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GAFCON Primates Communique
April 17, 2015
We have met in London for prayer and fellowship in order to help chart the future of global Anglicanism.
Good Friday statement from the Primate of Kenya
April 3, 2015
On this Good Friday we gather in our churches across Kenya in the shadow of a great and terrible evil.
Easter Pastoral Letter
April 2, 2015
Let us resolve to set all our hopes on the Risen Christ and give ourselves fully to the service of the one who makes all things new.
Launch of FCA Australia
March 26, 2015
I believe that the initiative we are taking today, the launch of this Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, will be seen by future generations as a strategic moment for church and society.
We, the participants in the Global Anglican Future Conference, have met in the land of Jesus' birth. So began the journey of both GAFCON and the GFCA, the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans.
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Oprah on trial
- By Elizabeth DickinsonElizabeth Dickinson is a Gulf-based Deca journalist. Follow her on Twitter: @dickinsonbeth.
About year and a half ago, Passport blogged about the opening of the $40 million Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa, funded by — you guessed it — Oprah. The project was launched in celebrity fanfare, highlighting Oprah for the cultural and economic world power she has truly become.
Much to Ms. Winfrey's dismay, however, extravagant spending has been followed by spectacular scandal. A former head mistress from the school is suing the famous talk-show host for $250,000.
About this time last year, allegations of sexual abuse in the school surfaced (Oprah weeped when she heard). Virginia "Tiny" Makopo — then a school employee — was arrested for counts of abuse to which she pleaded not guilty. But Oprah was not quite done cleaning house. Nomvuyo Mzamane, the former head mistress, was accused of covering up the scandal. Now jobless and "depressed," Mzamane is sueing Oprah for defamation. She says she never knew the abuses were going on.
The price tag on the lawsuit is barely a drop in the bucket for the $2.5 billion celebrity, but Oprah should worry a lot more about that the tougher-to-quantify damage to her brand.
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Daniel W. Drezner is professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a senior editor at The National Interest. Prior to Fletcher, he taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Drezner has received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Harvard University. He has previously held positions with Civic Education Project, the RAND Corporation, and the Treasury Department.| Daniel W. Drezner |

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CHENNAI: Anumula Jithendar Reddy of Andhra Pradesh has secured the first rank in the VIT Engineering Entrance Examination for admission to B. Tech degree programmes.
As many as 1.51 lakh students appeared for the entrance examination which was held in 91 cities across the country and in Dubai, Riyadh and Singapore on April 17. A. Janardhan Reddy and Jinit Sanjay Bhatt secured the second and third rank respectively. Only 50 candidates secured over 80%.
The results have been published in the following websites: www.vit.ac.in, www.schools9.com, www. globalinfowings.com, www. indiaresults.com and www. minglebox.com. The counselling will begin on June 2 and will go on till 14.
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• New reporting argues that the American Jewish Congress's Madoff-related loss of funds was less the inherent cause of failure and more what exposed "longstanding weaknesses" at the nine-decade-old organization. [JTA]
• South Africa is sending its ambassador to Israel, whom it recalled in the aftermath of the flotilla raid, back to the Holy Land. [Haaretz]
• J Street cuts an ad defending Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pennsylvania), a Senate candidate, implicitly picking a fight with Bill Kristol's new outfit, the Emergency Committee for Israel. [Ben Smith]
• Berlin's Jewish Museum received approval to buy the necessary land for a $13 million addition, also to be designed by architect Daniel Libeskind. [JTA]
• A Greek-born Israeli had a doctor treat him for the first time in 65 years after having a heart attack. Why had he avoided medical professionals? Because he had been one of Josef Mengele's "patients" at Auschwitz. [Negev Rock City]
• Woody Allen is predictably curmudgeonly (at best) explaining why he recorded audio versions of his four humor books. [Arts Beat]
Seinfeld goes the thriller route.
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• MO-08: It's our second resignation of the 113th Congress—and the 113th Congress hasn't even begun yet. Veteran GOP Rep. Jo Ann Emerson says she will depart the House in February to take a job as head of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, a lobbying organization for rural utility companies. (NRECA also happens to be Emerson's biggest all-time campaign contributor.) Emerson's resignation will trigger a special election, of course, and in Missouri, nominations for specials are handled by a committee of party leaders—there's no primary. That'll give Emerson a chance to influence who her successor is, but who might that be?
The Great Mentioner has already kicked into high gear regarding possible replacements for Emerson: Analyst Jeff Smith thinks Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, former Treasurer and failed 2010 Senate candidate Sarah Steelman, outgoing state Sens. Jason Crowell and Kevin Engler, and state party executive director Lloyd Smith could all make a go of it. Nathan Gonzales offers the same list, adding state Rep. Todd Richardson but also saying that Kinder and Smith look to have the inside track. (Both have ties to the Emerson family: Smith was Emerson's former chief of staff, and Kinder worked for Emerson's late husband Bill, whom she succeeded in Congress.) Joshua Miller tosses on a couple more: state Reps. Jason Smith and state Sen.-elect Wayne Wallingford.
And if you were wondering, I wouldn't hold out much hope for an upset possibility: We haven't crunched the most recent election results yet, but the 8th District went 60-38 for John McCain in 2008, which means it's extremely red territory. Emerson did draw a well-funded challenge from Iraq vet Tommy Sowers in 2010, but despite spending $1.6 million, he took less than 29 percent of the vote. If anything, I'd guess the 2012 numbers were worse for Team Blue than 2008's, so this is really going to be a GOP-only affair.
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On a broader note, Democrats are trying to frame Emerson's departure as the loss of yet another "moderate" Republican lawmaker, but to call Emerson a "moderate" shows just how far to the right her party has lurched. She's departed from conservative orthodoxy on a few occasions but has otherwise been a reliable vote for the GOP. And yet, just given trends over the last couple of decades, we're likely to wind up with a replacement even further to the right.
