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Vaziri competed in the 800m, 1500m and 5k throughout the season…Placed fourth in the 1500 at Big West Championships where he ran 3:45.71…Qualified for NCAA Division 1 Championships in the 800m where he placed 29th…Also competed in the 4x400m relay where he helped his team place 17th.
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Vaziri placed second in the 800m at the California State finals his senior year...Assisted the 4x400m relay team to a sixth place finish at the State finals...Currently the San Diego Section 800m high school record holder...San Diego Section CIF Champion in the 800m and the 4x400m relay in 2011.
Son of Feryal Moshaveoh and Fardis Vaziri who played soccer at Point Loma Nazarene University...Brother Armin who also runs track and cross country...Named to Union Tribune All-Academic team three years in a row...Majoring in Pre-biology...In his free time enjoys surfing, playing footbal, tae-kwon-do, Runescape and making meme's...Something people do not know about him is that he was a leader of a club called 'The Trifecta'...Favorite movie is "Slumdog Millionaire"...Listens to Rap/Hip Hop...Favorite books is "The Alchemist"...Lists his favorite athletes as fellow UCSB teammate Jeremy Acosta, Marshawn Lynch, and Ron Artest.
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AVB: Bale similar to Ronaldo
Andre Villas-Boas has likened PFA Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year Gareth Bale to Cristiano Ronaldo.
Bale became just the third player in history to pick up both awards on the same night on Sunday - following in the footsteps of Andy Gray and Ronaldo himself.
The Tottenham forward has had a fine season which has often drawn comparisons with the Real Madrid player, due to both his playing style and the way in which he has developed his game in recent months.
"There are similarities," Spurs manager Villas-Boas said. "Both are extremely technical, powerful and pacy.
"They grew up as strikers, but became wingers. Gareth is now playing a more advanced role. Ronaldo is also able to play that role up front."
Bale's heroics have also drawn praise from Tottenham legends Ricky Villa and Ossie Ardiles, who are both desperate to see the Wales international commit his future to the club.
Bale's impressive displays this season have led to renewed speculation that he is set for a big-money move away from White Hart Lane this summer, with Real Madrid and Barcelona both believed to be interested.
But Villa, who made 168 appearances for Spurs, hopes Bale sticks around for a few years before seeking pastures new.
"He really is a great player, a top player,'' Villa told Press Association Sport. "He is one of these players who can do different things. I expect that he will stay at the club - they have a chance to qualify for Europe and this is a good point for him. I expect him to play for the club for two or three more years.
"Everyone wants to play for these big, big clubs, but he has a lot of things to do for Tottenham. Maybe in the next few years he will need to move, but at the moment I believe he is expecting to win something important with this club. This is very important for him, I think."
Ardiles, who moved to Spurs 35 years ago with compatriot Villa, is also hopeful that the former Southampton player will stay at the club.
"As Andre Villas-Boas has said we need to be in Europe to keep him and I think this is what is going to happen," Ardiles said. "He is very happy playing at Spurs - he is a big idol there and a big hero.
"At the moment he is very happy indeed. From the point of view of a Tottenham supporter, I hope he stays for as long as possible at the club."

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BRIDGEWATER, N.J. and HIGHLAND PARK, Ill., Oct. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sanofi Oncology and BMT InfoNet are joining forces to inform patients and the public about the importance of stem cell transplants in the treatment of blood cancers.
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Approximately every four minutes, one person in the United States is diagnosed with a blood cancer or blood disorder such as leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, or myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Stem cell transplantation – which infuses healthy stem cells into the bloodstream of a patient – is commonly used to treat various forms of blood cancers and disorders and is one of the most important medical advances in the last 50 years.
It is important for people with various forms of blood cancer to be aware of the two major types of stem cell transplants – autologous and allogeneic – and to know which type of transplant may be right for them.
"When people hear the words 'stem cell transplant,' there is a tendency to think about organizing local bone marrow drives to find a suitable donor if a relative is not a match. However, not everyone who could benefit from a stem cell transplant needs a donor," said Parameswaran Hari, MD, MS, Section Head and Director, Adult Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, and Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. "In fact, the majority of stem cell transplants performed in the U.S. are done in people using their own stem cells. We want to arm potential recipients with the facts so they can have an informed discussion with their physician should the need for a transplant arise."
While both types of stem cell transplants involve replacing diseased or damaged stem cells in the patient with healthy ones, the chosen type of transplant depends on the type of blood cancer, the health of the patient's own marrow, extent of bone marrow injury caused by prior chemotherapy treatments, and the overall health of the patient.
In an autologous transplant, the patient receives his or her own stem cells and is usually performed so that higher doses of chemotherapy can be given to treat blood cancers such as multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and amyloidosis. In an allogeneic transplant, the patient receives healthy stem cells from a well-matched donor to replace their own stem cells that have been damaged by disease such as myelodysplastic syndromes. In the U.S., about 17,000 stem cell transplants were performed in patients with blood cancer and other blood disorders in 2009. Of these, nearly 10,000 were autologous and 7,000 were allogeneic.
"Stem cell transplants have become an indispensable part of treatment for many types of blood cancers and disorders," said Susan Stewart, Executive Director of BMT InfoNet and an autologous stem cell transplant survivor. "At BMT InfoNet, we are committed to supporting patients and helping them make an informed treatment decision with their oncologist about whether or not a stem cell transplant will help to improve their outcome."
About Stem Cell Transplantation
Hematopoietic stem cells are located in the bone marrow and mature into red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets that circulate in the blood. A stem cell transplant (also known as a hematopoietic stem cell transplant, peripheral blood stem cell transplant and formally referred to as bone marrow transplant) is a procedure that replaces bone marrow cells that have been damaged by disease or cancer treatment. Healthy hematopoietic stem cells, either taken from the patient or a closely matched donor, are infused into the patient's blood stream. The new stem cells take up residence in the bone marrow and then develop into red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.
Patients should speak with their physicians to determine if they are a candidate for a stem cell transplant and to determine which type of transplant may be right for them. Patients and their families can learn more about these procedures by visiting www.bmtinfonet.org.
About BMT InfoNet
BMT InfoNet (Blood & Marrow Transplant Information Network) is a not-for-profit support organization for bone marrow, stem cell and cord blood transplant patients. Founded in 1990 BMT InfoNet is dedicated to providing transplant patients, survivors and their loved ones with emotional support and high quality, easy-to-understand information about bone marrow, peripheral blood stem cell and cord blood transplantation. Our goal is to empower patients with credible information and emotional support, so that they can take a more active role in decisions affecting their health and treatment options before, during and after transplant. Visit us online at www.bmtinfonet.org or phone 888-597-7674.
About Sanofi Oncology
Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and Vitry, France, Sanofi Oncology is dedicated to translating science into effective therapeutics that address unmet medical needs for cancer and organ transplant patients. Starting with a deep understanding of the disease and the patient, Sanofi Oncology employs innovative approaches to drug discovery and clinical development, with the ultimate goal of bringing the right medicines to the right patients to help them live healthier and longer lives. We believe in the value of partnerships that combine our internal scientific expertise with that of industry and academic experts. Our portfolio includes 10 marketed products and more than 15 investigational compounds in clinical development, including small molecules and biological agents.
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KEENE, N.H. – A 3-pointer from Tre' Tipton with less than a minute to play would be the deciding basket as the Owls of Keene State College (4-3, 2-0 Little East) overcame a double-figure deficit to defeat men's basketball (5-4, 1-1 Little East) by the final of 80-76 Saturday afternoon in Spaulding Gymnasium in a Little East Conference game.
Following a full timeout the Owls stepped back onto the court and inbounded the ball. They quickly moved it up the floor and found a wide-open Tipton in the far right corner. The guard would then put-up the deep three, which hit nothing but net to push the Owls out in front.
After a UMB 30-second timeout the Beacons would put-up a pair of 3-point attempts with both falling just short of tying the contest. Tipton grabbed the defensive board on the second Beacons shot and was immediately fouled. He would then nail both free throws making it a two-possession game with 13 seconds left on the clock.
Vinny DeLucia (Miami, Fla.), who was red hot in the first half, missed his final 3-pointer of the day, with the Owls once again collecting the rebound. Another foul by the Beacons sent Tom Doyle to the line where he clinched the victory as he went 2-for-2 at the charity strip.
UMass did score the final basket of the day, when Carl Joseph (Brockton, Mass.) hit a very long three to make it the four-point deficit.
Proving to be the biggest factor in Saturday's contest was a 15-2 run by the Owls late in the second half, which completely shifted the momentum. Back on their heels, UMass tried to make one last push in the form of four points from Rahshjeem Benson (Boston, Mass.), but their efforts were ultimately countered by Tipton's game-changing three.
In the first half the Beacons used the long range shooting of DeLucia to help them get out in front of the Owls. The sophomore posted 13 of his game-high 19 points in the first 20 minutes of play. Both teams would close out the opening half, shooting over 48% with UMB holding a slight advantage, and the score tied at 42-42.
