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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi officials are dropping the remnants of an 11-year-old lawsuit after collecting as much money as they think they can get in reparations for insurance fraud by a convicted financier who claimed Vatican ties.
Attorneys for Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney filed a motion Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Miss., that seeks to voluntarily dismiss the last three defendants, including an elderly priest. Claims against the Vatican were dropped earlier this year. A judge has not ruled on the motion.
The lawsuit originally was filed in 2001 by Cheney's predecessor, George Dale, after financier Martin Frankel bilked insurers in five states out of $200 million during the 1990s. Insurance regulators in Tennessee, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Kansas joined the lawsuit.
Frankel is in prison after pleading guilty to 24 counts of fraud and racketeering.
The last defendants in the lawsuit were Monsignor Emilio Colagiovanni, a priest in his 90s, the Monitor Ecclesiasticus Foundation, and Endurance Investments, Ltd. The motion said $154 million was recovered from other sources.
"Each of the remaining defendants is considered uncollectible ... Therefore, Plaintiffs have determined it is not economically justified to engage an expert and take the Court's time to prove up damages and seek a default judgment," the motion said.
Frankel, who had already been barred from securities trading, bought small insurance companies in the 1990s, often using an alias, David Rosse, and third parties to hide his involvement. He would buy a company, loot it, and then use some of the money to buy another one. The companies were left insolvent, and their policies were taken over by other insurers.
Frankel came to believe the Roman Catholic Church could help bring the appearance of legitimacy to his scheme.
Frankel cultivated a relationship with Colagiovanni and formed a charity, the St. Francis of Assisi Foundation to Serve and Help the Poor and Alleviate Suffering, and set it up in the British Virgin Islands in 1998 to deceive regulators about the source of money he was using to buy insurance companies, court records said.
The lawsuit said Colagiovanni agreed to use the Monitor Ecclesiasticus Foundation and its Vatican bank account to work with St. Francis and to vouch for Frankel's charity with regulators. In exchange, Colagiovanni was to get $5 million to use on charitable projects, court records said.
A federal judge in Connecticut fined Colagiovanni $15,000 and gave him a suspended sentence in 2002 after he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy. He was given probation on state charges in Mississippi the same year after prosecutors said he cooperated with the investigation.
The Vatican was added as a defendant in 2002, with Mississippi insurance officials saying Colagiovanni was acting as an agent of the Vatican.
The claims against the Vatican were dropped in February. At that time, a lawyer for Mississippi said the plaintiffs stood by the allegations against the Vatican and dropped it from the lawsuit only to avoid an even longer fight over jurisdiction. The Vatican is recognized as a sovereign state.
Vatican attorney Jeffrey Lena said Friday that the dismissal of the lawsuit was an "important event" and referred to a previous statement, which said the Holy See was "the unwitting victim of Frankel's fraud."
Lena's statement also said reports - by the U.S. General Accounting Office and the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury - show that insurance officials missed opportunities to stop Frankel's scheme and the lawsuit "effectively shifted the spotlight from the regulators' own conduct."
Frankel was not a defendant in the lawsuit in Mississippi. His assets, including hundreds of diamonds, 21 cars and SUVs, an airplane and two mansions were auctioned off years ago to provide restitution.
Frankel set fire to one of his mansions and fled the country in 1999. Authorities searching the mansion found a to-do list at the Connecticut home with the top priority listed as "Launder more money NOW." He was arrested in Germany four months later. He pleaded guilty to 24 counts of fraud and racketeering in 2002.
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Famous Short Snow Poems. Short Snow Poetry by Famous Poets. A collection of the all-time best Snow short poems
First snow falling on the half-finished bridge.
Writing shit about new snow for the rich is not art.
Straw sandal half sunk in an old pond in the sleety snow.
The snow is melting and the village is flooded with children.
Pissing in the snow outside my door-- it makes a very straight hole.
Of whom so dear The name to hear Illumines with a Glow As intimate -- as fugitive As Sunset on the snow --
It was not Saint -- it was too large -- Nor Snow -- it was too small -- It only held itself aloof Like something spiritual --
A plow, they say, to plow the snow. They cannot mean to plant it, no-- Unless in bitterness to mock At having cultivated rock.
The time I like best is 6am when the snow is 6 inches deep which I'm yet to discover 'cause I'm under the covers fast, fast asleep.
When to Tago's coast I the way have gone, and see Perfect whiteness laid On Mount Fuji's lofty peak By the drift of falling snow.
'What is the world, O soldiers? It is I: I, this incessant snow, This northern sky; Soldiers, this solitude Through which we go Is I.'
U was an upper-coat,Woolly and warm,To wear over allIn the snow or the storm. u! What a nice upper-coat!
What a nice upper-coat!
The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
It is for thy sake That I seek the fields in spring, Gathering green herbs, While my garment's hanging sleeves Are with falling snow beflecked.
How strange to think of giving up all ambition! Suddenly I see with such clear eyes The white flake of snow That has just fallen in the horse's mane!
Beautiful, sobbing high-geared fucking and then to lie silently like deer tracks in the freshly-fallen snow beside the one you love. That's all.
Water, is taught by thirst. Land -- by the Oceans passed. Transport -- by throe -- Peace -- by its battles told -- Love, by Memorial Mold -- Birds, by the Snow.
Snow-covered mountains, ancient monuments, a north wind that nods to us, a thought that flows, images imbued with hymns of history, words on signs with ideals of geometry.
The Himmaleh was known to stoop Unto the Daisy low -- Transported with Compassion That such a Doll should grow Where Tent by Tent -- Her Universe Hung out its Flags of Snow --
So Good-Luck came, and on my roof did light, Like noiseless snow, or as the dew of night; Not all at once, but gently,--as the trees Are by the sun-beams, tickled by degrees.
Sapho, I will chuse to go Where the northern winds do blow Endless ice, and endless snow; Rather than I once would see But a winter's face in thee,-- To benumb my hopes and me.
Absent Place -- an April Day -- Daffodils a-blow Homesick curiosity To the Souls that snow -- Drift may block within it Deeper than without -- Daffodil delight but Him it duplicate --
Ah! thou hast snared this head, though white as snow, Which oft has vowed the wine-cup to forego; And wrecked the mansion long resolve did build, And rent the vesture penitence did sew!
Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent and soft and slow Descends the snow.
I cannot be ashamed Because I cannot see The love you offer -- Magnitude Reverses Modesty And I cannot be proud Because a Height so high Involves Alpine Requirements And Services of Snow.


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Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, died Thursday in Tampa, Fla., at 78. He was an authentic American hero in the heady days of swift victory before Iraq became synonymous with tragic waste in a second war more a decade later. His good fortune was that his Iraq war was the first -- the 1991 Persian Gulf war, which was unambiguously triggered by Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.
As the U.S. commander of a broad alliance of many nations, he deployed a huge force that swiftly annihilated the Iraqi troops -- including the much-feared Republican Guard -- in one of the most one-sided military victories of the 20th century. Kuwait was liberated and Americans swooned.
To the victor go the laurels -- and in Gen. Schwarzkopf the American people found a larger-than-life figure who looked the part of a happy warrior, a John Wayne in desert fatigues.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur famously said that old soldiers never die, they just fade away -- and something of that sort did occur with Gen. Schwarzkopf, whose glory faded a little over time. The trouble with history is that revisionists correct the first draft and chip away at the original myth. Although it was a political decision and cannot be blamed on the general, the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was to remind Americans that the job was only half-done the first time -- Saddam Hussien was left in power.
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The exploits of Henkes's beloved, fiercely independent girl mouse Lilly and her friends, stars of numerous bestselling picture books, are collected on this chipper but rather spare production. Though supported by solid performances from the two seasoned actors at the helm, these mouse adventures fall a bit flat when heard without their visual picture-book counterparts. Henkes's original text and illustrations are such a seamless pairing—and his artwork contains much emotion and humorous detail—that something seems lost in this translation to stand-alone audio. Ebersole and Thomas give it their all, conveying the attitudes and feelings of the characters, but due to the lack of sparkle here, youngsters may want to stick with the print version. Ages 4-up. (Nov.)
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Honorable Jerry Mcnerney
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I would like to thank you for holding today's hearing entitled, "Honoring America's Fallen Heroes: An Update on our National Cemeteries."
150 years ago in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln created a national veterans' cemetery system and dedicated it, "…for the soldiers who shall die in the service of the country." President Lincoln's words and our steadfast appreciation are as important today as they were during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Ensuring a proper burial for our fallen heroes is a solemn obligation.
This hearing follows up on a September 24, 2009 hearing, in which the Subcommittee examined the VA's cemetery policies and operations, as well as those of the other cemeteries under our jurisdiction, primarily Arlington National Cemetery and the American Battle Monuments Commission. This Subcommittee conducts these oversight reviews to ensure that all eligible Veterans are served by an optimal burial option with the highest quality possible as their final place of repose.
I want to recognize former Chairman Bob Filner's efforts to direct the NCA to change its requirements for establishing a national cemetery from 170,000 veterans in a 75-mile radius to 80,000 veterans in a 75-mile radius. With this change, the NCA met the burial needs of 89% of the total veteran population in fiscal year 2011. I appreciate the VA's decision outlined in President Obama's fiscal year 2013 budget to change service area guidelines to better accommodate the needs of rural and urban veterans. These changes will increase the number of veterans served by a federally implicated burial option.
Despite the progress we made in the previous Congress, we must do better, particularly as it pertains to wait times for burials and quality control at NCA facilities. I think we are all aware of the numerous errors related to the VA's contractor-executed Raise-and-Realign project revealed after the VA's audit of 93 of its 131 cemeteries.
I've said this in the Subcommittee before. Mistakes like these are unacceptable. They are as avoidable as they are awful. They rob us of time that could otherwise be spent ensuring that our Nation's heroes are properly laid to rest. More importantly, these mistakes rob the family and friends of the peace of mind they deserve. I hope to hear a positive update from NCA on the resolution of these errors and prevention efforts moving forward.
Further, the value of the current $300 burial allowance and $300 plot allowance for qualifying veterans has diminished as funeral and burial costs have increased - negatively affecting the survivors left behind
Additionally, the National Shrine Mandate holds that "all national and other veterans' cemeteries under control of the NCA shall be considered national shrines." The NCA's ability to meet and maintain the National Shrine Mandate will require adoption of the highest quality assurance measures.
I applaud the Independent Budget's thorough assessment of the NCA, highlighting current shortcomings and the need for targeted funding. In that vein, I believe that the VA should conduct a preemptive review of the NCA's obstacles in meeting the National Shrine Mandate and its other commitments.
This will help thwart new issues that may arise and ensure that existing ones do not grow in complexity, as we recently witnessed.
Finally, I look forward to hearing an update from Ms. Kathryn Condon and the progress being made with record keeping, contracting, and other issues at Arlington National Cemetery. I appreciate your vigilant oversight of Arlington, an unparalleled national treasure that serves a very unique mission. More needs to be done but you have made tremendous progress.
I also look forward to hearing from all of our esteemed witnesses. I welcome the opportunity to continue working with you to maintain our final commitment to those who gave so much for our country.
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Margaret Shevlin, a homemaker, died on March 12th at age 85.
A Rockaway resident for more than 50 years, Shevlin is survived by her husband, Edward Shevlin Jr.; sons, Edward Shevlin III, Sean Shevlin (Joann) and Clifford Shevlin and granddaughter, Meaghan Shevlin.
Mass will be held 9:45 a.m. on Saturday at St. Francis De Sales Church.
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Im very pleased with the result! Ive never animated a fight scene before, and I love giant robots, so this was extra fun for me. I wanted to do something more dramatic and emotional, not only because the theme lent itself well to it, but I thought Id show everyone who was paying attention to the tournament that I can do more than gags (not that there is anything wrong with gags, I actually prefer them!).
If you know me, then my influences were obvious for this. Xenogears, Voices of a Distant Star, NEXT EARTH and even some personal experience thrown in for good measure. I get chills from watching this, so I hope you do too!
Rated 5 / 5 stars
wow sad ending, I can relate I had something like that happen. I liked the comparison between roots fighting you used very well thought out story, thx enjoyed it very much
Rated 5 / 5 stars
no words but
this is a great flash its hard for me to explain how good it is
Rated 5 / 5 stars
Chills down the spine?
