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At a recent meeting of the Wayne County Commissioners in Wooster, Ohio, the director of a local clinic that provides medical care for low income individuals said that the high deductibles in the federal Exchanges have created new barriers to health care and that the expansion of Medicaid has shifted the burden of low income medical care from the community and private charity to the state and federal governments.
Jaime Parsons, executive director of the Viola Startzman Free Clinic in Wooster, came to the commissioners seeking a Community Development Block Grant in April. She said the clinic decided to become Medicaid certified for the first time this year because of Governor Kasich's decision to expand Medicaid as a part of the Affordable Care Act. The clinic, which treated 2,259 patients in 2013 for a total of 9,826 patient visits, is now steering patients to Medicaid "instead of treating them for free and using community funding," Parsons said. The Daily Record reported in February that the clinic is being "forced" to drop the word "free" from its name because it now accepts Medicaid patients.
Despite the expansion of Medicaid, 52% of the Viola Startzman Clinic's clients remain effectively uninsured, despite efforts of Navigators to enroll people in the federal insurance Marketplace.
Parsons said many people are choosing to remain uninsured:
"And the reason for that is that they were above the threshold for Medicaid, but they went onto the Exchange. They sat down with our Navigator, looked through the plans that were available, and they may have found that the subsidy completely covered their premium, but now they have a $4000 or a $6000 deductible."
That is unaffordable for someone only bringing in $900 a month, according to Parsons.
In fact, the Affordable Care Act has created more barriers for the clinic's patients:
"If you choose not to get that second job you stay under the income and qualify for Medicaid. But the moment you work an extra shift, you pick up a little overtime, you do those things that help you move out of the poverty that you're living in, then it disqualifies you from free care and then you suddenly have this huge deductible hanging over your head."
Many individuals "are required to pay the $6000 out-of-pocket before they get anything covered," Parsons explained. "And so we have a lot of patients coming back to us and saying, 'We bought this insurance. I did what I was supposed to do. I'm trying to be a good citizen and meet the requirements, and here I am, I can't find a doctor to accept me. I can't come up with the $200-$300 to just see a physician and get diagnosed.'"
Commissioner Scott Wiggam asked Parsons for clarification:
"Let me understand this. The 48% are on Medicaid and/or are insured some other way, so they can afford it. You've got 52% that may be signed up for Obamacare but there's no way they're going to afford it … or they're better off not working at all and being completely covered?"
"That's what we're trying to prevent," said Parsons. But she added that there are a lot of obstacles for these individuals.
Commissioner Jim Carmichael said, "If you're not very sick, you don't have insurance, just like it used to be. And if you are very sick, you go to the hospital and they have to accept you, right? And you've got a $6000 payment, so you're probably not going to pay it, just like it used to be."
"What has changed except that we're funneling more money into some abyss?" asked Wiggam.
In many cases, hospitals are absorbing the deductibles of patients who can't afford to pay.
But hospitals' budgets are also being stretched by the Affordable Care Act. During negotiations leading up to the passage of the new healthcare law, hospitals agreed to $155 billion in cuts to the Medicaid disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) program over 10 years in exchange for provisions that would expand Medicaid in an attempt to reduce hospitals' uncompensated-care costs. The DSH program provides funding to hospitals that treat indigent patients. Hospitals asked the Obama administration to delay the cuts, in part because of the unexpected unpaid cost-sharing from patients who have enrolled in high-deductible plans.
Craig Bjerke, an OhioHealth system vice president and corporate controller recently told The Dispatch that he expects OhioHealth's bad debt numbers to grow faster than revenue in the future:
"We are anticipating they will go up in the future because of these high-deductible plans."
Last December the President signed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013, which included the so-called "doc fix" that delays the Medicaid DSH reductions required under the ACA until FY2016 and doubles the reduction amount in that year. While the delay gives hospitals some temporary breathing room, it also delays the promised cost savings from the cuts that were supposed to help fund Medicaid expansion.
A recent Moody's Investors Service report warned that bad debt is expected to increase in Ohio hospitals, in part because of the proliferation of high-deductible health plans that shift a greater percentage of healthcare costs to patients.
Crain's Cleveland said earlier this year that an inability to collect payments could "threaten hospitals' ability to make up for $155 billion in cuts to their federal reimbursements they agreed to absorb in order to expand insurance coverage under Obamacare."
Commissioner Wiggam said that the problem of the uninsured has not been solved by the ACA:
"You're going to have a ton of individuals in America that are in this position. They signed up, they're in the 8 million, but they really don't have health insurance. If something catastrophic happened, it's like it used to be."
Parsons agreed.
"There's probably more of a need for us today than there was four years ago because everywhere in the world is cutting the funding to help this population of people thinking, 'Oh, the government's got it under control! We solved everything. We filled the gap.' And it's not filled."
Paula Bolyard describes herself as a Christian first, conservative second, and Republican third. She is a member of the Wayne County Executive Committee and is owner and moderator of the Ohio Homeschool Yahoo! Group. She is a contributor atPJ Media Lifestyle, PJ Media, and RedState.
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The scene outside Sonoma County's 14th annual Emerald Cup, the premier festival for California's outdoor cannabis farmers, could almost be mistaken for the lot surrounding any music festival in America. Dreadlocked trimmigrants littered the grass selling wire-wrapped crystals or scalping tickets. Young guys in tie-dyed shirts hit dabs on the hoods of their parked cars. Groups of metalcore bros alternated between uncomfortably-long ponytails and equally-long shorts, whooping and hollering towards the entrance in an unbridled display of testosterone.
