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The problem of immigrants in California
Research Questions. The research will address the above hypothesis and attempt to seek answers to the following questions:- (a) What is the population of illegal immigrants in California and what is their ethnic as well as county wise distribution? (b) What are the health and hospital services available in California? Details of number of hospitals, dispensaries, health centers, budgeting and expenditure need to be discussed. (c) What is the quantum of health and hospital resources which have been utilized by illegal immigrants in California in the past five years?
(2001 – 2005)? (d) What has been the impact of this on availability of such resources to the native population? (e) What; if any; has been the social and health care impact of the diversion of resources to illegal immigrants in California? (f) What measures can alleviate the problem for natives, health services as well as illegal immigrants? Objectives Analysis of the impact of illegal immigrants on the health and hospital services in California will be the key object of the study.
Within this principal aim the objectives will be as follows:- (a) Assess the numbers and spread of illegal migration in California. (b) Assess the health and hospital services which are being utilized by the illegal migrants vis a vis the natives. (c) Assess impact of utilization of health care by illegal migrants on overall availability of these facilities to the natives and general public in California. (d) Assess the social and economic impact of utilization of health care by illegal migrants.
The study envisages the problem of impact of heavy influx of illegal immigrants in California as it affects the health care system of the state. Thus there is a need to examine the literature on a number of issues, such as components of the health care system, review the State's health care system in particular, illegal immigration and finally impact on the state's health care system. A preliminary survey has revealed the adequacy of literature for the research in general as well as the scope for the present study which will fill a significant gap.
The report of the United States Congress Senate Finance Sub Committee on Health on containment of health costs based on hearings before the Subcommittee on Health provides a very detailed review of the US health delivery system, including public policy reforms and recommendations. It is an extremely useful introduction to health care system in the United States. The public policy of providing health to all citizens of the country, regardless of their capability to pay, being legal or illegal citizens, an insurance or non insurance holder is highlighted in the report.
(Health Cost Containment: 1997). This provides an ideal backdrop to the study. For a greater understanding of the health services of the United states including the health care access, finance, insurance and home health, there is a need to refer to non government material. There is also a need to understand the health care services in relation to the advances in biomedical research, introduction and information technology and immigration. (Williams. Torrens. 2001). The availability of literature on California's public health care system is extensive.
However most of it is restricted to the internet, though its authenticity is verifiable by reference to a number of other sources. California has 24 public hospitals which form the core of the state's medical safety net, while they constitute a mere 6 percent of all hospitals, they provide medical cover to maximum people, regardless of the ability to pay, immigration status and/or insurance. The California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (CAPH) is a repository of information on health services in the state.
It has all the 24 public hospitals which carry out 60 percent of the care of sick and needy in the state and covers 65 percent of the state population. It also serves a majority of the non white population at 78 percent and 74 percent of state's inpatient care to medically indigent. Thus the details available with the organization are fairly accurate and authentic and can form the base for the study. (www. caph. org). The problem of immigrants in California needs to be studied in a holistic manner.
It has essentially emerged due to the need for large unskilled labor for California's businesses as they were willing to earn lower wages than natives in all categories as opposed to the general trend in the United States where immigrant wages are equal to or exceed to native labor. (McCarthy. Vernez: 1998). This has posed a critical problem for the state as the business was benefiting from cheap labor, but the state had to bear the burden of health and other services to immigrants who have a greater need for these than the natives. This unusual situation needs to be deliberately analyzed. (McCarthy. Vernez: 1998).
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Java Web services: What's not to like?
Java offers end-to-end, top-to-bottom, client/server solutions
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The overarching message at this year's JavaOne conference is that the train has arrived at the (Java) platform. As of version 1.4, you can go just about anywhere you want. Whether you're developing an architecture for a two-tier (client/server), three-tier (client/Web server/app server), or even a four-tier solution (client/client cache/Web server/app server), the Java platform makes it possible to develop a scalable, high-performance solution. You could always plug in a non-Java solution at any point in the architecture. But why would you want to?
Of course, you still have to work around the bugs. That's life in the big city. No implementation is ever perfect; the most you can ask is that the APIs are complete enough to do what you need to do and that, when you've worked around the last bug, the app meets its performance requirements. The good news is that Java delivers in those two important respects.
Basically, the message here is that pretty much anything you needto do, you can do. That fact could help explain why, as Sun Vice President Richard Green mentioned in his keynote address, the curves representing the numbers of Java and Visual Basic developers have now crossed. It used to be that 70 percent of developers used Visual Basic and 30 to 40 percent used Java. Those numbers have turned around; now 70 percent use Java and 30 to 40 percent use Visual Basic. Those are impressive numbers, but when you're talking about a well-designed, object-oriented language that happens to be free, what's not to like?
The Java platform provides a top-to-bottom, end-to-end solution for a Web services architecture. From the client end to the server end, from rich clients at the top of the heap to the smallest clients in the world, Java libraries can simplify the development process. Sun has introduced new and improved APIs designed for developing Web services. Let's take a look at them.
End-to-end solutions
The table below summarizes the APIs overviewed by Sun Distinguished Engineers Graham Hamilton and Tim Lindholm in Tuesday's technical keynote address.
Web services APIs
App:Swing + Java Web Start
Browser:JSP + JavaServer Faces
Mobile:MIDP (J2ME)
Wired:Personal Java, Foundation Profile (J2ME)
Java Card APIs
Cache JAX Pack
Web server Web Service Pack + JAX Pack
App server J2EE
The client capabilities include a number of APIs. Which one you use depends on the kind of client you develop for. We'll take a look at those in the section Top-to-bottom solutions.
For client-side servers that cache Webpages and application data for faster access, typically on a local network, communications and performance are the essential capabilities. The Java APIs for XML (JAX) in the JAX Pack provide XML-based mechanisms for communications. For the all-important performance capabilities in a caching system, the new I/O APIs (java.nio) discussed later in this article have a major impact.
As they are for the cache tier, performance and scalability are paramount for all the server-side layers, so the APIs discussed in The performance picture should interest you. But the functionality provided by the APIs is also essential. Those APIs will soon be collected into a "one-stop shopping" API bundle named the Web Service Pack, which will include:
You can download one bundle and have everything you need in one place to get your initial implementation up and running.
JavaServer Pages (JSP)
In addition to including filters, the new JSP 1.2 APIs can be written in all-XML format. The API will still support the original JSP tags (<%@ ... %>), but you can now use pure XML tags with namespaces as well (<jsp:page> ... </jsp:page>). The use of XML tags will make it possible to validate the JSP pages, generate them from other sources, transform them with Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT), and author them using standard XML editors.
When you need a truly rich client, you can use Swing to create a Java application and Java Web Start to deploy it. But what about when you need to interact with an ordinary browser? The JavaServer Faces API (aka Moonwalk) promises to provide an elegant solution for implementing interactive functionality on incompatible browsers. That API, too, is discussed later in this article.
JAX Pack
The collection of Java APIs for XML, the JAX Pack, supports the standard APIs for Web services:
XML:Everyone's favorite language-defining mechanism.
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP):An XML-based protocol for interacting with objects on remote systems.
XML protocol (XMLP):The W3C specification for interacting with remote objects, based on XML. This work in progress is expected to be based on SOAP.
Web services definition language (WSDL):An XML-based language for specifying the services offered by remote servers. WSDL specifications are in turn compiled into communications objects for various platforms in much the same way that CORBA IDL specifications are used.
Universal description, discovery, and integration (UDDI):A registry mechanism that catalogs the services available from various suppliers along with their specifications. Prospective users/customers then find and download the specs, create their communications objects, and build apps that take advantage of the services.
The Web Service Pack APIs also support more sophisticated APIs that Sun hopes will become standard. One example is ebXML, which provides more powerful mechanisms for component sharing via registries, among other capabilities.
The JAX Pack itself consists of a series of APIs:
Java APIs for XML Parsing (JAXP):Covers the standard Simple API for XML (SAX), Document Object Model (DOM), and XSLT.
Java API for XML Binding (JAXB):A mechanism for compiling XML data type definitions into Java classes capable of reading XML into Java objects and writing them back out again.
Java API for XML-based Messaging (JAXM):A SOAP-based protocol for sending messages.
Java API for XML Registries (JAXR):An umbrella specification that provides a unified interface for UDDI and ebXML registries and conceivably other registries as well.
Java API for XML-based Remote Process Communication (JAX-RPC):A SOAP-based protocol for requesting operations on remote servers.
In addition to the standard JAX Pack, a couple of additional XML technologies are potentially useful to the application developer:
XSLT compiler (XSLTC):A tool for compiling XSLT transformations into Java bytecode -- transformation objects, or translets, are optimized for high speed translations of XML data into the desired output format.
JDOM (Java-based DOM):A truly object-based object model that makes it easy to create and manipulate a structured tree of objects. JDOM allows reading and writing in XML.
With the Web server tier handling communications to the client side, the remaining server-side layer is the application server tier. That layer allows business logic modules encoded as Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) to be reused among applications. More to the point, it provides a single point of control for updates, which eliminates a major headache when it comes to upgrading applications.
The upcoming version of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE 1.3, due in the fall of 2001), will support EJB 2.0 and JAXP, along with the Java Message Service (JMS) API, which includes facilities for both point-to-point and publish/subscribe communications.
Top-to-bottom solutions
There is a broad array of potential Java clients, ranging from desktop systems capable of running sophisticated GUI apps down to tiny smart cards. The Java platform's new and improved APIs give you the tools you need to get your job done.
Of course, there is a range of systems on the server side too, but here the difference is more a matter of degree than of kind. On the server side, the primary consideration is scalability -- the ability to make an app handle more and more traffic on larger and more complex constellations of systems.
I discuss scalability questions in the next section, which covers the latest performance optimizations of the platform. In the remainder of this section, I will look at the APIs that are available for the different kinds of clients.
As always, you can use Swing GUI objects and Java's built-in networking protocols to create a sophisticated frontend for an application. But the major stumbling block has always been deployment.The app had to be packaged and installed on the user's system, and the JVM had to be installed as well. In addition, it was a nightmare trying to get all users upgraded at once so you could install a new server. The only alternative was to simultaneously support both old and new versions of the client (shudder).
Applets were one solution, but they lacked important functionality. Besides, they took a long time to download, especially those that were anything more than trivial applications. With an applet, you didn't have to worry about updating the client system, but that wasn't enough of an advantage to make it a compelling solution.
Enter Java Web Start. This elegant solution handles downloading and installs the correct version of the JVM so the user doesn't have to. It also stores the application locally, so it only has to be downloaded once. Since the installation is also automatic and a click in a Web browser launches the initial run of the app, it is easier on the user than practically any other installation mechanism. The downloaded apps can run offline as well.
If all this were the sum total of Java Web Start's features, it would more than justify its existence; but there's still more. Java Web Start provides for secure file reads, file writes, and printing, by ensuring that these actions only take place through a user-controlled dialog. In essence, you get the ease of applet deployment coupled with the functional capability of an application.
In addition, the system automatically downloads application updates, so the server doesn't have to worry about out-of-date clients. For large applications, it is even possible to create incremental updates. In short, it is now possible to create both a powerful and easily deployed frontend for a sophisticated application.
The new XML format for JSP pages will help make more sophisticated JSP-based applications possible, but even more important will be the increased functionality offered by JavaServer Faces.
Designed by a team led by Amy Fowler, Sun's AWT and Swing architect, the JavaServer Faces API will provide a collection of GUI tools that will run on common browsers using standard HTML. You'll be able to create the most interactive, functional pages that HTML can support.
Most importantly, the Faces API will hide browser differences. Incompatibilities and differences in functionality between browsers and browser versions have long plagued the Web developer. But the JavaServer Faces API will take care of generating the HTML that any particular browser understands so you can ignore browser differences and focus on the functionality the app needs to provide.
JavaServer Faces stands to replicate the success of the Java platform -- not in being a platform-neutral API (i.e., a lowest common denominator implementation), but in being a platform-spanning API -- one that provides the greatest possible functionality that can be implemented across all platforms, even if necessity dictates that such functionality be implemented differently on each platform
Given that telecommunication companies now look to independent software vendors for their systems, the time has never been better to develop applications for mobile devices. You can use the Mobile Information Device Protocol (MIDP), part of the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME), for that task. Unlike the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE), which continues to grow in size and functionality, J2ME remains a stripped-down, minimal platform suitable for small clients.
For wired/embedded devices that need to connect to the Web, Personal Java fills the bill. For those that don't, the Foundation Profile in J2ME provides the required functionality.
Finally, there are the Java Card APIs, used in approximately 90 percent of all smart card applications. Smart cards can carry data, which makes them ideal as phone cards and the like, where the convenience factor is high and the risk is small in the event of loss.
The performance picture
Given that the APIs offer you the capability to create the programs with the functionality you need, the next question is: How will those programs perform? Or, to be more exact, how quickly will you be able to make them perform once you identify the bottlenecks and start optimizing?
Performance has always been the Achilles' heel of interpreted languages -- even those that precompile their bytecode, like Java. And since many applications live and die by their performance characteristics, this is no small issue.
The platform gained major improvement in performance with the HotSpot Virtual Machine -- the dynamically optimized runtime engine that is able, at times, to exceed the performance of an optimizing compiler. (Note: Since HotSpot optimizes at runtime, it can take advantage of runtime information that even the best optimizing compiler does not have. For example, if a loop variable dictates that the number of iterations will be small, HotSpot can unwind the loop.)

