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Grassley jokes about mixup
DUBUQUE, Iowa — Sen. Chuck Grassley jokingly apologized for calling Mitt Romney a "bad word" a week ago when he accidentally referred to the GOP nominee as President Barack Obama.
Obama's name is so disliked in the Grassley home, the senator acknowledged, that his 3-year-old great-granddaughter thought it was a curse.
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"I said that bad word 'Obama' instead of Romney," said Grassley. "Four years ago, I was mentioning that word [Obama], not at a speech like this, but at our family home. And we have a great granddaughter by the name of Indy. And she said to me — she's 7 now, so she must have been 3 then – 'Grandpa, don't say that dirty word!' So where are we? We're at the point in America where somehow government's more important than individuals are."
Romney in turn had three words for Grassley, who tweeted last week that he had killed a deer while driving.
"Was it delicious?" the Republican nominee asked.
The crowd of 2,100 at an airport hangar in this eastern Iowa town roared with laughter as Romney made light of Iowa's 79-year-old Republican's tweet: "Fred and I hit a deer on hiway [sic] 136 south of Dyersville. After I pulled fender rubbing on tire we continued to farm. Assume deer dead."
On a more serious note, Grassley had earlier invoked Hurricane Sandy to justify more energy production.
"If you want to bring a little more business common sense to Washington D.C., and the White House, you've got to know don't you, that when you see all of the long gasoline lines in New York City and New Jersey right now, that we ought to be drilling here and drilling now," he said.
"And somehow, somehow it wouldn't hurt to have one more refinery in America for the first time in 30 years, would it? And the people in New York know that, the people in Iowa know that. But the people in Middle East don't want us to know it, because they want us to continue sending $843 million dollars everyday overseas. But we can keep it in this country and we can do it by harvesting our own resources."


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Bosentan is used to treat high blood pressure in the lungs (pulmonary arterial hypertension). This condition is thought to be caused by increased levels of a certain natural substance (endothelin-1). This medication blocks the effects of endothelin-1, thereby helping to decrease the blood pressure in the lungs, slow the worsening of symptoms from the disease, and improve your ability to exercise.
How to use Tracleer
Read the Medication Guide provided by your pharmacist before you start using bosentan and each time you get a refill. If you have any questions, consult your doctor or pharmacist.
Take this medication by mouth with or without food, usually twice daily (in the morning and evening) or as directed by your doctor.
Dosage is based on your medical condition, weight, and response to treatment. Your doctor will usually start you on a lower dose of this medication and then increase the dose after several weeks.
Use this medication regularly to get the most benefit from it. To help you remember, take it at the same times each day.
Do not stop taking this medication without consulting your doctor. Some conditions may become worse when the drug is suddenly stopped. Your dose may need to be gradually decreased.
Women who are pregnant or who may become pregnant should not handle the tablets or breathe the dust from this medication. Do not crush the tablets because doing so will increase exposure to the dust.
Tell your doctor if your condition persists or worsens.
Side Effects
See also Warning section.
Dizziness, flushing, upset stomach, or tiredness may occur. If any of these effects persist or worsen, tell your doctor or pharmacist promptly.
Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medication because he or she has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects.
Tell your doctor right away if any of these unlikely but serious side effects occur: fast/pounding heartbeat, extreme tiredness, swelling of the ankles/feet, sudden/unexplained weight gain.
Tell your doctor right away if any of these rare but very serious side effects occur: fainting, shortness of breath, coughing up blood.
In men, this medication can decrease sperm production, which may affect the ability to father a child. Talk to your doctor for more details.
A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is rare. However, get medical help right away if you notice any symptoms of a serious allergic reaction, including: fever, swollen lymph nodes, rash, itching/swelling (especially of the face/tongue/throat), severe dizziness, trouble breathing.
This is not a complete list of possible side effects. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.
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Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or at www.fda.gov/medwatch.
In Canada - Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to Health Canada at 1-866-234-2345.List Tracleer side effects by likelihood and severity.
See also Warning section.
Before taking bosentan, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to it; or if you have any other allergies. This product may contain inactive ingredients, which can cause allergic reactions or other problems. Talk to your pharmacist for more details.
Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of: liver disease, anemia.
This drug may make you dizzy. Alcohol or marijuana can make you more dizzy. Do not drive, use machinery, or do anything that needs alertness until you can do it safely. Avoid alcoholic beverages. Talk to your doctor if you are using marijuana. Alcohol may also increase the risk of serious liver problems.
This medication must not be used during pregnancy. It may harm an unborn baby. Therefore, it is important to prevent pregnancy while using this medication. Discuss the use of at least two reliable forms of birth control (such as condoms, birth control pills) with your doctor. If you become pregnant or think you may be pregnant, tell your doctor right away.
It is not known whether this medication passes into breast milk. Because of the possible risk to the infant, breast-feeding while using this medication is not recommended. Consult your doctor before breast-feeding.
Drug interactions may change how your medications work or increase your risk for serious side effects. This document does not contain all possible drug interactions. Keep a list of all the products you use (including prescription/nonprescription drugs and herbal products) and share it with your doctor and pharmacist. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicines without your doctor's approval.
Some products that may interact with this drug include: cyclosporine, glyburide.
Other medications can affect the removal of bosentan from your body, which may affect how bosentan works. Examples include amiodarone, cimetidine, tacrolimus, St. John's wort, azole antifungals (such as itraconazole, ketoconazole), macrolide antibiotics (such as erythromycin), HIV protease inhibitors (such as ritonavir), rifamycins (such as rifabutin), among others.
This drug can speed up the removal of other drugs from your body, which may affect how they work. Examples of affected drugs include "statin" cholesterol medications (such as simvastatin, lovastatin), warfarin, certain products used to treat chronic hepatitis C (asunaprevir, ombitasvir/paritaprevir/ritonavir), among others.
This medication may decrease the effectiveness of hormonal birth control such as pills, patch, or ring. This could cause pregnancy. Discuss with your doctor or pharmacist about using an additional reliable birth control method while using this medication. Also tell your doctor if you have any new spotting or breakthrough bleeding, because these may be signs that your birth control is not working well.Does Tracleer interact with other medications?
If someone has overdosed and has serious symptoms such as passing out or trouble breathing, call 911. Otherwise, call a poison control center right away. US residents can call their local poison control center at 1-800-222-1222. Canada residents can call a provincial poison control center. Symptoms of overdose may include: severe headache, severe dizziness, nausea, vomiting.
Do not share this medication with others.
Laboratory and/or medical tests (such as liver function tests, pregnancy tests, hemoglobin, hematocrit) should be performed before you start treatment, and periodically to monitor your progress or check for side effects. Consult your doctor for more details.
Missed Dose
If you miss a dose, use it as soon as you remember. If it is near the time of the next dose, skip the missed dose and resume your usual dosing schedule. Do not double the dose to catch up.
Store at room temperature away from light and moisture. Do not store in the bathroom. Keep all medications away from children and pets.
Do not flush medications down the toilet or pour them into a drain unless instructed to do so. Properly discard this product when it is expired or no longer needed. Consult your pharmacist or local waste disposal company.Information last revised July 2017. Copyright(c) 2017 First Databank, Inc.

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Some might say there is really just 1 thing to remember about making good Wordpress website. Make it fast. Speeding up your Wordpress site will improve user experience and also improve your sites SEO. Using a CDN to distribute your jQuery library is a great place to start.
There are at least 4 reasons you should use a CDN to service jQuery on your page:
Decreased Latency
Content Delivery Network — distributes your static content across servers in various physical locations. The User's download will automatically target the closest available server in the network.
Increased parallelism
To avoid needlessly overloading servers, browsers limit the number of connections that can be made simultaneously. Depending on which browser, this limit may be as low as two connections per hostname.
Better caching
Potentially the greatest benefit of using the Google AJAX Libraries CDN is that your users may not need to download jQuery at all. If your user had downloaded the content in the past, it may already be cached.
