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The United Futbol Academy (UFA) was established in 2010, out of the need to promote the game of soccer and to provide a new soccer experience for the community. UFA initially was a merger between Atlanta Soccer Academy and Forsyth Fusion Soccer Club in 2010. Since then, Norcross Soccer Academy in 2014 and South Georgia United in 2015 have joined UFA to establish a larger presence. Since its establishment, UFA has also expanded into the areas of Dawson (2011), Lumpkin (2013), Lilburn (2014), Milton (2015) Lawrenceville and Baltimore (2016).
UFA competes against other clubs within the state through Georgia Soccer, abiding by guidelines set forth by this organization. In addition to this competition, many of our travelling teams successfully participate in regional tournaments and the Southern Region Premier League (SRPL) which operates throughout the Southeastern United States and the National League.
UFA is devoted to providing a developmental structure along with quality instruction for children ages 3-18. In order to experience the game of soccer at every level, we offer various programs within the club: recreational, academy, select and TOPSoccer; which encompass each child's soccer potential. We also offer an adult league for people over the age of 18.
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Skills for Soccer. Skills for Life.
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Just when we thought we were finally in for a ho-hum mid-week game against a west coast team, that happened. Here are the highlights you won't see on SportsCenter…
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Just when we thought we were finally in for a ho-hum mid-week game against a west coast team, that happened. Here are the highlights you won't see on SportsCenter…
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my favorite has to be Pena's face during the whole scrum.
Great win, we'll take it for sure. But when did it become cool, manly or even hetero to try to peel the britches off of someone when they do something cool? How is it a badge of honor to have your hoe cakes hanging out on national television? Why in the world does our team of men's men feel it necessary to act out scenes from THE CRYING GAME every time there's a walk-off hit. It never ceases to amaze me... and I'm not sure I like it.
I don't know why they pull down each other's pants either. But do you really have to make this about sexual preference? I mean, is your implication that gay men go around pulling down each other's pants, but "real" men should behave more appropriately? If that's your implication, then....grow up!
And if I misread your intentions, apologies.
It is certainly not my intention to make this about sexual orientation, except to point out that the manner in which this is done (publicly and against the players will) seems to be a significant display of misplaced sexual aggression, much like the iconic scenes of the movie I referenced. When I do well at the office, I don't have my drawers forcibly yanked down for all to enjoy, and I find it strange we are doing it on television in the middle of a baseball diamond. Moreover, in a sport epitomizing masculinity, it seems a celebration a bit out of place - just as it would be if they chanted "Hey Batter batter batter..." like they do in a little league game with 6-year olds. Just doesn't seem to fit.


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The Moon Goose Analogue: Lunar Migration Bird Facility
The projects of German artist, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, flirt with the construction of scientific knowledge, grasping and slipping between the object and subject. Drawing from a background in visual and new media art practice, Meyer-Brandis creates installations, performances, and film that drift from scientific theory into fiction and wonder. Her work draws parallels with fictional and quasi-fiction worlds, those of space cadets and armchair rocket launchers.
Exploring recurring subjects such as gravity, weightlessness and space travel, her work has led to collaborations with scientists and researchers providing access to operations and activities usually restricted to scientific experimentation only. In 2007, while working on a project called Cloud-Core-Scanner she travelled on a zero gravity flight in collaboration with the DLR (German Aerospace Centre) to examine the formation of clouds in a weightless environment. As well as a rigorous scientific approach, her work is often tinged with a playful humour, such as her series of public meteor watching events, where participants are instructed to bring a safety helmet.
An Interview with Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt)
Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhard) are artist explorers of the natural world, they build installations and moving image with animation and sound drawn from their encounters with prestigious scientific institution such as NASA's Space Science Laboratories and the Smithsonian Archive as well as journeys to alien places like the Galapagos Islands and Ecuadorian volcanoes.
Two new works drawn from their other worldly travels, Worlds in the Making and Inferno Observatory are now showing at FACT in Liverpool, UK, Peter Merrington talked to the artists about their work.
Terminal Convention Takes Flight
What is an airport? There are few buildings as strictly controlled, commercially exploited and emotionally embedded in the contemporary word. Junctions of humanity, they are sites of equal boredom and threat. Airports are dynamic spaces, with flows of people and capital yet they are as susceptible to the effects of socio-economic and political changes as they are to extreme weather changes. Filled with ubiquitous surveillance, continual identification and suspicion, what happens when they loose this function and just become buildings again?