After the break, the Beacons continued to build-off of their first half success and pushed their lead to six in the first three minutes of play, with baskets from Joseph, DeLucia, and Brian Clarke (Miramar, Fla.). Keene would continue to chip at the Beacons lead, but they would never really gain control of the scoreboard.
The Beacons biggest run of the half came at the midway point when they went on a quick 5-0 run to make it 63-54. William Rosary III (Fontana, Calif.) pushed UMB's lead to double-figures on a lay-up, and with a jumper from Benson the Beacons led 67-54. Unfortunately that huge shift in momentum did not last as the Owls clawed their way back to take the victory.
Both teams would have four players finish in double-figures in Saturday's contest. After DeLucia, Benson managed 16 points and eight boards off the bench, while Joseph and Joshua Mojica (Loiza, Puerto Rico) each finished with 10 points.
For the Owls, they were led by Ryan Martin's 19 points, two assists and two blocks. Martin's game-high 19 also put him over the 1,000 point plateau which he reached in less than three seasons. Tipton finished with 14 points, followed by Eric Fazio with 13 and Doyle with 11. Doyle also finished with the games only double-double as he pulled down 10 boards.
Men's Basketball returns to action on Thursday when they host Framingham State University at 7 p.m. in the Clark Gym.


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Begin your trip to the city with a gorgeous view over Cork at Elizabeth Fort. Be stunned by the scenery at the top of the Blackrock Castle Observatory.
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Relive the history of Cork and take a trip to Cork City Gaol. You'll even get great views of the city's west side, so a visit here is truly worth it. Learn more about Cork, the locals, and its architecture at University College Cork too.
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The Crimson offense struggled Saturday evening as Princeton earned a 3-1 win at the MAC (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Taylor Docter turned in her second quality performance of the weekend but to no avail as the women's volleyball team was upended by Princeton Saturday evening at the Malkin Athletic Center, 3-1.
Docter scored 14 kills to lead the Harvard (11-9, 4-6 Ivy League) attack while chipping in eight digs and two blocks on the defensive side. Last night, Docter scored a season-high 18 kills and dug 15 balls for her second double-double of the year.
Kristen Casey totaled seven kills, 15 digs and two blocks. Erin Cooney, Sandra Lynne Fryhofer and Teresa Skelly each notched six kills and combined for 11 blocks, with Fryhofer and Skelly each tallying four. Christine Wu turned in 18 digs and now has 1,752 career digs to her credit, one shy of tying her for third place in the Ivy League record books.
Harvard opened a 3-0 lead to begin the match and was ahead 11-9 following a Fryhofer service ace. Princeton (15-7, 8-2 Ivy League) quickly tied the score at 11 and took its first lead 15-14. The Tigers held a 23-18 edge after a 5-0 stretch and took set point, 25-23.
Princeton jumped out to a quick 9-3 lead in the second set and cruised to a 25-13 victory. The Crimson bounced back in the third, however, and took a 12-6 advantage on a Beth Kinsella ace and block from Skelly and Cooney. Harvard opened a 17-10 lead on a solo block from Fryhofer and earned set point, 25-17, following two Fryhofer aces.
The Crimson could not maintain their momentum into the fourth set, however, as Princeton rolled to match point, 25-16.
Lydia Rudnick led the Tigers with a match-high 22 kills and added 14 digs for a double-double. Sarah Hanna notched 12 kills while Ginny Willis dished out 52 assists and dug 13 balls for a double-double herself.
Harvard returns to action on the road next weekend with a pair of Ivy League matches. The Crimson will first take on Columbia on Friday, Nov. 4 at 7:00 p.m. before traveling to Cornell for a 5:00 p.m. showdown Nov. 5.


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History: North Carolina State University formally dedicated its new mathematics and statistics building on Friday, May 1, 2009. The building is located at 2311 Stinson Drive, at the former site of Riddick Stadium on NC State's campus.
The 119,000 square foot building houses state-of-the-art classrooms, computer labs, tutorial centers and meeting and study space for students and faculty from NC State's mathematics and statistics departments. A partnership with Cisco will improve digital communications for students by providing access to live and on-demand video content from anywhere on campus.
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has sensationally claimed that plenty of cheating and doping is going on in football, slamming the sport's authorities for not being strong enough to tackle it, and the Frenchman also called for stricter measures to deal with it.
Wenger admitted he fears there is widespread doping after questioning why there are so few positive drugs tests during World Cups and other major tournaments, the Daily Mail reports.
Wenger also described this week's revelations into match fixing as a tsunami for football and claimed the governing bodies do not take strong enough action on betting scams, doping and bribery, it further reported.
Wenger said on a honest not he doesn't think football authorities do enough on testing because it is very difficult for him to believe that among 740 players in the World Cup, you come out with zero problems.
The Frenchman added mathematically that happens every time, but statistically, even for social drugs, it looks like testing would have to be better and go deeper.
Wenger said he would support blood testing, adding UEFA is ready to do it, but it poses some ethical problems because everyone has to accept that they will check the blood and not everybody is ready to do that.
UEFA, FIFA and the FA currently only use urine samples from players after matches and testers also do spot checks at training but Wenger says the willingness to abuse the system is quite scary.
Wenger claimed football is full of legends who are in fact cheats as he dropped bombshells about match fixing and drugs, and even claimed many stars would agree to doping even if they knew it would shorten their life, the paper added.
This week has brought back those memories after a Europol -investigation found hundreds of games, including one of Liverpool's Champions League games against Hungarian opponents Debrecen, were part of a huge betting scam throughout Europe, the paper said. (ANI)
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Nano is bigger than you think: Perspectives on the NNI from INC5
While nano may be about things on a very tiny scale – around 10-9 meters, there is nothing small about the government's investment in nanoscale research -- it's now around 10+9 dollars.
There were many presentations about the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), at the fifth annual International Nanotechnology Conference on Communication and Cooperation (INC5) in Los Angeles on May 18-21. I got to speak for a few minutes about the NISE Net on the first day of this conference, along with leaders of other academic research and education networks that are all funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and part of the NNI.
The NNI is the program established in fiscal year 2001 to coordinate Federal nanotechnology research and development. According to Mihail Roco of the NSF, there are now 25 U.S. agencies participating in the NNI. Ten of them made presentations at the conference.
Of these the National Science Foundation has the largest budget allocated to nanotechnology. In the 2010 budget request, this is $423 million. The Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and the National Institutes of Health are next with budgets in the $300's of millions each. Most of the agencies don't have special centers or programs for nanotechnology but incorporate nanotech in their existing work.
The National Science Foundation has about 5,000 active projects and 28 large centers and networks. The National Institutes of Health has eight Centers for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, eight Nanomedicine Development Centers, one Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory, and four Programs of Excellence in Nanotechnology. The Department of Defense and NASA each have three centers or institutes focused on some aspect of nanotechnology, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the National Institute of Standards and Technology each have one. (www.nano.gov/html/centers/nnicenters.html) The Department of Energy has five Nanoscale Research Centers collocated at its five national laboratories and is just now establishing 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers involving 110 institutions from 36 states (www.er.doe.gov/bes/EFRC.html).
At INC5 only the NSF spoke about public and K-12 education programs. Through the NISE Net, science museums are connecting with NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers and the Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers. But there are many other centers and research projects we can connect with. Some have already participated in NanoDays. Check out the locations of these other centers and institutions on the nano.gov page cited above to see which ones may be in your neighborhood or geographic region.


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Microsoft latest to 'fess up to Java-based Mac attack
Redmond experiences 'similar intrusion' to Facebook and Apple
Microsoft appears to be the latest big tech firm to have been hit by cyber attackers targeting Macs with a zero-day Java vulnerability, following a sophisticated campaign which has already infected developers at Facebook and Apple.
In a blog post published late last Friday, Microsoft's GM of Trustworthy Computing Security, Matt Thomlinson, explained that Redmond recently experienced a "similar security intrusion".
He added the following:
"Consistent with our security response practices, we chose not to make a statement during the initial information gathering process. During our investigation, we found a small number of computers, including some in our Mac business unit, that were infected by malicious software using techniques similar to those documented by other organizations. We have no evidence of customer data being affected and our investigation is ongoing."
Thomlinson sought to reassure customers by claiming that Microsoft's continual system of internal security evaluation means "additional people, processes, and technologies" can be deployed if gaps are found, in order to prevent similar incursions in the future.
The extent of the attack is still unclear, although some researchers are claiming hundreds of other companies may have had their Macs targeted in the same way. The large scale breach of Twitter earlier this month has been linked to the same Java zero-day vulnerability.
As for those behind the attack – the usual suspects of China and Eastern European hackers have been mentioned.
Last week, Apple finally patched the Java security hole in Mac OSX which was being exploited in the attack, a fortnight after Oracle's pre-Patch-Tuesday' update fixed the same hole, in a move which will do nothing to reassure enterprise Mac users of the security of their platform.
