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Post by Jeff Smith » Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:01 am
Does anyone have any background on this? Was this an old subway, or PATH / Hudson Tubes? The article mentions it in a short blurb, and never explains it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/nyreg ... wanted=all
At the eastern portion of ground zero, hundreds of workers contend with a nasty subterranean nest: steel and concrete, a defunct railroad, forgotten foundations, landfill, quartz deposits and glacial remnants in a vast pit that the Hudson River ceaselessly tries to inundate with icy, brackish water.
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Post by cjvrr » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:47 am
I believe it was the old terminus for the Hudson tubes. When I visited and toured the site a few years ago you could clearly see one of the former abandoned tubes poking thru the east wall of the main bathtub.
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Post by the missing link » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:05 pm
maybee not quite a railroad in our perception, but on the roof of the towers/observation deck there was a set of rails w/ small turntables at each corner for the window washing system. took a few pics out of curiosity. hey, if it runs on rails, it's a railroad!
all the years we took the towers for granted that they would allways be there, i had only been as a tourist w/ familly visiting from overseas. 1976 and 2001 .
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Post by Dieter » Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:51 am
The old New York Central line down the West Side terminated at the World Trade Center site, but I don't recall if it was above or below grade.
There was a produce distribution center in the old days, prior to construction of the WTC. All the produce came in by rail, what you're talking about may be that trackage.
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Post by Jeff Smith » Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:38 am
I haven't been back since the week after 9/11, and have no plans to return.
Dieter, I assume you're talking about the NYC pre-High Line, because the High Line obviously was above ground, and terminated at St. John's, which is long gone, right? Sounds like it must have been the Hudson tubes, I guess PATH re-routed or shortened the alignment when WTC was built.
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Post by CarterB » Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:10 am
Here's the definitive answer:
http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/hudterm.html
It's the old Hudson Terminal built by the Hudson & Manhattan.
The ''holes in the wall" of the bathtub are still there.
The old "high line" was elevated all the way to St. John's Park Terminal, ( much of the Terminal building still there) Opposite the Holland Tunnel, between Clarkson and Spring St and between Washington and the West Side Hwy.
http://maps.live.com (search for: Spring St., New York City, NY)
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Post by Otto Vondrak » Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:10 am
Dieter, I'm fairly certain the NYC "High Line" (the 30th Street Branch it was called in NYC timetables) did not go to the WTC site. The WTC site was occupied by Hudson Terminal, the large building on the site of the old Hudson & Manhattan (later PATH) downtown terminal loop. In fact, the way I understood it, the Port Authority had to acquire the ailing railroad in order to get the Hudson Terminal property they so desparately needed. St. John's Park on the NYC 30th Street Branch was several blocks away at Spring Street and 11th or 12th Avenue...
http://railroad.net/articles/railfanning/westside/
If they are finding any abandoned railroad in the bathtub site, it's the abandoned H&M terminal tunnels, which have been used for storage since the construction and opening of the WTC terminal loops sometime in the 1970s(?)?
Some neat Hudson Tubes pictures and stuff:
http://www.hudsoncity.net/tubesenglish/ ... meset.html
I'm going to move this question to the PATH Forum for more exposure.
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Post by Dieter » Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:11 am
Yes Sarge, you deduct correctly. I work with a guy whose father was a produce man down there years ago. When he returns from knee surgery, I will ask him about it because I recall him talking about being underground there with his Dad and watching box cars being unloaded. For some reason, I recall something about three different levels, or three storys underground. It will be a week or two, but I'll get to the bottom of it.
Hudson Termina...
Post by Jeff Smith » Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:02 pm
Thanks for the background. I knew the tubes had a long and storied history, and there was some realignment. I thought it was possible at some point, pre-GCT, that NYC or its predecessor (Harlem River RR?) had run cars pretty far downtown using horses on the streets (although not the West Side freight operation). I thought it may also have been some type of rail-float operation with the Erie? across the river at their old terminal. Every time they dig something up there they find something (think the SI Ferry Stop on the 1). The Battery has a long and storied history.
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If they're going to extend the 7 Flushing Line (I know the target is Javits and the West Side Yards), why not add a connection to the PATH and run a single train from Shea to Newark?
Sorry, Otto, your PATH link got me all excited.
Post by Allan » Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:50 pm
Sarge wrote: Foaming Alert:
The MTA would never give up control of anything to the Port Authority of NY & NJ.
Also due to the variation in the truck placement on NYC subway cars and PATH cars, NYC subway cars could not properly take the curves on PATH w/o breaking something.
Post by CarterB » Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:29 pm
Back to circa 1851, the Hudson River RR rail line ran on the west side streets north from Chambers St to Spuyten Duyvil.
Building of The Hudson River Railroad. http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/abnyh.Html
"Commencing at the principal city station, at the junction of Chamber and Hudson streets, the track is laid through Hudson, Canal, and West streets, to Tenth avenue, which it follows to the upper city station, at Thirty-fourth street. Over this part of the route the rails are laid even with the streets, and the cars are drawn by what is called a "dumb engine." This is considered a great improvement over the use of horses, for drawing the cars through the streets, where, by the corporation regulations, locomotives are not allowed to run. This engine appears very much like an ordinary freight car. The machinery is entirely out of sight, and it is made to consume its own smoke. While passing through the city, it is preceded by a man on horseback, who gives notice of its approach by blowing a horn. At Thirty-fourth street, the line curves into Eleventh avenue, the dumb engine is detached, and the regular locomotive takes the train."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/nyreg ... nted=print
"Below 30th Street, railroad cars drawn by horses funneled goods from the West Side railyards to Spring Street, with stops that today's subway riders will recognize: 23rd Street, 14th, Christopher.
In 1867, when the horses were replaced by steam engines, both traffic and speed increased. So did the inevitable conflicts arising from a street-level railroad operating in a crowded neighborhood. This lethal mix of industry and humanity earned Tenth Avenue the nickname Death Avenue.
"The traction of freight and passenger trains by ordinary locomotives in the surface of the streets is an evil which has already been endured too long," a state senator said in 1866, "and must be speedily abated."
The speedy abatement took half a century. Finally, a deadline was set: If the tracks were not raised above the street by May 1, 1908, the city would seize them. The date came and went, with neither elevation nor condemnation.
The only concession to safety that had ever been made was the recruitment of young men to ride horses one block in front of the trains, waving a red flag by day and a red light by night. These men, a total of 12 often recruited from the countryside, rode the two-mile stretch for more than 80 years starting in 1850.
A 1934 newsletter from a local apartment house wrote effusively about the West Side Cowboys, as the group was known. "The horses used in this unusual service are tried and true, and are perfectly aware of their important mission in life," the newsletter observes, noting that the horses "move surely and serenely," allowing their riders "to amuse the passerby with amazing variation of the routine waving the lanterns."
Apparently, citizens weren't impressed enough. They organized under the name The League to End Death Avenue, but nothing was done beyond the cowboys.
Five months after the 1908 deadline had passed, 7-year-old Seth Low Hascamp, dressed in a shirt and overalls, left his home at 544 West 44th Street and headed to school at St. Ambrose, on 54th Street. The train that killed him reportedly ripped his small body apart. Seth was one of hundreds who had died since the tracks had been laid. His family, neighbors and classmates held a silent funeral procession through the streets.
Another 20 years would pass before Mayor Jimmy Walker and Gov. Al Smith stepped in with public money to elevate the tracks. By 1933, 1,000 men had eliminated 105 street-level rail crossings, and when the elevated track was christened in June 1934, The New York Times reported, "The West Side is coming into its own."
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Post by drumz0rz » Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:18 pm
It's a shame that with the post 9/11/01 clean up the original hudson tubes were removed.
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Post by TREnecNYP » Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:14 pm
drumz0rz wrote: It's a shame that with the post 9/11/01 clean up the original hudson tubes were removed.
As for train from newark to shea, that would be more of a NJT/LIRR thing, since the IRT loading gauge is about a foot too narrow for PATH trains. You might be able to get away with it using a gauntlet track, but you can just change at NYP to LIRR, or wtc to E to 7 at times sq.
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The long wait for the Western Australian government's Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Bill continued this week, with no notice appearing in the Legislative Assembly's agenda Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.
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Q: i used python on raspberry to read ph water from arduino I create a project to read pH water, but my module sensor doesn't fix with raspberry pi 3 so I using Arduino to read pH, then send to raspberry and upload the data to firebase.
but, I have some problem, when raspberry read data from Arduino, the looping doesn't work. the error message is serial.util.serialexception
here's source code on Raspberry
import os
import serial
import time
from firebase import firebase