This was more than your average weed cup, though; it's a festival for growers, by growers. And despite the presence of usual suspects like "hip-necks" (slang for a hippie-redneck hybrid, a term which some people in the cannabis community use to describe the vibe of growers), dedicated stoner dudes, and more corporate-looking cannabis entrepreneurs, one demographic remained noticeably sparse over the two-day event: women.
While legality has opened the doors for more women to enter the cannabis industry than ever before, no facet of the industry is as male-dominated as the cultivation community, which the Emerald Cup mainly caters to. Inside the grounds, booths selling seeds, nutrients, and attack dogs to guard grow farms outweighed the companies offering the beautifully-packaged edibles and delicate smelling salves you would find at any SoCal weed fest. Of the 30,000+ attendees that visited the event over the weekend, I'd say fewer than 30% were women (and that's a generous estimate).
Free dabs are the universal language of cannabis events like The Emerald Cup, and they function as advertisement for booths selling flower and concentrates, as well as the festival's main form of entertainment (not including a performance by The Roots). Around my second or third rip — I don't usually dab, and immediately became too high to count — I bumped into Lisa, a cultivation scene veteran who now runs her own business selling clones to some of Northern California's best growers.
"The Emerald Cup is where the big growers come to get their seeds for the season," she told me while sitting on the grass in tie-dyed jeans. "People buy, like, $5,000 worth of seeds every year with all the new genetics and what they liked from last year. It's really a big seed expo." Lisa, who prefers to remain anonymous due to the black market nature of her operation, has worked through the ranks, doing everything from trimming to growing her own flower over the course of her ten years in the cannabis industry.
"Everyone always thinks you're someone's girlfriend," she lamented. "There are a lot of women trimming, harvesting, and manicuring the weed. There are a lot of women doing CBD salve-type body care stuff. But the growing side of it is really a male-dominated thing. It's hard work, heavy lifting, moving machinery. It's farming."
She continued as she twirled a 24k gold joint between her fingers. "It really takes a certain type of woman to be down with that, and there's a very small percentage of women who are doing the damn thing by themselves without a man orchestrating it for them. But I have some amazing girlfriends who are, and it's wonderful to see. Just the way a woman puts her energy into a plant, the female plant, and the connection women have with these plants… all the boys say the girls grow the best weed because we're nurturing, we're loving."
Paisley Sins, a 23-year-old grower who's been working in cannabis since she was 16, is another badass woman I met at the festival who runs her own operation. This year, she harvested 50 pounds of flower from 12 full-sun plants grown in 550 gallon pots, each of which she lined with pink fabric.
"This was my first year doing everything on my own," said Sins. "I worked for a lot of men over the past six years. I've pulled tarps, I've transplanted plants, I've made clones. I've worked on 99 gardens, two of them back to back. I've been raided. I've done the whole deal. Being a woman, there are struggles that make it more difficult."
Sins also articulated the other frustrations of working in a male-centric industry. "Everyone wants you to be their assistant, or their little wifey in the kitchen. They think they can take advantage of you because you don't have money to start. The truth is, most of the time, you're working for men."
After dab number five (seven, maybe?), I separated from my friends to wander the fairgrounds, wildly stoned. The sun was beginning to fade, and Bay Area freeze started rolling in from the mountains. As I navigated a sea of men ranging from friendly-looking tokers to rugged farmers, old hippies to guys who looked as if they were fresh off the prison yard, the reality of what these female growers do began to set in.
While many cannabis operations have transitioned in tandem with legalization changes, the cultivation side of the industry is still largely black market and underground, where there are no written contracts, legal constructs, or even websites associated with established "businesses." Most grows are located in areas where there's no cell phone service, and many describe The Emerald Triangle as the wild west of weed. In addition to the concerns every grower faces daily — like getting robbed, natural disasters, and other ways to get financially fucked — women deal with the added risk of sexual assault, and have to work twice as hard for the same respect male growers inherently receive.
After reaching a point of mild panic in an I-got-too-high-at-the-function type of way (something I hadn't experienced since high school), I was beyond stoked to see Pete Pietrangeli, owner of Acme Elixirs, a vaporizer and concentrate company based in Los Angeles, who led me through a labyrinth of booths to a hidden garden bar. Green plants lined the room, and guests were sitting on bales of hay. All the friends I came to the festival with were there, sipping IPAs beneath heated lamps.
Among them was Jane Stewart, the canna-powerhouse who organized The Emerald Cup contest and also runs the event's marketing department. She offered a more positive, albeit similar, take on being a woman in the industry, compared to the female growers I talked with.
"It's similar to the way you have to prove yourself in any industry," said Stewart. "Cannabis is male-dominated, but so is every other industry. I think the men that head up the cannabis industry tend to be a bit more evolved." She went on to describe how she was given a lot of trust and "blank space to see what I was capable of" in the beginning of her cannabis career, even before she had any weed experience on her resume. "If it weren't for those men in high places, I might not have been able to rise up the ladder so quickly."


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An elderly man fended off and detained an intruder who attacked his wife in their San Jose home Monday, and the suspect is now behind bars.
Yusef Youkhaneh, 82, said when he found his wife of 53 years bleeding on their back porch, he sprang into action, determined not to let the attacker get away.
"I hear the scream of my wife; I see my wife is bloody, her head is bloody," Youkhaneh said.
Christina Youkhaneh had gone out to tend to her garden when a woman, believed to be a transient, attacked her with a stick.
"She hit two times in my head; I run from her," Christina Youkhaneh said.
Yusef said the woman in her 30s or 40s was especially strong.
"Oh, like a tiger," he said. "She tried to bite me.