Yeah dude, totally had them. And a strange sensation in my stomach. A great piece of art.


text: The MapleStory DS wiki last edited by SaturdayNightSpecials on 02/10/14 11:04PM View full history OverviewMapleStory DS is an action RPG developed and published by Nexon Corporation for the Nintendo DS platform. Announcements and confirmationsAnnouncementsThe game was originally announced at E3 2006, said to be released in September 2007. After a long wait, Nexon announced that the Korean release was to be set sometime in 2009 and, later on, January of 2010.Later, in February 2010, the game was announced to be released on April 15th, 2010 in Korea. Apparently, there will no longer be any delays as Nexon Corporation and Nintendo of Korea have revealed a large amount of new media (commercials, screens, interviews...) concerning the game recently. This date is the exact same date the Nintendo DSi will be launched in Korea.No plans to release MapleStory DS have been announced in any other region thus far.ConfirmationsMapleStory DS will not be an MMORPG in any way. In an interview from December 2009, it has been said by the manager of international business development at Nexon (Stephen Lee) that the game's focus is on single player, with limited multiplayer functionality. MapleStory DS will not support WiFi. GameplayLike its PC counterpart, MapleStory DS is a side-scrolling, 2D RPG. Players start by selecting one of four characters: an archer, a magician, a warrior or a thief. Each of these characters have their own storylines.Players kill various monsters with basic attacks or special skills. Killing these monsters rewards the player with experience points, that increases the level of the player, loot and/or money. When players increase in level, they in turn distribute their gained attribute points and skill points to make their character more powerful. The skill points are used in a skill tree.The game also features several platforming aspects such as timed jumps on platforms, double jumps, sprinting, and climbing ladders. Differences from the PC MapleStory are: any class of character can sprint by tapping twice in one direction and any class of character can jump twice by double tapping the "jump" button.EquipmentPlayers also choose to equip equipments, that have various properties, via an item menu. There are 6 varieties of equips: a hat (helmet, headband...), an overall (kimono, suit...), footwear, earrings (usually with magical properties), a one-handed or two-handed weapon (hammer, sword, staff...) and a ring. Many of these equipments have level and class restrictions.MultiplayerSupposedly, a player can choose to join the game of another with his or her character. Not much has been said about it except for the promotional videos demonstrating some of it.


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text: Both Sides React To The California Game Law Supreme Court HearingMike Fahey11/02/10 12:40pmFiled to: LawSchwarzenegger vsPS3Xbox 360WiiPCMacDsPSPTopOriginalPressplay3401EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Oral arguments were heard this morning in the Supreme Court case regarding California's violent video game law, and Stephen Totilo was on the scene to get reactions from California Senator Leland Yee and video game industry lawyer Paul Smith. First up is lawyer Paul Smith who, along with Entertainment Software Association president Michael Gallagher seemed pleased with the initial response of the Supreme Court justices to the case. Then we have law author and California Senator Leland Yee, who spends his brief time with the press talking about helping parents monitor their children's video game play. Advertisement Both parties seem pleased and encouraged, though of course you don't want to look despondent in front of the press.What's your take on their reactions?Reply340 repliesLeave a reply


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Publication number | US7260572 B2 |
Publication type | Grant |
Application number | US 10/453,682 |
Publication date | Aug 21, 2007 |
Filing date | Jun 2, 2003 |
Priority date | Nov 14, 2002 |
Fee status | Lapsed |
Also published as | US20040098384 |
Publication number | 10453682, 453682, US 7260572 B2, US 7260572B2, US-B2-7260572, US7260572 B2, US7260572B2 |
Inventors | Jun-Ki Min, Kyuseok Shim, Chin-Wan Chung |
Original Assignee | Korea Advanced Institute Of Science And Technology |
Export Citation | BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan |
Patent Citations (9), Non-Patent Citations (4), Referenced by (21), Classifications (12), Legal Events (6) | |
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an index structure capable of allowing users to effectively retrieve data represented by extensible markup language (see T. Bray, J. Paoli, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, and E. Maler. Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (second edition). W3C) that is the de facto standard for the representation and exchange of data on the Internet, and a method of managing the same, and more particularly to a method of processing XML queries using an adaptive path index, which utilizes frequently used paths. Thus, the query performance for XML data can be significantly improved and storage space can be reduced compared with conventional path indexes.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The emergence of the Internet has dramatically increased the amount of data of all kinds available electronically. To overcome the limitations of Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) and solve the complexity of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), extensible Markup Language (XML) was proposed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1998.
XML can describe a wide range of data, from regular to irregular, from flat to deeply nest, and tree shaped to graph shaped structure. Due to the flexibility of XML, XML is rapidly emerging as the de facto standard for the representation and exchange of data on the next generation Web application.
Various query languages for retrieving data represented in XML have been proposed. XML query languages, such as XPath (see J. Clark and S. DeRose. XML path language (Xpath) version 1.0. W3C Recommendation) and XQuery (see S. Boag, C. Chamberlin, M. Fernandez, D. Florescu, J. Robie, J. Simeon, and M. Stefanescu. Xquery 1.0: An XML query language. Working draft), use path expressions to traverse an irregular structure consisting of XML elements. Thus, the navigation of irregularly structured XML data is one of essential components for processing XML queries. Since the elements may be scattered at different location in the disk, the performance of processing an XML query results in significant degradation. Furthermore, when an XML query consisting of a partial matching path expression is processed, all elements constituting XML data must be traversed, which is very inefficient.
Meanwhile, a structural summary and a path index speed up the XML query evaluation by allowing only the relevant portions of XML data to be traversed with respect to a given path expression. As a result, structural summary extraction and path index generation techniques have received a lot of attention as schemes of improving the XML query performance. Goldman and Widom developed a path index that is called "strong DataGuide" (see R. Goldman and J. Widom. DataGuides: Enable query formulation and optimization in semistructured database. VLDB 1997.). This index was proposed to extract the structural information of Semi-structural data such as XML data, and records simple paths starting from a root element without overlapping. The building algorithm of the strong DataGuide emulates an algorithm for converting Non-deterministic Finite Automata (NFA) into Deterministic Finite Automata (DFA)(see J. E. Hopcraft and J. D. Ullman. Introduction to Automata Theory, Language, and Computation. 1979). Accordingly, this scheme is problematic in that, in the case where given XML data has a complicated graph structure, the size of the strong DataGuide may become larger than that of original XML data.