Security researchers at Sophos are urging users to turn off Java in the browser as a matter of course in order to close down this growing area of risk.
All in all it was a pretty bad end to the week for Microsoft last Friday, after its Windows Azure storage cloud suffered a worldwide outage thanks to an expired SSL certificate. ®
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|Generic folds and maps that also accumulate
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|gmapT with accumulation
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|gmapQl with accumulation
|gmapQr with accumulation
|gmapQ with accumulation
|Mapping combinators for twin traversal
|Twin map for transformation
|Twin map for monadic transformation
|Twin map for queries
|Typical twin traversals
|Generic equality: an alternative to "deriving Eq"
|Generic zip controlled by a function with type-specific branches
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Colorado State's Barrett named to Bednarik Award watch list
Colorado State coaches can joke that, even during a bye week, Rams linebacker Shaquil Barrett continues to impress.
On Wednesday, Barrett was added to the watch list for the Chuck Bednarik Award which is presented annually to the nation's top defensive player.
"It's a huge honor," Barrett said in a CSU news release. "It's great to know all my hard work has been noticed I'm going to do everything I can to try and win the award. But at the same time, I'm not going to go out and only focus on this individual award.
"We have goals left to accomplish as a team and I won't be satisfied until we meet them."


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Inspired by "Bunny Patch" from designers Vicki Bellino of Bloom Creek and Anne Sutton of Bunny Hill
Quiltmaker: Laura Boehnke
9x22" piece (fat eighth) brown tone-on-tone (stem appliqué)
9x22" piece (fat eighth) brown tone-on-tone (hill appliqué)
3/4 yard cream print (bunny tail appliqué, border Nos. 1 and 3, binding)
9x22" piece (fat eighth) tan tone-on-tone (bunny appliqué)
Scraps of assorted green tone-on-tones (leaf appliqués)
Scraps of assorted red prints (flower appliqués)
1/2 yard green floral (quilt center, border Nos. 2 and 4)
1/2 yard green check (quilt center, border Nos. 2 and 4)
18x22" piece (fat quarter) novelty print (border Nos. 2 and 4)
9x22" piece (fat eighth) mottled dark brown (border Nos. 2 and 4)
18x22" piece (fat quarter) mottled tan (appliqué foundation)
1 yard backing fabric
36x44" batting
Lightweight fusible web
Water- or air-soluble fabric marker
Finished quilt: 30-1/2 x38-1/2"
Quantities are for 44/45"-wide, 100% cotton fabrics.
Measurements include 1/4" seam allowances. Sew with right sides together unless otherwise stated.


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K.INC needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 79 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
Logo must, on a standalone basis, communicate that Travelworm is in the business of selling Hotels, Airline Tickets and Other Travel Services to consumers via the Web
TravelWorm, http://www.TravelWorm.com
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai)
Travelworm is a 15 year old company that is in the process of reinventing itself. Travelworm is an online travel agency that sells hotels, airline tickets, rental cars, show tickets and other travel-related experiences.
Create a new logo and image for Travelworm that could be used on the website, business cards and other offline and online marketing material and communications.Â
DO NOT consider the existing logo for Travelworm.Â
DO NOT feel compelled to keep the "worm†as part of the logo.
And DO NOT consider Casino Resorts and Leisure Destinations as a tag line, as the company is much more and will be selling much more in the future.Â
Also, ignore the existing look, feel and content of http://www.travelworm.com as this will all be overhauled in the near future.
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College Violates Student's Rights, Follows It Up By Deleting Critical Comments From Its Facebook Page
from the showing-a-definite-preference-for-wrongs-over-rights dept
Another college has deployed censorious tactics, and as usual, FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) has the story.
On October 23, 2013, Asnuntuck Community College (ACC) student Nicholas Saucier had a videotaped conversation about recent gun legislation with Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy, who was visiting campus as part of an ongoing conference. At the end of the conversation, during which he called Malloy a "snake" as Malloy left in his vehicle, Saucier was confronted by the college's president and a campus security officer, who escorted him off campus. The college charged Saucier with harassment and making threats, among other violations of its conduct policies.The video of this encounter is still live (no doubt much to ACC's chagrin) and it shows Saucier discussing the impact of the governor's gun control policies on his ammunition business. Governor Malloy doesn't look too interested in fielding complaints from a constituent, which probably explains Saucier's tossed off, low-level insult as his "representative" exited the scene.
Not only did Saucier get run off campus by the school president and his security team, he was also suspended and banned from the school's property until college administration could "discuss" his supposed "harassment" with him. But rather than entertain any ideas of due process, ACC instead tried to pressure the student into "pleading guilty" to all "charges" and submitting to a mandatory professional evaluation before he could apply for readmission.
Saucier instead pushed for a formal hearing, rather than plead guilty to obviously false charges. The school allowed this but would not allow him to enter his taped conversation as evidence on his behalf. It also prohibited any recordings of the hearing itself, ensuring it could (attempt) to spin the outcome in any direction it chose to. As can be expected, the school found Saucier guilty of all charges. It did lift the suspension but put him on probation.
FIRE stepped in and sent a letter to the college demanding that it explain its violations of Saucier's due process and free speech rights. This letter went unanswered. This didn't stop the school from making another unfounded claim when contacted by another site covering the story.
The Blaze reports:All the while, the ACC has been busy burying dissenting opinions from students and others. FIRE reports that the admins of the school's Facebook page had been removing critical comments before finally deciding to take the entire page offline.
"A spokesperson from Asnuntuck Community College told TheBlaze that they are seeking a correction from FIRE, saying their statement on the situation is "categorically false," and that Saucier was suspended for his harassing behavior and not the subject matter. They declined to go into any more specifics, citing Saucier's privacy."
FIRE has not received any requests from ACC for corrections or any other correspondence at this time (although maybe such a request is on the way). We have not asserted that Saucier was suspended for the subject matter of his questioning—only that his speech was protected by the First Amendment and was neither harassing nor threatening, despite what ACC has alleged.
After we covered the case here on The Torch, though, concerned citizens took to ACC's Facebook page to demand answers and action from ACC administrators. And they did get a reaction—just not the one they'd hoped for.Unfortunately for the school, these deletions are well documented. Even if these hadn't been captured, the fact that the page was removed would indicate that the school is still completely uninterested in dealing with the results of its censorious efforts.
ACC deleted every critical or questioning post from its Facebook page.
Here's a few of the screengrabs FIRE obtained before ACC memory-holed its Facebook page.
Now it's completely gone, save for a sanitized version preserved by Google's cache. It's truly sad that a school would feel strongly enough about supposed "harassment" and "threats" to violate a student's rights, but not strongly enough to step up and defend its actions to critics. This certainly explains its decision to block Saucier from presenting his recording in his defense as well as its banning of any recordings of its closed hearing. The school's policies cannot survive even the simplest challenge.
Filed Under: dannel malloy, free speech, harassment, nicholas saucier
Companies: acc, asnuntuck community college


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Review: Atom D2700 coupled with Radeon HD 7410M graphics
When we got a chance to get our hands on Shuttle's XS35GTA V3 it was simply an offer that we could not refuse, especially due to a quite interesting choice of components squeezed into a 1.57-litre chassis.
As part of Shuttle's Slim PC lineup, the XS35GTA shares many features with most of the Slim PC series systems. In case of the XS35GTA V3, Shuttle decided to pair Intel's NM10 Express chipset with Atom D2700 dual-core CPU and AMD's Radeon HD HD 7410M dedicated GPU, but we will get to precise specifications a bit later.
The impressive part of the XS35GTA V3 is the fact that it is completely passively cooled and thus does not produce any noise. Power consumption of the entire system, according to Shuttle, is set at 19W in idle and up to 27W under full load. To make things even more impressive, components are squeezed into a compact chassis measuring 25.2 x 16.2 x 3.85 cm (DxHxW) and weighing around 2.1kg.
The Shuttle XS35GTA V3 offers an entire office/HTPC system packed in a small, VESA mountable, 1.57-litre chassis that should pack enough punch for full-HD movies, 3D content and regular office work without producing any noise at all.
Package and accessories
Shuttle ships the XS35GTA V3 in a simple cardboard box with a plastic handle. The package itself is not fancy but does feature all the necessary information regarding the product inside.
The chassis is well protected and placed next to another cardboard box that includes the rest of the accessories.
As you can see from the picture below, the accessory box features compartments that contain an external power adapter, stand for the barebone, installation disc and HDD mounting plate with screws.
The external PSU/power adapter is rated at 19V, 2.1A and according to Shuttle's specification list, is rated at maximum 40W and has automatic voltage adjustment.
The XS35GTA V3 does not come with VESA mount which is actually an optional accessory, just as is an adapter for second 2.5-inch drive.
Specification and features
As noted earlier, Shuttle decided to go for a quite strange combination that features Intel's dual-core D2700 Atom CPU paired up with AMD's Radeon HD 7410M graphics, something that we have not seen before.
