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While the issue of size creep in Android phones hasn't exactly been ignored, big devices have become so commonplace that the discussion is largely academic at this point -- the vast majority of high-end Android phones are simply big. Deal with it, as a certain former Microsoft employee might say.
Nevertheless, the announcement of Samsung's Galaxy Mega line is a clear indication that it's time to revive the discussion.
[ MORE ANDROID: HTC's Q1 profit sinks to record low ]
There's an argument to be made that the two titanic devices are the results of engineers running amok -- designed with total focus on wow-worthy feature sets, and zero consideration of the possibility that people with hands smaller than Dikembe Mutombo's might not dig the 6.3-inch form factor.
The Megas, strangely, have less impressive hardware than Samsung's own Galaxy S 4 - despite the outsized dimensions, the devices lack quad-core processors, 1080p screens, and pack 1.5GB of RAM instead 2GB. (Oh, and despite Samsung's emphasis on camera features, the Galaxy S 4 has them beat there, as well.)
That's not to say that they're bad devices, exactly -- a big screen is still a big screen, even at 720p, and they look to be powerful enough to provide a good user experience even on their ever-so-slightly downgraded hardware. And the 6.3-inch model, at least, packs a beefy 3,200 mAh battery, which should provide solid endurance.
The Megas' appeal may come down to pricing, which Samsung didn't reveal in its announcement. If the asking price is less than that of, for example, the Galaxy S 4, the case could be made that the Megas represent a good value if you're a particularly enthusiastic mobile media consumer.
But, like all tweeners, the Megas run the risk of being neither one thing nor the other -- either it's a big, awkward phone or it's a small, potentially expensive tablet with a mobile subscription. I guess if you need a tablet that does 3G/4G and also fits in your pocket, the Megas are the devices for you. Samsung says they'll be rolled out first in Europe and Russia in May, with other markets to follow.
Samsung may also be headed in the other direction, sizewise, if a rumor reported by SamMobile is to be believed -- the Galaxy S 4 mini will hit retailers' shelves around the end of May or beginning of June.
It's not going to be all that small, according to the rumor site -- which points out that, with a 4.3-inch screen, the Galaxy S 4 mini will be the same size as the full-size Galaxy S 2.
The Galaxy S 3 mini was a fairly uninspired offering, so here's hoping Samsung has decided to make sure the latest "mini" version is a little bit closer to its namesake in terms of performance.
Another new release this week is the ZTE Geek, a fairly standard 5-incher with a 720p screen, 1GB RAM, wireless charging, and -- most notably -- a 2GHz Intel Atom Z2580 processor, the first to use the company's latest mobile chipset.
Unfortunately, for those of you wowed by that clock speed, it doesn't seem likely that the Geek is headed to U.S. shores anytime soon. It's a shame, because I'd be interested in checking out the Geek and any further ZTE developments, which I'm going to assume will be called the ZTE Nerd, ZTE Basement-Dweller, and ZTE Neckbeard.
(H/T: Android Guys)
From the "in-no-way-terrifying-and-anxiety-inducing" department -- one presenter at the Hack in the Box security event in Amsterdam demonstrated that it's possible to use an Android phone to hack into electronics used on commercial aircraft. According to a report from The Register, researcher Hugo Teso said he can effectively fly a commercial airliner from an Android device, thanks to major vulnerabilities in the software used for navigation and automatic piloting. (Wisely, he did not disclose the exact nature of his exploits.)
Teso, thankfully, noted that the flaws are easily patched and that manufacturers and the FAA are working to solve the problem.
The Play store got a facelift this week (see right), and Android users should see the more colorful, clean-lined interface popping up on their devices over the course of the next few weeks.
Delays in getting the critically acclaimed One to market have torpedoed HTC's profits, the company reported Monday. This highlights the fact that it wouldn't just be embarrassing for the Taiwanese OEM if Samsung gets the Galaxy S 4 onto the shelves first, despite having announced much later -- it would be potentially catastrophic. HTC has until April 26 to avoid that fate.
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It runs on Windows, Linux, and OS X, and adds new features not found in the games as originally
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Initial setup consists of:
Please see the github repo for this snap for more info and bug reporting:
Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snap can be installed from the command line on openSUSE Leap 15.x and Tumbleweed.
You need first add the snappy repository from the terminal. Leap 15.5 users, for example, can do this with the following command:
sudo zypper addrepo --refresh https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_Leap_15.5 snappy
Swap out openSUSE_Leap_15.5 for openSUSE_Leap_15.4 or openSUSE_Tumbleweed if you're using a different version of openSUSE.
With the repository added, import its GPG key:
sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh
Finally, upgrade the package cache to include the new snappy repository:
sudo zypper dup --from snappy
Snap can now be installed with the following:
sudo zypper install snapd
You then need to either reboot, logout/login or source /etc/profile to have /snap/bin added to PATH.
Additionally, enable and start both the snapd and the snapd.apparmor services with the following commands:
source /etc/profile
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.apparmor
To install GZDoom, simply use the following command:
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Today, a video was uploaded to YouTube of last night's Ferguson protests in the wake of Michael Brown's killing. It shows a police office prowling the street among dozens of protesters milling about. He has a rifle, and has it raised and aimed at peaceful civilians. The money shot comes about 30 seconds in, when he points the gun directly at multiple people and says, "I will fucking kill you. Get back!"
The person recording the video then asks the officer for his name. "Go fuck yourself," he replies.
Below is another, clearer video of the officer waving his gun at people in what looks like the aftermath of his scary run-in with the protesters.
Who is this guy? Seriously, what's his name?
It looks like the officer has been removed from duty. Today, the ACLU of Missouri sent a letter to the Missouri Highway Patrol calling for the cop to be removed, and now, the ACLU is reporting on Twitter that the deed is done.


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Bhattacharya, Bhabhani
Bhabhani Bhattacharya (bəbä´nē bätəchär´yə), 1906–, Indian novelist, journalist, and translator. Bhattacharya was educated in India and England and has taught and traveled in many parts of the world. The themes of his novels, written in English, are drawn from the history and modern social problems of India. Sharp with social criticism, they deal with poverty and famine, caste and intolerance, and political inequality and injustice. His first work, So Many Hungers! (1948), describes in shocking terms a Bengal famine and the black-market corruption it produces. In Music for Mohini (1952) a modern city girl is forced by means of an arranged marriage into a repressive, traditional way of life. Bhattacharya attacks the caste system in He Who Rides a Tiger (1954), in which an untouchable masquerades successfully as a Brahmin priest. His other major works include the novels A Goddess Named Gold (1960) and Shadow from Ladakh (1966) and translations from the Bengali of some of Rabindranath Tagore's work. Bhattacharya's novels are internationally acclaimed for their irony and perceptive social commentary.


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The King of Christmas
It's Christmas time and you're feeling the need to standout in your neighborhood with lights and decorations. You know what you want, but don't have the time to get out the ladder and possibly you're afraid of heights anyway.
The answer to your problem may be a company in Frederick called "The King Of Christmas."


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I like Batteries. I like them of all sizes but I prefer C Batteries and 9 Volt batteries. You know what you are getting with these. They have their functional uses but are also designed for more fun equipment. They usually fit perfectly, with the round nub like terminals facing the same way (not all flip floppy back and forth + to - needing six to get the job done, like Double and Triple As). The C and 9 Volt batteries do not need springs to keep them in place They are easier to store and have a good heft to them. What can I say, I have a preference.
When I was younger and less mature I used to equate bra sizes to batteries well, actually the size of what was int he bra. D-cell batteries, the largest of common household batteries, used to power large flashlights, mega-phones and large radios, were equivalent as a D Cup bra. C-cell batteries, the next size down, the most versatile and widely used batteries for fun things like remote control cars, toy trucks and other cool toys were equal to a C Cup. There is no B size battery so I called the B Cup a 9-Volt. 9 Volt batteries are most commonly used for smoke detectors, Walkie-Talkies and RC controllers. The 9Volt was fun but also had a practical side. Of course the smallest of the common batteries are the AA (double A) and AAA (triple A) batteries which are used in cameras, small electronics, TV remote controls and min-flashlights. Nothing great but they got the job done.
Now read the first paragraph again.
Since the beginning the of the year my wife and I have been making a concerted effort to exercise, eat better, and lose weight. As of this posting Lauren has lost over 20 lbs and I am down 14. I do not think Lauren was ever in a position that she needed to lose any weight but I support her decision to get trimmer and more fit. Not only does Lauren run 40 miles or so a week but she also does weight lifting. She looks great. The best part of her look is the smile she wears from the confidence she now has now that she is more comfortable in her body. A side effect of the weight loss though has been she has not been able to determine where on her body she is losing weight. Let me just say, when I met her, before kids, she was the power of a toy truck. Now she powers digital cameras.
MYy workouts have only consist of running. I have lost weight in my legs, belly and hips. But since I do not do any weight training the upper part of my body is looking rather large and flabby. I ran a 10 mile race last weekend where professional photographers were shooting pics of runners for purchase. The day after the race I went to the photography website to check out if I was in any of the pictures. I was horrified at what I saw. The combination of the light rain and sweat made my shirt stick to my chest. Let's say I could power a boom box.