Milo and Suciu proposed another index called "1-Index" (see T. Milo and D. Suciu. Index structures for path expression. ICDT. 1999). 1-Index is identical with strong DataGuide in that information of all paths is maintained. 1-Index generates indexes using backward stimulation and backward simulation which are originated from the graph verification area. This method is that two nodes are integrated into a single node when the two nodes exist and two path sets starting from the two nodes are identical with each other. This method allows a graph, such as a non-deterministic finite automata, to be obtained, unlike strong DataGuide. However, when a given input graph takes a tree form, 1-Index and strong DataGuide are identical with each other. Accordingly, 1-Index can be considered a non-deterministic variation of strong DataGuide.
In the field of object-oriented database, to support frequently used reference chains between two object instances, Access Support Relation (ASR) has been used (see A. Kemper and G. Moerkotte. Access support relations: An indexing method for object bases. Information Systems, 17(2): 117-145, 1992). However, ASR materializes the reference chains of arbitrary lengths, and is problematic in that it can support only predefined subset of paths.
Cooper et al. proposed Index Fabric that is conceptually similar to strong DataGuide in that all paths starting from a root element are maintained (see B. Cooper, N. Sample, M. J. Franklin, G. R. Hjaltason, and M. Shadmon. A fast index for semistructured data. VLDB. 2001). Index Fabric encodes the paths of elements having data values to be converted into strings, and maintains them using a string index, such as Patricia Trie. However, Index Fabric is disadvantageous in that a parent-child relationship among elements cannot be maintained. Accordingly, Index Fabric is ineffective in partial matching path expressions that must employ a parent-child relationship.
Many queries on XML Data have the partial matching path expressions because user of XML data does not take the structure of the data into account, and intentionally uses a partial matching path expression so as to obtain desired results. The above-described XML path indexes, such as strong DataGuide, 1-Index, Index Fabric, etc., record all paths starting from a root element, so the index must be exhaustively traversed, thus deteriorating performance. Furthermore, these path indexes are generated only through the use of data. Thus, they do not take advantage of query workload to effectively process frequently used path expressions.
Accordingly, the present invention has been made keeping in mind the above problems occurring in the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method of processing a query for XML data having an irregular structure using an Adaptive Path indEX for XML data (APEX), which is capable of improving the performance of processing the query by extracting frequently used paths from path expressions having been used as queries for XML data and updating the APEX using the frequently used paths.
In order to accomplish the above object, the present invention provides a method of processing a query about XML data, comprising the first step of representing the XML data in the form of an XML graph; the second step of creating and updating an Adaptive Path indEX for XML data (APEX) based on frequently used paths extracted from previously processed XML queries and the XML graph; and the third step of processing an XML query using the APEX.
In contrast to the traditional indexes such as Data Guide and 1-Index, the APEX of the present invention does not maintain all paths starting from a root element, but utilizes frequently used paths to improve the performance of processing a query. Further, the existing path indexes are constructed through the use of only XML data, while the method of the present invention extract paths frequently used from query workloads in a data mining manner and utilizes the frequently used paths.
Specifically, the APEX and the method of processing a query in accordance with the present invention are characterized by providing a method having the following solutions.
(1) An APEX consists of a hash tree and a graph structure. The hash tree maintains information on the incoming paths of the nodes of the graph structure, so a partial matching path expression can be effectively processed by traversing the hash tree.
(2) In order to extract information on frequently used paths, a concept used in a sequential pattern mining technique is utilized.
(3) The APEX of the present invention achieves a size smaller than the existing path indexes by maintaining an index structure using frequently used paths.
(4) The APEX of the present invention reduces the overhead of creating and managing indexes in such a way that the index is changed by finding changed frequently used paths when the frequently used paths are changed.
The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will be more clearly understood from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
Reference now should be made to the drawings, in which the same reference numerals are used throughout the different drawings to designate the same or similar components.
Hereinafter, the structure of XML data used in the present invention is described in brief, and the structure of the APEX proposed in the present invention is described based on the description of the structure of XML data. Thereafter, the method of managing an APEX is described.
On the XML graph, paths that are each formed by a succession of labels exist, and are used as path expressions. The following relationship can exist between the paths. If the relationship shown in the following Definition 1 exists between random paths A and B, it is stated that "the path B includes in the path A."
Definition 1
If the relationship, a1=bi, a2=bi+1, . . . , and an=bi+−1, 1≦i, and i+n−1≦m exists between a path A=a1.a2. . . . .an and a path B=b1.b2. . . . .bn, it is stated that "the path A is included in the path B" or "the path A is a subpath of the path B". Further, if the path A is a subpath of the path B and m=i+n−1, the path A is a suffix of the path B.
Additionally, a frequency at which a path p on the XML graph is used in given XML path expressions is referred to as a support of the path "p", and is represented as the following Equation 1.
sup(p)=|Q|/|W| (1)
where |W|=the number of given path expressions, and |Q|=the number of path expressions each including the path "p".
In the method of managing an APEX in accordance with the present invention, required paths defined in the following Definition 2 are extracted and the APEX is managed using the required paths.
Definition 2
If a support of the path "p" existing on an XML graph sup(p) is greater than a user-specified minimum support minSup, or the length of the path p is 1, the path p is referred to as a required path. A path having a support greater than the user-specified minimum support minSup is referred to as a frequently used path.
An edge set T(p) with respect to a path "p" is defined as the following Definition 3.
Definition 3
When P=1 i. . . . .1 j−1.1 j, T(p)={<oj−1,oj>|oi−1.1 i.oi. . . . 1 j, oj}
where ok−1 and ok are nodes existing on the XML graph with respect to a label 1 k shown on the path p, and an edge having the label 1 k extending from ok−1 to ok exists on the XML graph.
