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A recent article in the New York Times describes a dating site called OkCupid started by four Harvard math graduates and their use of analytics to help people achieve dating success.
Using analytics to match people isn't a new idea. eHarmony and Match.com have been doing it for years. So what's new here? Is it an example of Monday Morning Analytics (or should I say Friday Evening Analytics)? Let's find out.
First, some background. In dating sites, each user creates a profile, typically consisting of a photo and some self-commentary. Users learn about others by looking at their profile photos and reading the associated self descriptions. If a profile is effective, the user may find dating success. If it isn't, the user may end up watching infomercials (Snuggies, anyone?) on Saturday night. In other words, a profile matters.
OkCupid's insight? The realization that every user makes a number of implicit decisions when she creates her profile. If we view the profile as the result of a set of decisions made by the user, perhaps we can help the user achieve dating success by optimizing those decisions.
Take the user's photo for example. How many decisions do you think are implicitly made in taking a photograph? Here's OkCupid's take:
- Facial Attitude. Is the person smiling? Staring straight ahead? Doing that flirty lip-pursing thing?
- Photo Context. Is there alcohol? Is there a pet? Is the photo outdoors? Is it in a bedroom?
- Skin. How much skin is the person showing? How much face? How much breasts? How much ripped abs?
You get the idea.
OkCupid took 7000 photos from its user community and tagged each one with these attributes. The next step was to associate a measure of dating success with each photo. For women's photos, they went with "new messages received per active month on the site". For men, it was "women met per attempt" (more details behind these metrics here).
With the data now ready, OkCupid ran what appears to be analyses of the "Excel pivot table" variety (details). While this is not sophisticated, the results seem directly actionable.
If you're a man, don't smile in your profile picture, and don't look into the camera. If you're a woman, skip photos that focus on your physical assets and pick one that shows you vacationing in Brazil or strumming a guitar.
See what I mean?
I think the idea of viewing the profile as the outcome of a set of decisions and seeking to optimize those decisions is wonderful. However, the recommendations may not be all that effective. And even if they are, they are likely to stop working. Here's why.
Without more information on how OkCupid handled a number of key issues, I don't know how much faith to place in the advice. For example, how did they control for the intrinsic facial attractiveness of the person in the photo? Perhaps that's the true driver of dating success but because it was absent in the data, some of the other variables were spuriously given the "credit"? If this is true, not-very-attractive men can try as hard as they can to look grimly away from the camera, but it isn't going to help.
Assuming that I am wrong and the recommendations are effective, they seem to contain the seeds of their own destruction. If the majority of OkCupid users starts following the recommendations, the profiles will start looking the same over time and the "stand out" appeal of the optimized profiles will be gone.
Running the analytics again won't help either – with hardly any variation in the decisions that represent the profiles, the distinction between winning and losing decisions will be miniscule and there won't be any signal to tease out of the noise.
The bottomline: Neat problem framing. So-so analytics.
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Azm-e-Alishan – Behtar Pakistan interviews Dr. Awab Alvi and Faisal Kapadia and our SA Relief effort
Voices of Pakistan: OffroadPakistan's Flood Relief Efforts
Voices of Pakistan talks about OffroadPakistan's flood relief effort
Dr. Awab Alvi, a member of Offroad Pakistan, a 4×4 adventure group, tells us how they have helped the flood affected in the Sindh region of Pakistan. They have refurbished a pediatric ward and are looking for volunteer doctors and a constant supply of medicine to maintain the ward
Winter Clothes Hampers Distributed in Dadu & Juhi
OffroadPakistan team would like to thank Nishat Welfare Organization [A. Sattar Ishaqani] and Naari Development Organization [Dr Meher Zaidi] for helping us to distribute over 1000 winter clothes hampers in the regions of Dadu and Juhi. The OffroadPakistan was able to identify the need to supply flood relief to Dadu [Nishat Welfare Organization] and also in Juhi [Naari Development Organization] in both places we were able to send winter clothes, kitchen utensils, food and water for families housed in these areas. Pictures are followed
TED Blog: Fellows Friday with Awab Alvi
An interview of mine published on TEDBlog on Friday November 5th 2010, just sharing it here for reference. This interview also included a new interactive feature for TEDFellows facebook page where a question was put up for discussion, the question asked from this interview was "Why do you think there's a lack of media coverage about what's going on in Pakistan, and how do you think we should change it?"
For years, orthodontist Awab Alvi has been an outspoken political activist via his blog, Teeth Maestro. With the onset of disastrous flooding in his native Pakistan this July, Awab traveled to the front lines, delivering food and supplies to flood victims. Though the after effects of the floods have caused personal family tragedy, Awab's fierce love for and faith in his country make him optimistic about the future.
Continue reading "TED Blog: Fellows Friday with Awab Alvi" »
Even the Pakistani Embassy in Washington – DOES NOT trust the Govt of Pakistan
In a very interesting email sent out to Pakistanis in North American the Pakistani Embassy in the United States of America at Washington DC has invited people for a fashion show by Deepak Parwani of which 90% of the proceeds will go towards flood relief, but in an interesting use of words it seems the negative perception of a total lack of trust in the Government of Pakistan in collecting funds exhibits itself in seemingly a desperate attempt to ensur that people come and be a part of the event – they categorically wrote in their email "no portion of the proceeds will go to the Government Pakistan"
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Brain Eating Amoeba invades Pakistan
It is with a very heavy heart that I share this medical alert, my Father-in-Law Mr. Ghulam Mustafa Khalid passed away on Friday 22nd October 2010 after having been infected with a very rare form of fungal meningitis known as Naegleria Fowleri. He was admitted into the hospital with symptoms of meningitis, but over the next few days suffered from Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis which is widespread destruction of the brain tissues caused by the bacteria to have finally having succumbed within the week.
Naegleria Fowleri, also known as the "brain-eating amoeba" is a bacteria typically found in warm water, such as ponds, lakes, rivers and hot springs. It is also found in soil, near warm water discharges of industrial plants, and also can exist in under-maintained or minimally chlorinated swimming pools, though there is no evidence of this amoeba found in ocean water. It is most potent in warm water anywhere above 42°C, at this temperature where it actively reproduces transmits and thrives on brain tissue, while it is known to go in a state of hibernation in cooler temperatures awaiting better conditions.