The XS35GTA V3 is based, of course, on the Intel NM10 Express chipset that unfortunately has no support for USB 3.0, something that most AMD Brazos based HTPCs have. In case you missed it, the Intel Atom D2700, codename Cedar View, is a 32nm dual-core CPU working at 2.13GHz and features 1MB of L2 cache. It features Intel Hyper-Threading, Intel EM64T and VT-X Virtualization technologies and has MMX, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3 and Execute Disable Bit instructions as well as integrated North Bridge with memory controller and graphics.
The Intel Atom D2700 has a single-channel memory controller that supports up to 4GB of DDR3-800/1066 memory. The main drawback of the D2700 is actually its integrated graphics core, dubbed HD Graphics 3600, that is actually a PowerVR SGX545 GPU. Unfortunately, it has no support for DirectX 11 and has a bunch of other problems that Shuttle evaded by simply disabling it and including the Radeon HD 7410M GPU.
The AMD Radeon HD 7410M GPU, codename Seymour-LP, on the other hand is quite an impressive piece of 40nm silicon with a total of 160 stream processors, 480MHz GPU clock and 512MB of dedicated GDDR3 memory clocked at 800MHz. It supports DirectX 11, Shader Model 5.0 and OpenGL 4.1, has AMD's Unified Video Decoder (UVD 3), has support for full HD decode, Blu-ray playback, has integrated HD audio controller for 7.1 surround sound via HDMI and supports up to two simultaneous displays via digital HDMI 1.4a and analog D-Sub.
Unfortunately, the latest GPU-Z is unable to correctly read the specs of the Radeon HD 7410M GPU but AIDA 64 does it quite well so we managed to confirm the specs that were already listed in Shuttle's specification list.
The Radeon HD 7410M, when compared to the GPU in the E-450/E-350 APU actually has 80 stream processors more, but works at a slightly lower GPU clock (480MHz vs. 500-600MHz on the Radeon HD 6320 in the E-450 APU) so it should end up to be faster than the GPU found in those quite popular APUs, and of course, the D2700 is certainly faster than any of those APUs so these two sound like a match made in heaven.
You can check out the rest of the specs in Shuttle's official specification list below.
Fanless and silent
Passive cooling, no fan noise at all
Perfect to be used in noise-sensitive environments
Fanless, dust-free and thus virtually maintenance-free
Low power consumption
Power consumption: ca. 19W (idle mode) and ca. 27W (full load)
Dimensions without Stand: 25.2 x 16.2 x 3.85 cm (DxHxW) = 1.57 L
Weight: 2.1 kg net, 2.8 kg gross
Hole for the Kensington Lock at the back panel
Optional accessory: 75mm and 100mm VESA mounting kit (PV01)
Operation System
This system comes without operating system.
It is compatible with Windows 7 (32 oder 64 bit)
Intel Dual Core Atom processor D2700 (Codename: Cedarview)
Intel Hyper-Threading technology: 2-threads per core
32 nm manufacturing process, Micro-FCBGA11 package
Intel 64 architecture, Core clock: 2.13 GHz
L2 Cache: 1024kB , TDP: max. 10W
Supports SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, Execute Disable Bit
Integrated North Bridge with controller for memory and graphics
Passive cooling without fan
Passive, completely fanless cooling through convective heat transfer
Warning: Please make sure the system is always placed
upright using either its stand or the optional VESA mount.
Ventilation holes must not be blocked to ensure sufficient cooling.
Intel® NM10 Express Chipset (south bridge)
Platform Controller Hub (PCH)
Code name: Tiger Point
AMI BIOS in a 8Mbit Flash ROM supports PnP, ACPI 2.0
Supports external USB flash memory card boot up
Supports Power fail resume / AC power on state / always on / always off
Supports Wake-on-LAN (WOL) from S3, S3, S5 ACPI states
Supports Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
2x SO-DIMM slots with 204 pins
Supports two modules DDR3-1066 (PC3-8500)
DDR3-1333 is supported at DDR3-1066 clock rate
Supported maximum capacity: 4 GB
Optical drive (optional)
Support an optical DVD or Blu-ray slim-line drive
Serial ATA interface, 12.7mm height, Slimline SATA connector
Hard disk drive/SSD
Supports one Serial ATA hard disk (5400 / 7200 rpm)
or one SATA SSD drive in 6.35cm/2.5" format
The SATA 2.0 interface supports up to 300MB/s data transfer speed
Supports a drive with 9.5mm height (12.5mm is not supported)
Supports Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
Discrete ATI Graphics
AMD Radeon™ HD 7410M graphics processor (Codename "Seymore-LP")
Dedicated 3D graphics card
VRAM: 512MB DDR3, 800MHz, 64 bit (no shared memory)
160 Stream Processing Units, 40nm technology
Supports DirectX 11, Shader Model 5.0, OpenGL 4.1
Unified Video Decoder (UVD 3) dedicated video playback accelerator
Supports full HD decode (1080i/p)
Support for up to 2 simultaneous displays:
1) Digital HDMI™ 1.4a, max. resolution: 1920x1200
2) Analog D-Sub VGA, max. resolution: 2048x1536
Supports Extended Desktop Mode and Clone Mode
Supports Blu-ray play back in combination with an optional slim-line
Blu-ray drive and appropriate software
Integrated HD audio controller for 7.1 Surround Sound via HDMI.
Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats.
Integrated Audio
IDT92HD81 Audio Codec with Azalia support
Two analog audio connectors (3.5mm):
1) Line out (head phone)
2) microphone input
Supports digital 7.1 HD audio via the HDMI port.
Card Reader
Integrated card reader supports SD, SDHC and SDXC memory flash cards
Wired Network
RJ45 connector supports Gigabit LAN at 10/100/1000 Mbit/sec.
Network controller JMC 251
Supports Wake-on-LAN (WOL) from S3, S3, S5 ACPI states
Wireless Network (WLAN)
Supports IEEE 802.11b/g/n, max. 150Mbps up-/downstream
Security: WPA/WPA2(-PSK), WEP 64/128bit, IEEE 802.11x/i
Half size Mini-PCIe-Card
HDMI v1.3 digital video and audio output
D-Sub/ VGA analog video ( 15 pin)
5x USB 2.0 (1x front, 4x rear)
Gigabit network (LAN, RJ45)
Audio Line-out (head phone)
Microphone input
DC input for the external power adapter
LEDs and Buttons
Power button
Power LED (white)
Hard disk LED (blue)
Power supply
External 40W AC/DC power adapter (fanless), 19V / 2.1A
AC Input: 100~240V AC, 50~60Hz
Automatic voltage adjust
Dimensions: 89.5 x 37 x 26.5 mm (LWH)
DC Connector: 5.5/2.5mm (outer/inner diameter)
Optional Accessories
- VESA mount made of metal (PV01)
- Adapter for second 2.5" drive instead of optical drive (PHD2)
24/7 nonstop operation
This device is approved for 24/7 permanent operation.
- Free circulation of air amongst the PC must be guaranteed.
- Ventilation holes must be clear.
- If a hard disk is installed, this must also be approved for permanent
operation by its manufacturer (max. one hard disk)
Environmental Spec
Operating temperature range: 0~35°C
Relative humidity range: 10~90% (non-condensing)
Certification and Compliance
EMI: CE, FCC, BSMI, C-Tick, CCC
Safety: CB, BSMI, ETL
Other compliances: RoHS, Eup Lot6
This device is classed as a technical information
equipment (ITE) in class B and is intended for use in
living room and office. The CE-mark approves the
conformity by the EU-guidelines:
- EMV-guideline 89/336/EWG electromagnetic tolerance
- LVD-guideline 73/23/EWG use of electric devices
within certain voltage-limits
Closer look at the 1.57L chassis
Since it is mostly made out of plastic we were a bit worried that Shuttle's XS35GTA V3 will be a device that you would rather hide from plain sight, but luckily we were wrong, as the actual build quality is quite good. We must say that Shuttle certainly did not cut any corners and definitely made use of every last millimeter of space. The XS35GTA V3 is rated at 24/7 nonstop operation but needs to have free circulation of air and clear ventilation holes.
As you can see from these pictures, the sides of the XS35GTA V3 are made out of a combination of plastics and aluminum and are actually a large ventilation area.
The front side features one USB 2.0 port, 4-in-1 card reader and place for an optional optical drive or the second HDD (via optional accessory).
The front upper side also includes power and reset buttons that double as power and HDD activity LEDs.
The back of the unit is a busy part of the system as this one includes almost every output and input that you might expect and even would not expect from an office PC or even an HTPC for that matter. From right to left, the XS35GTA V3 features Kensington lock, microphone and headphone jacks, LAN port, four USB 2.0 ports, D-Sub output, HDMI output and power jack.
You might have noticed that we skipped the first HDMI but that one is unusable and comes with a cover plug, same as the second D-Sub output. The first HDMI and the covered D-Sub are actually not usable.