I need to figure out a way to support my Man-Batteries.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Posted byWilliam Meakim aka WILLIAM at 4/26/2012 04:07:00 PM
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5 comments:
- Melinda said...
You are funny and such a dork!
Love "read the first paragraph again"!! Very clever. lol
- James (SeattleDad) said...
Hey, at least you are running and losing weight, bro.
That last part was powered by Seinfeld
I have always loved all kinds of batteries.
In fact, growing up, if anyone ever hinted that they wanted their batteries held, I would offer.
Also, I can still remember almost every time I put a nine volt up to my my tongue and the tingly sensation I got.
- Kathy said...
what? no picture?
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Matchups for the Super Bowl on Sunday between the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos at MetLife Stadium.
When the Seahawks (15-3)
have the ball
Beast Mode — And big plays.
That's what got the Seahawks to the big game for the second time in eight years, although nobody is left from that team which lost to Pittsburgh.
RB Marshawn Lynch (24) has been pretty much unstoppable in the playoffs after a late-season slump. He powered his way to 109 yards and a 5.0 average per rush against San Francisco's staunch defense in the NFC title game. His 40-yard TD run got Seattle back in the game, and he ran all over New Orleans the previous week.
Denver has stepped up defensively on the ground, led by NT Terrance Knighton (94) — yep, "Pot Roast vs. Beast Mode" — and LBs Danny Trevathan (59) and Wesley Woodyard (52), and will be in excellent shape if it can slow Lynch.
And don't think Lynch can't burst free for big gains as well as get the tough yards inside.
Seattle's offensive line struggled protecting Russell Wilson (3), but was fine when pounding it out against the 49ers. The Broncos aren't as physical or as deep defensively, and without LB Von Miller, there could be vulnerability.
Then again, they are 10-0 without him as Trevathan has become a standout, DE Jeremy Mincey (57) has sealed the edge, and LB Shaun Phillips (90) and Robert Ayers (91) have ramped up their play.
Seattle prides itself on an unrelenting physical offensive line. It's anchored by center Max Unger (60) and tackle Russell Okung (76), but it's also deep because injuries forced backups into action all season.
Where the Seahawks sometimes struggle is keeping pass rushers off Wilson; he was sacked four times by San Francisco. Phillips led the Broncos with 10 sacks during the season and has two more in the playoffs, while Ayers also has become dangerous.
The key is to keep Wilson contained in the pocket. Once he gets outside, he will create big plays either running or passing.
Despite what some critics maintain, he does have the targets to produce with his arm. Doug Baldwin (89) has been superb in the postseason, and Golden Tate (81) is just as formidable at wide receiver. Third wideout Jermaine Kearse (15) caught the 35-yard TD pass for the winning points last week.
Denver's battered secondary handled Tom Brady quite well for the AFC championship, so it should ride a wave of confidence into the Meadowlands. Veteran DBs Champ Bailey (24), Tony Carter (32) and Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie (45) will have a tougher time against these receivers than they did against New England.
Don't underestimate the abilities of TEs Zach Miller (86) and Luke Willson (82) to get open and contribute, either. And if WR-KR Percy Harvin (11) is recovered from a concussion suffered against the Saints, it adds more speed and elusiveness for the Seahawks.
When the Broncos (15-3)
have the ball
The Seahawks ranked first in overall defense this year, yielding a league-low 231 points. All Denver did was score 606, shattering the previous NFL mark.
Even juicier for this Super Bowl, Seattle was tops against the pass, which, of course, is a Peyton Manning (18) specialty. This is likely where the game will be decided.
If Seattle's unequaled secondary led by All-Pros cornerback Richard Sherman (25) — yeah, the guy can talk, but he sure can play, too — and safety Earl Thomas (29), supported by terrific S Kam Chancellor (31) and emerging CB Byron Maxwell (41) can handle Manning's myriad receivers in man coverage, the Seahawks get a huge edge. Denver has not faced a defense with these cover skills, and those talents even extend to nickel backs Walter Thurmond (29) and Jeremy Lane (20).
Of course, Seattle has not faced a QB like Manning, either. His 400-yard game against New England epitomized his sensational season.
Manning will look for WRs Demaryius Thomas (88) and Eric Decker (87) in favorable matchups, especially on the outside, and for slot receiver Wes Welker (83) and TE Julius Thomas (80) over the middle. The Seahawks like to keep LBs Bobby Wagner (54) and Malcolm Smith (53) on the field as much as possible, so one of them could wind up against the dynamic Denver tight end. So might the now-healthy LB K.J. Wright (50).
Manning will go there quickly to see if Seattle can handle Thomas. The Seahawks' defenders will play tight and tough on those targets.
For those who haven't noticed, mesmerized by Manning and his record-setting performances, the Broncos have a running game. The question is whether that ground attack will get anywhere against Seattle, which held the 49ers' third-ranked rushing unit to 161 yards, 130 by Colin Kaepernick.
Manning hasn't accumulated 130 yards rushing in his last eight seasons combined. So no worries there.
The worry for Seattle is workhorse Knowshon Moreno (27), who can offer enough balance with his running to keep the opposition, well, off-balance. Moreno's work as a receiver out of the backfield gives Manning an astonishing five targets who caught 60 or more passes. All five also scored 10 or more touchdowns.
Denver's line has surrendered a mere 20 sacks, none in the postseason. RG Louis Vasquez and RT Orlando Franklin and center Manny Ramirez are particularly stout, and will need to be against Seattle's deep D-line rotation. Watch for Michael Bennett (72), Chris Clemons (91), Cliff Avril (56), Red Bryant (79), Brandon Mebane (92), Tony McDaniel (99) and Clinton McDonald (69) all to play roles.
Special Teams
Denver PK Matt Prater (5) broke the NFL record with a 64-yard field goal and might have the strongest leg in the league. He shouldn't be bothered much by the swirling winds should they blow through MetLife Stadium.
Seattle's Steven Hauschka also is very reliable, although his range is not like Prater's. But he has made 17 of 18 field goals from 40 yards or longer.
With Denver's offense clicking, Britton Colquitt has punted just once in the playoffs.
Seattle P Jon Ryan (9) excels at putting the ball inside the 10.
If Harvin is healthy, it adds a lot to Seattle's return teams: a game-breaker any time he touches the ball. Tate is a solid punt returner with a penchant for gambling and Baldwin had a 69-yard kickoff runback against San Francisco.
Denver's Trindon Holliday (11) also can break open big returns, but must show he can hang onto the ball.
Seattle's Pete Carroll and Denver's John Fox both took over moribund franchises. Now look where they are.
Both are strong motivators, although Carroll does it in more of a rah-rah style his players embrace.
No team is more aggressive, especially on defense, Carroll's specialty, than the Seahawks. He had some success in a previous head coaching stint with the Patriots, then went to USC and won two national titles. Since returning to the pros, Carroll has done a brilliant job turning the Seahawks into a championship contender.
Fox, who missed a month of the schedule after heart surgery, is smart enough to keep the reins very loose on Manning. His background is in defense, where the Broncos struggled until recently. His players and assistants credit his energy and easygoing manner with helping steer them through a season of potholes to get to the Super Bowl.
Manning's legacy overrides many other elements of this game. He's already proven to be among the greatest regular-season players the NFL has seen. But he is only 1-1 in Super Bowls; hey, even his younger brother, Eli, is 2-0 in them.
Eli will be on hand in his stadium to root on Peyton, who was in Indianapolis two years ago when his bro beat the Patriots for his second championship.
There's also the possibility, perhaps remote, that Peyton will emulate Broncos boss John Elway and retire should he win a second ring. Elway said he doesn't see that happening.
The Seahawks lost in their only previous Super Bowl, which adds to the franchise's hunger. They also recognize that in Super Bowls featuring potent offenses against stingy defenses, the defensive team usually wins.
Carroll coached in the Meadowlands in the 1990s as defensive coordinator, then head coach of the Jets.
That didn't end well, and he could erase a few demons with a victory.
Matchups for the Super Bowl on Sunday between the Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos at MetLife Stadium.
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Part II - Chapter VII
I Go to Bristol
IT WAS LONGER than the squire imagined ere we were ready for the sea, and none of our first plans—not even Doctor Livesey's, of keeping me beside him—could be carried out as we intended. The doctor had to go to London for a physician to take charge of his practice; the squire was hard at work at Bristol; and I lived on at the Hall under the charge of old Redruth, the gamekeeper, almost a prisoner, but full of sea-dreams and the most charming anticipations of strange islands and adventures. I brooded by the hour together over the map, all the details of which I well remembered. Sitting by the fire in the housekeeper's room, I approached that island, in my fancy, from every possible direction; I explored every acre of its surface; I climbed a thousand times to that tall hill they call the Spy-glass, and from the top enjoyed the most wonderful and changing prospects. Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought; sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us; but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures.