And here's some empirical support for the point we're trying to make about Emerson's supposed moderation. Using Prof. Keith Poole's DW-Nominate scores, it's possible to evaluate where on the spectrum of the entire House of Representatives Emerson has fallen ideologically, Congress by Congress. The number represents Emerson's rank overall, with 1 being the most liberal member:
106th: 256th
107th: 254th
108th: 247th
109th: 241st
110th: 271st
111th: 283rd
112th: 218th
As you can see, Emerson was always to the right of the median member (which would be defined as no. 217.5), lurching even further to the right in the 110th and 111th Congresses (when many more Democrats were elected, giving them control of the House). In the 112th, she snapped back—all the way to dead center, as it happens, because of the opposite phenomenon: So many more Republicans, particularly hyper-conservative tea partiers, won in 2010. So if you still want to call Emerson a "moderate," it's only because of the wild shift right-ward her entire party's undergone.
• AK-Sen: GOP Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell, whose name has already been mentioned as a possible candidate, says he's forming an exploratory committee to look at a potential challenge to Dem Sen. Mark Begich. Treadwell is a wealthy oilman who first sough (and won) office in 2010, largely self-funding his campaign. If he does take the plunge, he'll probably fill the "establishment candidate" role, which suggests there's plenty of room for "insurgent wingnut" to run as well.
• SD-Sen: If Dem Sen. Tim Johnson decides to retire rather than seek re-election, the bench of possible replacements is short, but here's one more name: U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson, who is Tim's son. While it's not the sort of post that offers a lot of name rec, serving as a USA can offer a great springboard for public office, especially for a Democrat in a red state. You develop political connections, and you also get to craft a law-and-order record that is mostly free of partisan entanglements. (For instance, former U.S. Attorney Dave Freudenthal managed the unlikely feat of winning the Wyoming governorship as a Democrat in 2002.) So if Johnson bows out and ex-Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin isn't interested, Johnson may be the next best bet for Team Blue.
• SC-Sen, KS-Sen: Lindsey Graham is one of those Republican senators who, despite being very conservative, is occasionally a bit wobbly on things like taxes and thus is the kind of guy the tea party set would love to oust. The problem is that they don't have a whole lot of potential takers, though at least state Sen. Tom Davis is now publicly mulling a run. But Davis is vague about a potential timetable and says he's declined to meet with some DC-based groups that have been trying to recruit him, so nothing may come of this.
The same article also suggests, Great Mentioner-style, that ex-Rep. Todd Tiahrt could possibly primary Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts. That's not a name you usually hear on watch-lists, but Politico says Roberts' sin is that he's "remained silent on the issue of tax increases." So now it's not just taking the opposing side which earns you movement conservative ire—failing to be a sufficient loudmouth is also a crime.
• TN-Sen: Tennessee Democrats have absolutely no bench (witness this year's Mark Clayton disaster), so the one guy everyone always talks to for every race is 69-year-old ex-Gov. Phil Bredesen, the last Dem to win statewide. Unsurprisingly, though, Bredesen says he has pretty much no interest in taking on GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander in 2014. Bredesen cautions that he's "always careful to never say 'never, never, never, never,'" but, well, he's just being careful.
• KY-Gov: Former Lt. Gov. Dan Mongiardo, who narrowly lost two Senate races (in the general in 2004 and in the Democratic primary in 2010), says he's "looking at" a possible gubernatorial bid in 2015, when current Gov. Steve Beshear is term-limited out. He joins a huge crowd of other top-name Dems who are looking at the job, though... for a contest that is, after all, still three years off.
• WA-Gov: Here's the futile uphill slog that Washington state Republicans are facing, boiled down to one handy map. The Seattle Times has put out a precinct-level map of gubernatorial race data in King and Snohomish Counties, showing just how little traction Rob McKenna, the most electable candidate the GOP could have possibly scraped up, got in the state's most populous areas. (David Jarman)
• CA-51: This matters only from a housekeeping perspective: Dem Rep. Bob Filner, who won the San Diego mayoral race last month, resigned from the House on Monday so that he could be sworn in as mayor. That leaves his seat open for the remainder of the lame duck session, but it will be filled in January by Democrat Juan Vargas, the victor of the contest to succeed Filner in Congress.
• IL-02: Whoever prevails in the Democratic primary to replace ex-Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. is almost certainly going to win with a very small plurality. Cook County Chief Administrative Officer Robin Kelly just became the seventh candidate to announce her entry into the race, following state Sen. Donne Trotter late last week and five others before that. According to Shira Toeplitz, two potential candidates have pulled their names from consideration, though: Rev. Corey Brooks and Alderman Will Burns.
There's still plenty of time before the filing deadline, which is not until Jan. 7 (PDF). Democratic hopefuls have to submit 1,256 valid signatures to appear on the ballot. Also, Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation on Sunday that formally moves the date of the IL-02 special general election to April 9, to consolidate it with already-scheduled municipal elections that are taking place that day. The primary—which is the only meaningful race—will still take place on Feb. 26.
• LA-03: A new poll of the LA-03 runoff by PMI, Inc., on behalf of the conservative website Red Racing Horses, finds GOP Rep. Charles Boustany leading fellow GOP Rep. Jeff Landry 51-33 in Saturday's fast-approaching runoff. That's a little better for Landry than the 56-29 edge Boustany held in his own internal a few weeks ago, but it's hard to call those numbers particularly good news. Both candidates also filed pre-runoff fundraising reports with the FEC late last month, and Boustany cleaned up there as well: Between Oct. 18 and Nov. 18, he pulled in $887K and spent over a $1 million, while Landry amassed just $300K and spent $750K.
But that's somewhat balanced out by the fact that outside spending has, to date, tilted slightly in Landry's favor. According to Roll Call, third party groups have spent $800K on his behalf, versus $600K coming in for Boustany. The edge is definitely still Boustany's—Landry has disputed his opponent's polling but refuses to provide any of his own—and so we still have the race at "Lean Boustany." But Landry prevailed in his first race in 2010 by upsetting the establishment (in huge fashion), and his brand of movement conservatism seems more likely to drive hardcore supporters to the polls in a low turnout runoff, so a repeat performance is still possible.
