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Most County Housing Markets Worse Off over Last Four Years, Says RealtyTrac
(NEW YORK) -- While housing prices are on the rise, foreclosure and real estate research firm RealtyTrac reported that 65 percent of 919 county housing markets are worse off than they were four years ago, based mostly on factors including average sales price and foreclosure inventory.
With the 2012 Election Day just two weeks away, both Republicans and Democrats are grabbing at data to show that the economy has improved or worsened.
Housing data from S&P/Case-Shiller index and the National Association of Realtors show a rise in the average price of a home. Last week, the association showed sales fell 1.7 percent in September compared with a month earlier, but were up 11 percent over a year ago.
In the latest RealtyTrac report, the company compared data from the second quarters of 2008, the near-end of President George W. Bush's administration, and 2012 under President Obama. During the last four years, foreclosure inventory peaked in 2010 at 2.2 million, but has declined to 1.5 million.
Here are 10 counties that RealtyTrac noted are worse off and five counties that are better off compared to four years ago.
Cook County, Ill.
Average sales price: -17 percent
Foreclosure Inventory: 37 percent
King County, Wash.
Average sales price: -16 percent
Foreclosure Inventory: 62 percent
Salt Lake County, Utah
Average sales price: -36 percent
Foreclosure Inventory: 49 percent
Pima County, Ariz.
Average sales price: -31 percent
Foreclosure Inventory: 17 percent
Honolulu County, Hawaii
Average sales price: -20 percent
Foreclosure Inventory: 650 percent
Du Page County, Ill.
Average sales price: -18 percent
Foreclosure Inventory: 65 percent
Gwinnett County, Ga.
Average sales price: -19 percent
Foreclosure Inventory: 24 percent
Montgomery County, Pa.
Average sales price: -7 percent
Foreclosure Inventory: 77 percent
Snohomish County, Wash.
Average sales price: -16 percent
Foreclosure Inventory: 94 percent
Lake County, Ill.
Average sales price: -22 percent
Foreclosure Inventory: 78 percent
Orange County, Calif.
Average sales price: 2 percent
Foreclosure Inventory: -38 percent
New York County, N.Y.
Average sales price: 29 percent
Foreclosure Inventory: -12 percent
Middlesex County, Mass.
Average sales price: 10 percent
Foreclosure Inventory: -10 percent
Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Average sales price: 13 percent
Foreclosure Inventory: -44 percent
Fairfax County, Va.
Average sales price: 7 percent
Foreclosure Inventory: 60 percent
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September 9th, 2009
Fourth meeting, 6 attendees. More AVR programming, discussed microcontroller projects for True Dungeon. N64 power cord repairs. Nathan setup his 5V 20A regulated power supply so each person can power their breadboard without having to find an outlet to plug-in a power brick. Uploaded more AVR code to the wiki for easy access. At 9:16pm we watched the International Space Station and the shuttle Discovery fly over Bloomington together, quite fantastic!
September 1st, 2009
Third meeting (Jenett's basement - all future meetings will be here unless otherwise specified), 9 attendees. Setup tables and chairs in the basement, moved in mini fridge from the garage. Everyone setup proto boards with AVR/ATMega chips, worked out problems with ATTiny USB programmers and avr_dude/gcc software. Uploaded AVR blinky test code to the wiki (AVR). Looked at Jupiter with Jenett's 8" telescope at the end of the evening.
August 19th, 2009
Second meeting (Max's Place), 9 attendees. Discussed what it is we want to accomplish with this group and what people want to get out of it. Agreed to meet at Jenett's house for our next meeting to learn AVR programming and discuss using her basement as a future meeting location and potential hacker space.
June 6th, 2009
First meeting (Bakehouse), 4 attendees. Discussed forming a group of people before moving forwards with the space. Also discussed having an informal "group tool sharing" program.


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"An increase in efficiency in healthcare through process optimization and the use of robust, forgery-proof authentication systems."
Thomas Bengs Head of Security Solutions, SoBG , Fujitsu FTS
The introduction and installation of a nationwide biometric patient authentication system with Fujitsu PalmSecure for the SSI (Social Security Institution – Turkish National Health System). The project is split into four project phases. Project phase 1 is the introduction phase; and phases 2 - 4 (installation) are now implemented according to the experience gained in phase 1.
