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This publication gives the Council's position statements on the following issues: Transportation; Individual and Family Support; Education; Medicaid; Consumer Driven Managed Care; Justice/Legal System; Supported Living Recommendations; Employment. Statements are reviewed and approved by full membership, and guided by the council's mission and the DD Act.
The Governor's Council, when appropriate, develop position statements of principal which provide direction to and the value-base for the Council's public policy work. Council position statements are used internally to guide decisions on requests for funding and support for legislative and program proposals and externally to ensure that Council members and staff speaking on behalf of the body are able to consistently represent the same view. These statements are reviewed and approved by the full membership, guided by the Council's mission and the DD Act.
Freedom of movement is a fundamental right in our society. It is an essential component of any effort to enable citizens to live independently; to engage in productive self-sustaining activity; and, most importantly, to be fully integrated within their communities. All components of a transportation system must meet the needs of citizens in an accessible and affordable manner. However, the right to freedom of movement related to transportation, remains a largely unfulfilled promise for citizens with disabilities for the following reasons:
1) Many people with disabilities are not able to provide independent mobility for themselves. According to the GPCPD' s 1990 report a majority of adults with disabilities continue to rely primarily on their parent's car for transportation.
2) Public transportation systems are under funded and have not been designed or built to include people with disabilities. This is a even greater problem in rural areas and smaller communities where public transportation is lacking or extremely limited.
3) Current federal and state policy does not promote the coordination of publicly funded transportation services provided by not for profit organizations to maximize resources for transportation for people with and without disabilities. (i.e. 16b-2 programs funded vehicles)
4) Paratransit services often do not meet the identified needs of people with disabilities and promote segregation.
Therefore, it is the policy of the Governors Planning Council for People With Disabilities that all people with disabilities, including those in rural areas, should have access to affordable transportation services that enable them to travel to any destination of their choice. To attain this goal, we believe that:
1) All publicly funded or publicly regulated transportation services must be in full compliance with the ADA as soon as possible and must be architecturally, physically (mechanically) and programmatically accessable to people with disabilities.
2) Government at all levels should develop and provide stable funding for accessible and affordable transportation options, including paratransit, for people with disabilities and others who are dependent on public transportation.
3) Federal, State, and local transportation authorities and providers should adopt policies which address barriers and promote the coordination of publicly funded transportation services particularly in rural communities.
4) Local transportation authorities, through consultation with knowledgeable consumer groups, must provide education to transit personnel to sensitize them to the transportation needs of people with disabilities, as well as "user-side training" for people with disabilities.
Adopted by the Governor's Planning Council for People with Disabilities on October 20, 1992
The American family is diverse and changing resulting in an increasing need for individual and family supports that are flexible and responsive. People with disabilities and families of individuals with disabilities are often faced with extraordinary physical, economic and emotional challenges that may necessitate the provision of supports and resources in order to promote their independence, productivity and full participation in all aspects of community life. However these supports and resources are often not available and those that are not always appropriate for the following reasons:
1) Many current services have been designed and evaluated in isolation of the opinions and choices of people with disabilities and families and too often do not look at the needs of the family as a unit.
2) Existing state programs have not always been adequate to provide supports that help keep people at home and out of institutional placements.
3) Typically families and individuals do not have adequate information on how to access services and have not benefited from fragmented efforts to conduct research, and training.
4) Supports that are available are not found in all areas of the state and are not often coordinated with other resources and generic community services.
Therefore it is the policy of the Governor's Planning Council for People With Disabilities that people with disabilities and families have access to a comprehensive coordinated system of supports that advances the principles of choice and self determination. To achieve this goal we believe that:
1) Individual and family supports must be provided, designed and evaluated based on the needs and choices of individuals and families. Further, these supports must be made available in a way that respects the right to maintain family relationships both when the member with a disability is living at home and when the member is an adult who lives or wants to live independently.
2) Support services including cash subsidies must be made available to individuals with disabilities and families to prevent institutional placement resulting from financial or caregiving stress.
3) Information and training must be provided to empower individuals and families to access needed supports. Efforts to conduct comprehensive research, training and staff development in individualized support services must be increased.
4) A comprehensive, coordinated system of supports must be established in all areas of the state. The system should avoid duplication of services; use existing resources and generic services more efficiently and preventing gaps in services.
Adopted by the Governor's Planning Council for People with Disabilities on February 16, 1993
For students with disabilities, as with all students, the quality of their experiences in school is a crucial component in achieving outcomes of independence, integration and productivity. Currently best practice calls for the education of students in integrated settings in their neighborhood schools. Federal law mandates that the educational system serve students in response to their individual educational needs in the least restrictive environment. However, students with disabilities often leave school without the skills, experiences and supports they need to live, learn, work and play as valued citizens in their communities for the following reasons:
1) Although separate special education facilities and self-contained classrooms continue to be phased out, many students with disabilities still receive their education within such environments. Some schools are moving towards inclusion, but most general education programs in neighborhood schools are not yet programmatically accessible to all students with disabilities.
2) Personnel preparation programs at the university level lack appropriate and adequate curriculum addressing the full spectrum of integrated/inclusionary educational support services as well as quality training in specialized disability areas. There also exists a significant lack of access to ongoing in-service training for current teachers and support personnel.
3) Special education services and needed supports are not always adequate and not always provided in the regular classroom due to inadequately written Individualized Education Plans (I.E.P.),lack of commitment at the administrative level and funding barriers.
4) Schools, and local vocational rehabilitation agencies need to improve their capacity to foster and connect with necessary specialized and generic community support systems. These systems are needed for the successful transition of students with disabilities to further education or training opportunities or to job placement and community living.
Therefore, it is the policy of the GPCPD that integration and inclusion be an intrinsic value and underlying philosophy by which we educate all students within their neighborhood schools. Furthermore there should be adequate funding and resources for personal and services to provide a free and appropriate education. To achieve this goal we believe that:
1) Information and awareness regarding the concepts and values of inclusion and integration need to be provided to the community-at-large. Further, as these concepts are introduced into a school district, there must a coordinated effort involving all parents, students, regular and special education teachers, assistive personnel, administrators and school board members in a partnership for educational policymaking and planning.
2) Conceptually, a three-pronged approach should be implemented to achieve successful inclusion and integration for regular and special education students. First, university programs need to restructure regular and special education curriculum into one system and provide quality training in the various specialized disability areas. Second, local school districts need to provide access to on-going in-service training to generate receptivity and to nurture continuing support of inclusionary programming for all teachers and relevant personnel. Third, teacher certification and licensing needs to be restructured to ensure that all educators are well prepared to constructively work with a wide range of students.
3) Special Education services and supports in each child's I.E.P. should provide for accommodations including assistive devices, augmentative communication systems and current technology as needed, as well as speech, occupational and physical therapy beginning in the pre-school years. In addition, any consultations, services, or supports needed to meet the emotional, social or learning needs of each student should be brought into the general education environment. Positive administrative decisions can be encouraged by examples of successful implementation at the local level. The removal of funding barriers will necessitate effective collaboration between federal, state and local agencies/organizations.