Reduced bandwidth costs
If someone else's CDN is pushing the content to your users, they are using their bandwidth, not yours.
All of these reasons add up to fast responsive websites. That may be the one thing that everyone agrees is a good thing.
Wordpress: Google's jQuery CDN
I spend a good amount of time working in Wordpress environments. Seems like every theme comes with jQuery and the all use the local copy, obviously that is not a great idea, luckly there is a simple way to correct this oversight with just 6 lines of code.
functions.php file
function jquery_cdn() {
if (!is_admin()) {
wp_register_script('jquery', 'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js', false, '2.1.3');
add_action('init', 'jquery_cdn');
Other jQuery CDN options
While I recommend using the Google CDN because it is so widely used and therefore increases the changes it will already be in your user's cache, there are several other options.
Google's jQuery CDN
Microsoft's jQuery CDN
jQuery's CDN
Other jQuery CDN Version Options
Most of the CNDs listed above will also service other versions of jQuery. For example if you wish to use jQuery 1.5.2 from Google's CDN it is simply a matter of requesting http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.2/jquery.min.js
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Hometown visit highlights evolving view of Du Bois' legacy
A homecoming put a personal touch on the region's African-American history, when the great-grandson of scholar and civil rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois made his first-ever visit to his predecessor's hometown, where the community's relationship with its famous son is still evolving.
Great Barrington, Massachusetts was good to W.E.B. Du Bois: he was born and raised in town, and recalled the place fondly in later years. Tellingly, when his son later died in infancy, Du Bois sent the body from Atlanta, where he then lived, back up to the Berkshires to be interred in the family plot at Great Barrington's Mahaiwe Cemetery.
On a chilly, damp afternoon, Du Bois' direct descendent Arthur MacFarlane II visited Great Barrington for the first time, laying a wreath at the grave of his great-grandmother.
Randy Weinstein, a rare books dealer in town who founded a center devoted to civil rights history, leads MacFarlane on a tour.
Du Bois wrote that he was born by a golden river, between the shadows of two hills. Walking in the footsteps of his great-grandfather, MacFarlane says, put that history in new light.
"We viewed the birthplace and the home site and we went down to the river walk, and so I've seen the Housatonic and I had the chance to see the hill that he was talking about when he talks about being in the shadow of a hill. To see some of the places that he's lived around the Great Barrington area. It's one thing to say, 'Oh, here's grandpa's description of it,' and 'Here's what my eyes tell me.'"
A founder of the NAACP, Du Bois' bona fides as an architect of the modern civil rights movement are numerous. But his hostility to capitalism complicated his legacy in the Cold War era, when he was investigated by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and had his passport seized.
It's ostensibly his later years that have dampened efforts in this predominantly white community to put Du Bois' name in bold print, says Weinstein. After an impassioned public debate in 2004, a movement to name a new elementary school after Du Bois failed.
"Seven years ago, when you saw Du Bois' name in a headline you cringed. The most controversial name going. Now when you see Dubois all over the place. 'Oh, it's him again.' He's been accepted into the mainstream of Berkshire fabric. And that's real exciting to me."
Before a packed house at the First Congregational Church, which once raised funds to send a teenaged Du Bois to Fisk College, MacFarlane did not shy from his great-grandfather's full legacy, showing slides of Du Bois meeting with Nikita Khrushchev and Mao Tse Tung. But in the long history of a multifaceted career, they came off as historical curiosities rather than a source of controversy.
Frances Jones-Sneed, a professor at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and an expert on the region's African American history, says the Cold War mindset is finally giving way here to a fuller appreciation of Du Bois' legacy.
"As people got to know exactly who Du Bois was and how much he loved this place, that things would kind of change."
August will mark the fiftieth anniversary of Du Bois' death in the nation of Ghana, where he is buried.


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A bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday introduced legislation to streamline how colleges handle cases of sexual assault.
The Campus Safety and Accountability Act would increase penalties for colleges that break federal laws and, among other provisions, mandate that they establish confidential advocates on all campuses for students affected by sexual violence.
"We are done with the days of asking victims why they drank too much or wore the wrong thing or went to the wrong place or hung out with the wrong guy," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. "This measure is one whose time has truly come."
Reps. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and Patrick Meehan, R-Pa., plan to introduce companion legislation in the House of Representatives, as Maloney did with the last bill to combat campus sexual assault that Congress passed in 2013. That measure, the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act, will go into effect Oct. 1.
The legislation comes as stories of colleges mishandling these cases become more common and inconsistencies among their sexual assault data are illuminated. It's a political response to a swell of student advocacy work, 71 federal investigations and a White House task force that unveiled guidelines on the issue earlier this year.
Congress will leave Friday for a five-week recess. The Senate bill's eight sponsors _ including Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla. _ plan to bring the measure to the Senate floor in September.
The bill would enable the Department of Education to levy fines on colleges that break the related federal laws. Currently, the department has the authority to withhold a school's federal funding as punishment, but it's never done so.
Under the measure, schools that violate Title IX, which bans gender discrimination in education activities and programs supported by federal funds, would be fined up to 1 percent of their budgets for each deviation from the federal law. Colleges that violate the Clery Act _ the federal law that requires colleges to report crime statistics _ could be fined up to $150,000, a sharp increase from the current $35,000 cap.
Know Your IX, a student rights group, had filed a petition earlier this year that called on Congress to "give teeth" to the Department of Education's enforcement of Title IX.
Advocates and victims attended Wednesday's news conference announcing the Senate bill, including Annie Clark and Andrea Pino, co-founders of the group End Rape on Campus, and former students of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"The institutional betrayal that these students face is sometimes worse than the assault itself," said Clark,
Four women who'd been sexually assaulted at their colleges spoke. Among them was a woman identified only as Anna, the focus of a recent New York Times story that delved into how Hobart and William Smith Colleges had adjudicated the sexual violence she faced freshman year.
"With this bill, no longer will women like Anna feel that she has no choice but to share her story with the whole world just to get her school's attention," said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.
The measure would require colleges to administer surveys to their students that gauge campus culture surrounding sexual assault. Results from the anonymous surveys would be posted online, allowing others to compare universities "apples to apples," McCaskill said.
The White House had recommended earlier this year that these "climate surveys" be mandated by 2016, but the matter has faced significant backlash from colleges.
While colleges, under the bill, would have to create confidential advisers for students who've been sexually assaulted, the administrators wouldn't be able to punish the students for admitting to other infractions, such as drinking.
McCaskill had hosted three roundtables of students, advocates, university officials and law enforcement over the summer, as well as organized a nationwide survey of how colleges handle sexual assault. Her survey found that 20 percent of colleges have their athletic departments adjudicate these cases when they involve student athletes. The bill bans the practice.
"I do think it does a tremendous job of advancing the cause forward by creating a uniform system where every single victim in every single instance is treated the same, where there is no special preference because someone can dunk a basketball," Rubio said.
"Optimistic" that the bill would pass in the midst of a gridlocked Congress, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., a co-sponsor, joked: "There may actually be hope for us."


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Listen to Spotify on your Xbox One console!
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Download Spotify from the Microsoft Store on your Xbox One and log in one of these three ways.
Tip: Don't have a Spotify account? Just open the Spotify app on Xbox One and select SIGN UP to create one.
Use Spotify Connect to play from the app on your mobile, tablet, or desktop:
- Make sure your device is connected to the same WiFi network as your Xbox one. Open Spotify.
- Play a song and tap Devices Available (mobile) or click (desktop).
- Select your Xbox One from the device picker and start listening.
You can now use your phone as a remote to control the music on your Xbox One.
- Open the Spotify app on your Xbox One.
- Select LOG IN.
- Select LOG IN WITH EMAIL OR USERNAME.
- Enter your Spotify email address and password.