When the path p is the suffix of the path q from the Definition 3, it can be appreciated that T(p)⊃T(q). For example, on the graph of
Definition 4
It is assumed that the set of some of the paths of an XML graph starting from a root is QXML and the set of required paths is R. With respect to a path p, it is assumed that QG(P)={1|1∈QXML and p is a suffix of 1} and QA(p)={1|1∈QXML and every path q (≠p) ∈ R having p as a suffix is a suffix of 1}. If Q (p)=QG(p)−QA(p), the extent E(p) is defined as ∪r∈Q (p)T(r).
When q with respect to a random path p is a path having p as a suffix, it can be appreciated that T(p)=∪∀qE(q).
For example, when it is assumed that actor.name is a frequently used path with respect to the XML graph of
A hash tree maintains information on required paths, and maps the nodes of the graph structure to the required paths. Each node of the hash tree is provided with a hash table, and each entry of the hash table consists of five fields as shown in detail in
The graph structure provides information on the structural summary of a given XML graph, the nodes of the graph structure are mapped to the entries of the hash tree in a 1:1 correspondence, and the nodes of graph structure have the extents of required paths represented by the entries of the hash tree. Additionally, if tx=sy with respect to two random nodes x and y of the graph structure, an edge <sx, tx>falling within the extent of x and an edge <sy, ty>falling within the extent of y, an edge extending from the node x to the node y of the graph structure exists. Further, a label used to group edges falling within y is used as the label of the edge. Especially for the root node of the XML graph, a node is created on the initial APEX and a virtual edge consisting of <null, root node> is stored as the extent of a corresponding node. Further, this node is expressed as xroot for convenience. Further, when a path q having p as a suffix with respect to a random path p is a frequently used path and E(p) is not a null set, E(p) is managed by creating an entry "remainder" and a corresponding node. For example, in
The initial APEX creating algorithm of
The frequently used path extraction module is described below.
Conventional sequential pattern mining algorithms (see M. N. Garofalakis, R. Rastogi, and K. Shim. SPIRIT: Sequential pattern mining with regular expression constraints. VLDB 1999) using an anti-monotonicity property at the step of pruning can be used to extract frequently used paths. However, since the properties of a sequence that is an object of the conventional sequential pattern mining algorithms are different from those of a path, a modification is required. For example, when a sequence (A, B, C) is frequent, it can be stated that all subsequences (A, B), (B, C) and (A, C) of the sequence (A, B, C) are frequent. However, even though a path expression A.B.C is frequently used, it cannot be stated that a path expression A.C is frequently used. The reason for this is that a path A.C is not a subpath of a path A.B.C.
Therefore, the present invention provides a frequently used path extraction algorithm as shown in
At the step of counting the frequencies of use (supports), the hash tree that is a principal data structure constituting part of an APEX is used so as to extract the frequencies of all paths appearing in a set of path expressions, that is, frequently used paths. In this case, in order to count the frequencies of use of XML path expressions currently used, the "count" and "new" fields of all entries existing in the hash tree are set to 0 and false, respectively. Further, the frequencies of use of all paths appearing in a set of given XML path expressions Qworkload are counted. At this step, if a new entry is created in the hash table, a new field of the newly created entry is set to TRUE.
At the step of pruning, entries each having a support smaller than the user-specified minimum support minSup are all removed. In this case, like the sequential pattern mining, information on infrequently used paths is effectively removed from the hash tree using the anti-monotonicity property in which, when sup(p) of a random path p is smaller than minSup, sup(p) of all paths each including p is smaller than minSup.
If information on frequently used paths is extracted from the given path expressions, a current APEX should be updated using the extracted information. For this purpose, a new APEX can be created by re-traversing the XML graph from the beginning. However, this approach requires excessive time and costs, so an APEX updating cost is reduced using the APEX updating algorithm of
The method of processing an XML query according to the present invention is described below. When a random path pi n=1 i. . . . .1 n−1.1 n is given as a query, the hash tree is traversed using pi n. If pi n is a required path, a path q having pi n as a suffix exists in a hash tree and results T(pi n)=∪∀qE(q) can be obtained with respect to the extents E(q) of the nodes of a graph structure indicated by the node pointer of an entry corresponding to the path q. If only a path Pk n=1k. . . . .1 n (i<k≦n) is looked up in the hash tree, the edge set T(Pk n) of the path Pk n is obtained using the path Pk n. A similar step is repeated until a path Pi j=1i. . . . .1 j (i≦j≦n) is looked up in the hash tree, that is, an edge set T(Pi j) is obtained. A target edge set T(Pi n) can be obtained by joining obtained T(Pi j), . . . , T(Pk n).
For a complex path query 1 i.*.1 j, query results can be obtained after converting the complex path query 1 i.*.1 j into a path set 1 i.1 i+1. . . . .1 j. using a query pruning and converting technique (see M. F. Fernandez and D. Suciu. Optimizing regular path expressions using graph schemas. ICDE. 1998.). Value-path mixed queries, such as a query "extract nodes fulfilling a random condition from nodes fulfilling random path expressions," can be processed using various methods, including a method in which nodes fulfilling a random path are extracted through the use of an APEX of the present invention and it is determined whether the nodes fulfill the random path expression," or method in which nodes fulfilling a random condition and nodes fulfilling a path expression are obtained from nodes existing on XML data and the intersection of the two node sets is obtained.
In order to measure the efficiency of the method of the present invention in processing an XML query, tests on various XML queries and XML data were carried out. Actual XML data and the three following XML data generated by an actual DTD were used as test data as described below.
(1) Play: XML document produced by converting Shakespeare's plays into XML forms (source: http://oasis-open.org/cover/xml.html)
(2) FlixML: XML document used as a document for a B-movie guide and having a somewhat complicated structure (source: http://www.xml.com)
(3) GedML: XML document used to represent data of genealogy and having a very complicated structure (source: http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/xml.html, 2001)
Additionally, in order to measure the performance of processing a query for XML data, there are generated data having the various numbers of elements as shown in table 1.