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In a healthcare context, efficacy indicates the capacity for beneficial change (or therapeutic effect) of a given intervention (e.g. a medicine, medical device, surgical procedure, or a public health intervention).
If efficacy is established, an intervention is likely to be at least as good as other available interventions, to which it will have been compared. Comparisons of this type are typically made in 'explanatory' randomized controlled trials, whereas 'pragmatic' trials are used to establish the effectiveness of an intervention.
The concept of 'self-efficacy' is an important one in the self-management of chronic diseases because doctors and patients often do not follow best practice in using a treatment. For instance, a patient using combined oral contraceptive pills to prevent pregnancy may sometimes forget to take a pill at the prescribed time; thus, while the perfect-use failure rate for this form of contraception in the first year of use is just 0.3%, the typical-use failure rate is 8%.
In an insolvency context, in particular in relation to an Individual Voluntary Arrangement, the efficacy of such an arrangement is judged by the extent to which it is achieving its aims of getting money in to pay to the creditors of the debtor.
In pharmacology, efficacy, refers to the maximum response achievable from a drug. It is often described by the parameter Emax.
Intrinsic activity is a relative term which describes the efficacy relative to a drug which has the highest observed efficacy. Effectiveness refers to the ability of a drug to produce a beneficial effect. A distinction is made between 'method' effectiveness which describes the effect achievable if the drug was taken as prescribed and 'use' effectiveness which is the effect obtained under typical use circumstances when adherence is not 100%. The widely used 'intention to treat' method of analysing clinical trials provides estimates of 'use' effectiveness which are typically biased compared with 'method' effectiveness.
In lighting design, "efficacy" refers to the amount of light (luminous flux) produced by a lamp (a light bulb or other light source), usually measured in lumens, as a ratio of the amount of power consumed to produce it, usually measured in watts. This is not to be confused with efficiency which is always a dimensionless ratio of output divided by input which for lighting relates to the watts of visible power as a fraction of the power consumed in watts. The visible power can be approximated by the area under the Planck curve between 300 nm and 700 nm for a blackbody at the temperature of the filament as a ratio of the total power under the blackbody curve. Efficiency values for light from a heat source are typically less than two percent.
In Lutheranism efficacy is used to describe the characteristics of Scripture. The efficacy of Scripture means that it is united with the power of the Holy Spirit and with it, not only demands, but also creates the acceptance of its teaching and that this teaching produces faith and obedience. Efficacy further means that Holy Scripture is not a dead letter, but rather, the power of the Holy Spirit is inherent in it and that Scripture does not compel a mere intellectual assent to its doctrine, resting on logical argumentation, but rather it creates the living agreement of faith.The Smalcald Articles affirm, "in those things which concern the spoken, outward Word, we must firmly hold that God grants His Spirit or grace to no one, except through or with the preceding outward Word." The Formula of Concord teaches that when humans reject the calling of the Holy Spirit, it is not a result of the Word being less efficacious. Instead, contempt for the means of grace is the result of "the perverse will of man, which rejects or perverts the means and instrument of the Holy Ghost, which God offers him through the call, and resists the Holy Ghost, who wishes to be efficacious, and works through the Word..."
The efficacy of a differential amplifier is measured by the degree of its rejection of common-mode signals in preference to differential signals. Referred to as common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR); typically specified in decibels.