Terminal Convention was a contemporary exhibition and symposium housed in the decommissioned terminal building of Cork International Airport in the Republic of Ireland. The old terminal stands in the shadow of its new, bright, open and airy, off-the-shelf 21st century airport successor, and the decommissioned terminal has remained a virtually untouched unknown wonderland for international artists to transform.
What is striking about this particular airport ex-terminal is its friendly persona, at times more akin to a bizarre extended living room than an airport, with its fireplaces and fish tanks in the baggage reclaim area. Striped of its function and control, the space is deadened and immobile without the continuous hums and flows of international travel. The description 'decommissioned' implies something more than simply the staff moving out and locking the door – the building has been stripped of all its symbolic authority. The new freedom to roam, unchecked, through the once tightly controlled spaces provides a small thrill, the 'no entry' signs remain in place, but are now rendered obsolete.
Rewind the BETAMAX of life: Nam June Paik at Tate Liverpool and FACT
Nam June Paik (1932 - 2006) is an artist fabled for what he has achieved, as the instigator of video art, the pioneer of media art and through his influence on the indebted MTV generation. It's as if his career is almost made for the retrospective exhibition. His work is bound to his legacy, and his influence is hard to encompass. The importance of this legacy asks two parallel questions, how to preserve, present and document but also how to react, trace and respond. Both are targeted through a new joint exhibition of Paik's work at Tate Liverpool and FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), the first major retrospective of his work since his death in 2006 and the first exhibition of his work in the UK since 1988.
Tate presents a comprehensive chronicle of Paik's movements through the avant-garde, in performance, composition, television and sculpture. There are TV sets, robots and Buddhas, mixed with historical documentation, vitrines filled with exhibition programs, posters and photographs and timelines drawn on walls, which denote his many collaborators and read like a roll call of the most influential artists of the 20th century - John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Joseph Beuys and Merce Cunningham.
In contrast to the Tate, where you can look and listen with historical meticulousness, at FACT you are given a remote control. Here you are encouraged to relax, in an archive lounge, and browse a collection of his video works at leisure. Or lie back underneath Laser Cone (1998) and be dazzled.
Different Strokes: A Report from Abandon Normal Devices 2010
The latest edition of Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival has jumped across the Northwest UK from Liverpool, where it debuted last year to Manchester. In its second major urban manifestation, after a small rural retreat in the Peak District, the festival followed its previous format and presented exhibitions, performances, cinema screening, talks and workshops across cultural venues in the city. Seeking to agitate, AND's theme of questioning normality in various forms was represented in Manchester with a focus on identity.


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We really, really have to demand the FDA reforms! Knowingly, for years it's been pushing mercury laden high fructose corn syrup on kids. E.g., HEINZ ketchup--I sadly won't use any ketchup if I'm out...blech, I remember the years as a kid I regarded french fries merely as a vehicle for ketchup.
This is from a different writer on the Huffpo:
Until now, parents of children with autism who have spoken up about their fears that their child's disorder came on the heels of vaccination have been given the status of heretic. But it turns out that the increase in autism we have been witnessing over the last few decades could also be a result of the over-all increase in the body burden caused by mercury in our air and water, and by proxy the fish we eat, our vaccines and dental fillings, and now, in our high fructose corn syrup, a substance marketed and consumed most often by those most at risk: children.


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Does anyone else get annoyed with retail stores stocking Christmas stuff so early?
Normally that bugs the heck out of me. I guess it still does, let us have Thanksgiving
first, please. Even though I think it's ridiculous how early stores start pushing the
Holiday frenzy on us, I have to say that I'm ready for it this year. I've sort of
embraced the way, way too early mentality and sort of want to find an excuse to put up
Christmas lights. I won't do it now, don't worry. The moment Thanksgiving is over,
though, don't be surprised if I've got holiday boxes full of crap unloaded all over my
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See, I already bought some ornaments. These ones from Muji were irresistible. I think
I just want to keep it simple and very traditional, nothing crazy. Has anyone else out there given this any thought?
