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Gov. Mitt Romney missed a couple of major opportunities to score on President Barack Obama in the 2nd debate. Romney should have pointed out that Obama continued Bush's economic policies. Romney should so have pointed out that various states are investigating Planned Parenthood for fraud.
Romney should have suggested that the question about President George W. Bush's economic policies should have been directed to Obama because Obama had continued Bush's policies. The bailouts of the banks and the automakers began with Bush. Obama merely continued that policy. Obama also copied Bush's stimulus policy and the use of tax cuts. Bush had large deficits and Obama expanded those deficits. Romney should ask at soz3me point why Obama continued Bush's policies if Obama though Bush was wrong.
At some point Romney needs to point out that unemployment under Bush was less than 5% before the 9/11 Attack and only went up to 6.3% (June, 2003) after the attack. It then fell back below 6% in November, 2003, and remained below 6% until August, 2008, when it began increasing again. It might be argued that the increase in unemployment in the summer of 2008 was due in part to a lack of confidence in the two presidential candidates with the drop after the election being due to a lack of confidence in Obama.
Romney should have pointed out that Obama's support for Planned Parenthood means he supports the idea of substandard Jim Crow quality health care for inner city minority women. Romney should have asked why Obama allows Planned Parenthood to operate an unlicensed medical facility in his hometown of Chicago. The 14th Amendment requires states to guarantee equal protection of the laws which means health care facilities that provide medical services to inner city minority women should have to meet the same high standards as facilities that provide health care to white men and women. Romney should promise that if elected he will enforce the 14th Amendment and force facilities that serve minority women to comply with the same standard as facilities that serve white men.
Romney should have mentioned that several states are investigating Planned Parenthood for Medicaid fraud and the federal government should also investigate the organization because it operates in multiple states and receives federal funds which provide an opportunity for similar fraud.
Romney should have asked if Obama has ordered a federal investigation into the death of Tonya Reaves who died after being treated at Planned Parenthood's unlicensed Chicago clinic. Reaves continued to bleed after her abortion and wasn't sent to a hospital for several hours. When she went to the hospital the clinic didn't bother to send information about her condition to give the hospital an idea of what might be wrong. Romney should announce that he will order a federal investigation into Reaves' death to determine if anyone at the clinic broke federal laws.
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On May 7, 2013, The House Committee on the Judiciary voted unanimously to create the "Overcriminalization Task Force of 2013." At a press briefing that day, Judiciary Committee and Overcriminalization Task Force leaders expressed agreement on the need to address several important issues, including the erosion of the mens rea (or criminal intent) requirement in federal criminal law, the often unnecessary duplication of state law in the federal code, overincarceration, mandatory minimum sentences, and the explosion of regulatory offenses that some estimate may now number as high as 300,000, among other issues.
The Task Force will be commissioned for six months and led by Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA). The task force is made up of five Democrats and five Republicans, and will include Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI) and Chairman Goodlatte (R-VA) as ex-officio members. The Task Force will conduct hearings and investigations into the topic of overcriminalization throughout its existence.
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With the Task Force's initial six month authorization set to expire, Task Force Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) noted in his opening remarks that he expects the Judiciary Committee will vote to give the Task Force a six month extension.
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Mr. Lucian E. DervanAssistant Professor of LawSouthern Illinois University School of LawWritten Testimony
The official topic of the third hearing was "Regulatory Crime: Identifying the Scope of the Problem." The witnesses at the hearing included Mr. Reed D. Rubinstein (Partner, Disnmore & Shohl, LLP) and Ms. Rachel Barkow (Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy, New York School of Law), as well as two victims of regulatory overcriminalization, Mr. Lawrence Lewis (Bowie, MD) and Mrs. Steven Kinder (Grand Rivers, KY). In addition to the explosion in regulatory offenses, though, the discussion at the hearing covered topics including the erosion of the mens rea (or criminal intent) requirement in the federal law and possible fixes, the collateral consequences of conviction, the perverse incentive to plead not because of actual guilt but because of the costs of trial and risk of incurring harsh mandatory minimum sentences, prosecutorial discretion, the Lacey Act, U.S. drug laws and resulting mass incarceration, and more.