Companies often think capital will fix operating problems, accelerate growth or facilitate a transaction. That is not always the case. In fact, we find the best source of capital is sometimes your own cash flow. However, in many cases accessing capital is the right solution and we know what your company needs to do upfront to prepare for access and we are here to help you navigate the markets.
Debt is always cheaper than equity, right? The debt markets are constantly shifting and to some degree debt alternatives can be more complicated and risky than equity. While debt may be a very affordable source of capital, it may not always make sense or be available to your company.
What is the experience and expertise of the equity investors?
Will those investors be active or passive?
Are they control investors or minority investors?
Can they open doors for your company with new customers or sales channels?
Does their equity investment serve as an endorsement of your company and its technology in the marketplace?
Depending on the answers to these and other questions, equity capital from the RIGHT investors may be the least expensive source of funding in the long-run.
When seeking capital we often fail to look in our own backyard. In many cases, the assets on your balance sheet may be your greatest source of liquidity. Commenda can help you strategically identify which assets will get you the capital you need at the most attractive terms.
Do you have assets that are underutilized or could be held more efficiently in the hands of someone else? What about client lists, accounts receivable, inventories, purchase orders, manufacturing equipment or patents and other intangible assets that may have value?
Which assets, what are they worth and who would buy them?
If they are critical to my business, how do I monetize them while continuing to use them?
We can help quantify the potential capital such assets could generate for your company and which funding sources might provide that liquidity. Commenda works with a long list of Family Offices, Private Equity Groups (PEGs), asset based lenders, non-bank funding sources and leasing companies that can provide creative funding options for the capital your company needs. Trust Commenda to find creative solutions so you can realize your vision.


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From Facebook and Google to Goldman Sachs and Bloomberg, open-plan offices have become the norm for workplaces over the last decade. These office spaces makes use of large, open spaces and minimizes the use of walled-off rooms or private offices. In fact, 70% of Americans work in open-plan offices today.
So, what makes open-plan offices so popular?
The theory is that open, airy working environments help to boost creativity and collaboration, all in the spirit of fostering a strong company culture.
A 2010 study entitled 'Employee reactions to office redesign in Human Relations' found that adopting an open-plan office layout did yield positive changes in employee perceptions of organizational culture. Employees who worked in open-plan offices tended to feel their company culture was more innovative and less formal.
The study also found that those in an open layout felt more encouragement to collaborate with team members than the study's control group, who had not moved to an open-plan layout. However, a bunch of new data suggests that the open-plan approach could be a little too simplistic. And when it comes to office layout, one size doesn't quite fit all.
Different personalities thrive in different environments. Open-plan office layouts favor extroverts and tend to have a negative influence on introverts — who make up somewhere between one-third and half of the American population.
What's the difference between introverts and extroverts?
In Fast Company, Belle Beth Cooper explains:
Introverts (or those with introverted tendencies) tend to recharge by spending time alone. They lose energy from being around people for long periods of time, particularly large crowds.
Extroverts, on the other hand, gain energy from other people. Extroverts actually find their energy is sapped when they spend too much time alone. They recharge by being social.
The open-plan office concept first came around in Germany in the 1950s, when the idea of Bürolandschaft (office landscape) was introduced. Office landscape looked to break the norm of many identical rows of desks or long tables and intended to provide a more collaborative work environment.
Research suggests, however, that any such benefits from open-plan offices are outweighed by the negative effects, such as noise levels, lack of privacy and distraction (and every interruption doubles the time it takes to complete a task).
The modern office is broken
Though most people work in open-plan offices, very few would choose to if they had the option. That was one of the key findings from an OPP study called Type and Work Environment, which looked at how people with different personalities felt about the places in which they work. The study also found that those who worked in smaller, shared offices were more satisfied with their jobs, and there were significant differences in workplace preferences between introverts and extroverts. Matching personality types to work environments can have a huge impact on workplace comfort and satisfaction for varying personality types.
When an employee's personality is matched with the nature of their work environment, they are likely to report less anxiety and discomfort, and more job satisfaction and social support, than those employees where there is a mismatch.
The future of office layouts: Four factors that can lead to a happier team
So, if office layouts are broken, what's the solution? There are several factors that could lead to greater happiness, and help both introverts and extroverts thrive.
Create designated quiet areas
When surveyed, introverts and extroverts both liked the idea of having designated quiet areas within the office. Quiet areas should be places where anyone in the office can go to break away to get some focused time in a peaceful, non-disruptive environment. If possible, try not to make quiet spaces feel like meeting rooms. Team members shouldn't need to book a time in the quiet space or feel like they're putting someone else out by being there.
The need for personal, quiet spaces seems to be a growing trend. A study by the architecture and design firm Gensler found that workers in 2013 spent 54 percent of their time on work requiring individual focus, up from 48 percent in 2008.
Let everyone have their own desk (or customizable workspace)
A micro-trend has emerged in some offices whereby no one has a designated workspace and everyone moves around each day — a phenomenon also known as hot desking. However, the majority of workers (both extroverts and introverts) want to have their own space.
Encouraging workers to personalize their workspace with their own belongings also can lead to increased satisfaction. Even if you work in a hot desking environment, try to ensure that there is the facility to personalize space or belongings. Even seemingly small things like personalizing laptops with stickers can make a difference.
Break large offices into smaller layouts
Within your office, try to create the illusion of smallness and intimacy by careful attention to design and layout. People who work in smaller spaces are on average more satisfied with their work environment, more satisfied with their job, and happier at work.
Where possible, try moving away from workplaces with very large numbers of people. Instead of having rows of 20 people all grouped together, try to make smaller, more intimate layouts with clusters of four to five people instead. Working in a seemingly smaller environment is particularly important for introverts. And it's important to remember that introverts make up between one-third and half of the population.
Welcome noise in loud spaces
Just as quiet spaces can benefit introverts, louder spaces can make extroverts feel more comfortable. One of the best ways to create a louder, more social space in the office is to monitor where people naturally congregate to chat. For example, a few sets of desks by the water cooler could be a great way to naturally create a louder area for gathering within your office space.
It's important for office management or HR to think about the way an office is organized in order to cater to both introverts and extroverts. Observing the way people organically treat workspace can be a great way to start, as you'll likely notice small pockets of loud and quiet space occurring naturally. Moving away from an open plan office may not always be possible due to space and cost restrictions. However, with careful attention to office layout and design, it's possible to create a space that allows both introverts and extroverts to flourish.
What's your team's personality type?
A great starting point could be to assess your team and figure out the split between introverts and extroverts in your workplace. One way to discover this information is through Myers-Briggs assessments. The results of Myers-Briggs assessments will help to map employee tendencies toward: Extroversion vs. Introversion, Intuition vs. Sensing, Thinking vs. Feeling, and Judging vs. Perceiving. With a deeper understanding of each member of your team, you can begin to picture how your office layout could affect their performance and what the best solutions may be.
The people on your team who lean more towards introversion will likely be happier and more productive in quieter spaces, whereas the extroverts may want a busier, louder space to work. With this knowledge you can begin to piece together a layout that works for everyone.
The end result will likely be a hybrid office that incorporates a range of spaces and gives employees the opportunity to move between them throughout the day. Those who thrive in busier, vibrant and loud environments will be able to choose to work in a space where they feel at home. Those who prefer the opposite will be able to reside, and flourish, in a quieter area and avoid the barrage of distractions that have become characteristic of the modern workplace.
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However, the string 'checkin_time + duration.hours >= ?' above is not valid. How can I achieve something that will give me the correct result?

A: The easiest thing to do with PostgreSQL is to convert your duration to an interval and add that interval to your timestamp. Something like this:
where("checkin_time + (duration || 'hours')::interval >= ?", Time.now)

or even:
where("checkin_time + (duration || 'hours')::interval >= now()")

The duration || 'hours' builds a string like '6hours' and then the ::interval casts that string to an interval which can be added to a timestamp.