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i totally agree! its so easy to get into the holiday mood with it staring you in the face everywhere you turn! the only "christmas" thing i allow before is christmas music... i LOVE it! i hold out for as long a possible and then WHAM i embrace with open arms... usually a couple weeks before christmas! :DReplyDelete
Well thanks! I have just bought my FIRST Christmas present of the year!ReplyDelete
those ornaments are way too cute! i definitely am guilty of thinking of christmas way too early...but i also have a two week phase in the middle of december where i don't really remember that it's december (finals).ReplyDelete
Lovely ornaments. I stock up on pressies for the kiddos throughout the year and then hide them all away until early December when the Christmas spirit is in full swing. I so look forward to decorating for Christmas, but definitely not before 2 week in December. The tree is my fav thing and I never want to take it down.ReplyDelete
i used to have all sorts of breakable things on the tree and after i had my son ... well, let's just say they're kid friendly! i love these, though! really simple, kid friendly and festive!ReplyDelete
Here in South Africa the chrismas things were out in the shops at the start of August. Totally ridiculous! Especially since we are going through a recession and people should not be spending money at all. I wouldn't be surprised if the easter decorations come out right after christmas day...ReplyDelete
I'm super ready, come on Thanksgiving!ReplyDelete
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I can't stand that either- especially when stores take away costumes and candy bags BEFORE Halloween in order to put up fake plastic trees (as you may have guessed, I got rather rankled this past October!). My only retaliation is not to buy anything before then, and I also try to buy as much as I can from local shops who need the business more, and who don't usually start stocking their holiday jazz until at least November!ReplyDelete
I have also gone over to the dark side of decorating to early this year... Those ornaments are adorable!ReplyDelete
i've yet to accumulate a lot of holiday crap just yet. i actually have to buy some ornaments or my tree will be naked. these are freaking adorable.ReplyDelete
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Village of Lewiston Mayor Terry Collesano recently issued a proclamation designating Aug. 10-11 as the "Art of Green Weekend." The announcement comes in support of efforts by the Lewiston Council on the Arts to institute a number of "green" initiatives during the Lewiston Art Festival.
Collesano called upon the people and businesses of Lewiston to recognize and participate in this special observance and encouraged everyone to recycle, compost and use recycled materials to decrease the impact of the Art Festival on the local environment. LCA "Green Partners" include Artpark & Co. and Modern Recycling.
Pictured from left are Fran Giles (Modern Recycling), Irene Rykaszewski (LCA executive director), Mayor Terry Collesano, Eva Nicklas (LCA artistic director) and Tim Henderson (LCA staff ).


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Global Compact - Business Unusual: Facilitating United Nations Reform Through Partnerships
The report explores how partnerships with business act as a catalyst for reform and institutional innovation throughout the UN organization by infusing private sector management practices and performance-based thinking. "Business UNusual" concludes that partnerships have an increasingly important role to play as a complementary approach to the conventional instruments of international cooperation and development.
Global Compact – Towards Responsible Lobbying: Leadership and Public Policy
Regional Commissions Development Update Newsletter
"This newsletter, produced by the Regional Commissions New York Office, gives a regional perspective to the implementation strategy of the Millennium Development Goals, as well as of the Monterrey Consensus on financing for development. Also highlighted is the regional follow-up to the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva, leading up to the Tunis Summit in November 2005."
United Nations Geographical Information Working Group (UNGIWG) – new website
United Nations Millennium Development Goals – new website
English: http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
French: http://www.un.org/french/millenniumgoals/
Spanish: http://www.un.org/spanish/millenniumgoals/
United Nations Protocol and Liaison Service – new website http://missions.un.int/protocol/
United Nations Reform
UN Reform Dossier: 1997 – 2005: http://www.un.org/reform/dossier.html
Status of UN Management Reforms as at 5 September 2005: http://www.un.org/reform/reform_update.html
United Nations System Calendar of Media Events
This calendar provides brief descriptions of launches of major United Nations reports, conferences and meetings, and special events at United Nations Headquarters and in locations around the world. Contact information for the media is also included for each entry in the calendar, maintained by the United Nations Communications Group.
World Summit – Related Reports produced by UN Agencies
World Trade Organization (WTO) – Documents online
"This database provides access to the official documentation of the World Trade Organization, including the legal texts of the WTO agreements. The database contains WTO documentation from 1995 onwards and is updated daily. It also contains selected material for the period 1986-1994, principally Uruguay Round documents and a small number of GATT documents. There are currently over 100,000 documents in the database in the three official languages of the WTO."