4) A post school outcome of a valued lifestyle in the community requires having high expectations for each students ability to learn and for their eventual participation in adult society. For students with disabilities to reach their maximum potential as adults, effective inter- and intra-agency collaboration is required. Transition planning should begin early and should connect young adults with disabilities to appropriate adult and community services and supports and necessary follow along to assure that students leave school with a job or plans for further education, a place to live and a network of friends. Students leaving school should be tracked to determine post school outcomes.
Adopted by the Governor's Planning Council for People with Disabilities on October 26, 1993
Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that is the major source of funding for services and supports to adults and children with very low incomes. Medicaid now provides health, rehabilitation, and long term care services to 4.9 million people with disabilities including 66,181 thousand Hoosiers (1994). In most cases, Medicaid is the only source of health care and long term care available for adults and children with disabilities who cannot pay for what they need. This investment in children and adults is necessary to ensure that they receive the supports they need to maintain independence and reach their full potential. Medicaid is essential health care to millions of adults and children with disabilities on SSI. The current proposals to cut Medicaid under consideration by Congress would disproportionately affect people with disabilities in the following manner:
1) A Cap on Federal Funding Growth: A cap on program growth would force the states to bear the full risk of any costs beyond the capped amount. This would lead to pressure to restrict eligibility, cut services, and reduce quality, which would affect both long-term and acute care.
2) Block Grants: If funds are block granted without specific federal guidelines and protections, states will be allowed to pick and choose how to spend the funds. This could lead to the neglect of the needs of people with disabilities.
3) Elimination of Entitlement to Services: If Medicaid is no longer an entitlement, many people will lose access to services and supports. Lack of support would result in unreasonable burdens on families, cause health and other problems, and lead to inappropriate institutionalization. Elimination of entitlement would result in rationing of available dollars and a rise in private insurance costs because of uncompensated care. Waiver programs that provide in-home services to people who would otherwise be institutionalized would be eliminated, which would decrease financial support for community based services.
Medicaid funds comprise 40% of all federal aid to the states and are the largest source of state and federal funding for services and supports to adults and children with disabilities. Therefore, changes to the Medicaid system should be made only after careful consideration of the impact that such changes will have on people with disabilities who depend on Medicaid for essential health and long term care services. Any modifications in the Medicaid program should achieve the following goals:
1) Oppose a cap on federal growth and encourage more effective strategies to reduce costs.
2) If block grants are considered, maintain guidelines and protections for people with disabilities at the state and federal level to assure standards for quality and consumer protection and allow maximum use of dollars that are directly allocated for people with disabilities by eliminating unnecessary paperwork, regulatory and administrative requirements.
3) Maintain the entitlement for people with disabilities who have no other financial support for health and long-term care.
4) Empower people and their families to make choices regarding ongoing support strategies, including such mechanisms as person-centered planning, vouchers, performance based contracting linked to consumer defined outcomes, etc.
5) Expand services by eliminating policies that prevent or discourage shifting dollars toward home and community based services and emphasizing the development and use of informal support structures so that public dollars can be used to pay for only the essential components of an individual's personal support plan.
6) Reduce the number of individuals served in institutions and other congregate care facilities through developing community capacity to provide home and community based supports to prevent future admissions to such facilities and expand options such as assisted living, and Medicaid Waivers.
7) Promote self-reliance and self-sufficiency by providing the supports needed for people with disabilities to participate fully as valued members of their communities.
8) Encourage local governments and non-governmental entities to assume greater responsibility for making citizens with disabilities an integral part of the community and for determining how decreasing public funds can be used most effectively.
9) Explore the ability of a national health care plan to reduce or eliminate the need for Medicaid and as a means for saving money while providing better care than is currently possible under Medicaid.
10) Study the fiscal impact of raising the income eligibility level for Indiana's Medicaid program and other strategies to assist low income working families and to reduce institutional costs and expand services through the provision of Medicaid funded home health care to many who now rely on CHOICE, in-home services, Older Americans Act and Social Service Block Grant funds.
Adopted by the Governor's Planning Council for People with Disabilities on August 1, 1995
America is in the midst of significant changes in the health care system. According to the Families USA report "HMO Consumers at Risk", an estimated 58 million Americans are enrolled in health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and another 81 million in other types of managed care. From 1976 to 1995 enrollment in HMOs has risen by ten fold. It is roughly estimated that 80 billion dollars a year are at stake in the competitive market of health care. These statistics show the stark reality that managed care is fast becoming the wave of the future in America.
Managed care has the potential to become synonymous with patient centered care, a flexible network of services that is based on quality and is responsive to the patient=s needs. Consumer satisfaction must be a paramount consideration if managed care systems are to live up to the goal of cost effectiveness and efficiency. Managed care will neither be cost effective or efficient if the consumer does not receive appropriate quality care in a timely manner. It is only through the consumer that outcomes related to quality and effectiveness can be measured.
People with disabilities are a small but significant sub-population of health care consumers. Managed care systems can provide an effective means of delivering services to people with disabilities if they are flexible and structured to accommodate the specific needs of each individual. Many people with disabilities have complex health care needs that require care coordination by a primary care physician and the utilization of specialist physicians. The test of an effective system is how well it serves people with disabilities and chronic conditions.
The Governor's Planning Council recognizes that managed care will be played out at the state level. This affords the Council a unique opportunity to have a strong voice in the process. Traditionally managed care providers have not served people with disabilities, which further illustrates the need for the Council and disability advocates to insure that the design of the managed care system will be based on a set of values that encompasses the following principles:
1) Consumer Participation: All stake holders including individuals with disabilities, family members, support agencies, providers, and advocates must be provided with the opportunity to assist with the design, implementation and oversight of the operation of the managed care system and plan.
2) Consumer Choice: Managed care systems/plans must provide enrollees with a choice of plans or offer affordable point of service options. However, in the event a point of service option is unavailable managed care plans have the responsibility to provide appropriate care or pay for an out of network referral if the managed care plan cannot provide a service.
Managed care systems/plans must offer people with severe disabilities and special health care needs the option of having a specialist as their Agate keeper in the system. This specialist would provide both necessary specialized services, at the specialized rate, and primary care services, at the lower primary care reimbursement rate.
3) Appropriate Definition of Medical Necessity: For individuals with disabilities, the term Amedical necessity must be defined in the broadest manner possible to ensure access to all appropriate services and supports that can enable a person with a disability to function in the community as independently as possible. The definition of medical necessity should encompass slowing deterioration and maintaining current status as well as improving or restoring functioning.
4) Fair Financing Mechanisms: Financing mechanisms should not allow cost controls to directly or indirectly constrain access to appropriate services.
5) Appropriate Services and Benefits Available: Managed care systems/plans must offer a comprehensive benefits package that meets the needs of people with disabilities and chronic conditions. This includes such basic benefits as prescription drugs, preventive and rehabilitation services, durable medical equipment, orthotics and prosthetics, and mental health services.
6) Access to Speciality Care: Consumers must be able to maintain continuity of care with their existing specialists.
Managed care systems/plans must provide for access to and the effective coordination of specialized services with other systems/supports on which people with disabilities rely.
