf is starting to seem a little weak in the knees, and you haven't fused your shoulder socket yet, there is a bigger, badder step you can take...
You have suceded admirably in undermining my ego. I feel undergunned and depressed. Thanks.
Your friend,
"It should fall"... not sure. Shotgun rounds are not included, thus the 12 GFH is not a DD round.
From the Manual of Cartridge Conversions, I recall that was considered a "novelty" round built to generate marketing hype, and may not have ever been chambered. There is a sample on the wall in the Cowboy Hall of Fame Museum in Oklahoma City. I didn't think to take a pic of it at the time
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The "original" Boltcutter Rivet Squeezers:
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lot of bolt thrust with that big case.
Hmm, I just went to atf.gov to quote the relevant text to you, but I noticed it says the rifle *AND* the ammunition must be older than 1898.
Interpreting that, you'd have an NFA violation if you shot a .577 Snider or .70-150 in a modern rifle, or rebarreled a .577 into a modern >.50 sporting cartridge.
Looks like I need to drag out my ATF info packet and do some more reading.
Willie's ego is safe for the moment!
That's just the point - I don't think there WAS a rifle in that caliber!
Now that I'm home, yes, the cartridge is on p. 408.Sounds close to the 12 GFH alrightData Source: NAI/Ballistek
Historical Data: Likely a gimmick by Winchester. No commercial production.
Loading Data (source JJD):
900 gr lead
95 gr IMR 3031
Case Prep:
Cases can be made from brass 12 ga shotgun shells or turned from a solid 1" brass rod..
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The "original" Boltcutter Rivet Squeezers:
Project Pink - the Pink and Blue AK-74:
just do a brass cassed 12 SGFH with a rifled barrel and seat the bullet out like on a rifle round. You wont need any longer of a case I trim them down so they fit in a standard mag with the bullets protruding. I think bumping the pressure up much would be risky on the sagia so Im sure you could get as much velocity as possable with even a 2.5" case.
there would be a lot of force on the rivets and reciver on one of these. look at the recoil forces of a 3.5" 12 guage slug its way the hell up there


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In the 2011 issue of Michigan Super Lawyers, Q&A subject Sharon M. Woods, a business litigator with Barris, Sott, Denn & Driker in Detroit, discusses how her scientific training helps her law practice. An excerpt:
In the 2011 issue of Michigan Super Lawyers, Q&A subject Sharon M. Woods, a business litigator with Barris, Sott, Denn & Driker in Detroit, discusses how her scientific training helps her law practice. An excerpt:
As long as the practice of law has been around, attorneys have been helping others. Legal services are valuable in our culture, but that value oftentimes makes them inaccessible to the underprivileged or to the organizations that may need them the most. The American Bar Association states that lawyers should aspire to render, without fee, at least 50 hours of pro bono legal services per year, with an emphasis that these services be provided to people of limited means or nonprofit organizations that serve the poor.
Helping others both nourishes the soul and works toward the common good. For some attorneys their motivating factor might be paying it forward in terms of education. For others it's shedding light on veterans' issues or even representing the wrongly accused. Reaching out to those in need through pro bono work can rebalance your work life, regenerate your spirit and help you gain a greater sense of connectedness with the law.
Far too often the attorney reputation gets maligned - from being called ambulance chasers to being characterized as unemotional legal robots. But contrary to popular belief, many attorneys actually cite the ability to make a positive change in society as the reason they attended law school in the first place.
According to a recent Super Lawyers survey, 46 percent stated working in a challenging field as the number-one reason they started practicing law.* Coming in second was helping others, at 30 percent.* Pro bono work addresses both of these ideas, often expanding an attorney's professional experience through volunteering for causes they feel passionate about. Pro bono involvement is also a great way to showcase your firm's expertise while providing a useful service to the people who really need it.
The idea of giving back can enhance firm morale and loyalty and can factor into better employee retention rates. Doing Good While Doing Well: A Road Map to Success with Pro Bono will shed light on some of the societal and altruistic benefits surrounding volunteer legal work and guide you through four simple steps to set the foundation for a sustainable pro bono program at your firm.
*2017 Super Lawyers Legal Trends Survey
For Hunt & Tuegel, PLLC out of Central Texas, free legal consultations were becoming an issue. While they were offering advice and sitting down face-to-face with prospects, they weren't seeing a return with regards to high quality clients. To remedy this issue, they decided to use their FindLaw website and Super Lawyers list selections to pursue the type of client they were interested in.