Third report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team appointed pursuant to resolution 1526 (2004) concerning Al-Qaida and the Taliban and associated individuals and entities (S/2005/572, 9 September 2005)
English, French and Spanish: http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=S/2005/572
Crime and Development in Africa (UNODC)
Decent Work - Safe Work, ILO Introductory Report to the XVIIth World Congress on Safety and Health at Work (ILO)
Economic and Social Development – UN website has been redesigned
English: http://www.un.org/esa/
French: http://www.un.org/french/esa/index.html
Spanish: http://www.un.org/french/esa/index.html
Global Financial Stability Report: Market Developments and Issues (IMF)
Health and the Millennium Development Goals report (WHO Report)
English: http://www.who.int/mdg/publications/MDG_Report_08_2005.pdf
French: http://www.who.int/mdg/publications/Report_du_omd.pdf
Investing in the Children of the Islamic World (UNICEF)
Progress of the World's Women 2005: Women, Work & Poverty (UNIFEM report)
Report on the World Social Situation 2005: The Inequality Predicament
Media kit: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/rwss/media%2005/cd-docs/media.htm
World Economic Outlook: Building Institutions (IMF)
World Resources 2005: The Wealth of the Poor: Managing Ecosystems to Fight Poverty
This is the 11th in a series of biennial reports on global environment and governance issues published since 1984. This particular report's focus is on poverty issues follows upon conclusions from the previous two reports – the first was about ecosystems and the second was about governance. Since 1996, the series has been published jointly by The World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the World Resources Institute.The Press Release is also available online in Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, French, Dutch and Norwegian.
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Bob Sheppard, 1910-2010
Bob Sheppard, whose voice was so synonymous with Yankee Stadium that many of us who had heard him since our youths still hear him in the background of our dreams, has died at the age of 99.
It turned out Bob had actually been hired by Red Patterson, the Yankees' public relations director of the time.
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What a huge loss for the baseball community. My deepest condolences to his friends and family. Thank you for sharing this with us, Keith.
So very sad for his loss…it's seems that we are losing so many of our greats and I just don't see anyone really being able to fill their shoes. TY for sharing,Keith…we look forward to more of your memories. Mom_with2boys
A friend of mine once worked with him for a day (I think he was doing a guest spot on that Paul Reiser sitcom) and he got Mr. Sheppard to record a batting announcement for me. He announced me as the starting Cleveland Indians Centerfielder and he gave me Mickey Mantle's number. And I got the double #7. One of the happiest moments of my baseball life. And something that Mr. Sheppard did for probably thousands of people over the years.
What a loss…
Really sad news. Thanks for the post, Keith.
I'm sorry to hear this news. It was a blow to me when Harry Kalas, the Phillies play-by-play man for almost 4 decades, died last year … and I was only a fan, not a friend. I cannot imagine how much worse you must feel.
We knew this day was coming but it is still sad, It was 9 years ago today My Mom passed away so this just makes this date that much sadder for me
Thank you for the excellent thoughts, Keith. Look forward to reading more.
The D-Backs radio guy, Greg Schulte just called his 2000 game yesterday. He was awarded with a bobblehead day. I wonder with a career as long as his, how many games games did Mr. Sheppard have under his belt? Anyone? Keith?
"Now entering Heaven… Public Address Announcer… Bob Sheppard-d-d-d… Public Address Announcer." RIP, Mr. Sheppard.
Thank you for this, Keith. As I mentioned elsewhere, most of us can only hope to have a positive impact on the world we leave behind, and to live on in so many memories.
Keith, those of us who are new to the sport are counting on you and others to keep history alive, that we might enjoy what we've been missing.
As always, thank you for sharing your thoughts with us.
Lovely tribute, Keith. I also think Derek Jeter deserves a special kudo for his love of history for having a recording of Bob Sheppard played to introduce him–and I hope that continues.
I am not sure when Tex Rickard started at Ebbets Field, but he was the opposite of Sheppard. Sheppard embodied the dignity for which the Yankee franchise was supposed to stand. Rickard was as wacky as the stadium where he worked and the fans who were in it. I also would like to say a nice word for John Ramsey, who did the Dodgers, Rams, Lakers, and college football around LA for many years–like Sheppard, dignified. I can't stand the PA men and women who try to whip up the crowd.
