CROCKETT, Chief Justice.
An explosion of plaintiff's rifle he was firing while rabbit hunting blew off part of his one finger and injured another. He sued defendant for negligence in manufacturing the gun. The case was tried and submitted to the jury on the issues of negligence of the defendant and contributory negligence of the plaintiff. The jury found the issues in favor of the plaintiff, and judgment for $3,785.40 was entered thereon from which defendant appeals.
Defendant's fundamental attack is that there is no competent evidence of its negligence; and that the only reasonable deduction to be drawn from the evidence was that the mishap resulted from the plaintiff's own negligence, so the defendant was entitled to a directed verdict.
The defendant, Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, manufactures firearms under the well-known brand of Winchester. In March, 1955, plaintiff purchased from Al's Sporting Goods Store in Salt Lake City one of defendant's products, a model 70 Winchester rifle, caliber .220 swift. Complications plague this case because the plaintiff was not contented to use this gun, which is known for its high power and muzzle velocity, in its original form. He was a gun tinkerer and had to remodel it. A week or two after he bought it he had a Salt Lake gunsmith replace the barrel with one which would take a .25 caliber cartridge. The following spring he had a Reno gunsmith resize the bore of the barrel so that it would take a .270 caliber cartridge; and also had a new stock put on the gun.
The fact of critical importance is that the central portion of the gun, which the experts call the "receiver" was not changed. Our concern is with this receiver, which receives, handles and ejects the shells, because it was the "backfiring" of a cartridge which broke the top portion out of the receiver and injured the plaintiff's hand.
In the usual firing of a cartridge the receiver is not subjected to particularly heavy pressure because this is borne by the cartridge casing and the chamber into which the cartridge fits in the base of the barrel. However, it is necessary that the receiver have adequate strength to guard against possible explosions backward because of the fact that occasionally a cartridge will rupture or "separate" at the base when it is fired, in which event the explosive force of the gas, produced by the exploding powder, comes backward into the receiver. If the receiver is of the proper strength and quality of steel it holds this force and the gas escapes through small holes in the receiver designed for that purpose.
The negligence charged against the defendant is that the receiver was not of proper quality, so that when a cartridge did rupture, the explosion came backward into the receiver and shattered it, resulting in the injury to the plaintiff. He seeks recovery under the now well-established doctrine which imposes liability upon the manufacturer for injuries resulting from defects in such a product when it is used in accordance with its intended purpose.
Through witnesses who had made tests of the metal of the receiver, plaintiff produced evidence that the steel was faulty in three particulars: that it had too high a sulfur content; that the manganese content was not uniform throughout; and that it was harder than it should have been. In regard to those facts, Robert O. Kron, a metallurgical engineer, testified: that a high sulfur content tends to weaken steel; that the lack of uniformity in the manganese content makes it heterogeneous or spotty in its quality, instead of being uniform or homogeneous, as it should be; and that such spottiness provides focal points for possible fracture when the steel is subjected to stress. The evidence also showed that under what is known as the Rockwell Test this steel had a hardness of between 47 and 51, whereas, the hardness most suitable for this particular purpose is from 40 to 43. Mr. Kron gave his opinion that steel with the higher hardness is more brittle and thus more likely to fracture under stress.
Fundamental to defendant's attack upon plaintiff's case is the charge that the latter's witnesses were not properly qualified as experts and that their evidence was therefore not competent. Defendant urges that the testimony of its expert, Mr. Richard E. Morgan, admittedly well qualified by training and experience as a metallurgical engineer, should be controlling. He disagreed with the essential parts of plaintiff's evidence and doubted the accuracy of the tests made and the testimony given by the plaintiff's witnesses.
When the subject under consideration involves some aspect of science, art, trade, or learning about which the general knowledge of laymen is not sufficient to interpret and apply evidence accurately in the finding of facts and drawing conclusions, one who has acquired special knowledge of the subject through study or experience may be permitted to testify as an expert and give his opinions in regard to it.
In view of the importance of the function entrusted to the expert witness, it is of great importance that the court carefully scrutinize his qualifications to guard against being led astray by the pseudo learned or charlatan who may purvey erroneous or too positive opinions without sound foundation. The practical exigencies of the situation make it necessary that the trial court be allowed considerable latitude of discretion in making such determination. His rulings in that regard should not be disturbed lightly, nor at all unless it clearly appears that he was in error in his judgment on the matter.
Conceded that defendant is correct in its claim that its expert witnesses had more formal education and training than some of those relied upon by the plaintiff, that is not the only basis for judging the reliability of testimony. Particularly, it is not the concern of this court on review. So long as there is reasonable basis shown to justify the trial court's permitting the witnesses to testify as experts, the testimony is allowed to come in as competent evidence. The qualifications of the witnesses then become one of the factors for the jury to consider in determining the weight to be given it. Without setting out the detail, it is sufficient to say that the showing made brought the question of the competency of plaintiff's witnesses within the realm of the discretion indulged the trial court in such matters. That being so, the evidence as above discussed provides a sufficient basis upon which reasonable minds could find that the defendant was negligent in the manufacture of the gun and that the faults resulting therefrom proximately caused plaintiff's injury.
The important aspect of the charge of contributory negligence is that plaintiff enlarged the size of the extractor slot. This is a notch cut in the side of the base of the barrel to facilitate the extraction of the cartridge and its ejection from the gun after it is fired. Figure 1 below shows the slot in defendant's standard barrel: figure 2 shows the slot as plaintiff had it enlarged. It is obvious that the slot as plaintiff had it cut is wider than in defendant's standard barrel. However, due to the fact that the cartridge, when in place for firing, does not fit flush into the barrel, but protrudes slightly out into the beveled portion, there is dispute between the expert witnesses as to whether cutting this slot removed support from the cartridge jacket and what causative effect it would have on an accident such as the instant one.
Defendant's contention as presented by its experts is that the enlargement of the extractor slot diminished the support to the side of the cartridge, making it easier for the cartridge to rupture; and that such larger opening permitted a more sudden surge of the explosion back into the receiver, causing it to break. Plaintiff claims that the width makes no difference for reasons explained below in discussing the testimony of his expert, Mr. Casull.
A critical point of dispute relates to the depth (length) of the respective slots. Mr. Morgan, the defendant's expert above referred to, whose qualifications are not questioned, testified that he had measured the depth of the extractor slot of plaintiff's gun with a micrometer and compared it with the defendant's standard Winchester and two other well-known makes: Remington and Springfield; that .147 of an inch of the cartridge is exposed in the Winchester and the Springfield; and .151 of an inch is exposed in the comparable Remington gun; but that in plaintiff's remodeled gun .186 of an inch is exposed. That amounts to .039 or about 1/26 of an inch more than is exposed in the standard gun made by the defendant. Both Mr. Morgan and another similarly qualified expert for defendant, Mr. Speer, were of the opinion that this modification of the extractor slot was sufficient to cause the accident.
On this point plaintiff's case rests upon the testimony of Mr. Joseph Casull. Defendant insists that he is not qualified as an expert and that his evidence is therefore incompetent, which would leave plaintiff's case without support. Mr. Casull's qualifications are these: He is the owner and operator of a garage in connection with which he has operated a sporting goods store for a number of years. He stated that he has constructed and worked with guns for 10 years; has experimented with the tempering of guns by heat treatments; has conducted numerous tests on firearms in studying to become proficient in their making; and is presently experimenting with and making cylinders for high-powered revolvers. While in fairness it must be conceded that he does not have the background of formal training of defendant's witnesses, what we have said above regarding expert testimony is pertinent here. The facts concerning his qualifications, and any limitations therein, were fully exposed before the jury, and they could take them into consideration in comparing his testimony with that of the other witnesses and determining the weight to be given it.
There is admittedly a point of critical concern about the testimony of Mr. Casull. He agreed on cross-examination that if the extractor slot of the gun was deeper (longer) more of the cartridge case would be exposed and thus increase the danger of it rupturing. There was no showing whether he actually measured the extractor slot as did Mr. Morgan. However, he had the two barrels in his hands and had examined them. He gave his opinion that there was no appreciable difference in the amount of exposure of the cartridge in defendant's standard barrel, figure 1, and that of the plaintiff's gun, figure 2. He explained this as follows: the base of the barrel is beveled inward for about 1/4 inch, as will be noted in the photographs. When the cartridge is in firing position it does not fit flush against the chamber but protrudes out a short distance (about 1/8 inch) into this beveled area. The purpose of this is so the extractor mechanism at the end of the bolt can fit around the rim of the shell to extract it. Thus the end portion of the barrel, which is beveled inward, gives no support to the cartridge anyway, so the widening of the slot has no effect; in fact, it could be enlarged to remove a still larger portion of the beveled area without diminishing the support the chamber gives the cartridge. There is the further fact that taking the defendant's evidence, the additional exposure of the cartridge by lengthening the slot would only be .035 (thirty-five thousandths) of an inch greater than the standard Remington; and only .039 greater than the standard Winchester. The negligible effect of this small increase in depth seems apparent when it is remembered that the slot runs around only a portion of the circumference of the barrel. Based upon the above explanation and his examination of the respective barrels, Mr. Casull gave his opinion that any increased exposure of the side of the cartridge was not a causative factor in the explosion.
Other evidence, which might be regarded as in accord with the plaintiff's theory and the opinion of Mr. Casull, is the testimony of Mr. Bliss Titus, a gunsmith of admitted qualifications, called by the defendant. In response to questions as to whether changing of the slot by plaintiff would cause this explosion if a cartridge ruptured, he answered: "Could be. Nobody could say, I don't think, and be honest, but it does take some support away. * *" And further: "* * * it is probably a factor." It is appreciated that this testimony is not necessarily binding upon the defendant, yet it is significant that one of its own experts appeared to doubt that the enlarged extractor slot was a causative factor. If it is only "probable" the jury would not be required to find such to be the fact; nor should it be so ruled as a matter of law, because there is no basis for saying the evidence preponderated that way.
Finally, it is charged that plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence in connection with the shells he was using in that: (1) he reloaded old cartridge jackets, (2) did not use the proper powder, and (3) did not observe due care in reloading them. Defendant says that the cartridge would not have ruptured unless there were negligence in one of those particulars, and that consequently plaintiff should be deemed guilty of negligence under the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur. It urges that this doctrine is just as applicable to prove negligence against a plaintiff as it is against a defendant, with which we agree. However, its usual purpose is to establish a prima facie case of negligence when proof is not available as to what caused a mishap that ordinarily would not happen in the absence of negligence.
The plaintiff himself qualified as an expert with respect to the loading of cartridges which he had done for many years. He had done technical work of that character for the U.S. Army at the Remington Arms Plant during World War II. He testified that it was common practice to reload standard shells as he did, and that he exercised due care in doing so. He also stated that the tolerance limit for such factory ammunition was 50,000 pounds pressure per square inch, whereas, the powder he used rated 45,000 to 48,000 pounds per square inch. This evidence joined issue by disputing the charge of negligence made by the defendant.
There was a conflict in the evidence upon the issues, and they were properly submitted to the jury. It is the declared policy of this court to zealously protect the right of trial by jury and not to take issues from them and rule as a matter of law except in clear cases. This idea was well and clearly set forth by Justice Frick:
Affirmed. Costs to respondent.
WADE and McDONOUGH, JJ., concur.
HENRIOD, Justice (dissenting).
A vital issue here is whether the jury acted reasonably in finding plaintiff free from contributory negligence. If we say it did act reasonably, it is difficult for this writer to imagine a case where a manufacturer would not have to respond to any purchaser of its commodity where the latter takes the liberty of changing it, abusing it, remaking it and using it with unrecommended substandard parts or accessories not designed for its use, as an officious busybody aptly labeled by the main opinion as a "tinkerer," whose tinkering plagued the case with complications because he "was not contented to use this gun * * * in its original form." The decision here places a premium on such tinkering and upon the unorthodox use of a standard manufactured article in a manner, and with substituted foreign parts, never dreamed of, contemplated by, designed for or recommended by the manufacturer. It makes the manufacturer an absolute insurer.
It is no answer to say, as does the main opinion, that plaintiff "seeks recovery under the now well-established doctrine which imposes liability upon the manufacturer for injuries resulting from defects in such a product when it is used in accordance with its intended purpose." In support, Hooper v. General Motors, Hewitt v. General Tires and McPherson v. Buick, are cited. None is in point, since none involved a commodity tampered with or altered, as here, by a tinkering purchaser. The quoted statement, as applied to this case, is most inaccurate, since it ignores the facts in urging or implying that the article here was "used in accordance with its intended purpose." The "intended purpose" in this case quite clearly was meant to contemplate a use of the rifle in its physical state at the time it was removed from the packing case, with recommended standard ammunition, and not as remanufactured and reassembled by a ballistic eccentric.
The main opinion repeats the trite aphorism that the "plaintiff * * * is entitled to have the evidence and every reasonable inference fairly to be drawn therefrom viewed in the light most favorable to him," to support what I believe to be an unrealistic conclusion. This easy out is no substitute for documentation of exactly why and where plaintiff acted reasonably. The opinion not only lacks such specificity, — it ignores an equally recognized rule that plaintiff is bound by the undisputed evidence. Here is the evidence which plaintiff cannot escape:
In March, 1955, plaintiff bought a nationally advertised, name-brand Winchester Model 70, .220 rifle. He removed the standard barrel, replacing it with an abortive one of different size and caliber, made by an unknown local gunsmith, whose genius or capability is not reflected in the record. With this hybrid substitute for the standard equipment, plaintiff was fortunate, nonetheless, to survive the firing of 150 to 200 rounds. Early in 1956, plaintiff's genius for disaffection from using the gun under normal, standard conditions, led him to seek and have another unknown Reno gunsmith resize the barrel to accommodate a longer cartridge, and to place a new stock on what, a year before, had been a standard, nationally advertized firing piece. At this juncture only the middle of the original rifle remained factorywise. It is not quite clear why this portion of the firearm had not been replaced by the gunnery idiosyncracies of the plaintiff.
Plaintiff not only was a tinkerer, but a "handloader," obviously harboring an indisposition to use standard ammunition, and entertaining a bent for manufacturing his own unorthodox slugs. Such ammunition, undesigned for the gun he bought, and unknown in the market overt for use in the now newly calibrated, converted, blunder-buss, nonetheless was employed by plaintiff. After using these home-made, overstuffed, undesigned, unrecommended cartridges filled with faster-burning, more explosive and more highly pressured slugs than ever had been used before, his luck ran out after firing but two rounds. On the third, the middle of his rifle blew up, removing part of his finger which, I suggest, the defendant involuntarily purchased through the agency of what I consider to have been a wholly unreasonable jury.
Very little of the main opinion is devoted to what plaintiff did, what happened, or the nature or extent of plaintiff's freedom from negligence. The remainder is a highly technical discussion of defendant's negligence, based on highly disputatious opinion testimony given by experts, (one of whom, called by plaintiff, was a service station attendant by profession, not a gunsmith) a general dissertation on the proper place for expert testimony in the corpus juris, and an unnecessary tribute to the jury system.
As to any deification of the jury system, I do not consider it sacrilegious or irreverent to urge that apostasy is in order where the veniremen become heretical and kneel to worship the false god of unreason. I think this case calls for such an apostasy. I believe we should do something more than render lip service to a system just because it is a system, or espouse any concept or near concept that suggests the infallibility of juries.
In my opinion the wholly uncalled for, unreasonable, unauthorized and negligent transmutation of an article bearing the reputation of a well-known, national manufacturer into an instrument of danger, by one having a passion for flouting recommended operational and functional standards, points up an inescapable contributory negligence, that, as a matter of law, calls for denial of recovery.
If we cannot take hold of a case like this and give relief from such a misguided conclusion as was arrived at by the jury here, having to resort to generality and easy, convenient rules for affirmance, the function of judicial review, in my opinion, not only is impaired, but tends to inspire disrespect for the judiciary on the part of the average layman.
CALLISTER, J., concurs in the dissenting opinion of HENRIOD, J.