• NY-01: A conservative group with the lulzy name of "Patriots for Freedom" is trying to dissuade Republican Randy Altschuler from a third run at Dem Rep. Tim Bishop by means of a post-election poll which, they say, shows that Altschuler is "simply unelectable" because of his "record of outsourcing American jobs to India, his failure to win a significant majority of Republican votes, and his lack of interparty appeal." I've never heard of this organization before, though, nor have I heard of their pollster ("In The Field Consulting"), but at least one of their findings looks seriously suspect. They claim (based on a one-day sample of just 300 respondents) that Altschuler only took 60% of the GOP vote, while Bishop took 30%. That level of crossover support is almost impossible to believe, so I'm skeptical of this whole thing.
• TN-04: Not going down without a fight, it seems: Disgraced GOP Rep. Scott DesJarlais says that he has "no intention of resigning his seat and will seek reelection in 2014," according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Helpfully, he also adds that God has "forgiven me." But if DesJarlais really does stick to his guns, he's gonna have a much tougher time: As a physician, DesJarlais received heavy support from medical PACs, which gave his campaign $71K in 2012. But half a dozen are now saying they plan to abandon him, and another six say they haven't decided—while none, of course, are affirmatively sticking with him, according to a canvass undertaken by the Times Free Press.
This particular exercise also offers a telling window into just how clueless some of these political shops can be, particularly those which reflexively support politicians based on things like profession rather than any other merits. Take these remarks from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons' NeurosurgeryPAC, which donated $2,000 to DesJarlais:
"Until this week, we had no knowledge of any of the allegations made against Rep. DesJarlais. ... I believe I can safely say that NeurosurgeryPAC will not be contributing to Rep. DesJarlais in the future."I'm pretty amazed that someone whose job it is to figure out which candidates to support and give money to somehow didn't hear about DesJarlais's unreal story until just now—and I'm also amazed they'd cop to it. This is probably as good an illustration as any of the difference between "smart money" and, well, dumb money.
Other Races:
• Ballot Measures: Governing's Louis Jacobson is out with an interesting list of below-the-radar ballot measures where the result went "against type," in other words, not what you'd expect out of the state. Maybe the best-known one is Oregon's marijuana legalization measure, which failed (unlike those in Washington and Colorado), primarily for lack of money. Jacobson also discusses the GMO food labeling in California and education reform in Idaho and South Dakota (which failed), and an indoor smoking ban in North Dakota and a land conservation measure in Alabama (which passed). (David Jarman)
• OH-Treas: Hey, maybe we can beat him again: Republican Josh Mandel, who ran one of the most disgusting, lie-filled campaigns of 2012 and lost despite an astounding $40 million spent to vilify his opponent, Dem Sen. Sherrod Brown, says his "plan" is to seek re-election as state treasurer in 2014. He certainly doesn't sound fully committed to the idea, though, so I wouldn't be surprised if he bailed for something that involved more money and (even) less work.
P.S. Mandel's already doing Democratic opposition researchers some favors by hiring back some of his old political cronies to the Treasurer's office. Mandel (rightly) got a lot of crap in the Senate race for all of the unqualified patronage hires he made, but I guess he just can't resist throwing his old bros some taxpayer coin.
Grab Bag:
• Governors: Univ. of Minnesota's Smart Politics skewers one enduring piece of conventional wisdom: that governors have a big impact on being able to shape who wins the presidential race in their state, thanks to deploying their political machine (or, if you're one of the conspiracy-minded types, machines). In 2012, the majority (11 of 16) of the states decided by single-digits in the presidential race went the other direction from the state's governor. And historically, of all the elections since 1968, states have voted for a presidential candidate from the other party than that of the state's reigning governor 50.2% of the time; you can't get much more random than that. (David Jarman)
• House GOP: Looks like there's been an interesting behind-the-scenes wipeout of some of the most notorious dystopian wreckers who've been a thorn in Speaker John Boehner's side. The GOP Steering Committee has removed Reps. David Schweikert (AZ-06) and Walter Jones (NC-03) from the Financial Services Committee, and Reps. Justin Amash (MI-03) and Tim Huelskamp (KS-01) from the Budget Committee—reportedly all for failing to support their own party with sufficient gusto.
Indeed, Roll Call says that committee members "reviewed a spreadsheet listing each GOP lawmaker and how often he or she had voted with leadership," so it's no surprise to see that this quartet failed to make the cut. Jones has been an occasional gadfly from the left (mostly on foreign policy), but the other three, especially Amash, practically live to give Boehner agita, as I've written about before. Amash has been the biggest offender when it comes to voting against Republican budgetary measures, and renegades like him brought Boehner close to the brink more than once last year.
And you'll also recall that Schweikert defeated fellow Rep. Ben Quayle in a redistricting-induced primary earlier this year. The well-connected Quayle was the favorite of House leaders, and John Boehner went out of his way to fluff him. That led the Club for Growth to threaten Boehner to stay out of the primary—which he did, but in the end, it seems like he'll get the last laugh: It's a pyrrhic victory for the Club if Schweikert gets neutered in terms of committee assignments.
But you have to wonder if this kind of payback will actually succeed in bringing the Club and other conservative meddlers to heel, or if it'll just inspire them to fight the establishment even harder. The Heritage Foundation's action arm is already furious, in particular calling Schweikert's removal "unthinkable," but will it still be worth winning all these primaries if Boehner reduces all their favorites to backbencher status?
I'm going to guess they won't give up, though—these organizations have no purpose except to drive the GOP as far rightward as possible. They are predisposed against ever going along to get along. And that'll just mean that the GOP's intra-party turf wars will continue on their current trend and grow ever nastier, damaging the Republican brand further and occasionally even handing seats over to the Democrats (as we saw in this year's Indiana Senate race). Hey, I'm not complaining.