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"Let Me Treat You Like Royalty"
is a family owned and operated transportation business located in Warren, PA. Owner Bob Sears is extremely pleased with the response from the Warren Community and Tri-State area and has been operating since 2007. The ground transportation industry has changed and evolved tremendously since SLT literally opened its doors. Founded on the desire to "Let Me Treat You Like Royalty," Bob purchases luxury style vehicles and markets them in a way that makes sense to large corporations, small businesses and individuals. He attributes his start-up success to utilizing the skills and business mentoring offered by Gannon University Small Business Development Center as well as the networking and experience of the Warren County Chamber of Business & Industry. Sears Luxury Transport was awarded the Business Leadership Award for Excellence in Community/Personal/Residential Services by both of these fine organizations.
Sears Luxury Transport handles airport transfers, corporate travel, weddings, sporting events, concerts and more. While Sears Luxury Transport is properly licensed, certified and insured to travel in all 50 states and Canada, they concentrate their efforts in the Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and Ontario, Canada regions. If you have a special request, they are happy to customize a package for your needs.
Striving to be successful and profitable are some of the continued challenges of small businesses today. Sears Luxury Transport recognizes that it's the people and businesses of the community that literally "drive" his business. Bob notes that it's extremely important to give back to the community that embraces your business. Some of SLT's most memorable transports have been for local non-profit organizations which include Hospice of Warren County, Special Olympics, Warren Area Student Union, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Struthers Library Theatre, Warren Public Library & Warren's 4th of July Parade. Their customer base reaches out globally and it's quite amazing where all our clients have traveled to and from and that most are returning to our community. Bob is very proud to have transported and worked with many top name entertainers who have graced the stages of Struthers Library Theatre as well as the Chautauqua, NY area. Also, SLT aids in transporting many worldwide travelers to the Chautauqua Institution during their yearly summer seasons of lectures, performances and vacations.
"Let Me Treat You Like Royality!"
I can provide all of your business and pleasure driving needs. Consider the following: airport transfers, corporate travel, weddings, funerals, casinos, concerts, sporting events, dinners, hospitals and the list could go on and on! We accept MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover, PAYPAL, checks and cash for payment and welcome corporate accounts too.


On June 13, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held to celebrate the expansion, renovations, and new equipment in the Wound Care Center at Fatima Hospital. The growth in the program has been necessitated by increased volume and our recent partnership with Restorix.
The Wound Care Center is now home to all private patient rooms, next generation wound healing products for enhanced treatments and improved healing rates, and two new hyperbaric chambers. The Center also went live with a new Electronic Medical Record and purchased other equipment like podiatric chairs and new instrument carts for procedure rooms. Pictured at the ribbon cutting from left to right are Leslie Martineau, Director of the Wound Center, Fatima Hospital President David Kobis, medical director Dr. Robert Indeglia, Jennifer McCormick, program director, and Lynn Leahey, RN, Chief Nursing Officer.


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Interim report, January–June 2021
New orders pave the way for next step
January–June 2021
Revenue amounted to TSEK 70,346 (94,559)
Operating profit amounted to TSEK -61,568 (-11,958)
Profit after tax amounted to TSEK -49,792 (-18,186). The result includes currency conversions and financial transaction costs of TSEK 11,948 (-9,147)
Earnings per share amounted to SEK -1.08 (-0.51)
April–June 2021
Profit after tax amounted to TSEK -38,538 (-51,891). The result includes currency conversions costs of TSEK -7,451 (-37,668)
Significant events during the period
Listing on Nasdaq Stockholm Mid Cap on April 20, 2021
Ovzon has utilized USD 35 million through its loan facility from Proventus
Extended order from the Italian National Fire Corps
Per Norén assumed the role as new CEO on May 1
Order of USD 1.8 million from the US Department of Defense
Order from Opcion Legal in Colombia via Bansat
Order of USD 2 million from the US Department of Defense
Significant events after the period
Order from the US Department of Defense on Ovzon T6 terminals for use in air operations
Order of USD 5.9 million, corresponding to approximately MSEK 51, from the US Department of Defense
Notice of rescheduled launch of the satellite Ovzon 3
Apr-Jun Apr-Jun Jan-Jun Jan-Jun Full-year
TSEK 2021 2020 2021 2020 2020
Revenue 33 216 34 983 70 346 94 559 160 477
Operating profit/loss -30 910 -17 313 -61 568 -11 958 -48 284
Profit/loss for the period after tax -38 538 -51 891 -49 792 -18 186 -104 049
Earnings per share, SEK -0,84 -1,42 -1,08 -0,51 -2,52
Total cash flow 218 032 290 405 123 630 291 115 -68 042
Equity ratio, % 78 94 78 94 97
Share price end of period, SEK 66,4 53,0 66,4 53,0 75,2
The first 90 days as the new CEO of Ovzon have passed very quickly. It has been intense, inspiring, and insightful to get to know such a dedicated and competent team. The experience has made me even more optimistic about our future. Over the years I have developed a very simple, yet relevant leadership philosophy that will fit nicely at Ovzon: people first – customers always – business ubiquitously.
My clear goal for the first 30 days was to meet all our stakeholders globally. It took every one of the 30 days. Each engagement was very valuable. After meeting these important and motivated stakeholders consisting of customers, employees, partners, board members and owners, it became clear to me that my leadership and focus will be to lead Ovzon to reaching its full potential as quickly as possible.
I have had the opportunity to meet with most of our customers and participate in customer engagements and demonstrations. It quickly became very apparent to me that Ovzon is a customer-centric organization; everything we do starts with our customers and ends with our customers. We have a unique competency, understanding and passion for 'being the customer'. All our customers, in all our markets have vital needs and requirements. They fully trust our services to be able to operate in remote places across the globe with non-existent or unreliable infrastructure. They require truly global and truly mobile solutions where our Satellite-as-a-Service offering delivers a unique value. We have made a commitment to provide our customers with a solution that is best in class in terms of technology, reliability, security, mobility and performance. Ovzon's focus will continue to grow and to deliver on our unique solutions.
Additional orders
Additional second quarter orders totaling 3,8 million USD as well as the most recent order of USD 5.9 million from our largest customer, the U.S. DoD, offer excellent proof of the value we bring to the world's most technically sophisticated and demanding organizations. These new orders include an expanded global footprint, Ovzon's On-The-Move (OTM) terminals for simple integration on mobile platforms, as well as the newly launched Ovzon T6 terminal for On-The-Pause (OTP) satellite communications. The orders offer further strong confirmation of our relevance to the U.S. DoD's global mission and is a solid indication of demand for the important Satcom-as-a-Service capacity of the upcoming launch of Ovzon's new satellite. These orders pave the way for the next step in development and level of performance for Ovzon. The orders during the first half of 2021 from the U.S. DoD create a good foundation for a much stronger second half. The revenue for the second quarter is in line with previous year. The lower revenue during the first half of the year is a result of the, compared with Q1 2020, current lower contract sizes with the U.S. DoD, relatively speaking. It is also an effect of the pandemic as it has been more difficult to meet with customers and create solutions together. Our cost base has increased according to plan, which is a consequence of the fact that we have continued to invest in the future in the form of increased satellite capacity with higher performance – a capacity for which we did not gain full customer utilization for during the first half of the year. At the same time, we have been able to use this capacity for trials and demostrations for our next generation of products and services.
The first order from South America
I have also met with many of our partners. They play a key role in our profitable growth strategy. We will continue being selective but expand our network of partners and motivate, educate, and incentivize them on how to represent Ovzon and bring our products and services to a global market that we cannot reach in the same speed alone. In Q2, we received an order through our partner Bansat from Opcion Legal, an NGO in Colombia affiliated with the UN Refugee Agency. The service will be used in the most remote areas of Colombia for an initial contract period of six months that started in July. We won this order because large parts of Colombia are lacking broadband connectivity to the internet. This is a first and important step in establishing and expanding our services in South America.
Ovzon 3 and future growth
Ovzon 3, which is in final production and testing with our partner Maxar was planned to be launched during Q4 2021 and operational in Q2 2022. We have worked hard to maintain our launch schedule, but as communicated in a press release on August 17, this will unfortunately not be possible. The global pandemic and industry-wide supply chain issues have forced our production partner Maxar and one of their subcontractors, Honeywell, to delay the completion of Ovzon 3. We therefore plan for a rescheduled launch at the end of the second quarter 2022, and the satellite is thus expected to be operational during the fourth quarter. We have informed our customers and they continue to be committed and motivated to take advantage of our satellite's unique strength in their global networks. The delay will not affect Ovzon's current business and deliveries to existing or new customers. We have previously, strategically, secured leased satellite capacity for Ovzon's requested Satcom-as-a-Service offering. The launch of Ovzon 3 is a daily focus for myself and our team, and we confidently look forward to the launch during 2022.
The recently announced major contract we received from our largest costumer the U.S. DoD of USD 5.9 million is another important expansion and reference order. With the launch of Ovzon 3, we will expand our offering with unprecedented capabilities for our customers. It will be a clear catalyst for market expansion and profitable growth. I am convinced that Ovzon has the potential to multiply growth as we continue our path to deliver groundbreaking, integrated and mobile Satcom-as-a-Service solutions to customers around the world.
Per Norén, CEO Ovzon
This information is information that Ovzon AB (publ) is obligated to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014 and the Securities Markets Act (2007:528). The information in this press release has been published through the agency of the contact persons set out below, at the time stated by Ovzon AB's (publ) news distributor Cision upon publication of this press release.
Per Norén, CEO, pno@ovzon.com , +1 206 931 7232
Johan Brandt, CFO, jbr@ovzon.com, +46 (0)703 693300
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Eddie's Boat, Bunbeg By Spires Studio. Framed photographic art print with a glass finish. Part of the 'Wild Atlantic Way' collection.
Eddie's Boat, Bunbeg: Friend of the sea or Bád Eddie or Eddie's boat are the names given to the old wreck at Magherclogher beach, Bunbeg Donegal. Cara Na Mara ('Friend of the Sea') is the official title of the abandoned fishing vessel ran into trouble during stormy seas in the early 1970s. The remaining's of the boat are deteriorating rapidly, especially since June 2009 when the alleged "worst storm in living memory" hit the area. One half of the boat is almost gone.
An Bun Beag (anglicised as Bunbeg), meaning "a small river mouth", is a small Gaeltacht village and townland in County Donegal, Ireland. It is officially the smallest townland in Gaoth Dobhair (Gweedore), but today the name Bunbeg is used to describe a large region of the parish. It is situated between Derrybeg and Dore and is home to many of Gweedore's amenities and businesses and local headers.