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Before and After Pictures of Shikarpur Pediatric Ward
Just a follow up on the Shikarpur Pediatric Ward, Umair Jaffer prepared a short PDF file on the before and after pictures of the work done at the Shikarpur pediatric ward as a collaborative effort between OffroadPakistan and CDRS-Shine Humanity. The older three wards were revamped by OffroadPakistan and we also took the burden of setting up and stocking the free medical dispensary, CDRS team took the initiative of setting up two brand new wards nearby, seeing these pictures one does get a proud feeling, that with proper team work we can seriously make a difference
Shikarpur Pediatric Ward revamped
A team of offroadpakistan headed to Shikarpur this last weekend to oversee the restoration of the Pediatric Ward at the Civil Hospital Shikarpur, Khalid Omar and Sabiha Omar represented us for the four days to supervise the total cleanup and painting of the three existing wards which included repair of the existing beds, the installation of insecutors in each of the wards and the cleaning up of the lavatories in the building, amongst a host of other things. They also oversaw the setup of the medical dispensary which is to provide free medicines for the patients for the next three to six months. Some of the older pictures can be seen here while our video appeal can be watched here
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Guidelines for Medical Clinics in Flood Affected Areas
I stumbled across this briliant document prepared by Dr. Shehla Baqi and her associates, they been doing outstanding flood relief in the region from the start and have drafted this document which can truly serve as a survival guide to managing and running a medical camp in the flood affected region of Pakistan. I must thank the Dr. Shahla, the Infections disease society of Pakistan and the various co-authors for taking the time to prepare this amazing document and be willing to share it publicly for the greater good. The original document in DOC, PDF & TXT format can be downloaded from Scribd under a Creative Commons, Attribution-NonCommercial license
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Buddies Without Borders – Pakistan Flood Awareness
Buddies Without Borders (BWB) is an initiative by Concerned Pakistani Americans to spread awareness about the dire flood disaster in Pakistan and the need to continue to help the needy through the collective power of children. The essence behind the initiative is that children are not bound by borders, cultures, religion and language. They are simply children and when they see other children, they only think of them as children. They hope to spread the message through this touching video across the world. Watch and be touched by the wonderful message. Please also visit their website to donate, all proceeds from this video shall be donated towards the flood affected victims
URGENT- Forcible eviction of Flood Affected people in Karachi
A very urgent appeal was emailed by Zulfiqar Shah of Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research [PILER] to a number of mailing lists appealing for help in preventing the forcible eviction of over 10,000 flood affected IDP's from their camp in Karachi… In my opinion there might seem to be an ulterior political motive to shove them out of Karachi – for the sake of Humanity this must stop – CAN YOU HELP – the message reads as follows,
This is an urgent appeal for your immediate intervention to save flood affected families from forcible eviction.
- About 10,000 flood affected people got settled at Labour Square camp in Gulshan- e- Maymar Karachi. This is a government recognized camp.
- Last week local revue official (Mukhtiarkar) made an announcement that people should evacuate camp within one week otherwise they will be forcibly evacuated by 5th October;
- This resulted in protest by affected people and smaller level scuffle between revenue officials, affected people etc;
- On last Sunday, Al- Khair Trust stopped supply of food and to our information many families are sleeping hungry. We can only bring 20 children to PILER centre for lunch today as they had not eaten for last two days. They aged 4 to 12 years;
- Food supply of the camp was initiated by Sylani Welfare Trust, run by liberal and moderate people but surprisingly this was replaced with Al Khair Trust, run by hard core religious people;
- Flood affected families with women, children were in fear, many of them without food for last two days but now worst has came in the shape of threat of eviction;
- By the time I write this mail ( 13: 50 PM / Tuesday 5th October), five to six police vehicles along with lady police have reached to camp and many of camp residents rushed to us crying that they are being forcibly evacuated. "My village Mirpur Buriro in District Jacobabad is still under water, please go and see; where we can go? Its cruelty to evict us" Says Muzafar, a young resident of camp.
It's surprising that the government wants to evict these people. It's equally surprising that this camp is not in a school that government want vacated to reopen school. This camp is in an empty building which was empty for last 3 years and there is no problem if it run additional 3 months.
Government had not given any indication of such an eviction initially. It has only came up with the idea a few days ago. It's likely that these people will be forcibly evicted and this may result in another catastrophe for them.
Please intervene and do whatever you can do to stop this eviction.
Zulfiqar Shah, PILER
021 3 6351145-7
Update on adopting the Pediatric Ward at Civil Hospital Shikarpur
Only three weeks earlier on our 5th Flood Relief mission to Shikarpur the OffroadPakistan stumbled across the Pediatric Ward at Civil Hospital in Shikarpur, the moment we saw the dilapidated situation it touched a nerve in practically each one of our team members and in unison decided to adopt this facility to bring it to some respectable standard of care. In the effort to draw attention to the facility and with the hope of raising funds from the international donor base, Faisal Kapadia and I recorded a plea for help, and shared it with the world highlighting the horrendous situation of the 100 or so kids stuffed in 3 rooms in miserable state.
We were confident that with our generous donors and a growing flood relief fund we could seriously contemplate on adopting this location and make an impact on the lives of these precious children. The only deterrent was a serious concern about rampant pilferage and corruption tarnishing the entire effort primarily the long distance from Karachi would prevent direct supervision in any long term sustainable way. Quite by chance during our relief mission to Shikarpur we were joned by Umair Jaffer, who had come from Islamabad in an attempt to assite in some medical relief camp in Shikarpur and Jacobabad, he happened to join our team and also happened to accompany our team to the hospital. Setting the wheels in motion upon our return to Karachi the project was spearheaded by a veteran offroader Taimur Mirza who initiated a series of detailed brainstorming sessions trying to figure out a way on how to pull this trick off, in the mean time Umair overstayed in Shikarpur and undertook a detailed evaluation to write a 10-odd page project proposal and feasibility to pitch CDRS [Comprehensive Disaster Response Services run by Todd Shea] for a new pediatric ward in the Civil Hospital seperate from the old location, Umair has been working with CDRS since the earthquake days some five years back and spoke highly of their commitment to helping alleviate the suffering in Pakistan
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Where 'R' stands for Reforms – Post Flood Possibilities
Regardless of their many other differences on post-flood scenarios – people, government, NGOs and the political parties are at least principally unanimous on two basic counts. That the ordinary people of Pakistan have received a dismal treatment for the past sixty three years and that here is an opportunity to make amends. Intentions of rehabilitation, reconstruction and rebuilding are likely to dominate our post-flood vocabulary. How these terms are understood and subsequently transcribed into action could determine if Pakistan will emerge from this deluge as a transformed society or simply continue on its path of medieval backwardness and misery.