Consumers and their family members should retain the responsibility of overseeing the provision of long term care supports i.e. community based daily living, bathing eating, transportation, attendant care etc.
7) Consumer Protection: Managed care systems/plans must not be permitted to dis-enroll any managed care enrollee/recipient regardless of the reason.
Managed care systems/plans must comply with the protections offered by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and other civil rights statutes.
Managed care systems/plans must provide access to independent organizations that provide ombudsman and rights protection service.
Managed care systems/plans must provide participants with clear information on policies, procedures, grievance mechanisms and appeals and must ensure consumer participation in the establishment of such procedures.
Grievance procedures must contain a provision on time frames for appeals decisions including expedited review of determinations regarding urgent and emergency care.
Managed care systems/plans that utilize provider risk sharing arrangements or other incentive related to utilization of services must have established mechanisms in place for monitoring quality of care.
Managed care systems/plans must include the option for participants to dis-enroll if they are not receiving adequate and timely services.
Managed care systems/plans must be required to collect and report a uniform set of data that allows public officials and consumers to evaluate and compare performance, including longitudinal data to measure outcomes for people with disabilities.
Managed care systems/plans must be prohibited from engaging in any marketing practices that mislead, confuse, or defraud, that are unfair or deceptive practices, or that otherwise violate federal or state consumer protection laws or regulations.
8) Consumer Education: Managed care systems/plans must disclose in a clear and easily understood manner to enrollees and prospective enrollees the plans=s policy with regard to withholds, privileges, denials of payments, and any other mechanisms with a utilization/financial incentive link.
Adopted by the Governor's Planning Council for People with Disabilities on October 15, 1996
People with disabilities may encounter the justice system as plaintiffs, defendants, victims, witnesses, prisoners, probationers and parolees. In addition people with disabilities may serve as jurors or be employed as lawyers, judges or other court officials. People with disabilities experience greater problems with the justice system than others as a result of many factors. These factors can include; general discrimination, lack of knowledge about the effects of disability, lack of sensitivity to the need for accommodations and supports; insufficient legal representation, unreliable assessments of legal competency, inadequate continuity of care requirements and the lack of adequate community services and supports to avoid involvement with the criminal justice system. Population studies of people in prisons show the presence of a disproportionate number of people with disabilities many of whom are also from ethnic minority backgrounds. As a result, people with disabilities who encounter the civil, criminal and juvenile justice systems may experience problems for the following reasons:
1) Protections under the ADA and section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act are not always recognized and extended to the legal justice system.
2) Due process can be compromised by the lack of knowledge about disability and reasonable accommodations on the part of the legal justice system.
3) People with disabilities who encounter the justice system are often not aware of their rights and responsibilities, do not have adequate legal representation and are not provided with the supports they need to understand and act on those rights.
4) People with cognitive impairments and mental illness are especially vulnerable to a miscarriage of justice related to inappropriate assessment of competency and inadequate supports to insure their full understanding of the situation and charges.
5) People with disabilities who serve as jurors, judges, lawyers, and other court officials may not have access to appropriate accommodations to fulfill their roles.
The Governor's Planning Council believes that people with disabilities share with all other people the rights to equal protection and due process under the law and the opportunity to redress grievances through the judicial system. When the rights of people with disabilities are fairly and equally protected, people with disabilities must accept (like all other people) responsibility for illegal or wrongful activity. In order for a standard of fair (including mitigating circumstances) and equal treatment (including reasonable accommodations) to be realized for people with disabilities, there must be significant changes to the current system in the following areas:
1) Training about disability for law enforcement personnel including judges, public defenders, district attorneys, corrections officers, police and probations officers. Training should focus on understanding the impact of disability, ADA, skill in communicating with people with disabilities and understanding of stereotypes and stigma about disabilities unrelated to criminal activity. Further, training should help establish resource linkages between justice system personnel and the disability community.
2) Training about the legal/justice system for people with disabilities, their families and the disability community. Training should focus on individual rights, the civil, criminal and juvenile judicial process, what types of supports may be needed and how to obtain them.
3) Development of curricula at the university level for people who intend to pursue careers related to the criminal, civil and juvenile justice systems.
4) The establishment of standards that result in reliable and consistent assessment of legal competency
5) The establishment of standards that enable people with disabilities to participate fully in the judicial system including assistance with decision making when needed.
6) Development of supports and service that assist people with disabilities to avoid initial involvement with the criminal justice system.
7) Training of state and local officials within the judicial system on the provisions of the ADA related to employment, accessibility of the workplace and public accommodations.
Adopted by the Governor's Planning Council for People with Disabilities on October 15, 1996
Unlike traditional residential services supported living is about ALL people with disabilities, including those with the most significant disabilities having the opportunity to live in their own homes with their names on the lease or mortgage papers. Supported living is about all people with disabilities having a voice, choosing, where they live and with whom they live. It is about having the necessary supports so that people can participate as valued members of their communities.
Supports are flexible, responding to what the person needs and changing over time. People have choices, like the choices people without disabilities make every day, about what services they want, who will provide them, where they will live and shop. Some of the supports needed could be personal care assistance, transportation, money management, shopping training, employment supports, health care, socialization, etc.
Responding to the needs of people by supporting them in their own homes is clearly the right thing to do. It is also a reflection of strong commitments to the rights, dignity, and freedom that people with disabilities share with everyone. Increasingly, people with disabilities, with the support of their families, have expectations for a full life as participating members of their community.
Some of the lessons we have learned from people with disabilities are that: smaller is better, people like services close to family and friends, people report their lives are better when they live in their own homes, and everyone can be served in their community.
To move Indiana toward a system of flexible and responsive supports that are needed to implement a supported living philosophy, the Governor's Planning Council for People With Disabilities offers the following recommendations:
1) Build the capacity of the community to provide individualized, typical living options. A facility is not a home. Do not create more group homes.
2) Indiana should set targets and time lines for downsizing and closure of institutions. As people move out, don't let others move in.
3) People with disabilities and family members must be involved in all aspects of the planning and implementation of supported living both at the personal level and the systems level.
4) Medicaid Waivers and funding for the CHOICE- In Home Services program should be increased because these programs allow for flexible and responsive services.
5) Indiana should promote the development of new, small providers to support individualized living options. Funds should be allocated to develop services which only provide individualized services in people's homes.
6) Existing services which congregate people with disabilities should be converted to ones which provide individual supports.
7) People with significant disabilities and support needs should have equal opportunities to live within their own homes, with the supports needed and should not be required to live in facilities or use only agencies to receive services.
8) Money dedicated to residential services and supports should not be reverted to the general fund. At the end of fiscal year 1995 approximately 1.5 million dollars were reverted.
9) Indiana must make a firm commitment at the state level to supported living, to supporting people in their own homes and providing the services that are needed. Currently only 3% of Indiana's community resources are directed toward supporting people to live in their own homes. The time for change is now!
10) Adults in group homes or living with families are asking AWhen will I get my own place? Families of children are asking AWhen will we get a little help? Thousands are waiting for the supports they need to achieve greater independence and community inclusion. NO MORE WAITING LISTS!!!
