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In his senior season at DeMatha, it was only natural that goalkeeper Keegan Meyer take on more responsibility. Meyer is not only hoping to lead DeMatha's soccer team to another Washington Catholic Athletic Conference championship, he's now also trying to do the same on the football team.
Meyer is kicking and punting for the football team this season, balancing soccer practices and games with his new football responsibilities.
"It will definitely help me," Meyer said. "It helps me become more of a leader. Everyone on the football team is a leader in some way. It definitely helps me do that with my teammates in soccer, and it helps me be more vocal. Everyone is a brother on DeMatha's football team and it helps transition that to soccer."
Meyer had 26 saves for DeMatha last season when the Stags went 15-4. Before this season, football coach Elijah Brooks asked Meyer if he'd be interested in helping the football team's special teams unit, even though Meyer had only ever kicked soccer balls. He said it only took him a couple of practices to learn how to kick a football, and the longest field goal he has made in practice was 45 yards.
Football and soccer practice at Heurich Field, so after soccer practice is over, Meyer works with the football team for an hour and a half. If there's a soccer game that causes Meyer to miss football practice, he does, because soccer is still the priority.
In DeMatha's first game of the season, a 34-13 at nationally-ranked loss Archbishop Wood (Pa.), Meyer said he kicked extra points and punted. Punting is easier for him because it's about his motions, while extra-point and field-goal kicks involve more timing with other players.
"It was my first time, so there were a lot of nerves going through me," Meyer said. "I just had to keep my head down and look at the ball. . . .It's a lot of pressure in football, but I have the mental toughness to do it."
Perennial power DeMatha returns Meyer, midfielder James Gielen, who scored two goals last season, and defender Marco Torchia. . . . Severna Park, the defending Maryland 4A state champion, has one of the best players in the area in forward Daniel Kwon, who scored seven goals last year. . . . Gonzaga reached the WCAC final in what was supposed to be a rebuilding year, and the Eagles have talent from that team returning, including senior Phillip Littleton. . . . In Montgomery County, Blake made the 4A final last year and Magruder lost just five seniors from a strong 2013 squad.
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Mini Review - Metal Gods of Ur-Hadad Issue #1 Winter 2014 (DCC RPG Fanzine)
This Zine goes to 11!
Not because I think Metal Gods of Ur-Hadad is a comedy, but because it cranks the DCC RPG up to 11. It knows no bounds or maybe it pushes boundaries. Whatever it does, it does it damn well.
Actually, what is does is Swords & Sorcery as a theme to the proverbial "T", especially for an urban environment. You most certainly do not need the DCC RPG to make the most of Metal Gods of Ur-Hadad, although the wacky DCC dice will certainly help with the tables. The tables are insane, use funky dice and look to be a blast in actual play. I did mention I love tables that work in session, right? Because much of these do.
Shit! I'm thinking that Metal Gods of Ur-Hadad layered atop the classic Thieves' World boxed set running with Crypts & Things (but stealing liberally from AS&SH) would be like the most awesome RPG Urban Sandbox ever run by a mere mortal.
Then I remember I don't have the time! Grrrr!
Metal Gods of Ur-Habad is PWYW. This means you can try before you buy, but you will buy.
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This paper, proposes an effective and flexible distributed scheme with explicit dynamic data support to ensure the correctness of users data in the cloud. The authors rely on erasure correcting code in the file distribution preparation to provide redundancies and guarantee the data dependability. This construction drastically reduces the communication and storage overhead as compared to the traditional replication based file distribution techniques. By utilizing the homomorphic token with distributed verification of erasure coded data, their scheme achieves the storage correctness insurance as well as data error localization, whenever data corruption has been detected during the storage correctness verification, their scheme can almost guarantee the simultaneous localization of data errors, i.e., the identification of the misbehaving server(s).


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During a visual approach to Sumburgh Airport, the aircraft encountered worsening weather conditions and inadvertently flew into close proximity with the terrain. The crew were alerted to the situation by on-board equipment, but the commander did not respond to the 'PULL UP' warnings it generated. The approach was continued and a safe landing made at the airport. The investigation identified a number of organisational, training and human factors issues which contributed to the crew's incorrect response to the situation. Two recommendations were made, concerning crew training and regulatory oversight of the aircraft operator.
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Angelina Jolie was all smiles with her man, Brad Pitt, on the red carpet for the premiere f her sure to be blockbuster spy thriller Salt. The role was originally going to Tom Cruise, but due to scheduling conflicts and fears that the role would resemble his portrayal of Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible forced him to turn down the opportunity. Luckily Jolie has the ability to carry a movie on her own and has had success with action films in the past. Her work in Wanted, a decent action film, was solid and she really took that movie to a respectable level. In Salt, Jolie plays CIA agent Evelyn Salt who is accused of being a Russian sleeper agent and is forced to go on the run. If the film is successful look for this to become a huge franchise that will continue to make Jolie the highest paid woman in Hollywood.
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Talyst, With $8M in New Funding, Sets Sights on Its Next Healthcare-IT Business
It might be too early to call Bellevue, WA-based Talyst a success, but its story certainly makes for a compelling case study. The company closed $8 million last month from existing investors OVP Venture Partners, Ignition Partners, and AIG Global Investment Group, but didn't make an announcement. Why? Things have been too busy.