Russel Hunt Sr., who founded the firm, is an eleven-time Super Lawyers selectee, and his partner, Michelle Tuegel, has been selected to the Texas Rising Stars list three times. Tuegel was also selected to the list of Up-and-Coming 50: Women Texas Rising Stars list in 2017.
Now, both Hunt and Tuegel use the SuperLawyers.com directory to promote their accolades and reach consumers who are searching for attorneys considered to be a step above the rest. They also added their attorney bios and video to their online profiles. To build on this increased exposure, they also advertised in the 2017 Texas Super Lawyers Magazine which is distributed throughout the state.
On top of the publicity they receive through local television and radio interviews, their partnership with FindLaw and Super Lawyers has helped the firm reach more qualified leads that moved from the consultation phase to actually becoming a client.
Download the case study to learn more about how Hunt and Tuegel used an integrated legal marketing approach to find higher quality clients.
One generation always paves the way for the next. In the 2006 issue of Pennsylvania and Delaware Super Lawyers Magazine, we profiled civil rights pioneer David Rudovsky, who himself learned from another civil rights legend. An excerpt:
Rudovsky graduated from Queens College in 1964 and enrolled in New York University Law School. Living in Greenwich Village, Rudovsky soaked up the social ferment of New York in that era. During the summer after his first year of law school he went to Albany, Ga., to intern for legendary civil rights attorney C.B. King.
"We had a number of disturbing experiences," Rudovsky says. "We had a cross burned where we were staying, and there was always a low-level fear in the office. There wasn't a day that went by where there wasn't some crisis over a civil rights issue. It opened my eyes to the degree of oppression in the South at that time, and to the possibility that legal responses to those kinds of conditions might make a difference."
Rudovsky is not only a 14-time Super Lawyers list selectee, he also teaches law in the areas of civil liberties, civil rights, and criminal justice. His work concerns the protection of the constitutional rights of individuals and groups. Rudovsky's litigation, writing, and teaching have centered on the issues of governmental misconduct, discrimination issues, the abuse of police power, prisoners' rights, and governmental surveillance.
Read the rest of Rudovsky's story in the full feature article on SuperLawyers.com. And be sure to check out the latest edition of Pennsylvania & Delaware Super Lawyers Magazine here.


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|Loaded Firearm (TPA)
|Left - Right: Discovered at MEM, MFR, EWR, MDW, OTZ, EWR
|Credit Card Knives (ABQ)
- Three credit card knives were discovered this week. Two were discovered at Albuquerque (ABQ), and one was found at Mobile (MOB).
- A double-edged knife was detected in the front right pocket of a passenger at San Francisco (SFO).
- A pocket knife was discovered in the front waistband of a passenger at Dallas (DAL).
|Knives - Top to Bottom: CLT, SAT, DEN
|Firearms - Left to Right - Top to Bottom: LBB, RSW, TRI, TUL, IAH, MOB, DTW
*In order to provide a timely weekly update, I compile my data from a preliminary report. The year-end numbers will vary slightly from what I report in the weekly updates. However, any monthly, midyear, or end-of-year numbers TSA provides on this blog or elsewhere will not be estimates.
You can travel with your firearms in checked baggage, but they must first be declared to the airline. You can go here for more details on how to properly travel with your firearms. Firearm possession laws vary by state and locality. Travelers should familiarize themselves with state and local firearm laws for each point of travel prior to departure.


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UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. - The University of Richmond Spiders baseball team dropped the third and final game of the season series to the Princeton Tigers on Sunday afternoon, 15-9, at Pitt Field. With the setback, the Spiders fall to 12-6 on the season, while the Tigers improve to 4-6 on the year.
The quartet of Phil Ruzbarsky, Jacob Mayers, Matt Zink, and Mike Small had 12 of Richmond's 13 hits on the day, as each player collected three hits apiece. Ruzbarsky and Zink each had two RBIs, while Mayers, Adam Forrer, and Adam McConnell each drove in one run each.
Trailing 1-0 coming to the plate in the bottom of the fourth inning, the Spiders took their first lead of the day on a Zink RBI single. Earlier in the frame, Ruzbarsky had doubled and later scored on a Princeton error.
The Tigers quickly retook the lead in the top of the fifth, scoring three times to take a 4-2 lead. In what turned out to be a trend on a beautiful day at Pitt Field, the teams would begin to take and retake the lead in a back and forth affair. RBIs from Ruzbarsky and Forrer tied the game at 4-4 after five innings of play.