arduino = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyACM0',9600)

firebase = firebase.FirebaseApplication('https://raspi-ph.firebaseio.com/', None)

def update_firebase():
    phair = arduino.readline()
    if data is not None:
        time.sleep(1)
        pieces = data.split("sensor= ")
        ph = pieces
        print ph
    else:
        print('Failed to get data. Try Again!')
        time.sleep(10)

    data = {"Sensor pH": phair}
    firebase.post('/sensor/ph', data)

while True:
    update_firebase()

    time.sleep(5)

and here's source code on Arduino
const int analogInPin = A0;
int sensorValue = 0;
unsigned long int avgValue;
float b;
int buf[10],temp;
void setup() {
 Serial.begin(9600);
}

void loop() {
 for(int i=0;i<10;i++)
 {
  buf[i]=analogRead(analogInPin);
  delay(10);
 }
 for(int i=0;i<9;i++)
 {
  for(int j=i+1;j<10;j++)
  {
   if(buf[i]>buf[j])
   {
    temp=buf[i];
    buf[i]=buf[j];
    buf[j]=temp;
   }
  }
 }
 avgValue=0;
 for(int i=2;i<8;i++)
 avgValue+=buf[i];
 float pHVol=(float)avgValue*5.0/1024/6;
 float phValue = -5.70 * pHVol + 21.34;
 Serial.print("sensor = ");
 Serial.println(phValue);

 delay(20);
}

last, the error message on raspi
['seor= 0.52\r\n']
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "ard.py", line 27, in <module>
    update_firebase()
  File "ard.py", line 11, in update_firebase
    phair = arduino.readline()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/serial/serialposix.py", line 490, in read
    'device reports readiness to read but returned no data '
serial.serialutil.SerialException: device reports readiness to read but returned no data (device disconnected or multiple access on port?)

the looping only run once

A: Looking at the source code, this exception is based on the assumption that ready for reading plus empty data implies a disconnected device.
The way to avoid this behaviour is to specify a timeout when creating a Serial instance.