The much needed post flood activities may be broadly divided into two categories. Those that revolve around brick and mortar and those that are shaped by minds, hearts, attitudes and empowerment. The first category of tasks essentially fall in the government's domain. These are largely infrastructural in nature and relate to reconstruction of roads, waterways, embankments, dykes, irrigation schemes, housing, damaged schools, healthcare centres and miscellaneous government structures. The government will surely undertake these tasks but the quality of the job done would not far exceed the quality of its doers. Those who can do nothing about the already closed 7000 plus schools (only in one province) will be able to do few miracles for another 10,000 schools that have been devastated by the punishing waters. There is thus alarge window of opportunity for the civil society, the NGOs and the philanthropic organisations, if they really wish to make a difference to come forward with innovative approaches that go far beyond the realm of reconstruct. The greatest need lies in the areas of reform, socio-economic restructuring and empowerment, that could forever change the lives of the masses.
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PK Relief Mission #8 – Video Montage
Faisal Kapadia compiles a short video of our Medical Camp at Moro – Mission #8. I too am surprised at the impressive impact we have had on the flood relief
- 8 relief missions,
- 47,500 people given with 5-days of food,
- 25,000 people fed with ready to eat food,
- 480 families provided with tents,
- 1500 families given clothes hampers &
- 1000 people treated in our one day medical camp
Relief Mission #8 – Medical & Flood Relief to Moro & Dadu
The Offroadpakistan team this week embarked on a medical relief mission to Moro and Dadu. The plans for a Medical camp had been taking place since the start of the flood effort, but our initial focus was on providing food and shelter as in the first phase of the disaster that was the basic need of the victims, by the last trip few trips it had become clear that the initial impact of the flood is now beyond us, water had started to stagnate and recede and it was now imperative to refocus our strategy and aim on providing medical relief in the same areas.
Our plan was to concentrate on organizing a medical camp, but felt the need to also cater to food and clothes so effort was made to prepare 1000 food hampers, 1100 clothes hampers [which contained one shalwar kameez for men, one three-piece suit for women, one pair of clothes for boys and one more pair of clothes for girls, two soap suds for clothes washing, two for personal hygiene soaps, a womens hygiene kit, a small hand fan and a few other items all packed by a brilliant team of women], we had also arranged for 120 cartons of medicines acquired for roughly for the cost of Rs. 3 lac, compared to the budget set out for our medical camp, we were able collect massive quantity of medicines as our pharmaceutical help cam from Ehsan Awan of Nawan Labs who personally saw the acquiring of generic low cost drugs for the same aliments, truly helping us target a larger number of people within the same allocated budget. Our guestimate was to have enough drugs to cater to at least 500 patients during the medical camp.
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I just missed out on a 55 gallon, stand, cover, light, gravel, filter for $55 recently. I was going to use it as my water prep tank when I eventually get a 125 to upgrade my community. I am always looking for steals on Craigslist. |
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Yao Ming realizes his Olympic dream "Little" Yao Ming had a dream when he attended the Gao'anlu No 1 elementary school in his home city of Shanghai -- to bear or raise the national flag at the weekly flag-raising ceremony on school campus.
The flag bearer and raiser in school were chosen by teachers, to whom Yao was
not a favorite.
"I waited for five whole years as an elementary school student, but I was
never picked," Yao said.
"I hate that teacher! No, no, no, just kidding, just kidding," he quipped.
"Seriously, the teacher's decisions were understandable," Yao said. "My
academic performance was so-so and I was quite ordinary in every aspect at that
"Ordinary" is not often used to describe Yao these days. Becoming the first
NBA top draft pick without American background in 2002, Yao has developed into a
star with an international following after two years with the Houston Rockets.
The 23-year-old has won the starting All-Star centre position two straight
years over Shaquille O'Neal and helped the Rockets reach the play-offs in his
second NBA season.
"Yao is very tall and represents positive image for Chinese athletes, " said
Xiao Tian, secretary general of the Chinese delegation. "He played very well in
the NBA and enjoyed a good image both on and out of the court."
"He is a man of integrity and has good sense of humor," Xiao said. "He is the
perfect flag bearer."
Although looking forward to this "historic day" in his life, Yao felt sorry
that he would have no companions when bearing the flag.
"I thought there would be some supportive bearers going with me, that would
be cool, but seems I will be on my own," he said.
Yao would also like to have some time off to well prepare for the "big"
ceremony, but that was not allowed by his American coach Del Harris.
Harris, the first international coach in the Chinese men's team in history,
shook his head with a smile when asked about a possible break for Yao.
Less than three hours after his arrival at the Athletes' Village, Yao went to
the Helliniko Olympic Complex to train with the team.
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In writing share posts, addressing Health Central's readers concerns through specific posts and questions that come in - feels a good place to begin.
This morning I read a post from Maria Lynne, and her post feels like a common situation for so many people dealing with anxiety.Maria Lynne's post about anxiety:
This my first post, and I don't know exactly what to write here. Well last year I was diagnosed with anxiety, and the doctors put me on medication for it. Sure the medication helps me on some days, but other I just feel really, really low, and I have an attack, that I feel on a good day was completely uncalled for. I will blow up at any given moment, and that scares me. It is affecting my relationship, and I especially don't like that because I love this man, and it is hurting him because of these attacks. I really want help as to how to control them.
Awareness is the first and biggest step
Awareness of any situation- that means noticing what you feel, like Maria described above - gives us the ability to recognize and deal with our reactions and feelings. Awareness about a situation is a HUGE piece in addressing the problem. If we didn't have the ability to notice or express what we are feeling -emotions such as up and down, scared or anxious, we wouldn't have a place to begin.
Life serves us challenges
Everyone has challenges in their life. And just as in any challenge that life brings our way - we can use these times to practice our innate gift of being aware. In this way, we can maneuver through life a little easier. This idea of awareness takes practice, but like anything, if you dedicate your energy to learning how to use awareness of your emotions to help you- it becomes easier. Life doesn't change - our reaction to it does.