After Princeton scored once in the top of the sixth, Richmond answered right back with two runs in the bottom of the frame. After Zink scored on a fielding error to tie the game at 5-5, Ruzbarsky slapped a two-out single through the right side, scoring Small and giving the Spiders a 6-5 advantage.
Princeton seized control of the game, however, thanks in part to a four-run seventh inning. Over the course of the last three frames, the Tigers scored 10 times. Richmond kept at it, scoring runs in the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings, but the Spiders were unable to overcome leaving 16 men on base and fell to the Tigers, 15-9.
The University of Richmond Spiders will be back in action on Wednesday, March 21 when the Spiders will play host to in-city rival VCU. First pitch at Pitt Field is scheduled for 3 p.m.


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KENNEWICK — Hundreds of former jail inmates owe the Benton County Sheriff's Office money for costs they amassed while behind bars, and authorities are trying to collect.
The sheriff's office recently sent out nearly 1,800 bills to collect more than $1 million in outstanding debts.
The Tri City Herald said that the action isn't unprecedented but did prompt some complaints from recipients.
Spokeswoman Julie Thompson said the department is trying to recoup money the county spent on inmate charges such as nurse visits, prescription costs and property damage.
She said the department is hoping to contract with a collection agency to help collect the debts.


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Pretty surprised myself...Originally Posted by Shipwreck
He comes into our store quite often, I've talken to him a few times. He's a great vocalist, he's pretty much set at this point. The rock band "Fuel" have already offered him a job. He has a band already here in town and I'm sure that they'll have no problem now getting signed with Chris on board.


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Is there any other reason I shouldn't meditate lying down other than I may doze off? When I used to do Yoga Nidra, you had to lie down, and it was ok. I'm thinking of adopting a lying down position with my meditation but there seems to be a negative outlook to this.
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The story of how pool and spa industry distributors came into being is actually fascinating. Early company founders came from a variety of fields — there were bleach makers, car dealers, engineers and more. But even with different backgrounds and styles, all shared a love of the business. Thanks to their successors, their legacies have survived the decades, through challenges big and small. Here's a sampling of distributors who have served the industry 35 years or longer.
Baystate Pool Supplies: Standing Strong
Thanks to the talents and powerful work ethic of two brothers, Baystate Pool Supplies came into being in 1960, albeit under a slightly different name — and the family-run business is still going strong more than five decades later.
Paul Arakelian saw an opportunity in the up-and-coming pool industry while working for his father's firm, United Bleach Manufacturing. So he dove in, starting Baystate Chemical & Pool Supplies. His brother, Arthur, left his job as a teacher and together they began building up the new business, which covered manufacturing, distribution and retailing. Arthur handled sales while Paul focused on operations. Arthur's son, John Arakelian, says they did pretty much everything in those early days, even loading and driving the delivery trucks.
Over time, the firm zeroed in on distribution, and that is its focus today. Currently Cambridge, Mass.-based Baystate Pool Supplies has nine distribution centers in 14 states.
A key division, Aquatic Parts Co., was begun in the early 1990s in Connecticut, offering more than 25,000 pool and spa replacement parts. It does a brisk business, sending out 3,000 boxes a day in season, says John, a company partner along with his brother, David Arakelian, and cousin Chuck Arakelian.
"Distributors are here forever, but we have challenges, such as Internet [competition]," John adds.
"There are still a lot of brick-and-mortar, ma-and-pa companies in the industry … and we want to help them compete, so we run a mini-trade show each year, with seminars."
Bel-Aqua Pool Supply: A Dynasty
Murray and Nettie Silver started their company in 1955, and today, three generations of the family have sat at the helm of Bel-Aqua, a wholesale distributor of pool and spa products.
The New Rochelle, N.Y.-based firm carries SKUs from more than 200 manufacturers and delivers throughout much of the Northeast.
In 2004, the company relocated to an approximately 100,000-square-foot facility, and four years later, bel-aqua.com was launched, thus starting the firm's B-to-B website.
"It was a huge event for us," says Mark Warshaw, vice president of sales and marketing and a third-generation family member. On the site, customers can place and track orders, review customer history and check product availability. Bel-Aqua has a mobile app as well.
"When my grandfather started the company, he did some manufacturing of products as well as distribution," Warshaw notes. "Hayward in 1955 was a machine shop located in Brooklyn, and not in the pool industry. My grandfather had Hayward make some products he needed, such as pumps, lights, valves and fittings, with many of his own molds. A few years later Hayward then began making products for others in the pool industry. Therefore, this makes Bel-Aqua Hayward's first customer in the pool industry."