Mr. Reed D. Rubinstein Partner, Disnmore & Shohl, LLPWritten Testimony
Ms. Rachel BarkowSegal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and PolicyNew York School of LawWritten Testimony
Mr. Lawrence LewisBowie, MDWritten Testimony
Mr. and Mrs. Steven KinderGrand Rivers, KYWritten Testimony
The second hearing of the Congressional Task Force on Overcriminalization focused on the specific subject of "Mens Rea: The Need for a Meaningful Intent Requirement in Federal Criminal Law." NACDL Executive Director Norman L. Reimer was one of two witnesses appearing before the task force today.
The chair of the Task Force, Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), opened the hearing by praising, and citing extensively, the findings set forth in the joint report of NACDL and the Heritage Foundation, Without Intent: How Congress is Eroding the Criminal Intent Requirement in Federal Law. Ranking Member of the Task Force Bobby Scott (D-VA) also recognized the absence of adequate mens rea, or criminal intent,requirements in the federal criminal code and regulations. In a written statement, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) pointed to the explosion in the size of the federal criminal law, adding that as a result "no average American citizen could be expected to read and understand, let alone conform his conduct" to that body of criminal law. "A primary cause of this predicament is Congress itself," he acknowledged.
Confirming the substance of the introductory remarks of the bipartisan leadership of this task force and the House Judiciary Committee as a whole, NACDL Executive Director Norman L. Reimer opened with the observation that the erosion of intent requirement in federal criminal statutes "is one issue on which the most important ingredient for reform is already present – that is, impressive bipartisan consensus." Urging Congress to adopt a default mens rea statute, requiring willful conduct – specifically, that a person must act with the knowledge that the person's conduct was unlawful -- as the basis for criminal liability, and to altogether abandon strict liability criminal laws, Norman Reimer said:
"Without a clear intent requirement, the individual will not realize when they are crossing the line. That is not fair. And it's not effective. If people do not know something is wrong, they will not be deterred from doing it. That's the whole point of a criminal law in the first place."
Mr. John S. Baker, Jr., Ph.D. Visting Professor, Georgetown Law School Visiting Fellow, Oriel College, University of Oxford Professor Emeritus, LSU Law School
Mr. Norman L. ReimerExecutive Director, National Association of Criminal Defense LawyersWritten Testimony
The inaugural hearing of the first Congressional Task Force on Overcriminalization was held on June 14, 2013. NACDL President Steven D. Benjamin was one of the four witnesses.
Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) chairs the newly-formed Task Force and opened the hearing by acknowledging that this bipartisan effort to address the problems of overcriminalization and overfederalization is "long overdue." Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), who specifically pointed to NACDL's work in this area, described the problem in stark numerical terms that detailed how "the criminal code has dramatically increased in size and scope" over the last 50 years. Also in attendance was the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), who observed that "concern for this issue is bipartisan."
In his presentation, NACDL President Steven D. Benjamin discussed the fairness and due process implications of the problem of overcriminalization, making clear that "it is not just a problem with white collar implications." Pointing to these consequences of overcriminalization, particularly upon the poor, Benjamin called upon Congress to address the crisis in funding for federal indigent defense: "The dynamic between overcriminalization and overincarceration cannot be ignored, nor may the fact that the government's expenditure on federal law enforcement significantly outpaces its spending on the defense function. It is inexcusable that during this 50th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright and the right to counsel, our indigent defense system is in crisis. That crisis has long afflicted the states, but now budget cuts imperil the federal indigent defense system, even as resources for the prosecutorial function flow unabated. This imbalance imperils the integrity of the criminal justice system."
In addition, Benjamin discussed the problems of the volume and poorly drafted nature of criminal laws, many lacking adequate mens rea (or criminal intent) requirements. And he called the Task Force's attention to the scope and impact of the collateral consequences of a criminal record. Benjamin also discussed the explosion in regulatory offenses as well as how unlimited discretion over charging decisions, together with mandatory minimum sentences and high sentencing guidelines, "deter the accused from asserting their innocence or testing new laws before a jury of their peers."
Mr. Steven D. Benjamin President, National Association of Criminal Defense LawyersWritten Testimony
Mr. John Malcolm Rule of Law Programs Policy Director, The Heritage FoundationWritten Testimony
Mr. William N. Shepherd Chair, Criminal Justice Section, American Bar AssociationWritten Testimony
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February 20th, 2007, 08:48 PM | #1 |
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A possible suggestion?
Is there anyway to set up a newbie question section , where ppl can go and ask "dumb" questions without being flammed? When i first started i got it quite a bit and made me kinda hate asking questions (not here, actually most ppl here were more then willing to help). but asking questions is the best way to learn i feel.