For more detailed information on how to use awareness as a tool in your day, see my post
Awareness Can Change Your Life
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Amid the renewed love affair between New England and the Red Sox, your Patriots are getting ready to take on the Indianapolis Colts Thursday night in the season opener. This game promises to be every bit as delicious as the other Patriots post-Super Bowl rematch of two years ago against the Steelers (a 30-14 win by the Pats). It's got the hype of a heavyweight title fight and when the two teams hit the field, they'll be hitting each other with a little something extra.
You see, ever since January's AFC Championship Game, the Colts have been complaining to the League and anyone else who will listen that they were robbed out of a trip to the Super Bowl by those street thugs disguised as Patriots defensive backs. There's no need to repeat their tired arguments as the game approaches. We've heard enough of them. It's now time for the Colts to put up or shut up.
And that's where their problems begin on Thursday night.
The reason the Colts will probably lose on Thursday night is because of their defense. Or, more precisely, lack thereof.
In that game, the Colts defense gave up 112 yards rushing to an average Patriots running game. It also allowed Tom Brady to go 22 for 37 for 237 yards. And if memory serves me correct, there were a number of near misses by the Patriots offense that could have broken the game wide open.
If that game was the baseline for the Colts defense as a unit, what have they done since January to improve themselves? The answer is not a lot. Unfortunately, due to Peyton Manning's record-breaking contract and signing bonus, the team was unable to hold onto free agent defensive starters linebacker Marcus Washington, cornerbacks Walt Harris and David Macklin along with defensive end Chad Bratzke. Thus, the Colts lost four of their actually decent starters on a defense that ranked 11th overall and 20th against the run. Handcuffed by Manning's albatross contract, the team was unable to sign anyone of value in the free agent market to pick up the slack. And then their highest draft pick, 2nd rounder safety Bob Sanders was the last holdout amongst all players drafted in the April; just signing a contract days ago.
Meanwhile, the Patriots went out and gambled a 2nd round pick that franchise running back Corey Dillon will behave and finally give the Patriots offense a balanced running game. All indications from the pre-season point to Dillon indeed still having the goods and giving the Patriots that eat-the-clock, ground attack that has been so desperately missing around here since Curtis Martin left for the Jets. So please tell me how this wounded Colts defense is going to be able to stop a Patriots offense that has more depth at tight end, wide receiver, and more importantly, running back than it did eight months ago?
If Dillon can help the Patriots chew up the clock, especially in the second half, the Colts and their fans won't have to worry about whether the Colt receivers are being grabbed five yards past the line of scrimmage because they won't be on the field enough for it to be an issue.
That said, fully expect the Patriots to be called for illegal contact and pass interference at least a few times on Thursday night. It goes with the territory of being the champs. The entire League and its fans will be watching and expecting the officiating crew to "do the right thing†and call it tight to the rulebook. By throwing stones in glass houses, these players, teams, and fans better make sure that their team is holier than thou after accusing the Patriots defense of playing tackle football the last few years. Most teams, if not all, can't.
Of course there are areas of concern for the Patriots going into this game. How badly will the team miss big Ted Washington plugging up the middle of the line of scrimmage? What would happen if Tom Brady goes down and Rohan Davey is forced to run the offense? He hasn't shown us much in the pre-season that would make us feel at ease, that's for sure. Is there sufficient depth in the secondary? And will the special teams return game show any signs of life after a lackluster preseason?
Yet keep in mind that at this time of year, every team and every fan, if they are honest with you and themselves, have plenty of questions about their fate. The good news is that the 2004 New England Patriots have fewer question marks than the other thirty-one teams. So if there was ever a year to feel a little less scared than you normally do, this it it.
Idle Zinger thoughts while still not being convinced that I want to spend $29 to visit Philadelphia after seeing those awful, redundant Southwest Airline ads while watching the Red Sox:
Don't be surprised if we see old friend Mike Compton brought back into the fold after being released by Jacksonville.
Even more annoying than people talking on cell phones while driving are these people who drive around with dogs and cats sitting in their laps.
NFL.com's Gregg Easterbrook recently pointed out another fun Buffalo Bills fact: The team has invested four recent number-one draft picks in quarterback in the Rob Johnson, Drew Bledsoe, and J.P. Losman deals. And to think that both Losman and Bledsoe's other backup, Travis Brown are both essentially done for the season.
Who else out there wants to Deion Sanders fail miserably in his shameless spotlight-grabbing comeback?
My brother, a non-football fan until the Snow Bowl two years ago, has been playing ESPN NFL 2K5 non-stop for the last few weeks. At $30 less than Madden, it's easy to see why a lot of people are making the switch for relatively the same game experience. (Uh oh, here come the e-mails from the Madden-ites explaining the intricacies of why their game is better. For ease of use, the e-mail link is listed at the bottom of the column.) Among the ESPN game's features, every time the Patriots get a first down at home, the game's PA announcer says "And that's good enough for another Patriots FIRST DOWN.†Just like the real thing. Cool.
And even if you don't mind parting with $29 to fly to Philadelphia in order to eat a cheese steak, I would still like to hear from you. I can be reached at [email protected].
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We are pleased to inform you that our firm, together with our co-counsel Bob Stern of Stern & Montana, obtained a very favorable and significant decision for no-fault insurers on an issue of first impression at the appellate level. Specifically, on May 6, 2014, in the case of Allstate Insurance Company v. David Mun, M.D., et. al., the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected the defendants' attempt to limit the ability of insurers to seek recovery of no-fault payments made to medical providers through affirmative fraud-based litigation. This decision is significant because it confirms the right of insurers to have their affirmative claims to recover fraudulently obtained no-fault payments heard in Court as opposed to requiring these claims to be arbitrated at the request of the no-fault provider. The appeal was argued successfully by Bill Natbony of our firm, who has been on the front line for years arguing for and obtaining decisions to protect and enhance insurers' anti-fraud efforts in the no-fault area.
In State Farm v. Mallela, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that, as of April 5, 2002, fraudulently-incorporated health care providers, or providers that were violating core licensing requirements, were not entitled to reimbursement under New York's no-fault system. Mallela and subsequent authority have clarified that insurers may seek through affirmative litigation to recover payments made to entities that failed to comply with the applicable licensing requirements. Since the decision in Mallela, many providers have sought, in the context of litigating actions against insurers or defending against affirmative recovery actions brought by insurers, to limit its scope and effect.