Adopted by the Governor's Planning Council for People with Disabilities on April 15, 1997
Society tends to view non-contributing members with indifference, charity, or perhaps pity. Productive activity opens doors to social acceptance, companionship and important informal community networks. There is evidence that people with disabilities who are working and receiving prevailing wages are more likely to be well integrated in community jobs and are more likely to have typical jobs. 90 percent of adults with disabilities report that they are able and want to work. Yet, two-thirds of Americans with disabilities of working age are not working. In Indiana, over half (55%) of persons with disabilities surveyed in 1990 reported not working. 97 percent of adults with disabilities who were working were making less than minimum wages.
The Governor's Planning Council believes that all people, regardless of the severity of their disability, have a right and responsibility to be productive. Individuals have the right to contribute through employment as well as to their household and to their community. People have a right to choose and change their employment. Therefore, the current system must be changed and advanced so that:
Adopted by the Governor's Planning Council for People with Disabilities on October 21, 1997


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Perry disgust
James Richard "Rick" Perry has been governor of this state for more than 12 years, and there is mounting evidence that he has overstayed his welcome. Never the most popular figure in state politics, he only ascended to the governor's mansion when George W. Bush was elected president in 2000. Since then he has managed to hang on largely due to political circumstance. He won reelection in 2006 with only 39 percent of the vote in a divided field. When he ran again in 2010 after first signaling he wouldn't be a candidate, it caught Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison by surprise and she ran perhaps the worst campaign in modern Texas political history. Perry has always relied on a fierce fundraising ability based on a philosophy of being friendly to business – especially the business interests who have invested tens of millions of dollars in his campaigns every four years. Those donors got their money's worth, to be sure. While he assailed Mitt Romney's "crony capitalism" during his ill-fated run in the 2008 GOP presidential primaries, the same term could apply to Perry's Texas-style good old boy network of supporters routinely invited to feed at the taxpayer-funded trough. This self-dealing has not been without cost to average Texans.
During his tenure in office, Perry has appointed every member of every board and commission, often with disastrous results for consumers and average citizens of all sorts. Higher education is a particularly shameful example. Every single college regent in Texas today is a Perry appointee, reportedly with a mandatory donation of at least $5,000 to the governor's campaign fund as the cost of admission to the board of trustees. During Perry's time in office, tuition at state schools has doubled, victimizing middle class families trying to send their kids to college.
But when Perry inexplicably developed national political ambitions in 2007, it got even worse for the folks back home. He mused openly about how it might be a good idea for Texas to secede from the union again, ignoring the disastrous fallout from the 1861 secession, then set out to craft an agenda designed to appeal to far-right voters not only in Texas but also early primary states including Iowa, South Carolina and Georgia. With the help of loyal partisans in the Legislature, he declared as "emergencies" such divisive issues as Voter ID and a fetal sonogram bill designed to appeal to voters far beyond our state's borders. None of this prevented Perry from waging a horrific campaign where he embarrassed not only himself but the state that had repeatedly elected him to office.
Now he's at it again, reportedly eying another run for the White House. Although Texas is a gun-loving state, Perry's rhetoric on the gun issue in the wake of Newtown has been over the top even by Perry standards.
He has said any attempt to address the issue "disgusts me, personally" and declares even the most common sense proposals to be affronts to the Second Amendment, which "cannot be nor will it be abridged by the executive power of this or any other president."
At this point, Texans should be acutely aware that anything Rick Perry says or does is not necessarily for the benefit of our state but instead in service of the national political ambitions of a man who has stayed too long at the fair – and that really is disgusting.


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Well, we got through jaundice and what was thought to be thrush (it wasn't). I saw my IBCLC and realized it was a latch issue. Got APNO and help latching... Scabs are healed and right side is great; however, left side.... OUCH! I have along crack around the base of the nipple, where it meets the areola. I think this is the source of the pain. It is on the left side of the left breast. Yesterday, i started getting a white patch on my nipple after he was done nursing. It hurts like crazy for about 30 seconds until it turns pink again. What is going on?? Also, he seems to be gulping a lot and sometimes fusses when he is done. Occasionally (3 times total), he spits up everything (soak both himself and me!)
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text: Robert G. Brown wrote: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Hearns, John wrote: > >> To use seawater to cool a room safely it would have to be well isolated, >> exchanging heat with a loop of much more innocuous fluid that actually >> enters the room. > > Check out the Duke Marine Lab website. They basically do this, via > geothermal exchange units (but they're on an island -- the ocean is > basically the ultimate heat sink). > > I think that the technology is straightforward and readily available > these days. The only real hassle is that ocean water is corrosive as > hell, so the heat exchangers have to be stainless steel and/or barnacle > proof unless you bury the exchangers and rely on slow diffusive > convection back to the ocean. > Pex tubing might work. It's plastic, so it shouldn't be as corrosive as metal. It is used in radiant heating applications so it must be a decent heat conductor, for a plastic. I'm sure you would eventually still get some kind of buildup on the walls, affecting the condictivity. -- Prentice _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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Traders are watching to see if any surprises show up in the October employment report, the last before the election, but the real surprise could come in the November number when the aftereffects of Super Storm Sandy are felt in the job market.
Economists expect the October report to show a tepid 125,000 new nonfarm payrolls and a steady unemployment rate of 7.8 percent, according to Reuters. The report has been considered key since it is the final report card on job growth ahead of Tuesday's presidential election, and expectations are low.
(Read More: US Economy Showing Signs of Modest Improvement)
But it also may be the one to watch ahead of November's report, when some economists think the impact from Sandy will result in less hiring, despite the need for construction and other workers in the storm hit east coast corridor. Estimates of economic impact from Sandy are as high as $50 billion, and Eqecat Thursday said it now expects insured damage to total $10 to $20 billion, with 64 percent of the losses in New York and New Jersey.
"We won't see the effect of hurricane Sandy or storm Sandy (in the October report)…It won't show up because the survey was taken before the disaster hit," said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial.
(Read More: US Northeast Begins a Slow Recovery After Epic Storm)
"Any interruption to hours worked and hourly workers, it would be somewhat offset in the month of November by the increase in overtime for emergency workers and with the increase with construction workers coming in. It redistributes employment because of the need to get things up and running as quickly as possible. It ends up being winners and losers," she said.
Swonk said the storm will provide some fiscal stimulus as aid money pours into the hard hit areas of the east coast, particularly the New Jersey coast and New York City and Long Island. "There will be some enormous government investment outlays from Sandy. That money is literally being dropped from the skies, from helicopters. How it shows up in the numbers has yet to be seen because there are offsets."
(Read More: Election Officials Scramble in Storm's Aftermath)
Deutsche Bank chief U.S. economist Joseph LaVorgna said Sandy could result in a big drop off in hirings in November. "It could be 100,000, maybe more," he said. He said the trend in employment growth, when smoothed out after revisions, has stayed at about 150,000 a month over the last two years. He expects to see the impact of Sandy first show up in jobless claims, but he notes that after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, claims spiked but not right away.