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Монте-Ка́рло (французский Monte-Carlo, монегасский Munte-Carlu) — одна из трёх бывших коммун (quartiers) Княжества Монако. Площадь — 857,372 м². Население — 15 507 чел. (по данным на 2000 г.).

Коммуны узаконены постановлением конституции Монако от 1911 года. Исходя из поправки в конституцию Монако от 1954 года княжество состоит только из одной единой и неделимой коммуны, которая в свою очередь состоит из 6 районов, сейчас из 10. Исходя из этого коммуна Монте-Карло была упразднена. Сейчас на её территории образовано 4 района (wards): Монте-Карло, Ларвотто, Сен-Роман и Сен-Мишель .

Административное деление Монако

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In a shop stacked to the ceiling with toys, Brenda Cleaver is searching for a very specific car. "I am looking for a modern road vehicle, and I am checking the price. Here it is. It hasn't changed," she says, comparing the price sticker on the toy car with the information on her handheld computer. She moves on in search of a snakes and ladders game. Cleaver is one of hundreds of people across the UK who help collect thousands of prices each month to feed into a national basket that keeps track of the country's inflation rate. These field workers look for the same items in the same stores each month and send their prices to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in Newport, Wales.
Ads like the one for Harmony hairspray in the 1970s perpetuated the idea that a woman's main aim was to appeal to as many men as possible, as a series of potential suitors asked: "Is she, or isn't she?" A later campaign for the deodorant Impulse showed men who "just can't help" handing flowers to a fragrant woman. However, as commercials moved away from predictable stereotypes, many of the conventional gender roles were helpfully turned on their head.
Air pollution masks – fashion's next statement?
Yesterday saw the launch of M90, an "urban breathing mask" created by the Swedish company Airinum and sold in more than 50 countries. Face masks are already a common sight in Asian countries, although the cheap washable cotton rectangles rarely perform well in tests. Surgical masks, the type usually worn by doctors, have tended to fare better – but are still largely ineffectual. The market for pricier, more attractive masks has been growing steadily in the past few years. Sales are not notable but Freka, a British brand, had the monopoly for a while. And rightly so, given that they tapped into the trend for minimal sportswear, almost Céline-like in design, seeking to become more of a background accessory than anything stand-out.
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Most people, Wells wrote – "the predominant type, the type of the majority of living people" – never think about the future. Or, if they do, they regard it "as a sort of blank nonexistence upon which the advancing present will presently write events". The more modern sort of person – "the creative, organising, or masterful type" – sees the future as our very reason for being: "Things have been, says the legal mind, and so we are here. The creative mind says we are here because things have yet to be." Wells, of course, hoped to personify that creative, forward-looking type.
The humble fruit sticker may seem an unlikely cause for environmental concern but removing it from produce could create huge savings in plastic, energy and CO2 emissions. In response to consumer demand for less packaging, Dutch fruit and veg supplier Nature & More and Swedish supermarket ICA have joined forces to run a trial to replace sticky labels on organic avocados and sweet potatoes with a laser mark. M&S are also using it on coconuts in the UK. Dubbed "natural branding", the technique uses a strong light to remove pigment from the skin of produce. The mark is invisible once skin is removed and doesn't affect shelf life or eating quality.
Rather than diffusing controversy and polarisation, it seems as if statistics are actually stoking them. Antipathy to statistics has become one of the hallmarks of the populist right, with statisticians and economists chief among the various "experts" that were ostensibly rejected by voters in 2016. Not only are statistics viewed by many as untrustworthy, there appears to be something almost insulting or arrogant about them. Reducing social and economic issues to numerical aggregates and averages seems to violate some people's sense of political decency. Nowhere is this more vividly manifest than with immigration. The thinktank British Future has studied how best to win arguments in favour of immigration and multiculturalism. One of its main findings is that people often respond warmly to qualitative evidence, such as the stories of individual migrants and photographs of diverse communities. But statistics – especially regarding alleged benefits of migration to Britain's economy – elicit quite the opposite reaction. People assume that the numbers are manipulated and dislike the elitism of resorting to quantitative evidence. Presented with official estimates of how many immigrants are in the country illegally, a common response is to scoff. Far from increasing support for immigration, British Future found, pointing to its positive effect on GDP can actually make people more hostile to it. GDP itself has come to seem like a Trojan horse for an elitist liberal agenda. Sensing this, politicians have now largely abandoned discussing immigration in economic terms.
There are already countless electronic devices that connect and report data to smartphones – activity trackers being the most obvious example – but what is particularly interesting about this year's CES is the way companies are looking to exploit this idea for financial gain. It felt as though some product developers at the conference had simply wandered around their houses deciding on impulse to implant Wi-Fi into objects. Take the Onvi Prophix toothbrush. It has a camera that streams live video to a smartphone app, enabling the user to see inside their mouth as they are brushing.