I agree that searching does help as well though, some questions i needed pictures in order to fully understand. But that way the ppl with a ton of experience can choose to help, or not be annoyed with the little stuff? just a suggestion, feel free to share ur opinion. OR is it already here and I am just not looking hard enough? |
February 20th, 2007, 09:07 PM | #2 |
It's a good idea, but in reality i don't think it's gonna happen. There are some people on here that feel they need to reply to posts even if they have nothing constructive to add to it.
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February 20th, 2007, 09:17 PM | #3 |
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You know, go over to NAXJA if you think this is an issue. It's awful over there. There's alot of knowledge and alot of people more than willing to help here, I've never been flamed and people have anyways replied within minutes of me posting.
February 20th, 2007, 10:48 PM | #4 | ||
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I totally agree with this statement. We're actualy pretty relaxed. |
February 20th, 2007, 11:12 PM | #5 |
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This is more for the newbies than the thread creator.
When I first started out "web wheeling" and trying to get ideas & tips for my Jeeps... I asked a TON of dumbass questions until one day, a guy that was nice and hated seeing people get flamed told me some very valuable information. [please note: I still ask dumbass questions if I cannot resolve them... read on] The problem with newbie questions is that they're all pretty much the same. "What kind of lift, tires, suspension, axles...:chiefwoohaw: should I get???" He directed me to the little button up in the header of the website that says, "SEARCH". Type the main topic of your question in there and you'll get a TON of research & discussion. No matter what your budget is, how extreme you wanna go or off the wall you think your question is... chances are someone else has already asked it. If then you don't find what you're looking for... ask. I'm not trying to flame you with this, but how many times can someone ask, "I just bought a Jeep and want to lift it! How far should I lift it and what kind of tires should I put on it???" before you wanna take a .45 to your own noggin. If there were a newbies section... the first sticky should read: "We cannot tell you what you should do with your Jeep/Truck/SUV first, because frankly we have no idea what you plan to do with it, how much you want to spend on it, the way you drive and a million other factors. Please just take it out as it is and wheel with it. What you need to do to it first, will come rapidly into your mind." My |
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June 9th, 2013, 09:50 PM | #3 |
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June 9th, 2013, 09:54 PM | #4 |
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I just saw it at the drive in last night. It was twisted and awesome and really makes you think about what our society could be like in the not so distant future. I'm not scared by movies generally but the psychological factor and the thoughts left in my head after the movie definetly gave me the chills.
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June 10th, 2013, 05:31 AM | #7 |
Fuck talk, Duck walk!
Id rather go see fast & furious 6 for the Rock's and Vin Diesels Oscar caliber acting then go see the purge.
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June 10th, 2013, 06:52 AM | #8 |
Your Nebels are Werfed.
I read an interview with the director James DeMonaco and he blatantly states that the movie is purely an attack on the NRA and the Tea Party.
I'll pass.
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June 10th, 2013, 07:05 AM | #9 |
Yeah, I read the same interview. No thanks.
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I've never heard of this movie until this thread came along.
Based on the reviews and write-ups at Rotten Tomatoes, I will not be investigating further. |
June 10th, 2013, 10:39 AM | #14 |
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I havent seen the reviews of this movie yet but how do they attack the NRA/TP? I will not see this movie now after seeing this.
June 10th, 2013, 10:52 AM | #15 |
Fuck talk, Duck walk!
You couldn't get me into a theater playing that movie even if you linked my testicals to a cannonball and fired it inside.
I'd rather wear Dianne finsteins panties as a ski mask then go see that movie Id rather have a circle jerk with dad and grandpa then go see that movie. Id rather run backwards, blindfolded in leather chaps through the Castro district then go see that movie.
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June 10th, 2013, 10:55 AM | #16 |
blood,sweat and beers
Wow didn't know this
Fuck cancer |
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Might work, might not, I didn't try it. But either way, this is flat-out cheating.
Not just against the rules, but actually cheating. Go steal from the developers with Travian Beyond or something, but this rips off your fellow player. Why bother even playing if you're not going to play fair?


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[JURIST] A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday overturned [opinion, PDF] a lower court ruling dismissing an antitrust class action lawsuit against a group of banks that require credit cardholders to use arbitration to settle disputes. The cardholders argue that the banks, which include Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup [corporate websites], violated federal antitrust law by colluding to force cardholders to use arbitration instead of the courts.In 2006, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the antitrust suit for lack of standing under Article III of the United States Constitution. Reuters has more.