So the weeks passed on, till one fine day there came a letter addressed to Doctor Livesey, with this addition, "To be opened, in the case of his absence, by Tom Redruth or young Hawkins." Obeying this order, we found, or rather I found—for the gamekeeper was a poor hand at reading anything but print—the following important news:
"DEAR LIVESEY: AS I do not know whether you are at the Hall or still in London, I send this in double to both places.
"The ship is bought and fitted. She lies at anchor, ready for sea. You never imagined a sweeter schooner—a child might sail her—two hundred tons; name, Hispaniola.
"I got her through my old friend, Blandly, who has proved himself throughout the most surprising trump. The admirable fellow literally slaved in my interest, and so, I may say, did everyone in Bristol, as soon as they got wind of the port we sailed for—treasure, I mean—"
"Redruth," said I, interrupting the letter, "Doctor Livesey will not like that. The squire has been talking, after all."
"Well, who's got a better right?" growled the gamekeeper. "A pretty rum go if squire ain't to talk for Doctor Livesey, I should think."
At that I gave up all attempt at commentary, and read straight on:
"Blandly himself found the Hispaniola, and by the most admirable management got her for the merest trifle. There is a class of men in Bristol monstrously prejudiced against Blandly. They go the length of declaring that this honest creature would do anything for money; that the Hispaniola belonged to him, and that he sold it to me absurdly high—the most transparent calumnies. None of them dare, however, to deny the merits of the ship.
"So far there was not a hitch. The workpeople, to be sure—riggers and what not—were most annoyingly slow, but time cured that. It was the crew that troubled me.
"I wished a round score of men—in case of natives, buccaneers, or the odious French—and I had the worry of the deuce itself to find so much as half a dozen, till the most remarkable stroke of fortune brought me the very man that I required.
"I was standing on the dock, when by the merest accident, I fell in talk with him. I found he was an old sailor, kept a public house, knew all the seafaring men in Bristol, had lost his health ashore, and wanted a good berth as cook to get to sea again. He had hobbled down there that morning, he said, to get a smell of the salt.
"I was monstrously touched—so would you have been—and, out of pure pity, I engaged him on the spot to be ship's cook. Long John Silver, he is called, and has lost a leg; but that I regarded as a recommendation, since he lost it in his country's service, under the immortal Hawke. He has no pension, Livesey. Imagine the abominable age we live in!
"Well, sir, I thought I had only found a cook, but it was a crew I had discovered. Between Silver and myself we got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable—not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit. I declare we could fight a frigate.
"Long John even got rid of two out of the six or seven I had already engaged. He showed me in a moment that they were just the sort of freshwater swabs we had to fear in an adventure of importance.
"I am in the most magnificent health and spirits, eating like a bull, sleeping like a tree, yet I shall not enjoy a moment till I hear my old tarpaulins tramping round the capstan. Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head. So now, Livesey, come post; do not lose an hour, if you respect me.
"Let young Hawkins go at once to see his mother, with Redruth for a guard; and then both come full speed to Bristol. JOHN TRELAWNEY.
"P.S.—I did not tell you that Blandly, who, by the way, is to send a consort after us if we don't turn up by the end of August, had found an admirable fellow for sailing-master—a stiff man, which I regret, but, in all other respects, a treasure. Long John Silver unearthed a very competent man for a mate, a man named Arrow. I have a boatswain who pipes, Livesey; so things shall go man-o'-war fashion on board the good ship Hispaniola.
"I forgot to tell you that Silver is a man of substance; I know of my own knowledge that he has a banker's account, which has never been overdrawn. He leaves his wife to manage the inn; and as she is a woman of color, a pair of old bachelors like you and I may be excused for guessing that it is the wife, quite as much as the health, that sends him back to roving. J.T.
"P.P.S.—Hawkins may stay one night with his mother. J. T."
You can fancy the excitement into which that letter put me. I was half beside myself with glee, and if ever I despised a man, it was old Tom Redruth, who could do nothing but grumble and lament. Any of the under-gamekeepers would gladly have changed places with him; but such was not the squire's pleasure, and the squire's pleasure was like law among them all. Nobody but old Redruth would have dared so much as even to grumble.
The next morning he and I set out on foot for the "Admiral Benbow," and there I found my mother in good health and spirits. The captain, who had so long been a cause of so much discomfort, was gone where
the wicked cease from troubling. The squire had had everything repaired, and the public rooms and the sign repainted, and had added some furniture—above all a beautiful armchair for mother in the bar. He had found her a boy as an apprentice also so that she should not want help while I was gone.
It was on seeing that boy that I understood, for the first time, my situation. I had thought up to that moment of the adventures before me, not at all of the home that I was leaving; and now at sight of this clumsy stranger, who was to stay here in my place beside my mother, I had my first attack of tears. I am afraid I led that boy a dog's life; for as he was new to the work, I had a hundred opportunities of setting him right and putting him down, and I was not slow to profit by them.
The night passed, and the next day, after dinner, Redruth and I were afoot again and on the road. I said good-by to Mother and the cove where I had lived since I was born, and the dear old "Admiral Benbow"—since he was repainted, no longer quite so dear. One of my last thoughts was of the captain, who had so often strode along the beach with his cocked hat, his saber-cut cheek, and his old brass telescope. Next moment we had turned the corner and my home was out of sight.
The mail picked us up about dusk at the "Royal George" on the heath. I was wedged in between Redruth and a stout old gentleman, and in spite of the swift motion and the cold night air, I must have dozed a great deal from the very first, and then slept like a log up hill and down dale, through stage after stage; for when I was awakened at last, it was by a punch in the ribs, and I opened my eyes to find that we were standing still before a large building in a city street, and that the day had already broken a long time.
"Where are we?" I asked.
"Bristol," said Tom. "Get down."
Mr. Trelawney had taken up his residence at an inn far down the docks, to superintend the work upon the schooner. Thither we had now to walk, and our way, to my great delight, lay along the quays and beside the great multitude of ships of all sizes and rigs and nations. In one, sailors were singing at their work; in another there were men aloft, high over my head, hanging to threads that seemed no thicker than a spider's. Though I had lived by the shore all my life, I seemed never to have been near the sea till then. The smell of tar and salt was something new. I saw the most wonderful figureheads, that had all been far over the ocean. I saw, besides, many old sailors, with rings in their ears, and whiskers curled in ringlets, and tarry pigtails, and their swaggering, clumsy sea-walk; and if I had seen as many kings or archbishops I could not have been more delighted.
And I was going to sea myself; to sea in a schooner, with a piping boat-
swain, and pig-tailed singing seamen; to sea, bound for an unknown island, and to seek for buried treasure.
While I was still in this delightful dream, we came suddenly in front of a large inn and met Squire Trelawney, all dressed out like a sea officer, in stout blue cloth, coming out of the door with a smile on his face, and a capital imitation of a sailor's walk.
"Here you are," he cried; "and the doctor came last night from London. Bravo!—The ship's company complete."
"Oh, sir," cried I, "when do we sail?"
"Sail!" says he. "We sail to-morrow!"


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The Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1952 (the Act), authorizes each federal agency to prescribe a fee, charge, or price for services provided by the agency "to or for any person (including groups . . .)," determined to be fair and equitable, consideration being taken of "direct and indirect cost to the Government, value to the recipient, public policy or interest served, and other pertinent facts . . . ." Pursuant to the Act, the Federal Power Commission imposed an annual assessment against all jurisdictional electric utilities in proportion to their wholesale sales and interchange of electricity, and against all natural gas companies with operating revenues of $1,000,000 or more in proportion to their deliveries of natural gas in interstate commerce. On petitions for review, the Court of Appeals set aside these annual charges, holding that whole industries are not in the category of those who may be assessed under the Act, the thrust of which reaches only specific charges for specific services to specific individuals or companies. Held:
DOUGLAS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which BURGER, C. J., and STEWART, WHITE, and REHNQUIST, JJ., joined. MARSHALL, J., filed an opinion concurring in the result, in which BRENNAN, J., joined, post, p. 352. BLACKMUN and POWELL, JJ., took no part in the decision of the case.
Keith A. Jones argued the cause for petitioner. On the brief were Solicitor General Bork, Leo A. Forquer, and George W. McHenry, Jr.
Thomas M. Debevoise and Stanley M. Morley argued the cause for respondents. With Mr. Debevoise on the brief for respondent New England Power Co. were William J. Madden, Jr., and Jerome C. Muys. With Mr. Morley on the brief for respondent Independent Natural Gas Association of America were Jerome J. McGrath and Francis H. Caskin. L. F. Cadenhead and Melvin Richter were on the brief for respondent Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., a division of Tenneco, Inc.
MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case, companion to National Cable Television Assn. v. United States, ante, p. 336, raises another important problem of construction of the provisions of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1952, Tit. 5, 65 Stat. 290, 31 U.S.C. 483a. The Federal Power Commission established filing fees under the Natural Gas Act and under the Federal Power Act. These filing fees have not been challenged. What was challenged were annual assessments under both Acts, levied in an effort of the agency to recoup some of the remaining costs under the two Acts.