Yusef said he grabbed the suspect's leg and held her. As the brawl moved to the front of the house and then onto McKee Road, he said he tried to get neighbors to help.
"A lot of people were standing around," he said. "I said, 'Please help me hold her, I am tired.' But nobody helped me."
Yusef said he held on for more than 10 minutes while the suspect scratched and fought. He was able to keep her from running away until sheriff's deputies arrived.
Christina was taken to a hospital to be treated for head injuries and an injured hand.


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What's good for Nasdaq is not good for Apple shares, at least in the short term.
The tech-heavy index is reducing Apple's influence from 20 percent to 12 percent, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Apple's a victim of its own success, as their phenomenal growth over the past years has given it a disproportionate influence on the Nasdaq-100.
This protects the index from fluctuations or disruptions within just one company, shielding the other 99 companies from, for instance, product pipeline issues.
The rebalancing will have an immediate impact on mutual fund management, as analysts retool their holdings to reflect the rightsizing. Some market volatility is expected, but not over a long period.


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Ever had a moment so nerdy that you needed to tell the Internet about it? Read more nerd confessions at Collegehumor, and send your submissions to dorklypwnmylife at gmail.
I was playing Heavy Rain late one night. I got into a really intense quicktime sequence and forgot that my controller wasn't wireless. I jerked the controller too hard and it disconnected. Inputs were still flying across the screen as I frantically tried to plug it back in. I thought I'd lost the scenario but managed to come back and finish it. I was so excited that I started screaming at the top of my lungs. Just when I finished, my dad burst into my room holding his gun. My parents thought I was being attacked.-Brandon
I taught my dog to hide under a table when I yell, "Zombies! The zombies are coming!" Next I'm going to train him to stand in front of me and growl when I say, "Covenant dropship, inbound!"-Xana
In kindergarten, we were learning about opposites and the teacher used "go" and "stop" as an example. This really bothered me, since I was fairly certain that the opposite of "go" was "go backwards." In retrospect, I guess she could have meant acceleration and deceleration as opposed to velocity. I still hold that she should have used less mathematically ambiguous examples.-Anonymous
During winter break, my friend invited me to go see the Tron movie with him. He told me that he would pick me up at 11 A.M so we could get good seats. I set my alarm for 9:30 because I lazy and slow at getting ready. When my alarm went off, I snoozed a couple times, then turned it off and fell back to sleep. I started to dream about Star Wars. Padmé Amidala and Anakin were kicking some droid ass. When they finished they got in an elevator. In the elevator, there were two Green Lanterns. The fact that there were Green Lanterns confused me so much that it woke me just in time to get dressed and leave for Tron.-Anonymous
I spent $2200 on a 3D TV so I could watch Resident Evil: Afterlife in 3D the day it was released to blu-ray.-Gliff
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I just smoked a bowl and started to play Halo Reach online. First game there's a player named whitneyyymarie. That is my real God damn name in real life. I am tripping balls right now. I even told the girl it freaked me out. I am so freaked out I turned off my xbox. What are the God damn chances?-Whitney-Marie
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My favorite parts are where some asshat asks if ADM Keating thinks China will apologize about the Kitty Hawk incident. ROTFLMAO!
But this was great too:
The Admiral was asked if he had any final comment (about 38 minutes in).
"I do have one and it's a very serious topic. And one that certainly I need to bring to the attention of the Washington Press Corp. This is my seventh joint assignment and I am a very much a disciple of the Goldwater-Nichols bill and the dramatic improvements it has made in our military's ability to fight and win. However, this Saturday it all goes into a cocked hat when Navy will run roughshod over Army in Baltimore Maryland. Goldwater-Nichols doesn't count this coming Saturday. And I'm sure you will all be on Navy's side (this is when the serious face started to slip and a little half-smirk emerged) in this important engagement."
(At this point he outright grins and sits back in his chair - he looked like my Dad when he's very self satisfied)
Then the Army guy at the podium at the Pentagon cuts off his "Go Navy! Beat Army!"
The outrage!
So I will help you out sir.
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Forum for Digital Improvisation and Composition in Liverpool
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Holy Trinity Church Hall
Wavertree L15 Church Road
meetings monthly Sundays 5 pm - 7 pm
concept of the presentation
the concept is to bring to audition various multitrack compositions from different composers. It is an open meeting with tea and discussions. The idea is to experience new ways of listening to electronic music in space. So much music is restricted just to listen in stereo or even only with headphones. Another new concept is, that people should walk around. No mixing desk in the middle! You can find your own discoveries of the different messages, that were composed for boxes in different room positions.
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John Boehner says Barack Obama has promised veto unless sequestration cuts are eliminated
As the nation hurtles toward another possible fiscal showdown, both President Barack Obama and House Republicans are engaging in a pre-emptive blame game.
"Last month, through a series of Statements of Administration Policy, the president announced that he would not sign ANY spending bills this year unless sequestration spending cuts are eliminated – and replaced with his plan for higher, job-destroying taxes," wrote House Speaker John Boehner in a statement on his website on July 22, 2013. (Sequestration refers to the mandatory, across-the-board cuts in every federal agency that took effect earlier this year.)
The Ohio Republican was citing a pair of messages Obama released in June called Statements of Administration Policy. SAPs, as they are known, are used to officially convey whether an administration will support or oppose a particular bill pending in Congress.
We located the two statements in question, both of which addressed annual bills to fund parts of the federal government: H.R. 2216 (the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2014) and H.R. 2217 (the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2014).
Both SAPs were released on June 3, and they had nearly identical language in an underlined section, the usual signal of the document's main point.