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Payroll Tax • An Ad Valorem Tax • Statutory distinction between employers and employees is irrelevant. • Economic incidence depends on elasticity of Supply and Demand. • e.g.: If labor supply is perfectly inelastic workers pay all of tax regardless of statutory incidence.
Capital Taxation • Like other taxes--Draw S & D, statutory incidence determines which curve moves. • Shift if unit tax. • Pivot if ad valorem tax. • Open Economy: Normal S & D • owners of capital will bear part of tax • Open Economy, perfectly mobile capital: S is perfectly elastic. • Capitalists bear no tax. • Generally, the more open the economy the better able capitalist are to avoid tax.
Tax on Monopoly • Previously looked at competitive models. • Unit tax on good sold by monopolist. • Shifts D & MR down by amount of tax. • Leads to decrease in quantity. • Consumers pay more, monopolist nets less. • Profits shrink. • Despite its power, monopolists can suffer from taxation.
Taxation of Oligopolist • Incidence depends on how prices change. • Economists don’t have a single, generally accepted model of how oligopolists set prices. • Therefore, economists are uncertain about tax incidence under oligopolies. • However, for an oligopolist the best thing they can do is form a cartel and increase there profits by acting like a monopolist. (restrict Q, increase P) • To the extent taxes cause oligopolies to cut back on output, they move closer to the cartel solution. This causes their before-tax profits to increase--perhaps by enough to completely offset the burden of the tax.
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Land Taxes and Capitalization • Land is durable and fixed in supply. • In competitive markets the price of land should reflect the present value of a stream of after-tax rents. • When the tax is imposed the price of land falls by the PV of all future tax payments. • This process is called capitalization. • The burden of the tax forever is on whoever owns the land at the time the tax is announced
General Equilibrium • Have been looking at only one market--partial equilibrium. • Now want to look at how, for example, a tax in the auto industry will affect the markets for steel and beer. • To keep it simple we will look at a world where there is no savings and only two commodities (food and manufactures) and two factors of production (capital and labor).
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Harberger Model • Assumptions: • Constant Returns to Scale • One industry is capital intensive the other labor intensive. • Perfect factor mobility • Competitive profit maximizers • Fixed amount of capital and labor • Consumers have identical preferences. • Look at differential tax incidence
A Commodity tax: tF • Increases relative price of food, people buy less food, more manufactures. • Some of the K & L used in food production goes into manufactures production. • If food is relatively more capital intensive, then the only way the manufacturing sector will absorb lots of capital is if the price of capital falls in both sectors. • More generally, a tax on the output of a particular sector will hurt all of the suppliers of the input used intensively in that sector.
Commodity Tax (cont.) • Things which increase the damage done to capitalists by a tax on food. • The more elastic the demand for food. • The greater the difference in K/L ratios between the food and manufactures sectors. • The harder it is to substitute capital for labor in the manufactures sector. • Because capitalists and laborers have identical preferences, we don’t need to look at the tax effects on the uses side of the budget.
Other Taxes • Income Tax (t): Factor supplies are by assumption fixed. Thus, this tax burden cannot be shifted. The burden falls in proportion to people’s incomes. • Tax on Labor (tL) Since both sectors are taxed, labor won’t migrate between sectors. Since labor supply is fixed (inelastic), workers bear full burden of tax
Partial Factor Tax (TKM) • Output Effect: The price in the taxed sector (manufactures) will rise causing a decrease in the quantity demanded by consumers • Will decrease the relative price of the intensively used factor • Factor Substitution Effect: The price on the taxed factor (capital) will increase causing the manufacturing sector to use less capital and more labor. • If Manufacturing is capital intensive, both effects work in the same direction, and the relative price of capital must fall. If Manufacturing is labor intensive, the net result is theoretically ambiguous. This partial factor tax could actually hurt labor. • Hurts capital as long as labor can be substituted for capital
Changing the Assumptions • Different Consumer tastes: Affects distribution on uses side. • For example, if capitalists consume a lot of manufactures and these goods are labor intensive, then a tax on capital may hurt labor. • Mobility of Factors: If a factor is immobile, the taxed factor will bear the entire burden of a partial factor tax. It cannot escape the tax by migrating to another sector. • Variability of factors: If factors are variable, then in the long run, less of the taxed factor will be supplied. • For example, if capital is taxed, less will be supplied in long run, this will increase returns to capital, and weaken the returns to labor. That is, in the long run, some of the tax can be shifted onto labor.