With respect to electric utilities, the Commission determines each year the costs of administering the Federal Power Act. The costs associated with the Commission's efforts to promote the co-ordination and [415 U.S. 345, 347] reliability of nonjurisdictional electric systems are not included. The Commission also deducts from administration costs the costs associated with services rendered to electric systems not subject to the Commission's jurisdiction and the amount received during the year from filing fees. The remaining balance is assessed against jurisdictional utilities 1 in proportion to their wholesale sales and interchange of electricity. In 1971 these companies had gross revenues of some $21 billion and net income of nearly $4 billion. The annual assessment challenged here involved 1973 and for all such electric companies was $5 million or 0.024% of gross revenue and 0.14% of net income.
As respects natural gas companies, the Commission determines each year the costs of administering the natural gas pipeline programs under the Natural Gas Act, 52 Stat. 821, 15 U.S.C. 717 et seq. These costs, after deducting amounts received from filing fees, are assessed against all natural gas companies with annual operating revenues of $1,000,000 or more in proportion to their deliveries of natural gas in interstate commerce. In addition, all natural gas companies required to file an annual report on their total gas supply (18 CFR 260.7) are assessed one-tenth of a mill for each thousand cubic feet of new reserves of natural gas certificated each year to support the cost of the producer certificate program. [415 U.S. 345, 348]
The Commission in its report, 45 F. P. C. 440 and 964, said as respects both electric utilities and natural gas companies that regulations have provided "the foundation for the sound financial condition which public utilities and natural gas companies have achieved." Id., at 445. It mentioned the "industry-wide recognition of the benefits accruing from only one facet of the Commission's activities - the adoption of a uniform accounting system." Id., at 445 n. 5. The Commission, while noting that its regulatory activities were beneficial to consumers, added that its actions
The Act in question, 31 U.S.C. 483a, authorizes the head of each federal agency to prescribe a "fee, charge, or price" for any "benefit, privilege, . . . license, permit, certificate, registration or similar thing of value . . . provided . . . by [the] Federal agency . . . for any person (including groups, . . . corporations . . .)" which he determines "to be fair and equitable taking into consideration direct and indirect cost to the Government, value to the recipient, public policy or interest served, and other pertinent facts . . . ."
The Court of Appeals held that whole industries are not in the category of those who may be assessed, the thrust of the Act reaching only specific charges for specific services to specific individuals or companies. We agree with the Court of Appeals.
The report on the Act, H. R. Rep. No. 384, 82d Cong., 1st Sess., 2, states that "[t]he Committee is concerned that the Government is not receiving full return from many of the services which it renders to special beneficiaries" (emphasis added). It is true that the Act includes services rendered "to or for any person (including groups . . .)." But if we are to construe the Act to cover only "fees" and not "taxes" - as we held should be done in the National Cable Television case, ante, p. 336 - the "fee" presupposes an application whether by a single company or by a group of companies. The Office of Management and Budget (then known as the Bureau of the Budget) issued a circular in 1959 2 construing the Act. That circular stated that a reasonable charge "should be made to each identifiable recipient for a measurable unit or amount of Government service or property from which he derives a special benefit." 3 [415 U.S. 345, 350] (Emphasis added.) The circular also states that no charge should be made for services rendered, "when the identification of the ultimate beneficiary is obscure and the service can be primarily considered as benefitting broadly the general public." 4 [415 U.S. 345, 351]
We believe that is the proper construction of the Act. Though it greatly narrows the Act from the dimensions urged by the Commission, it keeps it within the boundaries of the "fee" system and away from the domain of "taxes" toward which the Commission's "economic climate" argument would lead. Some of the assessments made by the Commission under its formula would be on companies which had no proceedings before the Commission during the year in question. The "identifiable recipient" of a unit of service from which "he derives a special benefit," to quote the Office of Management and Budget, does not describe members of an industry which have neither asked for nor received the Commission's services during the year in question. A blanket ruling by the Commission, say on accounting practices, may not be the result of an application. But each member of the industry which is required to adopt the new accounting system is an "identifiable recipient" of the service and could be charged a fee, if the new system was indeed beneficial to the members of the industry. There may well be other variations of a like nature which would warrant the fixing of a "fee" for services rendered. But what was done here is not within the scope of the Act. Hence the judgment of the Court of Appeals is
[ Footnote 2 ] Budget Circular No. A-25, Sept. 23, 1959.
[ Footnote 3 ] The circular goes on to state that the services include agency action which "provides special benefits . . . above and beyond those [415 U.S. 345, 350] which accrue to the public at large . . . . For example, a special benefit will be considered to accrue and a charge should be imposed when a Government-rendered service:
[ Footnote 4 ] Since oral argument we have been advised by the Solicitor General that of all federal agencies "having industry-wide regulatory authority" there are two, other than the Federal Power Commission and the Federal Communications Commission, which impose "annual industry-wide fees analogous" to those in the instant case. The Solicitor General summarizes the actions of the other two federal agencies as follows:
MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL, with whom MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN joins, concurring in the result in No. 72-1162 and dissenting in No. 72-948, ante, p. 336.
These cases present two distinct issues involving interpretation of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1952: first, whether sufficient "work, service, . . . benefit, . . . or similar thing of value or utility" was conferred on the CATV operators or utility companies to warrant imposition of a fee under the statute; and, second, whether, if a fee was justifiably imposed, the amount of the fee was determined in accordance with a proper interpretation of the statutory standard that it be "fair and equitable taking into consideration direct and indirect cost to the Government, value to the recipient, public policy or interest served, and other pertinent facts." 31 U.S.C. 483a.
The Court, however, fails to recognize that these issues require independent analysis. Instead, permeating the Court's opinions on both issues is an attempt to draw metaphysical distinctions between a "fee" and a "tax." I do not find this approach either helpful or appropriate; whatever the label, the questions presented in these cases involve simply whether the charges assessed by the Commissions were authorized by Congress. The Court's approach merely beclouds its analysis, producing results which seem to me inconsistent and affording guidance to the agencies in setting their fee policies which might be charitably described as uncertain.
This approach is allegedly based on the need to construe the statute narrowly to avoid constitutional difficulties. I do not believe that any serious question of the constitutionality of the Act would be presented if Congress had in fact authorized these charges. The notion that the Constitution narrowly confines the power of Congress to delegate authority to administrative agencies, which was briefly in vogue in the 1930's, has [415 U.S. 345, 353] been virtually abandoned by the Court for all practical purposes, 1 at least in the absence of a delegation creating "the danger of overbroad, unauthorized, and arbitrary application of criminal sanctions in an area of [constitutionally] protected freedoms," United States v. Robel, 389 U.S. 258, 272 (1967) (BRENNAN, J., concurring). This doctrine is surely as moribund as the substantive due process approach of the same era - for which the Court is fond of writing an obituary, e. g., Ferguson v. Skrupa, 372 U.S. 726 (1963); North Dakota Pharmacy Board v. Snyder's Stores, 414 U.S. 156 (1973) - if not more so. It is hardly surprising that, until today's decision, [415 U.S. 345, 354] the Court had not relied upon Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 495 (1935), almost since the day it was decided. 2
I have no doubt - and I suspect that a majority of the Court would agree - that Congress could constitutionally authorize the Commissions to impose annual charges of the sort involved here. Surely the congressionally prescribed standards, permitting imposition of fees for work done or service or benefit provided if they are "fair and equitable" taking into account "cost to the Government, value to the recipient, [and] public policy," are sufficiently definite to withstand any conceivable delegation objection. See, e. g., Yakus v. United States, 321 U.S. 414, 423 -427 (1944); Lichter v. United States, 334 U.S. 742, 783 -786 (1948). I therefore see no reason to construe the statute in an artificially narrow way to avoid nonexistent constitutional difficulties.
Even on a neutral reading of the statute and its legislative history, however, I am convinced that Congress did not intend to authorize industrywide annual assessments like those at issue here. The movement in Congress to encourage Government agencies to establish fees to recover some of the costs of providing services to special beneficiaries began in 1950 with a study of the Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Branch which culminated in a report to Congress on "Fees for Special Services." S. Rep. No. 2120, 81st Cong., 2d Sess. (1950). This report concluded that fees should be charged for agency services the benefits of which accrued wholly or primarily to special interests. Id., at 3-4. In particular, the report pointed out that the FCC "renders a tremendous variety of services, a [415 U.S. 345, 355] substantial number of which would lend themselves to equitable fees." Id., at 4. The report listed the type of services for which assessment of fees would be appropriate: radio station construction permits, radio station operating licenses and renewals, authorization of assignment or transfer of licenses, radio operator licenses, and certificates of public convenience and necessity. Id., at 11. 3
On the other hand, the report was careful to point out the limited nature of its recommendations. It emphasized that it was not proposing that Government regulation in general be made self-sustaining by shifting the costs to those regulated:
The actual language of the Appropriation Act is quite general, and is certainly capable of varying interpretations. But the intended content of the statute's authorization of fees to be charged for "any work, service publication, report, document, benefit, privilege, authority, use, franchise, license, permit, certificate, registration or similar thing of value or utility" can be gleaned from this legislative history. When the Committee Report expressed its concern that "the Government is not receiving full return from many of the services which it renders to special beneficiaries," H. R. Rep. No. 384, 82d Cong., 1st Sess., 2 (1951), and suggested that "fees could be charged for other services" "of the type here under consideration," id., at 3, I think that it contemplated imposition of application fees, registration fees, and fees for grants of licenses, permits, or other similar authorizations. This interpretation is consistent with the statutory language, with its long enumeration of specific, readily identifiable, and discrete Commission actions for which fees can be charged. This interpretation is consistent, also, with the explanation of the statute on the floor of the House offered by Representative Yates, in which he cited the award of franchises, licenses, certificates of public convenience and necessity, and construction permits as [415 U.S. 345, 357] examples of benefits for which fees could appropriately be charged by the FCC. 97 Cong. Rec. 4809 (1951).