"Unless this bill passes the Congress in the context of an overall budget framework that supports our recovery and enables sufficient investments in education, infrastructure, innovation and national security for our economy to compete in the future, the President's senior advisors would recommend that he veto (the bill) and any other legislation that implements the House Republican Budget framework."
We decided to check two elements of Boehner's claim. Did Obama really say he "would not sign" the bills? And did Obama's potential veto hinge on "sequestration spending cuts (being) eliminated"?
Veto threat kabuki
An almost Talmudic hierarchy of veto-threat language has developed over the years, remaining much the same regardless of who is in the White House.
Keith Hennessey, who spent several years as a senior aide to President George W. Bush and is now a lecturer at Stanford University, has developed a handy primer for the linguistic nuances of SAPs. The first three of his examples involve gradations of approval for pending bills. From there, the language proceeds, with increasing degrees of opposition, to:
• The administration opposes the bill.
• The administration strongly opposes the bill.
• If the president were presented this bill for signature, a particular administration official would recommend that he veto it.
• If the president were presented this bill for signature, the president's senior advisers would recommend he veto it.
• If the president were presented this bill for signature, he would veto it.
• If the president is presented this bill for signature, he will veto it.
• If this bill makes it to my desk, I will veto it. (This one is more commonly used in a public appearance than in a Statement of Administration Policy.)
So the statements that Boehner referred to used language that was about half-way up the hierarchy of presidential opposition.
We asked several experts in the back-and-forth between the White House and Congress whether they thought it was reasonable for Boehner to call Obama's language a sign that he "would not sign" the bills in question. Most took a middle ground, saying Boehner was right to suggest strong opposition by Obama but wrong to imply that Obama had closed the door to negotiation.
Obama's wording "is customary for a veto threat communicated through OMB -- they always leave enough wiggle room for compromise," said Donald Wolfensberger, a former Republican staff director of the House Rules Committee who currently directs the Congress Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Roy T. Meyers, a political scientist and budget expert at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, agreed, saying that Obama's wording is usually "meant as a strong 'no' … but a 'no' that is meant to say he is firm in his position and that it's time to negotiate."
Does Obama's threat hinge on sequestration?
Obama's SAPs don't explicitly say the restoration of sequestration cuts would trigger a veto, mentioning instead "legislation that implements the House Republican Budget framework."
In his statement, then, Boehner makes a reasonable point: Obama opposes the House Republican budget framework, which doesn't envision restoration of past sequestration cuts. In fact, it would make even deeper cuts.
The White House has "made very clear that their idea of a budget framework does away with sequestration," said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Boehner. "So he's saying he won't sign these bills absent a plan to do away with sequestration."
However, budget experts say Boehner went too far by suggesting that sequestration is Obama's specific line in the sand. The experts say that while Obama strongly opposes the current design of the House Republicans' budget, he left vague exactly what provisions he would agree to. Obama didn't say that restoration of sequestration cuts was non-negotiable.
"The president said only that he would veto bills unless it was part of a budget agreement, but he absolutely did not say what that agreement should be," said Stan Collender, a former Democratic staff member of the House and Senate Budget Committees who is now a partner at the lobbying and consulting firm Qorvis. "He did not insist that sequestration not happen or that taxes be raised."
Our ruling
Boehner said that Obama has "announced that he would not sign ANY spending bills this year unless sequestration spending cuts are eliminated."
Obama did issue a strongly worded statement opposing two spending bills backed by House Republicans, but Boehner exaggerated how firm a veto threat it was and underplayed the president's openness to negotiation. Meanwhile, Obama did say he opposed bills enacting the House Republican budget, but he didn't make restoration of sequestration cuts a non-negotiable demand in any negotiated deal. On balance, we rate Boehner's claim Half True.


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Chiro-Med & Rehabilitation was opened in May 2010, dedicated to providing you with exceptional outpatient chiropractic medicine, orthopedic rehabilitation, and sports medicine. Dr. Kenneth Sullivan-Bol and his team specialize in caring for those experiencing pain related to the spine and any other joint or extremity, as well as in helping with conditions that don't seem to be getting better.
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Every muscle in your body is connected to a bone. When a muscle contracts or goes int spasm, shortening its origin and insertion, it moves the bone towards the site of shortening. Addressing a joint before the muscles around the joint is why a lot of patients struggle or do not do well in therapy. At Chiro-Med & Rehabilitation, we ensure the tissues around your joint are taken care of before we address the joint dysfunction. Through chiropractic medicine and physical therapy, we treat:
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and replace it with the same line but with the &H0001 flag changed to &H0011 giving this result:
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Setting that flag option adds an Edit Line to the BrowseForFolder dialog. Instead of having to click down and expand the tree to pick a folder you can type or paste it in. It doesn't accept drag & drop but at least if you have your source and destination folders open in explorer windows you can click the title or address bar and copy/paste into the dialog. Makes it a lot easier than clicking down.
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Thanks, nice tweak.
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I didn't see The Ultimate Boot Disc in the list. If you click on the link, and scroll down the page to see all the tools it has you'll freak out. It's great to have a single CD that has so many kick-ass DOS tools on it. I would be lost without it. And of course, it's absolutely free. You know the old saying "If it's for free, it's for me!"
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One really piece of software (for me of course) I'm still using since windows95 is Pop-Mouse by pointix.
It's an utility that allows you to configure 4 mouse gestures and 4 mouse placements to open various dialogs, menus, sub-utilities and favorite place holders. For instance with one clockwise mouse movement I open a resizable dialog with all the shortcuts I've set in. Counter clockwise is the same but for system shortcuts. There are menus and sub menus and many all configurable things saving time, mouse deplacement and clicks.
the interface is based on basic elements of windows so don't expect shiny glassy vista elements but maybe you'l find it worth the try.