"We raised money to grow new markets," says Talyst CEO Carla Corkern, who has just been named chairman of the board. "That's what VCs like to invest in."
Talyst is known for making software that helps pharmacies manage the flow of medications in hospitals and clinics. The idea is to automate the process of tracking drug inventory and filling prescriptions using smart management software and a touch-screen kiosk interface—sort of like going to a vending machine—and to do it in a safe, secure, and efficient way. The new markets Corkern wants to expand into are nursing homes and assisted living facilities, as well as prisons and other correctional facilities. Those facilities have many people who need medications, but may not have a pharmacist on-site, so they need an efficient way for a nurse or caretaker to package and dispense meds to patients.
"The long-term care market is a $2 billion market for facility-based automation which has a strong return on investment—needed for these times," says Corkern.
To appreciate the significance of this new market strategy, you need to know the history—much of which occurred before Corkern joined the company. Talyst was founded in 2002 as Integrated Healthcare Systems, and raised some $29 million in venture funding in 2005 and 2006 (a total of $37.5 million prior to the latest round). By 2007, it had become a market leader in managing medications for hospital pharmacies.
But there was trouble brewing. Talyst had grown to more than 170 employees and wasn't bringing in enough revenues. As Corkern explains, the company had 45 percent market share in hospital pharmacies, but that market was maturing (it is now more than 50 percent captured by existing players). So in 2007, Corkern was brought on board to focus on business development, and she was soon promoted to chief operating officer. She had previously served as chief operations officer for Vykor, an aerospace supply-chain company in Renton, WA. Having lived in Texas, she was also familiar with regulations involved in long-term care—particularly around the process of dispensing medications remotely, in which Texas was the national leader. "I came in to focus on diversifying the business and take it into new markets," Corkern says.
As is often the case, the company had to take a step back before it could move forward. In 2008, Talyst laid off a large number of employees—it is now down to 102—and replaced outgoing CEO and co-founder Jim Torina with Corkern. "The future of the company was in new markets, which were only 20 percent of our business," Corkern says. "Jim saw that and positioned me as the new market champion."
Asked about some of the company's missteps, Corkern points to a couple of specific areas. In hospitals, she says, "we didn't worry about customers' upgrade path. We didn't do a lot of backward compatibility." That means some of the equipment around Talyst's technology, like printers and scanners, would wear out after a few years and drag down the system, defeating the whole point of simplifying the dispensing of meds. "[Customers] weren't complaining about aging infrastructure, but it was creating heartache and problems," she says. So Talyst spent almost $1 million on updating the equipment. Customer satisfaction has since "skyrocketed," Corkern says. She adds that Talyst now follows more of a Microsoft model for installing upgrades, which is more automated and "not invasive."
Corkern also shared a couple of interesting anecdotes about hard decisions she made concerning elements of the product line that weren't making money. "They were cool and sexy, and [customers] said they wanted them," she says. For example, a wireless device designed so a caretaker could keep track of medication orders while walking around a pharmacy. But hospital pharmacies are usually located in basements with concrete walls where wireless signals are unreliable, leading to dropped orders. "We had the courage to shoot some products," she says. "Don't be afraid to kill something even if you've invested in it."
Talyst turned profitable this year, following its major restructuring of 2008, Corkern says. As for the new markets it is targeting—facilities like nursing homes and prisons—the company is running pilot tests in long-term care homes in Texas, Florida, and Indiana. It has also closed deals with five pharmacies that service hundreds of facilities, including correctional facilities at 13 locations in San Bernardino County in California. The company's traditional competitors in the hospital pharmacy space, like Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen, probably won't follow Talyst into nursing homes or jails, Corkern says. But wherever it goes, Talyst will still face competition from the likes of Advanced Pharmacy and Omnicell in the increasingly crowded healthcare-IT space.
It's still early days for the company's market shift, Corkern says. Eighty percent of Talyst's revenue still comes from its established hospital business, which is about $35 million to $40 million a year and growing at a rate of five to 10 percent annually, she says.
"To get explosive new growth, we need to grow a $35-40 million business in a new market," Corkern says.
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Nicki Minaj is also involved. 'Nuf said.
Not since the days of Charlie's Angels has Cameron Diaz starred with a more fabulous (and deadly) trio of ladies. Ms. Diaz, Leslie Mann, and the nonsensically beautiful muse Katherine "Kate" Upton are three merry revenge seekers in this April's The Other Woman.
Not to be confused with Natalie Portman's emotional tour de force of 2009, this new peppy version features sassy women running on beaches, quippy one-liners, and welcome reminders that once you're a teensy bit older, it's still kind of okay to throw up in your purse, drink way too much, and make ball jokes.
As three women realize they're all being cheated on by the same man (Game of Thrones' Nikolaj Coster-Waldau aka Jaime Lannister), the blonde-ish trifecta goes on a Cosmo-fueled revenge kick that would make Madeleine Stowe wet herself.
This April look for Diaz, Mann, and Upton as, and I quote, The Lawyer, The Wife, and The Boobs. Also, Nicki Minaj as The Assistant? The Sass? The Hair? Honestly, she could have a whole side-story I don't know about because, I mean, Kate Upton!
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AAP Media Fellowship recipients
The AAP's Media Capacity Building Project (MCBP) recently awarded Media Fellowships to nine African journalist.