I see nothing in the legislative history which suggests any broader interpretation of the concept of "benefit" under the Act. On the contrary, since the broader view that the full cost of regulation should be assessed those subject to the agency's jurisdiction in the absence of a "special benefit" would have represented a controversial policy choice, I think that the very lack of debate over this provision of the Act and the ease with which it passed compel the more limited interpretation. The Committee Report itself noted that more "basic" changes in agency fee practice would have to await further study by congressional committees and additional legislation. H. R. Rep. No. 384, 82d Cong., 1st Sess., 2-3 (1951).
I therefore do not believe that the creation of an "economic climate" which fosters the growth of a regulated industry is a sufficiently specific, discrete benefit within the meaning of the Appropriation Act to justify imposition of a fee. Nor do I think that this benefit is conferred upon a sufficiently identifiable recipient to be the basis for assessment of a fee. Accordingly, I agree with the Court's construction of the Act, ante, at 349-350, and concur in the result in this case.
I cannot agree, however, with the result in No. 72-948, National Cable Television Assn. v. United States, ante, p. 336. In view of the Court's conclusion in No. 72-1162, I am mystified as to how the Court can reach its apparent, though completely unexplained, holding in No. 72-948 that operators of CATV systems may receive "special benefits" sufficient to sustain imposition of an annual fee under the Appropriation Act. Ante, at 343. In 1970, when the fees at issue here were established, FCC regulation of CATV was quite limited. CATV operators did not receive licenses or any similar authorization from the Commission. [415 U.S. 345, 358] Rather, their franchises were generally awarded by state authorities, to whom the CATV operators pay franchise fees. Although FCC regulations prohibited carriage of distant signals into larger television markets unless Commission authorization was obtained, 47 CFR 74.1107 (1968), 4 carriage of local signals as well as distant signals into smaller markets was permitted, unless objections were raised, without the need for approval by the Commission. 47 CFR 74.1105 (a), (c) (1968). Many of the CATV operators against whom these annual charges were assessed had no contact at all with the Commission during 1970, and some had never had any dealings with the Commission. The only other FCC regulations of CATV in 1970 pointed to by the Solicitor General are regulations which prohibit telephone companies and television broadcasters from entering the CATV field. 5
In my view, the mere existence of such regulation cannot justify the annual fees imposed in this case. While these regulations may have been of some benefit to the CATV industry in a very broad sense, I regard the FCC's argument on this point as identical to the FPC's [415 U.S. 345, 359] "economic climate" argument rejected by the Court in No. 72-1162. I can see no specific benefit provided or service rendered by the Commission on the order of the grant of a license or certificate, processing of an application, or even provision of a new and useful accounting system. Nor do I believe that the benefits of FCC regulation have been conferred on any identifiable recipient; I would think this a classic case where "`the identification of the ultimate beneficiary is obscure and the services can be primarily considered as benefitting broadly the general public.'" Ante, at 350.
I would therefore hold that the annual fees imposed in both these cases were not authorized by the statute. But since the Court apparently holds otherwise, and goes on to discuss the standards to be applied by the FCC in setting fees under the statute, I think it appropriate to express my views on this issue. I cannot agree with the Court that the only factor which the Commission may consider in determining the amount of the fees is the "value to the recipient." The statute provides that the fee must be "fair and equitable taking into consideration direct and indirect cost to the Government, value to the recipient, public policy or interest served, and other pertinent facts." This is a perfectly clear and intelligible standard, and I see no reason why, assuming a proper occasion for imposition of a fee, the Commission is not entitled to weigh each of the statutory considerations. It may well be true that the Commission here gave undue emphasis to one of the statutory factors, "cost to the Government." But the Court's response, to require that undue, seemingly exclusive reliance be placed on the standard of "value to the recipient" is, in my opinion, equally erroneous. It is also quite unrealistic and unworkable: How is the Commission to determine whether to set the fee at 1%, 5%, or 50% of the "value to the [415 U.S. 345, 360] recipient" unless it is also free to consider such other factors as "cost to the Government" and "public policy"?
I would leave the Commission free to consider all the statutory standards in setting its fees. Certainly the Commission should be free to consider "cost to the Government," 6 as well as the statutory mandate that the Commission "be self-sustaining to the full extent possible." It could not be clearer, from the language of the statute and from its genesis, that Congress intended these factors to be considered by the Commissions in setting their fee schedules. If the Court seriously believes that this somehow presents a substantial constitutional problem, then the constitutional issue should be squarely faced and resolved; it should not be permitted to justify the Court's rewriting of the statute contrary to congressional intent.
I would affirm the judgment of the Court of Appeals in No. 72-1162 and reverse the judgment in No. 72-948.
[ Footnote 1 ] "Lawyers who try to win cases by arguing that congressional delegations are unconstitutional almost invariably do more harm than good to their clients' interests. Unrealistic verbiage in some of the older judicial opinions should not now be taken seriously. The effective law is in accord with a 1940 statement of the Supreme Court: `Delegation by Congress has long been recognized as necessary in order that the exertion of legislative power does not become a futility.' [Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. v. Adkins, 310 U.S. 381, 398 (1940).] Much of the judicial talk about requirement of standards is contrary to the action the Supreme Court takes when delegations are made without standards. The vaguest of standards are held adequate, and various delegations without standards have been upheld. . . .
[ Footnote 2 ] The last time that the Court relied upon Schechter Poultry was in Carter v. Carter Coal Co., 298 U.S. 238 (1936).
[ Footnote 3 ] Similarly, as to the Federal Power Commission, the report suggested that fees could be charged for issuance of licenses and certificates of public convenience. Id., at 12.
[ Footnote 4 ] It would seem clear that fees could appropriately be imposed under the Appropriation Act in connection with application for or issuance of such Commission authorization. However, no such fees are at issue in this case.
[ Footnote 5 ] Extensive new regulations of CATV were promulgated in 1972. 37 Fed. Reg. 3280 (Feb. 12, 1972). These regulations prescribe in considerable detail the provisions of franchises granted by local authorities to CATV operators, and also limit the franchise fees which may be charged by the localities in which CATV stations operate. Most important for present purposes, the new regulations also provide that a CATV operator must obtain an FCC certificate of compliance before commencing operations; existing cable systems must obtain a certificate of compliance by March 31, 1977. 47 CFR 76.11 (b) (1973). While these new regulations will undoubtedly affect the question of the permissibility of fees imposed for future years, they cannot retroactively validate fees imposed for 1970.
[ Footnote 6 ] In my view, "cost to the Government" comprehends the cost of FCC regulation of the industry as well as the cost of processing a specific application. While the existence of such regulation is not itself sufficient under the present statute to sustain imposition of a fee, it will often be beneficial to the industry - as the Government's "economic climate" argument suggests - and will play a role in enhancing the "value to the recipient" of the license or other authorization. It is therefore neither unreasonable nor inconsistent with the statutory intent that the contribution of this regulation be considered. [415 U.S. 345, 361]
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Seven drivers and one car owner with hundreds of victories and dozens of championships comprise the New England Auto Racers Hall of Fame's Class of 2013. It is the 16th class and brings the membership to well over 115.
Drivers Stan Meserve, Brian Ross, Drew Fornoro, Ralph Nason, the late Bob Stefanik, Bill Eldridge and Bob Sharp and car owner Ron Berndt will be inducted at the 16th annual NEAR Hall of Fame Banquet Sunday, Nov. 10 at the Lodge at Manelley's in South Windsor, CT.
The New England Antique Racers website www.near1.com will have complete times and ticket prices in the near future.
Merserve, a Maine product, has been a driver, car owner/mechanic and race official for four decades plus including a season (1968) as an independent on the NASCAR Grand National circuit. As a driver, he won throughout Maine, including a pair of Oxford Opens and captured championships at Unity, Speedway 95, Wiscasset and Oxford Plains.
Berndt, a Meriden, CT native, has won in six different decades, most recently in 2012. Grandson Eric Berndt is on the end of a long list of drivers that include Sparky Belmont, Danny Galullo, Ted Christopher and Dave Alkas. His win total is estimated to be well into triple figures and his championships were won at Plainville Stadium, Waterford Speebowl and Thompson Speedway.
Originally from Chelmsford, MA, Eldridge was the Northeastern Midget Association's first champion (1953) and, some 40 years after retiring, is sixth on the clubs' all-time win list with 32. Driving for the likes of Gibby Parmenter, Mike Scrivani, Bob Bahre and Rollie Lindblad, Eldridge, who began in the post World War II days, captured four NEMA championships.