Note: If you usually log in with Facebook, use Spotify Connect to log in instead (see the steps above).
- Open the Spotify app on your Xbox One.
- Select LOG IN.
- Select LOG IN WITH PIN. On your phone or computer, go to www.spotify.com/pair and enter the pin you see on your screen.
Listen while you game
When you play Spotify on your Xbox One, it continues playing when you go to your game.
Tip: If the game allows, you can disable in-game music for the best Spotify experience.
To control the music while you game:
- Press the Xbox button on your controller to bring up the Xbox Guide.
- Select Spotify.
- Here you can change your music selection, skip songs, play/pause, or adjust the volume.
Or, use Spotify Connect to use your phone to control the music remotely.
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Distinguished speaker to discuss journey helping HIV/AIDS-impacted youth
Patricia Hillkirk, a 1982 graduate in the individual and family studies program at Penn State, and founder/director of Camp Dreamcatcher, will give a presentation, titled "Catching a Dream: My Journey Helping HIV/AIDS-Impacted Youth," at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, as part of the College of Health and Human Development Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series. The talk, which is sponsored by the College of Health and Human Development Alumni Society, will be held in the Bennett Pierce Living Center, 110 Henderson Building, on the University Park campus. It is free and open to the public.


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I hope you can help me regarding the following issues:
1) I plan to change my/our complete kite quiver from cabrinha to naish because I think the Park will better fit to my/our riding style (unhooked, kiteloops AND waves). Last year I rode the Nomads, but now they seem to be more like a real freestyle/wakestyle kite as the drifter covers waveriding.
What's your advice regarding sizes? Me (73 Kg) and my girlfriend (52 Kg) will share a 4 kites quiver and we are both experienced, riding twintip and surfboard (Naish global 5'7 and 5'10)... Last year we were happy with 5, 7, 9 Nomads and 11m Switchblade.
I am not sure if we should take 5, 7, 9, 12 (11) or 6, 8, 10, 12 Parks? How is the windrange compare to cabrinha Nomads?
2) We will be on a longer kite trip (4 months!) starting end of August from Europe. Do you have any idea when Naish will release the 2013 lineup? I would like to avoide buying the 2012 park models in June/July and seeing the 2013 models a month later... What I have in mind is, that Naish releases their kites around July/August? Maybe one of the distributors can help! It should be Naish's interest to get 2 more happy clients. We are very loyal as we rode cabrinha for 10 years and changed the quiver almost every year...
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Research consistently shows boys' reading lags behind girls'. The All Party Parliamentary Literacy Group Boys' Reading Commission was a joint venture with the National Literacy Trust from January to June 2012. The report says action needs to be taken in homes, schools and communities.
The Commission's findings, published on Monday 2 July 2012, reveal that three out of four (76%) UK schools are concerned about boys' underachievement in reading despite no Government strategy to address the issue. Last year an estimated 60,000 boys failed to reach the expected level in reading at age 11.
The Commission's report, compiled by the National Literacy Trust, reveals the "reading gender gap" is widening and says action needs to be taken in homes, schools and communities, with recommendations including boys having weekly access to male reading role models.
MPs and Lords who sat on the Commission heard evidence from teachers, researchers, literacy experts and children's authors Michael Rosen and Anthony Horowitz.


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Can You Tell When Someone Is Being Abused?
Why are there bad relationships? What can you do about it? What are some signs of bad relationships? Are there any stages? Can you tell when your neighbors are being abused? Is there any way you can help them without getting hurt yourself?
You have certainly asked a number of important questions, and I will try to provide a brief response to your questions. Lenora Walker, a leading expert in the field of intimate partner violence, identifies several risk factors that may indicate a high risk for potential for battering in a relationship.
The first is a difference in socioeconomic status between the batterer and the battered woman. Walker reports that perhaps there are biases in men who batter that suggest that they are less likely to tolerate a major difference between what they earn and what their partner earns. If she is making more than him, he may use violence as a way to decrease what he perceives to be a status difference.
Also, if a woman marries a man who has very traditional views of a woman's role in a relationship, this may also put her at risk for violence. Walker further indicates that men who struggle with feelings of insecurity and need a lot of attention may become very possessive of their partners. These men are typically more at risk for violence, especially if they report a positive history of abuse in other relationships. They usually demonstrate uncontrollable jealousy.
Another factor that may indicate risk for violence is engaging in early sexual intimacy in the relationship. Batterers are often viewed as seductive and charming and women typically fall for this behavior.
Finally, alcohol and drug abuse often predict violent behavior.
These are just a few potential risk factors observed and reported by women who have been in battering relationships. They are considered the most important and the most researched. However, there certainly are other factors that may play a role in violent relations.
What can be done about violence in relationships? We can begin by educating young girls and women about the signs of violent relationships and how to become less tolerant of abusive behavior. We also need to focus on the role that society plays in perpetuating and maintaining various forms of violence against women and girls.
Many shelters in the Columbus area have very small information fact sheets that are small enough to place in the bottom of a woman's shoe. In order to reduce risk to the woman and yourself, you may want to consult the local domestic violence hotline for additional suggestions.
Many medical clinics keep information cards in the women's restrooms as well. Most importantly, providing a trusting space for women to share their thoughts and feelings is always welcomed, because battered women often feel isolated from others and typically have no one with whom to share their experiences.
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Blackberry Muffin Recipe
When we first got married I had a lot free time, but ever since Aria came into our lives, I'm not able to be as attentive to Lulu and have decreased the number of romantic gestures I make. So this weekend I brought him breakfast in bed.
I made little blackberry muffins and baked them in heart-shaped molds. Lulu greatly appreciated them but he made one remark I found amusing. He thought the blackberries made it look like the hearts were "bleeding". He teased me and said "Is there a hidden message here?"
Yields: 6 muffins4 ounces fresh blackberries
½ cup all-purpose flour
1½ tablespoons almond paste
¾ tablespoon baking powder
¼ cup granulated sugar
⅛ teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened
¼ cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 teaspoons vegetable oil
Preheat the oven to 375°F.
In a bowl, cream the butter and sugar. Add flour, baking powder and salt. Mix using the back of a fork (or a stainless-steel pastry blender) until it forms sandy crumbs of butter, sugar and flour. Add almond paste and vanilla extract. Slowly add the buttermilk and blend until it forms a barely wet mixture. Do NOT over-mix. Plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.
Spray the inside of a 6-cavity silicone heart mold with oil. Fill the molds with the mixture. Add 3 blackberries per mold.
Place on a baking sheet and bake at 375°F for 18-20 minutes until golden. Allow to cool for 10 minutes. Delicately unmold the muffins. Transfer to individual serving plates and serve warm with hot Vietnamese coffee.
Bon appétit!
I used Odense brand almond paste. I love it for when I need a shortcut. This produces delicious pastries. I will post more recipes with it soon. But if you have a nut allergy (which is the case for one person in our household), you can omit it and the muffins will still be just as good.Published By: on January 14, 2013.


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Release v0.5.0. (Installation)
Requests is an ISC Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.
Most existing Python modules for sending HTTP requests are extremely verbose and cumbersome. Python's builtin urllib2 module provides most of the HTTP capabilities you should need, but the api is thoroughly broken. It requires an enormous amount of work (even method overrides) to perform the simplest of tasks.
Things shouldn't be this way. Not in Python.
>>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com', auth=('user', 'pass'))
>>> r.status_code
>>> r.headers['content-type']
See the same code, without Requests.
Requests allow you to send HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE HTTP requests. You can add headers, form data, multipart files, and parameters with simple Python dictionaries, and access the response data in the same way. It's powered by urllib2, but it does all the hard work and crazy hacks for you.
Twitter, Inc uses Requests internally.
This part of the documentation, which is mostly prose, begins with some background information about Requests, then focuses on step-by-step instructions for getting the most out of Requests.
If you are looking for information on a specific function, class or method, this part of the documentation is for you.