The following five journalist were selected from more than 30 applicants to win AAP Media Fellowships. Along with training and networking opportunities, the fellowships included sponsorship for the five journalists to join the We Have Faith climate justice caravan to Durban and to stay and report from there on COP17.
Audrey Wabwire, 26, from Nairobi, Kenya
Audrey has been working in journalism for 11 years and is currently a producer for radio production house Well Told Story Limited. She has previously worked as a news reporter with Radio Waumini and as a writer for the Africa Media Service and was accepted into the Aga Khan Foundation's Young Development Professionals Program in 2009-2010. Audrey has benefitted from a number of professional workshops including the East for South project workshop and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association workshop.
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Lily Mengesha, 27, from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Lily is the founding member of the Ethiopian Environmental Journalists Association as well as children's charity the Light for Generation Association. She is currently working for The Citizen in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania under an exchange program sponsored by the Norwegian government. Lily has previously worked with the Addis Ababa HIV/AIDS prevention control Office, The Reporter newspaper and fashion magazines. She also worked with BBC correspondent Mohammed Ado in Ethiopia and as a translator for BBC correspondent Amber Henshaw.
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Tina Ogbonna from Lagos, Nigeria
Tina has been working as a journalist since 2009 when she undertook a traineeship with the Federal Radio Cooperation of Nigeria (FRCN). She has since worked with the Nigeria Television Authority as a field reporter and as a production assistant on a marine documentary series. Now, she has returned to the FRCN where she reports on maritime and environmental issues. Tina is a member of the Nigeria Federation of Science Journalists, the New Science Journalism Project and also freelances with CNN iRreport.
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Bernice Atabong, 27, from Ebolowa, Cameroon
Bernice has been a reporter and broadcaster for Cameroon Radio and Television (CRTV) since 2006 and previously worked with Radio Television Siantou and at the Cameroon Tribune. She has been involved in environmental awareness activities and youth empowerment throughout her career. She is a member of youth NGO Sans Frontier with which she has worked on community education and environmental awareness raising campaigns and is also a member of the Cameroon English Speaking Journalists association.
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Youssouph Bodian, 24, from Dakar, Senegal
Youssouph is a correspondent for Future Radio Media in Fatick, Senegal. He has previously worked with Radio Senegal, RTS Ziguinchor (radio) and Le Soleil, a Senegalese daily newspaper. Youssouph also contributed to the creation of the news-blog DakarBondyBlog. He has been involved in various environmental activities including a two-year teaching position in liaison with WWF, marine preservation and protection campaigns and climate change-related activities. He will next year undertake a Masters in Environmental Health at CESTI.
The following four journalists were selected from the MCBP's pool of trainees. The were sponsored to attend and report on COP17.
Emmanuel has worked as a broadcast journalist for 25 years and is currently Director of Cooperation and public relations and Deputy Editor-in-Chief for TV magazines. He has been a field producer and correspondent for CNN and Deutsche Welle as well as a host of other broadcasters. He began covering environmental issues in the early 1990s and has worked as a journalism trainer on these issues. Emmanuel's environmental reporting has been recognised by numerous organisations and in 2004 he received the US Ambassador's Excellence Award in 'recognition of his extraordinary efforts and personal commitment to enhancing the skills of journalists and advancing democracy and human rights in Cameroon'.
Erick Kabendera, Tanzania
Erick is a Tanzanian freelance journalist who specialises on science and development issues. Last year he spent part of his seven month-Tanzania Media Fund Fellowship for Rural Reporting writing on how changes in climate patterns were affecting small-scale farmers in rural Tanzania. He was a winner of the David Astor Journalism Award in 2009, which saw him posted to UK newspapers The Independent and The Times for three months. He has also won several awards for science reporting and in 2008 spent three months at the United Nations' Headquarters after winning the prestigious Dag Hammarskjöld Fellowship for Journalism, where he reported on African development issues including climate change. Erick has served as news editor for Tanzania's The Guardian newspaper and science and education features writer for The Citizen. His articles have also appeared in IPS Africa, The Africa Report,Africa Confidential, The New African and The Times of London.
Ben Nessir Chokri, Tunisia
A journalist for 26 years, Ben began covering environmental issues in 1991. His environmental reporting has been recognised by numerous organisations and has seen him receive a number of awards as well as become a university lecturer on environmental journalism. Ben used to run the European service of Saudi Arabia's Ryadh Radio and was head of the Tunisian Foreign Promotion Agency. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Courrier de Tunisieand La Presse daily newspapers
Francis Tuffour, Ghana
A graduate of the University of Ghana, the Ghana Institute of Journalism and the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (Environmental Management Studies), Francis has reported extensively on environment and climate change issues. He is the founder of the Ghana Institute of Journalism branch of the Federation of Environmental Journalists. Francis has won numerous awards for his reportage including Ghana's Best Crime and Court Reporting for 2011, Best Journalist – Print Reporting in 2010 and Best Journalist – Finance and Economic Reporting in 2006. He was also awarded the Ziem Yaan-Tol Media Award by the UN Population Fund in 2006 for his reporting on population, reproductive health and gender issues.


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First person killed in self-driving car crash escaped this near-miss only weeks earlier
A TESLA driver has been killed in a car crash only months after self-driving technology saved him from potentially fatal collision with a passing truck.
Joshua Brown, from Ohio, US, regularly posted Tesla-related videos to his YouTube account, including the video above which racked up more than 1.8 million views after it was posted in April earlier this year.