[JURIST] The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) [official website; JURIST news archive] was cleared of financial mismanagement in an independent audit [PDF text; summary, PDF] released Friday. The review was ordered by the ECCC Project Board in hopes that it would quell concerns raised by some foreign donors after the court made a formal request for an additional $114 million [JURIST report] last month that would increase the court's budget from $56.3 million to $170 million and allow it to continue operations until March 2011, past its originally scheduled completion date in 2009. The audit found:
Combating the dual challenges of a past which has left behind a nation still struggling to achieve modern management practices and the daunting task of meeting the expectations of the international community has been an uphill task for the ECCC.In this critical phase of its operations it was encouraging see that there is a willingness and commitment to meet the expectations of the international community. A great deal of standardization has happened over a very short period which has replaced the ad hoc arrangements that used to be the norm when ECCC commenced its operations. The recent reviews and audits have also helped in highlighting areas of weaknesses which have been improved upon.Robust HR systems have been developed and implemented to address previous shortcomings, to give effective support to the judicial process and to minimize the risk of questionable HR practices occurring in the future. There is however a degree of hand-holding and capacity building necessary to support ECCC to continue to meet expected international standards. Zero tolerance for non-compliance with HR systems and the Code of Conduct will also support ongoing improvement in the performance of the ECCC.
[JURIST] Zimbabwean police Friday raided the offices of independent election observers and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) [party website], arresting hundreds in an alleged crackdown on anti-government subversives. Witnesses say that police were searching for vote counting materials that might show that MDC candidate Morgan Tsvangirai [BBC profile] won the contested March 29 presidential election [JURIST report]. The raids come just one day after US Envoy Jendayi Frazer announced that the US believes Tsvangirai won the election outright [AP report] and called for Mugabe to step down. Official results of the election have still not been published. Last week, current Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] and his Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) [party website] accused [JURIST report] Tsvangirai of treason, saying that Tsvangirai and Britain are conspiring to overthrow Mugabe. MDC Secretary General Tendai Biti said Sunday that more than 400 supporters of the MDC have been detained [JURIST report] and more than 3,000 families displaced since the March 29 election. AP has more. From Zimbabwe, the Herald has local coverage.
[JURIST] Over 3,000 prison inmates convicted of crack cocaine offenses have had their sentences reduced under an amendment to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines [USSC materials], according to a study [PDF text] released Thursday by the US Sentencing Commission [official website]. Of the 3,647 applications for early release, 3,075 have been granted and 572 denied, but most prisoners denied turned out to not actually be eligible for sentence reductions under the amendment. AP has more.In December, the Sentencing Commission voted unanimously [JURIST report] to give retroactive effect to an earlier amendment to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines that reduces penalties for crack cocaine offenders [press release]. The amendment, which took effect November 1, was intended to narrow the disparity between sentences for powder and crack cocaine offenses. Under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 [text], the Sentencing Commission is authorized to retroactively apply amendments to the Guidelines that reduce penalties for classes of offenses or offenders. The final decision whether and how much to reduce a crack cocaine offender's sentence will rest with a federal sentencing judge, who will weigh public safety concerns. Retroactivity took effect on March 3, 2008. US Attorney General Michael Mukasey urged the Senate in February to block the amendment's retroactive effect, but his efforts were rejected [JURIST reports].
[JURIST] US Marine Sgt. Jermaine A. Nelson should face court-martial for the November 2004 murder of an Iraqi detainee in Fallujah [JURIST news archive], a US Marine hearing officer found following an Article 32 pretrial hearing [JAG backgrounder]. Nelson was charged [JURIST report] in December with murder and five counts of dereliction of duty after allegedly killing an unarmed captive during a bloody battle [CNN report] between US troops and Iraqi insurgents over the city of Fallujah. He faces life imprisonment if convicted. The final decision of whether to proceed to trial rests with Lt. Gen. Samuel Helland who oversees the case as commander of Camp Pendleton's 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. In July, the Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS) [official website] announced investigations of at least 10 Marines [JURIST report] in connection with the Fallujah offensive after former Marine Corporal Ryan Weemer admitted during a polygraphed job interview with the US Secret Service that he had witnessed indiscriminate killings in Fallujah. Military journalist Nathaniel Helms later corroborated that account, reporting that he witnessed Marines execute subdued Iraqi prisoners, whose bodies were later buried under rubble from an air strike. Weemer was charged last month with murder and dereliction of duty in March and former Marine Sgt. Jose Nazario was charged last year with voluntary manslaughter [JURIST reports]. AP has more.
