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Some developers love Yunnan Province, in Southwest China, because its three major rivers — Mekong, Yangtze and Salween — hold vast hydropower potential. The Mekong has four dams and counting, and the Yangtze has the controversial Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydropower project in the world. But the Salween a.k.a. Nu River still runs wild from the snowy Himalayas to the tropical coast of Burma.
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Now a state-owned Chinese corporation plans to dam the Nu by the end of 2015, a state-owned Chinese newspaper reported in May, and the California-based NGO International Rivers reports construction was underway this spring at six of 13 planned Nu River dam sites. China claims the cascade of dams would produce 42 gigawatts of electricity per year — almost enough to power Saudi Arabia.
A loose coalition of Chinese and foreign activists wants the Nu to stay wild. Fed by glaciers and monsoons, the river bisects an area that according to UNESCO "may be the most biologically diverse temperate region on earth," and whose watershed is home to people from at least eight of China's 56 ethnic minority groups. "Many people are not happy with this hydropower development plan," says Dr. Yu Xiao Gang, director of the Yunnan-based Chinese nonprofit Green Watershed. "It will have a big impact, and the hydropower companies haven't disclosed assessment information."
The Nu has remained wild until now partly thanks to Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who in February 2004 declared a moratorium on proposed Nu River dams and ordered further review of the dams' potential social and environmental impacts. Although many considered development along China's portion of the Mekong a "fait accompli," two American geographers wrote in 2006, a broad spectrum of people felt the Nu had received enough public attention that dams proposed for its mainstream could still be "affected and modified, if not outright prevented."
In the mid 2000s, China didn't want to provoke a "PR disaster" by approving hydropower development inside a 1.7 million-hectare area that UNESCO had in 2003 declared a "world heritage area," recalls Kristen McDonald, director of the Earth Island Institute-sponsored China Rivers Project who co-wrote the 2006 paper. "Now the politics have changed," McDonald told me recently. "The Olympics are done, and there's more pressure on China to muscle its way into dealing with climate change."
Developing hydropower would help China move toward its official goal of increasing the percentage of non-fossil fuels it consumes from 8 to 15 percent by 2020. State-owned hydropower developers can rally behind China's "Go West" or "Develop the West" campaign, which China launched in 2002 in hopes of reducing socio-economic disparities between its wealthy east coast and its poorer western interior through social programs and infrastructure projects.
The state-owned company proposing to the dam the Nu River, Huadian Corp, is one of 11 public-private corporations China created in 2000 to replace its now-defunct Ministry of Electric Power. According to McDonald, the corporations challenge the authority of China's Ministry of Water Resources, which oversees watershed management. "Even if these corporations are state-owned, they have their own corporate interests and are competing with each other," says Peter Bosshard, policy director at International Rivers. "They are not considering long-term impacts — they just want to do business."
Proponents of damming the Nu say the hydropower projects would create jobs and fund poverty alleviation programs. But the social and environmental costs would be too high, says Dr. Yu Xiao Gang of Green Watershed. Because the Nu River is on an active fault line, he predicts, earthquakes could damage dams and cause downstream flooding. Scientists have found evidence that a Chinese dam influenced seismic activity before a major earthquake hit Sichuan Province in 2008.
Yu has heard arguments that damning rivers is a greener alternative to burning coal, a practice that has made China the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. But the Chinese environmentalist doesn't believe the dams proposed for the Nu River would be more "environmentally friendly" than coal-fired power plants. In fact, he says, it's possible that their cumulative effect on people and ecosystems would be worse.
Mike Ives is a freelance writer based in Hanoi, Vietnam. His website is mikeivesetc.com
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Lepp (Loep, Leepp, Lipp, Lippe) family
Lepp is a common Mennonite name of Prussian or Dutch background. The name appeared in Heubuden, Tiegenhagen, Ladekopp, Rosenort, Neunhuben, etc. It is first recorded in Orlofferfelde in 1601. From Prussia the name spread to Russia and North America. It is likely that the name Leppke found in Mennonite Brethren circles in the United States is of different background. Peter H. Lepp, the pioneer Mennonite industrialist of Chortitza, was a well-known member of the family. Aron Lepp was an elder of the Mennonite Brethren Church at Einlage. Eduard H. Lepp was a significant member of the Mennonite church of Danzig. Hermann P. Lepp was pastor of the Mennonite church at Harrow, Ontario.
Reimer, Gustav E. Die Familiennamen der westpreussischen Mennoniten. Weierhof, 1940: 113.
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Krahn, Cornelius. "Lepp (Loep, Leepp, Lipp, Lippe) family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 24 Nov 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Lepp_(Loep,_Leepp,_Lipp,_Lippe)_family&oldid=120822.
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Krahn, Cornelius. (1957). Lepp (Loep, Leepp, Lipp, Lippe) family. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 24 November 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Lepp_(Loep,_Leepp,_Lipp,_Lippe)_family&oldid=120822.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, pp. 326-327. All rights reserved.
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only gui Program crashed
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winxp sp3, graphics card: mobile intel 965 express chipset family, support opengl2.0
how to fix
any way can check support before crash
crash info:
only gui Program crashed
computer info:
winxp sp3, graphics card: mobile intel 965 express chipset family, support opengl2.0
how to fix
any way can check support before crash
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Please can you verify that the attachment works, I am getting "Invalid Attachment specified".
ho! sorry, I had submit image again
and today i got another crash
> atioglxx.dll!69368c80()
game.exe!clan::GL1FrameBufferProvider::sync_pbuffe r() line 263 C++
game.exe!clan::GL1FrameBufferProvider::attach_colo r(const std::queue<ClientPacket *,std::deque<ClientPacket *,std::allocator<ClientPacket *> > > & attachment_index=0) line 118 C++
code postion
file: gl1_frame_buffer_provider.cpp
func: void GL1FrameBufferProvider::sync_pbuffer()
crashed when call glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0);
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I see from that screen shot that you are using ClanLib 3.0
The crash appears in sync_pbuffer, that's the GL1 (legacy GL) clanGL target, for OpenGL that is less than 3.2
Looking at the GIT logs, the framebuffer handling has had some bug fixes, for example: https://github.com/sphair/ClanLib/co...3fb0adb897L179
It's possible, that you might have to manually apply these.