Finally, we mourn, but here was a man, from all reports just a lovely man, who lived a long and almost completely healthy life, doing what he loved to do. We mourn our loss.
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Sheppard embodied the dignity for which the Yankee franchise was supposed to stand. Rickard was as wacky as the stadium where he worked and the fans who were in it. I also would like to say a nice word for John Ramsey, who did the Dodgers, Rams, Lakers, and college football around LA for many years–like Sheppard, dignified.
i actually think Ramsey, not Sheppard, invented announcing batters all the way through the game, because fans in LA were used to this being done in the minor leagues. Certainly Sheppard wasn't doing it in 1956 when Larson's perfect game was pitched– you don't hear any announcements other than changes on the telecast.


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The Wolfson High School student was shot and killed the day after Thanksgiving at a Southside gas station during an argument with man over loud music. Police have charged Michael Dunn with murder in the case.
"You have to do something positive," said Ron Davis, Jordan's father. "That's the only way that you're going to get with your grief and really heal."
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"Every single day there is some kid killed and they are out, just trying to be a child and have a good time. It becomes a dangerous community and a dangerous America. We need to stop that," said Davis.
Congresswoman Corrine Brown was among the local leaders in attendance. That support let's Ron Davis know he is doing the right thing.
"I could sit at home and be angry about what happened to Jordan, but that is not going to help anyone in the community," said Davis.
Last weekend in Miami, Davis had the chance to meet the parents of Trayvon Martin for the first time at a similar rally held for the 17-year-old shot and killed by George Zimmerman last year in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman is scheduled to go on trial in June.
Davis said he and Martin's father have a lot in common.
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The event honoring Jordan Davis was open to the public from 1 pm to 5 pm at The Landing. His mother and father said they will continue to honor and celebrate their son, in hopes of bringing the community together for positive change, a change they say Davis would be proud of.


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Risks of Fraud and Misinformation with ObamaCare Outreach Campaign: How Navigator and Assister Program Mismanagement Endangers Consumers
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare, requires states to establish "Navigators" to conduct outreach about the law, provide fair and impartial information to consumers, and facilitate enrollment in new health insurance
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare, requires states to establish "Navigators" to conduct outreach about the law, provide fair and impartial information to consumers, and facilitate enrollment in new health insurance exchanges and state Medicaid programs. However, ObamaCare explicitly prohibited states from using federal exchange establishment grants to fund Navigator organizations; instead ObamaCare required that Navigators receive funding from a state exchange's operational funds. When several states objected to financing Navigators with state revenue, the Administration created a twin program called In-Person Assisters (Assisters) in states with state-based exchanges, effectively circumventing the statutory restriction on using federal exchange establishment grants to fund the Navigator program. This year alone, the Administration will provide several hundred million dollars of unauthorized taxpayer funds to Assister organizations.
The Administration's improper creation and funding of the Assisters program as a "de facto" Navigator program is just one of many concerns regarding Navigators and Assisters. First, the Administration has failed to create adequate training standards for Navigators and Assisters, even though the Administration assumes most Navigators will lack prior knowledge of ObamaCare or health insurance markets. The training program for Navigators and Assisters states that it will only provide "approximately five to 20 hours of training," down considerably from HHS's previous estimate that it would take 20 to 30 hours to complete the online training. Although individuals employed by Navigator or Assister organizations must pass exams, the exams are conducted online and individuals may attempt the exams an unlimited number of times.
Second, allowing organizations that receive Navigator and Assister funding to pay their employees based on the number of individuals they enroll creates an incentive for those employees to provide biased or incomplete information about ObamaCare to maximize enrollment. Third, despite the statutory requirement that Navigators and Assisters be free of conflicts of interest, the Administration has decided that individuals employed by Navigator and Assister organizations will not have to disclose that they are paid per enrollee to individuals with whom they interact. Fourth, neither Congress nor an independent entity reviewed the training materials for Navigators and Assisters, despite the statutory requirement that Navigators provide "fair and impartial information." Moreover, the incentives that encourage Navigators and Assisters to maximize enrollment raise the risk of massive fraudulent spending on Medicaid and exchange subsidies for individuals who do not meet eligibility requirements.