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First Time Deployment for Urban Search & Rescue Team Outside Spokane
First Time Deployment for Urban Search & Rescue Team Outside Spokane Area
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Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 3:55 p.m.
"It came so fast," stated a community member when asked about a wildfire that moved through the town of Malden, Washington on September 7, 2020.
The Spokane Fire Department (SFD) Urban Search & Rescue (US&R) team was deployed through the Washington State Fire Service Resource Mobilization Plan yesterday to support efforts in Whitman County. This mobilization was a first for the team, which typically responds to structural building collapse incidents and other technical rescue emergencies in and around Spokane County. The team was sent to search and grid the structures in Malden, Washington after a wildfire tore through their community on Monday afternoon.
In total, fifteen (15) SFD personnel responded to the call including: US&R specialists, information technology (IT) technicians and Community Risk Reduction support. Their initial tasking was to address locations where community members were unaccounted for, and identify buildings that had been impacted by the wildfire. Four teams spent the late morning and early afternoon completing a grid search of the buildings of the town. In collaboration with Whitman County Sheriff's Office, Whitman County Department of Emergency Management, Malden Fire Chief, and Whitman County Coroner, the team was able to successfully complete the search.
After completing the initial tasking, US&R personnel assisted the U.S. Postal Service with the removal of the town safe in the local post office. The town Post Office was destroyed by the fire, and building was deemed hazardous. Staff of the US Postal Service maintained a constant guard of the post office safe until it could be carefully removed and relocated.
As our personnel spent the day with the community, we heard stories of the people and its history. "The resilience of the people of Malden will be shown in the coming weeks and years. They are hardworking, community minded people" stated a community member.
Community members don't hear much about US&R specialization because it hasn't always been a part of the fire service. The US&R concept and capability was developed in the early 1980's after recognizing a recurrent critical need for specialized rescue equipment and highly trained personnel during global natural and human-caused disasters globally. The Region 9 US&R Taskforce is a regional team of trained personnel from Spokane Fire Department, and Spokane County Fire District 9 (SCFD9). The Taskforce supports US&R needs in and around Spokane County.
The wildfires of this season serve as an important reminder that emergencies can happen at any time. Be prepared by having your to-go kit ready to be able to leave at a moment's notice.
Additional details regarding community members, structure loss, and recovery will be released by officials from Whitman County.