Being so old, the company is long gone but this is abandonware so it's legal. You can find it there with another utility they release at that time allowing scrolling without a scrolling button.
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And cherry on top, it works like a charm on 7ven without any compatibility trick.
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Welcome nemanja,
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By Isaac Butler
Longtime readers of this blog probably remember that my family is formed through transracial adoption. My older brother and sister are both adopted and both black. My younger brother's son (that'd be my nephew) is also adopted, and is also black.
I was pretty shocked when Melissa Harris-Perry decided to do a segment on Mitt Romney's grandson (who is, like my older siblings and nephew, adopted and black). I was further shocked-- and, I'll admit it, hurt-- when I saw what felt like mockery of the Romney family for adopting a black child.
A couple of years ago, in response to a small-minded piece about transracial adoption by one of my favorite writers, I decided to write my own essay about the subject. It was the first time that I discovered that, unlike most political issues I care about, transracial adoption is one of the few areas where most of the people against it, most of the people who view it as controversial or wrong, are fellow travelers of mine on the left. It may in fact be the only issue I care about in which I've been routinely hurt by liberals and radical leftists, rather than conservatives.
And to some extent I understand-- and even sympathize with-- the controversy. There is an international history of white people stealing the children of black and native peoples. There is a history in this country of social services applying a double standard to white and black parents that results in more children being taken from the homes of African Americans. I'm not ignoring this. But antagonizing parents who seek to give a child a loving home and the families that result is still wrong.
Part of me feels that the biggest problem with Melissa Harris-Perry's segment about the Romneys is that it simply wasn't funny. She apparently meant to humorously celebrate the diversity in the family of the recent Republican standard-barer. But in the segment's clumsy construction, it certainly came across as mocking the family for the particularities of its make up, and was thus inappropriate and hurtful. Which was surprising to me, given the source, a talk show host I greatly respect and admire, a woman with a clear and obvious ethical center.
That's why I was so relieved to read Harris-Perry apologize so graciously, with such obvious integrity and care earlier this week. I don't ask that people never fuck up. I ask that they acknowledge it, apologize and try to do better in the future. Harris-Perry did not try to dodge the gap between her intent and its reception. She did not apologize if people "misinterpreted" her as so many have done in the past. She instead said, "whatever the intent, the segment proceeded in an inappropriate way that was offensive. Without reservation or qualification, I apologize to the Romney family and to all families built on loving transracial adoptions."
I saw nothing in that apology that made me think that Harris-Perry was disingenuous or that she harbors some animus against transracially adopted families. She herself comes from an interracial family, and I could see how having that kind of biography made the jokes seem okay. Lord knows, I've gotten in trouble in the past for thinking that the particularities of my background give me some kind of pass for behavior I should know better than to do.
This is why I stand with Melissa Harris-Perry. Not because she did nothing wrong. But because she recognized her mistake and swiftly apologized.
In the wake of the firing of Martin Bashir and Alec Baldwin (firings that were, in my opinion, totally justifiable), it appears that Right Wing political operatives and media figures think it's open season at MSNBC and want to claim another trophy for their well appointed dens. Mitt Romney appears poised to milk this for everything it's worth, and given his record as an opportunist and lack of ability to convincingly portray any emotion other than anger, perhas I shouldn't be surprised.
I find this whole game odious, this fake offense-taking, this cheap point scoring, particularly on an issue that cuts so close to my particular bones. Melissa Harris-Perry has apologized. Twice. Only the first was really warranted, and now she's been forced to do it again. Meanwhile, Romney will get to resurface on Fox and crow as the wounded party. Using his adopted grandson as a prop to score political points is as if not much more odious than the original segment that got Harris-Perry in such trouble. It's time to wind this charade down already.
UPDATE: Coverage of the Mitt Romney segment on Fox News where, depending on your feelings about the man he either decently accepted MHP's apology or allowed Chris Wallace to be the stalking horse so he (Romney) could appear decent and reasonable here.


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The PEI Nursing Recruitment Incentive Program for Graduate Registered Nurses is an initiative to provide meaningful employment opportunities for recent graduates and to fill vacant Registered Nurse positions of Health PEI.
Who is eligible for PEI Nursing Recruitment Incentive Program?
- Students completing the last year of a recognized Canadian Bachelor of Nursing program; or
- Graduates who have completed their educational program within the last 12 months from date of application to the program who are not currently employed by Health PEI as a registered nurse; and
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Preference will be given to PEI residents. To be considered a resident of PEI, you must:
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- be a dependent student whose parents are PEI residents, or
- have lived in PEI for more than 12 months while NOT enrolled as a student at any post-secondary institution.
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- A one-time financial incentive of $1,100 is available. This sum is intended to offset the cost of the NCLEX and the initial and first full-year registration fee with the College of Registered Nurses of Prince Edward Island;
- A guarantee of two years (3,900 working hours) of full-time employment with Health PEI; and
- Permanent status with Health PEI which includes:
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- health and dental benefits,
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Is there a return-in-service commitment?
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What vacancies exist?
Applicants' stated preferences for work facilities and/or units will be taken into consideration during the assignment process. Applicants will be assigned to vacancies that have been identified by Health PEI.
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Crankshaft: modular cast iron QT800-2
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The news givers over at Fox News prioritize the most important events of the day in a unique way. While the rest of the media leads off broadcasts with reports on the Republican tax reform legislation, shows like Hannity and The Ingraham Angle tackle the really important stuff, such as what Fox perceives as (to quote Sean Hannity on Thursday) "the far-left, hate-Trump media attack[ing] the first lady."