[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website; JURIST news archive] said Friday that it has transferred [press release] a former Bosnian Croat leader who was convicted of war crimes related to the torture and persecutions of Muslims during the Bosnian War [JURIST news archive] to an Italian prison to serve out his sentence. In 2003, the ICTY convicted Mladen Naletilic [ICTY backgrounder, PDF; TrialWatch profile] of torture, wanton destruction and plunder, among other charges, and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. ICTY suspects are held at a detention unit [ICTY backgrounder] in The Hague during trial, and are then after conviction are moved to one of 15 countries that have agreed to take custody of ICTY defendants. The UN News Centre has more.
[JURIST] The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled [judgment text; press release] that Russia violated the civil rights of 13 men accused of terrorism in Uzbekistan by detaining them without trial for 20 months. In 2006, Russia agreed to extradite [JURIST report] the 13 men to Uzbekistan to face charges connected with a 2005 uprising in Andijan [JURIST news archive] that resulted in the massacre of unarmed Uzbek civilians [BBC backgrounder], but the ECHR Thursday ruled that deporting the men to Uzbekistan would further violate their rights. AP has more.Memorial [advocacy website], a Moscow-based human rights group, has said the cases against the 13 men are false and that they may face torture if they return to Uzbekistan. Memorial has also asserted that the men have been determined to be refugees by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees [official website], but that the Russian government has refused to recognize their refugee status. The Russian Prosecutor General's office [official website, in Russian] had temporarily halted the extradition [JURIST report] of the 13 men while the case was pending before the ECHR.
[JURIST] Argentinean politician and former police chief and mayor Luis Abelardo Patti, wanted by Argentina [JURIST news archive] for allegedly torturing and killing several people during Argentina's 1976-1983 "Dirty War" [GlobalSecurity.org backgrounder; JURIST news archive], was arrested in Buenos Aires Thursday. Patti, who was elected to Argentina's lower Congressional house in 2005, had just this month received approval by the Supreme Court to take up his seat. Congress, however, voted Thursday to deny him his seat, which would have granted him immunity from any charges, citing his alleged connections to the "Dirty War" campaign. He was arrested hours later.Argentina has recently stepped up investigations into hundreds of human rights cases stemming from the "Dirty War," during which at least 9,000 Argentinians were tortured and "disappeared" by the Argentinean military government in an attempt to silence leftist criticism of the military regime. Some human rights groups say the death toll was closer to 30,000. In 2006, a key witness testifying against "Dirty War" suspects disappeared [IPS/GIN report] after implicating Patti with torturing him in the 70's. The testimony by Luis Gerez contributed to the delay to Patti taking up his Congressional seat. Gerez was the second of two "Dirty War" witnesses to disappear around the end of 2006, but he reappeared [BBC report] three days after his disappearance. AP has more.
[JURIST] The US Senate on Thursday voted 95-0 [roll call] in favor of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) [HR 493 materials], legislation aimed at preventing employers and health insurers from discriminating against people who have a genetic predisposition to disease. Employers would be barred from basing hiring and firing decisions on genetic risk or predisposition to disease, while health insurers would not be permitted to deny coverage based on genetic information. Called "the first civil-rights bill of the new century of life sciences" [press release] by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) [official website] and other senators, the bill was praised by President Bush [speech text; JURIST report] earlier this year, who said "we want medical research to go forward without an individual fearing of personal discrimination." The House is expected to pass the bill soon, and Bush has already promised to sign it.Genetic nondiscrimination legislation was passed unanimously by the Senate in 2003 but failed in the House of Representatives. US Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) [official website] reintroduced the latest bill in January 2007. If it becomes law, according to the bill's findings, the law will establish "a national and uniform basic standard ... necessary to fully protect the public from discrimination and allay their concerns about the potential for discrimination, thereby allowing individuals to take advantage of genetic testing, technologies, research, and new therapies." The Los Angeles Times has more.