Personally, I would avoid using clanGUI. It was removed in clanlib 4.0. Although it works, it was too complex, replaced with clanUI.
However, clanUI doesn't support legacy GL. It supports the Direct3D target, that your card might support.
Sorry, I can't be more help.
Thank you all the same, i confirmed the GL1FrameBufferProvider was latest.
is possible to post clanUI to ClanLib3.0 for i have to use vs2010?
It would be possible, but to be honest, it is not something that I would personally attempt.
clanUI requires OpenGL 3.2 (for the path drawing). Although this could be stripped out, you would loose the CSS style rendering.
Porting from ClanLib 3.x to ClanLib 4.x should be simple, as long as you have a C++11 compiler.
clanlib3.0, opengl_window_provider_wgl.cpp
whether using_gl3 is true or not , function update_helper will be called, then glBlitFramebuffer be called in update_helper,Code:void OpenGLWindowProvider::update(const Rect &_rect) { OpenGL::set_active(gc); glFlush(); if (using_gl3) { update_helper(_rect); } else { int width = get_viewport().get_width(); int height = get_viewport().get_height(); GLint old_viewport[4], old_matrix_mode; GLfloat old_matrix_projection[16], old_matrix_modelview[16]; glGetIntegerv(GL_VIEWPORT, old_viewport); glGetIntegerv(GL_MATRIX_MODE, &old_matrix_mode); glGetFloatv(GL_PROJECTION_MATRIX, old_matrix_projection); glGetFloatv(GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX, old_matrix_modelview); GLboolean blending = glIsEnabled(GL_BLEND); glDisable(GL_BLEND); glViewport(0, 0, width, height); glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION); glLoadIdentity(); glMultMatrixf(Mat4f::ortho_2d(0.0f, (float)width, 0.0f, (float)height, handed_right, clip_negative_positive_w)); glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW); glLoadIdentity(); update_helper(_rect); if (blending) glEnable(GL_BLEND); glViewport(old_viewport[0], old_viewport[1], old_viewport[2], old_viewport[3]); glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION); glLoadMatrixf(old_matrix_projection); glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW); glLoadMatrixf(old_matrix_modelview); glMatrixMode(old_matrix_mode); } OpenGL::check_error(); }
bug glBlitFramebuffer only supported by opengl 3.0. (https://www.opengl.org/wiki/GLAPI/glBlitFramebuffer)
bug i am a blindman in opengl, i don't know how to fix.
I guess nobody has had to use the GUI System Manager with Legacy GL in ClanLib 3.0.
It looks like the update() function is also incorrect for ClanLib 4.0 as well, but as far as I know, no one uses it.
This code "might" work, instead of calling update_helper() for legacy gl.
Code:glReadBuffer(GL_BACK); glDrawBuffer(GL_FRONT); glRasterPos2i(rect.left, height - rect.bottom); gPixelZoom(1.0f, 1.0f); glCopyPixels( rect.left, height - rect.bottom, rect.right - rect.left, rect.bottom - rect.top, GL_COLOR); glDrawBuffer(GL_BACK); glFlush();
, I will try it, tks for you and your Patience.


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The Barbarian Group Wins Inaugural Innovation Lions Grand Prix
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CANNES, France—Nine years after winning its first Cannes Lion, a gold for Burger King's "Subservient Chicken," The Barbarian Group has secured an even bigger prize: the Grand Prix in the inaugural Innovation Lions contest for a software-development platform it built for creative coders.
The platform, Cinder, "provides a powerful, intuitive toolbox for programming graphics, audio, video, networking, image processing and computational geometry," says its website.
Andrew Bell, the lead architect for the software, recently told a digital graphics blog: "Cinder began life as the in-house creative coding framework for The Barbarian Group. We originally developed it in conjunction with our Magnetosphere iTunes visualizer, to help us port Robert Hodgin's music visualization experiments out of processing. Soon other Barbarians got involved, which has been one of the huge advantages we've enjoyed—having TBG's awesome development staff hacking on it has really accelerated Cinder's development."
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Three other Innovation Lions were handed out tonight. (There are no golds, silvers or bronzes in the category, but simply Lions.)
Product development studio De-De, a spinoff from Droga5, took home one for Thunderclap, its so-called "crowdspeaking" platform that "allows a single message to be mass-shared, flash mob-style" in social media.
Yota in Moscow picked up a Lion for its YotaPhone, a smartphone with screens on the front and the back—a high-resolution liquid crystal display on one side and an electronic paper display on the other.
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The Innovation Lions, the 10th new category at Cannes added in the past eight years, are designed to reward new technologies and innovations—in the festival's words, things like "innovative platforms, apps, tools, programs, hardware, products and radical software which allow brands and creatives to communicate with their customers in a new way, or which stand alone as significant innovations in their own right."


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- Sing to your baby – this helps them tune in to the rhythm of language.
- Repeat the sounds your baby makes back to them – this teaches your baby lessons about listening and taking turns in a conversation.
- Talk in a sing-song voice – this helps to keep your baby's attention.
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- Name and point to things you can both see, for example, "Look, a cat". This will help your baby learn words and, in time, they'll start to copy you. As your baby gets older, add more detail, such as, "Look, a black cat".
- Start looking at books with your baby – you do not have to read the words on the page, just talk about what you can see.