Looking to the future, he says the years of distribution with large early-buys is over. "Just-in-time" delivery is the modus operandi for the industry.
Hachik Distributors: Early Adapter
Back in 1923, Gerabad Hachikian, a former chemist, sold his own chlorine bleach compound to Philadelphia homes via horse-drawn buggy. When launderettes arrived on the scene, he did brisk business delivering bleach to them. After college, his son, Vahe, joined the family firm, Hachik Distributors.
Then in the 1950s, as washing machines became commonplace in homes, the father-son team realized that swimming pools, which were gaining in popularity, could be a new market for them. So Vahe Hachikian began distributing pool products to retailers.
Fast forward to 1980, when his daughter joined the company after college. "Under my father's wing, I slowly learned the business from the ground up," recalls Nanette Zakian, company president. Unfortunately, Vahe Hachikian was diagnosed with cancer in 1986 and not given long to live. "At 28, I was thrust to the forefront," Zakian says. She had to accelerate her training, surround herself with knowledgeable staff and get active in NSPI (now APSP).
Under her leadership, the Aston, Pa.-based firm thrived. Last year it celebrated its 90th birthday, and one reason for its success has been a willingness to embrace new technology. Zakian says Hachik was one of the first in the industry to offer online ordering for dealers. In 2005, bar coding of more than 20,000 products was instituted in Hachik's warehouse, which she notes "immediately improved our accuracy and speed at which we pull orders."
2011 was marked by Hachik's renewed commitment to brick-and-mortar stores. "We do not do fulfillment for companies whose business is solely on the Internet," Zakian explains. "We have invested in our own brands that are sold only through brick-and-mortar dealers."
HornerXPRESS: Thinking Global
In 1969 Earl Horner, former sales manager for a pool products distributor, founded his own company, Horner Equipment of Florida. In 1972, Bill Kent joined the firm as a partner. The following year, however, health issues forced Horner to sell his share of the business to Kent.
Over the years, Kent made a number of strategic moves for the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based firm. In 1985, he bought Discus Inc. in Palo Alto, Calif. This acquisition made his export company global, and now Horner has a presence in 90 countries.
In 1992, he purchased Lectranator Inc., the salt generator business now known as AutoPilot Systems. Kent also bought AquaCal, a manufacturer of pool heat pumps.
To date, branches of HornerXpress distribution business can be found in 17 locations throughout Florida.
For Kent, two developments in the distribution sector stand out in particular. "As the Florida pool industry developed into a mature stage of life, the rollup of distribution into one large public company created an unbalanced playing field, which still exists today. This is a challenge to any independent distribution company."
For his own company, the biggest change has been in technology — in a good way. "Since the beginning of the 21st century," Kent says, "the investment in technology to create an efficient and effective business has been remarkable."
Imperial Pools: Meant to Be
Sometimes a company gets its name in a surprising way. Take Imperial Pools. In 1959, brothers Carmen and Goody Maiuccoro owned a Chrysler Imperial car dealership. One day, as a trade-in for a car, they accepted two "Easy Do" swimming pools. At first they weren't sure what to do with the pools, then they decided to install them and build a reputation as pool professionals. But when they started exhibiting pools on the car lot, Chrysler objected: "We can't have you displaying swimming pools on our lot. You have to pick one or the other."
"Needless to say, they chose pools!" says Bill Churchman, the company's CEO. "Since they had already paid for the Chrysler Imperial sign, they removed the word 'Chrysler,' turned the 'I' in Imperial into an anchor – and Imperial Pools was born."
In 1966, the company incorporated as Imperial Pools Inc. Two years later, it moved into a new, single-purpose distribution facility, focused on pool kits. By 2003, the firm had 11 branches in the Northeast, Southeast and Midwest. In 1986 came the move to the current headquarters, a 130,000-square-foot facility in Latham, N.Y. Presiding over the operation today are Goody Maiuccoro's sons, John and Gary, and John's wife, Cathi Anne.
"We are very optimistic of what the future holds for distribution," Churchman says. "We believe the role of the distributor is secure and remains an integral part of the supply chain. As our industry continues to rebound, the successful distributor must focus on listening to his customers. Understand his wants and needs, and then deliver!"
Pool Builders Supply: Filling Needs
Olen Morgan was a successful pool builder in North Carolina for years, but when he saw the need for product distribution to other builders in the Southeast, he took action. In 1976 he and wife Betty founded Pool Builders Supply.