Although the structure of the Navigator and Assister programs could potentially lead to consumers receiving incomplete and inaccurate information about the law, the main concern for consumers is the heightened risk of identity theft and financial loss from a poorly managed outreach campaign. Navigators and Assisters will come into contact with a plethora of personally identifiable information (PII), including an applicant's Social Security number, date of birth and income, as well as the PII of everyone in an applicant's household. Some of the training received by Navigators and Assisters will be related to consumer protection and privacy standards, but substantial risks remain. In part, substantial risks remain because the Administration decided not to require background checks and fingerprinting of individuals hired by Navigator and Assister organizations. Under the Administration's plan, unless states have already taken actions to protect their citizens, Navigators and Assisters are not prohibited from hiring convicted felons, including individuals convicted of identity theft or fraud. State efforts to protect citizens from the fraud and identity theft risks posed by Navigators and Assisters have largely been stymied by the Health and Human Service Department's (HHS) delay in releasing regulations and guidance about the Administration's planned outreach campaign for ObamaCare.
In addition to the risks associated with an insufficient training program and the lack of background checks, there are already numerous reports of scam artists posing as Navigators and Assisters to take advantage of people's confusion about ObamaCare. According to recent news reports, scam artists are calling individuals and asking for information to sign them up for their "ObamaCare card," are asking seniors for their personal information to verify their Medicare and Social Security status and are going door-to-door threatening people with prison time if they do not sign up on the spot. The Administration is keenly aware of these reports and concerns, but has thus far failed to take appropriate measures. For example, both Gary Cohen, the Director for the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight at HHS, and Vicki Gottlich, the HHS official in charge of the day-to-day development of the Navigator and Assister programs until June 2013, testified that direct solicitation was inappropriate, yet the Administration has not clarified which Navigator and Assister marketing practices are allowed and which are prohibited.
The Committee has also learned that senior HHS officials raised concerns about the government's inability to authenticate individuals operating as Navigators and Assisters in May 2013. In response to this concern, HHS considered creating a list of certified Navigators and Assisters for consumers to use as a resource. However, HHS decided against the creation of such a list, and Ms. Gottlich testified that consumers will have no reliable way to learn the identity and association of individuals offering to assist them with enrolling in ObamaCare. The failure of the Administration to provide clarity about prohibited marketing and solicitation techniques and to provide consumers with a list of authenticated Navigators and Assisters substantially increases the number of Americans likely to fail prey to fraud and identity theft.


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Global Religious Freedom Law is Ineffective, Panel Says
A representative from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom testified before the House on global religious liberty.
WASHINGTON — Speaking before a congressional subcommittee, religious liberty experts warned that a U.S. law passed 15 years ago to promote international religious freedom needs stronger enforcement.
"This hearing is important because religious freedom is important: it is a pivotal human right that is both central to U.S. history and heritage and affirmed by international treaties and obligations," said Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett.
"This hearing also is both important and timely given that religious freedom also is a practical necessity crucial to both the security of the U.S. and the world."
Lantos Swett, who chairs the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom — an independent, bipartisan group that advises the government on global religious liberty matters — testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security on June 13.
She and other witnesses discussed the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, which enshrined within U.S. foreign policy a commitment to condemn violations of religious liberty and assist other nations in promoting of religious freedom.
Witnesses argued that the law has been largely ineffective. They noted that the June 13 event marked the first hearing on the implementation of the law since it was passed.
Also discussed was the absence of Suzan Johnson Cook, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. Although she had been invited and confirmed her availability, the State Department declined to make the ambassador available, citing a policy forbidding department employees from sitting on panels with members of non-governmental organizations.
However, the subcommittee's chairman, Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, argued that high-ranking State Department officials, including Ambassador Johnson Cook, have sat on Congressional and private panels with non-governmental representatives on numerous occasions.
Thomas Farr, director of the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, said that bureaucratic restraints prevent the ambassador from enacting significant policy changes.
He observed that the Ambassador for International Religious Freedom reports to a lower-ranking official and does not attend high-level State Department meetings.
Farr pointed to studies showing that "75% of the world's population lives in countries where religious freedom is severely restricted."
Although the promotion of religious freedom reflects our country's principles and promotes our national interests — including U.S. security — it has not been a high priority for any of the recent presidential administrations, he said, pointing to a lack of evidence that efforts under the International Religious Freedom Act "have substantially improved the status of religious freedom in any country."
He criticized structural deficiencies including a lack of diplomat training about why religious freedom is important and how to advance it.