5,000 single label path expressions, that is, a succession of labels such as 1 i.1 i+1. . . . .1 j, 500 complex path expressions having the form of 1 i.*.1 j, and 1,000 value-path expressions in which path expressions and values were expressed together were used as queries. The single path expression is expressed in the form of //1 i./1 i+1/ . . . /1 n of Xquery that is an XML query standard, the complex path label path expression is expressed in the form of //1 i//1j, and the value-path expression is expressed in the form of //1 i./1 i+1/ . . . /1j[text()=value]. Further, the efficiency of the present invention was compared with those of DataGuide (SDG), IndexFabic and APEX0. Further, since the form of the APEX might be changed by the user-specified minimum support minSup, tests were carried out while the value was varied from 0.002 to 0.05. 20% of the single path expressions were used as an XML data query set used to extract frequently used paths.
As the structure of XML data becomes more complicated, the performance of the APEX increases further. In the case of DataGuide or Index Fabric, all paths starting from the root of XML data are maintained. That is, as the structure of XML data becomes more complicated, the number of paths increases, and consequently the amount of information that must be traversed when a query is processed increases. In contrast, the APEX maintains only information of frequently used paths, so it can effectively process a query.
Further, the user-specified minimum support minSup influences the performance of processing the query. As the user-specified minimum support minSup becomes smaller, the number of frequently used paths increases. However, as shown in
As described above, the present invention provides a method of processing a query about XML data using the APEX, which is capable of effectively obtaining query results using frequently used paths through the use of the APEX when looking up XML data. Further, the method of the present invention reduces a burden of updating an index to reflect the change of the index when the pattern of XML queries is changed. Accordingly, the method of the present invention can be applied to the fields of using XML data, such as electronic commerce and Internet document search.
Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been disclosed for illustrative purposes, those skilled in the art will appreciate that various modifications, additions and substitutions are possible, without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention as disclosed in the accompanying claims.
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Sometimes the key to a successful campaign is a good get-out-the-vote effort in which volunteers call and visit sympathetic voters, making sure they don't forget to cast a ballot, sometimes even offering a ride to the polls.
Androscoggin County Republicans circulated a letter looking for volunteers for their get-out-the-vote campaign, but they seem to have something else in mind.
The party is recruiting "strikers" and "challengers" who will work the polls to police previously registered voters and those who are registering on Election Day. If the goal is to prevent people from voting, it gives a whole new meaning to "get out the vote."
State Republican Party leaders say they are planning nothing different from what both parties have done in the past and they are not going to do anything that is not allowed by Maine law. But the way they have named the poll-watching positions makes it look like they are more interested in playing defense than offense and scaring people away from the polls instead of bringing them in.
Some people might ask what is wrong with that? The power of the vote is precious and deserves to be protected. But the problem is that Republicans often seem too willing to disenfranchise legitimate voters in their quest to prevent fraud. Out of millions of ballots cast, there have only been two verified cases of double voting in Maine, which hardly justifies turning eligible people away from the polls.
Last year, Republicans in the Legislature pushed through a law to end Election Day registration. It put Maine among dozens of states under Republican control that were experimenting with voter suppression.
Fortunately, Maine voters of all parties rejected the idea in a landslide people's veto referendum. A strong majority of Mainers approved the current law which makes Maine one of the easiest places to register and vote, and one among the leaders in voter participation. Republicans should focus on turning out their voters, not interfering with someone else's.
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A WRONG IDEA OF JUSTICE We have found many of Mrs. L. Graham Crozier's articles well worth printing, and have always given her space in the Herald to express her views. But we are not at all in accord with her in her views regarding Fatty Arbuckle. We are considerably disappionted in the action she has taken as a member of the "Better Films" committee of Knoxville. Recently the committee passed resolutions calling on the local theatres to refuse thefe Arbuckle films entrance to their theatres. With the exception of Mrs. Orozier, the club was unanimous in asking it. Mrs. Crozier comes out in defense of Arbuckle, saying that "in the name of justice" he should be permitted the same rights as before his trial for murder, inasmuch as the courts declared him innocent of the murder of a movie actress. We want to ask if Mrs. Crozier or anybody else really believes Arbuckle is blameless of the death of Virginia Rappe ? Mrs. Crozier should certainly be old enough to know that it is almost an impossibility to punish » man who had the financial backing that was lined up in defense of Arbuckle, and his escape was freely predicted long before the trial began. While the courts turned him loose, there is no reason why decent people should come to his defense and help further to whitewash him. His films are being outlawed in most cities, and we have no doubt Knoxville people will do likewise. Fatty can never come back as a comedian. Every time he tries to get funny or do anything to make folks laugh, the ghost of Virginia Rappe will rise up to plague him. A higher court than the California tribunal has already passed judgment on him, and it would be impossible for him to produce funny films again. The only hope for Fatty's existence is to return to the Los Angeles saloon and work at his old job of cleaning spittoons.
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The Revolution's Caine Mutiny
In Pierre Landais the Continental Navy had its own real-life Commander Queeg. His tour as master of the Alliance was a nightmare wilder than any a novelist could invent
April 1960 | Volume 11, Issue 3
In a prefatory note to The Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk makes the point of informing the reader that "the records of thirty years show no instance of a court-martial resulting from the relief of a captain at sea under Article 184, 185, and 186 of the Naval Regulations," and that both persons and events in his novel are imaginary. Had his researches carried him back much farther into the American past, as far back as the closing years of the American Revolution, he might have uncovered a singularly parallel case, one where fact proved even stranger than his fiction.
The mutiny on the Continental frigate Alliance occurred under much the same circumstances as on the mine sweeper Caine. In both cases the captains were relieved of command because they were considered by their officers to be no longer in control of their mental faculties. Lieutenant Commander Philip Queeg and Captain Pierre Landais were both martinets who threw tantrums over the slightest infraction of their orders. Both had paranoid personalities, were unreasonably suspicious and gripped by feelings of persecution, and both sought to withdraw from reality when the crisis came. Both were petty and arbitrary toward their subordinates, arguing with them over the ship's water and food supplies. And finally, the reputations of both commanders were destroyed as a result of sensational courts-martial.
From her maiden voyage, the Alliance seemed destined to ride stormy seas. In the winter of 1779 she sailed for France with Lafayette as a passenger. Hardly had she left Boston when Landais revealed what was to be a characteristic weakness as a disciplinarian. Writing to Franklin in February, 1779, Landais reported that he had reached Brest only after putting down a full-scale mutiny of the crew with the aid of the Marquis and the officers of the ship. As a result of a court of inquiry held on shipboard, thirty-eight of the crew were put in irons and on reaching port were confined to a French prison without the formality of a trial.