"His background as an engineer, his entrepreneurial spirit and personal work ethic transformed the company into a major distributor in the Southeast," says daughter Taryn Morgan Springsteed, vice president of the Charlotte, N.C., distributorship.
In the 1980s, the company began manufacturing package pools and covers and repacking chemicals — all while continuing its distribution business. "This allowed us to be a force in polymer pool kits and the construction, repair and service of all types of swimming pools," Springsteed says. She notes that the firm has opened new locations in strategic cities in the Southeast, two in the last four years, and several more are in the works.
To cope with Internet sales, Springsteed says Pool Builders Supply must provide value by having products on hand at competitive prices, along with "great employees who provide service and knowledge to our customers." Additionally, she points to the "vast amounts" SKUs that must be managed for all product categories.
"New products and automation are constantly introduced that require more SKUs, so our SKUs have grown from several thousand to more than 10,000 in recent years."
Pool Water Products: The Call of the Golden State
The couple who established Pool Water Products got their start in the pool industry by working in service and retail.
In the early 1950s, Zee and Marvin Allred and their two sons moved from Arizona to California so Marvin could work on his Ph.D. Before he began, they summered in Newport Beach, where he took what was supposed to be a temporary job at a construction firm. He was quickly promoted to foreman, and they decided to stay in the Golden State.
They began a pool service route and, in 1958, opened Allred's Pool Supply store. By 1964, they had decided to move into distribution, so they franchised their 18 stores and opened PWP. All was well until Marvin had a massive heart attack in 1968. Zee, who had left the office to care for their new daughter, returned to head the company. Unfortunately, Marvin's health did not allow him to resume the leadership role. Eventually, the couple underwent an amicable divorce, with Zee retaining PWP ownership and Marvin taking over one of the less-stressful franchise stores until his demise in 2005.
Today, PWP has 300 employees at locations throughout California. The biggest challenge, Zee says, has been "surviving the great economic recession brought about by the collapse of the housing and banking industries." She believes the pool distribution sector will experience some growth as the economy recovers, but warns that "current government regulations are not very favorable for any business. … I certainly hope this will change in the near future."
Quality Pool Supply Co.: Bright Future
Quality Pool Supply Co. of Clio, Mich., has managed to achieve something not many companies can claim. "Due primarily to the commitment of our founder, Jack Engelhart, to provide stable employment, we have never laid off an employee for lack of work," says John Coulier, vice president. "Providing quality jobs so men and women can raise families was his No. 1 satisfaction. This remains a core value of our company."
Established in 1971 by Engelhart and Bill Morrish, the distributorship added a branch in Wayland, Mich., eight years later. In 2012, the ownership transfer to the second generation was completed, notes Coulier, who is Engelhart's son-in-law.
The family-run firm also has faced down many challenges over time. The early 1980s were especially difficult, with high inflation and interest rates destroying any profits the firm made. "We survived and try to remember those days so we don't repeat them," Coulier says.
Looking ahead, he believes that as long as distributors continue to provide value to the customers, they have a bright future. After all, he says, distributors provide immediate access to thousands of items a dealer cannot logically stock; likewise, they help manufacturers reduce their production, storage, transportation and credit costs.
It's also important for his company to remain resolute in its commitment to support brick-and-mortar pool dealers and builders. "We do not sell or fulfill drop ship orders for Internet-based retailers. We simply cannot cut our dealers' throats to line our own pockets."
Superior Pool Products: (PoolCorp) By Any Other Name ...
The saga of how PoolCorp's business known as Superior Pool Products came to have its name is complex.
It began around 1959-60 as Consolidated Pool Supply in San Fernando Valley, Calif. A few years later, Consolidated teamed up with PoolMart from San Gabriel Valley and became known as Consolidated Pool Mart, managed by Don Walker. Later CPM was acquired by Kern Products. Don Kern and Larry Skeldon had formed Kern Products in 1974, when they acquired the pool supply business of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Their firm was acquired by Katy Industries, but still operated as Kern Products. Then in 1986, it was bought by Olin Corp. and the name was changed to Superior Pool Products Inc. In 2000, PoolCorp (SCP Distributors) purchased Superior.
But the story doesn't stop there.
It's almost as if Superior was destined to have that name anyway. Back when Don Kern was the owner, the company did not initially have a private label, says Randy Williams, who joined Superior in 1987 and was its controller. "Don Kern named a private label 'Superior Products' one day when he was asked by a potential customer the name of the company's private label. The name came from a street sign that he happened to be standing by at that very moment!" explains Williams, who is now director of financial operations and analysis for PoolCorp.