"Even though you see clear impact on things like retail sales, industrial production and employment, it's hard to tease out what the effects are on GDP," LaVorgna said.
The October jobs report also follows September's surprise 0.3 percent drop in the unemployment rate, even as the economy added just 114,000 new jobs. ADP's private sector employment report showed companies added 158,000 workers in October, the biggest gain in eight months. But ADP also changed its methodology this month, and its 162,000 September jobs were revised to just 88,200.
As for October, it should be very similar to September when the report is released at 8:30 a.m. ET Friday. "It shouldn't be significantly stronger, or significantly weaker," said LaVorgna. He expects to see 125,000 nonfarm payrolls and a rise in the unemployment rate to 7.9 percent.
He thinks the election played a role in two ways. First, he and other economists believe the fears of the "fiscal cliff" made companies hold back on hiring. The "cliff" is the dual expiration of tax cuts, and the automatic spending cuts that Congress will try to avert in the post-election lame duck session. LaVorgna thinks that biggest impact of that was actually more in the summer, and that companies may now start to look toward resolution of the cliff after the election.
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But he also said the election itself may have resulted in some hiring. "I think there was an election effect. You had a lot of young people volunteering and getting paid. We did see a lot of 20 to 24-year old hiring last month," he said.
October also probably saw continued softness in manufacturing hiring and an increase in services hiring. The ISM manufacturing survey's employment index Thursday fell from 54.7 to 52.1.
"We think maybe you could see another contraction in manufacturing employment," said J.P. Morgan economist Michael Feroli. "At some point, you probably expect a modest increase in construction payrolls. We've seen a bit recently, and I think that probably continues. Government probably contracts a little more, but not as much as it had."
Swonk also expects to see more construction jobs, particularly in residential. She expects to see 138,000 payrolls and an unemployment rate of 7.9 percent.
"We're talking about an economy that's come off the doldrums of the spring swoon, but still not really growing fast enough," she said. "One where it's a relay race, where the manufacturing sector, the shining start has now handed off to consumer and housing, and the headwinds from state and local government layoffs are abating."
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Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC
Fifth Revised Volume No. 1
Contents / Previous / Next / Main Tariff Index
Effective Date: 12/01/2009, Docket: RP10-146-000, Status: Effective
Sixth Revised Sheet No. 222 Sixth Revised Sheet No. 222
Superseding: Fifth Revised Sheet No. 222
1. AVAILABILITY (continued)
e. Customer has named a contact party (the "Notice Agent") for the receipt of orders
issued in accordance with Section 5 ("Section 5 Orders") of this rate schedule;
f. Customer has authorized Algonquin to exercise Customer's nomination and scheduling
rights under the Upstream Arrangements, if necessary by executing agency
instruments satisfactory to the Upstream Entity, to the extent required to permit
service under this rate schedule; and
g. Customer has executed a service agreement in the form contained in the FERC Gas
Tariff of which this rate schedule is a part.
h. Transportation service effectuated through capacity on the Brayton Point Lateral,
the Manchester Street Lateral, the Canal Lateral, the Cape Cod Lateral, the
Northeast Gateway Lateral, the J-2 Facility, or the Kleen Energy Lateral, as such
lateral facilities are defined in Rate Schedule AFT-CL is not available under this
rate schedule; provided, however that the interconnection between the Brayton
Point Lateral and Algonquin's mainline (M&R No. 80035), the interconnection
between the Manchester Street Lateral and Algonquin's mainline (M&R No. 80071),
the interconnection between the Canal Lateral and Algonquin's mainline (M&R No.
8004), the interconnection between the Northeast Gateway Lateral and the HubLine
offshore system in Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, the interconnection between
the J-2 Facility and Algonquin's mainline (M&R No. 80095), and the interconnection
between the Middletown Lateral and the Kleen Energy Lateral are available under
this Rate Schedule AFT-E.
2.1 Transportation service hereunder will be on a firm basis except as provided herein
and in Sections 16 and 24 of the General Terms and Conditions of this tariff.
Algonquin shall receive from Customer, or for the account of Customer, at those
points on Algonquin's system as specified in an executed AFT-E Service Agreement
between Customer and Algonquin (hereinafter referred to as "Point(s) of Receipt")
for transportation hereunder daily quantities of gas tendered for the account of
Customer up to Customer's Maximum Daily Transportation Quantity ("MDTQ") plus an
amount reflecting the Fuel Reimbursement Quantity as defined in Section 32 of the
General Terms and Conditions of this tariff and, on a cumulative basis in any
year, up to Customer's Maximum Annual Transportation Quantity ("MATQ") as
specified in the service agreement, except as provided in Section 2.7 herein
below, plus amounts reflecting the Fuel Reimbursement Quantity; provided however,
Algonquin shall not be obligated to, but may at its option, receive at any
Point(s) of Receipt on any Day a quantity of gas in excess of the applicable


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Cisco topped Wall Street expectations with its earnings report Wednesday, helped in part by favorable taxes, and its outlook was in-line with forecasts.
"I think what our customers are telling us is a very slow start and steady improvement throughout the year," CEO John Chambers said on CNBC's "Closing Bell."
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|2009-04-04, 20:53
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yep this true for any next gen console except for ones that start with w, and end i and rhyme with meeeeeee. Other than the games, next gen consoles touted was HD gaming and for most with out a lcd display/ hd tv you won't be able to get the graphical update these sytems have to offer. Bascially your games will look like sharper crisper version of ps2/xbox but since your playign them at about 6ft away the details become harder to discern.
|2009-04-04, 22:10
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Pennsylvania , United States
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Luckily, I bought my 80GB Metal Gear 4 PS3 bundle (paid $499 for it) which had software BC support which I used alot. I wished that Sony still sold a BC compatible PS3 because PS2 games would look horrible on a HDTV...
But... since the PS3 game library is improving (especially more JRPGs are coming to PS3), I have no complaints.
|2009-04-04, 22:33
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over here in Australia we only had the 60gb CECHCxx model which is like the initial 80gb CECHExx from North America in that it emulates the Emotion Engine... than they discontinued that model to release the 40gb and now the 80gb CECHKxx model
|2009-04-04, 22:42
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Age: 29
ps3 library is great, considering their getting that exclusive tales of, albeit late still, ps3 does not lack quality title, but I would just like to enjoy some of my favorites on the ps2 in faux hd thats all, without having to buy another machine to cram my media cabinet with. I have enough wires to deal with as it is, considering my ps3, stereo system, dvr... its already a mess i don't need more!!!!
|2009-04-04, 22:43
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Age: 36
The 20, 60 GB and—to some extent—the old 80 GB PS3 models are able to do all of what you mentioned. It was certainly a risk, buying a 60 GB back then despite its high price, but I feel that it was all worth it in the end.
My old, fat, region 1 workhorse feels like it's about to give up its ghost one of these days, but she's still alive and well.