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It's An Entertaining Comic! Part Four: November 1950
Featuring special guest host, John Scoleri!
The EC Reign Month by Month 1950-1956
4: November 1950
Johnny Craig
Tales from the Crypt #20
"The Thing from the Sea!"★★
Story by Art by Al Feldstein
"A Fatal Caper!"★★
Story by Al Feldstein
Art by Jack Kamen
"Rx . . . Death!"★★★
Art by Graham Ingels
"Impending Doom!"★★★
Art by Johnny Craig
One lovely spring day, an artist named Ted Warren draws the face of a frightened man with an oval around it. Why? He has no idea! He goes for a long walk and happens upon the home of Alex Kordova, a stone cutter who is carving Ted's name on a new tombstone with the date of death as that very day! Why? He has no idea! Coincidentally, the frightened man drawn by Ted happens to be Kordova! Neither man thinks that these events signal "Impending Doom!" but when Ted realizes that Kordova's wife is none other than Ted's old flame Ellen, it's not long before the two are back in each other's arms. Kordova beats Ted to death for kissing his wife and both prophecies come true—Ted dies that day and Kordova meets the hangman, demonstrating that the oval around his face in Ted's drawing represented a noose.
Craig can do so much with wordless panels.
The GCD credits the story to Feldstein but I'll bet that this is all Craig. The story is decent enough but, once again, Craig blends art and story to make the whole more than the sum of its parts.
"Rx . . . Death!" shows that Ingels couldn't draw normal people on a dare. The story is an uncredited adaptation of Arthur Machen's "The Novel of the White Powder," and here a man takes an unknown drug from an old pharmacist and finds his entire body digesting itself.
Jack Kamen's Archie Andrews-like art makes "A Fatal Caper!" even weirder than it might have been in other hands, as two couples seem to play around with a book of spells but end up finding out that it's not a good idea to mess with a corpse.
The weakest of the bunch is Feldstein's "The Thing from the Sea!" which opens the comic. Art is more wooden than usual and the story is standard fare, as a murdered man returns from the depths of the sea and frightens his killer to death.-Jack
Peter: The indispensable Tales of Terror: The EC Companion by Fred von Bernowitz and Grant Geissman informs me that "Rx . . . Death" was inspired by Arthur Machen's "The Novel of the White Powder," and Wikipedia tells me ". . .White Powder" inspired H.P. Lovecraft. Not having read any Machen, I naturally assumed "Rx . . . Death" was an homage to Lovecraft. Not a very good one, though. Ghastly's art hits both highs and lows (his two main male protagonists seem to switch faces halfway through the story) and the whole thing doesn't so much end as run out of panels. I didn't need Mssrs. Geissman and von Bernowitz to tell me that "Impending Doom" was based on W.F. Harvey's "August Heat," as I've heard the classic 1945 Suspense radio adaptation (starring Ronald Colman) numerous times over the years. The first two stories this issue are instantly forgettable, with "A Fatal Caper" at least supplying a few (I assume) unintentional laughs. The list of ingredients for Marylyn's brew is hilarious. Where, in a time before Wal-Mart, would one shop for "moss from a dead man's grave" (as opposed to a live man's grave), "the hair of a baby mouse," and "nails of a dog born dead?"
Jack: Didn't we read "August Heat" in one of the DC horror comics, with art by Alcala?
Peter: Good catch, Jack. We did. It was in Secrets of Sinister House #12 (July 1973).
Oops! Never mess with a corpse that has the plague.
Jose: "Rx… Death" and "Impending Doom" are the standouts here, but it's an only-just likable issue all around. The former seems like it's just picking up a head of steam before it wraps up what could've been a goopy corker of an ending in a single panel, and Craig puts his economical style to good use, though some may find the story a little too reliant on coincidence and speedy in its developments. "The Thing from the Sea" isn't too bad on a narrative level (F. Marion Crawford should know, as it's based on his "The Upper Berth"), but Jack is right: Feldstein's art is too static to generate much excitement. "A Fatal Caper" certainly isn't a fatal bore, but it is pretty damn goofy, though this is the first time we've gotten to see Kamen step outside his comfort zone and play around with some supernatural batshittery.
John: "Rx . . . Death" is my favorite pick of the litter for this month, thanks to the shadowy, digested creature Gregg evolves into. I thought it a uniquely creepy look. I thought "A Fatal Caper" was okay, with a nice ending living up to the EC tradition. The forgettable "The Thing from the Sea" lumbers along at the pace of the monster (that could have inspired the characters in "Something To Tide You Over" in Creepshow), and I thought "Impending Doom" was too silly when it was all said and done. Perhaps if Alex had hammered Ellen as well . . .
Crime SuspenStories #1
"Murder May Boomerang" ★★ 1/2
Story and Art by Johnny Craig
"Death's Double-Cross" ★★
Art by Wally Wood
"A Snapshot of Death!" ★★★
"High Tide!" ★★★ 1/2
Story and Art by Harvey Kurtzman
Four men board a mail boat bound for the mainland from the gloomy façade of Mephisto Prison. Only a few miles out, a special broadcast crackles over the airwaves: a deranged killer has made his escape from the island prison, and his only means of egress is the little mail boat. With the utterance of this proclamation, suspicion immediately rises in each man. Who is the killer? The mousy bookkeeper? The bulldog attorney? The young skipper? The gentleman visiting his convict brother?
Action! a la Kurtzman.
Apprehension is high when both the boat's motor and radio are sabotaged in the confusion. A shotgun is discovered, its shells kept separately for everyone's interest, nocturnal watches put in place. The bookkeeper makes a break across the sandbar where they're moored, only to be gunned down by the attorney. He and the gentleman begin to scuffle and, when the latter comes out the victor, he meets the sight of two barrels pointed at him by the sparkling-eyed skipper. Gloating over his deceit, the murderous "skipper" heads out into the low tide for the shore. But it's still two miles out, and when the moon begins to rise, so does the sea level, and guess who can't swim?
"High Tide" is a short, tense nail-biter that brings the first issue of Crime SuspenStories to a satisfying close. Kurtzman feels more in his element here than in the horror mags we've seen him work in previously, the isolated setting giving his story just the right amount of salty bite. His heavy line work and deft skill at creating unique characters is almost similar to Jack Davis at times who, come to think of it, could have probably drawn this story just as well as Harvey. His action scenes have a great, natural fluidity, and his ability to inspire thrills and chills when least expected is one of his most endearing qualities. (Scroll to the end of the post for an example.)
I liked Craig's "Murder May Boomerang" better when it was on Alfred Hitchcock Presents. "Revenge" kept things far more precise and was the better story for it. Craig, in attempting to distance himself from Samuel Blas's original for obvious legal reasons, unintentionally makes the central relationship (husband and wife in Blas's, here father and son) a bit of an overwrought parody. Our hero and his father love each other… a lot. This wouldn't be so bad, would be pretty heartbreaking if handled right, if the two of them didn't burst into tears almost every time one of them shows kindness and weren't constantly saying how much they care for each other. A different time with different sensibilities, perhaps, but these guys are too sugary-sweet to be taken seriously as humans, let alone characters. Craig also writes himself into a corner when he makes his attacker a vicious, well-known criminal who disguises himself in the son's very own hunting clothes to escape. So we're forced to believe that in the son's rage he did not A) listen to the radio broadcast's physical description of the convict or B) know what his own wardrobe looked like. Either of these would have helped him greatly in not killing an innocent man, but then we wouldn't have had a story.
"Death's Double-Cross" also seems a little overly-complicated. Wouldn't it seem much more natural for Ronnie to kill his identical twin John and then proceed to live his brother's life, enjoying the spoils of his wealth and the woman he left years before, instead of reemerging after a respectable period of mourning to wed his brother's widow? Doesn't that seem the more suspicious thing to do? The only thing crossed here were my eyes, though Wood shows with this story that his art is really starting to come into its own.
"A Snapshot of Death" promises that Ingels may have a flair for the suspense titles as well. The artist has a wonderful talent for the human face that gets realized here in some nice panels, but this story made me aware of some of his weaknesses for the first time, such as his seeming inability to keep the same face on a character and the weird posturing he sometimes makes them take on. Feldstein's script is particularly on point, drawing a fine line between the criminal seediness of a hitman's imminent arrival and the emotional drama of a woman facing the reality of her fatal illness (and later foreseeable cure) without going overboard in either direction. -Jose
Good Ingels
Peter: In the grand scheme of things, Crime SuspenStories falls somewhere in the middle of the EC line as far as quality goes but somewhere near the bottom of the heap of the core titles in terms of respect. There aren't many essays written fondly recalling CSS; most critics (and readers, for that matter) prefer its vastly superior sister title, Shock SuspenStories. That could be because most of the issues of CSS seem, at times, to be slapped together in a hodgepodge of artists and sub par storytelling. As with the other EC titles, the CSS writers enjoyed "dipping into other sources," which led to borrowing liberally from such stories as Samuel Blas's "Revenge" (morphed into this issue's "Murder May Boomerang" ). Thankfully, Bill and Al ignored the "True Crime" craze that had enabled titles such as Crime Does Not Pay and Justice Traps the Guilty to sell millions of copies a month and focused on literary bloodshed. Doubtless, Johnny Craig was confident his audience had no knowledge of the Blas story (and its true ascendancy to classic status would not occur until half a decade later when it became the first episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents) and could pull a fast one without anyone noticing. It wasn't the last time "Revenge" would be adapted for the pre-codes; the October 1953 issue of Harvey's Witches Tales featured a grimmer and more violent version, one that pushed the envelope further than "Boomerang." If there's one major complaint I have with "Boomerang," it's that Johnny doesn't know when to let go. Whereas the original source material also ended with the realization that an innocent man had been murdered, the reader (and later viewer) was left to ponder the incident; Johnny feels the need to tack on a wordy expository spelling out just what happened in case we don't get it. "High Tide," with its stark, sometimes cartoony Kurtzman graphics, is easily the high point of the issue. The smile on the Skipper's face as he unloads both barrels into the surviving hood is truly chilling.
Weird Ingels...
Jack: "High Tide!" is my favorite, both for Kurtzman's wildly inventive art and the suspense that builds as we wonder which man is the killer. "Murder May Boomerang" gradually revealed its source as I read it, though I haven't yet read the original story and only know the TV version from Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Wally Wood's art is a joy to behold on "Death's Double-Cross," but the lack of any real ending felt like a cop out. It's odd to see Ingels draw a non-horror story, but "A Snapshot of Death!" builds suspense nicely and features a great half-splash of a skull. Good work all around on this debut issue.
John: I enjoyed "Murder May Boomerang," and while I'm sure I've seen that episode of AHP (as the story rang a familiar chord once I hit the twist), I had since forgotten it until reading this tale. Clearly I'm not as well versed in the show as my fellow EC brethren. "Death's Double-Cross" suffers from the cardinal sin of failing to provide an ending (I double-checked to confirm there wasn't a printing error in my Archive edition). What's funny about that one is I was quite prepared for John's shambling corpse to return to take revenge. At least that's how it would have gone down in one of CS's companion books. Right up to the ending—shoddy artwork and all—I thought "A Snapshot of Death" was going to be my favorite story in the issue, but Feldstein pulled his punch and let Jean live. Boo! I've yet to really warm up to Kurtzman; I thought "High Tide!" was just okay. The in-fighting aboard the ship played out as I had expected, though I have to give him credit for serving up an ending I wasn't anticipating (sometimes it helps to not pay attention to the story titles).
The Vault of Horror #15
"Horror House!" ★★★
"Terror in the Swamp!" ★★
Story and Art by Al Feldstein
"Report From the Grave" ★
Story Uncredited
"Buried Alive!" ★★
Horror writer Henry Davidson finds it extremely hard to find the peace and quiet to write his tales when his friends won't stop partying at his place 'til dawn. Henry gets the bright idea of buying a haunted house in the countryside, a place none of his friends will find. That's the plan, anyway, but very shortly after setting up shop, Henry's buddies come a-callin'. Disgusted, the writer heads off, and his crew gets a bright idea: if it's a haunted house Henry wants, it's a haunted house he'll get. They rig up speakers around the house and then hide. When Henry gets home, they start their act; the ruse works and the terrified man runs form the house, straight to the police. Unfortunately for Henry's chums, the real ghosts decide to put in an appearance and they're not amused by the parlor tricks. Henry returns with the authorities to find corpses and insanity. Henry decides to head back to his old pad. Johnny Craig's "Horror House," though similar in some ways to "Television Terror" (Haunt of Fear #17), is a fabulous little yarn that strolls along at an almost jovial pace and then lowers the boom with a climax that is momentarily grim and then humorous again. Craig loves his cigarette-smoking men, doesn't he? As in "Television Terror," the spectres are left to the imagination of the reader; only the after-effects are witnessed.
"Horror House"
A science experiment goes horribly wrong and a very hungry blob emerges from the wreckage. If Al Feldstein's "Terror in the Swamp" sounds familiar, that's because it's a retitling of "The Thing in the Swamp!" presented in Haunt of Fear #15 (published only six months prior!), with a new intro and outro from The Old Witch. How many little kids read this and didn't even realize it was a rerun?
"Report from the Grave" is an awful, quasi-supernatural tale with a lame, Scooby-Doo expository. If Warren Lake wants to join "The Vault-Keeper's Club," he'll have to dig up the body of the recently-deceased Willy Balm, his predecessor in the club. The head honcho of the vault-keepers, Fred Coombes (who is also an undertaker!), set a time on Willy's watch and Warren must bring back the exact time in order to gain access to this kooky bunch. When he digs up the grave (in a three-piece suit, yet!) and opens the coffin, he finds nothing but bones, decomposition not usually found in a body only buried recently. Turns out fellow member Vardy poisoned poor Willy for stealing his girlfriend and ruining his life. He buried Willy somewhere else in the graveyard. At that moment, one of the graves gives off a puff of smoke and Vardy is hauled away for murder. When his fellow members ask what's up with the sign from the grave, Coombes allows as how he might not have cut enough holes in the coffin and the natural gases blew the lid off the coffin! Now, I'm no scientist but would there really be a blowhole tantamount to Old Faithful from some natural gases released from a corpse? Regardless, this dreadful drudge is probably never mentioned when talking about the great old days of EC.
"Terror in the Swamp!"
"Buried Alive"
Sam (a/k/a "The Great Zobo") is a carnival man who can hold his breath for quite a long time during his "Buried Alive" show. This particular asset comes in handy when Sam and his gorgeous assistant/squeeze, Rita, turn the screws on Paul, a rich sap who's convinced he's killed Sam during a tryst with Rita. The pair bury Sam and Rita decides she wants to be a one-person team; there will be no exhumation. Fortunately for the Great Zobo, a worker on Paul's estate witnesses the burial and decides he'll run a blackmail of his own. He digs up Sam but then runs screaming when the corpse is anything but cold. Enraged, Sam nabs Rita, seals her in a coffin, and dumps her in the swamp, but the dope has nailed his coat to the coffin and the quicksand sucks them both down. Once again, Ghastly transcends the average script and transforms "Buried Alive" into something infinitely more readable than if it had been drawn by Jack Kamen or Johnny Craig (no offense to Craig). It's odd that the character Paul is left unharmed and pretty much forgotten in the end. -Peter
Jack: Once I got over the shock of the reprint from five months before, I was able to sit back and enjoy "Buried Alive!" which is my favorite Ghastly story to date. It has three things I like to see in a horror tale: a carnival setting, quicksand, and someone getting buried alive. What's not to like? The Kamen story is below average even for him, while the Craig story is nothing new from the plot standpoint but features especially sharp art.
"Return from the Grave"
Jose: Like Peter, I also enjoyed the lighthearted nature of "Horror House" and think it worked greatly in the tale's favor when it took a hard left turn into grimmer territory. "Buried Alive" was a harmless affair, but I recall that the tropes that Jack enjoyed so much were put to better use in later stories. "Report from the Grave," with its gassy corpse blowing up the cemetery, has a climax worthy of its overall quality. "Terror in the Swamp" seems familiar. I think I might have read it before.
John: I think the readers are asked to accept an unbelievable premise in "Horror House." Since when can someone writing horror stories as a career afford to buy a new house on a whim? While it was a fun story overall, and the fate of the pranksters was pretty cool, I can't help but feel that we were short-changed. Sure, we're told the house is haunted, but we don't see Henry experience anything before his friends start playing tricks on him. So we're left with no explanation for the grisly shape his comrades are left in. The most interesting story plays out off-screen. Here's what I said about "The Thing in the Swamp" a few months back: I had higher hopes for "The Thing in the Swamp," but that's my fault for expecting more Heap/Swamp Thing/Man-Thing than Blob. Hey, if they can crib prior issues, I figure I should be able to as well. "Report from a Grave" starts off with a great premise, but sadly, as Peter points out, goes the Scooby-Doo route. Fortunately, ending with an exploding corpse will lift any story up a few notches. I think I would have appreciated "Buried Alive" more if I wasn't asked to believe that a nail through a jacket wouldn't rip before pulling a grown man into quicksand.
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Q: Why index is not used in SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT)? This is what I'm doing in PostgreSQL 10.9 (x is VARCHAR(100)):
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT x) FROM t