If you want to contribute to the project, this part of the documentation is for you.


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Benedict, who has practiced law in Franklin County for 56 years, served as the district attorney from 1959 to 1971.
CHAMBERSBURG — The Franklin County Bar Association honored longtime member Jay L. Benedict Jr. with the Edmund C. Wingerd Jr. Award at the 2012 admission ceremony Dec. 7.
Benedict, who has practiced law in Franklin County for 56 years, served as the district attorney from 1959 to 1971 and then went into private practice. He retired several years ago, but continues to serve as the solicitor for Guilford Township.
In his 56-year career, he has also served on the board of directors of the Chambersburg Community Chest, the Guilford Water Authority, the Guilford Township Authority, F&M Trust Co. and Franklin Financial Services Corp.
"In his professionalism, collegiality and diligence, Attorney Benedict is an inspiration to all of us in the legal profession. We are honored to present the Edmund C. Wingerd Jr. Award to him," said Mahesh Rao, president of the Franklin County Bar Association.
The Edmund C. Wingerd, Jr. award was created in 2002 to honor the integrity, professionalism, discretion, commitment to clients and commitment to the community that distinguished the law practice of the late Edmund C. "Ted" Wingerd Jr.
An award recipient is selected every two years by members of the bar association.
Recipients have a donation made in their honor from a fund set up with the Foundation for Enhancing Communities by Charles O. Wood II and his family. Benedict chose the Salvation Army as the recipient for this year's gift.


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The NHL's sprint of a season is over, ending a three-plus-month run that crammed 48 games into each team's schedule. Hockey's grueling postseason, which will begin with three games on Tuesday night and could end as late as June 28, has a slew of storylines spilling off the ice.
The NHL's sprint of a season is over, ending a three-plus-month run that crammed 48 games into each team's schedule.
Hockey's grueling postseason, which will begin with three games on Tuesday night and could end as late as June 28, has a slew of storylines spilling off the ice.
Here's a pick-six to follow when the puck drops:
CROSBY'S COMEBACK? Pittsburgh Penguins superstar Sidney Crosby was healthy and productive for most of the season, getting 56 points in 36 games, after missing much of the past two years with concussion-like symptoms. A broken jaw, though, has kept him out since March 30, and he's waiting to be cleared by doctors to play in the postseason. Crosby's status for Game 1 at home Wednesday night against the New York Islanders is unclear, but he's expected to be back in the lineup at some point in the seven-game series. After consecutive first-round exits, the top-seeded team in the Eastern Conference is poised to make a run with a deep roster improved before the trading deadline. If Crosby can play, the Penguins might hoist the Stanley Cup for the first time since 2009.
CAN CHICAGO CLOSE STRONG, TOO? The Blackhawks began the season with a point in their first 24 games - half of the lockout-shortened season - to surpass an NHL record by eight games. They finished well enough to lead the league in points and are hoping that translates into postseason success, unlike the franchise's only other Presidents' Trophy season. Chicago led the NHL in points during the 1990-91 season but was eliminated by the Minnesota North Stars in the opening round. The Blackhawks will match up against the same city - against a team now known as the Wild - in the first round. Minnesota lost 10 of its last 16 games, but free-agent stars Zach Parise and Ryan Suter have an opportunity to provide a quick return on the $98 million the franchise invested in them last summer.
RED-HOT CAPITALS: The Washington Capitals closed the season strong, winning 11 of their last 13 games to surge from toward the bottom of the East to the top of the Southeast Division, earning the No.3 seed to set up a first-round matchup with the New York Rangers. Alex Ovechkin was at his best down the stretch with 22 points in the last 13 games after averaging less than a point in his first 35 games. He finished with an NHL-high 32 goals, lighting the lamp more than any other player in the league for the third time. Even though Ovechkin has jaw-dropping talent, he hasn't gotten past the second round of the playoffs in the first seven seasons of his career and he's playing for a franchise that hasn't advanced further than that since getting swept by Detroit in the 1998 Stanley Cup Finals.
KINGS' QUEST TO REPEAT: The Los Angeles Kings became the first eighth-seeded team to win the Stanley Cup - finishing off the sixth-seeded New Jersey Devils in Game 6 - and can become the first team to repeat in the salary-cap era that began in the 2005-06 season and the first since Detroit won consecutive times in 1997 and '98. Compared to last season, when the Kings had to rally just to get in the playoffs, they cruised after clinching a spot in the West and will start the postseason on the road as a fifth-seeded team against the fourth-seeded St. Louis Blues.
ORIGINAL SIX STILL SKATING: For the first time since 1996, each of the NHL's Original Six teams is in the playoffs. The Toronto Maple Leafs had a lot to do with ending the drought. The storied franchise in a hockey-crazed city and country has advanced to the postseason for the first time since 2004. In the Eastern Conference, the fifth-seeded Maple Leafs will match up with fourth-seeded Boston, another Original Six team, second-seeded Montreal will face seventh-seeded Ottawa, and the sixth-seeded New York Rangers will match up with third-seeded Washington. In the West, Detroit extended its franchise record postseason streak to 22, the fifth longest in league history, and closed well enough to avoid a first-round matchup with fellow Original Six member Chicago to move into a winnable series against second-seeded Anaheim.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK: The New York Islanders are in the playoffs for the first time since 2007, and for just the second time in two decades they're in the postseason at the same time as the New York Rangers. Both teams will have a tough time getting out of the first round. The eighth-seeded Islanders are matched up against Pittsburgh, a powerhouse that earned 17 more points in the condensed season. The sixth-seeded Rangers will face perhaps the hottest team in the league, third-seeded Washington.


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It came to that time again, where my hair could be mistaken for a mop, so off I hopped to a John Carne Hair Salon located in Knightsbridge (a stone's throw from Harrods). It was in a great location – even I could find it.
The salon's interior is very chic and minimalist, but despite this feels very friendly and welcoming. I was booked in with the lovely Ellie, for a cut and colour using the new Schwarzkopf Igora Vibrance Shine Gloss semi permanent hair dye.
One of the reasons I chose the Igora Vibrance is because I did not want another permanent on my hair, I desperately want/need the shine and this colour only takes 15 minutes to process! See, I was also in a rush.
This dye lasts for up to 6 weeks and is very gentle, I had no irritation with it although it does feel cold on the scalp.
My hair before…
I had a cut with 'the junior' who did ok but it was all a bit choppy and heavy. My colour was a mish mash of mish mashes so was sort of dark and light and brown and black.
Ellie chatted to me about what I was looking for and pointed me in the right direction in terms of hair colour – we went for something dark, like a brown with a sort of plum tone to it if I remember correctly. Also I hate having my hair dark she pointed out that it does suit me, so long as the tone is right (not lego hair).
The hair dye by the way is a bright orange carrot colour. Obviously, this is not how it turns out but I found it quite amusing!
Anyway, here is my hair before. Excuse how spaced out I look, 3 hours sleep and a train to London first thing…
The John Carne salon is really lovely and comfortable. I don't know how to describe it other than, I had very little time hanging about, flicking through magazines and waiting because everything was on time, everything was sort of there, as you need it.
You know how sometimes you can be sat in a hair salon reading tons of magazines or sort of wondering if people have forgotten about you? None of that. There was always someone there to keep an eye on whether you needed another coffee or orange juice.
Then on to the marvel that is the wash room! Or the room they wash hair in! Whatever you want to call it!
So you have to visit this salon just to try it out. The room is more of a relaxation booth – the lights change colour into soft greens, blue, pink etc. and there's soft music. A candle is lit with a sort of aromatherapy scent and the chair gives you a massage (yeah!) as your having your hair washed!
You also get a mini head massage (although you can pay extra and get an extended one) along with your hair wash.
Schwarzkopg Seah Rose shampoo and conditioner were used (smells lovely!) and a treatment because my hair is so dry.