• Pres-by-CD: Jeffmd's been busy down at the SSP Labs' Skunkworks, and we now have presidential election results for another 50 congressional districts:
• Illinois (11 of 18, IL-01 through IL-10, IL-12)
• Iowa (state)
• Kentucky (state)
• Michigan (10 of 14: MI-01, MI-02, MI-06 through MI-09, MI-11 through MI-14)
• Nevada (state)
• Utah (1 of 4: UT-01)
• Wisconsin (state)
Starting out west, Obama's numbers held up surprisingly well in California, with
Dan Lungren's Ami Bera's CA-07 going for the President at a comparable clip to 2008. The numbers also suggest that Gary Miller in CA-31 shouldn't rest too easy, as he's the Republican (likely) with the bluest district at 57 percent Obama (fractionally bluer than it was four years ago).
In Nevada, the difference between NV-03 and NV-04 at the congressional level also showed itself upballot: Obama's strong(er) performance in NV-04 undoubtedly helped Steven Horsford across the finish line where John Oceguera fell short (though of course the 3rd was not an open seat).
The 3rd and 4th districts in Iowa, though, show some differences between the Congressional races and the Presidential race: Vilsack-King in the IA-04 came in right around the presidential toplines, but Dem Rep. Leonard Boswell in IA-03 lagged Obama badly.
Moving next door to Wisconsin, we can see just how brutal the Republican gerrymander was, and potentially why Messrs. Zerban, Kreitlow, and Wall all finished at roughly the same place (11-12 points back of their respective Republican opponents). Remarkably, four districts (the 1st, 6th, 7th, and 8th) all flipped from Obama wins in 2008 to Romney wins in 2012.
In Illinois, the effect of the receding home-state tide was fairly obvious, with Obama losing a handful of points in almost every district. Perhaps the Democratic foil to Wisconsin, the congressional map kept Obama in the mid-to-high 50's in the suburban swing districts, which allowed them to fall nicely into the Democratic pickup column. Dem Bill Enyart also deserves credit for whomping Republican Jason Plummer by as much as he did in IL-12 (where Obama only narrowly squeezed out a win).
There wasn't a "home-state" effect in Michigan per se in 2008, but Obama also saw a drop here, partially owing to Mitt Romney's decision to contest the state (at least more than McCain did, anyway). Consequently, several narrowly-Obama districts are now Romney districts (perhaps again showing the power of the gerrymander, as in Wisconsin).
Finally, the Kentucky numbers show us that Ben Chandler had quite the tide to swim against, with Obama's numbers dropping considerably in KY-06. It's nowhere as bad as KY-05 next door, though, which swung more than 8 points against the President, giving him just 23 percent. It would take the title for reddest district calculated so far, but for UT-01, where Obama only narrowly crossed 20 percent.
Also, a few administrative notes: The various Google Docs holding the calculations might be offline periodically, as more updates are incorporated. Additionally, thanks to everyone who has been sending us various calculations—even if we aren't always able to response, it's definitely appreciated. As you can tell, this exercise is fairly data-intensive, and we want to make sure that everything is incorporated consistently and accurately. (jeffmd)
• Twitter: Please welcome Daily Kos Elections' David Jarman to Twitter. A must-follow for all data junkies!


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Police Explorer Walden & Fireman Beau
Police Explorer Walden did some extra exploring today.Fireman Beau was in town and looking for a new man to have some fun with. After a brief introduction, the two began stroking themselves to a full hard-on. Walden seemed a little nervous, so Beau offered some assistance. Enjoying the new mouth that Walden had around his juicy cock, he plowed in and out of Beau's face with deep sighs of gratitude.After an intense oral cleaning, Walden wanted a bit more of Beau's great features. Flipping Beau over on all fours, Walden buried his dick deep inside the Fireman's tight ass. Moaning and groaning from the great pleasure that Beau was receiving, he seemed to be in heaven as he was getting his brains fucked out.Barely holding on, Walden begins to pump fast and harder, making Beau moan even louder than before. Almost there, Walden quickly pulls out and lets Beau have it all over his back. He leaves a creamy white lake between the dimples of Beau's back end.As the cum-juice
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This article is part of the supplement: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BioComp 2009)
Global protein interactome exploration through mining genome-scale data in Arabidopsis thaliana
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1 College of Life Sciences, the Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150040, China
2 The Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and The Institute of Biomedical Sciences, School of Life Science, East China Normal University, 500 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200241, China
3 Shanghai Information Center for Life Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, 200031
4 Rush Cancer Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
5 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS-39406, USA
6 Daqing Institute of Biotechnology, Northeast Forestry University, Daqing, Heilongjiang 163316, China
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BMC Genomics 2010, 11(Suppl 2):S2 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-11-S2-S2Published: 2 November 2010
Many essential cellular processes, such as cellular metabolism, transport, cellular metabolism and most regulatory mechanisms, rely on physical interactions between proteins. Genome-wide protein interactome networks of yeast, human and several other animal organisms have already been established, but this kind of network reminds to be established in the field of plant.
We first predicted the protein protein interaction in Arabidopsis thaliana with methods, including ortholog, SSBP, gene fusion, gene neighbor, phylogenetic profile, coexpression, protein domain, and used Naïve Bayesian approach next to integrate the results of these methods and text mining data to build a genome-wide protein interactome network. Furthermore, we adopted the data of GO enrichment analysis, pathway, published literature to validate our network, the confirmation of our network shows the feasibility of using our network to predict protein function and other usage.
Our interactome is a comprehensive genome-wide network in the organism plant Arabidopsis thaliana, and provides a rich resource for researchers in related field to study the protein function, molecular interaction and potential mechanism under different conditions.


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A Deck – Renovations Part 2
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The Pancake Artist
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Getting On With The Show
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America's founding myths are often wielded like clubs to batter political rivals, especially today by well-funded Libertarians. One such myth treats the Founders as "free market" ideologues, while another portrays them as militarily non-aggressive and anti-imperialist, a pleasing but false narrative, says historian Jada Thacker.