A biometric patient authentication system with Fujitsu PalmSecure sensors and a control box in the form of an onsite terminal comprising of Fujitsu PC components. The database and application servers are located in a central data center. Authentication is carried out by means of palm vein authentication and the national insurance number, which is entered via a keyboard. Integrated in the terminal is a security module that encrypts the data flowing in the direction of the data center. Once it arrives, the data is decrypted and logged in a database. When an insurance-related procedure is opened in the doctor's surgery or at the hospital, a request is made to the national insurance system. This system accesses the logged data of the biometric system, and can then confirm the procedure as valid. The doctor's surgery or the hospital can then begin with the invoicing.
Healthcare in Turkey is currently in a period of transitional phase under the influence of the Health Transformation Program 2003 – 2013. The aim of the program is to increase the quality and efficiency of the healthcare system and provide simpler access to healthcare facilities.
The participants in the healthcare system are insurance companies, policy holders, doctors' surgeries, pharmacies and hospitals. All have different requirements, but one common goal. Policy holders require medical treatment to be good and fast. This should be possible without any accompanying bureaucratic outlay. The main focus is on health. Service providers, such as doctors, clinics and pharmacists, would like to charge the insurance companies for their services without too much outlay and too many explanations. The administrative outlay should be as low as possible, and the IT simple, robust and value for money. Insurance companies want honest and correct invoicing. It is their responsibility to handle their customer's insurance payments as carefully as possible. The topic of health and care is paramount to everyone, but the commercial side must also be trouble-free, fast and not generate a great deal of outlay, and everything should be correct.
The aim is to have an efficient process with as few, automated process steps as possible, associated with low costs and a high degree of security and reliability.
A holder of a health insurance policy must provide identification when making use of the services so that the service can be correctly invoiced with the insurance company later. The issuing of prescription drugs to the entitled recipient must also be guaranteed. In the past only little value was attached to the unequivocal authentication of the patient, it was sufficient to provide the printed forms of the insurance company, or a health insurance card with more or less authentication details. The result was a high fraud rate and losses running into millions.
There is no standard EU-wide or even world-wide solution for healthcare authentication and invoicing. The type of authentication or type of ID card used in each state is regulated differently on a national basis. As a result of misuse (obtaining services by fraudulent means), invoicing errors and the subsequent need for clarification high costs arise, and consequently the requirements for a flawless, reliable and fast authentication that easy-to-handle in practice and inexpensive are growing.
One solution that is currently being implemented on a national basis in Turkey is authentication using Fujitsu PalmSecure palm vein authentication. For this purpose, the biometric data of every person have been centrally as a template in a database and encrypted.
An insured person authenticates himself onsite by holding his hand over the palm vein scanner in the doctor's surgery or at the hospital, allowing his vein pattern to be entered as a template. Each insured party also has a national insurance number, which is entered in parallel via a keyboard. The keyboard and hand vein scanner are connected to a control box. The control box comprises of Fujitsu PC components. This includes an integrated security module, which transfers the data (insurance number and palm vein template) together with the location and device data in encrypted form to a biometric application and database server in a central data center. Here, the data is decrypted and then compared and logged in a database server.
In Turkey a central and uniform system takes over the invoicing of the medical services provided. The doctor's surgery or hospital sends the system a request for service invoicing. The insurance system opens a procedure and directs a request to the database server of the biometric system. If the insured party exists and is valid and the last location and date are identical to that of the request, approval is provided by the invoicing system, which is sent to the doctor's surgery or the hospital. No later than 24 hours after sending the invoicing request, approval is available and the services can then be invoiced with the invoicing system. If the insured party is unknown, has no insurance cover or is invalid, a rejection is issued. The doctor's surgery or hospital then knows that the costs must be invoiced directly with the service recipient.
The biometric palm vein sensor technology has proved to be successful in everyday use. The advantages of this technology are:
The Turkish state is consequently pressing ahead with the modernization and efficiency of its infrastructure. The health care of its population is an important building block in this process. The process flows and the technology used reflect the goals. Simple, reasonably priced and robust procedures and technologies, but with the maximum in security and cost-effectiveness. Turkey takes its bearings here from EU standards.