In Mun, the defendant medical providers filed a motion to compel arbitration of the affirmative claims brought by Allstate to recoup no-fault monies already paid to defendants. The defendants argued that they had the right under the No-Fault law, the insurance policies, and the Federal Arbitration Act, to require arbitration of such affirmative claims. To support their position, defendants primarily relied on New York Insurance Law Section 5106(b), which states in pertinent part that "[e]very insurer shall provide a claimant with the option of submitting any dispute involving the insurer's liability to pay first party benefits, or additional first-party benefits, the amount thereof or any other matter which may arise pursuant to subsection (a) of this section to arbitration…." The United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, embraced the "well-reasoned" and consistent federal court decisions that had denied virtually identical motions to compel arbitration of insurers' affirmative claims to recover monies alleged to have been obtained by fraudulent means that were previously paid to medical providers.
The Second Circuit unanimously affirmed the District Court's decision, holding that the operative statute, regulation, and contract provision do not provide a right to arbitration in this context. Specifically, the Court explained that, pursuant to the Insurance Law and regulations, and the applicable insurance policies, an arbitrable dispute is one between an insurance company and a person making a claim for first-party benefits. Here, defendants were no longer making a claim for first-party benefits because the claims at issue were already paid by Allstate. Therefore, the arbitration provision did not apply as the dispute involved a claim by an insurer to recover monies already paid under a fraud theory, not a provider seeking first-party benefits as part of the no-fault claims process. In its decision, the Court also relied on New York Insurance Law Section 409, which requires insurers, as part of their anti-fraud programs, to initiate "civil actions" to recover amounts paid as a result of medical provider fraud. The Court reasoned that "[a]llowing the providers to elect arbitration in these actions would also undercut anti-fraud measures that the New York legislature encouraged."
This decision represents a significant victory that protects and re-affirms the validity of insurers' anti-fraud efforts, including the independent ability to bring affirmative recovery actions. As the Second Circuit emphasized, "[c]omplex fraud and RICO claims, maturing years after the initial claimants were fully reimbursed, cannot be shoehorned into [New York's arbitration] system."
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In Reply to: Emotiva XDA-1 DAC/Pre as Preamp? posted by pete1 on May 16, 2012 at 15:02:38:
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The Emo XDA-1 (and many other DACs) has a true digital volume control. As with all digital volume controls, this means that, when you turn the volume way down, you lose bits of resolution (the same thing happens with quiet sounds recorded on a CD). The result is that, if you ended up with the volume on the XDA-1 way down, and the volume on a preamp it was plugged into turned way up, the combination might sound a slight bit harsh. This is simply a result of how digital volume controls work.
The bottom line is that, if you have a DAC plugged into a preamp (ANY DAC with a digital volume control), for absolute best sound quality leave the volume on the DAC set to full and use the volume control on the preamp. If you're using the XDA-1 as a preamp, odds are you won't notice anything amiss since, when the volume is set high it sounds perfect, and when the volume control is turned way down the music will be too quiet to notice the loss of resolution (just like you don't notice the quiet parts of a CD sounding grainy either).
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The form book, it must be said, tends to have the sense of the Jabberwocky on the Knavesmire in mid-August. Derby winners get beaten in the International, as do supposed certainties.
We should have known what was to come after the first running of the race on 15 August, 1972. Known then as the Benson & Hedges Gold Cup, the event appeared to have been devised as nothing more than a fly-past, with the great Brigadier Gerard at the head of the formation.
The mahogany bay named after Conan Doyle's exuberant hussar had, at that stage of his career, won all 15 of his races, establishing his versatility in collecting Group One races from six furlongs to a mile and a half. According to Timeform, Sea Bird II was the only horse modern man has seen fit to mention in his company.
Betting seemed a pointless exercise that day, but just to add a little colour to events the bookmakers put up Brigadier Gerard at 1-3. Against him were the two horses who had fought out that year's Derby. Roberto had by then recovered from the 12-stroke drum roll Lester Piggott had performed on his backside in the Blue Riband, but the jockey had switched to the Epsom runner-up, Rheingold.
Roberto's owner was John Galbreath, the owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team who had named his colt after the team's leading player, Roberto Clemente. When Piggott jumped ship Galbreath brought Braulio Baeza, a Panamaian, to the bridge. It was Baeza's audacious pacemaking that was later to be cited as the reason for the Brigadier's only defeat. Certainly the horse's connections could not accept it and Mrs Jean Hislop, in whose colours the great horse performed, ventured that Roberto must have been stung into action by a bee. Her beloved colt was beaten three lengths.
Since then the race has humbled other Derby winners. Snow Knight failed, followed by Grundy, who turned in his worst and last performance behind Dahlia in 1975. The enduring image remains of Grundy after his King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes victory over Bustino. After that destructive effort he looked like a discarded workhorse in the corner of a redundant field, his body motionless and his head hung low.
Troy did manage the double in 1979 and was the last Derby winner to follow up. In fact, the only Epsom winner who has taken in the race during a Classic campaign since then was Dr Devious, fourth to stablemate Rodrigo De Triano in 1992.
There must be deep-mine doubts then about Benny The Dip and Bosra Sham, even if the latter is allowed to take her chance by Henry Cecil. "Bosra Sham is fine this morning," the trainer reported yesterday. "She went out for two canters and she was jumping and kicking. So far everything is going well.
"If she runs it means she is 100 per cent. If there is any chance her setback has affected her she will not run. You can't go half-cock at these things and if there is any doubt she will not run."
The decision over Bijou D'Inde's participation will be kept private until declaration time. The colt's trainer, Mark Johnston, was in Switzerland yesterday, and his assistant, James Given, reported that no announcement would be made until the chestnut's owner, Stuart Morrison, had been consulted. The four-year-old has, apparently, been working well recently, which is a bit of a shame. Given the saga of the event, and the rest of his qualificiations, if Bijou D'Inde had been training like a pig he would be a certainty.
INTERNATIONAL STAKES (York, tomorrow): William Hill: evens Bosra Sham, 9-4 Singspiel, 5-1 Benny The Dip, 6-1 Desert King, 33-1 Bijou D'Inde.
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An abandoned double amputee calf has been fitted with high tech £24,000 prosthetic limbs after being rescued from a farm in Virginia and brought to Texas.