A Bay State native, Stefanik competed throughout New England, but found his greatest success at Riverside Park. Over a 20 year run, he was successful in Novice and Sportsman (titles in '66, '67 and '68) cars before busting on the Modified scene with car owner Joe Czarnecki in 1968, winning three championships (1970-71, '73). His 21 Riverside Modified wins include the 1972 Riverside 500 with Billy Greco. Stefanik passed away in 1984.
Fornoro, who joins his father Nick in the Hall, holds Northeastern Midget Association records with 85 victories and nine championships, most of the former and all of the latter with owner Gene Angelillo. Born in Danbury, Fornoro won at least one NEMA feature in 21 different seasons, grabbing checkereds at over 20 different tracks.
Readily identified with Datsun, Connecticut's Sharp is one of New England's most accomplished road racers. His list of SCCA and IMSA championships stretches well into double figures, winning three different titles alone in 1975. He achieved even more success as an owner, putting wheels under the likes of actor Paul Newman, Jim Fitzgerald and son Scott, all of whom added championships to the Sharp name.
A NASCAR Modified mainstay in three decades, the 1984 Stafford championship and the 1986 Spring Sizzler, both coming in his own cars, are included in Brian Ross' impressive resume. The Ballston Spa, NY product started in 1961 at Saranac Lake, NY and before it was over in 2000 scored from Maine to Florida in both Modifieds and Late Models driving for others (Bob Garbarino, Ed Cloce) and himself. He was the 1984 Race of Champions winner at Pocono and a multi-time champion at Oswego.
Maine's Ralph Nason has truly done it all over six decades – race driver, owner/builder, track owner/promoter. Starting in the early 1960s, "Racin' Ralph" has won just about everywhere in Maine including Getty Open and Oxford 250 wins (three of them) at Oxford Plains. A two-time NEPSA champ, he has promoted just about everywhere as well. He continues to own Unity Raceway.
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Italy adviser eyes T.Italia role in broadband growth
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By Stefano Rebaudo, Deepa Babington, Hans Peters (By Reuters (UK))[1]
An Italian government adviser has offered three options to spur Italy's broadband ambitions, one of which could involve a spinoff of Telecom Italia's fixed-line network, according to a report. The long-awaited report by consultant Francesco Caio was submitted to the Italian government in March, and has been posted on anti-secrecy website Wikileaks. It confirms details which a source familiar with the report told Reuters in March.
Analysts and investors had been awaiting the report to gauge its potential impact on Telecom Italia, Italy's largest telecoms operator which relies on the network for a bulk of its earnings.
Telecom Italia's shares rose in March when leaks of the report in newspapers said it excluded the prospect of the government forcibly spinning off the company's network to help in the roll out of a nationwide high-speed fibre-optic network.
The report, which is non-binding, says current investment levels on broadband growth are not enough and suggests public investment of 1.2 billion to 1.3 billion euros to ensure most of the population has access to broadband technology.
"The speed of investment observed does not seem sufficient to assure the country a leadership position internationally," the report said.
It does not address a spinoff of Telecom Italia's fixed-line network directly, but says one option could be to create an integrated fibre-optic and copper national network for broadband coverage of 50 percent of households.
Such a plan would involve building on Telecom Italia's existing network, the report says, which has led to speculation that this could mean choosing between various levels of separating the network from the company.
This option would require investment of 10 billion euros over 5 years, it said.
The other options cited in the Caio report involve creating a fibre-optic network to cover 25 percent of households, which would involve investment of 5.4 billion euros over four years.
A final option involves limited public investment and the constructino of a fibre-optic network on a local level.
Telecom Italia has in the past repeatedly denied it will spin off its network and Chief Executive Franco Bernabe has said any government intervention to force it to do so would be illegitimate.
First seen at Reuters, UK. Thanks to Stefano Rebaudo, Deepa Babington, Hans Peters and Reuters UK for covering this document. Copyright remains with the aforementioned.
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- Comparing broadband in Italy with other countries: Francesco Caio report: Portare l'Italia verso la leadership europea nella banda larga: Considerazioni sulle opzioni di politica industriale, 12 Mar 2009
See also:
- SCHEDA - Rapporto Caio su sviluppo banda larga in Italia
- Banda larga, Belpaese in ritardo "Un sogno per 12 italiani su 100"


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Sony details PlayStation 3
Twice the performance of Xbox 360, apparently
Yes, the third-generation PlayStation console will indeed be called the PlayStation 3, Sony admitted last night when it unwrapped its answer to Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Revolution.
That the PS3 would use a PowerPC-based Cell processor was already well known, but Sony yesterday revealed the chip would be clocked at 3.2GHz - matching Xbox 360's PowerPC-based three-core chip - enough to yield 2.18 teraflops, the company claimed - twice what Xbox 360 will be able to pump out, apparently. There's 512KB of on-die L2 cache, and seven AltiVec vector processing units.
IBM can now rightfully claim PowerPC technology is powering every single next-generation console, and it will be interesting to see what, if any, differences exist between the CPUs in the PS3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Revolution. It'll also be interesting to see how Apple leverages that fact to promote its own PowerPC-based Macs.
The PS3's CPU is backed by Nvidia's graphics chip, dubbed in this application the RSX, for "reality simulator". RSX connects directly to the CPU, with which it shares access to the PS3's 512MB of system RAM. The memory is split into two banks: 256MB of XDR clocked at 3.2GHz for the CPU's usage and 256MB of 700MHz GDDR 3 SDRAM for the RSX.
RSX was said to be twice as powerful as two Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra chips, a claim also made for Nvidia' next-generation GPU, the 'G70'. That suggests that G70 and RSX are essentially the same beast. Either way, RSX will support HDTV-resolution graphics up to 1080p. The CPU will handle the audio processing, in Dolby 5.1 with DTS.
Sony said again PS3 will use the Blu-ray Disc format, shipping with a drive that can handle BD-ROM, video BDs and PS3's own BD format, along with all the DVD-RW/+RW media, plus Super Audio CD.
The console also sports a Gigabit Ethernet port, SP/DIF digital audio output, twin independent HDMI ports, six USB 2.0 ports, plus SD, CompactFlash and Memory Stick Duo slots - a sign that Sony is now serious about no long inflicting only its own technologies on users.
Like the Xbox 360, the PS3's internal 2.5in hard drive is removable. And like the Microsoft box, the new Sony machine uses Bluetooth-based wireless controllers. There's 802.11b/g Wi-Fi on board too.
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Murrelektronik's New Online Shop
Ordering Made Easy
Murrelektronik is pleased to introduce its updated online shop. With a new interface, the revamped online shop is both modern looking and incredibly easy to use. With only a few clicks you can reach the right product for your job and proceed to ordering.
Over 30,000 articles are offered in Murrelektronik's new online shop. The shop itself has been restructured and now includes easy to use filters and an efficient search function. The right product can now be found quickly and easily. For those of you interested in the backside of things, our comprehensively expanded databases in the background make all of this possible. These databases also create the foundation for comprehensive downloads of manuals, configuration files and construction files. These files are shown next to the individual products and can easily be downloaded with the click of a mouse. Furthermore, a system of intelligent links (made up of over 100,000 new data sets) ensures that the appropriate accessories are shown for each product. This makes it easy to put together system solutions or to find alternative products when necessary.
Customers who register will receive access to even more great functions including the Data Cart. The Data Cart gives you a place to store the data sheets, manuals and construction files for the products you are interested in and then allows you to download them all with just one click. Registered customers can also store project-specific and customer-specific combinations of products in approval lists. These lists can then be shared with colleagues and suppliers. Now, everyone involved with a job will know which products have been approved for a project and should be ordered. Finally, registered customers are able to email the contents of their shopping cart to other members of their team - purchasing can order without worrying that they have ordered the wrong products or a client can verify that all of the parts are in the cart prior to ordering.
Another advantage to registration is pricing - a registered user will see their negotiated prices for each product as opposed to list pricing. They will also be able to see current availability and expected delivery time for each product. Having access to all of this information makes the new online shop the perfect tool for you, our customer. Browse it now!
By the way, the new Murrelektronik online shop has gone international! It is available not only in German, but also in seven more languages.


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Jan 30, 2012
martin ramirez
really like the works of outsider artist martin ramirez.
Labels: art, outsider art
Jan 29, 2012
a plan
the plan for next week: staying inside under a layer of blankets. it's gonna be super cold... + hang our michel francois-posters. don't remember where we found the pink cat photo, but it looks really nice!
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Labels: color
Jan 27, 2012
take a trip to see the michel françois exhibition if you can this weekeend. the hotel we can't really recommend but it was a nice stay anyway.
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Jan 25, 2012
another book by amanda vähämäki.
in the garden
the bun field
souvlaki circus
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Labels: books
Jan 24, 2012
finally! a tiny root and some cracks in the avocadopit that's standing in the water for more than 3 months now! hope it will go fast now! also roots growing from a sparmania cutting.