"Tesla Model S autopilot saved the car autonomously from a side collision from a boom lift truck," Brown wrote in the video's description.
The clip shows Brown travelling in the inside lane of a busy highway while a large white truck visible in the far left of the screen begins slowly to veer into his lane.
Suddenly, the dash cam shows the Tesla car swerve onto the hard shoulder as the white truck moves across into Brown's lane, avoiding a potentially nasty collision.
Brown continued: "I actually wasn't watching that direction and Tessy (the name of my car) was on duty with autopilot engaged.
"I became aware of the danger when Tessy alerted me with the 'immediately take over' warning chime and the car swerving to the right to avoid the side collision.
"It was a mistake on the other driver's part. He did not even know I was there until I honked my horn."
Tragically however, Brown was killed in a crash only weeks later after a trailer tractor drove across the highway, colliding with the driver-side windshield.
Local news reports stated that neither the driver nor the autopilot technology were able to to distinguish between the rig and the trailer "against a brightly lit sky".
Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted his condolences for the tragedy but claimed the vehicle's radar didn't help in this case because it "tunes out what looks like an overhead road sign to avoid false braking events".
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DocumentationMathematicaThe Mathematica BookPrinciples of MathematicaEvaluation of Expressions
2.6.7 Evaluation in Iteration Functions
The built-in Mathematica iteration functions such as Table and Sum, as well as Plot and Plot3D, evaluate their arguments in a slightly special way.
When evaluating an expression like Table[f, i, imax], the first step, as discussed in Section 2.7.6, is to make the value of i local. Next, the limit imax in the iterator specification is evaluated. The expression f is maintained in an unevaluated form, but is repeatedly evaluated as a succession of values are assigned to i. When this is finished, the global value of i is restored.
The function Random[ ] is evaluated four separate times here, so four different pseudorandom numbers are generated.
In[1]:= Table[Random[ ], {4}]
This evaluates Random[ ] before feeding it to Table. The result is a list of four identical numbers.
In[2]:= Table[ Evaluate[Random[ ]], {4} ]
In most cases, it is convenient for the function f in an expression like Table[f, i, imax] to be maintained in an unevaluated form until specific values have been assigned to i. This is true in particular if a complete symbolic form for f valid for any i cannot be found.
This defines fac to give the factorial when it has an integer argument, and to give NaN (standing for "Not a Number") otherwise.
In[3]:= fac[n_Integer] := n! ; fac[x_] := NaN
In this form, fac[i] is not evaluated until an explicit integer value has been assigned to i.
In[4]:= Table[fac[i], {i, 5}]
Using Evaluate forces fac[i] to be evaluated with i left as a symbolic object.
In[5]:= Table[Evaluate[fac[i]], {i, 5}]
In cases where a complete symbolic form for f with arbitrary i in expressions such as Table[f, i, imax] can be found, it is often more efficient to compute this form first, and then feed it to Table. You can do this using Table[Evaluate[f], i, imax].
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Does it seem like there are more tickets being handed out for parking on the "wrong side" of the street lately?
Does it seem like there are more tickets being handed out for parking on the "wrong side" of the street lately?
I got one last February, in front of my house, when I had to move my car out of my drive for about 2 hours. Cost me $45, and it really pissed me off to have to pay that fine.
Not in Dallas, but this happened to me in Austin one weekend when I parked at a friend's house to carpool to Lubbock. 3 days later, I came back to 3 tickets for the same offense. I argued the case in traffic court and was told I could have received a separate $40 fine for each 4 hours it remained that way.
I paid up and have been living on the right side of the law (and road) since.
Happened at our house in Lakewood/M-Streets a few times recently – we've been notifying our guests and people as they move in.
DPD could spend more time stopping speeders on almost any street in Dallas!
Hopefully they are using the proceeds to repair streets and compensate neighborhood police patrols.
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Somebody's gotta pay for those signature bridges.
@ Lee…Dallas PD, for the most part, will ONLY issue parking citations when responding to a call from a complaining citizen. If you get a "wrong way" parking ticket, you can thank your City of Dallas parking enforcement who scour the streets daily, instead suggesting other ways for Dallas PD to spend their time.
These Dallas Revitalisation Projects aren't going to pay for themselves…you know!
I got a ticket reminder in the mail a couple of weeks ago. I didn't recall parking near the Hard Rock Cafe on the evening of the Lady Gaga concert. Then I remembered I had loaned my car to my 16-year-old son that night. I guess he thought I wouldn't find out.
Lately? No, you mean in recent years as Robert Wilonsky pointed out in Nov. 2009. http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2009/11/you_might_wanna_park_your_car.php
The wrong way parking tickets are bleeding into (gasp!) North Dallas…
*it's the single biggest threat to our community…*
Or, not, and just a way for the DPD to drive revenue to a broke butt city.
Park your car correctly. Problem solved!
It's not that hard.
Wrong-way parking is, ultimately, an irrational pet peeve of mine, so I'm kind of glad they're doing it. I just wish Addison police would enforce it in the Addison Circle neighborhood.
They haven't made it to Canyon Creek yet. Not only do people park the wrong way, they park 3 feet from the curb. It's a hazard.
Two years ago, in NE Dallas, two people got wrong way parking tickets in front of my in-law's house, while delivering food for my sister-in-law's post-funeral lunch. And the cops knew it was for a funeral.