Surgeons at Texas A&M University have spent a year developing prosthetics for Hero, a 15-month-old calf who suffered from frostbite that claimed its hooves.
Kitty Martin, Hero's caretaker, had appealed to surgeons for help after he grew out of the initial prosthetics they had provided for him.
After accepting Ms Martin's pleas for help, the team removed about two inches of bone to enable them to create a pad of tissue that would allow for prosthetics.
"This is our first cow," said Erin O'Brien, an orthotist and prosthetist for an Austin-based national firm that makes prosthetic limbs. She was among a team of eight working on the project.
"We did a lot of study of photos and video of cows just walking to see what it looks like and see if we can mimic that biomechanically," O'Brien said. "It's unusual, yes, but an opportunity."
Hero's hooves are made using urethane and titanium, while the connecting components are titanium and carbon fiber and the sockets that attach to his legs are carbon fiber and acrylic resin.
"Until I worked on him, I hadn't ever done it before. And I'd not heard of [prosthetics] before in a bovine," said Ashlee Watts, an equine orthopedic surgeon at the school.
Ms Martin has spent nearly $40,000 (£24,000) to save the calf.
"I don't know how to explain it," she said. "I'm an animal rescuer. And he had everything against him - it makes my day. He's got a very bright future right now."


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Monday, May 02, 2011
In 1931, Osama bin Laden's father, Mohammed, set up the the BinLaden Group. The group deals in publishing, banking, construction, property and transport and is worth several billions.
The bin Ladens have connections to top people, including several US presidents. ( Bin Laden family gave $1 million to Carter )
According to French intelligence, during the 1980's, Salem bin Laden helped the Reagan Administration when it secretly arranged for an estimated thirty-four million dollars to be funnelled through Saudi Arabia to the Contras, in Nicaragua. ( Meet The Bin Ladens: Osama's Road to Riches and Terror ... )
Reportedly, in 1979, Osama bin Laden's tutor, Prince Turki al Fayçal al Saud (director of Saudi Arabia secret services from 1977 to August 2001), asked Osama to direct and financially manage the CIA secret operations in Afghanistan. (The Hidden Financial Ties between the Bush and the Bin Laden ...)
On the morning of September 11, 2001, George W. Bush's father, George H. W. Bush, was meeting with Osama bin Laden's brother, Shafig bin Laden, in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Washington, on Carlyle Group business. (Osama Bin Laden, 1957 – 2001)
From the Daily Telegraph, 20 July 2004: (Telegraph Entertainment The acceptable face of the bin Ladens) :
"...The bin Ladens have dealings with Citigroup, General Electric, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and the Fremont Group, as well as Microsoft and Boeing.
"The family is reported to have given $2 million to Harvard and $300,000 to Tufts University, as well as owning massive amounts of real estate in Florida and Massachusetts."
Osama's niece
Osama bin Laden's niece is called Waffah and she is a 'pop star, reality TV star and wannabe actor'. In December 2005, Wafah posed naked except for an ostrich feather in an American men's magazine. (Welcome to the family, Mrs bin Laden)
According to The Sunday Telegraph, "Wafah's favourite media pose is straddled provocatively across a massive bed clad only in her lingerie, high heels and a feather boa. Her stage act is a mix of suggestive and shy..." Welcome to the family, Mrs bin Laden
One of Osama's brother is called Yeslam. His company produces watches, handbags, belts and sunglasses and £66-a-flagon perfume. He runs his luxury goods business from Geneva.
Yeslam's former wife, Carmen, is not a Moslem.
According to The Sunday Telegraph (Welcome to the family, Mrs bin Laden) :
"When Carmen married into the bin Ladens in 1974, she thought them a thoroughly Westernised family. They had jeans and Afro hair, and they loved pop music and Western magazines. A glance at the family album, which includes a 1971 photograph of a family holiday in Falum, Sweden, would certainly have suggested they enjoyed all things Western. It shows a group of bin Laden cousins posing in jocular mood beside a gaudy pink Cadillac."
Another of Osama's brothers, Abdullah Mohammed, lives in America. He has a doctorate from Harvard Law School and he is a one of the world's wealthiest bachelors.
According to Le Figaro newspaper, 11 October 2001, a CIA agent met Osama bin Laden in July 2001, while Osama was getting treatment for kidney problems at an American hospital in Dubai. ( Guardian Unlimited Special reports CIA agent alleged to have ... )
Bin Laden checked into the American Hospital Dubai, a 100-bed, acute-care general hospital, July 4 and stayed until July 14.
He arrived from Quetta, Pakistan, accompanied by his personal doctor...
Le Figaro cited a "professional partner" linked to the hospital's management as its source.
Besides a stream of local dignitaries and family members, bin Laden's visitors included a local CIA agent, the newspaper reported. The agent was widely recognized locally, Le Figaro said, and later told several friends of the meeting. The alleged American spy was called back to the CIA's McLean, Va., headquarters July 15 - a day after bin Laden checked out, Le Figaro reported, citing "authorized sources."
The Print Ad titled BUSH / BIN LADEN was done by Lowe/ggk Werbeagentur advertising agency for product: Kronen Zeitung Newspaper (brand: KRONE VERLAG & CO. VERMÖGENSVERWALTUNG) in Austria. It was released in the Aug 2006. Website for this image
According to Chris Floyd, 23 August 2005, at sianews (http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2600):
"George W Bush's first business 'was jump-started with secret cash from the bin Ladens, laundered through their U.S. frontman, James Bath - who was also hired by W.'s dad ... to set up offshore companies for shifting CIA money and aircraft between Texas and Saudi Arabia, the Texas Observer reported.'"
According to http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/, 21 August 2005:
"One of the top U.S. contractors in Iraq (Fluor) was intimately involved in the Bin Laden global financial empire...
"One of Fluor's board members is retired Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, a former deputy director of the CIA...
"A French intelligence report ... reveals that Fluor was an integral part of the Bin Laden financial empire...
Bush, Bin laden and James Bath are all reportedly linked to BCCI
"Osama bin Laden has been a major kingpin in drug shipments to Europe and North America since 1991, when he established a major drug smuggling network in Sudan and Saudi Arabia.
"When Bin Laden moved to Afghanistan in 1996, he re-established the drug smuggling networks initially set up by the CIA during the Mujaheddin war against the Soviets...