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Labels: plants
Jan 23, 2012
a new brush for the collection. and a card i picked from johanna's card collection a while ago. must be a good sign.
Labels: collections, things
Jan 21, 2012
1. a nice photo that i saved on my computer long ago, not sure where i got it from. it's on our ffffound.
2. notebook
3. spread from this book, a card and an article about a fox who collected all the shoes he could find :)
more foxes before.
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Jan 19, 2012
the sum
also from walther konig's sales corner: the sum by the great tal r. (another book we own).
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Jan 18, 2012
Jan 17, 2012
mostly cola
ward zwart has a new book out and it's brilliant. for more info and photos (and also to buy one) have a look here.
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Labels: books
Jan 16, 2012
some sun, finally
these days the sun is shining again. better for the mood. that is sophie's cat, figaro.
yesterday we saw 'le havre' by aki kaurismaki and it's really good! beautiful colors and images!
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Labels: apartments, movie
Jan 14, 2012
michelangelo pistoletto
we both bought this michelangelo pistoletto book at the fantastic walther könig bookshop in berlin. it was on our list for a while and it was in their sales corner for less than half of its price! the book mainly shows photos of the mirror paintings he did in the 60's. they are really really good!
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Jan 13, 2012
Jan 12, 2012
from berlin
we had a nice time in berlin. didn't make many photos though. would like to go back in spring, cause there is still so much to do.
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Jan 3, 2012
jackets and coats
still not very cold, but rainy and windy.
hope it will be better in berlin, cause we're going to visit a friend over there for a few days. leaving on thursday afternoon. if anyone has some nice tips, be welcome!
Labels: apartments, m + v, trips
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It would help if you could color each tesseract differently. It's kinda hard to tell from this picture.
SharkRetriver wrote:The generator chooses the edges based on the preset distance. Do you know the distances for the edges for the compounds?
Also, since the cells are convex, I think this means I discovered a new compound, yay!
Did a check using my generator, here are the possible edge distances
2.82842712474619 //this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharkretriever/6294746064/in/set-72157627885891097
2 //normal 24-cell
3.46410161513775 //image above
4 //didn't try yet
SharkRetriver wrote:Truth is, I don't know how the individual 16-cells on my pic are projected. The convex hull is vertex-first tho.
Also, a compound of 3 tesseracts is same arrangement as 24-cell?
I think the earlier picture I posted is a compound of stella octangula or stellated octahedra o_O
Lastly, when I try to colour the compound of 3 16-cells into dif colour per 16-cell, there are overlapping edges so the render is bad. It's probably the projection
Mrrl wrote:There is image of compound of 3 tesseracts in my viewer:
SharkRetriver wrote:Yay! Truth is I like the tesseract truncates (n-cubes) the most since I like the easy coordinates...
@Mrrl AKA Andrey lololol awesome pic!
SharkRetriver wrote:the 24 is still strange because of the analogue problem, but it's a cool polychoron.
About the simplexes, they're odd as well. I don't like
I looked up E polytopes on the wiki. I think that the trirectified 4_21 should be the next polytope of the month. There are only 4.8 million edges, lol
Also, why is there only the snub 24-cell, and no other snub polychora?
I'm also considering changing w to 10 before "mass-rendering" for various reasons...
Oschkar wrote:You also need to update the cubinder, spherinder and spherone pages...
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The Lake House: Children of Silence Collector's Edition
Long-forgotten memories bubble to the surface when the past invades the present in Lake House: Children of Silence! Located at the edge of a gloomy lake and shrouded in fog, the house at the center of this story has stood empty for 15 years. Beckoned by what appears to be a ghost, a woman who lived there as a child returns to the house to solve a mystery that begins with an old photograph and ends in a secret room. Find hidden objects, solve puzzles and prepare yourself for an ending that will take you to a place darker than you can imagine!
This is a special Collector's Edition release full of exclusive extras you won't find in the standard version. As a bonus, Collector's Edition purchases count toward three stamps on your Monthly Game Club Punch Card!
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Carp::REPL - read-eval-print-loop on die and/or warn
The intended way to use this module is through the command line.
perl -MCarp::REPL tps-report.pl
Can't call method "cover_sheet" without a package or object reference at tps-report.pl line 6019.
# instead of exiting, you get a REPL!
$ $form
$ $self->get_form
$ "ah ha! there's my bug, I thought get_form returned an object"
ah ha! there's my bug, I thought get_form returned an object
Works as command line argument. This automatically installs the die handler for you, so if you receive a fatal error you get a REPL before the universe explodes. Specifying =warn also installs a warn handler for finding those mysterious warnings.
use Carp::REPL;
use Carp::REPL 'warn';
Same as above.
use Carp::REPL 'nodie';
Loads the module without installing the die handler. Use this if you just want to run Carp::REPL::repl on your own terms.
use Carp::REPL 'test';
Load a REPL on test failure! (as long as it uses "ok" in Test::More)
This module's interface consists of exactly one function: repl. This is provided so you may install your own $SIG{__DIE__} handler if you have no alternatives.
It takes the same arguments as die, and returns no useful value. In fact, don't even depend on it returning at all!
One useful place for calling this manually is if you just want to check the state of things without having to throw a fake error. You can also change any variables and those changes will be seen by the rest of your program.
use Carp::REPL 'repl';
sub involved_calculation {
# ...
$d = maybe_zero();
# ...
repl(); # $d = 1
$sum += $n / $d;
# ...
Unfortunately if you instead go with the usual -MCarp::REPL, then $SIG{__DIE__} will be invoked and there's no general way to recover. But you can still change variables to poke at things.
Note that this is not supposed to be a full-fledged debugger. A few commands are provided to aid you in finding out what went awry. See Devel::ebug if you're looking for a serious debugger.
Moves one frame up in the stack.
Moves one frame down in the stack.
Moves to the top frame of the stack.
Moves to the bottom frame of the stack.
Redisplay the stack trace.
Display the current lexical environment.
List eleven lines of source code of the current frame.
Close the REPL. (^D also works)
This represents the Devel::REPL object.
This represents the arguments passed to the subroutine at the current frame in the call stack. Modifications are ignored (how would that work anyway? Re-invoke the sub?)
Dynamic scope probably produces unexpected results. I don't see any easy (or even difficult!) solution to this. Therefore it's a caveat and not a bug. :)
Devel::REPL, Devel::ebug, Enbugger, CGI::Inspect
Shawn M Moore, <sartak at gmail.com>
<sartak at gmail.com>
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-carp-repl at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Carp-REPL.
bug-carp-repl at rt.cpan.org
Thanks to Nelson Elhage and Jesse Vincent for the idea.
Thanks to Matt Trout and Stevan Little for their advice.
Copyright 2007-2008 Best Practical Solutions.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install Carp::REPL, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm Carp::REPL
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Carp::REPL
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.


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In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
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Carrot and orange soup may sound like an questionable prospect, at least on the surface, but when one considers how delicious juice of the same combination can be, supper immediately becomes that little bit more appealing. The world of food tends to have relatively stringent rules governing what is sweet and savoury and, as such, they merge infrequently. Most people aren't particularly adventurous in their choice of sustenance, but there's no reason to experiment and explore new combinations – an issue touched upon in my recipe for chocolate and hazelnut flapjacks. Granted, carrot and orange soup is far from brand-spanking, but it does generate intrigue and make people think for a second longer – perhaps it shouldn't?
Whatever your thoughts on the flavour combination, there's no denying that this dish, like almost every carrot-based soup out there, is visually striking. Though unsurprising, the vivid orange colour produced by this gaudy root vegetable always seems to engender a little shock and perhaps a modicum of awe. Of course, colour is an important characteristic to possess, especially in the world of soup where life would seem awfully bland and insipid without it. Strangely enough, a certain proclivity toward recipes that instigate the creation of toothsome bowls of carroty delight seems to have been developed in this small corner of the internet – just you check out my sweet potato and parsnip soup!
A good soup has a number of desirable qualities; frugality, complexity and a certain respect for healthy eating. This is perhaps why they tend to come across as so comforting, a hug in a bowl if you will. One is unlikely to experience a dearth of vitamin C when eating this, though a heightened sensitivity to light may be experienced due to the presence of carrots*. In any case, whatever draws you to soup carrot and orange is certainly a combination worth exploring.
*This is on old wives' tale – carrots don't really enhance your night time vision.
Carrot and Orange Soup {recipe}
Serves 4
• 4 large carrots, diced
• 1 onion, diced
• 1 stick of celery, diced
• 1 small handful of red lentils
• 1 litre vegetable stock
• 2 oranges
• 1 tbsp honey
• Olive oil
• Salt
• Pepper
1. Fry off the onion and celery in a dash of olive oil, cook until translucent. Tip in the carrots and allow them to heat through. Add the zest of both oranges followed by vegetable stock and lentils. Boil until the carrot and lentils are soft through.
2. Blend the soup using either a stick blender or food processor. Add the juice of both oranges, honey and season to taste. Serve piping hot with a slab of bread.
Cost: Soup is not only the product of a desire to eat healthily; it is also the first child of frugality. Most soups are vegetable based and are therefore unremittingly cheap. Indeed, this soup will cost you no more than around £1.60 to make – soups away!