Seems a little excessive.
What Sammy said. Let's talk about why it's illegal:
By the vary definition of parking over there you are driving on the wrong side of the road in order to reach the parking space, and then replicating that action a second time when pulling out of the space.
Is it really so evil that you have to park on the proper side of the street and/or turn around to reach the parking spot on the other side that you so desperately yearn for?
Don't do the crime if you can't pay the fine.
B.S. tickets. They aren't just for people driving crappy cars anymore! (TM)
I think it's great. I always park my car facing the correct way on the street. It's a law, so if you can't do the time, don't do the crime.
Taillights are more reflective than headlights and thus are easier to see. I believe this is the main reason the law is in place. Growing up on a curving street in Richardson, I can understand this law. That, and the whole wrong side of the street argument. Yeah, it sucks if you have to move your car and do a 3-point turn to make it face the right way, but it beats a broken headlight at night…or a ticket.
My husband came home one day to find City Parking Enforcement measuring with a ruler the distance from the curb to our friend's car who was visting us in Lake Highlands. A bit much..don't you think?
I live in Okc, Ok on the south side of the dividing line between Edmond, Ok and Okc. Since I moved here a year and a half ago, there hasn't been a day go by that my east side neighbor hasn't had at least 2 and sometimes 3-4 vehicles parked, mainly in front of my house, and going the wrong way. Who can I complain to?
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Whatever else it accomplishes, cap and trade will be a huge tax on the productive sectors of the economy. The "cap" is a government-imposed limit on total emissions; companies then buy permits from the government to emit pollutants up to the amount of the cap, and can then trade these permits with each other. The process of issuing and pricing the permits will be an invitation to astonishing amounts of lobbying and favor-seeking. Cap and trade, in the words of MIT's Richard Lindzen, will be a bureaucrat's dream.
According to a recently released study by the George C. Marshall Institute:
- The cost of cap and trade to the overall economy -- depending on the size and scope of the legislation -- is anywhere from a 0.3 percent to 3 percent drop in GDP in 2015 below what it would otherwise be.
- Americans would see their electricity prices jumping 5-15 percent by 2015, natural gas prices up 12-50 percent by 2015, and gasoline prices up 9-145 percent by 2015.
The numbers are staggering, which is why the Obama administration plans to divert some of the permit revenues to its "making work pay" tax credit, reimbursing low-income individuals up to $400 a year and $800 for couples. It won't be enough, says the Standard:
- The Senate failed to pass cap-and- trade legislation in 2007 -- the Lieberman-Warner bill -- which the Marshall Institute estimates would have cost each American household $1,100 in 2008, rising to $1,437 by 2015, and $2,979 in 2050.
- Obama's plan is far more ambitious, and would be a far greater burden to American taxpayers; the administration projects that the tax would raise some $650 billion for federal coffers between 2012 and 2019.
The other reason for not hurrying up with a carbon tax may well be that the science underlying climate-change alarmism has taken a beating, says the Standard. "It's been a catastrophic year" for global warming activists, says Christopher Horner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, an industry-funded think-tank. All of a sudden, "the observations are very inconvenient."
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During sleep our body and mind restore themselves to make us ready for the activity of the following day. We process our experiences, thoughts and emotions in our dreams, and hormones for physical repair and growth are released from the brain. Whichever way you look at it, we can't manage without sleep.
Here we're going to look at what happens in the long and short term when we can't sleep properly or can't sleep at all.
What happens if I don't/can't sleep?
People suffer from insomnia either when they can't get to sleep or when they can't stay asleep. There are plenty of reasons that people can't sleep so finding yours is (obviously!) the first step so that you know what to do about it. Our busy lives and multiple stressors often mean that we forget how to settle, relax and go to sleep and it's estimated that 1 in 3 of us will suffer from insomnia at some point in our lives.
Re-learning the art of going to sleep may seem silly as sleep is a natural process, but if you're reading this because it's been a while since you had a good night's sleep then you probably already feel less than your bright and bubbly self. You may be bad tempered, cranky and unable to focus on what you're doing. You may find that you're making bad decisions, having more accidents in the home and in the car, and finding everyday tasks a struggle.
New parents find a whole night's sleep becomes a luxury in the first months of a baby's life, so look here for tips on helping your baby to sleep. There is section of this site devoted to babies, children and sleep.
- Irritability. Feeling mentally exhausted as well as physically tired makes us less tolerant of things that we normally might not notice or care about – a barking dog or crying baby for example, or a comment from a loved one.
- Insomnia can lead to depression and anxiety. Because your ability to reason and be rational is eroded when you can't sleep, this can lead to depression and an inability to cope with what life throws at you. Levels of depression vary from mild to severe depending on any previous depressive history you might have and how long you suffer with insomnia.
- You become more susceptible to infections. As your immune system can't restore itself to protect the body you may find that you get more coughs and colds or more major infections.
- Poor hand-eye coordination. Some people find they get a slight tremor or shake as they become more tired. So if you're involved with precise work that needs you to be able to see and place objects properly (for example needle work, some factory work or even typing), insomnia can make this more difficult.