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DAGUPAN CITY, Philippines—Eight fishermen from Bolinao who had been reported missing telephoned the owner of their boat Saturday to say they had survived a stormy day out at sea and managed to land their vessel somewhere but could not find their way home as they did not know where they were.
"Everyone is accounted for. We are now trying to locate them so that we can send an ambulance to fetch them," Bolinao municipal administrator Wilfredo Castelo said.
The Coast Guard had sent boats out to the West Philippine Sea to search for the fishermen.
Castelo said the fishermen could not say where their boat had landed because they were not familiar with the place and had lost their global positioning system gadget in Friday's squall. "I'm sure they did not land in Bolinao. Otherwise, they should be familiar with it," he said.
He said the fishermen left the village of Balingasay on the 14-ton boat Jomar Hurvey on June 11 to hunt for yellow fin tuna, which is abundant in the open sea.
They were to have sailed some 100 nautical miles off Bolinao and "not return until their boat is full," Castelo said.
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But a low pressure area brought heavy rains and whipped up strong winds along the western seaboard on Friday and the boat may have been swept by strong waves, Castrence said.
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Castrence said he was told the boat was 47 nautical miles northeast of Bolinao.
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Except for Lebios, who is from Barangay Pilar, all the rest are from Barangay Balingasay in Bolinao.
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In this work, an automatic speech segmentation algorithm with text independency was implemented. In the algorithm, the use of fuzzy memberships on each characteristic in different speech sub-bands is proposed. Thus, the segmentation is performed a greater detail. Additionally, we tested with various speech signal frequencies and labeling, and we could observe how they affect the performance of the segmentation process in phonemes. The speech segmentation algorithm used is described. During the segmentation process it is not supported by any additional information on the speech signal, as the text is. A correct segmentation of the 80,51% is reported on a data base in Spanish, with a rate of on-segmentation near 0%.
(IJCSIS) International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, Vol. 8, No. 1, April 2010 Speech Segmentation Algorithm Based On Fuzzy Memberships Luis D. Huerta, Jose A. Huesca and Julio C. Contreras Departamento de Informática Universidad del Istmo Campus Ixtepec Ixtepec Oaxaca, México {luisdh2, achavez, email@example.com Abstract— In this work, an automatic speech segmentation and without any type of additional information to the content of algorithm with text independency was implemented. In the the speech wave which could provide some help to the algorithm, the use of fuzzy memberships on each characteristic in segmentation. Promising results in the segmentation based on different speech sub-bands is proposed. Thus, the segmentation is phonemes were reported. performed a greater detail. Additionally, we tested with various speech signal frequencies and labeling, and we could observe how However, there has been little effort to study factors that they affect the performance of the segmentation process in affect the performance of the segmentation beyond the phonemes. The speech segmentation algorithm used is described. implementation of the algorithm. During the segmentation process it is not supported by any additional information on the speech signal, as the text is. A The present work shows results of the performance of the correct segmentation of the 80,51% is reported on a data base in segmentation process with variants on the speech signal Spanish, with a rate of on-segmentation near 0%. frequency and labeling. In the experiments, the DIMEx100 data base of the Spanish spoken in Mexico was used. Keywords-component: Speech Segmentation; Fuzzy Memberships; Phonemes; Sub-bands Features FACTORS WHICH TAKE PART IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THE SPEECH SEGMENTATION INTRODUCTION Recently, works related to automatic speech segmentation Speech recognition systems provide a natural in phonemes, tested under conditions that include different communication environment between people and computers. speakers, utterances expressed in natural conditions without Basically these systems require two processes to carry out the any vocabulary restrictions or any additional information on understanding of the speech signal: the segmentation process the content of the speech wave, known as text independence. and the segment recognition process. These testing conditions affect the performance of the The speech recognition systems are based on units such as algorithm. However when considering them in the words, syllables, diphonemes and phonemes, the phonemes experimental phase they allow more realistic results and of being the smallest set. A speech recognition system based on better quality to be obtained. phonemes reduces the number of units needed for recognition. Therefore, it is crucially important to know which factors take Therefore, it reduces the confusion during the recognition part in the final result. Some factors that affect the process. performance of the segmentation are as follows: The segmentation process will determine the existing limits Aspects of the speakers between the speech units considered within the signal. The To include different speakers to the tests assesses how quality of the segmentation process directly affects the quality robust the algorithm is when dealing with diverse natural styles of the recognition process since vague segments will perform of speech, where there are some features such as the speaker's poorly during the recognition process and therefore perform diction, rate and intensity. Diction is related to the right poorly in the whole system. pronunciation and articulation of the words. An appropriate Works of segmentation based on sub-words using syllables diction results in utterances that can be heard clearly and [1,2] and phonemes [4,5], to mention some, have been intelligibly by the receiver. On the other hand, the speaker's reported. Many have been tested under a series of restrictions rate refers to the amount of words or sub-words spoken by time such as the use of limited vocabulary [1], a small number of unit, or more exactly, the speed at which a word or an utterance speakers [4], and the use of additional information. These are is expressed. At high rates of speech the clarity of the known as text dependent, as the ones reported in [1,3]. utterances is reduced. The intensity of the speech is related to the amount of energy involved in the emitted wave. When there is a greater intensity there is a major emphasis between A series of segmentation algorithms [5, 6, 7] has been the phonetic transitions. The factors of the speaker mentioned proposed. These have been tested with various speakers, above influence in the articulation of the words, and due to naturally spoken