The installed biometric authentication is a procedure that makes processes faster and unsusceptible to errors. Misuse is excluded. This has resulted in administration savings, many process steps have either being automated or even omitted, which is ultimately an advantage to better medical care.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 54 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
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Bad Moose Media has been working with lots of larger web advertising and sales companies that come to us so we have never needed a web presence before.
We are looking to expand our client base and need more of an online "image"" as a result.
BMM specializes in helping other companies sell their products online in an efficient and effective manner. So think Web Advertising.
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VANCOUVER — Suspicious Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel employees tried to question two protesters Monday before they jumped onto a stage to disrupt a Vancouver Board of Trade session featuring Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
But the climate-change activists, dressed in waiter outfits they bought at Value Village, evaded both a heavy security blanket and the three hotel workers before getting onstage with signs denouncing the Harper government's climate change record.
Sean Devlin and Shireen Soofi got within arm's reach of Harper before surprised RCMP officials grabbed and escorted them out of the building. They were eventually released without charges.
The security breach at the downtown hotel occurred while Harper participated in a friendly question-and-answer session aimed at promoting his government's economic agenda.
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Soofi said it was "quite easy" to get through a security cordon that had all official participants identified with special passes and an RCMP bomb-sniffing dog that checked all equipment carried in by the media.
"We just dressed up in black and walked into the hotel and into the room and walked onstage," she said, noting she bought a cheap black shirt from Value Village for the ruse.
Hotel workers became suspicious because the protesters' garb didn't match outfits worn by serving staff, according to Fairmont Hotels regional vice-president Phil Barnes.
"They were dressed in black and they weren't wearing name tags," he said. "Our servers were dressed in black and white and they wore name tags."
Vancouver police were also at the event and Sgt. Randy Fincham said the investigation is ongoing.
"Our members are still working with the RCMP to determine if criminal charges are warranted," he said.
The prime minister joked about the breach — "It wouldn't be B.C. without it," Harper quipped to laughter and applause — but RCMP Cpl. Lucy Shorey said the Mounties take the incident "very seriously.
"To ensure the safety of the Prime Minister, specific details on security measures can't be provided," she said. "We're reviewing the incident to decide what measures need to be taken."
The duo managed to get past a security cordon that had all official participants identified with special passes.
Reporters covering the event were sequestered in a holding room a floor below the event so an RCMP bomb-sniffing dog could check over all of the cameras and equipment they brought in.
Prime Minister's Office press secretary Carl Vallee said the PMO doesn't comment on security-related matters.
The protesters are part of a group affiliated with Brigette DePape, a former Senate page who walked onto the Senate floor with a "Stop Harper" sign during a 2011 throne speech.
"These actions are taking place as part of a global movement of groups who are directly confronting the fossil fuel industry," the group said in a news release after the incident.
Vancouver Board of Trade CEO Iain Black said the RCMP and Prime Minister's security detail were in charge of security arrangements so he couldn't comment on their protocols. But he said all of the guests attending were accredited to be there, and all of them were Board of Trade members.
"The tickets did not go to the general public," he said.
Black added that while guests were not physically screened upon arrival, they did have to have identification and be cross-checked against the guest list and be issued a lanyard with a pass for the event.
"When we get a premier, when we get a prime minister, we are not in charge of security," he said. "(Police) deal with venue staff and management and we follow their direction. They advise us as to what is acceptable and they advise us on how to put together the event so it's secure and comfortable for people and our guests."
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Other prominent security breaches involving Canadian politicians
Sept. 4, 2012: A gunman opens fire while Quebec premier Pauline Marois speaks at a Parti Quebecois victory rally in Montreal, killing one man and injuring another. Marois, who was hustled off-stage, was uninjured.
Oct. 13, 2000: A protester jumps on stage with Opposition leader Stockwell Day in Moose Jaw, Sask. and tries to light fire to the Canadian Alliance party platform.
Aug. 16, 2000: Playwright and actor Evan Brown hits Chretien in the face with a pie during a visit to the Prince Edward Island summer festival.
Feb. 15, 1996: Chretien grabs protester Bill Clennett by the throat during a confrontation in a Hull, Que. park.
Nov. 5, 1995: Montreal convenience-store worker Andre Dallaire, armed with a jackknife, breaks into the prime minister's residence at 24 Sussex Drive.