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In the University of Georgia's most detailed comments on the car accident that killed football player Devin Willock and a member of the recruiting staff, athletic director Josh Brooks said Tuesday that the two were not in business at the athletic department at the time of the incident, which happened after the Bulldogs. celebrated their second consecutive national title.
The wreckage also left offensive lineman Warren McClendon with minor injuries and seriously injured another recruiting staffer.
The incident, which happened in the early morning hours of January 15 not far from the school's Athens campus, raised questions about the relationship between athletes and those working in the athletic department.
"Out of respect for the families involved, we have refrained from making public statements until now regarding the circumstances of the tragic accident which claimed the lives of two people and injured two members of our campus community," said Brooks said in a statement.
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Śukadeva Gosvāmī said to King Parīkṣit: In the city known as Kānyakubja [Kanauj in present-day India] there lived a brāhmaṇa named Ajāmila who married a prostitute maidservant and lost all his brahminical qualities because of the association of that low-class woman. Ajāmila gave trouble to others by arresting them, by cheating them in gambling, or by directly plundering them. This was the way he earned his livelihood and maintained his wife and children. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.21–22)
The Law of Consequences
Although Ajāmila was born of a brāhmaṇa father and strictly followed the regulative principles – no meat-eating, no illicit sex, no intoxication, and no gambling – he fell in love with a prostitute, and therefore all his good qualities were lost. As soon as a person abandons the regulative principles, he engages in various kinds of sinful activities. The regulative principles serve to keep us on the standard of human life. But if we abandon them, we fall down into illusory life, or māyā.
If we want to advance in spiritual life, we must follow the regulative principles and rectify the mistakes of our past lives and this present life. Only those who have become free from all kinds of sinful reactions and are now engaged in pious activities can fully understand God. Persons who commit sinful activities and who are overly attached to bodily comforts and mundane friendship, society, and family affection cannot be spiritually self-realized.
The fault of illicit connection with women is that it destroys all one's brahminical qualities. Ajāmila abandoned all the regulative principles due to his association with a prostitute. He became a cheater and a thief. One who acts dishonestly will be punished. He may escape the king's or government's law, but he can never escape God's law. The materialists think, "I am cheating God, and I can continue to gratify my senses by all nefarious activities." But the śāstras (scriptures) state that such persons are cheating their own happiness in the end, because they will have to accept a material body again and suffer accordingly.
A man who is born in a brāhmaṇa family is expected to be truthful and self-controlled, to be fully cognizant of spiritual life and its practical application, and to have complete faith in the statements of the śāstras.
If a person does not follow the śāstras, he becomes degraded. The great sages and ṛṣis throughout the world have given guidance, and their words are recorded in the śāstras. But rascals and fools misinterpret the scriptures and misguide the people. At present, the Bhagavad-gītā is interpreted in so many different ways, and these so-called explanations are accepted by the innocent public as authoritative knowledge. One interpreter explains that the battlefield of Kurukṣetra refers to the material body and that the five Pāṇḍava brothers are really the five senses of the material body. But this is not the proper understanding. How can anyone explain the Bhagavad-gītā when he does not understand it? Such an attempt is nonsense.
To understand the bona fide science of God, one must approach a bona fide spiritual master and hear the Bhagavad-gītā from him. We have to follow the great personalities, the previous ācāryas (spiritual masters). That will be to our profit. We should not speculate and make up our own statements. We should simply accept the injunctions given by the great ācāryas, because that is the process of the Vedic system. One must approach a bona fide spiritual master and inquire from him submissively. The Absolute Truth is explained in the scriptures, and the scriptures are explained by the spiritual master or a saintly person. Whatever the bona fide, self-realized spiritual master says must be accepted.
There is no room for interpretation of the śāstras. In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is said that Kṛṣṇa lifted Govardhana Hill just as a child lifts a mushroom. He did it so easily, but people do not believe it. Those who do not believe in the Bhāgavatam interpret an indirect meaning. The meaning is clear, and there is nothing to be misunderstood, but these rascals draw their own conclusions nonetheless.
When the language is clear, why should we interpret? By interpretation, so-called scholars and theologians have played havoc with the Vedic literature. No bona fide ācārya has ever interpreted the śāstras according to his own whims, but many so-called modern scholars and leaders have done so, and therefore people are gliding down into the most abominable conditions of material existence. In the interest of the people, these rascals should be exposed. Therefore we are presenting the Bhagavad-gītā As It Is.
The Degradation of Modern Society
Here the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam says that the brāhmaṇa Ajāmila became attached to a prostitute and thus lost his brahminical qualifications. He was a young man of about twenty when this happened. Because of his illicit association with the prostitute, Ajāmila was forced to live by begging, borrowing, stealing, and gambling.
These verses indicate how degraded one becomes simply by indulging in illicit sex with a prostitute. Illicit sex is not possible with chaste women, but only with unchaste women. The more society allows prostitution and illicit sex, the more impetus it gives to cheaters, thieves, plunderers, drunkards, and gamblers. Therefore we first advise all the disciples in our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement to avoid illicit sex, which is the beginning of all abominable life and which is followed by meat-eating, gambling, and intoxication, one after another. Of course, restraint is difficult, but it is quite possible if one fully surrenders to Kṛṣṇa, since all abominable habits gradually become distasteful for a Kṛṣṇa conscious person.
While in his time Ajāmila was an exception, in the present age there are millions of Ajāmilas. But if illicit sex is allowed to increase, the entire society will be condemned, for it will be full of rogues, thieves, cheaters, and so forth.
Therefore, if we actually want to improve the world situation, we have to take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, as that gives the best service to human society, both materially and spiritually. Whatever abominable characteristics we have developed, we have only to take to the process of bhakti-yoga, or devotional service, in order to completely eradicate them. We have developed so many anarthas, or unwanted habits, the chief of which are meat-eating, intoxication, illicit sex, and gambling. But we can curb them by accepting the principles of bhakti-yoga as they are presented in the Bhagavad-gītā and the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Scarcely anyone knows these Vedic scriptures, and therefore no one heeds their instructions. People would rather read all kinds of books by all kinds of rascals, but the result of such books is to kill Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
In illusion a person may think he can get rid of unwanted habits and be saved by some artificial, mystic meditation. And in fact at one time it was possible to attain liberation by practicing aṣṭāṅga-yoga, or eightfold yogic meditation. But at present almost no one can follow this process, and artificial attempts at yoga will not help us.
Therefore to help the fallen people of this Age of Kali, the Supreme Lord appeared five hundred years ago as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He knew that the people of this age would not even be able to follow the regulative principles, what to speak of practicing aṣṭāṅga-yoga. Therefore He gave the mahā-mantra – Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare – so that we can gradually be elevated to the highest position of spiritual life. Other processes of purification or sacrifice cannot be followed in this age, because for the most part people are too degraded. But anyone may take to this process of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. As it is said in the Bṛhan-nāradīya Purāṇa (3.8.126),
harer nāma harer nāma
harer nāmaiva kevalam
kalau nāsty eva nāsty eva
nāsty eva gatir anyathā
"In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy, the only means of deliverance is chanting the holy name of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way." Chanting the holy name of the Lord is always superbly effective, but it is especially effective in this Age of Kali. Its practical effectiveness will now be explained by Śukadeva Gosvāmī through the history of Ajāmila, who was freed from the hands of Yamarāja, the universal judge, simply because of chanting the holy name of Nārāyaṇa.
The Dangers of Illicit Sex
To benefit fully from chanting the holy name of the Lord, one needs to chant offenselessly. And to guarantee offenseless chanting, some austerity is required. First of all, one should not indulge in illicit sex. Sex is one of the bodily needs, so it is sanctioned in the śāstras to some degree: one is allowed to live peacefully with one's wife and have sex for begetting children. Other than to beget children, however, there is no need of indulging in sex. One who does not take the responsibility of family life but remains a bachelor and engages in illicit sex is considered irresponsible, and he will have to suffer the consequences.
Of course, one who thinks that family life is too big a responsibility can forgo it and thus avoid a lot of trouble. Family responsibility is very great; therefore if a man feels he cannot accept the responsibility, he should remain a brahmacārī, a celibate student. A person who practices the science of brahmacarya under the care of a spiritual master automatically becomes seventy-five percent free from material entanglement.
Today, however, no one wants to undergo the austerities of brahmacarya. Everyone wants to remain unmarried but also engage in sex. In this way people are losing all good character. To maintain a woman who is nothing more than a prostitute and engage in illicit sex with her for producing children is sinful. Such children are unwanted (varṇa-saṅkara), and in this way society becomes degraded.
Ajāmila became attracted to a prostitute, and with her he begot ten children. He became so degraded that he could not execute honest business to support his large family, and he was forced to beg, borrow, and steal to maintain them. If a person indulges in illicit sex, intoxication and gambling automatically follow. His expenses will be unlimited, and to meet all his expenses he will have to adopt methods of cheating and stealing. The basis for Ajāmila's degradation was his illicit connection with the prostitute.
Therefore, in the practice of Kṛṣṇa consciousness we do not allow any illicit sex. Devotees must either get married or remain celibate; this regulation is very effective for maintaining a high standard of purity.