Williams says the biggest challenge Superior has faced over the years is managing and keeping pace with the growth of the pool industry.
W.W. Adcock: Riding the Wave
Sometimes tragedy can turn into triumph. One August night in 1988, Dee Adcock got a call that the family's main warehouse and office were on fire. The 50,000-square-foot building was destroyed. It was quite a challenge recovering from such a loss, says the president of W.W. Adcock, based in Huntingdon Valley, Pa. They rebuilt on the original footprint and added corporate offices. "We came back with something positive and better," he says.
The 59-year-old distributorship is clearly a survivor. Founded by Dee's father, Woodrow W. Adcock, it began as a plumbing supply company, eventually moving into the pool business. His brother, Dale, returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam to sell products, and they even had a retail store at one point.
Of course, there have been other challenges over the decades, and Dee points to the last recession as one. "We've had other recessions, but this was the most dramatic," he says.
Of course, there have been other issues to deal with, such as Internet competition, liability lawsuits and government taxation and regulations for businesses. "Ultimately, you adapt and adjust, and work through the circumstances," the distributor says philosophically.
Today, Adcock continues to work with small pool and spa companies, offering seminars to "help them be better businesspeople."


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Arsène Wenger has praised the intelligence of Craig Eastmond after the 18-year-old made his Arsenal debut in the 2-1 Carling Cup victory over Liverpool on Wednesday night.
The Londoner was one of the outstanding performers in last season's FA Youth Cup success.
He played at right back for the Gunners Under-18s and Wenger says some of the qualities Eastmond displayed saw him trialled in a midfield role against Rafa Benitez' side.
"Yes, he has played right back," said the Arsenal manager. "We always felt that he is very intelligent in his reading of the game but he lacked a little bit of pace so we put him in midfield.
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> In article <hhhmhl$o48$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
> Valeri Astanoff <astanoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Imho, when applying a rule lhs -> rhs
>> it's a risky practice to use the same symbol
>> in 'lhs' and 'rhs', because, very often, there is
>> no easy way to check what has been done.
>> Anyway, for occasional users, you're right : it's crazy!
> Thank you -- that's really my primary point.
> And I'd add: it's damaging (to users, and to Mathematica).
> As for writing rules, I'd not even try writing something compound, like
> a + b or especially something like 1 + I, on the lhs, because I'd have
> no intuition as to how this would work (how spaces would be handled,
> etc.)
> But a single character on the lhs? It works correctly AFAIK for every
> other single-character in the alphabet. Why shouldn't one expect it to
> work for I?
"[W]ork for me" (let's try to use correct grammar here).
In[1]:= D[Sin[x], x] /. D -> f
Out[1]= Cos[x]
In[3]:= Exp[I*Pi] /. Pi -> E
Out[3]= -1
In[4]:= Exp[I*Pi] /. I -> E
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IN PURSUIT OF THE TRAVELING SALESMAN: Mathematics at the Limits of Computation. William J. Cook. xiii + 228 pp. Princeton University Press, 2012. $27.95.
Back in the early 1950s, three mathematicians at the RAND Corporation, the Santa Monica think tank, took on the notorious traveling salesman problem, or TSP. The imaginary peddler in this problem has clients in a number of cities and wants to plan the shortest possible tour that visits each city and then returns to the starting point. The RAND group—George Dantzig, Ray Fulkerson and Selmer Johnson—set to work on a specific instance of the problem, searching for the shortest circuit through 49 U.S. cities. They selected one city in each of 48 states, plus Washington, D.C., and looked up the distances between pairs of cities in a road atlas.
A direct approach to the salesman's problem is easy to describe and understand: Just list every possible ordering of the cities and choose the sequence that yields the lowest total mileage. This algorithm is guaranteed to work, although not necessarily in the lifetime of the solar system. Suppose you start the tour in Washington. You have 48 candidates for your first destination city; then, no matter which of the 48 you choose, there remain 47 unvisited cities to consider for the third slot in the tour, and so on. The number of permutations is 48 × 47 × 46 × . . . × 1, which works out to about 1061, far beyond the realm of practicality even for the fastest of modern computers. Yet Dantzig, Fulkerson and Johnson solved the 49-city problem with more modest machinery: pencil and paper, augmented with pegs and string. They placed the pegs on a wooden map, then stretched the string around pegs in various configurations to measure and compare routes. At the end of their labors they found a loop with a total length of 12,345 miles. What's more, they proved that no other circuit passing through all the cities can yield a shorter tour.