The table has over 1.5M records and it has an index:
CREATE INDEX idx_1 ON t USING btree (x)

The request takes over 7 seconds. This is what EXPLAIN says:
Aggregate (cost=23675.97..23675.97 rows=1 width=8)
->; Seq Scan on t (cost=0.00..22930.97 rows=1489990 width=23)

What's wrong? Why index is not used?

A: It depends on two factors:

*

*if the table has "wide rows" or not

*if the table was vacuumed or not

At any rate, the query will have to scan either the whole index or the whole table, because there is no index skip scan in PostgreSQL.
PostgreSQL can either scan the index or the table.

*

*If the table hasn't been vacuumed recently, an index scan will always have to visit the table to determine if the row is visible or not. In that case, a sequential scan will always be faster.

*If the table has been vacuumed recently, and the visibility map has most blocks marked "all visible", you could get an index only scan.

*

*If the table rows are narrow, you are less likely to get an index only scan, because then reading the index won't be cheaper than reading the table (sequential reads are faster).

*For tables with wide rows, you will get an index only scan.

A: The issue here is that while you do have a B-tree index on column t, it won't necessarily help in finding the distinct count.  Let's say the index conceptually looks something like this:
1 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 4 - 4 - 9

If you only wanted the smallest and largest value, the index in theory could be used, because the first and last value contains this information, and a scan would not be required.  But, to find all distinct values, an index scan is necessary.  Note that it does not really help to have the index, because Postgres will still have to touch every value in the t column to get the answer.
COUNT is an aggregate function which tends to be index un-friendly (unlike MIN and MAX, which can be index friendly).

A: To upcomers:
This issue has an interesting solution.
Thanks to these two questions Q1 and Q2, and also the keen questioners and especially  genius answerer Erwin Brandstetter, we can use RECURSIVE CTE to achieve partly index skip scan.
As for your example, here is the SQL:
WITH RECURSIVE mid_cte AS (
    (   -- parentheses required
        SELECT x
        FROM   t
        ORDER  BY 1
        LIMIT  1
    )
    UNION ALL
    SELECT n.*
    FROM   mid_cte o
    CROSS JOIN LATERAL (
        SELECT next_t.x
        FROM   t next_t
        WHERE  next_t.x > o.x
        ORDER  BY 1
        LIMIT  1
    ) n
)
SELECT MIN(x),MAX(x),COUNT(DISTINCT x)
FROM   mid_cte

But there is something we have to be aware of:
The performance of this index skip scan emulation deeply depends on the cardinality of indexed columns, while table scan only depends on the table size.
Here is my experiment and result within:
1st part. 1k cardinality -- 2.67s table scan vs 0.03s emulated index skip scan
-- all test table t has 1.5million rows and run on a ssd.
-- ################# 1) 1k cardinality of column x #################
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS t;
CREATE TABLE t AS SELECT MD5(LEFT (RANDOM()::TEXT,5)) AS x FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1,1500000);
CREATE INDEX t_x_idx ON t USING btree(x);

-- table scan
SELECT MIN(x),MAX(x),COUNT(DISTINCT x) FROM t;
/*
### result set ###
min max count
... ... 1,161
### use time ###
2.67s
*/

-- emulate index skip scan
WITH RECURSIVE mid_cte AS (
    (   -- parentheses required
        SELECT x
        FROM   t
        ORDER  BY 1
        LIMIT  1
    )
    UNION ALL
    SELECT n.*
    FROM   mid_cte o
    CROSS JOIN LATERAL (
        SELECT next_t.x
        FROM   t next_t
        WHERE  next_t.x > o.x
        ORDER  BY 1
        LIMIT  1
    ) n
)
SELECT MIN(x),MAX(x),COUNT(DISTINCT x)
FROM   mid_cte
;
/*
### result set ###
min max count
... ... 1,161
### use time ###
0.03s
*/

2nd part. 10k cardinality -- 3.44s table scan vs 0.09s emulated index skip scan
-- ################# 2) 10k cardinality of column x #################
-- other SQLs omitted here. the other SQLs are the same as above.
......
CREATE TABLE t AS SELECT MD5(LEFT (RANDOM()::TEXT,6)) AS x FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1,1500000);
......

-- table scan
/*
### result set ###
min max count
... ... 10,146
### use time ###
3.44s
*/

-- emulate index skip scan
;
/*
### result set ###
min max count
... ... 10,146
### use time ###
0.09s
*/

3rd part. 100k cardinality -- 4.27s table scan vs 0.89s emulated index skip scan
-- ################# 3) 100k cardinality of column x #################
-- other SQLs omitted here. the other SQLs are the same as above.
......
CREATE TABLE t AS SELECT MD5(LEFT (RANDOM()::TEXT,7)) AS x FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1,1500000);
......

-- table scan
/*
### result set ###
min max count
... ... 100,134
### use time ###
4.27s
*/

-- emulate index skip scan
;
/*
### result set ###
min max count
... ... 100,134
### use time ###
0.89s
*/

4th part. 776k cardinality (50% total rows) -- 5.16s table scan vs 10.38s emulated index skip scan
-- ################# 4) 776k cardinality of column x #################
-- other SQLs omitted here. the other SQLs are the same as above.
......
CREATE TABLE t AS SELECT MD5(LEFT (RANDOM()::TEXT,8)) AS x FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1,1500000);
......

-- table scan
/*
### result set ###
min max count
... ... 776,864
### use time ###
5.16s
*/

-- emulate index skip scan
;
/*
### result set ###
min max count
... ... 776,864
### use time ###
10.38s
*/

You can see when the cardinality increases, the table scan time increase much slower than emulated index skip scan. So when to use this method is important and has to be under consider.


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