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(Reuters) - A U.S. judge has given a lawsuit by pro-democracy activists against Baidu Inc and the People's Republic of China new life, even after the country invoked its authority as a sovereign nation to block the censorship case.
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan said the activists were entitled to serve their lawsuit on Baidu's lawyer in New York, without infringing China's sovereign protections.
Saying the issue had never been analyzed in detail, Furman on Friday night rejected Baidu's contention that allowing service would turn the part of the Hague Convention that China invoked into a "dead letter" by letting a court circumvent it.
The convention is a multilateral treaty that makes it easier to serve court papers internationally.
In their May 2011 lawsuit, eight New York writers and video producers had accused Baidu and China of conspiring to suppress their political speech from Baidu's search engine, the country's most widely used.
The plaintiffs said the content could be found via search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing, and Google's YouTube. They sought millions of dollars in damages for alleged violations of their First Amendment rights and human rights law.
Furman had dismissed the lawsuit on March 25 but put the dismissal on hold to let the plaintiffs propose another means to serve Baidu.
In giving the plaintiffs another chance to pursue their case, Furman said the Hague Convention was designed to ensure "sufficient" notice to recipients abroad of court documents.
Allowing service in the United States "in a manner that does not call upon China to effect service (in that country) does not override its invocation of its own sovereignty and security; to the contrary, it honors that invocation," the judge wrote.
Carey Ramos, a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan representing Baidu, declined to comment.
Furman gave the plaintiffs 30 days to serve the complaint to Baidu's U.S. lawyer, and 120 days to serve China through diplomatic channels.
Stephen Preziosi, a lawyer for the activists, said he intends to meet those deadlines. "In terms of fairness and procedurally, the court got it right," Preziosi said.
The lawsuit was filed one year after Google Inc pulled its search engine out of China after hitting censorship issues. China has also blocked YouTube and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
The case is Zhang et al v. Baidu.com et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 11-03388.
Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Kenneth Barry


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So this is what hockey is like?
I had two special guests at the Flyers game tonight. Garnet Valley softball centerfielder Mary Schlosbon and the Jaguars' volleyball outside hitter Lauren Hostetler.
Mary won the opportunity to be a member of the media with me at a Flyers game (I know, what did the losers get?) and she decided to bring her classmate along.
I asked them to write a blog about their first NHL experience. Here it is. I don't know what was more fun, them writing it or me listening to them laugh about it while doing it.
Also, thanks to Harry Zolneirczyk who took a picture with them after the game.
Lauren: Despite the Flyers tough loss against the Islanders, I had
such an awesome time at my first Flyers game!
Mary: Going into this game, I was pretty anxious because we weren't
dedicated Flyers fans.
Lauren: The only game we watched of the Flyers is the Winter Classic,
and I didn't even understand the rules!
Mary: I can't believe that the first thing we did when we got to the
Wells Fargo Center was hold the door open for Danny Briere before his
Lauren: We even got to say, "Good luck!" (Anthony's note: A lot of
good that did!!)
Mary: One of the highlights of the night was getting to interview
Peter Laviolette.
Lauren: It was hilarious when he called us "rookies" and asked if we
had any questions before the game.
Mary: We were definitely caught off guard; at least we wished him good luck too!
Lauren: Even though we gave Coach Laviolette and his team our well
wishes, they couldn't pull out the win in the end.
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worth it!
Lauren: We even got to witness our first hockey fight! (Anthony's
note: It was Claude Giroux after all, so it's not like it was a
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Mary: After the game, we got to go into the Flyers' locker room and
got to meet Harry Z! (Anthony's note: What, Zolnierczyk was difficult
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Sarah Moore, a regular contributor to Canadian Cyclist and Cycling4Women, raced the Canada Cup final at Hardwood Hills last weekend, finishing tenth, and scoring enough UCI points to meet eligibility requirements for the Mont Ste Anne World Cup. Sarah has written a first person description of what it was like to race on that muddy, wet day.
I looked over the start list on Saturday and counted ten to twelve girls who were either fresh off World Cups or had beat me in earlier races in the season. When it started raining on Sunday morning, however, all bets were off as to what would happen.