The reason behind this is the fact that the Intel GMA 3650 is actually disabled, as you could see in the specification list, but since Shuttle offers pretty much identical system, sans Radeon HD 7410M graphics, the outputs remained on this one as well.
When paired up with the included stand, Shuttle's XS35GTA V3 actually looks pretty good and we are sure that it would fit any living room.
Inside of the chassis and installation
To be quite honest we did not even check out the installation manual but went on to see if we could figure out the chassis by ourselves.
We were quite surprised to find a single screw and to our surprise, it was the only screw that you need to get rid of in order to get to the inside of the chassis as it holds both side panels of the XS35GTA V3.
The inside of the left side are quite dull as it features a rather large heatsink plate connected to the front heatsinks via heatpipe and a place for an optical drive or optional 2nd HDD.
The right side, on the other hand, is quite interesting as it shows the entire motherboard including place for DIMM memory in two slots, WiFi adapter, place for HDD or SSD and a rather large heatsink connected to two other heatsinks via heatpipe.
The installation of the HDD is quite straightforward as you simply need to screw the mounting plate to the HDD.
Then you simply have to plug it in place and secure it with additional three screws. Pretty simple and once again we did not even have to consult a manual, that by the way, explains it quite good.
The memory is self explanatory as well. Just angle it and simply press the memory module down to secure it.
We decided to pair the barebone with a 320GB 5400RPM 2.5-inch HDD and 2GB of DDR3 memory. Unfortunately, we did not have an extra slim optical drive but the installation is pretty much identical to the HDD as you simply plug it in and secure it with the supplied adapter.
Performance and everyday use
We already had a couple of HTPC units in our hands earlier and one of them was Zotac's ZBox AD02 Plus that features AMD's E-350 APU as well as Sapphire's Edge HD2 based on dual-core Atom D525 1.8GHz CPU paired up with Nvidia's ION 2 GPU. We also included results from Sapphire's Pure White motherboard also based on E-350 APU.
In terms of sheer CPU power, the dual-core Atom D2700 is certainly much faster than E-350 CPU part as well as the 1.8GHz D525 Atom. As we noted earlier, the main disadvantage of the D2700 is its GPU part, but in case of Shuttle's XS35GTA V3, this is not a problem since the integrated GPU is disabled and switched to AMD's quite decent Radeon HD 7410M GPU with 512MB of GDDR5 dedicated memory.
In AIDA 64 benchmark, Shuttle's XS35GTA V3 clearly steams ahead tests as both the 1.8GHz and 2.13GHz clocked D2700 are simply faster than AMD's E-350 APU.
In order to check out the power of the GPU we decided to check Futuremark's 3DMark 06 since we already had results from both Sapphire Edge HD2 and Zotac's ZBox AD02 Plus and it is clear that HD 7410M, paired up with D2700 has more than enough power to compete with both AMD's E-350 APU and Atom D525/ION2 combination.
The same thing goes for Cinebench R11.5 as Shuttle's XS35GTA V3 clearly has a much better GPU and pretty decent CPU as well.
The PCMark 7 results are sort of a mixed bag, but they are clearly dependant on the choice of the HDD as system in most parts of the benchmark, the XS35GTA V3 clearly steams ahead of the ZBox E-350 APU but in some tests it lags behind. Of course, nothing stops the user to go for a speedier 7200rpm 2.5-inch HDD or even a hybrid drive or SSD and get some impressive numbers on that side as well.
We did not bother with HDD testing as we got the barebone version of the XS35GTA V3 so these scores solely depends on which HDD gets plugged in.
We used the XS35GTA V3 for some casual internet surfing, media playback and even some office work while it remained connected to the 1080p capable TV and we must say that we were quite impressed as it handled everything that we threw at it with ease.
We only regret that we did not test the Blu-Ray and 3D video playback but we simply did not have neither the slim Blu-ray drive nor the 3D-capable TV or monitor so we will leave that for some other time. Of course, according to the specs, AMD's Radeon HD 7410M support full HD decode and Blu-Ray playback thanks to the third generation Unified Video Decoder so we doubt there will be any problems with that as well.
Temperatures, noise and power consumption
As we mentioned quite a few times earlier, the Shuttle XS35GTA V3 is a completely silent system which can't be said of many other HTPCs. The fully silent feature does have its advantages but also comes with a price and as you can see from a picture below, the CPU temperature tends to climb as high as 84 degrees Celsius, while the GPU temperature can climb as high as 71 degrees Celsius.
Of course, bear in mind that these temps are highest values that we got after a few hours of extensive benchmarking.
We even decided to put those 24/7 claims to the test and left the little Shuttle XS35GTA V3 idling for a few days and we can happily report that it went without a hitch.
We decided to measure the power consumption and ended up with pretty much same values that Shuttle wrote in its specification and feature list. Under idle mode in Windows 7, when OS actually powers down the HDD and turns off the display, Shuttle's XS35GTA V3 pulls around 15W from the power outlet. On idle desktop without any active applications, Shuttle pulls around 20W. Light surfing with few tabs and Crytek's CryEngine3 tech-demo running on YouTube in 720p draws an average of 24W. The maximum load that we managed to pull off was around 26W.
Of course, bear in mind that our test bed did not include an optical drive so you should add a few Watts for it as well in case you decide to pair it up with slim Blu-Ray optical drive.
We had a chance to spend a couple of weeks with Shuttle's latest addition to the Slim PC lineup, the XS35GTA V3, and we honestly have to say that we are quite impressed. With a rather strange combination of Intel's N10 Express chipset, Atom D2700 CPU and AMD's Radeon HD 7410M GPU with 512MB of GDDR3 dedicated memory, Shuttle practically managed to make a match made in heaven.
Intel's dual-core Atom D2700 recently reached EOL (end-of-life) and Shuttle's XS35GTA V3 might not be on the market for a long time, depending on how many parts Shuttle ordered.
The one thing that we mostly liked on Shuttle's XS35GTA V3 is that it is completely silent and produces zero noise. Of course, as we noted in our review, this brings some drawbacks as it needs enough "breathing room" and you can't cramp it up as it already reaches quite high temperatures when pushed under full load. Of course, these full load states will be rarely reached but it is definitely something to keep in mind.
Shuttle's XS35GTA V3 has enough CPU and GPU power to be a great office PC and great HTPC as well. Unfortunately, Intel's NM10 Express chipset lacks USB 3.0 support, and that win goes to Brazos equipped systems.
Price wise, Shuttle's XS35GTA V3 has surprised us there as well as Shuttle Europe has informed us earlier that the suggested retail price is set at €233 exc. VAT, but we managed to find it listed in Europe for as low as €222 including VAT. Of course, we are talking about barebone system here so count at least additional €60 for a 320GB HDD and 2GB of RAM memory, so you are looking at a final price of around €280 to €300, which does not sound that bad considering that Sapphire's Edge HD2 with 2GB of memory and 320GB HDD goes for around €310 (one of the lowest prices) while Zotac's ZBox AD02 Plus with E-350, 2GB of memory and 320GB HDD sells for around €300 as well.
Of course, Shuttle's XS35GTA V3 has an advantage of being a completely silent system and performance wise generally ends up faster than most HTPCs (similar priced and similar sized). We simply loved the design and when paired up with some sort of HTPC-friendly wireless keyboard it certainly sounds like a great deal, so we simply have no other choice than to give it an award, although we honestly do not mind.


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Wish List for Candle Making
Hard to believe that Thanksgiving is just several days away which for many signals the "official" start of the winter holidays. However by now most kids have already started putting their "Holiday Wish List" together. We all know that this list will change over 100 times by the actual holiday. Since kids are spending time putting their list together it only appropriate that we help you create your own wish list for the activity you are passionate about. We can only hope some if not all of these items make it to your household in the upcoming weeks.Read More


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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Cheesy Oatcakes for your Picnic Basket
Planning a picnic soon? Or need something to nibble while working away at the desk? Try these savoury oatcakes with cheese. They're soft and slightly chewy, quite filling and very easy to make. The recipe is adapted from a Finnish magazine. I used an Emmenthaler-type cheese, but good old Cheddar or Monterey Jack would work just as well.
Cheesy Oatcakes
(Kaerahelbeküpsised juustuga)
Makes about 2 dozens
100 g old-fashioned oats
135 g plain/all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
75 g cheese, grated
250 ml / 1 cup milk
40 g butter, melted
0.5 tsp salt
Mix oats, flour and baking powder in a large bowl. Add the grated cheese, milk, melted butter and stir, until everything is combined. The batter with be rather soft.
Take spoonfuls of the batter and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Bake in a preheated 225 C/450 F oven for about 15 minutes, until the cookies are golden.
Transfer onto a wire rack to cool.
8 comments:
- lobstersquad said...
oooh this sounds marvelous! come spring, I don´t have porridge for breakfast any more, and dont´know what to do with the oats.