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While transferring balances from credit card to credit card may prolong the pain, the piper is asking to be paid — now.
You're not the only one with a shopping hangover. Holiday shoppers chose to use credit cards roughly 7 percent more, according to First Data, which tracks consumer payment data.
The bad news is the average annual percentage rate, or APR, is 14.95 percent. The good news for consumers is that this is the sixth straight week without an increase in the national average since the average hit a record high of 15.22 percent in mid-December.
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Each card offered has a detailed explanation of rates, fees, rewards, limitations and other important information, making it easy to compare cards.
Consumers can do a few things to eke some extra money from their usual spending to help pay off the bills, said Carole Bachman, a certified financial counselor in the Stroudsburg office of Credit Counseling Services of Northeast Pennsylvania.
"Stop buying lunch out every day and pack lunch, don't stop off for that expensive latte, and think before you spend," she said.
Sean Adams, a certified public accountant who owns New Beginnings Financial Consultant in Stroudsburg, said there definitely are things you can do to find money that you are wasting each day. "For instance, think about the leftover food you throw out every week," he said.
That's like throwing money in the garbage can. You need to cook less food or buy less food, because it is being wasted. Adams suggested that people put the money saved by buying fewer groceries into paying a bill.
Consumers can start by paying off the card with the highest interest rate first, which will help reduce the bills faster.
And how about cashing in all those reward points and converting them into a statement credit?
Then, take back those unwanted gifts. You may need a store receipt if you want the cash.
"The ideal situation would be to have opened a Christmas club account or a savings account last year to save up for the holidays," said Bachman, who has been a counselor for more than 14 years.
She counsels a fair number of people who don't budget for the holidays and then get in a fix when it is time to pay the bills.
If you didn't do what you should have last year, planning a budget for not only Christmas but all spending will make 2012 a better year, and January 2013 even more so.
"I tell them they need to be realistic about holiday spending. If they exchange gifts with family members and one family has 10 children, I suggest instead of buying everyone in the family a gift, that they give one family gift," Bachman said.
You can always give non-money gifts, such as volunteering to clean their house one time or make a meal for them once a month, she said. "I think people appreciate the gift of your time, especially if they work," Bachman said.
Adams agreed, "Before you buy anything, you need to establish a budget for holiday spending, and you should have contributed to it throughout the year, not just before the holidays."
Another important thing to keep in mind when budgeting is to make sure you include all your extra expenses, not only the cost of gifts.
"I tell them if they are traveling to relatives, they need to include the cost to travel, the cost of the extra food they prepare, a hotel if they need one and to allow extra for any other holiday expense that might come up, like buying a tree or going out to eat," she said.
In addition, if mailing any gifts out of town, the cost of packaging and mailing needs to be included in the holiday budget, Bachman said.
If possible, instead of mailing gifts, she suggested getting the person a gift card — something that is much cheaper to mail.
If you must buy something, purchase the gift online and ship directly to the recipient.
If you have children, you also need to talk to them ahead of time about what they want for Christmas, Adams said.
"That way, if what they want is more than you will be able to spend, you can tell them they will need to save some money to put toward what you are able to spend," he said.
It takes some work to get on a budget and stay on it, but Bachman said the sooner you do, the sooner your finances — and life — will be in order.


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UPIC Impressions of Paris
Charles 11 October 2005 2005, Microtonal, UPIC
This is my first UPIC piece at CCMIX. UPIC (plus bonne version française) is a graphical, glissando-oriented system designed by Xenakis. This piece uses all sine tones and all glissandos are straight lines (no vibrato)
This piece contains extremely low frequencies that may be difficult to hear on some speakers. The sounds are inspired by the surprising, different and wonderful mechanical noises made by the appliances in my kitchen here.
5 Responses to "UPIC Impressions of Paris"
Hey Celeste. I really like this first UPIC piece. It reminds me of some of your other stuff with filter banks. I am interested in UPIC, from a distance I suppose. is the graphic surface an x/y axis that you can then assign synthesizer variables to? Telll me more, or point me to a good sight. I think the sounds you produced are very organic and they sound as if they don't have a static harmonic series. If this was Xenakis' intention then sounds like a success.
I will say, though, that there is a somewhat antiquated sound to the piece you made. Like it could have been made sometime in the 70's and no one would know the difference. Is the Interface an old one, or does it have up-to-date technology involved. Forgive my ignorance. Can't wait to hear more.
UPIC is a graphical system where there exist scores called "pages." The pages are made of line drawings where x axis represents pitch and the y axis represents time. Lines drawn in this system are called arcs. Every arc has an assigned waveform, a channel, a maximum amplitude and an envelope. FM modulation is possible, however, the amplitude of the signal arc is also the amplitude of the signal for modulation, which makes some nice complex timbres very difficult to obtain. AM modulation can be faked via complex envelopes. The waveforms only have a certain number of samples, but within this constraint, they can be drawn graphically and can even be made up of "wave forms sampled from real sounds, however, because of the sample rate of the waveform, long, complicated "samples" get aliased.
The interesting thing about UPIC, aside form the graphical element, is a concept of inexact cut and paste. You select things to copy and then, with the mouse, describe the rectangle that you would like to paste into. The result is then scaled to fit within the rectangle you described. The chances of getting something exactly are very minimal.
The reason UPIC pieces tend to sound antiquated is because of the limitations of additive synthesis and the lack of filtering. Also, my piece only uses sine waves instead of more harmonically complicated waveforms. UPIC is not a new system. The version at school has dedicated UPIC sound hardware. There's an ancient PC-only version. If you're interested in the ideas behind UPIC, metasynth gives a few of the pieces of it. You could fake a lot of the rest in SuperCollider by using wavetables to describe the waveforms, the envelopes and the arcs. Then you would need to track the start point of your arcs (on the x & y axis) and the horizontal and vertical scaling. I haven't decided if this is a project worth pursuing. However, the glissandi are nice and the graphical score does make it easier to keep track of a lot of additive waves.
Lauri Gröhn says:
This might interest you: I have developed a Java applet that generates music (midi file) from any picture in a few seconds. See my web site.
Lauri Gröhn
metacomposer
http://www.synestesia.fi
Thomas Baudel says:
Of interest to anyone on this page: a java application that implements a good deal of the original UPIC.
There are still some work to be done to allow greater power of expression.
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National Steak recalled 248,000 pounds of beef on Dec. 24, and later said most of it went to Moe's and Carino's, national restaurant chains, and the owner of Missouri's 54th St. Grills, Kansas City-based KRM.
Nine people have been hospitalized in Iowa, Michigan, Kansas, South Dakota, Washington, and Colorado after being struck down with E. coli O157:H7 associated with the recall.
National Steak shipped the sirloin steaks and sirloin tips to restaurants, hotels and institutions nationwide, but has not released a complete list of those receiving the contaminated product.
The only national restaurant chain to step forward on its own to acknowledge that National Steak is one of its suppliers was Darden Restaurants, which owns the Olive Garden chain.
Applebee's, supplied by National Steak in the past, has not responded to inquiries by Food Safety News about its possible involvement in the current recall.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service originally said the recall involved six states, but that was apparently wrong from the start. The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta said the actual number of states involved was 16–and had been since day one.
Although most of the recalled steaks went to restaurants that are retail establishments, FSIS has said on its website that no list of retailers will be made available. Nor has CDC provided a report on the outbreak neither listing the other ten states involved nor providing any demographic information about the victims.