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Peoples Democratic Party members in the House of Representatives from Lagos State on Wednesday affirmed their loyalty to party.
They pledged commitment to the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee of the party and debunked rumours that they had defected to another political party.
In a statement in Abuja, one of them, Oghene Egoh, said himself and other PDP lower chamber members, including: Rita Orji, Tony Nwosu and Tajudeen Obasa, remained loyal to the party.
Egoh, therefore, urged the party’s members and supporters in Lagos and the country to ignore the people parading themselves as “Labour PDP” in places like Amuwo Odofin and Ajeromi Ifelodun areas of the state.
Egoh revealed that the crisis rocking the party in the state was not Makarfi or Ali Modu Sheriff’s issue, but between Chief Bode George’s group and another group.
He said: “I want to emphasise for the purpose of clarification that Lagos PDP is Makarfi. PDP Lagos is loyal to Makarfi and the Supreme Court ruling is victory for us all.’’
Explaining further, he said that George’s group consisted of his loyalists in the party, while Independent Group was made up of elected members of PDP at the state and federal levels.
According to him, the Bode George group chose to defect to Labour party after losing in the primaries to the Independent group, who chose to remain and fly the party’s flag.
Egoh said: “This information is important because some people are parading themselves as Labour PDP in places like Amuwo Odofin and Ajeromi Ifelodun, deceiving Ndigbos and the general public that Labour party is PDP.
“It is obvious for everyone to see that Labour Party is in deep crisis at the moment because money was not remitted to their national treasury.”
The lawmaker urged the PDP members to vote for the party and not Labour Party in Saturday’s council polls in the state.
Egoh added that he and his colleagues did not only attend the party’s Caucus meeting on Tuesday in Abuja, but remained an integral part of the “Makarfi PDP” in the National Assembly.
He said: “We want to warn dishonest politicians seeking cheap votes to desist from peddling fake news.
“We will not allow our people to be deceived by those who want to encourage fraud with lies. We implore the party faithful to come out en masse to vote in the Makarfi-led group in the upcoming local government elections in Lagos.”