- Only offer a dummy when it's time for sleep. It's hard to learn to talk with a dummy in your mouth. Aim to stop using dummies completely by 12 months.
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- Limit your child's daily TV time to no more than 30 minutes for children younger than 24 months. Playing and listening to stories is more helpful when they're learning to talk.
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- Help them build sentences – your child will start to put simple sentences together at around age 2. Try to reply using sentences that are a few words longer. For example, if they say, "sock off", respond with "yes, we're taking your sock off".
- Get your child's attention by saying their name at the start of a sentence. If you ask a question, give them plenty of time to answer you.
- Teach them about words that go together – for example, you could show them a ball, teddy and a rattle and then say the word 'toy'.
- Start using sounds with meaning (symbolic sounds), like saying "whoops" or "uh-oh" when you drop something accidentally, or saying "meow" while showing them a picture of a cat.
- Switch off the television and radio – background noise makes it harder for your child to listen to you.
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Whilst face-to-face events hosted at the SRHE offices cannot currently take place, we are continuing to adapt many events for shorter online delivery via webinars, and hope these virtual events prove some means of keeping connected with our research community. All details of these online events will appear on this website.
Our community room initiative (via Zoom on Mondays and Thursdays) ran through April and May, but as online meeting commitments for members grew significantly during this period, we have taken the decision to put this on hold for the time being. However, we continue welcome feedback from our members via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com and via Twitter @srhe73.
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John Bullis: 12 tidbits about Social Security
I recently attended a special seminar on Social Security. The speaker was a retired manager with 35 years of experience working at the Social Security Administration.
He went through the details of how the various benefits are computed, etc., but his observations were interesting.
Some of the information will not be new to you, but it still is interesting:
Nine out of 10 individuals age 65 or older receive Social Security benefits.
The initial tax was one percent on the first $3,000 of earnings
In 1945, for each of the one million beneficiaries collecting Social Security benefits, there were 46 workers contributing. Now, there are less than three workers contributing for each Social Security beneficiary.
Life expectancies have increased — a male born in 1910 had a life expectancy at birth of only 48.6 years.
In 2010, more than 54 million people collected some kind of Social Security benefit. By 2030, about 71 million will receive a benefit.
When Social Security was set up, fewer people lived past age 65. When age 65 was chosen, the likelihood of reaching that age had the same odds as reaching age 107 does today.
The estimated average 2013 monthly Social Security benefits are: Retired worker $1,261; retired couple $2,048; disabled worker with a spouse and a child $1,919; and young widow or widower with two children $2,592.
The maximum Social Security benefit for a worker retiring at full retirement age in 2013 was $2,533 per month.
Social Security means disability insurance for workers and their families. Almost one in four of today's 20 year olds will become disabled before reaching age 67.
Almost one in eight of today's 20 year olds will die before reaching age 67. The survivor's benefits are an important part of Social Security.
Social Security is not a funded pension system. It is a transfer of wealth from workers to retirees.
The government established age 62 as the official retirement age in 1961 when the eligibility age for men went from 65 to age 62. It was lowered for women in 1956.
While you can learn a lot at the website, http://www.socialsecurity.gov, it is OK to call to get an appointment to meet at their office (1-800-772-1213). An appointment is best if you might file and suspend your benefits. But realize, not all Social Security employees know all of the laws and rules. You have various appeal rights if you don't agree with their answers or explanations.
Did you hear? "Maybe it's true that life begins at 50…But everything else starts to wear our, fall out, or spread out…," by Phyllis Diller.
John Bullis is a certified public accountant, personal financial specialist and certified senior adviser who has served Carson City for 45 years. He is founder emeritus of Bullis and Company CPAs.


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The Good and the Better
How strongly do we believe that heaven is far better than our lives on this side of the grave? It is easy to get distracted from the blessings of the life to come, so we must take special care that ...Read More
Our Duty to Rejoice in Our King
All of us go through periods where we may not really feel like rejoicing in the Lord. At such times, we should rejoice anyway, and we should fulfill our duty to seek our joy in Him. But we should also ...Read More
Joy and Judgment
The media often depicts Christians as joyless, judgmental individuals who avoid pleasure at all cost. We know that this is a gross caricature, especially in light of the Bible's teaching that we are to rejoice in what God has given. ...Read More
Joyful Living in Light of Death
Matthew Henry comments on today's passage, "Notwithstanding the long continuance of life, and the many comforts of it, yet we must remember the days of darkness, because those will certainly come, and they will come with much the less terror ...Read More
Our Joy to Come
It might be hard to imagine, but being able to see our Lord face-to-face is going to be the most incredible sight we could ever experience. We will be so enthralled with His beauty that we will never tire of ...Read More
The Days of Prosperity and Adversity
As we grow in faith, we should find ourselves increasingly aware that our hard days are from the Lord no less than our good ones, and we should be thanking Him for bringing trials into our lives through which He ...Read More
The Joy of God's Law
We must be diligent to fight against sin, putting it to death for the sake of our very lives (Rom. 6:13). However, we cannot fight against sin unless God has already brought us to spiritual life, which can never be ...Read More
Joy in the Present
Often we experience suffering when we have faithfully served the Lord, while other faithful servants experience prosperity. When this happens, it is easy to wallow in dissatisfaction. We are also tempted to try to find the reasons why our situation ...Read More
Rejoicing Unto the Lord
In our day, the term servant often has negative connotations, at least in popular ways of thinking. We cannot import this negativity into what it means to be a servant of the Lord. To be the Lord's servant is to ...Read More
The Good Medicine of Joy
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Coffee: The Nook is a great new addition to the neighborhood. Marcus Samuelsson is doing great things for uptown Manhattan.
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Bagel: Absolute Bagels in West Harlem, or Ess-a-Bagel when I head down to the east side. I get an everything bagel with lox spread. No shortage of flavor there. It is a little hard to eat on the go, though. Their bagels are huge!