"According to a French intelligence report ... U.S. and British intelligence elements continued to control Osama Bin Laden and his Khalden-based terrorist corps as of 1995...
"The Bin Laden drug network also intersects with Geneva-based financial entities established by George H. W. Bush while he was CIA director and Vice President and President of the United States.
"Bin Laden and Bush money are held in some of the same financial tranches in Switzerland, the Isle of Man, and the Bahamas..."
Prince Turki reportedly met bin Laden in hospital.
Robber barons? The Bushes, the Vatican, bin Laden,...
aangirfan: Bush, Bin Laden, Drugs....
Bhutto said Omar Sheikh murdered Osama bin Laden
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Osama is a man who by all reasonable accounts (even from Benazir Bhutto) died years ago.
At a time when the USA has a president with a record low approval rating, a CIA under more fire than ever for killing innocents in Pakistan and a widespread acceptance the war on terror is a failure I find it hard to believe that they finally found a man they've been after for 20 years.
Even worse is that they have just assasinated Osama Bin Laden and had the nerve to say it is "justice" well done shows me they don't care for the rule of law nor due process that their own constitution guarantees.
I heard a quote that sums up the news and times we live in, "the lies we hear are the children of lies". - 9:49 AM
- Entity said...
Couldnt help it, check out the pic of Obama, lol:
http://forum.davidicke.com/showthread.php?p=1059874637#post1059874637 - 10:11 AM
- Entity said...
And the pics sold to us as "Osama dead" are about 2 years old and circulated on the internet big time back then. Ha, ha! How can u get sheeple more distracted (from a serious matter like Obama's birth certificate)? By "killing" an imaginary enemy like Ben Laden. Well done, moron!
- Entity said...
http://weeklyintercept.blogspot.com/2011/05/israel-pm-says-international-anti.html - 10:45 AM
- Anon said...
Many thanks for the comments and links.
- Aangirfan - 12:28 PM
Jag ger fan också! Och det är Fulun inte Falum /with the pink cadillac)
If I may, I would like to write causually and freely about right now, today, Monday May 2, 2011, noon central european time (Germany, Italy, Sweden etc).
One week ago there was a report on the MSM from "al Quaida", which all truthful people know is CIA, MI6 and Mossad, stating if Osama bin Ladan was captured or killed that "al Quaida" would set off a nuclear bomb in Europe.
Right now, as I write, there is rejoycing in the streets of USA, covered by the MSM, over the announced death of Osama bin Ladan (who actually died in December 2001 of kidney failure in Afghanistan).
Putting the MSM announcements together, Europe is about to have a nuclear bomb set off. Which country of the G-20 is bucking at the bit of implementation of the NWO by zionist Rothschild and his crony banking families? Which country has endured over sixty years of being the 'bad guys' in the fake 6 million gas chamber holohoax? Which country has been paying repatriations (literally billions) to zionists and israel for something which never happened? Which country refused to be a part of the 'No Fly Zone' over non-IMF Libya? Which country refuses to put boots on the ground with NATO against Libya? Which country had a double rotar head-of-state helicopter accident as a warning three days sfter saying "no more" to Nitwityahoo?
If you have (G-) 20 lackeys doing your murdering and pillaging for you, and one of these 20 says "no", what do you do to keep the other 19 back in line doing your zionist hegemony bidding?
You come down as hard as you can on the abstainer as a motive for the other 19 not to question your criminal authority.
A nuclear bomb somewhere in europe by "al Quaida". Where would the zionist banking families explode such a device for maximum fear effect?
They've lost. If this bomb explodes it will be a beginning of the zionist Samson option.
Zionism is now a mad dog that needs to be caught and put out of its misery, put down because it is now a clear and present danger to all other people on earth.
Mouser - 1:35 PM
- Anon said...
Dear Mouser,
Germany had better watch out!
As you say, there are indications already that Germany may be a target.
The USA has seen Japan and Germany as economic rivals.
- Aangirfan - 1:46 PM
Either, now that he's officially dead, "they" will find some of "his personal papers" incriminating other people, or they have another public enemy number one in the pipe, or both. Damned!
- Entity said...
"A Fairy Story by David Icke
Now children, are you sitting comfortably? Then your government will begin. Once upon a time there were three little pigs and they all sprouted wings. One little pig did not have a birth certificate so they faked one very badly so he could say he was the Big Pig and live with his snout in a trough in his little, well, not so little, white house.
One day Big Pig, who was really only doing what he was told to save his bacon, announced that a naughty man who had died a long time ago had died again. The naughty man was very clever to do this, but he was well known for his little tricks. For years after he died the first time he still managed to speak on new videos and tell the people just how naughty he was.
Then another little pig said that the naughty man had been thrown into the sea and so the people could not see his face and know that the Big Pig was telling the truth. But everyone with a brain knew that the Big Pig never told the truth and so they knew that Big Pig was telling more porkies.
Big Pig and the little pigs showed the people a picture that was made up to fool lots of them, and, unfortunately, children, this was usually not very difficult to do.
The End." - 3:22 PM
Since I heard this I kept thinking, why now, what is the purpose of this.
I hope Mouser is wrong........I hope. - 3:25 PM
- Anon said...
Dear Entity,
The Fairy Story is very appropriate.
- Aangirfan - 4:58 PM
- Penny said...
Hey Aangirfan:
thanks for stopping by.
Is this crazy or what?
What bullshit!
OBL has been dead for a long, long, long time.
so dead he is bug juice!
Besides serving Obama's re election.
Thinking of how this can be used to justify attacking or invading Pakistan, Syria a false flag somewhere, is coming - 6:17 PM
- Penny said...
I think the American Idol fans are loose on the net!
Bin Laden Construction Company Worked on the World Trade Center http://kentroversypapers.blogspot.com/2007/04/bin-laden-construction-company-worked.html
- AnnoyingJoe said...
Most importantly, Who's hotter: OBL's niece or Marsha Brady?
Jan Brady - 2:50 AM
- A13 said...
Mouser, i think your comment is SPOT ON.
All eyes on Germany.
instinct says this well could be the Next event stage.
They have bee Peeing off the Zionists lately.
Just the fact that they dumped the body at sea so that there can be NO trace of evidence just left me in stiches! And they left no time for even the most informal inqusition. It was just "we did it and it's finished...gone." And now the governments warns of vengence. Yep, that is scary. France, under Sarkozy leadership reminds me something out of 20th century fascist Europe. The US has probably never been so dark dungeoned as now in all her history. Interesting times. Oh, and great report, anon!