- Weight gain, especially round the stomach/midsection. If you're feeling physically tired it's unlikely that you want to go out for a walk or do many activities that burn calories, so weight gain becomes inevitable. Couple that with feeling emotionally down and that can make you want to reach for the biscuit barrel. There may also be a hormonal imbalance caused by the insomnia that makes this worse – cortisol is a stress hormone that, in excess, makes us put weight on round our middles; and growth hormone is released at night when we sleep and is a hormone that makes us burn fat.
- Poor memory. Sleep helps us process the events of the day and store them in our memories. There is growing evidence that learning before going to sleep can help to improve our memory recall.
- Increased blood pressure. This may be caused by stress – either the stress of not being able to sleep or the stress that is causing the lack of sleep. If the lack of quality sleep is caused by sleep apnea then this will also contribute to the high blood pressure.
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AZ faces Texas lawsuit over bribery, improper marketing of antipsychotic drug
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- In a new lawsuit, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott claims that AstraZeneca paid doctors and state mental health officials more than $460,000 to promote its antipsychotic drug Seroquel for unapproved uses.
- Abbott alleges that the illegal marketing practices wound up costing Texas' Medicaid program millions of dollars in reimbursements for the drug, as many patients with serious mental illness are on public insurance programs. AZ denies any wrongdoing.
- AZ previously settled a separate federal lawsuit over similar allegations regarding Seroquel marketing back in 2010. The company was forced to pay $520 million in the settlement.
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"Understanding the need to obtain significant government buy-in to achieve their financial goals for Seroquel, [AZ] set [its] sights on Texas Medicaid, declaring it 'low hanging fruit' and 'an absolute must win' that would fuel brand growth," states the lawsuit.
It's still too early to tell, but if Abbott's claims are proven to hold water, AZ could be forced to pay a big fine right around year-end earnings reporting season (or Q1 2015). In its previous Seroquel settlement with the feds, AZ had to sign a boilerplate corporate integrity agreement saying that the company would monitor and self-police unethical marketing practices. There's no word on whether or not attorneys general in other states also plan on pursuing AZ, but if the incidents that Abbott is alleging aren't just limited to Texas, the pharma giant could wind up with another federal case on its hands.
Recommended Reading:
- Wall Street Journal Texas AG Lawsuit Claims AstraZeneca Improperly Marketed Seroquel


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"Sometimes you have to embrace death in order to embrace life." 08 January 2008
Cassandra, a mute runaway girl, takes refuge in the cemetery in which her mother is laid to rest. She is watched over by Jorge, the cemetery caretaker, an illegal alien who is committed to the restoration of a classic '60 cadillac hearse. Shore is a dynamic, handsome, and brilliant young man who also happens to be homeless. After almost hitting Cassandra in his dilapidated VW bus, he becomes fascinated by the gothic cemetery waif and attempts to befriend her. A sequence of events results in Cass getting lost. Jorge and Shore flee the cemetery in a stolen hearse to find Cassandra before her abusive step-father does. All paths lead to Yermo - the site of a roadside diner and a feisty but compassionate transvestite waitress named Lola.
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Uganda's Constitutional Court should repeal the Public Order Management Act as unconstitutional
|International Federation for Human Rights
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|19 December 2013
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|International Federation for Human Rights, Uganda's Constitutional Court should repeal the Public Order Management Act as unconstitutional, 19 December 2013, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/52de4d7512.html [accessed 22 November 2017]
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Last Update 19 December 2013
Geneva-Paris, December 19, 2013. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of OMCT and FIDH, calls upon the Uganda's Constitutional Court to repeal the Public Order Management Act, which restricts freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly and further deteriorates an already shrinking space for civil society and human rights defenders in the country.
On October 2, 2013, President Yoweri Museveni signed into law the Public Order Management Act (POM Act), which was passed by Parliament in August and aims to "provide for the regulation of public meetings; to provide for the duties and responsibilities of police, organisers and participants in relation to public meetings; [and] to prescribe measures for safeguarding public order", instead of giving powers to the police to protect the enjoyment of freedoms. Although protecting public order is a legitimate concern recognised by international instruments, the scope and nature of the restrictions provided by the POM Act go well beyond the restrictions permitted under international and regional human rights law and therefore contradict Uganda's international and regional commitments.
"Whereas it is important to ensure law and order during protests, the POM Act seems to be intended to stifle freedoms of association and expression and thereby to undermine civil society working space by setting very difficult conditions to hold public meetings, demonstrations and any form of gathering in public places", said Gerald Staberock, Secretary General of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT). "The Constitutional Court of Uganda should therefore repeal it immediately as unconstitutional", he further urged.
The POM Act fails to establish a presumption in favour of the exercise of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly as it fails to recall the duty on the State to facilitate peaceful assemblies, in particular as Article 6(3) provides that "where the authorised officer notifies the organiser [of an assembly] or his or her agent that it is not possible to hold a proposed public meeting on the date or venue proposed, the public meeting shall not be held on that date or at the venue proposed". The coincidence of two demonstrations at the same location and time as well as an unsuitable venue can be the basis for rejecting a notification (Article 6(1)). It is feared that these two grounds may be used abusively.
When assemblies are held contrary to the Act, law enforcement authorities may stop or prevent the holding of a "public meeting", which is widely defined as "a gathering, assembly, procession or demonstration in a public place or premises held for the purposes of discussing, acting upon, petitioning or expressing views on a matter of public interest" (Article 4 (1)), without defining the concept of "matter of public interest". In circumstances where a public meeting is held contrary to the Act, participants in the meeting may be criminalised and are liable of an imprisonment not exceeding 12 months or a fine not exceeding 480,000 Uganda shillings (about 140 €) or both (Article 10(3)). This provision seriously jeopardise the exercise of the right to peaceful assembly, as organisers should not be subject to criminal sanctions, or administrative sanctions resulting in fines or imprisonment.