Benjamin Franklin, who directed American naval operations in foreign waters in addition to running interference for the Franco-American alliance, now ordered Landais and the Alliance to report to L'Orient and there join John Paul Jones's squadron. John Adams, who had been in France as a commissioner, was now anxious to return home on the Alliance, and during this period spent a good deal of time in Landais' company. Adams found him frustrated in his ambitions, disappointed in love, unable to win the affection of his officers or hold their respect, and consumed by jealousy. In his diary for May 12, 1779, Adams recorded: "Landais is jealous of everything, jealous of everybody, of all his officers, all his passengers; he knows not how to treat his officers, nor his passengers, nor anybody else." He found him a bewildered man, constantly harping on imaginary plots against him. Adams, who served as peacemaker between captain and crew, predicted that when he left the ship "all will become unhappy again." He entered a further prediction: "Landais will never accomplish any great thing … This man … has a littleness in his mien and air. His face is small and sharp so that you form a mean opinion of him from the first sign."
It did not take Landais long to confirm Adams' prognosis. His astounding behavior during the notable engagement of the Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis, which took place in the North Sea on September 23, 1779 only seven months after the Alliance arrived in European waters, should have been conclusive evidence that he was dangerously unstable. With the converted Indiaman and the more heavily gunned British frigate both afire, Jones was relieved when the Alliance finally made her appearance. To his consternation his would-be rescuer discharged a broadside into the stern of the Bonhomme Richard.
"For God's sake forbear firing into the Bonhomme Richard" Jones shouted frantically, but Landais continued to pour shot into Jones's ship. One of his volleys killed several men and an officer of the forecastle, and others hit the Bonhomme Richard under water. Only fantastic bravado saved the day for Jones.


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Euro Area, IMF Say Greek Funding Assured
Corina Ruhe and Jonathan StearnsThe euro area and the International Monetary Fund said Greece is assured of its next aid payment as long as it presses ahead with an economic-overhaul program.
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Dutch head of the group of euro-area finance ministers, said European and IMF experts intend to wrap up their latest review of Greece's budget-cutting progress in July. The austerity is a condition for fresh payouts of aid under a 130 billion-euro ($172 billion) program.
"We have discussed the state of play on the Greek program, also on financing, and we once again concluded that financing is guaranteed for another year," Dijsselbloem told reporters late yesterday in Luxembourg after chairing a meeting of his euro-area counterparts. "Further disbursements will be decided on the basis of the review to be finalized in July."
The assurances came amid further political fallout in Greece resulting from the government's June 11 decision to shut down public broadcaster ERT, suspend 2,600 jobs there and create a new, smaller company. One of Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's two coalition partners yesterday rejected his proposals for revamping ERT and today decided to withdraw from the government.
Among the conditions for the international loans, Greece has to reduce the number of workers on the state payroll by 15,000 by the end of 2014.
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"The priority remains for the Greek authorities to deliver on the program quickly," Gerry Rice, an IMF spokesman in Washington, said in a statement yesterday. "If the review is completed by the end of July, as expected, no financing problems will arise because the program is financed till end-July 2014."
Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras told reporters in Luxembourg yesterday that the government in Athens must push ahead with plans to shrink the public-sector workforce in order to win an 8.1 billion-euro payout for July. He said the sum could carry Greece until early 2014.
The challenge was highlighted today when the smallest party in the ruling coalition -- Democratic Left -- withdrew over the closure of ERT. The two remaining coalition partners are Samaras's New Democracy party and the Socialist Pasok, which together have a majority of 153 in the 300-seat parliament compared with 167 with Democratic Left's support.
"I have full confidence that the main political parties in Greece know what is at stake and that they will find a solution to come together and to solve the outstanding issues," Luxembourg Finance Minister Luc Frieden said in an interview today.
Dijsselbloem said the failure of euro-area central banks to roll over Greek debt held in investment portfolios poses no immediate funding problem for the government in Athens. He said a solution would eventually have to be found to the issue.
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A Right-to-Lifer and the GOP's Nursing Home Dilemma
When Ken Connor was on Capitol Hill earlier this week, it was clear that people in his party deeply wish that he would go back to worrying about the unborn. The conservative Christian Republican trial lawyer had come to Washington to testify in support of a bill that would ban the use of mandatory binding arbitration clauses in nursing home contracts. Most nursing homes today, as a condition of admission, require vulnerable elderly people and their families to waive their right to sue a facility in the event of a dispute. Instead, they must take any complaints about medical malpractice or abuse to a private arbitrator, chosen and paid by the nursing home, in secret proceedings where any awards are much lower than they would be from a jury. The arbitration agreements are often buried in a stack of complicated paperwork, where in some cases, they have been signed by blind people and those suffering from Alzheimer's.
The nursing home arbitration bill is one of nearly a dozen Democratic-backed measures introduced in Congress over the past year that would ban mandatory arbitration in everything from new car contracts to meatpacking company agreements. With the backing of the powerful AARP, it's also the most likely of the lot to pass, and thus, pave the way for Congress to ban mandatory arbitration altogether. After all, if Congress deems the practice unconscionable for seniors, businesses will have a tough time arguing that it still ought to be forced on everyone else. That's why Republicans really, really don't want to vote for the nursing home bill, and one reason Connor's advocacy is making them squirm.
Connor sues nursing homes for a living, as a lawyer at a big-time plaintiffs' firm known for supporting Democrats. Just last month, Connor won a $2 million verdict against Sunrise Senior Living in California for letting an elderly woman develop fatal bedsores. So when he testifies on the Hill, Connor is essentially representing the nation's trial lawyers, who see mandatory arbitration as a threat to their livelihood. As such, Republicans would love to dismiss Connor as just another greedy trial lawyer. But Connor's religious-right bona fides simply make that impossible.
For three years, Connor served as the president of the Family Research Council, a leading social conservative outfit, and became a rock star among the GOP's evangelical wing when he went to work in 2004 for then-Governor Jeb Bush to defend a Florida law that would have prevented doctors from removing Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. For Republican legislators, Connor has moral authority. He also gives money to many of them, so Republicans have to tolerate him, even as he forces them into a corner where they have to chose between devotion to industry and devotion to God and life.