Any proof that osama bin laden died in December 2001 of kidney failure in afghanistan? It is an interesting claim. Got proof of its validity?
- Anon said...
The evidence for bin Laden's death in 2001 comes in the book "Osama Bin Laden: Dead or Alive?" by political analyst and philosopher Professor David Ray Griffin, former emeritus professor at California's Claremont School of Theology.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1212851/Has-Osama-Bin-Laden-dead-seven-years--U-S-Britain-covering-continue-war-terror.html#ixzz1LNuJSDhV - 2:07 PM
Please(Highest Power)come and take your world..we don't deserve to live in it.
while others are busy in making a shit of OBL's death in DECEMBER'2001(which is true); i wanna
kiss your hands MR.DAVID ICKE for having a true brain............ - 4:46 PM
- العراق بيتنا iraq is our home said...
i dont agree with theory of plot , usa has killed its enemies , one by one , usa getting win at last , osama did his best to hide and speard his tenets and beliefs , he tried to send a message stop kill people but he sent a wrong one
usa got nothing of that , but lost alot to find him out , i am an iraqi and i can swear , that usa did not enter iraq for oil , but as we watched they did thier best to protect israel and to damage iraqi regime - 12:55 PM
Mouser, seems someone else feels quite strongly about a German False flag. Please read this thread:-
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1517629/pg4#25069314 - 3:36 AM
Who ever killed a soul, except for a soul slain, or for sedition in the earth, it should be considered as though he had killed all mankind; and that who ever saved it should be regarded as though he had saved all mankind.
(The Holy Quran, Chapter 5, Verse 32.)
So with this definition alqaeda soldiers are not muslim. osama bin laden was not muslim. And other terrorists are not muslim. America's government was supporting him secretly to damage the reputation of islam. - 10:02 AM


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with some algebraic manipulation (completing the square of the denominator, factoring out a minus 1 from the numerator and writing -1 as 4 - 5) we find that this expression is:and
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Desmond, William (2007) The Silence of Socrates: Dialectic and the Platonic Good. Milltown Studies, 58. pp. 73-99. ISSN 0032-1428
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Depending on one's perspective, Socrates' brief words concerning the Good in Republic 6 have either cast a guiding light, or an ambiguous shadow over so much subsequent philosophy. For some, they offer testimony affirming the existence of objective, even eternal values: despite suffering, imperfections and much evil, ultimately being is good. But for others, such as Nietzsche, Socrates' words are a lie and represent the deception that has most crippled the Western mind. From this perspective, there are no objective values, and existence is not good except insofar as we make it so.
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Ventura County's first Hobby Lobby store is set to open Aug. 1 in the Shopping at the Rose center in Oxnard.
Ventura County's first Hobby Lobby store is set to open Aug. 1 — a month after the Supreme Court sided with the arts and crafts chain to allow certain private companies not to provide contraception coverage for religious reasons.
About 80 people were hired to fill full-time and part-time positions at the store in the 2300 block of Rose Avenue near Gonzales Road in Oxnard, manager Ben Jiongco said.
The store location is between the Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft and Ross Dress for Less stores in the Shopping at the Rose center.
The 40,400-square-foot Oxnard store will be open 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday starting Aug. 1, with its official grand opening Aug. 4. All Hobby Lobby stores are closed on Sundays.
There are 575 Hobby Lobby stores throughout the country — with 25 currently open in California — that operate "in a manner consistent with biblical principles," according to the company's website.
Hobby Lobby is actively looking to expand throughout California, according to a company representative. A new location in West Covina also is set to open at the end of the month.
Family-owned Hobby Lobby filed a lawsuit in September 2012 to challenge the federal health care law's insurance coverage requirement under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993.
In a 5-4 decision June 30, the Supreme Court ruled closely held for-profit businesses could be exempt from the Affordable Care Act's contraception coverage requirement if there was a claim that it violates their religious beliefs.
Days after the Supreme Court ruling was announced, protesters gathered in front of a Hobby Lobby in Burbank that opened at the beginning of July.
Nancy Lindholm, Oxnard Chamber of Commerce president and chief executive officer, said she was happy to see the well-known company expand into the area and bring local jobs with it.
"Any business that comes to Oxnard, we're pleased to have here," Lindholm said of Hobby Lobby, which recently became a member of the Oxnard Chamber.
Regarding the Supreme Court decision, Lindholm said the chamber has "always maintained that benefits for employees should be voluntary for employers; they shouldn't be mandated by government."
"Apparently, our world is going in a different direction," she added regarding both state and federal health care coverage laws.
Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Westlake Village, whose district includes Oxnard, released a statement that she "strongly" disagreed with the high court's Hobby Lobby ruling.
"This decision is bad for women, who could be forced to decide whether to take a job at a company that puts its management's religious beliefs ahead of its employees' health," Brownley said in a June 30 statement. "In 2014, we shouldn't be fighting over whether women should have access to basic and critical health care like birth control, which the majority of Americans support."
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Shuhrat manufactures fences made from metallic wire. In the rural area in which he lives, such fences are commonly used to enclose various structures, such yards and pens. Shuhrat started his business as a journeyman and has been working independently for one year. His business is becoming more and more stable and is providing a better income for his family.
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Great shot, how did you get such a perfect exposure shooting towards the light coming in through the windows?
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No special lighting, I shot it with ambient light, f/2.8 ISO 4500. I am lucky to shoot with a Nikon D3s :D .
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Blowin' the doors off JPG's Theme Park.
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Would be a better fit under the Creepy theme.
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Sanvito, S and Lambert, C J and Jefferson, J H and Bratkovsky, A M (1998) Conductance oscillations in transition metal superlattices. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 10 (42). L691-L697. ISSN 0953-8984
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We present a numerical study of conductance oscillations of transition metal multilayers as a function of layer thickness. Using a realistic material-specific tight-binding model, we show that for disorder-free layers with random thicknesses but clean interfaces, long-period oscillations in the conductance can occur, which are reminiscent of those found in structures exhibiting GMR. Using a heuristic effective mass model, we argue that these oscillations arise from beating between the Fermi wavevector and a class of wavevectors characteristic of the superlattice structure.
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