In addition, the POM Act grants powers to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) or an authorised officer "to regulate the conduct of all public meetings in accordance with the law" (Article 3), which reintroduces Section 32 of the Police Act, which was found unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court in the case of Muwanga Kivumbi vs. Attorney General (Constitutional Petition No.9/2005). The Court noted that Section 32 of the Police Act required Ugandans to seek permission from the IGP before exercising the right to demonstrate and assemble, which contradicts Article 29 of the Constitution. The POM Act therefore contradicts Article 92 of the Constitution of Uganda, which provides that "Parliament shall not pass any law to alter the decision or judgment of any court as between the parties to the decision or judgment".
Article 12 (1) of the POM Act grants the Interior Minister the power, subject to Parliamentary approval, to declare any area as "gazetted" where public meetings are absolutely prohibited.
Further, the POM Act prohibits public meetings at and around public institutions by designing them as "restricted areas", where entry is prohibited with punishment of two years' imprisonment and/or a fine of 960,000 Uganda shillings or both (Article 13(3)). These areas notably include Parliament and Courts. It is also worrying that wide-ranging and discretionary powers are given to the law enforcement authorities to disperse spontaneous assemblies under certain vaguely defined circumstances (Article 7(2)) and public meetings "in order to prevent violence, restore order, and preserve the peace" (Article 9(2)(f)).
Accordingly, the Observatory fears the POM Act will lead to a further deterioration of the civic space in Uganda, and may hamper civil society actions that involve discussions related to governance and accountability, rule of law and more generally human rights, or anything within the spectrum of "public interest" will only be held provided police permission and supervision is granted.
"The law clearly contravenes international and regional standards, including Articles 19 and 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and Articles 9, 10 and 11 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, and also violates Article 29 of the Ugandan Constitution that promotes and protects the rights to freedom of expression and association. Indeed, instead of giving powers to the police to protect the enjoyment of freedoms, this new law empowers the police to restrict the enjoyment of rights", said Karim Lahidji, President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).
The Observatory further recalls the provisions of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders concerning the recognition of the right of all persons "individually and in association with others, to participate in peaceful activities against violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms" (Article 12.1) as well as the right of all individuals to meet or assemble peacefully (Article 5). According to Article 12.2, States Parties should take "all necessary measures to ensure the protection by the competent authorities of everyone, individually and in association with others, against any violence, threats, retaliation, de facto or de jure adverse discrimination, pressure or any other arbitrary action as a consequence of his or her legitimate exercise of the rights referred to in the present Declaration".
Accordingly, the Observatory calls upon the Ugandan Government to comply with its obligations under international and regional law to respect and protect the right of everyone in Uganda to exercise their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly by conforming provisions of the POM Act that are contrary to the effective exercise and enjoyment of these fundamental rights, which in turn also affect the important role of human rights organisations and defenders in the country.


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So what am I saying? I am not sure where this blog fits into my life anymore…It seems that my world is much less about adoption, single motherhood, or Russia and much more about teaching, the girlz activities and regular ole life. I never really planned to keep blogging. Hell, I never planned to begin blogging. It fell into my life as an easy, online way to scrap-book without needing a glue gun or tons of supplies.
What I thought once I got going, was that our life would somehow magically rearrange itself into a more Soviet focused existence living somewhere in Russia. I thought we would be there by now. I thought the journey to find out what is truly at the heart of a Russian would have begun long ago. After all, my girlz are Russian. I wanted nothing more than to give them two homes. Because as most adoptive families know, the mystery will be questioned later on. I wanted to help my girlz with it now. I wanted to offer them a life in Russia with me, while all the while slowly allowing the mystery of their birthplace to unravel. My point of view became so much more than wanting to move. Strangely, I have wanted the approval of Russia. I Wanted to slip into cafés and listen the language as if it were my very own. I wanted strangers to smile at us with nodding approval and say, "Spasiba, you've done good kid." In other ways, I wanted to prove to so many, that yes, I can survive the winters, the oppressive bureaucracy, the language, the distance. But mostly, I just wanted that feeling of thrill and excitement you have when you travel to Russia to meet a child who will change you into a parent.
I guess I can only equate it to using drugs. Odd, I know, but I have always heard that once you try (Insert Drug of Choice here) you spend the rest of the time chasing that high. And I guess that is what I have been doing. I was never happier then while on my trips to Russia. There was stress and boatloads of tears, but from the bottom of my feet to the fly away hairs on my head, I was in a complete Russia High. So how can I never want that again? I surely don't want to adopt again. Do I?
Only one person has understood. But then again, she is as crazy if not more crazy then me. She didn't adopt 2 children, she adopted 3. And that was after she had given birth to 2 bio babies…
The problem is I used to feel like I had something valuable to say. I used to be full of so much information that I always felt behind. There were times that I made lists of what I could write about. Now, the only things I feel inspired to write about are the injustices that every teacher faces on a pretty regular basis. I could write a book on the amount of time I spend doing paperwork that no one needs or looks at, but that doesn't give me a sense of satisfaction. It only frustrated me more. The majority of the unbelievable school events that weigh so heavily on me are absolutely confidential so it is hard to explain a situation without being able to fully explain...