[JURIST] Navy Captain Prescott Prince [Miami Herald profile, PDF], the military-appointed lawyer [JURIST report] for confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], has expressed concern over the fairness of his client's upcoming military commission trial. In an interview with CNN on Thursday, Prince said that the possibility that the government will introduce as evidence statements made by Mohammed obtained by harsh interrogation tactics, including waterboarding [JURIST news archive], could undermine the legitimacy of the trial. Prince noted that in civilian courts statements made to officials while under coercion are not admissible, but that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 [PDF text] allows admission of such statements during military commission trials. Prince also expressed concern in the interview that he would be prevented from cross-examining the witnesses against Mohammed and from reviewing all the evidence brought by the government. A trial date has not yet been set. Mohammed admitted under oath during his first hearing [JURIST report] before a Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) [DOD backgrounder] in March 2007 that he masterminded the 9/11 attacks [JURIST report]. In February, the US government said it would seek the death penalty [JURIST report] for Mohammed and five other Guantanamo detainees accused of involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks. CNN has more.
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On Friday, 7-Eleven stores in Oregon and Washington will offer samples of the company's private label foods and beverages, celebrating Fabulous Fresh Foods Friday.
The event runs from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at participating stores. Prepared foods such as jalapeno cheddar sausage, blueberry pancake sausage roller, mini donuts, turkey and havarti sandwiches, cheese and pepperoni pizza and chicken chipotle mini tacos will be offered. Beverages will include 7-Eleven's new Brazilian dark roast coffee and its skinny salted carmel mocha cappuccino.
"7-Eleven is focused on creating foods and beverages that are not just convenient, but also delicious," Larry Hughes, zone leader for Oregon and Washington 7-Eleven stores, said in a news release. "Fresh Foods Friday lets us showcase and sample some of our newest items."
7-Eleven has more than 10,000 stores in North America. It was named PLBuyer's 2010 Retailer of the Year and ranked 31ston the PLB Top 35 list last year.


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Miami Dolphins
Jonathan Martin - #71 - T
Status | Active |
Height/Weight | 6' 5"/ 312 lbs. |
Birthday | 08/19/1989 |
Birthplace | North Hollywood, CA |
College | Stanford |
Years played | 2 |
Drafted | 2012, 2nd round, 10th pick by Dolphins |
Dolphins get glimpse of life without Long
The Dolphins will see what they have at the tackle position in the last month with Jake Long, who is set to be a free agent, on injured reserve.
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Dolphins OLT Jake Long left Sunday's game with a triceps injury, and NFL.com's Jeff Darlington reports that the team fears he tore his triceps.
Martin, Jerry stabilize right side of Dolphins' O-line
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If you've been reading the headlines about the Kindle Fire lately, you might be surprised to learn that Amazon has already moved millions of units of its tablet and is now the proud creator of the best-selling Android tablet.
Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen isn't a fan, and went so far as to say that he felt, "the Fire is going to be a failure."
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by Patricio Robles 20 December 2011 10:23am 12 comments
Can a prominent comedian shake up the comedy business by producing his own event and selling it to consumers online in digital format DRM-free? Thanks to Louis CK's experiment, we now know the answer is yes.
More than 100,000 comedy fans have snapped up 'Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater' for $5, earning the comedian a healthy profit and sparking a discussion about digital content, business models and pricing.
Here's what you can learn from Louis CK's experiment.
by Patricio Robles 19 December 2011 10:11am 1 comment
E-commerce and digital marketing consultant James Gurd is the author of our new B2B Content Marketing Best Practice Guide, which we've published this week in the build-up to our inaugural FUNNEL event on 1 November in London.
Below, he answers some questions about his 104-page report.
by Linus Gregoriadis 06 October 2011 10:52am 1 comment
Using a freelance copywriter isn't just about flexibility and convenience. It's often the best way to get a quality result.
A few weeks ago, Sharon Flaherty wrote a guest post here entitled Want quality content? Produce it in-house. As her title suggests, Sharon argues that the best way to get high-quality content is to employ an in-house copywriter.
Although I commented on the post, I feel it deserves a more considered response, so here it is.
by Tom Albrighton 08 September 2011 10:12am 21 comments
In his last post on the Econsultancy blog, Tariq Seksek touched upon the importance of competitions, contest and sweepstakes when running a social media campaign in the Middle East.
While some brands may have found success in running such contests, others are of the opinion that competitions equate to buying fans, as the interest of the fans lies in the prize rather than the brand and its offerings.
I remember speaking to Mohamed Parham of Wild Peeta (Dubai's social media darling brand) about two years ago, who emphasised the brand's organic growth of its fan and follower counts.