utterances with a wide range of vocabulary, their effects, the transition between some phonetic limits is not 229 http://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/ ISSN 1947-5500 (IJCSIS) International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, Vol. 8, No. 1, April 2010 clearly defined in the signal [9]. These aspects affect the On the other hand, some encoding schemes are extracted performance of speech segmentation. A better performance is from the frequency domain such as MFCC, PCBF, Bark reached when the speaker has good diction, low speech rate spectrum and Mel spectrum. The best results for the and high intensity. segmentation process [5] were obtained in the later spectrum. Aspects of the Signal Mel Spectrum The most important aspect within the signal is the sampling Stevens and Volkman in [12] proposed the Mel scale. It frequency. With a greater number of samples obtained from the was obtained from experiments on human hearing perception. original signal during the digitizing better detail is revealed. They proposed that the perception level with respect to the However, more noise or unnecessary signals of frequency frequency heard follows a logarithmic scale expressed by the might be included. In accordance with the Nyquist-Shannon equation: = 2595 Theorem it is sufficient to have the quantity of samples which come out with a frequency of at least twice the base frequency. (1) Types of Labeling There are levels of labeling that define the limits of In order to obtain the speech codified in Mel spectra, a segments contained in a speech signal. The levels of labeling bank of filters emulates the critical perception bands, where depend on the number of allophones, closings in stop and the boundaries of the filters coincide with the center of the affricate consonants, glides and, sounds of accentuated vowels adjacent filters; their own axes follow the Mel scale. The to mention a few. In this work utterances from the DIMEx100 corpus of the Spanish spoken in Mexico are used. The corpus is filters obtain the average of the concentrations of energy of described below. The utterances used in the tests include the each central frequency corresponding to each frame of the following levels of labeling as described in [10]. speech signal, where each frame is a segment of the speech (usually of 10 ms). • Level T54 At this level the 37 most frequent allophones of Mexican frame Spanish are represented, as well as the 8 closings in stop and affricate consonants, ([p_c, t_c, k_c, b_c, d_c, g_c, tS_c, dZ_c]) and the 9 vowels that allow an accent ([i_7, e_7, E_7, a_j_7, a_7, a_2_7, O_7, o_7 and u_7]); the complete inventory of allophone units is also represented at this level. • Level T44 This level considers some basic acoustic aspects, and some syllabic features; the level includes, besides the 22 m1 m2 m3 m4 m5 m6 m7 m8 prototypical allophones of Mexican Spanish, the closings in stop consonants and the voiceless affricate consonant ([p_c, Figura 1. Obtaining the Mel spectrum in vectors t_c, k_c, b_c, d_c, g_c, tS_c]), the allophones near voiced stops([V,D,D]), the 9 vowels which allow accent ([i_7, e_7, E_7, a_j_7, a_7, a_2_7, O_7, o_7, u_7])and the glides ([j, In the present paper, Mel spectra found in feature vectors, w]). Also, a single symbol is allocated to consonant couples where the size of such vectors is equal to the number of filters ([p/b, t/d, k/g, n/m, r(/r]) at the end of a syllable or a applied to each frame of the signal, are used. Each filter is syllable coda ([-P, -T, -K, -N, -R]). applied to a frequency sub-band to obtain a quantification of the energy in it. On the other hand, to carry out the • Level T22 segmentation, the approach of comparing distances between At this level solely the 22 allophonic forms (inventory) objects represented by feature vectors is applied to determine which are related with the phonemes of the Mexican the phonetic limits. Spanish are represented. This is one of the aspects that must be considered, since the type of labeling might affect the segmentation performance, as it is shown in the experiments SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM section. Some segmentation algorithms are based on features of the Extracted information of the speech signal time domain such as the ones reported in [6,8], as well as features of the frequencies domain, such as the ones reported Some features can be extracted from the time domain as in [4, 5,7] which perform the phoneme segmentation with text well as from the frequency domain. Segmentation algorithms independency. The proposed segmentation algorithm uses that use features of time domain such as intensity [6, 8], speech feature vectors in particular the codification schemes energy and zero crossing rates, to mention a few, have been based on Mel spectrum. Each vector represents the features of reported. the wave of speech in diverse intervals of frequency at a moment of time t. For each frequency interval, a fuzzy space is Identify applicable sponsor/s here. (sponsors) 230 http://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/ ISSN 1947-5500 (IJCSIS) International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, Vol. 8, No. 1, April 2010 defined in order to obtain a better detailed spectral The first condition is oriented to obtain the local maxima quantification in each case. This fuzzy space is defined as based in this simple condition, while the second allows obtaining the minimum and maximum spectrum of each sub- selecting the significant local maxima. band, with overlapping of 50%. For each spectrum the High, Mid and Low memberships regarding the frequency interval in IMPLEMENTATION AND EXPERIMENTS which they reside are obtained. In the experiments, tests with frequency variations, In order to obtain a quantitative representation of the labeling, encoding schemes, and the use of fuzzy memberships existence or non existence of a spectral change between frames, on the Mel spectra were carried out. The features extraction a summation of the corresponding distances in each sub-band is and the segmentation process were implemented using the computed for an instant of time t and, in this way, the distance freeware PRAAT v.4.16.3 [11]. between compared frames is established. In order to determine Data Description the distance between the feature vectors of each frame, the Tests were performed using Spanish utterances obtained following formula is used: from the DIMEX100 corpus. The corpus was recorded in a sound study in CCADET, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de µ − µ + México (UNAM), with a mono format of sampling at 16 bits, = µ − µ + and a sampling rate of 44.1 KHz. , µ − µ (2) Speakers age ranges from 16 to 36. They have more than 9 years of formal education in Mexico City. A random group of speakers in the UNAM (researchers, students, teachers and workers) was selected, with an average age of 23.82. 87% of Where is the number of given features sub-bands in the them do not hold a degree. 