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Any MS Access experts who could assist with deployment options?
penultima_thule July 18, 2021, 7:21am #1
I am involved in a small project with a local sporting club to digitise it's playing records.
The club has scorebooks going back to the 1930s in it's storeroom where they are OK but still vulnerable to fire, vermin, and other paper destruction vectors, so it's preserving that history.
Anyhow, we have a couple of collators who are transcribing the books into Excel templates ('cause that's near universal in availability and user familiarity) which they send to me and I then aggregate and consolidate them into a MS Access (2016) database. It comprises three related data tables imported from Excel and an interface only of series of reports or forms. There is no data entry or transactions within the application. Just straight forward enquiries/extracts of the "show me all the guys who did [this] in [this] season and [this] grade" ilk.
Eventually the results will go into the national web-based and supported application we use for all the current grade fixtures played since 2008 but that could be some time away.
All is going well, we are now into the games played in the 1960s and within living memory. It's time to show others our progress.
Now the original plan was that there'd be a couple of meetings and I'd run a demonstration off my laptop and let the club directors and committee each have a play. Not a problem. But Sydney is in COVID-19 lockdown. The app is only a couple of dozen MB so I could distribute by email, thumb drive or use something like DropBox but none of the target audience have MS Access.
Yes, I can do a Zoom and share my screen which might be the most practical option but I'd like the directors to get their own hands on the application. For some of these guys it will be the first time they have seen their own playing records for 40 years. A chance to quietly revive memories of past glories.
So I'd like to deploy something like a standalone version
Now based on my Googling the answer on how best to do this ranges from:
It can't be done.
Convince them they need a MS Access license
It can be done with Runtime
There are utilities to compile standalone executable MS Access applications.
Can anybody advise if they have any similar experience and what solution they found worked best?
Melbourne July 18, 2021, 12:46pm #2
I like MS Access. I was using it this evening as a coding environment, plus it has persistent storage, reports, and forms for managing the reports.
But installing the runtime is like installing Office. It's a honking big install that needs to be updated whenever there is an office update, and sometimes messes with your other office install.
Your application must start with an autoform or autoexec macro (because you don't get the menus and the database window). If it does that, and it's important enough to the user, you can trial the runtime. I haven't used it for years, so I don't know what the state of play is with the licencing.
If the application isn't valuable enough to justify inflicting a MS Office installation on their computers, then there is no solution.
Yes, The MS Access runtime is only a part of Office, but it's a heavy part, and if it isn't the same version as their Office version, you're inflicting two versions of Office on the same machine.
Personally, I'd look at writing a series of Word mail-merge macros for Demo purposes, filling a Word document instead of a report. A whole new application and a lot of work, but the kind of thing I did sometimes back in the day.
Mangetout July 18, 2021, 2:17pm #3
Just to note, Access does not play well at all with the back end DB hosted on OneDrive or similar - whilst it's possible to coerce Access to split the DB with the backend in the cloud, the database will very quickly get corrupted because things like table and record locks won't work properly.
penultima_thule July 18, 2021, 10:14pm #4
Thank you both.
aceplace57 July 19, 2021, 1:57am #5
It's been a long, long time since I used ODBC. It used to be supported by Access.
I used Crystal Reports to connect to the database with ODBC. I use Crystal regularly and it's very versatile for reporting. You can link tables. select records and data fields.
ODBC gives you network capabilities.
My reporting was from Oracle and I linked in a few tables entered into Access. The data in Access was work product entered by our dept.
Looks like it's still supported. Sort of. Nothing is absolute with Microsoft.
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GreenWyvern July 19, 2021, 10:14am #6
I've used this before with a non-Microsoft application running an MS Access database, and it worked well:
Microsoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable
This download will install a set of components that can be used to facilitate transfer of data between Microsoft Office System files and non-Microsoft Office applications.
However, it probably wouldn't work with an MS Access application.
cytop July 19, 2021, 10:34am #7
penultima_thule:
… but none of the target audience have MS Access
I'm assuming you only want to get copies to others so they can see what it does with no updates of the master DB - Microsoft provide a free run-time for Access you can download and distribute with the database - that keeps everyone anyway from your precious master DB
Microsoft Access 2016 Runtime
The Microsoft Access 2016 Runtime enables you to distribute Access 2016 applications to users who do not have the full version of Access 2016 installed on their computers.
How is this application going to be used after delivery?
Are several people going to keep it on their own laptops, who may not have an MS Office licence?
If so, then a third-party application would be better. For a simple standalone app and a read-only database, probably an SQLite database would work well, but a third-party app and an Access database would also work with the redistributable.
The other solution would be an online database, which could be fairly quick to create with the right tools.
penultima_thule July 19, 2021, 11:04am #9
cytop:
I'm assuming you only want to get copies to others so they can see what it does with no updates of the master DB
Correct. Standalone demo versions. If they corrupt them que sera, sera.
This project will be gathering historic game data for another 12-15 months. If needed I can send out another demo version with updated data every 6 months if there is interest.
GreenWyvern:
They'll probably play with the demo a couple of times. Hopefully make some suggestions.
Once we have all the history loaded into MS Access there'll be a copy on the Club's computer, which does not have MS Access now but will in due course. The operational copy will be on my desktop as Registrar plus adequate back-ups.
Then once we get the OK to load the history into the national app we cut across to that, where all the current stuff is entered by the team captains each week.
md-2000 July 19, 2021, 9:10pm #10
I'll second ODBC - can you figure how to write Excel macros and run them against the Access database?
(Since you mention the helpers are using Excel already).
For simple "fill in the boxes" queries against a set of tables, this should work.
Melbourne July 19, 2021, 10:30pm #11
md-2000:
Technical nitpick: Excel and the rest of Office support a number of connection protocols that allow connection to an 'Access' database. You would probably start with OLEDB rather than ODBC.