My goal at Hardwood Hills was to finish in at least 14th place. That result would give me the points I needed to be able to race in the Mont-Sainte-Anne World Cup. To race in World Cup races you need 20 UCI points. It doesn't sound like a lot and, for many racers it's nothing. If you come first in a Canada Cup you are awarded 60 points, just like that.
For those of us who don't win Canada Cups, however, it's a bit more of a struggle to get your 20 points. In previous years, the most I've received is one or two points at a time for coming in 14th or 15th. This year, I started off the season with a few more miles in my legs and, for my eighth place at Tremblant I got 14 points. Over halfway to the 20 points I needed!
At the second Canada Cup race in Baie-Saint-Paul I came 13th and so I only got 4 points. Four measly points! Less than a third of what I'd gotten a week before! I still needed two points to be able to race in the World Cup race.
Sarah Moore on Boneshaker
When the clouds rolled in right before the start at Hardwood Hills, I wasn't sure whether to be anxious or excited. On the one hand, I'm not a West Coast rider who excels in slick conditions so I was worried I would lose time in the technical sections trying to stay on my bike. On the other hand, if you're just able to finish a race in muddy conditions you usually do pretty well because you find out at the end that half the pack has dropped out because of mechanicals or from getting discouraged with the mud. Also, with the rain, there wouldn't be a cloud of dust that leaves the riders stuck behind on the start hacking for days,
So I decided I could still get my two points whether Mother Nature was on my side or not! Ever since I started mountain biking my goal has been to race the World Cup race at Mont-Sainte-Anne. I wanted to make that dream a reality.
I was called up twelfth to the line, which got me in a great place right behind the number one ranked rider, Emily Batty. Hardwood Hills has a great, wide-open start so the whole women's field can almost fit on the first two lines! Almost no time after the Elite men had left and we were called up, we were off for the first of five laps.
Somehow, I picked the perfect line off the start and moved from the second line to the first line on the first corner. The pace wasn't fast off the start, but I was still really excited to ride next to Emily Batty for the first climb. It might sound silly, but all the way up that hill I was hoping that someone was on the sidelines taking a picture of me riding next to a World Cup champion.
It's always a sprint into the woods to make sure that you don't get stuck behind someone who makes a technical error. A couple of girls passed me before the first technical section, but I knew I was still in the top 14 so I just kept on their tails and hoped my legs, lungs or bike wouldn't give up on me.
In lap two it seemed as if the ground suddenly stopped absorbing the rain, or maybe it was raining harder by then. Whatever the reason, the trail suddenly turned to mush. There's a technical section right before the feed zone. On the first lap, it was a breeze and I took all the corners as if it were dry as a bone. On lap two however, I crashed three times in that short downhill trying to catch the rider in front of me. My tires weren't too slick, but they weren't all-out mud tired either.
After those crashes and a couple swear words to follow them, I decided that I would take the technical sections a bit more slowly and try to make up time on the uphills. Going carefully through the technical sections on your bike is faster than going fast and crashing!
Everything was going according to plan until the first steep pitch on lap three. That's when I started to get "chain-sucks." I would start pedaling up a steep hill and then my feet would suddenly stop. Sometimes I was able to pedal backwards quickly and get the chain unstuck, but other times I had to get off my bike and run.
Luckily, I was able to stay on my bike for most of the downhills, so I didn't lose time there. On all the uphills, however, I had to put my bike in its easiest gear to try and avoid the chain sucks. On the more gradual hills my technique worked, but I still had to run up the steeper hills after multiple chain sucks.
After a muddy race like Hardwood Hills, racers always have some war stories. I didn't hurt myself in this race but I had a couple near-crashes. One was on a steep uphill when I got a chain-suck and my foot unclipped at the same time. I somehow managed to rip my sock on my crank, but luckily was able to jump off my bike before gravity pulled me down.
My other near crash was when I skidded on the bridge before the Boneshaker. I came about a centimetre from crashing over the side of the four-foot high bridge. Luckily, I was able to refocus before the Boneshaker, where crashing would be incredibly painful because of the pointy rocks. It also helped that on that lap I didn't have any mud in my eyes, so I was able to see where the rocks were. On a couple of the laps my eyes were so full of tears from the muddy descent before the Boneshaker that I had blurred vision.