- 1:40 pm, May 26, 2009
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
Nice to have something made with oats that isn't filled with sugar. I'm bookmarking.
- 2:20 pm, May 26, 2009
- DaviMack said...
Yum! These sound so much like American Biscuits it's not even funny. :)
- 3:23 pm, May 26, 2009
- Gaba said...
They're in the oven RIGHT now. Thank you very much!
- 8:04 pm, May 27, 2009
Lovely recipe. Would love to make these. Since I'm not that familiar with metric measurements, wanted to make sure - you meant 40g of butter right?
- 5:02 am, May 29, 2009
- Pille said...
Ximena - well, you can indeed make oatcakes then :)
Lydia - I usually make sweet oatcakes, but these were a nice change.
DaviMack - is it good or bad?
Gaba - pleased to hear that! What did you think of them?
Julia - yes. That's about 2 Tbsp.
- 8:21 am, June 05, 2009
Baked them today...they are delicious! I love salty-cheesy snacks....
- 8:49 pm, June 12, 2009
- Vanessa said...
Thank you for this quick and easy, picnic basket filler. Was a delightful snack with fig and ginger jam and satisfying after a bike ride around the waterfront. Next up is your elderflower curd recipe.
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Rep. Fred Upton: Let people keep their coverage
My bill offers an escape hatch.
"If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what." This promise from President Obama has been pervasive and unequivocal.
Yet I am hearing from countless concerned constituents in Michigan who are losing their coverage. They are joined by millions of Americans who took the president at his word and are now receiving insurance termination notices and alternatives that are often much more expensive. Making matters worse, the administration has known that many health plans would be forced to end under Affordable Care Act requirements, but the president repeated his promise even into late September.
OUR VIEW: Beware hype about 'losers'
WHITE HOUSE: ACA adds many protections
The "Keep Your Health Plan Act" is a simple, sensible solution that would allow health plans being offered today to continue into next year. Particularly as consumers struggle with the error-prone online enrollment process, the Keep Your Health Plan Act is a voluntary escape hatch that would give added flexibility for Americans who truly want to keep the plan they have.
Implementation of the president's health care law has generated confusion and concern. That's not what health reform should be about. Americans deserve to know that in times of need, they will have the coverage and care that they want, need and can afford.
That is why the law's broken promises matter. "We'll lower premiums by up to $2,500 for a typical family per year" has been replaced with premium increases as high as 400%. Administration officials insisted the law would be ready Oct. 1, but a month later the website still does not work and has questionable security.
Investigating this law's implementation is about accountability, transparency and fairness. To those who say the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land, I concur; that is why it needs the same scrutiny we give other programs that affect American citizens and consume taxpayer dollars.
Despite continued policy differences, I hope we can find common ground on keeping the promises the president made. Passing the Keep Your Health Plan Act with bipartisan support would do just that.
Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., is chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.


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[root@localhost guest]# locate kernel-param/usr/src/linux-2.4.23-2.tmb.2mdk/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt[root@localhost guest]# cat `locate kernel-param`July 2000 Kernel Parameters v2.4.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The following is a consolidated list of the kernel parameters as implementedby the __setup() macro and sorted into English Dictionary order (definedas ignoring all punctuation and sorting digits before letters in a caseinsensitive manner), and with descriptions where known.The text in square brackets at the beginning of the description state therestrictions on the kernel for the said kernel parameter to be valid. Therestrictions referred to are that the relevant option is valid if: ACPI ACPI support is enabled. APIC APIC support is enabled. APM Advanced Power Management support is enabled. AX25 Appropriate AX.25 support is enabled. BADRAM Support for faulty RAM chips is enabled. CD Appropriate CD support is enabled. DEVFS devfs support is enabled. DRM Direct Rendering Management support is enabled. EFI EFI Partitioning (GPT) is enabled EIDE EIDE/ATAPI support is enabled. FB The frame buffer device is enabled. HW Appropriate hardware is enabled. IA-32 IA-32 aka i386 architecture is enabled. IA-64 IA-64 architecture is enabled. IP_PNP IP DCHP, BOOTP, or RARP is enabled. ISAPNP ISA PnP code is enabled. ISDN Appropriate ISDN support is enabled. JOY Appropriate joystick support is enabled. LP Printer support is enabled. LOOP Loopback device support is enabled. M68k M68k architecture is enabled. MCA MCA bus support is enabled. MDA MDA console support is enabled. MOUSE Appropriate mouse support is enabled. NET Appropriate network support is enabled. NFS Appropriate NFS support is enabled. PARIDE The ParIDE subsystem is enabled. PCI PCI bus support is enabled. PCMCIA The PCMCIA subsystem is enabled. PNP Plug & Play support is enabled. PPT Parallel port support is enabled. PS2 Appropriate PS/2 support is enabled. RAM RAM disk support is enabled. SCSI Appropriate SCSI support is enabled. SERIAL Serial support is enabled. SMP The kernel is an SMP kernel. SOUND Appropriate sound system support is enabled. SWSUSP Software suspension is enabled. V4L Video For Linux support is enabled. VGA The VGA console has been enabled. VT Virtual terminal support is enabled. XT IBM PC/XT MFM hard disk support is enabled.In addition, the following text indicates that the option: BUGS= Relates to possible processor bugs on the said processor. KNL Is a kernel start-up parameter. BOOT Is a boot loader parameter.Parameters denoted with BOOT are actually interpreted by the bootloader, and have no meaning to the kernel directly.Note that ALL kernel parameters listed below are CASE SENSITIVE, and thata trailing = on the name of any parameter states that that parameter willbe entered as an environment variable, whereas its absence indicates thatit will appear as a kernel argument readable via /proc/cmdline by programsrunning once the system is up. 53c7xx= [HW,SCSI] Amiga SCSI controllers. acpi= [HW,ACPI] Advanced Configuration and Power Interface force Force ACPI on, even if blacklisted platform off Disable ACPI ht Limit ACPI to boot-time LAPIC enumeration for HT, disabling the run-time AML interpreter. acpi_pic_sci= [HW,ACPI] ACPI System Conrol Interrupt trigger mode level Force PIC-mode SCI to Level Trigger (default) edge Force PIC-mode SCI to Edge Trigger acpi_irq_balance ACPI will balance active IRQs acpi_irq_nobalance ACPI will not move active IRQs acpi_irq_pci= If irq_balance, Clear listed IRQs for use by PCI acpi_irq_isa= If irq_balance, Mark listed IRQs used by ISA ad1816= [HW,SOUND] ad1848= [HW,SOUND] adb_buttons= [HW,MOUSE] adlib= [HW,SOUND] advansys= [HW,SCSI] aedsp16= [HW,SOUND] aha152x= [HW,SCSI] aha1542= [HW,SCSI] aic7xxx= [HW,SCSI] AM53C974= [HW,SCSI] amijoy= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support apm= [APM] Advanced Power Management. applicom= [HW] arcrimi= [HW,NET] ataflop= [HW,M68k] atarimouse= [HW,MOUSE] Atari Mouse. atascsi= [HW,SCSI] Atari SCSI. awe= [HW,SOUND] aztcd= [HW,CD] Aztec CD driver. badram= [BADRAM] Avoid allocating faulty RAM addresses. baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] baycom_par= [HW,AX25] BayCom Parallel Port AX.25 Modem. baycom_ser_fdx= [HW,AX25] BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem in Full Duplex Mode. baycom_ser_hdx= [HW,AX25] BayCom Serial Port AX.25 Modem in Half Duplex Mode. bmouse= [HW,MOUSE,PS2] Bus mouse. bttv.card= [HW,V4L] bttv (bt848 + bt878 based grabber cards), most bttv.radio= important insmod options are available as kernel args too. bttv.pll= see Documentation/video4linux/bttv/Insmod-options bttv.tuner= and Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CARDLIST BusLogic= [HW,SCSI] cdu31a= [HW,CD] chandev= [HW,NET] cm206= [HW,CD] com20020= [HW,NET] com90io= [HW,NET] com90xx= [HW,NET] condev= [HW] console= [KNL] output console + comm spec (speed, control, parity). cpia_pp= [HW,PPT] cs4232= [HW,SOUND] cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET] ctc= [HW,NET] cyclades= [HW,SERIAL] Cyclades multi-serial port adapter. dasd= [HW,NET] db9= [HW,JOY] db9_2= [HW,JOY] db9_3= [HW,JOY] debug [KNL] Enable kernel debugging (events log level). decnet= [HW,NET] devfs= [DEVFS] digi= [HW,SERIAL] io parameters + enable/disable command. digiepca= [HW,SERIAL] dmascc= [HW,AX25,SERIAL] AX.25 Z80SCC driver with DMA support available. dmasound= [HW,SOUND] (sound subsystem buffers). dtc3181e= [HW,SCSI] eata= [HW,SCSI] eda= [HW,PS2] edb= [HW,PS2] eicon= [HW,ISDN] es1370= [HW,SOUND] es1371= [HW,SOUND] ether= [HW,NET] Ethernet cards parameters (irq, base_io_addr, mem_start, mem_end, name. (mem_start is often overloaded to mean something different and driver-specific). fd_mcs= [HW,SCSI] fdomain= [HW,SCSI] floppy= [HW] ftape= [HW] Floppy Tape subsystem debugging options. gamma= [HW,DRM] gc= [HW,JOY] gc_2= [HW,JOY] gc_3= [HW,JOY] gdth= [HW,SCSI] gpt [EFI] Forces disk with valid GPT signature but invalid Protective MBR to be treated as GPT. gscd= [HW,CD] gus= [HW,SOUND] gvp11= [HW,SCSI] hd= [EIDE] (E)IDE hard drive subsystem geometry (Cyl/heads/sectors) or tune parameters. hfmodem= [HW,AX25] hisax= [HW,ISDN] i810= [HW,DRM] ibmmcascsi= [HW,MCA,SCSI] IBM MicroChannel SCSI adapter. icn= [HW,ISDN] ide?= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem : config (iomem/irq), tuning or debugging (serialize,reset,no{dma,tune,probe}) or chipset specific parameters. idebus= [HW] (E)IDE subsystem : VLB/PCI bus speed. idle= [HW] in2000= [HW,SCSI] init= [KNL] initrd= [BOOT] Specify the location of the initial ramdisk. ip= [IP_PNP] isapnp= [ISAPNP] Specify RDP, reset, pci_scan and verbosity. isapnp_reserve_irq= [ISAPNP] Exclude IRQs for the autoconfiguration. isapnp_reserve_dma= [ISAPNP] Exclude DMAs for the autoconfiguration. isapnp_reserve_io= [ISAPNP] Exclude I/O ports for the autoconfiguration. Ranges are in pairs (I/O port base and size). isapnp_reserve_mem= [ISAPNP] Exclude memory regions for the autoconfiguration. Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). isp16= [HW,CD] iucv= [HW,NET] js= [HW,JOY] Analog joystick kbd-reset [VT] keepinitrd [HW, ARM] lapic [IA-32,APIC] Enable the local APIC even if BIOS disabled it. load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy. lockd.udpport= [NFS] lockd.tcpport= [NFS] logi_busmouse= [HW, MOUSE] lp=0 [LP] Specify parallel ports to use, e.g, lp=port[,port...] lp=none,parport0 (lp0 not configured, lp1 uses lp=reset first parallel port). 'lp=0' disables the lp=auto printer driver. 'lp=reset' (which can be specified in addition to the ports) causes attached printers to be reset. Using lp=port1,port2,... specifies the parallel ports to associate lp devices with, starting with lp0. A port specification may be 'none' to skip that lp device, or a parport name such as 'parport0'. Specifying 'lp=auto' instead of a port specification list means that device IDs from each port should be examined, to see if an IEEE 1284-compliant printer is attached; if so, the driver will manage that printer. ltpc= [HW] mac5380= [HW,SCSI] mac53c9x= [HW,SCSI] mad16= [HW,SOUND] maui= [HW,SOUND] max_loop=[0-255] [LOOP] Set the maximum number of loopback devices that can be mounted. maxcpus= [SMP] States the maximum number of processors that an SMP kernel should make use of. max_scsi_luns= [SCSI] mca-pentium [BUGS=IA-32] mcd= [HW,CD] mcdx= [HW,CD] md= [HW] RAID subsystems devices and level. mdisk= [HW] mdacon= [MDA] megaraid= [HW,SCSI] mem=exactmap [KNL,BOOT,IA-32] enable setting of an exact e820 memory map, as specified by the user. Such mem=exactmap lines can be constructed based on BIOS output or other requirements. mem=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] force use of a specific amount of memory; to be used when the kernel is not able to see the whole system memory or for test. mem=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Force usage of a specific region of memory Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. mem=nn[KMG]#ss[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ACPI] Mark specific memory as ACPI data. Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. mem=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG] [KNL,BOOT,ACPI] Mark specific memory as reserved. Region of memory to be used, from ss to ss+nn. memfrac= [KNL] mga= [HW,DRM] mpu401= [HW,SOUND] msmouse= [HW,MOUSE] Microsoft Mouse. ncr5380= [HW,SCSI] ncr53c400= [HW,SCSI] ncr53c400a= [HW,SCSI] ncr53c406a= [HW,SCSI] ncr53c8xx= [HW,SCSI] netdev= [NET] Ethernet cards parameters (irq, base_io_addr, mem_start, mem_end, name. (mem_start is often overloaded to mean something different and driver-specific). (cf: ether=) nfsaddrs= [NFS] nfsroot= [NFS] nfs root filesystem for disk-less boxes. nmi_watchdog= [KNL,BUGS=IA-32] debugging features for SMP kernels. no387 [BUGS=IA-32] Tells the kernel to use the 387 maths emulation library even if a 387 maths coprocessor is present. noalign [KNL,ARM] noapic [SMP,APIC] Tells the kernel not to make use of any APIC that may be present on the system. noasync [HW, M68K] Disables async and sync negotiation for all devices. nocache [ARM] nodisconnect [HW,SCSI, M68K] Disables SCSI disconnects. nohlt [BUGS=ARM] no-hlt [BUGS=IA-32] Tells the kernel that the hlt instruction doesn't work correctly and not to use it. noisapnp [ISAPNP] Disables ISA PnP code. noinitrd [RAM] Tells the kernel not to load any configured initial RAM disk. nointroute [IA-64] noresume [SWSUSP] Disables resume and restore original swap space. nolapic [IA-32,APIC] Do not enable or use the local APIC. no-scroll [VGA] nosmp [SMP] Tells an SMP kernel to act as a UP kernel. nosync [HW, M68K] Disables sync negotiation for all devices. notsc [BUGS=IA-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter nowb [ARM] opl3= [HW,SOUND] opl3sa= [HW,SOUND] opl3sa2= [HW,SOUND] optcd= [HW,CD] panic= [KNL] kernel behaviour on panic. parport=0 [HW,PPT] Specify parallel ports. 0 disables. parport=auto Use 'auto' to force the driver to use parport=0xBBB[,IRQ[,DMA]] any IRQ/DMA settings detected (the default is to ignore detected IRQ/DMA settings because of possible conflicts). You can specify the base address, IRQ, and DMA settings; IRQ and DMA should be numbers, or 'auto' (for using detected settings on that particular port), or 'nofifo' (to avoid using a FIFO even if it is detected). Parallel ports are assigned in the order they are specified on the command line, starting with parport0. pas2= [HW,SOUND] pas16= [HW,SCSI] pcbit= [HW,ISDN] pcd. [PARIDE] pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options: off [IA-32] don't probe for the PCI bus bios [IA-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access the hardware directly. Use this if your machine has a non-standard PCI host bridge. nobios [IA-32] disallow use of PCI BIOS, only direct hardware access methods are allowed. Use this if you experience crashes upon bootup and you suspect they are caused by the BIOS. conf1 [IA-32] Force use of PCI Configuration Mechanism 1. conf2 [IA-32] Force use of PCI Configuration Mechanism 2. nosort [IA-32] Don't sort PCI devices according to order given by the PCI BIOS. This sorting is done to get a device order compatible with older kernels. biosirq [IA-32] Use PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt routing table. These calls are known to be buggy on several machines and they hang the machine when used, but on other computers it's the only way to get the interrupt routing table. Try this option if the kernel is unable to allocate IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your motherboard. rom [IA-32] Assign address space to expansion ROMs. Use with caution as certain devices share address decoders between ROMs and other resources. irqmask=0xMMMM [IA-32] Set a bit mask of IRQs allowed to be assigned automatically to PCI devices. You can make the kernel exclude IRQs of your ISA cards this way. lastbus=N [IA-32] Scan all buses till bus #N. Can be useful if the kernel is unable to find your secondary buses and you want to tell it explicitly which ones they are. assign-busses [IA-32] Always assign all PCI bus numbers ourselves, overriding whatever the firmware may have done. pd. [PARIDE] pf. [PARIDE] pg. [PARIDE] pirq= [SMP,APIC] mp-table. plip= [PPT,NET] Parallel port network link. profile= [KNL] enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile (param: profile step/bucket size as a power of 2) prompt_ramdisk= [RAM] List of RAM disks to prompt for floppy disk before loading. pss= [HW,SOUND] pt. [PARIDE] quiet= [KNL] Disable log messages. r128= [HW,DRM] raid= [HW,RAID] ramdisk= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes [deprecated]. ramdisk_blocksize= [RAM] ramdisk_size= [RAM] New name for the ramdisk parameter. ramdisk_start= [RAM] Starting block of RAM disk image (so you can place it after the kernel image on a boot floppy). reboot= [BUGS=IA-32] reserve= [KNL,BUGS] force the kernel to ignore some iomem area. resume= [SWSUSP] specify the partition device for software suspension. riscom8= [HW,SERIAL] ro [KNL] Mount root device read-only on boot. root= [KNL] root filesystem. rootflags= [KNL] set root filesystem mount option string rootfstype= [KNL] set root filesystem type rw [KNL] Mount root device read-write on boot. S [KNL] run init in single mode. sb= [HW,SOUND] sbpcd= [HW,CD] Soundblaster CD adapter. scsi_logging= [SCSI] scsihosts= [SCSI] sg_def_reserved_size= [SCSI] sgalaxy= [HW,SOUND] sim710= [SCSI,HW] sjcd= [HW,CD] smart2= [HW] sonicvibes= [HW,SOUND] sonycd535= [HW,CD] sound= [SOUND] soundmodem= [HW,AX25,SOUND] Use sound card as packet radio modem. specialix= [HW,SERIAL] Specialix multi-serial port adapter. sscape= [HW,SOUND] st= [HW,SCSI] SCSI tape parameters (buffers, etc.). st0x= [HW,SCSI] stram_swap= [HW] swiotlb= [IA-64] Number of I/O TLB slabs. switches= [HW, M68K] sym53c416= [HW,SCSI] sym53c8xx= [HW,SCSI] t128= [HW,SCSI] tdfx= [HW,DRM] tgfx= [HW,JOY] tgfx_2= [HW,JOY] tgfx_3= [HW,JOY] tmc8xx= [HW,SCSI] tmscsim= [HW,SCSI] tp720= [HW,PS2] trix= [HW,SOUND] u14-34f= [HW,SCSI] uart401= [HW,SOUND] uart6850= [HW,SOUND] usbfix [BUGS=IA-64] video= [FB] frame buffer configuration. vga= [BOOT] on ix386, select a particular video mode (use vga=ask for menu). This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is passed to the kernel using a special protocol. See linux/Documentation/i386/boot.txt for information. vmhalt= [KNL,S390] vmpoff= [KNL,S390] waveartist= [HW,SOUND] wd33c93= [HW,SCSI] wd7000= [HW,SCSI] wdt= [HW] xd= [HW,XT] Original XT pre-IDE (RLL encoded) disks. xd_geo= [HW,XT]
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Always the same. While we're all now focused on the change that's about to happen in the Catholic Church as Pope Benedict XVI steps down, the Latin phrase semper eadem—always the same—is often invoked to describe the unchanging character of the Catholic Church.