Renewed Interest in Fuel-Cell Vehicles Featured Pattern: P0980 October 2016
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The commercialization of fuel-cell vehicles (FCVs) is lagging behind the commercialization of electric vehicles (EVs). FCVs use hydrogen as fuel, and the fueling infrastructure that FCVs require remains a key barrier to the vehicles' commercialization. The development of hydrogen stations and consumer adoption of FCVs are locked in a catch-22 situation: Without readily available hydrogen stations, consumers are hesitant to purchase FCVs; without consumers to purchase FCVs, companies are hesitant to develop the fueling infrastructure necessary to make hydrogen stations readily available. Industrial-gas manufacturer The Linde Group (Munich, Germany) is hoping to overcome this dilemma by launching the first car-sharing program for FCVs. BeeZero (https://beezero.com/en), which is launching in Munich, Germany, could facilitate growth of the FCV market and provide incentives for the wider adoption of FCVs and hydrogen stations. Recent developments in fuel-cell technology could bypass the problem of hydrogen infrastructure altogether. In June 2016, Nissan Motor Company (Yokohama, Japan) announced that it is developing the world's first bioethanol-fuel-powered solid-oxide-fuel-cell vehicle. Ethanol is easier to integrate with existing petroleum infrastructures than is hydrogen, and the technology—which Nissan wants to commercialize by 2020—could kick-start the FCV market.
And scientists are developing novel materials to advance fuel-cell technology. Recently, researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, California), and colleagues from other institutions discovered an organic material with high proton conductivity. This discovery could lead to the development of biomimetic proton-conducting materials with improved conductivity and durability, and such materials could find use as fuel-cell membranes. In addition, uncertainty in the supply and cost of lithium and other raw materials in use in the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries could ultimately drive the commercialization of FCVs. The growing portable-electronics and EV markets are increasing global demand for economical high-performance batteries. As a result, the cost of lithium carbonate in China, for instance, has tripled since mid-2015, and ongoing disputes between mining companies and the government of Chile—home to the world's largest lithium reserves—are stalling production growth of the metal.
The Development of this Pattern
The Linde Group is launching the first car-sharing program for FCVs.
Nissan Motor Company is developing the world's first bioethanol-fuel-powered solid-oxide-fuel-cell vehicle.
Uncertainty in the supply and cost of lithium and other raw materials in use in the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries could ultimately drive the commercialization of FCVs.
Renewed Interest in Fuel-Cell Vehicles
Various developments in business models, technological advances, and resource availability are renewing interest in the use of fuel-cell technology in vehicles.
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The U.S. fuel-ethanol industry is reaching new production records monthly. Annual production increased by 30% in 2003, in large part because of ethanol's substitution for the nonbiodegradable octane booster MTBE in gasoline. According to the Renewable Fuels Association, production could grow another 18% in 2004 to more than 3.3 billion gallons of ethanol.
- SoC391 — Narrowing Automotive-Energy Options (August 2009)
This Signal of Change reviews energy options in the automotive arena at a time when the recession is forcing both governments and companies to make hard choices.
- SoC652 — Hypersegmenting the Automotive Market (May 2013)
Automotive manufacturers could find themselves adopting segmentation strategies more commonly in use in product categories that have shorter product-life cycles.
- SoC815 — New Batteries, New Business Models (August 2015)
Manufacturers and installers can use unique sales and lease strategies to sell inexpensive prepackaged batteries.
- P0832 — The Electric-Vehicle Market Is Moving (October 2015)
An increasing number of automotive manufacturers are entering the electric-vehicle and battery-technology markets.
- P0842 — The Pace of Electric-Vehicle-Battery Development (November 2015)
The pace of developments that relate to batteries for electric vehicles is accelerating on various fronts.