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Late-night eats: I love the music and the whole atmosphere at Ginny's Supper Club. There's great people and great food—it's a perfect place to go on my day off or after service.
Chinese takeout: Chinatown East is the best we have near me, and it always does the trick when I want Chinese. I get the Chicken Curry or Late Night General Tso's Chicken.
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Lowell City Council has a new member to fill the seat vacated by newly hired Cherryville Police Chief Chad Hawkins.
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Council on April 8 unanimously voted to appoint Gault. He has served as chairman of the city�s planning and zoning board of adjustment since March 2010.
The board�s seven members meet monthly to address zoning issues and make recommendations to council.
Gault, 37, works as a structural steel designer at Concept Steel Inc. in Gastonia. Hawkins resigned from the council on March 11 to take the top police job in Cherryville.
Gault said he had already planned to run for a council seat this November.
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As we reported earlier, singer K. Michelle struck a cord with Memphitz after she came out with accusations of the rapper abusing her.
The "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta" star talked about losing the love of her life during the premiere of the show. Although she didn't name any names, she mentioned that the relationship tragically ended when he beat her up and spent up all the money he gave her from a record deal.
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In case you were wondering, "Dinner in Venice" did not grow up with the Carnival: when I was little, all that was left of the old glories was a few fried sweets and children's costume parties of the same scale as an average birthday. Imagine my excitement at age 10 – and my mom's concern – when the local government announced that, in an effort to promote the history and culture of Venice (read: boost tourism and the resulting income) they were going to bring back the historical Carnival. It was 1979, and about 3 millions extra visitors have been literally flooding Venice each winter ever since.
The first record of some type of Carnival celebrations in Venice is in a document from 1094, which describes plenty of partying and dancing in the weeks before Lent, a penitential period for the Christians; however, the history buffs among you will be quick to point out that the roots of Carnivals can also be traced in those ancient pagan rituals for the passage of seasons, such as the Greek cult of Dionisus and the Roman saturnalia. Indeed, it was the Romans who best summarized the concept in their famous motto: "Semel in anno licet insanire" (it's acceptable to go crazy, once a year).
Many scholars, like Edward Muir, suggest that far from being just for the sake of having fun, all these festivities offered our Early Modern European friends an important "safety valve". Not that anybody would discuss "stress" back then, but think of the pressures of such a structured society! Basically, give the crowds lots of doughnuts and wine, and permission to make fun of the local lords and cardinals, and they'll forget about actually rebelling against them. Much like the idea of the Roman circus.
Masks, the main symbol of the Venetian Carnival, are only mentioned starting in the 13th century, and we don't really know why they were first introduced. What we do know is that, while covering up the face and the body is encouraged by many traditional cultures as a means to preserve modesty – in the city of Casanova, it always promoted vice rather than virtue!
Just to give you an idea of the atmosphere, the government even had to issue a specific law in 1339 to forbid sexually provocative disguises and "visiting nuns' convents while in disguise"(!)
Masks provided the perfect cover for illicit romantic encounters, facilitated conspiracies, and fulfilled Cinderella-like fantasies by breaking down the usual barriers between different strata of society. The Venetians loved their new-found anonymity, and started wearing masks for longer stretches of time: in the Renaissance and Baroque ages it would have been hard to find anybody in normal attire between October and February!
Among lavish balls, plays, parades and music, people still found the time to indulge in desserts, in particular several kinds of fried sweets, from fritole to galani.
I've been looking for some kind of symbolic explanation for this custom, something along the lines of the Jewish tradition of eating fried things on Hanukkah to remember the miracle of the oil. It turns out that the reason behind the Carnival customs is much more prosaic: in the old days, January or February – before the restrictions of Lent – was the time when pigs were slaughtered; all parts of the animal were considered precious, and the lard (in its melted form, called "strutto") was used for cooking and frying. Apparently, it resists high temperatures and tastes delicious – those of you who don't need to follow any religious or health-related restrictions might want to give it a try. The rest of us will have to stick to olive or vegetable oil! Galani (or "crostoli", "chiacchiere", "cenci", as they are called in other regions) are addictive no matter what you fry them in.
- 3 cups flour, plus more for dusting
- 1/3 cup (heaped) sugar
- Pinch of salt
- 1/2 tablespoon baking powder
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 stick butter, cubed
- 1 shot grappa or rhum
- half a pod vanilla beans, if liked
- powdered sugar for decorating
Combine the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder and salt in your stand mixer bowl or on a counter. Add the eggs, the liqueur, vanilla, and the butter (softened at room temperature). Process the dough until smooth, adding little liqueur or water if necessary. Cover with plastic wrap, and allow to rest on the counter for 30-40 minutes. Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface using your rolling pin to 1/8", or you can simply use the lasagna attachment if you own a pasta machine. Using a sharp knife (or a fluted pastry wheel if you feel fancy), cut the dough into rectangles and add two cuts near the center.
In a heavy wide pot with tall sides (or in a deep-fryer), heat abundant oil (peanut oil, vegetable oil or mild olive oil) until tiny bubbles form when you throw a small piece of bread into it.
Fry the galani in batches, and dry them on a triple layer of paper towel before decorating them with powdered sugar.
Frank's Pizzette Fritte (yay! Fried pizza!)
Ronnie's Kichels
Silvia's Savory Donuts
My Recie de Amman (the Jewish version of these galani, for Purim) in The Forward
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WASHINGTON—The former U.S. congresswoman who was shot in the head in a 2011 mass shooting made a dramatic appeal to Congress on Wednesday for tougher gun control legislation, saying, "too many children are dying."
"Speaking is difficult. But I need to say something important," surprise witness Gabrielle Giffords said carefully. It was Congress' first gun control hearing since the fatal shooting of 20 young students in Connecticut in December pushed the long-sensitive issue to the top of President Barack Obama's agenda for his second term.