In spite of this spectacular early success, the TSP has become famous mainly for its difficulty. If you need an algorithm that always identifies the optimal tour, then nothing substantially better than the exhaustive enumeration of all possible routes has ever been discovered. Indeed, the TSP belongs to a family of problems that share the same stigma of intractability. In the classification of computing problems as "P" or "NP"—labels that correspond, roughly, to "easy" and "hard," respectively—the TSP is a standard-bearer for the NP class. If you found an efficient algorithm for the TSP, it could be adapted to solve all the other NP problems as well; but the smart money in computer science bets that no such algorithm exists. Thus from the point of view of computing theory, all NP problems are pretty much alike, and they're all hopeless.
This is not the attitude of William J. Cook, whose book In Pursuit of the Traveling Saleman celebrates all the idiosyncrasies of this particular problem and emphasizes how much progress has been made in solving instances of practical interest, despite the gloomy theoretical outlook. He is personally responsible for a big chunk of that progress. Cook and three of his colleagues are the creators of Concorde, a computer program that has broken many records for TSP solutions, including one example that laces an optimal path through 85,900 sites.
How can a problem be certifiably hard but also solvable in practice? The formal categories of P and NP impose a severe standard: An algorithm proposed as a solution to a problem must work correctly on every instance and must always produce the best possible answer. Life is not quite so grim if you relax these requirements just a little. It turns out there are many TSP algorithms that succeed most of the time but occasionally fail, or whose answers are good but not always best. The central chapters of Cook's Pursuit describe the art and craft of getting the most out of such incomplete and approximate methods.
Consider that a shortest tour of the United States is unlikely to begin by zigzagging across the continent, say, from Washington to Phoenix, back to Boston and then westward again to Seattle. An optimal tour is more likely to chain together nearby cities—Washington and Baltimore, Seattle and Portland. This commonsense observation is the basis of several heuristic algorithms, such as a "greedy" method that starts by linking nearest neighbors. For one important class of problems (those where the distances or travel costs between cities obey the "triangle inequality," a + b ≥ c), some of the heuristic methods are guaranteed to find a route that is no more than twice the optimum.
Another strategy is to produce a pretty-good tour and then search for ways to improve it. The simplest such transformation is a 2-opt move, in which two links of the tour are removed, leaving in temporary isolation four cities that can be reconnected in a different sequence to yield a smaller total distance. For example, the zigzag Washington-Phoenix-Boston-Seattle route is easily improved by making such a 2-opt exchange.
The most fruitful idea of all comes from a very different branch of mathematics: the optimization technique known as linear programming. The classic applications of linear programming are tasks such as finding the most profitable mix of products for an oil refinery. The TSP is also an optimization problem, but adapting it to the linear programming infrastructure required considerable ingenuity. The reward is that linear programming not only helps find good tours but can also establish lower bounds. That is, a linear programming algorithm can prove that no circuit through a given set of cities can possibly have a length less than x miles; if you then find an x-mile tour, you know it is optimal.
All of these tricks and many others are exploited by the Concorde TSP software. Cook has released a version of this program as a free "app" for the iPhone and the iPad (see http://www.tsp.gatech.edu/iphone/index.html). It solves the Danzig-Fulkerson-Johnson problem in two seconds.
Along with a heady dose of algorithms, Cook also offers a diverting survey of the lore and history of the TSP. The most charming revelation is that the problem's name is more than fanciful: Real traveling salesmen have struggled over their itineraries, without the aid of higher mathematics and computing machinery. Cook cites a 1925 exchange of letters between the home office of the Page Seed Company and Henry M. Cleveland, a salesman covering the New England states. That summer Cleveland made stops in some 350 places in Maine, and he was none too happy with the route suggested by the office.
Dear Sirs
My route list is balled up the worst I ever saw. Will take half as long again to work it as last year. . . . The river from Bangor down has no bridge and you have those towns down as if I could cross it anywhere. Last year's list was made out the best of any one and I can't see the object of changing it over. I think I have made myself plain.
My route list is balled up the worst I ever saw. Will take half as long again to work it as last year. . . . The river from Bangor down has no bridge and you have those towns down as if I could cross it anywhere. Last year's list was made out the best of any one and I can't see the object of changing it over. I think I have made myself plain.