When it came to the cut, I was pretty easy – I wanted the weight taken out of the top and all the dead ends cut off.
Ellie did a great job – it wasn't what I expected in that it was more flicky and layered but I really liked it – she could've just trimmed it and let me go but she added more of a 'style'. My lovely companion said it was very Catherine Zeta.
From the back:
Ellie had some blow drying tips for me since I am rubbish at it – such as, always pointing the hair dryer down so you are flattening the cuticles, always get some tension on the brush (use a round brush) so you can pull it straight and never do it from wet, always get most of the moisture out first (whoops).


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2012-13: Started all 26 games for MIT … finished his career as the school's all-time leader in assists (550) and steals (254) … fourth all-time in scoring with 1,625 points … a preseason third team All-American … first team All-NEWMAC … All-Northeast region … ECAC New England All-Star … CoSIDA Academic All-American … Academic All-District … Academic All-NEWMAC … second on the team in scoring at 14.5 ppg … lead the team in assists with 128 and steals with 62 … also the team's top free throw shooter with a percentage of .830 … led the NEWMAC in steals per game … second in the league in assists per game and sixth in scoring … led MIT in scoring nine times … double figures in scoring in 18 games … 20+ points eight times … reached the 20-point mark in each of the first six games of the season … 22 points, six rebounds, eight assists and four steals in the opener at Lesley (11/15) … 23 points in back-to-back games at Gordon (11/17) and vs. Emmanuel (11/20) … 22 points and seven assists against Curry (11/24) … season-high 27 points in back-to-back games vs. Tufts (11/27) and at Rhode Island College (11/29) … five steals in each of those games as well … 20 points and five assists at Salem St. (12/6) … started the NEWMAC season with 20 points and six assists at Wheaton (1/5) … double-double with 10 points and a career-high 12 assists against Babson (1/12) … 19 points and six rebounds at WPI (1/19) … nine assists at Coast Guard (1/26) … 16 points, nine assists and six rebounds against WPI (2/13) … season best seven boards against Wheelock (2/17).
2011-12: Played in and started all 31 games as a junior, averaging 14.2 points, 5.4 assists and 2.3 steals per game with .509 FG%, .300 3PT%, .718 FT% … D3Hoops All-America fourth team … NEWMAC All-Conference first team … NEWMAC tournament Most Outstanding Player … D3Hoops All-Northeast region third team … ECAC All-New England first team … led team and NEWMAC in steals and assists … second on team and fourth in NEWMAC in scoring … career-high 11 assists in NCAA tournament second round win over Farmingdale St. (3/3) … career-high 11 rebounds in NCAA tournament opening round win over Skidmore (3/2) … season-high 29 points in NCAA tournament third round vs. Staten Island (3/9) … finished two assists shy of triple-double vs. Skidmore (3/2) … third in the NEWMAC in minutes per game, played all 40 minutes in two games … averaged 19.4 points, 7.2 assists, 5.0 rebounds and 2.4 steals per game, with .538 FG% during MIT's NCAA tournament run to the national semifinals … led team in scoring on 11 occasions, including five of seven postseason games … led or tied for team lead in assists in all but six games during the season.
2010-11: Played in and started all 29 games as a sophomore, averaging 15.6 points, 3.2 rebounds and 5.0 assists with .471 FG%, .340 3PT% and .766 FT% … second team NEWMAC All-Conference for second year in a row … led team in scoring, assists and steals … fifth in NEWMAC in scoring, sixth in FG%, second in steals … led the team in scoring in 14 games … scored career high 34 points, on 11-of-15 shooting with five assists vs. Wheaton (1/22) … scored 25 points in NCAA tournament win over Ithaca (3/4) … scored 23 points with a season-high eight assists vs. Gordon (12/4) … scored in double figures in 22 games, including eight games of at least 20 points.
2009-10: Played and started all 27 games as a sophomore, averaging 33 minutes per game, 13.2 ppg with .480 FG% and .700 FT% … averaged 4.1 apg, 3.3 rpg, and 2.11 steals per game … D3Hoops Northeast Region Rookie of the Year … NEWMAC Rookie of the Year … second team NEWMAC All-Conference … 1st in NEWMAC in steals (2.11) and assists (4.15) … 8th in NEWMAC in FG% (48.0), A/TO (1.18), and Scoring (13.2) … 9th in NEWMAC in FT% (70.8) … tied Bradley Gampel '09 for most steals in a game with 8 in just fourth game as an Engineer vs. Curry College on Nov. 24th … joined Danny Kanamori '06 and Jimmy Bartollota'09 for 4th all-time in steals in a season with 57 … tied Mark Branch '83 for 9th all time in assists in a season with 112 … scored in double figures in 20 games and had at least 20 points in four games … in first collegiate game, scored 14 points on 4-of-6 shooting and 6-of-8 from free-throw line, adding 3 rebounds, 4 assists, and 4 steals at Emmanuel … dropped 22 points on 10-of-19 shooting and 3 steals in championship game of RPI Engineers Classic vs. RPI … after returning from tournament in New York, had career night at Curry, scoring career-highs of 28 points, 9 rebounds, and 8 steals, tying Bradley Gampel's Institute record for most steals in a game … dished out 7 assists in both of next two games vs. Suffolk and at Emerson … put up 15 points, 5 assists, and 2 steals in OT win vs. Gordon the following game … netted 22 points on 10-of-15 shooting, 4 assists, 3 rebounds, and 2 steals in OT win vs. Salem State … against Division I Harvard on December 28th, put up 14 points, 5 assists, 3 rebounds, and 2 steals in 35 minutes of action … would score in double-digits for next eleven games, including career-high 8 assists vs. Lesley on Dec. 12th and a 5-steal performance at Babson on January 9th … before final game of ] regular season, scored 24 points, brought down 6 rebounds, and tied career-mark of 8 assists at Wheaton … put up 16 points and 8 rebounds in 1st Round of NCAA Tournament vs. Desales in New Jersey.
Off The Court at MIT: Majoring in computer science … internship with XL Hybrids and 360 Compensation.
High School: Attended Colts Neck High School … broke single season assists record at Colts Neck as a junior (6.5 apg)... averaged 16.4 pts., 7.6 assists, 5.0 steals per game as a senior... led team to CJ Group IV and Shore Conference semifinals; finished with 19-8 record Selected as Coaches Poll First Team All Shore Conference... selected as Asbury Park Press First Team All Shore Conference Awarded the Kerwin Award, given to the best basketball player in the shore conference... Digital Sports Shore Conference Player of the Year... broke career assists record at Colts Neck... received gold medal on National U-16 United States Maccabi Basketball Team in Israel 2005... attended Phillips Exeter Academy as a post graduate, averaging 13 points and 5 assists per game … NCCJA Anytown Delegate … NJSIAA Scholar Athlete … National Honors Society … Colts Neck High School Youth of the Year.
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This example shows the features available in Simulink Control Design for linearizing models containing references to other models with a Model block.
The model
scdspeed_ctrlloop is a componentized version of the model
scdspeedctrl. In this model, the engine speed model is a component represented in the model
scdspeed_plantref which is referenced using a model reference block. To open the engine model, run:
topmdl = 'scdspeed_ctrlloop';
Initially, the reference is set to run its simulation in accelerator mode. The accelerator simulation mode is indicated by the black triangles on the corners of the model block
scdspeed_ctrlloop/Engine Model.
By default, Engine Model reference block is set to accelerator simulation mode, as indicated by the block triangles on the block. Linearizing the model with this block set to accelerator simulation mode numerically perturbs the entire Engine Model block. The accuracy of this linearization is very sensitive to the blocks within the Engine model. In particular, the variable transport delay block is very problematic.