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His list gave rise to a number of other lists, such as EnergyResources and ERT, as people formed different views on the energy resources and human survival outlook.
Jay Hanson's dieoff page can be found in its old and new forms by clicking on the links: http://www.jayhanson.org/oldindex.htm and http://www.dieoff.org/. There is a 2003 interview by Scott Meredith at http://www.oilcrash.com/articles/hansn_02.htm. It was my own participation in the DieOff list and subsequent ones, especially EnergyResources, and then the Australian Running on Empty one (roeoz) that caused me to edit two editions of a multi-scientist authored book called The Final Energy Crisis, Pluto Press, UK, 2005 and 2008. The first edition was initiated and partly edited by Andrew McKillop, and finished by me, Sheila Newman, and the second edition, in 2008, was entirely edited by me, with mostly new articles.
The whole 'peak oil' and energy resources debate or story or study is not over by any means. Fracking is a desperate and ruinous sort of pause, which has been used to crank up demand. It seems that we have already entered the oil wars, however most of the public have little ability to understand this, due to the influence of the corporate press and similar on our education systems, which focus less and less on science and history. US-NATO activity in the Middle East, the East and South America - notably threats towards Venezuela - are signs of this.
Jay Hanson was a charismatic internet figure, and it seems odd today that his death is not being widely reported. He was likable, trenchant and a little despotic, with many avid and admiring acolytes and friends.
This article and obituary is a very quick response to the sad news. My condoleances to his family and close friends, and to the movement he began.


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Our Working Group will address this gap by bringing together field and experimental researchers, modellers, and end-users focussed on native and managed Australian forest/woodland ecosystems. Undertaking a multidisciplinary analysis, we will integrate our current understanding of forest mortality with stand and landscape-level processes to determine forest vulnerability under future climates. Importantly, this exercise will increase our capacity to predict future climate related mortality events through development of a living database which is continually expanded and utilised. Potential strategic applications include; improved management of carbon and biodiversity plantings, improved modelling of terrestrial C stores and better definition of the role of forests in climate change mitigation.
Allen, C.D., A.K. Macalady, H. Chenchouni, D. Bachelet, N. McDowell, M. Vennetier, T. Kitzberger, A. Rigling, D., D. Breshears, E.H. Hogg, P. Gonzalez, R. Fensham, Z. Zhang, J. Castro, N. Demidova, J.-H. Lim, G. Allard, S.W. Running, A. Semerci and N. Cobb (2010). A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests. Forest Ecology and Management 259: 660-684.
Fensham, R.J. and R.J. Fairfax (2007). Drought-related tree death of savanna eucalypts: Species susceptibility, soil conditions and root architecture. Journal of Vegetation Science 18: 71-80.
Roxburgh, S.H., S.L. Berry, T.N. Buckley, B. Barnes and M.L. Roderick (2005). What is NPP? Inconsistent accounting of respiratory fluxes in the definition of net primary production. Functional Ecology 19: 378-38.
A key component of the drought mortality working group is to explore and define patterns in mortality across Australia to improve understanding of ecosystem and species vulnerabilities to drought. To meet this objective we are developing a living database of observed mortality sites that will incorporate data contributed from published papers and other literature, forest management databases and unpublished work. This could form part of a multi-layered, map-based data portal that provides an integrated picture of current/future shifts in climatic zones, drought history and ecosystem response across Australia.
This map is a collection of observed tree mortality sites from across Australia. The sites are based on documented drought-related mortality events from published reports and journal articles.
The first meeting for the "dead wooders" was held at the University of Queensland's Moreton Bay Marine Research Station on North Stradbroke Island.
The aims of the meeting were to bring together people from a range of disciplines to explore the role of forest mortality in ecosystem productivity and carbon stores. The diverse participants contributed to what was a very useful meeting.
Large scale forest mortality has captured the attention of research groups around the world, and there is a push to synthesise the knowledge surrounding these events to better understand the drivers and consequences. In Australia, forest mortality associated with drought has always occurred and one of the first questions to emerge is: 'what is ecologically relevant drought?' This question became a defining theme for the first couple of days of our meeting.
We recognised that while drought is a pervasive feature of the Australian landscape, defining drought and its attributes remains difficult. Australia has historically experienced severe droughts capable of inducing tree mortality, and by studying the characteristics of these droughts we have been able to define characteristics common to all droughts that have resulted in mortality. This provides a baseline from which we address a critical question - how do we define "global change type" droughts from those that have occurred in the past.
The second major theme of the meeting focused on characterising and defining the differential sensitivity of species to these drought characteristics. Australia has a long history of water relations research and as part of this working group's activities we have been compiling an Australian database of these traits. In combination with the recently released global database on plant hydraulic vulnerability (e.g. Choat et al 2012 Nature, 491: 752-755) and rapidly expanding information on leaf hydraulics, we are now in a position to explore species vulnerable within and across ecosystems. This information will be invaluable in predicting changes in ecosystem structure and function under changing climates.
The group had an informal meeting at the ESA conference in Melbourne in December and plans to meet again in April 2013.
The second meeting of the "dead wooders" - the drought and Australian terrestrial carbons stores working group - was held at the Point Lookout Surf Club on North Stradbroke Island between the 22nd and 26th of April 2013. The composition of the group varied slightly from the first meeting with incoming members being Chris Blackman (Macquarie University), Remko Duursma (University of Western Sydney) and Stephen Roxburgh (CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences). Unfortunately a couple of members Rod Fensham and Jaymie Norris were unable to make the meeting.
The second meeting picked up where the first meeting left off. In the interim there was considerable work done on building a database of water relations traits for Australian species. Currently the database contains relevant traits for over 300 species and water relations traits including those derived from pressure volume curves for over 180 species. Analysis of this data set is ongoing. In addition to these, a draft manuscript on defining ecologically relevant drought was table at the meeting. This work was being lead by Pat Mitchell, and there was considerable progress made during the meeting on progressing this manuscript. Importantly the paper explores how drought and its impacts on Australian ecosystems might be considered in an ecologically relevant way. The manuscript is close to being finalised and is expected to be submitted for publication by the end of the year.
A second theme explored during the meeting was that of defining the limits of plant function. This theme aims to explore our existing knowledge of plant traits and their relationships with climates and to explore the interplay between the adaptive significance of these traits to climate. This works build on the analysis of Choat et al. (2005) work examining global convergence in plant hydraulic traits to incorporate new and existing knowledge of plant water elations and leaf hydraulics in an Australian context. We are currently analysing these data sets with the aim of identifying the climatic tolerance of for many keystone Australian species. A manuscript will be prepared for submission to an international journal.
Two data sets will be available through the ACEAS and TERN data portal. The observations of Australian Mortality events and the database of plant water relations for Australian species. In general the meeting was extremely enjoyable and the venue brilliant. Collaboration within the group continues through the preparation of research proposals and manuscripts.
Back row left to right: Tony O'Grady (CSIRO), Katinka Ruthrof (University of Western Australia), Dave Tissue (University of Western Sydney), Remko Duursma (University of Western Sydney), Libby Pinkard (CSIRO), Tim Brodribb (University of Tasmania), Chris Blackman (Macquarie University).
Front row left to right: Craig Nitschke (University of Melbourne), Pat Mitchell (CSIRO), Stephen Roxburgh (CSIRO) and Stefan Arndt (University of Melbourne).