Since I did the Fast and Female event the day before the race, I had a lot of encouragement on the course which made it much more fun. I also had both my parents and some family friends on the course, running back and forth between two uphills. I think my cheering squad got almost as much exercise as I did!
Their cheering, and a couple gels, helped me keep it up through the last two laps and finish my two-hour race in tenth place, earning me 10 UCI points, enough to start in the Mont-Sainte-Anne World Cup on June 23rd!
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I found a box with equipment (PC Cards, cables, etc.) from my old PowerBook 5300c and I wonder what to do with it.
Here in central Europe it seemed that nobody needs something like that.
Are there people somewhere else in the world who still use 68k PowerMacs and would have any use for such things? I'd happily donate the parts if I knew that they are useful for somebody...
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Too poor to pay, Chinese farmer saws off diseased leg
A recent case of a man who had to amputate his own leg to survive shows inequalities in China health care system.
BEIJING – Unable to afford hospital fees to treat or amputate his diseased right leg, one Chinese farmer chose a drastic self-remedy. Clenching a wooden back scratcher between his teeth, Zheng Yanling, 47, took up a hacksaw and a fruit knife, and began to cut.
The home surgery, performed without anesthetic, probably saved Zheng's life. But his grim operation, done in April 2012 but only revealed in Chinese media this week, has shocked officials and ordinary citizens into offering financial and medical assistance.
His plight has also stirred debate here about stark inequalities in the nation's healthcare system.
Although the People's Republic of China is an increasingly prosperous socialist country, dominated by the Communist Party, state subsidies for healthcare, long enjoyed by urban workers, have only recently been partially extended to the countryside, where half of China's people still live. A serious illness can still bankrupt an average rural family.
Zheng, considered a "tough guy" in his home village Dongzang, in Qingyuan county of north China's Hebei province, became a hot topic in China's online media Friday. The man himself, in pain and a wheelchair, received visits from local officials, prompted by the embarrassing coverage of their area.
"They brought gifts but no money," said Zheng. "I heard that the Baoding City No.2 Hospital may give me free treatment, but I'm not sure, they haven't confirmed that."
His troubles began in January 2012, when he felt severe pains in his stomach. Expensive trips to hospitals in Baoding and the Chinese capital Beijing suggested Zheng had contracted a rare disease that produced arterial embolisms on both legs. The arteries on his right leg and below his left knee disappeared, and Zheng was told he had a month to live.
A local doctor refused to perform an amputation. Zheng could not afford further treatment or analysis. Despite government efforts to reduce their burden, farmers still shoulder a large part of medical costs, Yu Shaoxiang, a social security expert, told the Global Times newspaper.
"There are several reasons why some poor people cannot benefit from the system, such as low investment from governments, profit-seeking hospitals and limited reimbursement items," Yu said.
His money spent, Zheng took action. Fifteen minutes later, when his wife Shen Zhonghong woke from a nightmare in another room, she saw the hacksaw blade broken in two, Zheng's leg hacked off, and four molars lying on a table, broken loose as he bit down through the pain.
Today, Zheng takes regular painkillers as he battles to save his other leg, after his left foot rotted away with gangrene. The maggots have gone, "but my left leg is still painful every day, I scrub the leg with iodine ... then cover the leg with baby diapers to absorb the fester," he said.
"I wish I could save my left leg. If it has to be cut off, I will keep it somewhere, according to our custom," he said.
His right leg lies in a jar in his yard, testament to an enduring Chinese belief that one's body should be whole upon burial, to respect one's parents. Local official Zhao Yingchun confirmed the basic facts of Zheng's dramatic experience to the Beijing News newspaper, and said authorities would work towards fitting Zheng with prosthetic limbs.
Online reaction has been firmly in Zheng's favor.
"Without money, then things must run their course," wrote Beijing lawyer Xue Huaping on China's Twitter equivalent, Sina Weibo, Friday. "Our society is ever more developed, but it can't give our people the most basic guarantees."
"We have to admire the grassroots, ordinary Chinese have the strong will to survive and endure," wrote Liu Dianbao, an IT worker in eastern Suzhou city, urging a review of China's medical insurance system. "I hope this tragedy won't happen again!"