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US Treasury Secretary floats idea of digital dollar maintained by the Fed
Janet Yellen may be open to having U.S. regulators consider a digital currency, but still seems to have strong concerns about .
In an interview on the New York Times’ DealBook DC Policy Project held today, Yellen said it makes sense for the Federal Reserve to look into a digital dollar. Speaking to Andrew Ross Sorkin, the Treasury Secretary said a digital dollar maintained by the Fed could result in “faster, safer and cheaper payments,” but added there were “a lot of things to consider” before a possible rollout. She questioned how regulators would “manage money laundering and illicit finance issues” as well as the impact on the banks and Fed.
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Registered Nurses Call On VA Secretary To Sign Contract
October 30, 2018
National Nurses United (NNU) today sharply criticized Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Robert Wilkie’s refusal to sign the contract VA government negotiators reached with National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC)/NNU VA registered nurses in July following two years of protracted negotiations.
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On my previous post on ozone, reader Jeff asked:
1) What is the current standard for ground ozone?
2) Which businesses, specifically, are trying – I mean succeeding – in blocking the new standards?
Jeff, I felt that the answers to your questions were complex enough to warrant another post (and probably even a book!). Here they are in brief.
The Current Ozone Standard
The current ground-level ozone standard is 84 parts per billion (ppb), which was set in 1997.* Or, the current ground-level ozone standard is 75 ppb, which was set in 2008. Sound confusing? It is. In essence, the 2008 standard was considered final, but the EPA has maintained that:
(b) The 1997 standard—and the implementation rules for that standard—will remain in place for implementation purposes as EPA undertakes rulemaking to address the transition from the 1997 ozone standard to the 2008 ozone standard.
(c) EPA is in the process of reconsidering these standards (set in March 2008).
In other words, the implementation of the 2008 standard was postponed after the Obama administration decided to revisit it. The American Lung Association has demanded at a minimum that the EPA enforce the flawed 75ppm standard that the Bush administration put forward, because even that was an improvement.
It’s important to note that the science on ozone has progressed considerably since 1997. The EPA’s independent Clean Air Science Advisory Committee—made up of seven of the country’s most knowledgeable air pollution experts—and EPA staff scientists reviewed more than 1700 studies and in 2007 determined that a standard between 60 and 70 would provide sufficient public health protection.
Even the Bush administration recognized that the 84 ppb standard was too high, and set the final standard at 75 ppb. This was challenged by public health advocates, however, because the Clean Air Act did not allow the Bush administration to set the standard at a level that was inconsistent with the science. The 75 ppb standard was suspended by the Obama administration, which claimed to want to revisit the flawed standard to bring it in line with the science, which the public health advocates took in good faith.
One of the arguments the White House made for postponing a decision was that a new scientific review was underway that might yield different results. But in fact, ground-level ozone since the 2007 assessment has shown even bigger health consequences of high levels of exposure, meaning that it is highly likely that for the next assessment, scientists will recommend an even stronger standard. So there’s no justification for inaction.
So Which Businesses Influenced the President’s Decision?
It’s a little difficult to figure out which specific companies are behind all of the pressure on the White House, mainly because their trade associations do all of the dirty work. For example, on July 15, 2011, representatives from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers, Business Roundtable and other industry groups met with senior EPA leadership to discuss their opposition to strengthening the standard.
Concurrently, they were taking their case directly to the White House, appealing all the way up to White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley to stop the EPA from doing its job.
The Importance of Visitor Logs
Ironically, and to the administration’s credit, one of the reasons we know about meetings like these is that the White House is releasing its visitor logs, and the EPA makes the calendars of its top leadership available to the public. That allows reporters, watchdog groups, and concerned citizens to better investigate who is influencing decisions that are supposed to be made on science.
Of course, there’s nothing wrong with stakeholders meeting with White House and federal agency officials. In fact, UCS and other public interest organizations do it all the time, on ozone and scores of other public health and environmental issues. But the public can hold its government more accountable when we know who’s at the table.
We think that the practice of releasing visitor logs should be extended throughout the government, because as this case illustrates, lobbyist influence is too strong. We have asked federal agencies to follow the lead of the White House and commit to releasing their visitor logs as they develop agency-specific scientific integrity policies.
And certainly, with the increased ability of corporations to spend money on elections, and with business groups stating openly that an ozone decision based on science would hurt the president’s reelection chances, pressure on the president to undermine the Clean Air Act again will only increase. Especially when even Stephen Colbert can create a Super PAC to support or oppose candidates for public office with little accountability.
*To make it even more confusing: The 1997 standard is actually 0.08 parts per million because the technology was not advanced enough to measure to the individual part per billion. Now, we have that capability, but for the purposes of compliance with the standard, a measurement of 84 ppb is rounded down to 80 ppb, making 84 ppb the effective upper limit.


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Australia gets new communications minister
Deputy PM Anthony Albanese has been given the communications portfolio in the Ministerial reshuffle announced by returned Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
He replaces Stephen Conroy, who has been in charge of the country’s key communications agenda such as the national broadband network project, reform of media ownership rules as well as broadcast license fees.
Mr Conroy resigned from the Ministry following last week’s leadership challenge which saw Kevin Rudd reinstated as Australia’s Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today announced that Albanese will take on the Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy portfolio, in addition to his Infrastructure and Transport portfolio. Albanese is one of Rudd’s strongest supporters, and his movement into Communications demonstrates that Rudd believes can sell communications reforms.


Here some background information on real-world turboprops that doesn't apply exactly as described to X-Plane, but provides valuable background information for a designer using X-Plane's Turboprops.
Below is an example of free turbine engine (CT7 series turboprop engine Saab 340).
CT7 Turboprop Engine sectional flow diagram. This illustrates the "free turbine" concept. The compressor section and first 2 power turbines are not connected to the last 2 of the 4 power turbines. Therefore, the 2 last power turbines turn independantly of the rest of the engine. The propeller (prop gear box) is connected to the last 2 power turbines by the solid central shaft.
There are typically two types of engine controls for a turboprop engine. Some have throttle, propeller RPM and fuel (condition) levers. On this type, the condition levers control the amount of fuel that enters the engine, by controlling the Fuel Control Unit (FCU). Others have control levers (throttle and blade angle) and condition levers (fuel and propeller RPM combined). See diagrams below for Saab 340 example of control/condition levers.
Accordingly, the panel requires slightly different sets of instruments for each of the turbine types.