While the GOP views trial lawyers as its mortal enemies, Connor doesn't see any contradiction between his profession and role as family values crusader. Instead, he sees his lawsuits against nursing homes as an extension of the work he did in the Schiavo case. "Removing the feeding tube, letting Teri Schiavo starve to death," he said in an interview, "I see this all the time with the elderly." Connor believes that the frail elderly are second only to the unborn in their suffering due to what he sees as a prevailing "quality of life" mindset, as opposed to one focused on the sanctity of life. He says he's witnessed bioethicists in Florida argue that if an elderly person suffers from dementia, there would be nothing wrong with hastening his or her demise. "If you call yourself a Christian, you have an obligation to fight for social justice," he says, noting that, "It's much easier to make the case for the elderly than for the unborn."
Connor has now testified twice in Congress over the past year in favor of banning mandatory arbitration, and will be back again next week to testify in the Senate on a parallel nursing home bill co-sponsored by Florida Senator Mel Martinez, the former head of the Republican National Committee. Connor's performance Tuesday before the House subcommittee on commercial and administrative law shows why many Republicans in the Senate are probably dreading his appearance.
With a full shock of white hair, ruddy face and powerful voice, Connor is as much televangelist as lawyer. It's obvious why juries love him. He testified to an unusually full house about some of his experiences with nursing homes: "All too often, the story is the same: avoidable pressure ulcers (bed sores) penetrating to the bone; wounds with dirty bandages that are infected and foul smelling; patients languishing in urine and feces for hours on end; hollow-eyed residents suffering from avoidable malnutrition, unable to ask for help because their tongues are parched and swollen from preventable dehydration; dirty catheters clogged with crystalline sediment and yellow-green urine in the bag."
He described a nursing home industry that routinely faked medical records and staffing documentation to cover up for its shoddy treatment of its frail residents. And while Connor invoked the standard trial lawyer arguments about the need to keep the courthouse open to those who've suffered at the hands of heartless corporations, he did it in distinctly evangelical language. "Our society," he said, "is rapidly embracing a quality-of-life ethic in the place of a sanctity-of-life ethic. But, old people do not score well using quality of life calculus and they perform poorly on functional capacity studies. They cost more to maintain than they produce and they are vulnerable to abuse and neglect by unscrupulous nursing home operators who are willing to put profits over people."
"I promise you that if these injuries and damages happened somewhere like Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib, there would be no end of congressional hearings," he added. "If you believe that wrongdoers ought to be held accountable for their actions, you ought to support this bill."
Even before Connor opened his mouth, Republicans on the committee were trying to minimize the impact of his powerful testimony and to avoid looking like heartless corporate shills not fully committed to "life." Florida Rep. Tom Feeney, an ardent abortion foe who has a perfect pro-life voting record, according to the National Right to Life Committee, kicked off the hearing by saying that there is "no more elegant spokesman" on this issue than his "good friend" Ken Connor, who "sounds like Plato when talking about most things." Feeney went on to say, though, that while Connor excelled at the "ethos and pathos" elements of Platonic rhetoric, he perhaps failed on the "logos" part.
Feeney's philosophy lecture was intended to suggest that his fellow legislators should not be swayed by Connor's emotional appeal and should instead listen to the voice of logic sitting next to Connor at the table: Gavin Gadberry, a lawyer from Texas who defends nursing homes from the likes of Connor. The Republicans couldn't have picked a smarmier witness to support the nursing home industry's position. Compared with Gadberry, Connor sounded like Jesus Christ himself.
As the lobbyist for the Texas nursing home industry, Gadberry represents some of the nation's worst nursing homes. A 2002 study by the House Committee on Government Reform found that nearly 40 percent of Texas nursing homes had violations of federal regulations that caused harm to nursing-home residents or placed them at risk of serious injury or death. More than 90 percent didn't meet federal staffing standards. Texas nursing homes may have been the inspiration for the widespread use of arbitration clauses because their poor treatment of the elderly had spawned a cottage industry of litigation. At one point, plaintiffs were winning compensation in an unheard of nine out of 10 lawsuits against nursing homes. Rather than fix the nursing homes, at the urging of the industry (represented by Gadberry), Texas essentially got rid of the lawsuits with a 2003 tort reform measure that makes it virtually impossible to sue a nursing home on behalf of an elderly person today. (Connor's firm closed its Texas office as a result.)
All of which made Gadberry's claim that Connor's anecdotes were rare events dubious at best. He insisted that arbitration is "more efficient" than traditional litigation and that the pending bill would "discriminate" against the industry. But Connor fired back: "The nursing homes that are providing good care don't need pre-dispute binding arbitration." Gadberry's suggestion that arbitration was a benefit to elderly nursing home residents didn't go down well with the committee's chairwoman, Rep. Linda Sanchez, a Democrat from California, whose siblings, to her dismay, recently signed an arbitration clause to put her father into a nursing home. ("God forbid anything should happen," she said after the hearing.)
Still, Republicans demonstrated that, despite making nice with Connor, they probably weren't going to get on board. In a desperate attempt to find an alternative to the bill, the committee's ranking Republican, Utah Rep. Chris Cannon, at one point suggested that nursing homes install granny-cams, so that the residents' loved ones could keep an eye on them remotely, as a way of improving the quality of care, rather than eliminate arbitration clauses.
Connor thinks the Republicans' performance on the issue illustrates what's wrong with his party these days. "[Republicans] failure to support this is, in my judgment, a failure of first principles," he said in an interview after the hearing. He noted that "Republicans would be the first to say we should hold the welfare queen responsible," but they never hold corporations to the same standards. "Protecting wrongdoing has become what our party is all about," Connor added. "And they wonder why they're getting their clocks cleaned on the electoral map. The hypocrisy is breathtaking."


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CLYDE, Ohio - Firefighters were continuing yesterday to investigate a downtown fire that caused $100,000 damage to a hardware store and four apartments in this northwest Ohio city.
Fire Chief Mike Andrews said residents in apartments above the store escaped.
Emergency workers had to use a ladder to rescue a woman and two children in one of the apartments.
No cause of the Tuesday night fire has been determined, but the chief said he believes it began in a closet on the second floor.
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