It seems that this year's Christmas decorations as overseen by Melania Trump for the White House got a snippy little review in the online version of Vanity Fair. What, you say you don't scour the internet for Vanity Fair's decor criticism? Fox News to the rescue! Specifically, Laura Ingraham, who made this the lead story on her Tuesday night show.
In the sort of reach only a Fox primetime host can make, Ingraham not only chided "the media" for its "war" on Melania — remember: We're talking about one snarky little Vanity Fair post — Ingraham also managed to go on to attack former first lady Michelle Obama for things like "hosting White House parties with Hollywood glitterati [and] locking down Broadway every time she and Barack had a date night." Ingraham also thundered against — of course! — Hillary Clinton, another former first lady, for "sounding the dog whistle that it was OK to trash conservative women." Huh?
On Thursday night, Stephen Colbert stepped into this mess by doing one of his periodic check-ins with Melania Trump — by which I mean Laura Benanti, who has been doing her Melania impersonation for a while now. As always, Colbert and Benanti portray the first lady sympathetically, as a woman trapped in a crazy presidential administration over which she has no say. The Late Show's true target was Donald Trump's ex-wife Ivana Trump, who continues to take swipes at Ivanka (as shown in the clip below), and so Benanti's Melania snaps right back at her, forcefully, while surrounded by Christmas grandeur.
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Outcomm introduced its new logo and other advertising services living up to its corporate tagline "Beyond Outdoor".
Outcomm prides itself with almost 200 billboard and LED faces, 50 Indoor displays and 100 taxi top Ads completing the outdoor advertising exposure of our clients and making them have the "Outcomm Experience".
The company launched its Indoor Advertising Inventory, deploying interactive digital advertising displays in major malls.
Outcomm constructed the only LED display in Osmena Highway catering to clients whose target market are situated in the West of Greater Metro Manila.
In order to maximize the exposure of clients, Outcomm launched its transit group to cover secondary locations.
Outcomm established Pixel Eye, the digital brand of Outcomm, to segmentize the digital and static inventories.
The success of Guada LED prompted the company to expand its digital board display. True to its stability, Outcomm acquired a 3 unit, 330 sqm, office location at Infinity Bldg. BGC, Taguig.
Outcomm moved to a new office location in Bonifacio High Street, Taguig housing 60 employees from 20 in the year 2000.
Outcomm pioneered the outdoor digital display by acquiring the most sought-after location in EDSA, Guadalupe Bridge, now called Guadalupe LED.
The company grew its billboard inventory with 46 new faces. Outcomm now has 73 billboards faces covering major thoroughfares in the Greater Metro Manila.
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I don##t live in Egypt but it is such an exciting event that I feel I just have to comment. Egypt is in the middle of one of the most important and exciting events in history. If you succeed in making a great democracy then people for generations to come will look to you with pride. If you fail it will be a very tragic moment in your history and the history of the world.
The great news for Egypt is that you are able to look at the democracies that have been around for ages. You can build on their success and, more importantly, you can learn what to avoid from their mistakes.
As an average person from one of these democracies I have two big suggestions for you. I believe these are the two biggest lessons you can learn from the problems older democracies have had.
Lesson 1: Grade the Press
This is the most important lesson you can learn. The whole foundation and even the whole idea of a democracy is built on having people called journalist. The duty of the journalist is to tell the news of the day to the public. It is the duty of a journalist to present the news in a very detailed and very unbiased manner. The journalist presents both sides of a story with great clarity. The public is then is allowed to discuss the news and the public then votes on what to do by electing leaders that agree with their point of view. In this manner the democratic society moves forward with the consent of the public. Unfortunately, the old democracies in our world have never been able to create a way for the journalist to do their job. Because of this the old democracies have very disruptive and unbalanced societies. I will explain what went wrong and how, hopefully, you can correct this problem. A very long time ago we had to decide how journalists were going to be employed. We knew we did not want the government to be in charge of the journalist because then whoever was running the government would make the journalist say whatever the government wanted to say. This would destroy the independence of journalist and probably lead the country to some kind of dictatorship very quickly. We finally decided to have advertising companies be in charge of the journalists. The idea was that the advertising company would sell ads along with the printed or broadcast news and that would pay for the journalist and the cost of delivering the news. We made one major mistake when we set this up: we left absolutely nothing in place to make sure the advertising business would do the job of being good journalist.
Here is the problem: If you had to describe an advertising company in a sentence it would be something like this: "Advertising companies are in the business of broadcasting and printing the maximum number of ads they can to the largest possible audience they can for the highest amount of money per ad they can get and they want to do all this at the lowest possible production expense." Notice that there is nothing in that description about being a good journalist. I am sure you will also notice that the people that pay for ads pay the advertising company strictly by how many eyeballs and ears their ads get exposed to. So the advertising company has to try to get the widest possible exposure. If you think about it, the result of all this is that we wind up with a system where the people that deliver the news are paid to present the news in a way that is shocking and alarming because that is what gets the most eyeballs and ears. Presenting both sides of a story in the news is good journalism but very bad for business because it is not shocking.