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The European Union’s top leader has praised Taiwan for donating millions of masks to help the bloc battle the coronavirus pandemic, in a highly unusual show of solidarity with the self-ruling island expected to provoke Beijing. “The European Union thanks Taiwan for its donation of 5.6 million masks to help fight the #coronavirus. We really appreciate this gesture of solidarity,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a Twitter post on Wednesday. “This global virus outbreak requires international solidarity & cooperation,” tweeted von der Leyen, who is four months into leading the executive arm of the 27-nation bloc. “Acts like this show that we are #StrongerTogether.” Beijing considers Taiwan a wayward part of China to be brought back into the fold – by force, if necessary. Taiwan, currently led by an independence-leaning party, has been running its own governments since 1949. The European Union thanks Taiwan for its donation of 5.6 million masks to help fight the #coronavirus . We really appreciate this gesture of solidarity. This global virus outbreak requires international solidarity & cooperation. Acts like this show that we are #StrongerTogether . — Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) April 1, 2020 Von der Leyen’s praise-filled tweet comes just days after US President Donald Trump signed into law the Taipei Act – an acronym for the Taiwan Allies International Protection and Enhancement Initiative – designed to bolster Taiwan’s diplomatic standing in the world. Her post on the social media platform also follows the World Health Organisation facing a wave of criticism for evading media questions about Taiwan and appearing to be influenced by Beijing. A WHO official reportedly hung up on a Hong Kong journalist when confronted with questions about Taiwan during a video interview earlier this week. Why China’s ‘mask diplomacy’ is raising concern in the West Unlike Washington, it is unusual for the EU to publicly support Taiwan, since the 27 nations in the bloc maintain varying degrees of closeness with Beijing – complicating the EU’s endeavour to produce major diplomatic statements or decisions unanimously. In recent weeks, the EU has grown concerned about China’s massive but selective donations to European countries, prompting the bloc’s top diplomat to accuse China of practising the “politics of generosity”. By focusing on Taiwan’s donations of masks, the bloc made its manoeuvre “in such a way that the EU could hit China with the same argument it uses all the time: that mask donations should not be politicised”, a diplomatic source said. Apart from donating face masks, Taiwan's top research academy, Academia Sinica Fans, has also been in talks with the EU to develop vaccines and rapid testing, the island’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, said last month. There was no immediate response to von der Leyen’s tweet from the Chinese diplomatic mission to the EU. Beijing has already lashed out at Taiwan over a joint medical-help initiative with the US. “The joint statement between Taiwan and the US once again exposed the Democratic Progressive Party’s despicable move and political plot to use the Covid-19 pandemic to achieve independence,” the State Council’s Taiwan Affairs Office said last week. Taiwan has garnered praise internationally for recording one of the lowest Covid-19 infection rates by territory or country, despite its proximity to the mainland. The island, which has a population of 23 million, has had five coronavirus deaths from 329 cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Sign up now and get a 10% discount (original price US$400) off the China AI Report 2020 by SCMP Research. Learn about the AI ambitions of Alibaba, Baidu & JD.com through our in-depth case studies, and explore new applications of AI across industries. The report also includes exclusive access to webinars to interact with C-level executives from leading China AI companies (via live Q&A sessions). Offer valid until 31 May 2020.


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I’ve been meaning to post a link to Festival of the Trees, a blog carnival that debuted on July 1 at Via Negativa and will be hosted each month by a different blog. A couple of Curt’s photos are included in the initial Festival, as is some of JLB’s work, among many, many others.
Submissions are currently being accepted for the 2nd festival, to be hosted by Roundrock Journal. Deadline is July 29–this Saturday!–for August 1 posting. For more information on Festival of the Trees, including what type of material is appropriate and how to enter your tree-related blog work, click here.


Shenandoah Public Works Director Joseph Peart said the low bid for the project, which will include sandblasting both the exterior and interior of the tower and applying protective coating to the structure, is for $619,853 from contractor Tank Pro.
"The structure was built in 2002, and this has not been done since construction," Peart said.
Peart added the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality inspects the water tower annually and requested an update on the project in January. If the updates are not done, the city could face fines, or the water tower would have to be taken offline.
City Council previously discussed the project during its fiscal year 2019-20 budget workshop, where it was decided the project would be paid for out of the water and sewage enterprise fund. Prior to the project, the fund had $695,000.
Mayor Ritch Wheeler said he was in favor of still funding the project from the water and sewage enterprise fund to determine the true cost of water and sewage to residents.
While work is being done on the tower, water services are not expected to impacted.


Noughties heartthrob and High School Musical alumni Zac Efron has had plastic surgery done and people think he looks ugly and ridiculous.
Why Zac… why? One of the most beautiful people in Hollywood didn’t like his aging looks and decided to get plastic surgery done; now Zac Efron looks the Bagdonoff twins, fans think. But our source alleges the new look is just for a movie.
Zac Efron has always been considered classically beautiful and handsome. He has the perfect jawline, piercing eyes and perfect smile. I’m even swooning over him right now. But the 33-year-old High School Musical actor is appears to be ashamed of his aging looks and has decided to get some work done… and fans are not impressed.
Zac Efron has had some work done (and by work I mean plastic surgery) and now people think he’s ugly. He has had collagen injections done his chin and cheeks, added lip fillers, and it looks like he has had his nose done as well. Although Zac Efron has not confirmed that he has had surgery, and at the time this may just be rumours, it certainly looks like he’s had work done.
Perhaps the 17 Again star felt that he needed to make improvements after he split with his his super model Australian Vanessa Valladares. Things were getting serious as the couple were looking at buying a home together here in Australia but earlier this month Elle Magazine reported that the couple had split.
Maybe Vanessa saw what Zac had done to his faces and “noped” the heck out off there. Or maybe the breakup crushed his ego to the point where his self-confidence was shot and he felt he needed to make changes.
Surely being voted People’s Magazine most sexiest man alive in 2017 had to boost is ego a bit. It would ultimately be hard living up to that title continuously.
The Bogdanoffs welcome Zac Efron into the fold. pic.twitter.com/roSUVpJKr0— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 23, 2021
Now people are comparing Zac Efron to the Bogdanoff twins and there might be a similar story behind the story for everlasting youth. The brothers started noticing that time doesn’t spare their appearance, so they went for a measure of last resort. However, a simple face lift wasn’t the end of it. The brothers had chin implants, cheek implants, fillers and botox. Still, Igor and Grichka have always denied the over-indulgence in plastic surgeries.
Zac wants to look more like Tom Selleck.
A source close to Disney has told us not to worry too much about this new transformation and that that Zac’s new look is just for his upcoming role in the Disney reboot of Three Men and a Baby where he plays the lead, Peter Mitchel, previously played by Tom Selleck; universally considered the most manliest man ever.
Tom Selleck has often been called the most manliest man alive. He’s won the sexiest man alive award more than any other, so much — in fact — that even his moustache as won an award. Our source is confident that Zac Efron just had a bit of work done to his chin to he could look as good Tom Selleck with a moustache in Three Men and a Baby.
It could be that Zac Efron just doesn’t feel manly enough when compared to Tom Selleck and felt he needed to super-charge his chin? It is a possibility.