In addition, he noted a "diminution of religious freedom" within the U.S. government, saying that while historically, "religion in the public square was considered crucial for the health of democracy," recent administrations have seen "religious freedom as a private matter, with few legitimate public purposes."
Causes such as the "right to love" have received more attention and concrete action from the administration than religious freedom, which is largely respected in only rhetoric, he said.
Mahmood Ahmad, assistant national director of public affairs for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA, said the connection between religious freedom and global peace and security is underappreciated. He noted that "terrorists are often brainwashed into thinking that their acts have a religious purpose," leading to severe human rights abuses around the globe.
Emphasizing the need to prioritize religious freedom in countries with persecution, Ahmad urged the State Department to empower the Ambassador for International Religious Freedom to enact changes based on department reports.
Panel members also called for an increased focus on religious freedom at the international level, through agencies such as the United Nations.
In addition, they stressed the need for institutional changes within the State Department, such as harsher sanction on countries that disrespect religious freedom, support for religious liberty advocates abroad and the reinstatement of a Special Advisor on International Religious Freedom to the National Security Council.


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This paper presents a case study comparing the hardware description language "Constructing Hardware in a Scala Embedded Language"(Chisel) to VHDL. For a thorough comparison the Heston Model was implemented, a stochastic model used in financial mathematics to calculate option prices. Metrics like hardware utilization and maximum clock rate were extracted from both resulting designs and compared to each other. The results showed a 30% reduction in code size compared to VHDL, while the resulting circuits had about the same hardware utilization. Using Chisel however proofed to be difficult because of a few features that were not available for this case study.
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Attorneys representing 26 states – with Florida taking the lead – locked horns with the Obama administration in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit over the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).Florida, 25 other states and the National Federation of Independent Business claim that the "individual mandate" violates the Constitution's Commerce Clause by requiring that Americans buy healthcare insurance or pay a penalty.
Arguing for the Obama administration was acting Solicitor General, Neal Katyal, who said "People are seeking this good already in untold numbers. The good of healthcare. It's purely financing. It's about failure to pay. Not about failure to buy." Katyal pointed out that the 50 million Americans who currently lack healthcare insurance too often end up in emergency rooms for medical treatment, driving up costs. Defending the law, Katyal emphasized the special nature of healthcare and the insurance market today. He said billions of dollars incurred by people without insurance are passed on to people who carry insurance. Arguing for the states, attorney Paul Clement conceded that the government can enact laws that people acquire healthcare insurance, but not until they need medical care. Prior to that, "they're not engaged in commerce. They're sitting in their living rooms," Clement said.
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One of the appellate judges asked Katyal if there are there any limits on Congress's power to compel people to act. "Absolutely," Katyal replied. "We are not saying that Congress can force somebody to buy something and that failure to do so is economic activity. People are seeking that good already," he said. Katyal said $43 billion is spent annually on care for the uninsured. "That's quintessentially economic," he said. Clement argued that the crux of the issue is whether the federal government can regulate individuals. "For 220 years, Congress never saw fit to exercise that power," he said. "The whole reason we do this is to protect individual liberty." According to Clement, the Commerce Clause regulates people engaged in commercial activity and does not force them to engage.
Writing in The New Republic, Jonathan Cohn is reluctant to say how he thinks the court will rule. "I didn't hear the entire oral argument, which C-Span helpfully broadcast. (Note to the federal judiciary: There's this thing called the internet and it can transmit audio files.) But I, too, came away genuinely uncertain how the court will rule. The judges seemed a lot more ornery during the questioning of Katyal than they did during the questioning of Paul Clement, the former solicitor general arguing on behalf of the states filing the lawsuit. But the actual substance of those questions – and some side comments that the judges made – suggested they were ready to reject essential pieces of the legal challenge. Particularly striking were a series of comments from Frank Hull, in which she (yes, Frank is a 'she') stated repeatedly that she did not agree with the 'activity-inactivity' distinction opponents of the law have made. As those of you following this case know, that's really the heart of their argument: They say the decision not to buy insurance is a form of 'inactivity,' which means the government may not regulate it. Supporters of the law, including the government, disagree. And Hull seemed to side with them, saying (roughly, given my sketchy notes): 'When I decide I would rather spend my money differently…that I would rather buy this product than pay for health insurance…that's an economic decision…How can that be anything other than an economic decision?'"


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