49% of utterances of the corpus are number of filters used in the extraction of Mel spectra. The expressed by females and 51% by males. Speakers from distance of a frame is obtained from the features of its adjacent Mexico City were chosen for this corpus, since this variety frames. The previous equation gives the distances that exist in represents the variety spoken by the majority of the population each sub-band with respect to each membership of each in the country. adjacent frame, applying summation to the distances of each Experimental Data sub-band. A sole distance with respect to the frame in process is obtained. In the test phase 240 speech signals were used. There were a total of 12655, 12551 and 11192 phonetic boundaries using labeling of 54, 44 y 22 phonemes respectively and Features corresponding to 30 speakers (15 males and 15 females). The High Mid Low signals were extracted from DIMEx100 corpus with Spanish Pre-emphasis filter Sub-band1 D1,1 Dt,1 sentences. D1,2 Dt,2 Measurement of Performance Sub-band2 The algorithm performance was evaluated with commonly used means such as in [5, 6, 7, 8]. Filter Bank Sub-band D1, -1 Dt, -1 S D = 100 ⋅ d − 1 -1 S (3) Suband D1, Dt, t Where D is the measurement of over-segmentation, Sd is the Phoneme Rules number of points of segmentation detected by the algorithm, boundaries and St is the number of real points of segmentation. Figura 2. Algorithm based on fuzzy memberships of the Mel spectrum. S Pc = 100 ⋅ c S (4) t The representative distance of each frame is analyzed to establish if it is a candidate to be a phonetic limit. The Where Pc is the percentage of the correct detections, and Sc is conditions used for the selection of these limits are: the number of points of correct segmentation. The segmentation points are considered as correct if the distance to 1. Dt>Dt-1 y Dt>Dt+1 the true point of segmentation is in the range ± 20 ms. 2. Dt> 231 http://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/ ISSN 1947-5500 (IJCSIS) International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, Vol. 8, No. 1, April 2010 Using Fuzzy Memberships A difference of 2.25% was obtained on the segmentation on Comparative results for the use of fuzzy memberships are sample signals at 44 Khz and 16 Khz, using a labeling of 54 shown in the table 1. In this test, 44.1 KHz speaking signals phonemes. and labeling based on 54 phonemes were used to test the TABLE IV. RESULTS OF THE SEGMENTATION USING DIFFERENT LABELING phonetic boundaries. WITH SIGNALS OF 8 KHZ. TABLE I. SEGMENTATION RESULTS WITHOUT FUZZY MEMBERSHIPS. Labeling Pc D Sd Sc Pc D 54 phonemes 78.26 -0.10 44 phonemes 78.12 -0.30 Without fuzzy memberships 12663 9851 77.84 0.06 22 phonemes 77.14 0.60 With fuzzy memberships 12570 10189 80.51 -0.67 Furthermore, there is no significant difference in the There is a considerable contribution when fuzzy segmentation performance when labeling of 54 phonemes and memberships on each sub-band per frame are used. The 44 phonemes are used. Indeed, there is a slight difference due improvement is approximately 2.67%. This approach was also to the fact that labeling is assigned to the segments and not to the number of boundaries in the sentence. However, for the used in the segmentation algorithm with text independence labeling of 22 phonemes there is a considerable difference with based on the signal intensity presented in [6]. Subsequent tests regard to the other levels related to the number of existing include fuzzy memberships. segments in the segmented utterance. CONCLUSIONS Using different sampling frequency and labeling Despite the fact that frequency affects the quantity of In this work, factors such as frequency, labeling and fuzzy memberships were tested. Fuzzy memberships contribute samples contained in a speech signal, in this work we tested additional information to each sub-band enhancing the with a speech signal with the original sampling of 44 KHz. segmentation performance. In these particular experiments an Additionally the same signals, re-sampling to 16 and 8 Khz, improvement of 2.67% was obtained without increasing the were tested. insertion rate. On the other hand, with the use of higher frequency better results in segmentation were obtained. The TABLE II. RESULTS OF THE SEGMENTATION USING DIFFERENT LABELING WITH SIGNALS OF 44 KHZ. labeling is an important feature to keep in mind during the evaluation of the algorithm segmentation. 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Biggest total payment in 2012, according to city listing
Last year's pension reform measure for San Diego has not been completely implemented but the city has fulfilled a requirement to post a list of all its pensioners and how much they are paid annually.
The city posted a list, but it's confusing and misleading in a number of ways. For instance, it lists as its top "2012 pension" the $365,000 paid to a front-line police officer.
The listing provides no further information about the officer, not even a name, but U-T Watchdog followed up and found the pensioner in question is retired Officer Robert J. van Wulven, whose annual pension is about $73,000.
Van Wulven's payment for 2012, as listed by the city, included a $291,738 lump-sum payout from a special retirement account into which he received retirement benefits while still working. That supplemental money is supposed to last van Wulven, 56, for the rest of his life.
The list posted by the city on its website contains these kinds of vagaries throughout, so getting a true picture of the annual benefits collected by retired employees without additional data and records requests is impossible.
The list was posted as required by Proposition B, the pension overhaul passed with 66 percent of the vote in June 2012. The measure mandated 401(k)-style retirement plans, instead of guaranteed pensions, for most new city workers. Not all of its provisions have been put in place by the city, including a ban on pensions for city workers who commit felonies on duty.
The pension posting includes the final job title, years of service, and a total of payments made to that person from the pension system — including regular pensions and special account payouts all in one sum. For retirees who opted to roll their special funds into an individual retirement account, those funds are broken out separately.
The numbers shown appear simple but are not.
"It's more of a keyhole than a window, but you do get a peek, and I applaud them for presenting it," said Bill Holder, dean of accounting at the University of Southern California, who served for 10 years on the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. "The more sunlight that's brought to bear on it, in my view, the better."
Important information needed to measure adequacy or generosity of a pension benefit is not provided — salary information, hire date and age at retirement. Because there are no names attached, a multiple-year analysis is also not possible based solely on what's on the city website.
It's also difficult to discern whether the data released by the city shows a full year for each pensioner, because many have a partial year of payments when retiring and upon dying, which is not noted in the data.
The posting does mark progress in transparency when compared to the information made available by other governments.
Rae Ann McNeilly has obtained pension data from around the country for the Chicago-based Taxpayers United of America.