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At any one time between June 1942 and mid-1944 there were between 15,000 and 45,000 American servicemen in camp in New Zealand. For both visitors and hosts this was an intriguing experience with much of the quality of a Hollywood fantasy.
The American soldier found himself ‘deep in the heart of the South Seas’, in the words of his army-issue pocket guide. He usually came here either before or immediately after experiencing the horror of war on a Pacific island, and he found a land of milk and honey (literally), of caring mothers and ‘pretty girls’. Little wonder that in later years Leon Uris would write a novel about the experience (Battle cry) and that Hollywood would make a film (Until they sail) with Paul Newman as the heart-throb.
For the host people, now nearly three years into the anxieties and deprivation of wartime, the arrival of thousands of well-fed young Americans with smiles on their faces, charm in their hearts and money in their pockets was like a Hollywood romance come briefly to life. New Zealanders too have recalled the experience in novels and a television drama.
What gave the encounter its special quality was that the two societies were sufficiently similar to communicate easily, but sufficiently different to find each other intriguing. They were former British colonies with a frontier past. Both believed in democracy, civil liberties and the capitalist way of life. Most people in both countries spoke English as their mother tongue. And from December 1941 the similarities became even stronger as the two nations, each with a Pacific coastline, found themselves at war with Japan.
Yet there were also significant differences. The United States was a large and confident society of more than 130 million people, many of whom, a generation before, had been European slum-dwellers or peasants. New Zealand, by contrast, was a small, isolated country with 1.6 million inhabitants, about the population of Detroit, Michigan. It remained in many ways colonial in outlook, a Britain of the South which had some difficulty convincing the new arrivals that it was not ruled by Winston Churchill.
So the ‘American invasion’ (as New Zealanders affectionately called it) brought a considerable clash of cultures. While Kiwi and Yankee spoke the same language, they did so in different accents. Though they shared a fondness for owning cars, they drove them on opposite sides of the road. The meeting of these two cultures – similar, yet different – is the theme of this web feature.

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Music Classes, Lessons & ENSEMBLES
The BW Community Arts School offers a wide array of instrumental and vocal music educational opportunities. From private lessons to classes to ensembles, there are opportunities for all ages and all abilities. Leveraging the facilities and resources of Baldwin Wallace's renown Conservatory of Music, CAS students are able to take advantage of many opportunities unique to the campus. In addition to these immersive experiences, educators, conductors and artists can find ways to engage in our professional development opportunities.
Music Department Faculty
Jennifer Andersen-Germaine is an accomplished flutist although the piccolo is her main instrument. She has studied under Mary Kay Fink, William Hebert, George Pope, and Randy Hester. Jennifer has been an Adjunct Professor of flute for the Baldwin Wallace University Community Arts School since 2001. An active musician, Jennifer is a member of the Ekklesia Ensemble and the Cleveland Winds. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance from Baldwin Wallace and a Master of Music in Flute Performance from the University of Akron.
Jeanette Hagerty is the Program Coordinator – Theatre and Music Ensembles for the Community Arts School and is a proud graduate of Baldwin Wallace University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in arts management in 2016. Hagerty is a member of the Arts Management Association and brings three years of leadership experience with her, including a performance background in theatre. As program coordinator, she holds a working knowledge of community engagement as well as event and program management. She was born and raised in the Northeast Ohio area.
Music classes are a great way to introduce musical concepts to students in a group setting. Our music classes and programs for early learners from infants through elementary school are designed and taught by expert faculty who understand child development and musical growth. Typical class offerings include MusicPlay, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, and Rhythmic Solfege.
Students may enroll in private lessons to receive one-on-one instruction and coaching from a Community Arts School faculty member. Lessons are offered at many times during the week with most of them occurring in the weekday afternoons, weekday evenings and weekends. Students typically enroll in lessons that meet once a week for a half-hour for the full semester. The Community Arts School offers a rolling admission where students may enroll at any time during the semester.
Private lessons allow each student to develop independently through the careful guidance and mentorship of expert, credentialed faculty.
The BW Community Arts School offers instrumental and vocal ensembles for students in grades 4 through retiree! Each ensemble fosters a unique, positive culture that supports individual growth while also teaching the skills and training needed contribute to the artistic development of the greater ensemble. Our New Horizons Band and Orchestra Program allow adults of any ability to participate in a full band or string orchestra ensemble. The BW Men’s Chorus and BW Women’s Chorus are open to students high school age and up. An audition is required for each.
Suzuki Center for the Violin
The Baldwin Wallace Suzuki Center offers private lessons and group classes using the Suzuki method for ages 4 & up. With careful guidance from specially trained teachers, parents help their children learn to play violin through the same natural process that occurs when their children learn to speak. The establishment of this "Suzuki triangle" provides the stimulation and encouragement that children need to acquire other critical learning skills.
Summer Arts Programs
For over 90 years, The Conservatory of Music at Baldwin Wallace University has been bringing school age and adult learners to campus for focused music study through workshops, camps and training institutes. Offerings include Summer Music Camps for Grades 4-9, High School College-Prep Intensives, and the Summer Institute for Music Teaching and Learning. Caring staff, a safe campus, outstanding facilities, excellent food service and comfortable residence halls combine to make each participant’s experience a positive one. The BW dining hall provides an array of healthy meal options and will work with individual camp participants regarding dietary needs.
In partnership with the Baldwin Wallace University School of Education, the BW Community Arts School offers professional development opportunities for certified educators and teaching artists. With the University campus only being minutes from the airport and with modern on-campus living arrangements, participants around the world seek out opportunities to come to BW in the summer to learn from highly credentialed faculty. The portfolio of offerings is typically made available in January.