The Chinese reporter who broke Zheng's story Thursday has solicited donations to help realize his dream of getting back to farm work.
"Yes, I want to go back to my field, I was good at that. I could also do some handcrafts," he said. "I wish all poor families could become healthy again with the help of government and medical care, no matter what kind of disease they suffer."
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OAKLAND, Calif., April 26 (UPI) -- Adam Jones had three of Baltimore's 15 hits Thursday and scored twice in an offensive outburst that carried the Orioles to a 10-2 win over Oakland.
The Athletics lost for the sixth time in seven games.
Baltimore overcame an early two-run deficit with a three-run third that featured an RBI double by Jones and the Orioles piled on seven runs in a four-inning stretch beginning with the fifth.
Nick Markakis contributed a run-scoring single in the third and a sacrifice fly in the fifth. Chris Davis drove in two runs with a sixth-inning homer and a base hit in the eighth.
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text: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 Podcast Outlines APTA's Commitments to Joining Forces Initiative In January, APTA attended the launch of the Joining Forces Initiative (JFI), a national effort that partners the health care community with federal agencies to develop resources and educational materials to fully engage providers in meeting the needs of the nation's service members with traumatic brain injury, posttraumatic stress disorder, and postcombat depression. Once developed, practitioners across the country will be able to access the provider-specific information, publications, and toolkits from 1 central location. Eventually, every organization involved will seek to have its own member-specific site to disperse information that helps soldiers return to the battlefield or start their new lives. As part of its involvement, APTA has made 5 commitments to JFI related to educating members, including 1 commitment to partner with other therapy associations to share educational and training resources. Hear more about these commitments in this prerecorded podcast.


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I intstalled
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Everything working OK except my
3g modem.
I read that others had driver issues but I think I have some other problem.
So after Ubuntu start it's asking my PIN code but after i type my PIN it's says
Network disconnected when i try to connect again (clicking to
Mobile network ON) it's says again
Network disconnected. I think it's not trying to connect.
My PIN is okay (i have an external USB modem for testing, when i insert this SIM card to this modem it's working!)
The type of the internal 3g modem is
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Please help.
EDIT: Finally i got the solution. Don't know that it's a HP mini 110 only or not but when the hardware Wifi button (F12) is turned off it's turning off the 3g too! After i turned on the wifi and entered my pin it's found the network and the connect is success!


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At a time when much of the nation seems to be getting with the campaign for better nutrition, big potato growers are pushing Congress to ignore the USDA guidelines that keep white potatoes off the list of fresh vegetables eligible for a part of the Women Infants and Children (WIC) nutrition program to provide fresh produce in poor families' diets.
It's leading to an odd battle in the Senate appropriations process: Organizations worried about nutrition in subsidized food programs for the poor are digging in against the potato industry's efforts to destigmatize white potatoes. If nothing else, the issue has brought together allies across partisan lines in the Appropriations Committee.
A letter sent May 19 to members of Congress signed by 18 religious organizations – including Catholic Charities USA, Network, the Catholic social justice lobby, and two orders of religious women – warns against revising nutrition standards in the appropriations process.
Over the past several decades, federal child nutrition programs have played a critical role in preventing hunger and promoting health among some of our nation's most vulnerable children. One of the reasons for their success is that the programs, including the WIC Program and the School Lunch Program, have been guided and informed by non-partisan scientific processes. Congress has appropriately set broad policy parameters for the programs, but has left program design and details to the Department of Agriculture, which typically relies on the scientific expertise of organizations such as the National Academy of Sciences.
But recently, this scientific process has come under attack as outside groups have increasingly sought to use the appropriations process to compel changes to federal nutrition programs. For example, several years ago, special interests successfully used the appropriations process to weaken the National School Lunch Program to the advantage of potato and frozen food interests. Last year, similar efforts were undertaken to attack proposed rules pertaining to school meals standards and the WIC food package.
The religious groups' letter is one volley in an effort that has been playing out in op-ed pages over the last couple of weeks. A vote is expected in the Senate Appropriations Committee May 22 as it marks up the appropriations bill for the Department of Agriculture.