The result is that the old democracies are left with a society of people that are always very angry, always agitated and always very poorly informed. There is a solution to this problem. The answer is actually fairly simple. We need to Grade the Press. Suppose a real journalist was in charge of delivering the news and they could do whatever they wanted to do. What would they do? Well, if they are a good journalist the first thing they would want to know is whether or not they are doing a good job of delivering the news. So the journalist in charge of delivering the news would ask the major political parties to grade them on a scale of 0 to 9 for how accurately they articulated their political party's view in news stories and also to explain why they gave the grade they did. The journalist would then ask the historical society to do the same job of grading them for the historical accuracy of their news broadcast. The journalist would ask the association of physicists to grade them on how factually accurate the scientific information in the news is and finally they would ask the same from a panel of prominent people representing the business community. The real journalist would then boldly display these five grades every time they delivered the news and also prominently display a short, easy to remember, internet address that people can go to and to see why these grades were given. Then every month the poll is taken again. If the news was graded in this way the people that offered poor journalism would get very bad marks and not very many people would watch them which would cut down on their ad revenue. They may go out of business if they do not improve. Circulation would increase for the news programs that had a good journalism grade and the ad revenue would go way up. Since the ratings are updated monthly there is always the ability to improve your standing at the start of the next month. Please note that this would not prevent you from having "investigative journalism" or "news commentary" publications. In fact very conservative or very liberal news commentary shows would proudly display a lopsided political rating as a badge of honor.
Summary: The important thing to realize is that without this method of Grading the Press you will be stuck with having newspapers and TV shows that have their "journalists" deliver shocking stories every day which will keep the public in hysterical frenzy and this will prevent your country from ever having a rational democratic society. The most likely result of having a news media that is not graded is that you will eventually probably have some kind of dictatorship that gets voted into office and they will then kill the voice of all the people.
Lesson 2: LS and MS political parties
What kind of political parties do successful and stable societies have? First let's define a word – socialism. Let's say socialism is government ownership of things in your society. So the more your society is owned by the government the more socialistic you are.
If you look at the large successful democratic societies they generally have just two major parties. One party feels that from where we stand right now we should have more government ownership of society. Let's call this the MS (More Socialism) party. The other party wants to go in the opposite direction or LS (Less Socialism) – having more independence and a more free market society. So in a healthy society you will have good impartial journalists and very articulate speakers for the MS and LS political parties. These parties make their case to the public and the pubic then votes which way they want they society to move.
What are the great dangers in forming political parties in a democracy? One danger is having too many political parties. Suppose you have 5 political parties and one party is the Dictatorship Party. Although very few people want the Dictatorship Party to win, if you have five parties the votes may be spread so thin that the real bad party takes over the government. In other words a large number of equally strong political parties generally create a very unstable government. Another danger is that a major political party becomes a religious party. You may then wind up trading a political dictatorship for a religious dictatorship. Both are horrible for the people because you wind up with one ruler telling everybody what to do. Most revolutions end with some kind of dictatorship. But the people of today are not the people of the past and this does not have to happen.
What an exciting time! I will end with a poem.
Young Egypt
When time passes on and the memories are gone,
When the voice to be free is old as a tree,
When political mutations have reached their fruition,
When the people vote and the nation spoke,
When finally at last the die has been cast,
What will you have done, young Egypt, young son.


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In Peru
Paul Melton
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In Washington
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In Costa Rica
Cinthya Flores
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October 28, 2004. Washington,
DC —The International Finance Corporation's Latin America and Caribbean
Small and Medium Enterprise Facility (LAC SME Facility), and the World
Wildlife Fund's (WWF) Latin American branch of the Global Forest and Trade
Network (GFTN) are teaming up to develop environmentally responsible
wood trade in Latin America, with a special focus on Bolivia, Honduras,
Nicaragua, and Peru.
The program, as described in the recently signed Memorandum of Understanding,
combines forest resource management and sustainable economic development
by building a strong business case for exporting responsibly-produced wood
products. The IFC and WWF will launch pilot projects linking manufacturers,
traders, and forest managers committed to the business of sustainable forestry.
The pilot projects will:
Strengthen indigenous communities and private landowner's abilities to
engage in sustainable forest management as an alternative to illegal logging
Increase the supply of responsibly-produced wood and wood products
Stimulate demand for products made from responsibly-produced wood
Improve business management and production of project participants, and
Promote financing and investment opportunities within supply chains.
The pilots have been designed in accordance with the World Bank's Revised
Forestry Strategy, which emphasizes integrating forests into sustainable
economic development, harnessing the potential of forests to reduce poverty,
and protecting vital environmental services and values.
WWF Central America, based out of Costa Rica, is the Latin American hub
for the GFTN. The GFTN was established by WWF to facilitate trade links
between companies committed to achieving and supporting responsible forestry—and,
in so doing, create tangible market-based incentives for forest conservation.
The GFTN currently operates in almost 30 countries worldwide including:
Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, and all 7 countries in Central America.
According to Atul Mehta, Director of Latin America and the Caribbean at
the IFC, "Forging strategic local partnerships is a pivotal part of the
Facility's technical assistance strategy. By collaborating with
key local stakeholders, the Facility is able to carry out its work program
more efficiently and effectively while building local capacity and increase
the sustainability of its projects."
Steve Gretzinger, GFTN's Latin American Coordinator, commented, "We welcome
the opportunity to deepen our collaboration with the IFC by taking advantage
of the complementary strengths of our respective organizations. The
IFC's expertise in finance and business development, coupled with the
GFTN's ability to assist companies throughout Latin America in producing
quality products from well-managed forests for the discerning global marketplace
should prove a powerful combination for the pilot project countries, and
in the future, other Latin American countries."
The mission of IFC (www.ifc.org)
is to promote sustainable private sector investment in developing countries,
helping to reduce poverty and improve people's lives. IFC finances private
sector investments in the developing world, mobilizes capital in the international
financial markets, helps clients improve social and environmental sustainability,
and provides technical assistance and advice to governments and businesses.