In June 2011, I came to Tohoku University from China in the immediate aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake and started my research at the green power electronics laboratory led by Professor Tetsuo Endoh. The laboratory is deeply involved in the wide-range studies based on next-generation perpendicular magnetic-tunnel-junction (p-MTJ) spintronic devices, including research topics on device physics, device architectures and high-performance low-power very-large-scale integration (VLSI) applications. In the wake of heavy damage from the earthquake, we have maintained close collaborations with many academic, enterprise and governmental partner organizations, and rapidly reconstructed a world-leading design/trial manufacture environment for VLSI implementation based on both the novel silicon and spintronic devices. The p-MTJ devices developed in our laboratory are proven to be truly effective for both the enhancement of processing capacity and the reduction of power consumption of VLSIs. In particular, except the extensive use as binary nonvolatile memory device, the p-MTJ is also attractive to be flexibly utilized in non-von Neumann computational circuits as a current-drive programmable resistor.
I came to the Endoh laboratory with a background of VLSI circuit design for intelligent image processing systems, on which I had obtained my Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. Combining the VLSI circuit technology with the original p-MTJ devices of our laboratory, I am trying to open up a novel approach, the p-MTJ-based neuromorphic processors, for realizing brain-inspired VLSIs of future artificial intelligence. The neuromorphic processor is a recent high-visibility approach implementing the neural network in the VLSI processor consisting of millions of interconnected neuron circuits inspiring the learning and recognition functions of real neurons in the brain, in order to realize applications such as automotive vehicle control, human-computer interface, video surveillance, rescue robots and so forth. The challenging issue is that the neuron circuit as unit circuitry of the neuromorphic processor consumes a large circuit area and much electrical power, which has become the bottleneck for the practical uses in mobile and battery-driven systems.
As a breakthrough of this issue, we have developed a new neuron circuit employing compact and low-power analog architecture based on the p-MTJs. The neuron circuit consists of a number of synapses and a corresponding neuron body, in which the pulse-sequence voltage signals are utilized as neuronal inputs and outputs for realizing learning and recognition functions. We adopted the p-MTJs into the synapses, the key component of neuron circuit, which unidirectionally transmits the received neuronal inputs to the corresponding neuron body. In step with the transmission of neuronal inputs with large/small pulse width and pulse amplitude, the synapses in learning process will be activated/suppressed by recording a high/low-state synaptic weight in itself, where the p-MTJs are used as nonvolatile memory devices. This weight can be convolved to neuronal inputs again for recognition processes utilizing the p-MTJs as programmable resistors. Thus, the pattern of neuronal inputs can be learned as the pattern of weights stored in synapses, where the activated/suppressed synapses will pass-through/filter-out the neuronal inputs. The neuron body, finally, accumulates the signals from all synapses and gives a neuronal output responding to the patterns similar to the learned one. The developed neuron circuit successfully accomplishes high-speed color pattern learning and recognition within 0.15μs and 0.6μs, respectively. Because core functions of synapses are simply contributed by the p-MTJs, the circuit architecture becomes very compact, which requires only a few transistors for the attached circuitry. Moreover, the standby power dissipation is eliminated because the learning results can be stored in the nonvolatile memory devices (p-MTJs) without any electrical power. Furthermore, the operation power consumption during recognition processes is also minuscule because the synapse is designed to be driven by the neuronal input itself (a pulse voltage signal) without any other static power supply.
Based on the developed neuron circuit, building a large-scale and low-power neuromorphic processor becomes possible. Recently, we are attempting to apply this neuron circuit in specialized neural networks for achieving motion detection and object recognition applications. This study was conducted as the first effort to build a practical platform of non-volatile neuromorphic processor that can realize the general brain-inspired visual processing.
Yitao Ma and Tetsuo Endoh, "A Novel Neuron Circuit with Nonvolatile Synapses Based on Magnetic-Tunnel-Junction for High-Speed Pattern Learning and Recognition", Asia-Pacific Workshop on Fundamentals and Applications of Advanced Semiconductor Devices (AWAD 2015), 4B-1, pp. 273-278, Jeju KAL Hotel, Jeju Island, Korea, June 29-July 1, 2015.


I have a CM9 and like it for a carry gun. The triggers aren't the best but overall a nice little gun. Kahr's are well made. I have had zero failures and it shoots accurate for a small frame gun. I bought mine through Cheaper Than Dirt. I would shop around and get one for under $500 though.
Harry...I owned a Kahr CW9 that I tried to use for concealed carry. Great gun! While it was small, accurate, and reliable, the trigger just wasn't "me" so I sold mine to buy a S&W 642 Airweight revolver. I like the S&W much better for my personal requirements. I wanted a pistol/revolver for deep concealment. The 642 is all that and more. Mine is a .38 Special that is also rated for .38+P ammo. Whether it's a 9mm or .38+P, I think both will trip the "lights out" switch on a bad guy..... I have to say this for the Kahr line of pistols, they are a GREAT value for the buck. I, personally, would go with the CW9 over the PM9, just for the economics. Use the money you save and buy some ammo and go shoot it. If it suits your personal needs, go for it. If it doesn't work out for you, you can always trade it off for something else..... Just my experience... Dan Thome (Trap2)
I also have a CM9 and think its great. The trigger is long and smooth, it takes practice to leartn to use it well. I find the trigger to be easier to use than a double action revolver and it is easier to conceal.
I sold a CM 9 to a guy. The trigger was worse than terrible and the gun did not function worth a crap. We sent the gun to Kahr for the customer and it was quite an ordeal. I will do everything in my power not to deal with Kahr again and if a customer insists that we order them one, I will make a great deal to them....and any future problems is for them to deal with thru Kahr. That is my feeling on their product and customer service. Bryan
I carry a PM40, and while it's a bitch to shoot - it's quite light for .40 - shooting is the least point of a concealed weapon, once you've got one you can and will hit the target with. You're going to carry it a lot more than you're going to shoot it, and one that you will actually carry is loads better than the ideal gun that sits at home because it's uncomfortable to carry.
My heroine in my novel carries one, too, because I can describe it well.
I bought a CM9 for my wife to carry. We have run through about 200 rounds without any issues whatsoever. The PM9 is exactly the same gun, with cut engraving instead of stamped, and a little beveling on the slide. Keep the extra $200 and buy ammo for the CM9. It's a sweet little piece to shoot, and accurate. The trigger is long, like double actions should be, but very smooth with no stacking or rough spots. Budsguns in Lexington,KY has them for $432.


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