"Be bold, be courageous, Americans are counting on you," Giffords said.
The nation's most powerful gun lobby, the National Rifle Association, also was testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, whose divided members reflect the wider debate that gun limits will face on a path through Congress that promises to be difficult.
Obama this month proposed a package that includes banning military-style assault weapons, requiring background checks on all firearms purchases and limiting ammunition magazines to 10 rounds.
The U.S. has the world's highest rate of gun ownership, and gun sales have jumped since the Connecticut shooting as some fear that the government will take their guns away. The Constitution guarantees the right to bear arms, but some argue that the country's founding fathers more than two centuries ago couldn't have foreseen the speed and power of today's weapons.
Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, who are both gun owners, have formed a political action committee called Americans for Responsible Solutions to back lawmakers who support tighter gun restrictions and counter the influence of the NRA, which is known to punish lawmakers who stray from its point of view.
Kelly described to the panel Wednesday how Giffords' shooter fired 33 bullets in 15 seconds and was stopped when he paused to reload.
"We are simply two reasonable Americans who have said 'Enough,'" Kelly said. He added that the nation is "not taking responsibility for the gun rights our founding fathers have conferred on us."
The NRA has led past efforts to block stricter gun regulations, and it has promised to do it now.
In testimony prepared for Wednesday's hearing but released Tuesday, NRA executive vice-president Wayne LaPierre said gun control measures had failed in the past. He instead expressed support for better enforcement of existing laws, stronger school security and better government's ability to keep guns from mentally unstable people.
LaPierre's statement had a milder tone than recent NRA remarks, including a television ad that called Obama an "elitist hypocrite" for voicing doubts about the NRA proposal of armed guards in every school in the country while his own children are protected that way at their school. While Obama's children have Secret Service protection, officials at their school have said its own guards don't carry guns.
Even if gun control proposals make their way through a Congress that is already busy with immense fiscal issues and immigration, some law enforcement authorities at the local level have already threatened not to enforce them in sympathy for gun owners.
The chairman of the panel, Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, said closing loopholes in the background check system for gun purchasers won't threaten firearms owners' Second Amendment rights to own a gun and is a matter of common sense. Leahy said it's time to stop sloganeering and partisan recriminations on the subject.
"The Second Amendment is secure and will remain secure and protected," Leahy said.
By law, anyone buying a gun from a licensed dealer must have a background check, with convicted criminals and people with mental problems barred from purchases. Gun buyers at gun shows and online don't need the check.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid indicated that whatever the committee produced wouldn't necessarily be the final product, saying the package would be debated by the full Senate and senators would be allowed to propose "whatever amendments they want that deal with this issue."
It remains unclear whether those advocating limits on gun availability will be able to overcome resistance by lawmakers from states where gun ownership abounds. Question marks include not just many Republicans but also Democratic senators facing re-election in Republican-leaning states in 2014.
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Judiciary Committee member, has already introduced her own legislation banning assault weapons and magazines of more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
The Connecticut shooting has also set off a national discussion about mental health care, with everyone from law enforcement leaders to the gun industry urging policymakers to focus on the issue as a way to help prevent similar attacks. The issue of mental health also has come up in last year's mass shooting at a Colorado theatre last year and at Virginia Tech in 2007, which remains the deadliest school shooting in the country's history.
"Law-abiding gun owners will not accept blame for the acts of violent or deranged criminals," LaPierre said in his statement for his testimony Wednesday. "Nor do we believe the government should dictate what we can lawfully own and use to protect our families."


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These data were previously reported by Amgen at medical congresses.
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"The discovery of the RANK Ligand pathway represents a significant advance
in the understanding of bone biology," said Roland Baron, Ph.D., D.D.S.,
professor and chair of department of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity at
the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. "These results demonstrate that
targeting the RANK Ligand pathway with denosumab could represent a promising
new approach in two different disease settings characterized by bone loss."
FREEDOM Osteoporosis Study Results: Significant Fracture Reduction Seen
Across the Skeleton in Postmenopausal Women with Osteoporosis
Results from the FREEDOM (Fracture REduction Evaluation of Denosumab in
Osteoporosis every six Months) study, showed that women receiving a
subcutaneous shot of denosumab twice-yearly experienced a 68 percent reduction
in the risk of suffering a vertebral (spine) fracture compared to those
receiving placebo as well as a 40 percent reduction in the risk of suffering a
hip fracture and a 20 percent reduction in the risk of suffering a
nonvertebral fracture. Over the three years of this multi-center, randomized,
double-blind, placebo-controlled study, women treated with denosumab
experienced significant increases in BMD (8.8 percent at the lumbar spine and
6.4 percent at the total hip).(1)
"These results suggest that denosumab offers a new approach to prevention
of fractures in women with postmenopausal osteoporosis," said Steven Cummings
M.D., lead investigator, study author, and director of the San Francisco
Coordinating Center of the California Pacific Medical Center Research
Institute. "It reduces the risk of all major types of fractures and, because
it is given as an injection twice a year, it also has the potential to help
compliance to treatment."
Fracture is one of the most common health events suffered by
postmenopausal women with osteoporosis.(3) Globally, one woman in three over
50 years of age will experience a fracture in her lifetime.(3) A woman who has
broken a bone as a result of osteoporosis has more than an eight- out-of-ten
chance of breaking another bone.(4) Half of women who break a hip, a life
changing event, will permanently need assistance to walk.(5)
The overall incidence and type of side effects with denosumab were similar
to placebo in the FREEDOM study. Rates of adverse events (AEs) were similar in
both groups (93 percent). Rates of serious AEs were 25.8 percent for denosumab
and 25.1 percent for placebo. The most common AEs across both treatment arms
were arthralgia, back pain, hypertension and nasopharyngitis. There were no
reported cases of osteonecrosis of the jaw among patients taking denosumab.