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Sentimental Sunday
Family Friend
Julia Thomas Rees
Today I honor the memory of a close family friend; a member of the rural Star Community where my wife and I grew up. Julia, my mother, Eileen, and my mother-in-law, Ruth, were active members of several social organization together for many years in the Coon Rapids, Iowa, community.
My Dad's sister, my aunt, married the brother of Julia's first husband, Arnold. Arnold was one of a small group of 'fishing buddies,' of my wife, Nancy's dad, Glenn. Nancy played dolls at their house when she was young, especially with their oldest daughter, Rebecca. Rebecca was a year or so younger, but, she and Nancy and I were in many band, chorus, and other school groups together, in addition to church youth activities. Their youngest daughter, C.J., was in my younger brother's (Tom- T.K) class in school, so she was a frequent visitor at our house in the early years.
Finally, it was from Julia that I first heard the term "Ozarks" as a 'great place to live or visit.' I thought she was talking about 'hill-billies' country, but, for the past 40 plus years my family and I have been annual visitors and we now 'live there' in retirement.
Thank you to Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home in Carroll, Iowa, for the following online information.
Julia Thomas Rees
(Died October 25, 2011)
(Died October 25, 2011)
Julia Thomas Rees, age 98, of Coon Rapids, Iowa, passed away on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 A.M. on Saturday, October 29, 2011 at the First United Methodist Church in Coon Rapids with Rev. Dennis Bailey of the First United Methodist Church in Carroll officiating. Friends may call at the Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home in Carroll after 5:00 P.M. on Friday evening where there will be a prayer service held at 7:00 P.M. The casket will be moved to the church at 8:30 A.M. on Saturday where visitation will resume until the time of service. Organist for the service will be Lula Garnes and soloist will be Mark Caraher. Burial will be in the Oak Hill Cemetery near Coon Rapids. Casket bearers will be Ron Bowman, David Thomas, John Thomas, Wilson Thomas, William Thomas, and Lonny Namanny. The family suggests memorials be made to the Coon Rapids Garden Club and the Iowa CU TTT Society of Coon Rapids.
Born on May 8, 1913 at Scranton, Iowa, she was the daughter of Raymond and Lucy (Essex) Hicks. She was the oldest girl of eight children. Her family moved to Kansas when Julia was a child where her father worked in the oil fields. They later moved to Arkansas where she graduated from high school at Siloam Springs in 1931. Following high school Julia returned to Iowa and worked various jobs until she was married to Arnold Thomas on March 14, 1939 on their cousin's farm where the couple later made their home and raised their family. Julia loved her farm life. She was a member of the Star Methodist Church of rural Coon Rapids. Upon its closing the couple joined the Pleasant Ridge Friends Church. Mr. Thomas passed away on July 15, 1988 and Julia continued to live on the farm for the next twenty years. She was married to Maynard Rees on May 8, 2002 at Pleasant Ridge Community Church. Julia was a member of the Iowa CU TTT Society of Coon Rapids, the Star Progressive Club, OMC, the Red Hat Ladies, the Birthday Club, the Coffee Group, and H&H Club. Julia enjoyed sewing for her three daughters, quilting, shopping, entertaining, flower gardening, and spending time with her family and friends.
Surviving are her husband Maynard Rees of Swan House in Carroll; three daughters: Rebecca Thomas of Kansas City, Missouri and rural Coon Rapids, Sharon Spotts and her husband Randy of Ida Grove, Iowa, and Claudia C.J. Niles and her husband Wes of Carroll; three grandchildren: Janie Thomas, Laura Thomas, and Amanda Thomas all of Kansas City, Missouri; one great granddaughter Morgan Thomas of Kansas City, Missouri; a sister Virginia January of Tulsa, Oklahoma; a brother Loren Hicks of Birmingham, Alabama; two sisters-in-law: Ginny Hicks of Yakima, Washington, and Dorothy Hicks of Marshall, Missouri; and several nieces, nephews, and cousins. She is also survived by her special friends Gil and Bronwyn Morgan of Scottsdale, Arizona, and their four daughters who thought of Julia as their grandmother. Julia was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Arnold, four brothers: Erroll, John, Forest, and Milo Hicks, and a sister Rosa Winder.
Families are Forever! ;-)


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Virginia Beach, Va. - In a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas opened up about her time training at Excalibur Gymnastics in Virginia Beach.
It's not a flattering story.
"One of my teammates was like, 'Can you scrape the bar?' and they were like 'Why doesn't Gabby do it, she's our slave?' So I definitely felt isolated, I felt, 'Why do I deserve this, is it because I'm black?' Those thoughts would go through my mind," Douglas told Oprah.
Her former coach Dena Walker told NewsChannel 3 she couldn't believe it when she heard the interview.
"Really, I was shocked and very hurt," said Walker, "She was like family."
One of her former teammates was Walker's daughter, Chase.
She said she was never aware of any bullying.
"As teammates, pretty much sisters, we train with each other 30 hours a week. You always are gonna kind of just joke around with each other, but it's never meaning to be hurtful," said Chase Walker.
Another gymnast's dad said he was shocked by the interview as well. His older daughter trained with Douglas for several years.
"I've never heard of one instance where anyone said of any racial incidents ever happening, not to say it didn`t happen to her, but I think if it was brought to someone's attention, it would have been addressed immediately," Troy said.
In the interview with Oprah, though, Douglas's mom said her daughter didn't even tell her everything at the time.
"There were some things that were going on that she shared with me and some things she wasn't because she knew how I'd react," her mom told Oprah.


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GOP Members of Immigration 'Gang of 8' Pressured by Fellow Republicans
Four Senate Republicans, including Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, want the details of the immigration overhaul package being drafted behind closed doors by a bipartisan group of eight senators that hopes to unveil its bill next week.
And they want the details on Monday.
Grassley, who is ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, along with committee members Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Mike Lee of Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas, wrote to the four GOP members of the immigration group asking them the make their staffs available to the committee's GOP staff by no later than Monday evening.
"The time for transparency has come," Grassley wrote in a letter dated Thursday to GOP Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Marco Rubio of Florida.
"Given the Majority's rushed time table, we believe it is time for you to discuss the status of your negotiations, disclose what concessions have been made and provide details to members of the Judiciary Committee as well as the entire Republican Caucus," the letter said.
Others have also raised concerns about the bill being drafted behind the scenes, including Judiciary Chairman Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt.
Nevertheless, Leahy has said he plans to take up the measure as soon as possible, seeking to take advantage of the growing support for revisions, including from the Republican National Committee and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
However, Leahy has also sought to assure Republicans that he wants an open and transparent process and intends to allow for requisite debate and opportunity amendments, in part, to make sure the process does not become an excuse for opposition of the measure.
Sessions, in particular, has been critical of Leahy and believes he plans to try to ram the bill through committee. In the letter, the four Republicans ask the immigration group to help ensure that their minority rights are preserved as the Senate considers the package.
The four said they "hope you will pledge your commitment to protecting the rights of the minority in the Senate by demanding a full, orderly and open debate process during Committee consideration and when the bill is sent to the full Senate," the letter said. Rubio has already said he wants a lengthy committee process for the bill.
The group also said it has concerns that Leahy has indicated that he may hold one hearing, given that more than 40 immigration hearings have been held by the panel over the past four Congresses. The group would like, what it argues would be, a more thorough process hearing from a wide variety of experts.
"Going forward, we expect to hear from experts on each of the proposals [within the bill] being put forth, including but not limited to a new temporary workers program, border security, interior and worksite enforcement, and the impact of a large-scale legalization on American workers and taxpayers,' the letter continued.
"We hope you will stand with us to ensure that all viewpoints are heard before the committee considers any immigration legislation," the letter said.


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The kitchen of Letizia apartment in Sorrento center
The living-room of Letizia apartment in Sorrento
The double room of Letizia apartment in Sorrento center
The bedroom with two twin-beds
Bathroom with the shower in Sorrento
The exact location of Letizia apartment
This is a refined apartment renewed in 2007. It is located in the center of Sorrento on the 1° floor (with lift) of a modern building along Via degli Aranci, one of the main streets of the town. The apartment is near the bus stop and 300 m away from the train station. From this location it is easy to reach the most popular tourist attractions of Sorrento area by public means (Pompeii, Positano, Naples, Capri and so on). The apartment has two wide balconies.
This apartment is 75 sq. m., sleeps 4+1, composed of: corridor, a double bedroom, a bedroom with twin beds,a bedroom with 1 single-bed, kitchen, large living room, two bathrooms (one with shower and one with W.C. and washing facilities), two wide balconies.
TV Air conditioning/ heating Washing-machine -Microwave Refrigerator - Restaurants, shops and bars in the vicinity Supermarket at 100 mt. away- Pay car Park 150 m away Train station 300 m away Bus stop in the vicinity - Banks at 100 m. - Tennis courts at 300 m.
Payment beach at 800 mt.-
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Cancellations prior to days: 30 of your arrival, you will be returned the total sum you paid, except for the bank transfer expenses
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