Certain critics say no real change can take place in the Catholic Church, but change does take place, though it usually happens by indirection, reassessment, and development. The result is what Pope Benedict XVI has called a "hermeneutic of continuity and reform." This was evident in the 2012 Synod of Bishops, convened to consider "The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith."
I participated in this recent synod as a fraternal delegate representing the Baptist World Alliance. The conveners asked the fraternal delegates to make a brief presentation to the synod, offer written comments on the proceedings, and participate in small groups to help draft the final documents. Given the distant and even hostile relations between Catholics and evangelicals in the past, this represents a remarkable degree of openness on the part of the Catholic Church. Though Vatican II documents call non-Catholic Christians "separated brothers," the synod decidedly emphasized fraternity. This was evident in three major themes of the synod.
1. The centrality of the Bible. The synod recognized the importance of reading, studying, translating, and obeying the written Word of God as essential for evangelization. Lamar Vest of the American Bible Society made a special presentation to the pope and spoke of the collaborative work of spreading the Scriptures throughout the world. We should never minimize the transforming power ...1
Charles Colson was the founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries, an outreach to convicts, victims of crime, and justice officers. Colson, who converted to Christianity before he was indicted on Watergate-related charges, became one of evangelicalism's most influential voices. His books included Born Again and How Now Shall We Live? A Christianity Today columnist since 1985, Colson died in 2012.
Timothy George is the dean of Beeson Divinity School at Samford University and a member of Christianity Today's Editorial Council. His books include Reading Scripture with the Reformers and Is the Father of Jesus the God of Muhammad? Like Colson, George has been heavily involved in the Evangelicals and Catholics Together discussions. George began cowriting "Contra Mundum" with Colson in 2011.


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'Bad Lip Reading' Makes 'Hot Problems' Worth Listening To
Remember "Hot Problems"? For those who don't, it's a terrible song in the same vein of Rebecca Black's 'Friday' – only twice as bad. But now the folks at Bad Lip Reading (BLR) have turned the song by two wannabe pop princesses into "Time To Rock" — and it's actually worth listening to!
Using the same "putting-the-wrong-words-in-their-mouth" technique that made politicians like Joe Biden and Mitt Romney unintentionally hilarious, BLR makes a song originally about (so-called) problems hot girls face into something we can all enjoy. The remix is more up-tempo and even the "singing" sounds way better than the original.
Check out the music video below (note: the lyrics are slightly NSFW).


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It almost seems like atheists don't want to believe in God. Do you just simply not want to believe in God because you don't want to give up your own free will?
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That is what the 2nd amendment is all about.
"The Bible was written by man but that makes it authentic. It was their relationship with the living God the way they saw it."
How can you say that, Mercedes? Think of all of the fictional books that were "written by man" - does that make them authentic?
Yes, the key phrase here is, "the way they saw it" - these were people living in the Bronze Age, who believed the sky was blue because space was filled with water, and we on earth were protected from it by a bubble called "the firmament." They believed their god lived in the sky, along with his angels - we've been to the moon and haven't run into him yet.
They were a bunch of superstitious, primitive people, who didn't know much about how the world worked, so they believed a supernatural being did everything. Now that we have a much clearer picture of how things work, we don't need those silly superstitions anymore.
How does the Bible being written by men make it authentic? The Egyptian Book of the Dead was written by men, so does that make it authentic? The Norse, Greek and Celtic beliefs were recorded by men, so does that make them authentic?
Also, the caveat that the Bible is true because it points to Jesus shows a huge error in your reasoning. You can only draw that as an important distinction if you already accept Christianity as true. If you don't already believe, then Jesus being the last big thing in the Bible is of no import. The Norse would tell you that their beliefs all pointed toward Ragnarok, and the second life in Valhalla. Are you now sold on the Norse traditions?
Additionally, do you know that Jesus is in the Qur'an as well. Islam is pretty much the new new testament, thought they say that Jesus was but a human prophet and not actually God on Earth. So the Qur'an has Jesus AND leads to Muhammad as well. So why not believe in Islam instead.?
Before you put too much emphasis on Jesus, perhaps you should consider the fact that he has never been confirmed to exist either.
I would say that you are welcome here. Some are more abrupt than others, and I certainly take issue with those that jump straight to calling believers 'mental'. The biggest frustration that some may have is that the same points keep being repeated over and over, and that you keep offering the same 'proof' that has been found to be empty of worth long ago. So some would feel that you are ignoring our replies. But it could be the language barrier as well. Keep and open mind and answer honestly and everyone will get along fine.
Bull! There is no evidence of these stories being other than the original Septuagint in Greek. NO OTHER priests had the power of life and death and summary execution for anything much less hundreds of trivial offenses. Yet when the Maccabes declared themselves priest-kings they had this totalitarian authority and powers. It was enough to make Stalin drool with envy. It is the kind of power the civilized world always ascribes to savages.
Google "gabriel stone" to see the Jesus thing was nothing new in Roman times. The usual lame excuse is, Jesus isn't EXACTLY the same.
I DID check it out, Matt, and found it fascinating - I intend researching it further.
Read the actual existing translations. It is interesting and simply the "I Gabriel" opening puts it into the class of "sacred" works without grounds to exclude it. But the actual translation is so fragmentary it barely lives up to the claims made for it.
Not to run down my own suggestion but rather to suggest read it and draw your own conclusions rather than relying upon the description of it by people with an axe to grind. Taken as a whole it reflects as poorly on the Yahweh cult as the Jesus cult. As Monty Python said, I should know a Messiah when I see one, I've followed enough of them.
Or those of backwoods hillbillies living in Roman times. One assumes the Romans called it anus mundi from experience. The 76 AD revolt was started because the emperor tried to ban the ritual genital mutilation of children just as we do today with this one religious exception for males but not older girls. Rome's treatment of women and children was positively enlightened compared to the hillbillies. They even forceably mutilated the genitalia of slaves and forced their Yahweh cult on them. BTW: If circumcised they had to pay the temple tax any place in the empire -- it was all about money.
You want to think about bibleland think Deliverance.
@Shawn - Spot on - One could possibly have a psychopath for a parent, but just the ordinary run of the mill parent with sick child -
Child - Dad, I am sick, will you help me?
Dad - Nup, you have to suffer, I could help, but I just don't want to. A parent would be sued for child abuse.
This was the premise of the lovely Mother Teresa - thousands of people in her care suffered, when there pain could have been alleviated. It is the way of the catholic church.
Yea, somebody should kill that bitch......Oh, never mind the doG already did. :D


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