As for my 60 GB PS3, I can't help but feel that it has increased in value somewhat from my point of view.
|2009-04-04, 22:49
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again, region codes???? I FUCKING HATE DVDs period, whats the point, the world went global with the internet and having time restriction, region restrictions is just plain ASININE. This is the reason for lots of piracy. Really I bought every copy of madden since 94, but I can't legally buy naruto narutomitte 3 or bleach blademasters with it not working or having to pay a god damn excise tax, and having to buy another import ps2. Really I would have had to wait an additional year and a half to play katamari, or stuff like tyco brahe drum master, or dj master. Anyway theres a lot of stuff about the gaming industry that pisses me off but BC is one of the things that really irks me. At least with the god damn pc i know I can play all my games, or at least find possible methods to play them but with ps2 games there is no avail.
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Just to clarify, Sony never developed 100% software emulation (otherwise they'd continue to offer PS2 compatibility in current models). With the second iteration, they emulated the Emotion Engine via software but retained the PS2 Graphics Synthesizer.
|2009-04-04, 22:57
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yes but their method of emulation with ps2 graphics synthesizer allows you to play your ps2 games at resolutions greater than the native ps2 resolutions which makes it a lot more pallatable on your hdtv that you have spent quite a bit to purchase.
|2009-04-04, 23:01
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However, games are another matter in my opinion. I'm not going to pretend that I completely understand how the publishing side of the industry works, but games are mainly home consumer products. With import costs to consider, let the user decide what games to play.
And no, piracy is not exactly a result of region codes. It's a result of economics and the high prices of goods. When one with a limited budget can find a cheap alternative of "relatively" the same quality to the original, it's not that hard to figure out what might happen.
|2009-04-04, 23:09
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for many in america piracy is because of restrictions and other things that make it less attractive then buying retail, basically think drm. Doesn't mean people won't pirate if there was a service that beat pirating, because lets face it its free. But to developers, those that do matter, the group I mentioned first, is lost income due to treating the a paying customer as a thief instead of a valued customer. But i digress this is way off topic for the ps3 thread.
|2009-04-04, 23:48
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Am glad that I bought a PS3 earlier while it still had BC to it. Since I've ended up playing more PSX and PS2 games on it than PS3 games . Though that is slowly changing with the good games that have come out for the system.
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|2009-04-05, 14:59
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Location: Vancouver, Canada
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Um, isn't it... released already?
Moreover, don't expect Sony to stop the service anytime soon. Apparently, Sony is actually earning money from it. Despite the silliness of Home, it is beneficial to them. They have to keep the online play of the PSN free after all.
And really, they can't stop now. People are criticizing Sony for continuing it and adding content, but if they don't put up new content they will just be criticized for putting out a barren service just the same. Besides, I find complaining about Home pretty useless when I don't even have to use it. It's another catch 22 for Sony, it seems... right along there with the price of the PS3.
Frankly, as long as I have an option of whether to use it or not, I don't really give a damn.
|2009-04-06, 12:42
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Tales of Vesperia homepage, japanese release date, autumn this year. So 360 pal version will be out eariler, june 2009.
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Road conditions were deteriorating as heavy sleet, freezing rain and snow began to fall in the Havelock area Tuesday.
A heavy sleet, sometimes mixing with snow, is expected to continue overnight into Wednesday morning in the Havelock area
As of 10 p.m. Tuesday, an inch of sleet was already on the ground, and there was no indication that it would subside anytime soon.
The National Weather Service in Newport has issued a winter storm warning for the area, as a low pressure off the coast is expected to bring a combination of freezing rain, sleet and snow through Wednesday morning.
Forecasts early Monday predicted as much as 10 inches of snow for the Havelock area, but as the storm continued to form and take shape, those predictions have decreased, with the weather service saying warmer air in higher levels of the atmosphere was causing more sleet than snow to fall. The weather service now expects the storm to produce mostly sleet with some snow mixing in, with total sleet and snow accumulations at 2 to 4 inches before the storm exits Wednesday morning.
Craven County Schools were closed on Tuesday and Wednesday, and Cherry Point closed at noon Tuesday. Only personnel designated by their supervisors will be required to work Wednesday. Non-designated personnel are expected to return to work by noon on Thursday. Updates from Cherry Point are available by calling 466-3093.
Havelock Police Chief G. Wayne Cyrus said Tuesday afternoon that no serious crashes have been reported in the city.
�We�ve seen the DOT trucks make several passes on Highway 70 to keep the roads from freezing,� he said. �If operators exercise caution, it just adds to the equation in keeping the roads safe.�
However, there were reports of cars sliding off roadways throughout Craven County.
The sleet and freezing rain had many drivers pounding away at car windows to clear ice.
�It�s a nuisance,� Stephen French said as he cleared his truck of ice.
The wintry mixture was producing hazardous driving in the area. Though Department of Transportation crews did treat U.S. 70, the heavy sleet had covered all area roads. Road or bridge closure information is available online at www.ncdot.gov/traffictravel/ or by dialing 511 from any phone and following the prompts.
Whatever snow or ice falls will likely stick around with high temperatures on Wednesday expected in the upper 20s and a low temperature of 12 degrees predicted for Wednesday night. However, a warming trend follows, as highs Friday will reach near 50 degrees, followed by near 60-degree temperatures Saturday and Sunday.
Other cancellations or postponements include:
The Havelock Chamber of Commerce Military Affairs Committee has postponed its Family of the Quarter event until 6 p.m. Feb. 4.
The chamber�s business before hours event scheduled for Tuesday at Gurganus Elementary School has been rescheduled for Feb. 25.
Annunciation Catholic School has canceled its Ecumenical Leadership Prayer Luncheon for Tuesday and classes have been canceled for Tuesday. Its open house has been rescheduled to Feb. 6 from 4 to 6 p.m.
Cherry Point Baptist Church has canceled its Wednesday night service.
The weather may also cause delays in delivery of the Havelock News and Windsock.


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Head over to the police station on Kunzite Street on the west side of Algonquin. Then, get out of your car and head on inside. A cutscene will ensue with Niko and Francis McReary. After acting suspiciously in the lobby by calling Niko by a different name, he whisks Niko up to his office, where the two really get down to the nitty-gritty. As he puts a few glasses of liquor back, Francis tells you of a lawyer that has something on him. The lawyer intends on bringing McReary down to enhance his political career. So, McReary intends on bringing him down first. This won't be an easy mission, though, since you'll need to buy a suit and score an interview with the lawyer in order to get to him without his protection.
Since Francis promises to e-mail Niko the details of the mission, once outside you'll be ordered to the nearest internet café, so you can check your inbox. The nearest café is located due north of the police station, on Frankfort Avenue. Once you arrive, head on inside, logon to a computer of your choice, and check your e-mail. There should be an e-mail waiting for you from Francis, and it will give you a hyperlink to the website of the law firm Goldberg, Ligner & Shyster. Once there, hit the Careers link, then Submit Your Resume. Confirm that you want to submit it, and then log off and head back outside. You'll notice that the lawyers' phone number has been added to your cell phone automatically.
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The roses have been busy. I was late to take notice that spring has exploded in my back courtyard. It seems as if it happened overnight. This past winter was extremely cold and that accounts for all the profusion of flowers – the azaleas look incredible and I suspect the bluebonnets have turned the fields along the back roads leading to Round Top into a sea of purple.