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HALT Study Results: First Published Study to Demonstrate Fracture
Prevention in Men with Non-Metastatic Prostate Cancer Undergoing ADT
Results from the HALT (Hormone AbLation Therapy) study in 1,468 men
undergoing ADT for non-metastatic prostate cancer show that patients treated
with denosumab experienced a 62 percent reduction in the risk of suffering a
new vertebral fracture with denosumab compared to placebo at 36 months, with
significant reduction observed as early as month-12.(2) Bone loss and
increased fracture risk are serious and under-recognized consequences of
ADT(6,7) and currently there are no approved therapies for these patients.
In this multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study,
men receiving 60 mg denosumab administered subcutaneously experienced a 6.7
percent increase in BMD at the lumbar spine compared to those receiving
placebo (primary endpoint) at 24 months. Increases in BMD at the lumbar spine
were observed as early as one month after starting treatment with denosumab
and continued to increase throughout the study. In addition, denosumab
produced significant increases in BMD at non-vertebral sites (total hip 4.8
percent, femoral neck 3.9 percent, and distal 1/3 radius 5.5 percent),
compared to placebo.(2)
"Bone loss and fractures are an important but often unrecognized problem
for prostate cancer survivors. Bone loss is an early adverse effect and even
short-term androgen deprivation therapy negatively impacts skeletal health.
Prevention of bone loss and fractures has been a key unmet medical need for
men with prostate cancer," said Matthew Smith, M.D., Ph.D., study author,
associate professor of medicine and the director of Genitourinary Medical
Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. "In this large
international study, denosumab markedly increased bone mineral density and
decreased the risk of fractures in many men receiving androgen deprivation
therapy for prostate cancer. The efficacy of denosumab was apparent as early
as one month and was sustained for three years."
In the HALT trial, the overall incidence and type of side effects with
denosumab were similar to placebo. Rates of AEs were similar in both groups
(87 percent). Rates of serious AEs were 35 percent for denosumab and 31
percent for placebo. The most common AEs across both treatment arms were
arthralgia, back pain, constipation, pain in extremity, and hypertension.
There were no reported cases of osteonecrosis of the jaw among patients
treated with denosumab. More patients receiving denosumab developed
cataracts, though none were considered treatment-related. One patient in the
denosumab arm developed hypocalcemia, versus none in the placebo arm. New
primary malignancies were reported in 5 percent of patients in each group.
Serious AEs of infections were reported in 6 percent of denosumab-treated
patients and in 5 percent of placebo-treated patients.(2)
"Amgen scientists in the 1990s were the first to identify the RANK Ligand
pathway, a pivotal physiologic mechanism that controls bone remodeling," said
Roger Perlmutter, M.D., Ph.D., executive vice president of Research and
Development at Amgen. "Today's publications in the New England Journal of
Medicine underscore the significance of this finding, and highlight Amgen's
focus on using innovative research to address grievous illness."
About Denosumab
Denosumab is the first fully human monoclonal antibody in late stage
clinical development that specifically targets RANK Ligand, an essential
regulator of osteoclasts (the cells that break down bone). Denosumab is being
investigated for its potential to inhibit all stages of osteoclast activity
through a targeted mechanism. Denosumab is being studied in a range of bone
loss conditions including postmenopausal osteoporosis and bone loss in
patients undergoing hormone ablation for prostate and breast cancer.
In February 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted the
Biologics License Application (BLA), submitted by Amgen for denosumab for the
treatment and prevention of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women and cancer
treatment-induced bone loss in women and men receiving hormone therapy for
either breast cancer or prostate cancer based on these studies and a parallel
trial in women with breast cancer. The FDA has provisionally approved the
trade name Prolia(TM) in these proposed indications, for which denosumab is
administered twice yearly subcutaneously at a 60mg dose. The trade name is
only for these indications and may not apply for other indications of
Amgen has also submitted marketing applications for use of denosumab in
the European Union, Canada, Switzerland, and Australia.
Osteoporosis: Impact and Prevalence
Often referred to as the "silent epidemic," osteoporosis is a global
problem that is increasing in significance as the population of the world both
increases and ages. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently
identified osteoporosis as a priority health issue along with other major
non-communicable diseases.
The economic burden of osteoporosis is comparable to that of other major
chronic diseases; for example, in the U.S., the costs associated with
osteoporosis-related fractures are equivalent to those of cardiovascular
disease and asthma.(8,9,10) It has been reported that osteoporosis results in
more hospital bed-days than stroke, myocardial infarction or breast
Bone Loss Due to Hormone Ablation Therapy
Worldwide, prostate cancer and breast cancer are two of the most frequent
types of cancer affecting men and women, respectively.(12) In the U.S.,
prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and breast cancer is the most
common cancer in women. It is common for prostate cancer and breast cancer
patients to receive hormone ablation therapies that can lead to a decrease in
bone mass and increased risk of fractures. Currently there are no approved
therapies for bone loss in patients undergoing hormone ablation for either
prostate or breast cancer.
About Amgen
Amgen discovers, develops, manufactures and delivers innovative human
therapeutics. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen was one of the first
companies to realize the new science's promise by bringing safe and effective
medicines from lab, to manufacturing plant, to patient. Amgen therapeutics
have changed the practice of medicine, helping millions of people around the
world in the fight against cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and
other serious illnesses. With a deep and broad pipeline of potential new
medicines, Amgen remains committed to advancing science to dramatically
improve people's lives. To learn more about our pioneering science and our
vital medicines, visit www.amgen.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements that are based on
management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of
risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those described. All statements, other than statements of
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other such estimates and results. Forward-looking statements involve
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by Amgen, including Amgen's most recent annual report on Form 10-K and most
recent periodic reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K. Please refer to Amgen's
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No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed and actual results may
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or development of a new indication for an existing product will be successful
and become a commercial product. Further, preclinical results do not
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adequately modeled by computer or cell culture systems or animal models. The
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Product candidates that are derived from relationships may be subject to
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CONTACT: Amgen, Thousand Oaks
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2. Smith MR, et al. Denosumab for the Prevention of Bone Loss and
Fractures in Men Receiving Androgen Deprivation Therapy in
Non-Metastatic Prostate Cancer. N Engl J Med, 2009 Aug. 20; published
online at www.nejm.org on Aug. 11, 2009.