To achieve an accurate linearization, set the model reference block to normal simulation mode to allow the block-by-block linearization of the referenced model by running the following command.
set_param('scdspeed_ctrlloop/Engine Model','SimulationMode','Normal')
Notice that the corners of the model block are now white triangles indicating that its simulation mode is set to normal, as showing in the following figure.
Linearize the model between the speed reference and the speed output and plot the resulting step response by running:
io(1) = linio('scdspeed_ctrlloop/Speed Reference',1,'input'); io(2) = linio('scdspeed_ctrlloop/Speed Output',1,'output'); sys_normal = linearize(topmdl,io); step(sys_normal);
Close the Simulink model.
Another benefit of switching the model reference to normal mode simulation is that you can take advantage of the exact delay representations.
For more information on linearizing models with delays see the example "Linearizing Models with Delays".


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Bill Clinton: NFL refs blew the call!
Bill Clinton is weighing in on America's greatest crisis: the NFL's replacement referees.
"I would not have called that last play the way they did in that Seattle–Green Bay game last night," Clinton said Tuesday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" when asked if the Initiative could intervene in the NFL's lockout of its unionized referees. "The Packers will wake up this morning and just sort of shake their head and say, 'We should have won by two touchdowns.'"
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The Seattle Seahawks defeated the Packers on Monday night after the refs awarded a touchdown to Seattle at the end of the game even though it appeared to be a clear interception by Green Bay. The call was the straw that broke the camel's back for football fans in the political class, angered by a series of bungled calls over the first three weeks of the football season.
President Barack Obama sent out a rare personal tweet expressing his exasperation: "NFL fans on both sides of the aisle hope the refs' lockout is settled soon."
GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney expressed similar sentiments.
"I'd sure like to see some experienced referees with NFL experience come back onto the NFL playing fields," Romney said Tuesday on CNN.
He added that his running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, was upset about the call.
"Paul was very angry that the Green Bay Packers, he believes won and the referees took it away from them," Romney said.
Ryan himself used the situation to attack the Obama administration.
"Did you guys watch that Packer game last night?" Ryan said at a town hall meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio. "I mean, give me a break. It is time to get the real refs. And you know what, it reminds me of President Obama and the economy. If you can't get it right, it is time to get out."
A fellow Packers fan agreed.
"After catching a few hours of sleep, the #Packers game is still just as painful," Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker wrote on Twitter, adding the hashtag #Returntherealrefs.
The owners locked out the referees in June. The refs want wage increases, while the NFL is seeking to convert their pensions to a 401(k) and wants some of the officials to work full time.
For liberals, the replacement referees provided an opportunity to make a broader argument about unionization, with many pointing out the irony in Walker — whose crusade against his state's public employee unions made him a GOP icon — calling for the return of unionized employees.
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Blue Jays fall on walk-off error in series finale
BOSTON -- This was the type of game the Blue Jays won during their 11-game winning streak earlier in the month.
Down three runs early to a Boston team that had won two of the first three games of the series, Toronto battled back into contention, and when Jose Bautista blasted a solo shot in the top of the ninth inning, the game was tied.View Full Game Coverage
BOSTON -- This was the type of game the Blue Jays won during their 11-game winning streak earlier in the month.
Down three runs early to a Boston team that had won two of the first three games of the series, Toronto battled back into contention, and when Jose Bautista blasted a solo shot in the top of the ninth inning, the game was tied.View Full Game Coverage
But baseball is a game of breaks, and though they all seemed to go Toronto's way when they were the hottest team in baseball, Sunday's contest was a reminder that the streak is firmly in the rear-view mirror.
With runners on first and second in the bottom of the ninth and Juan Perez on the mound, Shane Victorino hit what should have been a routine ground ball to first base.
But Josh Thole misplayed the ball and it scooted into right field, allowing pinch-runner Jonathan Diaz to score and the Red Sox to walk off with a 5-4 victory at Fenway Park.
"Just didn't catch it. I need to catch the ball. That's the bottom line," Thole said. "It [stinks], but I just got to catch the ball and make an out."
Thole, normally a catcher, entered the game in the third inning as a replacement for starter Adam Lind, who left with back tightness.
The defeat was the third in a four-game series against the Red Sox, and Toronto's fifth loss in seven games.
"I thought it was an important game for us to win," manager John Gibbons said.
After being within five games out of first place in the American League East after their winning streak, the Blue Jays leave Boston with a 40-41 record, 8 1/2 games behind the first-place Red Sox.
"You take three of four versus anyone, particularly over the last month with the way Toronto has played," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. "This was a good series win for us today."
Mark Buehrle, who threw six innings of four-run baseball on Sunday, said the bad stretch is part of the ups and downs of a long season.
"Even in Tampa, I think you've seen games we were playing in that stretch we were winning, guys were hitting the ball and it goes right to our guy or a guy makes a diving play," Buehrle said. "The last couple games, it seems like we're putting the ball in play and they're making diving plays."
It's not as if Blue Jays didn't have their chances to salvage a series split.
Bautista's blast gave life to the Toronto dugout and tied the game in the top of the ninth, but Toronto couldn't keep it tied in the bottom half.
Luis Perez retired Jose Iglesias to start the frame, but Brandon Snyder followed with a single and Jacoby Ellsbury walked. That brought up Victorino, who slapped the fateful grounder toward Thole.
The Blue Jays had 11 hits on Sunday, and Buehrle's outing was probably better than his numbers indicated, but the Blue Jays were unable to capitalize on opportunities at the plate and in the field.
The best of those opportunities came in the top of the sixth, when Toronto, trailing 4-2, loaded the bases with nobody out against Boston starter Ryan Dempster. Thole walked to start the inning and Rajai Davis and Colby Rasmus followed with singles. But J.P. Arencibia and Maicer Izturis both popped out to shortstop and Emilio Bonifacio struck out swinging to end the threat.
"We just didn't get anything out of it," Gibbons said. "That's basically it."
A key defensive lapse earlier in the game also cost the Blue Jays.
With runners on first and second in the second inning, Ryan Lavarnway hit what looked to be a routine fly ball. Lind, Bautista and Munenori Kawasaki, making his debut at second base, ran toward it, but the ball fell between them all in shallow right field before bouncing into the seats for a ground-rule double.
Mike Napoli scored on the play, and after Iglesias struck out swinging, Snyder doubled off the Green Monster to drive in two more runs and give Boston a 3-0 lead.
Buehrle was otherwise effective against a Red Sox lineup that has scored the most runs in baseball.
In his six innings of work, he struck out four and walked one.
"I made some pitches and they found holes," Buehrle said. "That's why it's frustrating."
Toronto scored two runs in the top of the fourth. Rasmus singled home Edwin Encarnacion on a line drive to right field for the first run. After Arencibia walked, Izturis grounded into what looked like an inning-ending double play, but Izturis beat out the throw, allowing Davis, who singled and stole third earlier in the inning, to score.
Jose Reyes homered to lead off the seventh inning, making the score 4-3.
Michael Periatt is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills at the Education World Forum in London
This week the ATC21S consortium is in London for the 2012 Education World Forum (EWF). The EWF, held once per year, is a prestigious global summit for education ministers. This event brings government representatives, industry leaders, and major organizations from more than 60 countries together and provides a forum for rich discussion on current issues, cutting-edge advancements, and the most important needs in education at the local, national, international, and global scale.
Day one of the EWF kicked off with welcome messages from international luminaries, followed by two plenary sessions with involvement from key ATC21S members.
The first plenary session, themed "Education for what?" addressed the function of education in our rapidly changing times. This session featured interesting presentations from representatives of the World Bank; Taking IT Global; and the Portuguese federal government. Most exciting for the ATC21S team was a keynote address on the challenges linked with teaching and learning in the 21st century delivered by Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, our own expert on policy issues.