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Ottawa Senators report cards: game 7 @ Vancouver Canucks
ByKened Sadiku
Jan 28, 2021 Brady Tkachuk, Drake Batherson, josh norris, mike reilly, ottawa senators, vancouver canucks
After what was a game to forget on Monday night, the Senators took to the ice again on Wednesday in hopes of finding any improvement in their game.
That they… sort of did? I'm trying here, okay?
The Senators once again hit a brick wall after Josh Norris tied the game in the first. Except, this game is what we fans have been screaming from rooftops for since the start of the season. Losing games, but make it sexy by playing the young core of this team!
Most impressive player of the game: The first line
It's no secret that the Senators' first line has been a treat to watch this season, and I'm not going to pick favourites for this one. All three players are going to be nominated for this award today.
Not only are they fun to watch, this line knows how to drive puck possession and maintain pressure in the offensive zone. Last night alone, the first line was a 60% CF when the game wrapped up. The next closest line was at 54%, but Tkachuk-Norris-Batherson took the cake on this one easily.
Even if the Sens aren't playing great, that line has something about it that flourishes the second they get on the ice. When the other three lines are stuck in the mud, you can count on the Chuck Norris to flip the script around and create some high danger chances in the offensive zone. While they weren't on the ice for any goals for or against last night, their xGF% was 75.64 (!!!).
There hasn't been a ton of things Sens fans have been able to appreciate this year, but watching that first line on a nightly basis has helped.. even if it's been minimal help.
Least impressive player of the game: Mike Reilly, 0G, 0A, 20:25 TOI
Unfortunately, this one was easy to choose after last night.
Mike Reilly looked off all night long and was on the ice for three of the Canucks' goals. From turnovers in his end, and falling near the boards and creating havoc in the Senators' end, it'll definitely be one to forget for Reilly. To be honest, I wouldn't be shocked at all if he's scratched for tonight's game.
It's a shame because if you ask me, I haven't minded Reilly so far this season before whatever that was on Wednesday. His play on the J.T. Miller goal is really hard to understand what exactly was going on there. He attempts a solo zone exit, and he gets spun by a forecheck before he even reaches his blue line. From there, it's all downhill and he's way behind the way to even do anything. All he can do is dive which is essentially what he did.
As I mentioned, I would expect Reilly to be scratched for tonight's game. Who draws in? Let's see what D.J. Smith decides to go with tonight. Don't forget about Christian Wolanin leaving the game yesterday with a lower-body injury too. It'll be interesting to see what happens tonight. PLEASE GET A WIN.
Kened Sadiku
Second-year journalism student attendee at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario. The Senators are my therapy and my stress at the same time.
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// Copyright 2018 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

package org.chromium.chrome.browser.locale;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.support.test.InstrumentationRegistry;
import android.support.test.filters.LargeTest;

import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

import org.chromium.base.test.util.CallbackHelper;
import org.chromium.base.test.util.CommandLineFlags;
import org.chromium.chrome.browser.ChromeTabbedActivity;
import org.chromium.chrome.browser.flags.ChromeSwitches;
import org.chromium.chrome.browser.init.ChromeBrowserInitializer;
import org.chromium.chrome.browser.search_engines.TemplateUrlServiceFactory;
import org.chromium.chrome.browser.searchwidget.SearchActivity;
import org.chromium.chrome.test.ChromeJUnit4ClassRunner;
import org.chromium.chrome.test.util.ActivityUtils;
import org.chromium.components.search_engines.TemplateUrl;
import org.chromium.components.search_engines.TemplateUrlService;
import org.chromium.content_public.browser.test.util.Criteria;
import org.chromium.content_public.browser.test.util.CriteriaHelper;
import org.chromium.content_public.browser.test.util.TestThreadUtils;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;

/**
 * Integration tests for the {@link DefaultSearchEnginePromoDialog}.
 */
@RunWith(ChromeJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@CommandLineFlags.Add({ChromeSwitches.DISABLE_FIRST_RUN_EXPERIENCE})
public class DefaultSearchEnginePromoDialogTest {
    @Before
    public void setUp() throws ExecutionException {
        TestThreadUtils.runOnUiThreadBlocking(new Callable<Void>() {
            @Override
            public Void call() {
                ChromeBrowserInitializer.getInstance().handleSynchronousStartup();

                LocaleManager mockManager = new LocaleManager() {
                    @Override
                    public List<TemplateUrl> getSearchEnginesForPromoDialog(int promoType) {
                        return TemplateUrlServiceFactory.get().getTemplateUrls();
                    }
                };
                LocaleManager.setInstanceForTest(mockManager);
                return null;
            }
        });
    }

    @Test
    @LargeTest
    public void testOnlyOneLiveDialog() throws Exception {
        final CallbackHelper templateUrlServiceInit = new CallbackHelper();
        TestThreadUtils.runOnUiThreadBlocking(
                ()
                        -> TemplateUrlServiceFactory.get().registerLoadListener(
                                new TemplateUrlService.LoadListener() {
                                    @Override
                                    public void onTemplateUrlServiceLoaded() {
                                        TemplateUrlServiceFactory.get().unregisterLoadListener(
                                                this);
                                        templateUrlServiceInit.notifyCalled();
                                    }
                                }));
        templateUrlServiceInit.waitForCallback(0);

        final SearchActivity searchActivity = ActivityUtils.waitForActivity(
                InstrumentationRegistry.getInstrumentation(), SearchActivity.class);
        final DefaultSearchEnginePromoDialog searchDialog = showDialog(searchActivity);
        Assert.assertEquals(searchDialog, DefaultSearchEnginePromoDialog.getCurrentDialog());

        ChromeTabbedActivity tabbedActivity = ActivityUtils.waitForActivity(
                InstrumentationRegistry.getInstrumentation(), ChromeTabbedActivity.class);
        final DefaultSearchEnginePromoDialog tabbedDialog = showDialog(tabbedActivity);
        Assert.assertEquals(tabbedDialog, DefaultSearchEnginePromoDialog.getCurrentDialog());

        CriteriaHelper.pollUiThread(Criteria.equals(false, new Callable<Boolean>() {
            @Override
            public Boolean call() {
                return searchDialog.isShowing();
            }
        }));

        CriteriaHelper.pollUiThread(Criteria.equals(true, new Callable<Boolean>() {
            @Override
            public Boolean call() {
                return searchActivity.isFinishing();
            }
        }));