3. Melton LJ, et al. (1992) Perspective. How Many Women Have Osteoporosis?
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Department of Justice
For Immediate Release
Seattle Police and ATF Sieze Cache of Guns in Magnolia Home
The tenant who rented the basement of a home in Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood, and his heroin supplier, have both been charged with gun and drug crimes after selling heroin and a firearm to a person working with law enforcement, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. At the time of the arrests last week, law enforcement seized a dozen weapons including a Mac-11 submachine gun and silencer. JORGE CARLOS CAMPS, 34, made his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Seattle last week on charges of distributing heroin and two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm. ROGER LEE HIDDLESTON, 44, of Seattle, made his initial appearance in federal court today. He is charged with distribution of heroin, possession of heroin with intent to distribute, possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and unlawful possession of a firearm. Both men are being held at the Federal Detention Center at SeaTac pending further proceedings in the case.
According to the criminal complaint, on April 28, 2014, CAMPS allegedly sold heroin and a firearm to a person working with law enforcement. CAMPS or his cohorts also sent pictures of various weapons via text message, along with a price list for the guns. CAMPS has a prior felony conviction for violating a domestic violence court order and is prohibited from possessing firearms. HIDDLESTON allegedly supplied the heroin to CAMPS and was present and participated in the sale to the person working with law enforcement. Police stopped HIDDLESTON's car after he left the Magnolia home. Inside they found heroin, methamphetamine, drug distribution materials, and $2,225 in currency. In the trunk they recovered a Sig Sauer Model P230 9mm Kurz semi-automatic pistol. HIDDLESTON is the subject of a domestic violence protection order and therefore is prohibited from possessing firearms.
Distribution of heroin is punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine is punishable by up to 40 years and has a five year mandatory minimum sentence. Felon in possession of a firearm is punishable by up to ten years in prison.
The charges contained in the criminal complaints are only allegations. A person is presumed innocent unless and until he or she is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
The case was investigated by the Seattle Police Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF).
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WASHINGTON, May 3 (UPI) -- U.S. officials now say Osama bin Laden was not killed in a firefight, and was not armed when he died.
The officials backed away from a number of claims made about the Pakistan raid by U.S. SEALs that killed the al-Qaida founder and leader Sunday night.
Politico reported Tuesday that during an off-camera briefing late Monday officials confirmed a woman was among the five people killed in the raid, but said she was not bin Laden's wife and bin Laden had not used her as a human shield.
John Brennan, deputy national security adviser, told reporters during a televised news conference Monday that bin Laden was part of the firefight during the 40-minute operation at the Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound.
And at a Pentagon briefing earlier in the day, a senior official said bin Laden was using the woman as a shield so he could fire off rounds -- "He was firing behind her" -- Politico reported. In another background briefing earlier Monday, an official said bin Laden was killed participating in the firefight.
However, Politico reported, a senior White House official said during the off-camera briefing later Monday that bin Laden was not armed when he was killed. A second official confirmed that fact to Politico.
A third official told Politico, "The bottom line is the team that entered that room was met with resistance and took appropriate action."
Though Monday night the White House refused to give details, an official confirmed bin Laden was shot twice, once in the head and once in the chest, the newspaper said.
Yet another official familiar with the operation said no woman was used as a human shield, but one woman was killed and one injured in the crossfire. Neither was bin Laden's wife.
At Monday's on-camera news conference, Brennan said bin Laden's son Khalid was killed, but the official White House transcript had another bin Laden son, Hamza, as killed, Politico reported.
The White House did not explain the discrepancy, the newspaper said.
Meanwhile, U.S. intelligence teams were pouring over computers and data discovered during the raid in which al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was killed, officials said.
One official called the cache being examined in a secret location in Afghanistan as the "mother lode of intelligence," Politico reported Monday.
Hundreds of people were examining the computers, thumb drives, disks and other electronic equipment, one official said, adding, "It's going to be great even if only 10 percent of it is actionable."
Two dozen Navy SEALs flew 150 miles in helicopters from Jalalabad, Afghanistan, to Abbottabad, Pakistan, for the raid on the fortified compound where bin Laden was hiding.
The intelligence community examined information obtained during the raid to try to learn al-Qaida's intentions and the identities and location of key players within the terrorist organization, one official told CBS News.
The official said a key priority was dismantling al-Qaida's base and officials have turned their focus on Ayman al-Zawahri, bin Laden's No. 2 man, and other top operatives posing a threat to Western interests.
"They got bin Laden but not the keys to the kingdom," the source said.
Law enforcement and intelligence officials were looking into the possible speeding up of a potential terror plot rising out of Pakistan, the official said. They're monitoring al-Qaida organizations and followers in other countries and within the United States.
Analysts have picked up "threads of threats" in recent months and said they captured pieces of information, mostly involving transportation, since bin Laden's death.
A law enforcement source told CBS News the law enforcement community is in a "heavy monitoring mode" but there is no indication of any operation at the moment in the United States or abroad.
"It is good and important that bin Laden was eliminated and that this is a blow to al-Qaida," the official said. "But it's not the end game."
In Pakistan, The U.S. Embassy and consulates closed indefinitely except for emergency citizens' services. The embassy in Islamabad warned U.S. citizens of possible demonstrations over bin Laden's death at any time in areas of Pakistani cities "perceived as Western."