So I want to do a wrap up of where we are right now, our plans, and but this blog into a cyber vault..
My Anna is in 3rd grade this year. She is doing great in school. She is solidly average in most subjects but in reading she is above grade level. And her heart, well it is still as big as it was when she was born to me. She has been a vegetarian for close to 4 years now. The thought of eating an animal makes her cry, and I have never pushed the issue. She is in her 6th year of ballet, and her 2nd year of tap. She loves the classes, and thankfully her studio is old school. They DO NOT compete in dance competitions, as the director sees no place for that in early dance training. Anna loves the outdoors. Now that the weather is a bit warmer, she spends hours at the creek behind our house, playing explorer. We have 8 children on our street, and 3 more at the end of our street. And they play. The kind of play most of us did as kids. They pretend to be geologist on a dig looking for treasures that were said to be lost just behind our houses…When dark comes, they pack up their kits and come in, smelling like the great outdoors. Anna had a tv in her room, but I took it out a long time ago. She has her computer but only at night for a bit before she falls asleep. She goes to bed easily, and rises with just as much ease. Sometimes she can be a bear in the mornings. But I forgive her. I can be a bear too. Anna is very easy to love. She is aware of her feelings, and shares them easily. Anna is a good friend. Anna will be a teacher or nurse I suppose. She has no competitive instincts. She's more of a team player.
AugustRose is in kindergarten this year and doing beautifully. She reads well and has picked up all of her skills with relative ease. She talks too much in class and can be sensitive to redirection. She is just like me in so many ways. She's independent and can play alone for hours. School, dress up, whatever strikes her that day, she will play it. August has a quick tongue that gets her in trouble sometimes. Sassy. Again, so much like her momma. She has mastered shrugging her shoulders in an "I don't care" sort of way. She likes to get the last word in and I see teenage years being a nightmare with this one. But then nighttime comes, and she brings her little pillowcase with her to my room and snuggles into bed with me. And we cuddle. I stroke her hair until she sleeps. When I say her name and kiss her face in the night, she smiles in her sleep and squeezes my neck. Like her sister, August is in ballet for the 3rd year and loves it. She is a great listener and is quite coordinated. She will be a show stopper when she's older. August isn't much for competition either. She is more of a sideline watcher. August will be an attorney I bet. She loves an argument, and can back up her defense without any help!
My girlz are enjoyable and love to do pretty much anything. It doesn't take much to please them. Grocery Store? Sure..Haircuts? Absolutely. Silver Diner? YES PLEASE! Along those lines, they love to travel. We take the bus to NYC and when adults see them they give the look of "Oh Great 2 Little Kids that are going to complain and whine the whole time" Usually those same people tell me at the end of the trip, "Your girlz are simply delightful." And they are right. Planes, trains, and automobile trips to Florida are so fun, because the girlz are ready for adventure.
Both girlz love their Auntie, and my parents. We are all pretty close and even though my dad lives in Florida, he flies up every 3 weeks to spend 10 or so days with us. My girlz think of him just like I did. They think he can do anything. They love him to bits and are already making plans for our summer at his beach house. My mom has the harder role, she's gotta help with the homework..She's like a second mom to the girlz. There is no formality like there was with my grandmother. The girlz pop over to her house to spend the days on some weekends, and enjoy time with her nic-nacs! It's the same with my sister. They have been going over there for the night every other weekend. Yes, I have to drive up there at bed time to give them kisses goodnight. But after 8 years, Anna only just started spending the night with her.
I won't go into where my head is right now..Let's just say I am still searching for plan b. I am pretty sure I am having a mid-life crisis. I miss my Xhusband. Cause if he was around, I'd divorce his ass all over again. And feel fabulous about it! HahahHaa!
I have enjoyed getting to know many of you, and of course everyone's comments. For now I will ask that you look for updates from us on facebook. I am jojogreen there. With time, I am sure I will start a new blog when my point of view becomes more clear to me. But for now,
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Nothing is FREE folks! Google did not get to where it is by offering anything for free!
To the writers and readers of this article I implore you to do some research on what really happened in Caldwell County when Google moved in. There is a good reason there is a lawsuit.
My Father was living in Lenoir when Google came to Caldwell County. The county wooed Google with loads of money to put the data farm in Lenoir. Where did this Money come from???? Property taxes went up 25% to pay for it. So much for do no evil, Google!!!!!!
Google should be begging / paying us to come here! Please take a look at the bigger picture and not just the faster internet carrot Google is dangling. From Googles FAQ: "We're --- hoping to identify interested communities that will work with us to achieve this goal. Now, look at Googles past M.O. for an apt translation of this: Find a county, city, town to give them all the tax breaks and other services (basically foot the bills for them to get set up). Then once they have the service set up they can charge what they want. It gets better still for Google as they dont really have an investment in it. Clever Google!
Yes , internet speeds closer to what you can get in other areas of the world would be great and I dont expect it to be free, but as a Chapel Hill homeowner and tax payer, I dont want my taxes used to subsidize a filthy rich company like Google either.
Per your article .The details of the deal remain vague .hmmm wonder why? Lets get the details of this deal before we start all these pro-Google high speed internet parades.
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