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The Ministerial Exchange session that Mr. Butler referred to is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon and will be chaired by Patrick Griffin, the ATC21S Executive Director. Our featured speakers will be Dr Linda Darling-Hammond, the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University; Shelley Esque, VP of Corporate Affairs at Intel; Michael Stevenson, VP of Cisco; Anthony Mackay, ATC21S Moderator at the University of Melbourne; and Greg Butler, ATC21S Taskforce member and Senior Director of Worldwide Education Strategy at Microsoft.
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Like many politically divisive issues today, when it comes to the Affordable Care Act and Obamacare, it can be hard to separate fact from fiction.
The cornerstone of the ACA (aka Obamacare) is Healthcare.gov, home of the new health care marketplace. Nov. 1 marks the beginning of open enrollment for 2017. Americans have until Jan. 31 to choose a plan. We developed an in-depth guide to shopping on the marketplace, which you can find here. We also figured there could be no better time to revisit some of the misconceptions about the health care law that created it.
Below, we list 10 common myths associated with Obamacare.
1. I have to sign up for health insurance in the federal marketplace
The marketplace exists for people who do not receive health benefits through their employer, or a public program like Medicare, Medicaid, or the Children's Health Insurance Program.
The ACA does require all Americans to have a qualified health plan, but that hasn't stopped millions of Americans from going without. Just know that if you do not enroll in a health plan, you may face a tax penalty. There are exemptions for some groups of people. Some consumers choose to forego insurance for financial reasons — sometimes it costs more to pay for a health plan than to incur the tax penalty for not having insurance.
Before you give up on finding an affordable plan, check to see if you are eligible for a tax subsidy, which can drastically reduce the cost of your Obamacare premium.
2. Obamacare hasn't changed the health care landscape all that much
The percentage of uninsured Americans fell to 10.5% from 16.6% since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act back in 2013. The U.S. is currently experiencing its highest rate of insured people ever in history, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September. As of February 2016, 12.7 million Americans received health coverage through the marketplace.
There are five other big advantages of Obamacare:
- Obamacare made it mandatory for insurers to cover certain preventive services such as cancer screenings and immunizations. Those services cannot count toward a patient's deductible or require a co-pay.
- The law also allows young adults to stay on a parent's health insurance plan until they turn 26 years old — even if they get married, go to college, move away from home, or aren't claimed on their parent's taxes as a dependent anymore.
- No lifetime caps on how much the insurance company will pay if you get sick.
- Insurers can't cancel your coverage midterm if you made a mistake on the paperwork.
- The company can't deny anyone because of pre-existing conditions like asthma or diabetes.
3. If I lose my insurance, I will have to pay a fee
It is true that some people will face tax penalties if they do not sign up for a qualifying health plan in a given year. But there are exceptions to this rule.
If you lose your job, you can purchase a plan in the marketplace outside of the open enrollment period. This applies even if you quit or get fired. If you can't afford insurance and will be uninsured for a bit, you may qualify for a short-gap exemption and avoid the tax penalty. To qualify, you can be uninsured for no longer than two consecutive months. If you don't qualify for any exemptions, you are then subject to a tax penalty for each month that you are uninsured.
4. I'll have to wait longer to see my doctor if I have Obamacare
When the health care exchange opened, people worried that Obamacare patients would encounter the same service delays common among Medicaid and Medicare recipients. But evidence points to the contrary. The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that supports independent research on health care issues, found in its 2016 ACA Tracking Survey that wait times for those with Medicaid or marketplace coverage were similar to wait times for other insured adults. The survey found that 58% of adults with Medicaid or marketplace coverage who looked for a new primary care physician found it easy or somewhat easy to find one, and more than half of those surveyed waited less than two weeks to see a primary care physician. About 41% of those surveyed needed to see a specialist. Out of those, 60% got an appointment within two weeks.
5. If I sign up for Obamacare, I have to agree to a home inspection
This myth arose after a widely circulated August 2013 blog post claimed that the health care law would allow forced home inspections. There are no forced home inspections, or home inspections at all.
That blogger misinterpreted the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV), which was created with the ACA.
The program allows "at-risk" pregnant women or families to enroll in an optional home health care program that sends nurses to their homes. It gives moms who wouldn't normally have access to prenatal advice access to advice and care in the comfort of their homes.
6. My boss might decrease my hours to avoid paying for Obamacare coverage
The ACA provision that requires employers with 50 or more full-time equivalent employees to offer health benefits went into full effect in 2016. There was worry that employers would decrease employee hours to reduce the number of full-time employees and avoid having to pay full health benefits (under the provision, employees are considered full time if they work 30 hours per week or more).
According to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation earlier this year, only 2% of employers said they were going to change job classifications from full-time to part-time so that employees would not be eligible for health benefits, while 7% said they had changed or planned to switch part-timers to full-time so that they could qualify. The report also said 12% of employers were extending or planned to extend eligibility for health benefits to workers who were not currently eligible.
7. Only very poor people qualify for tax credits
Under the ACA, the majority of those who get health care through the marketplace are eligible for tax credits that can make the plans more affordable. About 8 in 10 people are eligible for $290 average monthly subsidies that can bring monthly payments down to less than $100. Some small businesses that offer health benefits to employees could be eligible for a credit as well to help with affordability.
It is true, however, that eligibility for the tax credit is determined by a host of factors, primarily household size and income. The IRS has a flow chart you can use to quickly see if you'd be eligible for the tax credit.
Premiums overall are getting more expensive, however, even for those with employer-sponsored health coverage. The rise is fueled by the rising cost of services, medicine, and other medical treatments. However, as premiums rise, subsidies rise, too, which can help offset the increase in cost.
8. I won't be able to choose my own doctor anymore
Simply enrolling in a health plan through the exchange won't mess with your choice of doctors. Your provider determines which doctors are accessible through your insurance plan. When policy conditions change — as they are apt to do when employers switch plans, people change or lose jobs, or when insurers alter plans — you're not guaranteed that your doctor will still be in-network. Even when that happens, you may still be covered, but may have to pay more to go to a doctor outside of your network. If you're concerned about this, ask your doctor which insurers they accept, and see if you can sign up for one of those plans through your employer or the marketplace.
9. If I like my plan, I can keep it no matter what
You can keep your plan as long as it complies with the ACA or was grandfathered in. However, nothing in the ACA promises that you can keep your plan no matter what. Your employer could switch plans, or you could lose or switch your job and lose your current plan, as it's always been.
When the ACA went into effect, some insurance plans didn't meet the minimum requirements of a Qualified Health Plan. Those plans were eventually phased out and replaced with ACA-compliant plans.
10. Most people were better off without Obamacare
The Affordable Care Act added important consumer protections that cannot be ignored. Before the act, insurers were able to deny coverage to people because they had a pre-existing condition. Now they can't. Certain preventative care such as obesity, depression, domestic violence screening, and birth control, among many others now must be covered by insurance without a co-pay. Overall, more people are insured, and more services are being provided.
In its 2016 report, the Commonwealth Fund asked 4,802 working-age adults with Medicaid or marketplace coverage about the ACA. Of those, 881 were new to marketplace or Medicaid coverage. Only 11% of those new to the marketplace and 4% of those new to Medicaid said their ability to get care had worsened.
It is true that Obamacare patients are seeing higher premiums year after year, but they are not alone. Premiums are also becoming more expensive for people who receive employee benefits. According to a report released this year by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average health care premium for an employer-provided family plan has jumped 58% over the past 10 years, while employee contribution toward the total premium has also risen 78%.
Some states will be especially hard hit by price hikes in 2017. The largest decrease in available plans was in Arizona, which lost six insurers. The state's enrollees will see an average 116% price increase in 2017.