Messages posted on Web sites used by radical Islamists expressed grief over the killing of bin Laden, with some vowing to exact revenge his death, CNN reported.
"Congratulations for dying as a martyr and a fighter in the sake of Allah," one message said.
"We won't cry today, but we will revenge. Men and women in America will cry," another read.


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Opened as Hoyts Brass Mill Center, but remained under Northeast Theaters opperation for about 9 months when most other Hoyts were sold. Three other Hoyts that didn't become Regals were Enfield Mall (now run by National Amusements), Cinema City (closed for a week in September 2005 and reopened by Crown Theaters) and Simsbury Commons (still run by Northeast Cinemas).
Brass Mill Center underwent a renovation under Regal, implimenting a new color scheme and building a new snack bar. Hoyts opperated a gormet concession stand which is now gone (its a party room). The theatres themselves are okay with stadium seating and all the ammenties you'd expect of a modern theater. It's on the third floor of Brass Mill Center, directly in the center of the building and visable from Route 84.
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Students have asked me few times if I could recommend them a book with solved problems in algebraic topology. Unfortunately, the only one that springs to mind is Terry Lawson's Topology: A Geometric Approach, but I'm not quite satisfied with the exercises it contains.
On the other hand, there are lots of good exercises in a number of books (like Hatcher's) but they don't have solutions written up.
So could you recommend me a book with good exercises in algebraic topology that also contains their solutions?


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When it comes to public opinion, Congress isn't held in very high regard, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver reminded executives of the country's biggest oil companies.
Then the Missouri Democrat added, "Your approval rating is lower than ours, and that means you're down low."
So it went Tuesday as oil company chiefs defended their huge profits in the face of record gasoline prices — perhaps heading toward $4 a gallon — and a winter during which many people have been struggling to keep up with heating bills.
"On April Fool's Day, the biggest joke of all is being played on American families by Big Oil," said Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., as he opened the hearing.
The executives of Exxon Mobil Corp., the nation's biggest, and four other oil companies said they know fuel costs are hurting people, but they argued it's not their fault and their profits are in line with other industries.
Appearing before a House committee, the executives were pressed to explain why they should continue to get billions of dollars in tax breaks when they made $123 billion last year and motorists are paying an average of $3.29 a gallon at the pump.
"Our earnings, although high in absolute terms, need to be viewed in the context of the scale and cyclical, long-term nature of our industry as well as the huge investment requirements," said J.S. Simon, senior vice president of Exxon Mobil Corp., which made a record $40 billion last year.
"We depend on high earnings during the up cycle to sustain ... investment over the long-term, including the down cycles," he continued.
That up cycle has been going on too long, suggested Cleaver, who said his recent trip back to Missouri during a two-week congressional recess taught him one thing: "The anger level is rising significantly."
"I heard what you are hearing. Americans are very worried about the rising price of energy," said John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Co., echoing remarks by the other four executives including representatives of BP America Inc., Chevron Corp. and ConocoPhillips.
While Democrats hammered the executives for their profits and demanded they do more to develop alternative energy sources such as wind, solar and biofuels, Republican lawmakers called for opening more areas for drilling to boost domestic production of oil and gas.
What would bring lower prices? asked Rep. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, the committee's ranking Republican
"We need access to all kinds of energy supply," replied Robert Malone, chairman of BP America, adding that 85 percent of the country's coastal waters are off limits to drilling.
But Markey wanted to know why the companies aren't investing more in energy projects other than oil and gas — or giving up some tax breaks so the money could be directed to promote renewable fuels and conservation and take pressure off oil and gas supplies.
"Why is Exxon Mobil resisting the renewable revolution," asked Markey, noting that the other four companies together have invested $3.5 billion in solar, wind and biodiesel projects.
Exxon is spending $100 million on research into climate change at Stanford University, replied Simon, but current alternative energy technologies "just do not have an appreciable impact" in addressing "the challenge we're trying to meet."
The appearance Tuesday before the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming was not the first time that oil executives had faced the harsh words of lawmakers frustrated over their inability to do anything about soaring oil and gasoline costs.
In November 2005, executives of the same companies sought to explain high energy costs at a Senate hearing at which Hofmeister emphasized the cyclical nature of his industry. "What goes up almost always comes down," he told the senators on a day when oil cost $60 a barrel.
About six months later, the executives were grilled again on Capitol Hill when a barrel of oil cost $75. As the three-hour House hearing came to a close Tuesday, the price of oil settled at just over $100 a barrel on the New York exchange.
"We face a new reality, volatility, high prices, greater competition for resources," said Peter Robertson, vice president of Chevron Corp., adding that he understands that "Americans see the pain" of expensive oil.
Markey challenged the executives to pledge to invest 10 percent of their profits to develop renewable energy and give up $18 billion in tax breaks over 10 years so money could be funneled to support other energy and conservation.
They responded that their companies already are spending on alternative energy projects and argued that new taxes would dampen investment and could lead to even higher prices.
"Imposing punitive taxes on American energy companies, which already pay record taxes, will discourage the sustained investment needed to continue safeguarding U.S. energy security," said Simon. He said over the past five years Exxon Mobil's U.S. tax bill exceeded its U.S. earnings by $19 billion.
Markey was not impressed.
"These companies are defending billions of federal subsidies ... while reaping over a hundred billion dollars in profits in just the last year alone," he said. The companies are reaping "a windfall of revenue" while poor people have to choose between heating and eating because of high energy prices.
Elsewhere on Tuesday, many independent truckers parked their rigs and others slowed to a crawl on highways to protest high fuel prices. The demonstrations were only scattered, but long lines of trucks were moving at about 20 mph on the New Jersey Turnpike, and three drivers were ticketed for impeding traffic on Interstate 55 outside Chicago, driving three abreast at low speeds.