In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman is in some respects a condensed edition of an earlier book, The Traveling Salesman Problem: A Computational Study, by Cook and three more coauthors: David L. Applegate, Robert E. Bixby and Vašek Chvátal. The new volume addresses a wider audience, with more pictures and fewer equations, explaining how things are done rather than how to do them, but it covers all the same territory as the larger book. The path through that territory seems reasonably close to optimal.
Brian Hayes is senior writer for American Scientist. He is the author most recently of Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions (Hill and Wang, 2008).
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The Packers have listed wide receiver Greg Jennings as questionable to play Monday night at Seattle. But among players with the Q next to their name on the injury report, Jennings' chances of playing are looking halfway decent. Jennings went through another limited practice on Saturday, and head coach Mike McCarthy said Jennings "looked good" on the field and that he "made a big jump" compared to where he was earlier in the week.
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Yemen: Remittances to fall as workers return from Saudi Arabia
Mohamed Sheikh, 19, worked in a laundry in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for four years before returning to Yemen in early November. He is one of 400 people who have recently returned to the village of Hababah, Amran Governorate, in north-eastern Yemen.
"I was sending back about US$7,200 every year to support my family of nine," he said. "But under the new laws, I needed more than $3,000 to sort out legal issues and regularize my stay in Saudi Arabia. I could not raise that amount. So I came back."
Mohammed's friend, Yahya Qaid, also a former laundry worker in Jeddah, has since found another job at a laundry in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a. "I earn less than half of what I used to earn in Jeddah," he said. "Already, my younger son has dropped out of school. My current income is not sufficient to cover the needs of my 11-member family."
$1.4 billion each year in remittances
The two are among the 400,000 Yemeni migrant workers, who, according to the Yemeni Government and aid organizations, have been forced to return from Saudi Arabia since April, following a change to labour and immigration laws. Saudi Arabian officials say those being forced to return are illegal workers and the move is intended to ensure foreign workers regularize their stay.
About one million Yemenis are estimated to work in Saudi Arabia, providing an estimated $1.4 billion in remittances for their families back home. According to Government data, these remittances contribute 4.2 per cent of GDP. This is important for a country that is the poorest and least developed in the Middle East. An estimated 54 per cent of the population live below the poverty line, 43 per cent are food insecure and more than half of Yemen's people lack access to safe water.
The return of thousands of workers will increase vulnerability among families dependent on these remittances, says the International Organization for Migration (IOM). In Hababah, home to more than 16,000 people, many families coped by encouraging their children to seek employment in Saudi Arabia.
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Many of the returnees are brought by bus to the Al Tuwal border point near Haradh, in Hajjah Governorate. Here, they are handed over by the Saudi Arabian authorities to Yemeni officials, who in turn arrange for them to return to their villages.
According to IOM, which monitors the returns at the border point, 75 per cent of the returnees that it interviewed had been sending up to $200 each month to their families. It is estimated that at least $5 million was lost in remittances in October and November alone.
"The fact that the families will not receive these remittances any more will have a major impact on them and the economy of their region," said IOM's Tereza Zakaria. "Most of them are returning to areas with high levels of food insecurity and malnutrition. The massive loss of income will inevitably exacerbate this situation."
Most of the returnees were construction workers, farmers, vendors, shop keepers, carpenters and blacksmiths. About 35 per cent of them said they suffered physical abuse and their property was confiscated as they were expelled, forcing them to return home empty-handed. Many also returned to deplorable conditions and are themselves now in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.
Triggering a new humanitarian crisis
Between 3 and 7 November 2013, the number of returnees at Al Tuwal increased sharply as a moratorium on deportations that had been in place since July expired. More than 28,000 people returned during that period, according to IOM. Although the numbers have since decreased, the Government expects that a further 400,000 Yemenis will return in the coming months. IOM and its partners are at Al Tuwal where they are providing medical care, food, non-food items, water and sanitation to the returnees.
"The return of these workers will hit the poorest families hardest," says Trond Jensen, head of OCHA in Yemen. "It will increase vulnerability and significantly hurt livelihoods. It could trigger a new humanitarian crisis for a country that is struggling to cope with many crises."
In Yemen, more than half the population needs some form of humanitarian aid. The collapse of basic services in 2011-12, endemic food insecurity, destroyed or damaged livelihoods and under-development, along with displacement resulting from conflict, have combined to plunge the country into a humanitarian emergency which may persist into 2015. The return of migrant workers will likely worsen this vulnerability. The UN and its humanitarian partners have appealed for $571 million to assist 7.6 million people in Yemen in 2014.


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