From its founding in 1956 through FY04, IFC has committed more than $44
billion of its own funds and arranged $23 billion in syndications for 3,143
companies in 140 developing countries. IFC's worldwide committed portfolio
as of FY04 was $17.9 billion for its own account and $5.5 billion held
for participants in loan syndications.
IFC's Latin America and Caribbean Small and Medium Enterprise Facility
headquartered in Lima, Peru, promotes private sector development by supporting
small and medium enterprises, thus contributing to job creation and poverty
reduction in the region. Its areas of focus are strengthening SME
competitiveness; making it easier for SMEs to do business by simplifying
business regulations; broadening access to finance; and connecting enterprises
and local communities.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), known worldwide by its panda logo, leads international
efforts to protect endangered species and their habitats and to conserve
the diversity of life on Earth. Now in its fifth decade, WWF works
in more than 100 countries around the globe. Visit us on the Web at www.worldwildlife.org.
With the support of various partners from the public and private sectors,
WWF Central America is aggressively working to make responsible forest
management and trade a wise and profitable business practice that competes
with illegal logging throughout Latin America. As the international
conservation organization with the longest on-the-ground track record in
Central America, WWF is convinced that the most effective conservation
strategy is one that provides tangible economic benefits to rural dwellers
engaged in sustainable practices such as certified forestry. To further
this goal, WWF has recently established Jagwood+, the Mesoamerican and
Caribbean Forest and Trade Network, as the regional partner of the broader
Global Forestry Trade Network. This membership based, trade association
of forest managers, processors and traders committed to strict purchasing
and production policies, provides the following services to its private
sector members: market linkages, promotion, policy development, targeted
market research, and technical assistance. To learn more about the
GFTN, visit www.panda.org/forestandtrade.org.


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Smart Fetch in Dream PetHouse: Enhancing Social Performance
Innovation. It was our goal when we started designing Dream PetHouse , and one of the areas we focused on was the social experience. In Dream PetHouse , now available on iOS, you can collect, feed and grow some of the cutest pets on mobile, all in your own unique treehouse.
A core component of the game is visiting friends. In other mobile games, we noticed it was a chore to visit friends, so we sought to build a seamless, efficient social mechanic. We knew our players would be eager to share their trees with their friends, so we placed an emphasis on improving social performance.
There was just one problem. Providing social engagement on mobile is difficult. Mobile players are on the move, they're multi-tasking, they're distracted, there's no browser tab to jump to and they don't have much time or patience to wait for a social visit. The only way to encourage more social interaction was to make it nearly instantaneous. After all, that stoplight is turning green in 3..2..1..*
Achieving instantaneous social visits is challenging. It's even harder when complying with Apple's 3G download limit. We needed to find a way to expedite social visits, download normal gameplay assets and keep the bundle under 20MB.
In the spirit of Zynga's canine roots , we created "Smart Fetch". Here's how it works:
When players download Dream PetHouse , our bundle only includes the first six pets, one tree and one set of fruit. Not only do we rely on background downloading for game assets, we thought we could use it as an opportunity to improve the speed of social visits.
Since it takes several seconds to get data about your neighbor every time you visit, we pre-fetch user information for neighbors in the background and during normal gameplay. Initially, we were worried about performance issues and network bottlenecking. However, in our tests, Zynga's asynchronous server model proved resilient under this method. We also enhanced it to put in protections so that Smart Fetch works as seamlessly as possible. When a player's session starts, session data is loaded first and the social data is secondary.
Following the session data, the social data for Chipper , our wuvable Dream Pethouse mascot, is loaded followed by the general social data. The social data is broken down further into two tracks: community neighbors (random players) and actual neighbors that have previously accepted your invite or request. On the first call, Chipper's tree is returned as are the ZIDs (a player's unique Zynga ID that is consistent across all Zynga games they play) of your friends. The order of your friend's ZIDs is randomized so you don't always get the same friends in the same order. Once the list of ZIDs is returned the client, it then incrementally requests subsets of friends. The data for the subsets of friends is returned incrementally to avoid related performance issues such as a large HTTP response. We didn't want to grab all of your friend's data at once and this also allows the player to visit their first few friends while downloading the data for the next group of friends. By the time players reach that next group of friends, their data will already be downloaded, and so on. When fetching community members (non-neighbors) the server decides who to send to players and knows which members players already have to avoid duplicates.
With the data pre-fetched, the second bottleneck we found was loading the "Visiting Scene" using the cached data. We decided to take an asynchronous asset loading approach. In this design, only two assets block the scene loading process – the tree and the background. Since they're both customizable, we didn't want users to see the placeholder tree and placeholder background loading and have them change colors to the selected tree and background. But all other assets in the scene – pets, house, bridges – are loaded on-demand ; we have placeholder assets, that are relatively low quality, which may show briefly if this process takes too long. We were willing to show these low quality images, because in practice they are only shown briefly, if at all. Further, following conventional rules, the data amount makes it fast too. Assuming it's a smaller tree, it will load quicker. The overall effect is that when you tap the "Next" button to go to the next tree, there will be minimal delay.
We are just now seeing the benefits of the Smart Fetch in the hands of our players. Not only is player feedback encouraging, but the tech has held up well under multiple server spikes and increased traffic. We are committed to using it in the future to increase social engagement across our games. In fact, it's even helping with the design of our next title because if we know that a slow, cumbersome social experience will not inhibit our players, we can more predictably develop and expand the social features as fundamental to the normal gameplay.
Be sure to check out Dream PetHouse here , and sound off in the comments with any questions.
Co-author: Antony Yang
William Fong also contributed to this post
*Safety disclaimer: Zynga does not condone enjoyment of Dream PetHouse while driving. At least park first.


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