In my courtyard, the three rose bushes from The Antique Rose Emporium in Independence, Texas, have completely overtaken my back fence. I planted these bushes about 15 years ago. The antique climbers quickly grew to full height, around 15', arching out over the gravel courtyard in a magnificent display of dark pink and creamy white roses. Until one day that is, when I came home to discover the Rose Tenders crew had cut the bushes back, taking off about 8 ft. of limbs. I can't recall ever being so angry and upset over a flower before. Irate too at the stupidity of "pruning" an antique climber. It's taken years for these bushes to reach back to their full height again, and even then, they have never achieved that weeping, arching effect. I'm waiting for that, maybe next year, or the next. And yes, I did break down and buy the Kooboo chairs. It's a story for another day – lots of changes going on inside my house which I hope to show you soon.
There are two bushes of these pink roses. One on the left side, and one in the middle right over the fountain. The pink roses aren't particularly fragrant but that's ok. The creamy rose makes up for the scentless pair.
It seems as if the rose bushes grew several feet overnight! The amount of their growth this spring has been incredible. Because of this massive growth, the iron trellis over the fountain can barely be seen now. Only the twinkly lights alert you to the fact that there is indeed a trellis there.
The creamy white roses are on the right side of the yard. This variety isn't nearly as tall or full as the pink. I should have planted all three bushes the same variety – but at the time, I had no idea I was making a landscaping decision that would be here 15 years later!
The freezing winter caused a lot of damage around town. I lost two potted trees and all my variegated ivy is gone. The pots were filled this week their summer plants and all the beds have been cleaned out and planted with green and white caladiums, whose ears should start peeking out soon.
I wrestle with the landscape design. Some days I love the cluttered English style garden with masses of roses and ivy everywhere. Then there are days when I want the stark green only garden with box and zinc pots and lots of succulents. One day…. if I ever have room for both kinds of gardens, that might happen. Right now the English look is winning.
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US Treasury levies sanctions on key Syrian bank
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration added new sanctions on a Syrian bank Wednesday as a top White House official said the U.S. wants to economically throttle the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and cut off salaries of pro-government thugs blamed for the grisly massacre in Houla.
The Treasury Department said the Syria International Islamic Bank has been acting as a front for other Syrian financial institutions seeking to circumvent sanctions. The new penalties will prohibit the SIIB from engaging in financial transactions in the U.S. and will freeze any assets under U.S. jurisdiction.
With the Obama administration unwilling at this point to pursue military options in Syria, the U.S. has relied heavily on economic sanctions as a means for pressing Assad to leave power. The United States will host other nations in Washington next week to look at ways to tighten international sanctions further.
"We are strangling the regime economically," White House deputy national security adviser Denis McDonough said.
David Cohen, Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said the toll taken by sanctions on Syria are "mounting day by day."
"They're drawing down their reserves without a ready means of replenishing those reserves," Cohen said.
The White House also blamed Iran for stirring up violence inside Syria and said Assad's fall would be a huge blow to Tehran. The United States is increasingly linking Syria and Iran rhetorically and tactically, applying economic pressure with and without help from the United Nations or other countries.
Iran is Syria's only staunch defender in the Middle East, and the Syria crisis has united Sunni Arab neighbors who see in Syria a way to weaken Iran, their main Shiite enemy.
"The Assad clique will end up, ultimately, in the dustbin of history and the people of Syria will have the chance to determine their own destiny," McDonough said. "When that happens, it will also be the most profound strategic setback that Syria's closest ally, Iran, has faced in decades. That is surely why Iran has provided material support and advice to the regime in brutalizing the Syrian people."
Speaking to a Brookings Institution forum in Doha, Qatar, McDonough pointed to what he called a recent "stunning" admission from Iran that its armed forces were joining the fight in support of the regime in Syria, and said Iran had tried to backtrack and "cover up" the announcement.
He blamed the Assad regime squarely for the massacre of 108 civilians last weekend in the town of Houla, and said claims that the killings were carried out by unaffiliated roughnecks are "a lie."
Assad's associates pay the pro-government gunmen known as the shabiha, he claimed.
"Our objective is straightforward: Starve the regime of the resources it requires to pay the army, and deprive Assad's cronies of the money they need to buy the shabiha's brutal conspiracy."
The violence in Syria is spiraling out of control as an uprising against Assad that began in March 2011 has morphed into an armed insurgency.
In the wake of the Houla massacre, the United States and several other countries expelled Syrian diplomats to protest the killings.
McDonough said the U.S. is also lobbying Russia to distance itself from its longtime ally Syria and apply pressure on Assad to leave office. A negotiated exit similar to one the U.S. helped broker for Yemen's longtime leader is one possibility, McDonough said, but he offered little optimism that U.S. arguments are gaining traction.
The U.S. has also sought United Nations action against Syria, but those efforts have been stymied by Russia and China, both of whom have veto power on the U.N. Security Council.
Susan Rice, ambassador to the United Nations, said Wednesday that the most likely scenario is that the peace plan crafted by special envoy Kofi Annan will fail.
Russia criticized the diplomatic expulsions, calling them "counterproductive," and has said new Security Council action would be premature.
Cohen said he plans to travel to Russia soon to discuss Syria. He said he thinks Russia shares the goal of a more open political system, although so far Russia has been a dogged defender of Assad. He also said some of Russia's commercial ties to Syria are troubling. He did not elaborate, but Russia is a trading partner to Damascus and has supplied the regime with weapons, food and medical supplies.


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In this handout photo provided by Disney,Grammy Award-winning trio Lady Antebellum tapes a performance for "Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade" TV special in the Magic Kingdom park at Walt Disney World on December 1,2012 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The group headlines the telecast and performs a song from their new holiday album, "On The Winter's Night." The annual parade telecast, which airs Dec. 25, 2012 at various times across the country on ABC-TV, features celebrity performances and segments taped at Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland Resort in California. Other featured performers include Backstreet Boys, Brad Paisley, Phillip Phillips, Colbie Caillat, TobyMac, Yolanda Adams, Ross Lynch, the cast of "Newsies" and a U.S. Marine Corps Band.
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Step 1 :- Boot Your PC in Safe Mode
- Restart Your PC to open boot menu.
- Keep pressing F8 button until Windows Advanced Option appears on your system screen.
- Now choose Safe Mode With Networking Option using arrow key and press Enter.
Step 2 :- Remove Search.hquickspeedcheck.com From Browsers
Remove Malicious Extension
- Open browser and click on (⋮) icon to open browser Menu.
- Select Tools and then open Extensions option.
- Select all malicious extensions and then click the Trash icon to delete this threat completely.
Reset Browser Settings
- Open browser and click on Menu (⋮) icon.
- Click on Settings and select the Show Advance Settings option.
- Go to the end of the page and click Reset Settings button.
Remove Malicious Extension
- Open Firefox browser and click on gear (☰) icon to open Menu.
- Click on Add-Ons option from drop down menu.
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Reset Browser Settings
- First of all open Firefox and click gear (☰) icon.