As a May 11 editorial in USA Today observed,
The potato exclusion, like every other decision about WIC's menu of the last 40 years, is based on nutritional science — which is exactly the way things like this ought to be done. In 2005, the Institute of Medicine specifically recommended excluding white potatoes because low-income people were already eating plenty of them. The Agriculture Department accepted the advice.
But that riled the potato industry, which insists the issue isn't money but image. "We can't let our federal government perpetuate those negative stereotypes," says Mark Szymanski of the National Potato Council.
So in a classic case of a special interest trumping the public interest, potato growers and their allies are fighting back the Washington way, boosting campaign donations and enlisting potato-state politicians to force the Agriculture Department to let potatoes into WIC.
The potato industry counters that white potatoes have an inaccurate bad rep as nutritional bad boys. (Their cousins, sweet potatoes and yams, are accepted in WIC and other nutrition programs.) In an opposing view to the USA Today editorial, two senators from Top 10 potato growing states — Republican Susan Collins of Maine and Democrat Mark Udall of Colorado — said the nutritional data used by the USDA is out of date, that baked potatoes get unfairly tarnished by the inarguably unhealthy nature of french fries.
Because some people don't differentiate between french fries and baked potatoes, the potato has gotten a bad rap. We believe a balance can be found that preserves the integrity of programs such as WIC while also ensuring that the most updated facts are being used to determine the best nutrients for Americans — including from the potato.
Meanwhile, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has been rallying opposition to giving potatoes a pass into the nutrition program. Among the arguments its advocates raise is that letting Congress — instead of food science agencies including the USDA — change policy about what qualifies for nutrition programs opens the door to advocates for all kinds of other foods to try to get similar back-door approval for the programs.
Another letter, from nutrition-focused groups — including the American Academy of Pediatrics, Bread for the World and the American Public Health Association — focused on the angle in a letter from March. They warned that the appropriate way to ensure the WIC program remains science-based is to conduct another review of the science "including consumption data." The letter noted that such a review is under way.


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The International Graduate School: Heritage Studies at Cottbus-Senftenberg University is offering under the direction of the UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies its third International Summer Academy Cottbus: Understanding Heritage (ISAC) under the title: "The Role of Participation, Empowerment and Sustainable Development in Heritage Studies and its Corresponding Disciplines"
The Summer Academy is organized under the patronage of the German Commission for UNESCO and the Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Culture (tbc). The ISAC is supported and funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Up to 15 scholarships can be offered to international students and junior researchers. The programme combines lectures, workshops, individual presentations, poster presentations, and thematic excursions. The aim of this year's Summer Academy is to give young scholars and students comprehensive insights into research on the most relevant and innovative approaches to participation and empowerment in the context of heritage. The Summer Academy is targeted at international Master's and Ph.D. students in Heritage Studies or related fields.
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A revitalized take on the 2,000-year-old staple bread - the pita - will soon wrap up the Middle East, as Extreme Pita and Purblendz announce the signing of its first international agreement in Muscat, (Sultanate of Oman).
The Canadian chains are looking to serve up a fresh, fast and healthy alternative to Omani eaters with 21 locations in the next 10 years.
"The power of the pita has always resonated with the cuisine of the Middle East, and we expect our Canadian twist to make Extreme Pita and Purblendz a household name throughout the region," said Alex Rechichi, CEO and Co-Founder of Extreme Pita and Purblendz. "Our commitment to providing customers a unique product full of fresh, healthy options will help drive the international success of our brand."
In an effort to further the brands' expansion plans, Extreme Pita and Purblendz have entered into a Master Franchise Agreement with The Double Crown Group. Widely known in the region for specializing in various operational arenas and representing some of the top brand names around the globe, the group will oversee the development of all 21 units in the Sultanate of Oman, including 11 Extreme Pitas and 10 Purblendz.
"We are proud to be partnering with Extreme Pita and Purblendz as they expand internationally," said Aadham Bin Tariq Bin Taimur Al-Said, Chairman of The Double Crown Group. "We think both brands have tremendous potential and look forward to growing them throughout the region."
"Our expansion into Oman is the catalyst that will ignite our international expansion plans," said Mark Cunningham, Executive Vice President of International Operations and Business Development for Extreme Pita and Purblendz. "The success we expect to experience will help us to increase our brand not only in the Middle East, but across Eastern and Western Europe, China and India, as well."
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