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METAIRIE, La. -- Hurricane Isaac and the disaster relief effort that followed struck out the last two weekends of baseball at Zephyr Field in Metairie.
The stadium was used as a major staging area for evacuation charter buses, the Louisiana National Guard and first responders after the storm.
'We were occupied once again for about a little over a week,' said Zephyrs Chief Operating Officer Ron Maestri.
Maestri said the Triple-A baseball team lost eight home games and had to cancel other events planned for the Zephyr Field parking lot.
'We're not trying to be difficult, but I think when other people get paid and if they are going to use this continuously there should be compensation for us.'
Maestri also said he has no problem with the state using the facility, especially during a state of emergency, but his team is now out tens of thousands of dollars in lost revenue.
According to the team's lease agreement with the state-owned stadium, it has use and control of Zephyr Field except during an emergency.
'The decision to use Zephyr Field is a state decision,' said Doug Thornton, the senior vice president for the firm that manages the stadium, Superdome and New Orleans Arena. 'That comes out of the governor's office of homeland security when there is an emergency and they have the sovereign ability to make that decision.'
Thornton said the state is not responsible for the Zephyrs lost revenue.
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What's it about: Remember the song 'Imagine' by John Lennon? Now, imagine a world that takes his vision to an extreme, reached by resorting to 'sameness', to the extent that all memories of the past are erased. A world with no feeling. No love. A world where choice is taken away. All in the name of the good of 'communities' now sustained on this belief system. Only one person, the receiver of memories is entrusted with holding the key to the past, just in case. A young man, Jonas (Thwaites) realises his mission when he learns from the Giver (Bridges). The film is based on the book by Lois Lowry.
What's hot: The acting (Streep could do this with her eyes closed. Bridges' part feels like a hangover from Tron: Legacy. The supporting cast is competent). The music. The photography. Noyce's preciseness in direction. The existential questions a subject like this, throws up, are many. Very few movies these days make you think.
What's not: All said and done, it only scratches the surface in that respect. The film sets off in the right direction. You never know the origin of how the Communities were created, how the Elders evolved technologies and civilizations. Too much of what you see on screen, you have to take for granted, at face value. And the makers of the film have dumbed the content down a bit.
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WILMINGTON — The second day of training camp meant addressing a common source of frustration for the Bruins, as they worked on the power play in anticipation of the upcoming season.
The B's, who finished 20th in power play efficiency (scoring 16.2 percent of the time) in 2010-11 and 15th (17 percent) last season, used the following units, with Rich Peverley and Gregory Campbell mixing into the first unit:
PP1: Zdeno Chara, David Krejci, Nathan Horton, Tyler Seguin, Milan Lucic
PP2: Dennis Seidenberg, Dougie Hamilton, Chris Bourque, Patrice Bergeron, Brad Marchand
Campbell rotated in for Lucic as a net-front presence, while Peverley would replace Krejci on the point. Krejci said that he played some point on the power play in the Czech Extraliga during the lockout.
After the practice, Bergeron spoke about the power play work, noting that the B's will have to put Claude Julien and Geoff Ward's planning during the lockout to good use, and quickly.
"It's a short season. We don't have that much time, and we need to be prepared right away," Bergeron said. "Special teams on both sides are going to be very important. The power play is no different. We don't have that much time to work on it, so today was the perfect day to do that."
The Bruins have been pretty forthcoming with their intentions to have Hamilton on the team this year, so it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that he's already being used on the power play. After all, the season is five days away, so cushiony period of easing him into scenarios doesn't really exist. Bergeron thinks he'll handle the challenge well.
"He looks good," Bergeron said of Hamilton. "He seems to be pretty poised with the puck and making the right plays. It's only his second practice '¦ but today I got the chance to work with him a little more and he seems to be a very good player, very smart. He doesn't look like he's 19 out there."
Hamilton is an obvious choice on the power play, as the 6-foot-5 blueliner had 17 goals and 55 assists for 72 points in 50 games last season as the OHL's most outstanding defenseman.
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Type II (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus is associated with increased blood concentrations of markers of the acute-phase response, including sialic acid, α-1 acid glycoprotein, serum amyloid A, C-reactive protein and cortisol, and the main cytokine mediator of the response, interleukin-6. The dyslipidaemia common in Type II diabetes (hypertriglyceridaemia and low serum levels of HDL cholesterol) is also a feature of natural and experimental acute-phase reactions. We review evidence that a long-term cytokine-mediated acute-phase reaction occurs in Type II diabetes and is part of a wide-ranging innate immune response. Through the action of cytokines on the brain, liver, endothelium, adipose tissue and elsewhere, this process could be a major contributor to the biochemical and clinical features of metabolic syndrome X (glucose intolerance, dyslipidaemia, insulin resistance, hypertension, central obesity, accelerated atherosclerosis) but also provides a mechanism for many other abnormalities seen in Type II diabetes, including those in blood clotting, the reproductive system, metal ion metabolism, psychological behaviour and capillary permeability. In the short-term, the innate immune system restores homeostasis after environmental threats; we suggest that in Type II diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance long-term lifestyle and environmental stimulants, probably in those with an innately hypersensitive acute-phase response, produce disease instead of repair. [Diabetologia (1998) 41: 1241–1248]
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Scopists are a type of court reporter that translates and edits the shorthand notation of court stenographers into standard, written court transcripts. They use computer software to translate the phonetic language used by stenographers and carefully proofread their work. Scopists often must look up legal, medical, and technical terms to render them correctly in their transcripts. Scopists work from home or in the offices of stenographers or lawyers.
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"We have a $14 trillion debt in this country," Sen. John Barasso, R-Wyo., said in an interview with Fox on Thursday. "The president wants to raise the debt ceiling. I am not ready to give him a blank check or a new credit card. We did talk about the need to put a cap on spending, as opposed to a total debt cap, which the president, I think, is more interested in having, which would involve additional taxes. ... But raising the tax rates, to me, is completely off the table."
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