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Well, Microsoft Edge browser does not have the extension option so you should better reset browser settings to remove Search.hquickspeedcheck.com from your Edge browser.
Reset Default Search Engine and Homepage
- Open Microsoft Edge browser in your PC and click on More (…) option.
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Remove Malicious Extension
- Open your web browser and click Tools men.
- Select Manage Add-ons option from drop down list.
- Go to Toolbar and Extensions from left panel.
- Select Search.hquickspeedcheck.com and click disable tab to delete this malicious extension completely.
Reset Internet Explorer Setting
- Open Internet Explorer and Click on "Tools" menu from upper right corner.
- Select "Internet option" from drop down list.
- Choose "Advanced tab" and click on "Reset" button.
- Check out "Delete personal settings" check box, and click on "Reset" button.
Step 3 :- Terminate Search.hquickspeedcheck.com Related Process From Windows Task Manger.
- Press Ctrl+Alt+Del button simultaneously to open Windows Task Manager.
- Click on Process tab to see all running process in your PC.
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Step 4 :- Uninstall Search.hquickspeedcheck.com From Control Panel
- Press "Windows + R"th keys together to open Run.
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- Go to Program Section and click on Uninstall a program.
- From the list of all installed application select Search.hquickspeedcheck.com and click uninstall tab.
Step 4 :- Delete Search.hquickspeedcheck.com From Registry Editor
- Press "Windows + R" button simultaneously on your keyboard.
- Type "regedit" and click on OK button.
- Find and delete all malicious registry entries created by Search.hquickspeedcheck.com virus.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msmpeng.exe "Debugger" = 'svchost.exe'
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msseces.exe "Debugger" = 'svchost.exe'
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "WarnOnHTTPSToHTTPRedirect" = '0′
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "WarnOnHTTPSToHTTPRedirect" = '0′
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore "DisableSR " = '1′
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\ekrn.exe "Debugger" = 'svchost.exe'
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msascui.exe "Debugger" = 'svchost.exe'
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "3948550101?
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Announcer: From the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland this is All About Grants.
Megan Columbus: Welcome to another edition of All About Grants. My name is Megan Columbus. I'm from the NIH Office of Extramural Research. Today I have with me Scarlett Gibb. Scarlett leads the Electronic Research Administration team who is responsible for the eRA Commons. NIH has a longstanding history (you may not always believe it out there) of working hard to reduce the administrative load on scientists so they can focus more on their research. Today, we're going to be taking about a feature in the Commons that has recently been improved, that helps investigators and administrators to delegate tasks. Scarlett, can you talk to me a little bit more the purpose of the delegation feature?
Scarlett Gibb: Sure. The delegation feature is just as it sounds. It allows the scientists to delegate a lot of their administrative tasks, as you said, to the administrative staff members in the institution. So, it allows scientists to delegate things like grant reporting needs and fixing their own personal data and looking at things that come in through submission.
Megan: What are some of the more common tasks that an investigator might delegate?
Scarlett: Well, an investigator will probably delegate things such as status, which allows other staff members to view the status of their applications and help them with the submission process.
Megan: So by status we're talking about being able to view as the application's coming in, being able to see..?
Scarlett: The application coming in, see if we've received it, if there are errors or warnings that they need to address before the deadline date, and where it is in peer review, basically, what progress it's made, and if it's been awarded.
Megan: And that would also allow the person who is delegated this authority to view the application image in the Commons? And to see the study section assignment in the Commons?
Scarlett: Yes. They may see the study section assignment. They can see the date of the study section and the application itself.
Megan: Can they see the scores?
Scarlett: No, they may not see the scores. That is one of the things that we, as a policy, have stated that only the principal investigator is allowed to see the review outcomes. Those outcomes include the percentiles, the impact scores, and the summary statement.
Megan: So that an investigator could feel confident in delegating knowing that their information that's protected still remains protected.
Scarlett: That is correct. And if they feel they wish to share these things with their administrators then they may personally do that outside the system.
Megan: What are other things that investigators may be interested in knowing that they can delegate?
Scarlett: Well, another big delegation that allows them to free up a lot of their time is progress reporting. We have given them the ability to delegate not the submission, but the preparation of progress reports to other administrative staff, so that they may prepare things such as the work on the human subject's portion, the checklist, the budgets, things like that. Another delegation we have for the principal investigators is xTrain, which allows them to delegate their duties regarding a training grant. So if they're the principal investigator on a training grant, they can delegate the administrative duties of nominating, appointing trainees, amending the trainees' appointments and terminating—initiating the terminations of those appointments to administrative staff. The last delegation that we have for scientists is for all scientists, and it is for post docs, trainees, principal investigators, and it allows them to delegate the editing of their personal profile to other people in their staff. This is something that the principal investigator, if they wish to, has to do themselves. The administrator, the signing official, of their institution, may do some of the other delegation for them, such as progress reports; however, because of the personal nature of this, we require that the person delegating the personal profile actually click that button for delegation themselves. And it allows your assistant to do things such as change your personal information such as degrees, addresses, phone numbers, emails…
Megan: Publications?
Scarlett: Publications, it does allow them to work on your publications.
Megan: Does NIH limit the PI's ability to delegate particular tasks?
Scarlett: There are particular tasks that cannot be delegated by a PI, things such as initiating the progress report, as I stated earlier. It is a legal sign-off for us, and because there are certain tasks in the eRA Commons that we use as electronic signature, such as initiating and then routing your progress report, it is a legal sign-off on the PI's portion, and things such as submitting your appointments and your amendments to NIH, those are also signatory authority and therefore cannot be delegated to anyone.
Megan: For those training grants, right. So the thing that I'm always impressed with your team is that you work closely with users as you're developing new features. I think that's particularly important. Often times people think that government agencies are working over there without any consideration to the processes and institutions, and I'd like to throw out some kudos for you because I think you work really hard to make sure that you try and understand how institutions are using features and to implement things that will help streamline rather than hamper.
Scarlett: Thank you. We do try to walk that fine line where we're meeting the NIH needs for policy and requirements, and helping the institutions perform their duties as easily as possible.
Megan: The delegations features not just for scientists. Are there things that administrators could delegate?
Scarlett: There are some tasks that administrators can delegate, and actually can delegate some tasks for the scientists also. So they can allow a principal investigator to submit their own progress reports as the signing official for the institution.
Megan: And so that delegation of being able to submit progress reports directly from the investigator is actually an institutional decision.
Scarlett: It is an institutional decision, and we have found mostly that a whole institution allows all their scientists or none of them to do it; however, there is the option for the administrator to pick and choose the scientists they feel are responsible and can submit their own.
Megan: Is there anything else you think folks need to know?
Scarlett: Just that they should if they have not become familiar with the new delegation process, they should get in there and take a look at it. We've made it a lot easier. Before you used to have to go into each function to actually do the delegation, such as go into the xTrain function to delegate xTrain. It's all now right on one screen it allows you to pick and choose which functions you wish to delegate.
Megan: Thanks so much for joining us today. For NIH and OER, this is Megan Columbus.
Announcer: To find the delegations screen, log into your eRA Commons account and click on the Admin tab.