        TestThreadUtils.runOnUiThreadBlocking(() -> tabbedDialog.dismiss());
        CriteriaHelper.pollUiThread(new Criteria() {
            @Override
            public boolean isSatisfied() {
                return DefaultSearchEnginePromoDialog.getCurrentDialog() == null;
            }
        });
    }

    private DefaultSearchEnginePromoDialog showDialog(final Activity activity)
            throws ExecutionException {
        return TestThreadUtils.runOnUiThreadBlocking(
                new Callable<DefaultSearchEnginePromoDialog>() {
                    @Override
                    public DefaultSearchEnginePromoDialog call() {
                        DefaultSearchEnginePromoDialog dialog = new DefaultSearchEnginePromoDialog(
                                activity, LocaleManager.SearchEnginePromoType.SHOW_EXISTING, null);
                        dialog.show();
                        return dialog;
                    }
                });
    }
}

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X-Healthcare
The new Healthcare Bill (as of 4/26/17)
Full details are not out yet, but it appears to allow Representatives to choose to allow healthcare plans to not have to cover essential health benefits or pre-existing conditions.
Essential health benefits include:
Outpatient care—the kind you get without being admitted to a hospital
Trips to the emergency room
Treatment in the hospital for inpatient care
Care before and after your baby is born
Mental health and substance use disorder services: This includes behavioral health treatment, counseling, and psychotherapy
Your prescription drugs
Services and devices to help you recover if you are injured, or have a disability or chronic condition. This includes physical and occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, psychiatric rehabilitation, and more.
Your lab tests
Preventive services including counseling, screenings, and vaccines to keep you healthy and care for managing a chronic disease.
Pediatric services: This includes dental care and vision care for kids
This would be necessary to keep costs down, presumably, because the wealthy will no longer be subsidizing the poor.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/26/new-obamacare-repeal-plan-republicans-trump-237625
"A provision in the proposal appeared to exempt members of Congress and their aides from weakened regulations that states would be allowed to adopt."
"The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee even planned a rapid-fire digital ad campaign highlighting the provision as Republicans were grappling with the details."
This is an article about that: http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/dccc-ties-vulnerable-republicans-to-health-care
Constantly updated list of Representatives' stances on the new bill: http://thehill.com/homenews/news/330717-the-hills-whip-list-who-to-watch-on-gops-new-obamacare-bill?amp
The GOP are blocking many new states expanding Medicaid: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2017/04/09/in-states-gop-blocks-more-medicaid-expansion/#4a2352d5d167
The administration is allowing ACA to continue.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/04/11/in-the-battle-over-obamacares-future-trump-just-blinked-bigly/:
"The Drumpf administration has now quietly announced that it will refrain from taking an important step that could have pushed the ACA's individual markets toward collapse. Specifically, The Post and the New York Times report that the administration will keep on paying so-called "cost-sharing reductions" to insurance companies to cover their reimbursement of out-of-pocket costs for about 7 million lower-income customers.
If Drumpf stopped the payments on his own, it could cause insurers to flee the exchanges, which would melt them down, potentially leaving at least 10 million people without coverage. Drumpf could do this right now. Here's how: House Republicans had sued the Obama administration to block the payments, and last year a federal judge ruled that they are invalid but kept them going, pending the former administration's appeal. Drumpf could drop that appeal, which would cause the payments to stop. But the Drumpf administration has decided not to do this — at least for now — and to keep the payments going."
They may stop the payments in future. They are deciding their position on that:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/04/11/this-is-how-obamacare-might-actually-explode/
Here are the states seeking to expand or block the expansion of Medicaid: https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/resources/primers/medicaidmap
How are marketplaces doing in your state? https://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2017/04/18/the-aca-isnt-imploding-is-your-marketplace/
How many people have pre-existing conditions in your district? http://acasignups.net/17/04/15/cap-does-it-again-how-many-folks-wpre-existing-conditions-are-risk-your-district
Drumpf may take more healthcare options away to appease the Freedom Caucus:
WaPo Whatever happens, it is clear that voters will not appreciate their healthcare options being taken away. As to Medicaid, according to Quinnipiac poll:
"Voters also oppose 74 – 22 percent, including 54 – 39 percent among Republicans, cutting federal funding for Medicaid."
Kansas applied for the Medicaid expansion: WaPo. Georgia and Virginia are also looking into it: and maybe Idaho, Nebraska and South Dakota: WaPo.
To make things more interesting, there is a bill to have Medicaid availbale to all: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/676/all-actions-without-amendments
Movie about the crisis: http://fixithealthcare.com/watch-the-movie/
The previous week
The administration gave up on having the House vote on repealing ACA and bringing in AHCA because the Freedom Caucus, a group of almost 30 Republicans did not think that it was minimal enough. They wanted to eliminate the necessity for all policies to cover these 'essential health benefits' (from https://www.healthcare.gov:
The AHCA:
They were giving more tax credits to the old and looking at mandating work for Medicaid:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obamacare-idUSKBN16Q0OR
Paul Ryan is pivotal in the healthcare overhaul. Please tell him your personal story in any form.
His DC phone: (202) 225-3031
Tweet Ryan here: https://twitter.com/SpeakerRyan
Comment on his FB posts here: https://www.facebook.com/paulryanwi/
Email him here: http://www.speaker.gov/contact
He is no longer accepting paper petitions, so send them to his house:
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This tool was used to contact 27 House Republicans how this would affect their constituents:https://t.co/FocvN1NiC2
Want to see how every district would have been affected? Look here: https://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/healthcare/news/2017/03/17/166615/trumpcare-by-the-numbers/
"On Monday, the Congressional Budget Office released its report analyzing the GOP's plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, and it offers a bleak picture for the future for of access to health insurance for the country. The CBO predicts that, if the GOP's plan becomes law, 14 million fewer people would have health insurance next year than would under Obamacare.
The projection gets even gloomier over the next decade. According to the CBO, the GOP plan would leave 24 million additional people without health insurance by 2026, compared to current law. That would leave 52 million people without insurance by 2026.
…The bill shifts a ton of money into the hands of the rich by cutting taxes on the wealthy. All of the budget savings come by reducing benefits to the poor, including a projected $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid. By 2026, Medicaid—the main government insurance program for the poor—would see 14 million fewer people enrolled than under current law, and spending on the program would be reduced by 25 percent."
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/03/24-million-people-will-lose-insurance-thanks-trumpcare
Our top call to action:
House Republicans moved their "ACA repeal and replace" bill through committees without a score from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The CBO score is necessary to show how much their bill will cost and how many people will lose coverage. They know the score will be terrible for them and that's exactly why they're trying to push the bill through without a score and they're already trying to undermine the value of the CBO input. Call Rep. Derek Kilmer and tell him that we need a CBO score before voting on the House bill. I called last week and the person who answered the phone was taking a tally of whether callers wanted a CBO score or not, so Rep. Kilmer is clearly aware that his constituents know about this important issue. Make sure to call and ensure that the count shows that we want a CBO score on costs and the impact of the House bill.
The CBO score:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/13/politics/cbo-report-health-care/index.html
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