Albany, NY

Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York’s Capital District. Roughly 135 miles (217 km) north of the City of New York, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about 10 miles (16 km) south of its confluence with the Mohawk River. The population of the city was 97,856 at the time of the 2010 census.

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Light bulb adapter

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I have an idea for a cheap but useful invention: A light bulb socket adapter that contains 470 nF capacitor to reduce the current going to an LED bulb. For safety you’d also want to bridge the capacitor with a 1 megaohm resistor to discharge the capacitor.

The idea would be to greatly extend the life of the light bulb and significantly reduce power consumption while only slightly dimming the bulb.

But it would worth it even if you had to install brighter or additional bulbs to get the desired output due to greater efficiency. It would produce some reactance but they don’t charge for reactance and the apparent power still would be less.

Yes, I stole the idea from Big Clive so I can’t patent it. 💡

New York Removed a Governor in 1913 for Laundering Campaign Funds and Withholding Evidence – The New York Times

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New York Removed a Governor in 1913 for Laundering Campaign Funds and Withholding Evidence – The New York Times

Two days later, eight articles of impeachment were voted, two charging, that Sulzer had filed false statements of campaign spending and had committed perjury; three charging “mal and corrupt conduct” in connection with keeping witnesses from testifying at the committee hearings and failing to produce subpoenaed documents; one charging diversion of campaign funds to purchase stocks; another charging use of influence to alter stock prices, and the last charging that the Governor had attempted to twist legislators' arms to pass his legislation.

The most serious impeachment article alleged that Sulzer had listed contributions of $5,460 and expenses of $7,724.09 for his campaign. but had failed to report contributions totaling $9,000, among them $2,500 from Schiff and $1,000 from Morgenthau. Sulzer said that neglecting to report the money had been an oversight and that the money had been given to him by friends eager to help him out of financial difficulties.

According to Mr. Seitel's study, “Governor Sulzer showed unusual skill in ‘laundering’ money long before the practice and the term became more commonplace. Funds were transferred through a number of banks and securities transactions were carried out in the names of various brokerage firms.” But Sulzer insisted that his troubles stemmed from his battle with Murphy.