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Perceptions of registered nurses regarding factors influencing service delivery in expanding programmes in a primary healthcare setting
Nnoi A. XabaI; Mapheko D. PeuII; Salaminah S. PhiriII
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IIDepartment of Nursing Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa
The aim of this study was to explore and describe the perceptions of registered nurses regarding factors influencing service delivery regarding expansion programmes in a primary healthcare setting, using a qualitative approach. The registered nurses, who have been working in the clinics for more than two years and have been exposed to the expansion programmes there, were purposively sampled. Two focus group interviews were conducted in a neutral place and the data collected by the researcher Nnoi A. Xaba (N.A.X.). Data were analysed by the researcher and an independent co-coder using the Tesch method. Categories, subcategories and themes were identified; those that formed the basis of discussion were disabling factors, enabling factors, client-related factors, service-related factors and solutions to problems. It is recommended that integration of programmes and coordination be done at a provincial level and planned together with the training centres in order to alleviate problems in service delivery. Training on expansion programmes in the form of in-service education should be carried out continually in the region.
Die doel van die studie was om die persepsie van geregistreerde verpleegkundiges met betrekking tot die faktore wat dienslewering van die uitbreidingsprogramme in 'n primêre gesondheid opset beinvloed; te eksploreer en te beskryf. 'n Kwalitatiewe benadering is gevolg in die iutvoering van die studie. 'n Doelgerigte steekproef is uitgevoer vanuit geregistreerde verpleegkundiges wat vir langer as twee jaar in die klinieke werksaam was en blootgestel is aan die uitbreiding programme. Twee fokus groep onderhoude is deur die navorser Nnoi A. Xaba (N.A.X.) in 'n neutrale opset uitgevoer. Data is deur die navorser en 'n onafhanklike kodeerder ontleed volgens Tesch se metode van analise. Kategorieë, sub-kategorieë en temas was geidentifiseer. Die kategorieë fundamenteel tot die bespreking behels: remmende faktore, bydraende faktore, kliënt-verwante faktore, diens-verwante faktore, en oplossing van probleme. Daar word aanbeveel dat die integrasie en koordinasie van programme op provisiale vlak beplan word in samewerking met opleidings instansies om die dienslewerings probleem te verlig. In die streek behoort opleiding met betrekking tot die uitbreidingsprogramme deurlopend deur middel van indiensopleiding gedoen word.
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Prove that the sequence $\sqrt{2} , \sqrt{2\sqrt{2}}, \sqrt{2\sqrt{2\sqrt{2}}}$ converges to 2
My attempt
I proved that the sequence is increasing and bounded by 2, can anyone help me show that the sequence converges to 2? Thanks for your help
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Prove that the sequence $\sqrt{2} , \sqrt{2\sqrt{2}}, \sqrt{2\sqrt{2\sqrt{2}}}$ converges to 2
My attempt
I proved that the sequence is increasing and bounded by 2, can anyone help me show that the sequence converges to 2? Thanks for your help
Another prove:
Notice that: $a_1 = 2^{1/2},\ a_2 = 2^{3/4},\ a_3 = 2^{7/8}$, and so on, thus, $$a_n = 2^{(2^n-1)/2^n} = 2^{1-1/2^n}$$
Taking limit as $n$ tends to infinity, we have that $$\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} a_n = 2^1 = 2$$
We have
$$\sqrt{2}=2^{\frac{1}{2}}.$$ Exciting, no? We also have $$\sqrt{2\sqrt{2}}=2^{\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{4}},$$ and $$\sqrt{2\sqrt{2\sqrt{2}}}=2^{\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{4}+\frac{1}{8}}.$$ For the next term, we take the previous term, multiply by $2$, getting exponent of $2$ equal to $1+\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{4}+\frac{1}{8}$, then take the square root, getting exponent of $2$ equal to $\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{4}+\frac{1}{8}+\frac{1}{16}$. The pattern continues, since the "next term" is always obtained by the same process.
It is well-known that the series $\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{4}+\frac{1}{8}+\frac{1}{16}+\cdots$ converges to $1$. Since the function $f(x)=2^x$ is continuous, our original sequence converges to $2^1$.
$$a_n:=\underbrace{\sqrt{2\sqrt{2...\sqrt 2}}}_{n\text{ square roots}}\Longrightarrow a_n=\sqrt{2a_{n-1}}$$
Since you've already proved the sequence $\,\{a_n\}\,$ converges, assume its limit is $\,x\,$ , so
$$x=\lim_{n\to\infty}a_n=\lim\sqrt{2a_{n-1}}=\sqrt{2x}\Longrightarrow x^2=2x$$
and since it's trivial that $\,x\neq 0\,$ then you can cancel above and get what you want.
Hint : let $y = \sqrt{2.{y}}$ , Now solve for y.
Consider the following discrete-time dynamical system (or "infinite state machine", if you prefer)
$$x_{k+1} = \displaystyle\sqrt{2 x_k}$$
where $x_0 = \sqrt{2}$ is the initial condition. Let us introduce function $f (x) := \sqrt{2 x}$ so that the state-transition equation can be written in the form $x_{k+1} = f (x_k)$. You want to prove that
$$x_{\infty} := \displaystyle\lim_{k \rightarrow \infty} x_k = 2$$
Does $x_k$ converge to $2$? Here's a short numerical experiment in Haskell (using GHCi):
*Main> let f x = sqrt (2 * x)
*Main> let x0 = sqrt (2)
*Main> let xs = iterate f x0
*Main> take 10 xs
Looks like $x_k$ does indeed converge to $2$. Let's now try to prove it. I introduce a new symbol
$$\tilde{x}_{k} := \ln (x_k)$$
which allows us to rewrite the state-transition equation $x_{k+1} = \displaystyle\sqrt{2 x_k}$ in the following form
$$\tilde{x}_{k+1} = \frac{1}{2} \tilde{x}_k + \ln(\sqrt{2})$$
which is a scalar linear dynamical system of the form $s_{k+1} = a s_k + b$, whose general solution is
$$s_ k = a^k s_0 + \displaystyle\sum_{i=0}^{k-1} a^i b$$
Therefore, we obtain the following general solution
$$\tilde{x}_k = \left(\frac{1}{2}\right)^k \tilde{x}_0 + \displaystyle\sum_{i=0}^{k-1} \left(\frac{1}{2}\right)^i \ln(\sqrt{2})$$
and, taking the limit
$$\tilde{x}_{\infty} := \displaystyle\lim_{k \rightarrow \infty} \tilde{x}_k = \displaystyle\lim_{k \rightarrow \infty} \sum_{i=0}^{k-1} \left(\frac{1}{2}\right)^i \ln(\sqrt{2}) = \left[\sum_{i=0}^{\infty} \left(\frac{1}{2}\right)^i\right] \ln(\sqrt{2}) = 2 \ln (\sqrt{2}) = \ln (2)$$
and, finally, we conclude that $x_{\infty} = \exp(\tilde{x}_{\infty}) = 2$.
Let us denote your sequence by $x_n$. Then $$ x_1=\sqrt{2},\ x_{n+1}=\sqrt{2x_n} \quad \forall\ n \ge 1. $$ Clearly $\sqrt{2}\le x_n<2$ for every $n \ge 1$, and $$ x_n-x_{n+1}=x_n-\sqrt{2x_n}=\frac{x_n^2-2x_n}{x_n+x_{n+1}}=\frac{x_n(x_n-2)}{x_n+x_{n+1}}<0 \quad \forall n \ge 1. $$ Hence $(x_n)$ is increasing and bounded above. It follows that $(x_n)$ is convergent. If $l$ denotes its limit, then $\sqrt{2}\le l \le 2$ and $l=\sqrt{2l}$. Solving the equation $l=\sqrt{2l}$ we get $l\in \{0,2\}$, and since $\sqrt{2} \le l \le 2$, we deduce that $l=2$.
You can also observe that
$$\sqrt{2\sqrt{2\sqrt{2 ...\sqrt{2}}}} \cdot \sqrt{\sqrt{\sqrt{...\sqrt{2}}}}=2$$
$$\sqrt{2\sqrt{2\sqrt{2 ...\sqrt{2}}}} =\frac{2}{\sqrt[2^n]{2}}$$
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