Whatever camp you belong to – growth by competitions or growth by content - it is important to consider the characteristics of the local market including demographics, usage habits and cultural sensitivities.
by Bhavishya Kanjhan 17 August 2011 08:23am 5 comments
For me, it simply comes down to the fact that agencies overcharge and under deliver.
Maybe I'm too fussy, but I've proved from experience that having someone in-house producing editorial content produces better quality results.
by Sharon Flaherty 08 August 2011 11:28am 21 comments
Content-driven everything is pretty much the marketing mantra. More than that, it's the rationale for anything we do online (depending on how we define content), and it's a pretty banal observation.
If something isn't content-driven, then what is it? Fluff-driven? Waste-of-time-driven? Tricky-dicky-driven? I'd go as far as to say 'content-driven online marketing' is some sort of mega-tautology.
by Ben Davis 28 July 2011 10:21am 0 comments
When it comes to online content, consumers by and large prefer to pay for it in attention rather than currency. As a result, it's no surprise that far more publishers have built successful ad-based business models than paid content business models.
Advertising, of course, usually isn't a path to easy money for publishers. Yes, advertisers love the internet, but digital still accounts for a minority of total ad spending, and advertisers generally pay less for digital ads than traditional ads.
by Patricio Robles 05 July 2011 16:00pm 1 comment
Despite the hype, tablets are still most accurately described as a 'niche' market. But that market is expected to grow really, really fast.
That's according to a study (PDF) conducted by the Online Publishers Association (OPA) and Frank N. Magid Associates, which sees 54m Americans owning or using tablets by early 2012, up from 28m today.
by Patricio Robles 23 June 2011 16:43pm 1 comment
Talk to publishers about Google's Panda update, and chances are you'll find at least a few who haven't had a pleasant experience.
Google's goal of cleaning up its index may be desirable, and perhaps even necessary, but many publishers feel their legitimate websites were collateral damage.
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The Deep-Space Suit
Astronauts can only travel so far in existing space suits. What will it take to see the universe?
By the time the alarms go off, he's back on his feet, hoping the rover wasn't filming, but knowing that it was—that his face-first sprawl on the surface of Phobos has been recorded for posterity. The visor's fiber-optic display flashes ominously: suit breach. His body, or some small sliver of it, has been exposed to the raw, airless vacuum of a Martian moon.
An astronaut can die many ways, but decompression is one of the more gruesome. A punctured space suit means a race to sanctuary, before the envelope of pure oxygen surrounding the body bleeds away and hypoxia causes the person to black out. Rapid pressure loss isn't explosive, but it's ugly: Water in the body begins to vaporize and tries to escape, the lungs collapse, and circulation shuts down.
No one's dying today, though, at least not on Phobos. The suit he's wearing isn't a pressurized balloon. It's the reverse, really—a squeeze suit, with a lattice of smart-memory alloys that binds it to the body, replacing an oxygen cushion with direct, mechanical counterpressure. The result is formfitting and nimble; it requires less energy to move andincreases an astronaut's range on foot. And in the event of a rupture, the suit remains viable: It can be patched on the spot with a space explorer's equivalent of an Ace bandage, its own shape-memory alloys pulling tight to seal the breach.
By the time the patch is in place, the alarms have stopped. Epidermal biosensors and path-planning algorithms have shortened the astronaut's trek across the surface, from six miles out to just over four. He'll call mission control to argue against this shortcut when his heart rate settles. A nasty bruise isn't going to kill him. And he didn't travel 100 million miles from home to turn back now.
For human beings to push farther into the solar system—to an asteroid, to a Martian moon, or even to Mars itself—they will need a new space suit: one that will allow them to travel through deep space, move easily across alien surfaces, and survive a wide range of potentially lethal hazards. "If a small hole appeared in a gas-pressurized suit, it's a major emergency. Mission over; get back to your safe haven ASAP," says Dava Newman, an aerospace biomedical engineer and director of MIT's Technology and Policy Program.
Even today's most sophisticated suits are limited to low-Earth orbit—and one was never designed to leave the spacecraft. NASA began using the Advanced Crew Escape Suit (ACES) after the 1986 Challenger disaster to protect shuttle astronauts during launch and reentry. But it was barely fit for duty. Since the shuttle's controls weren't built for suited operation, pilots routinely flew without their bulky gloves, leaving them vulnerable to a rapid pressure leak. The suit's life-support system was ad hoc, with hoses taped down throughout the cabin. Now that the shuttle program has ended, astronauts wear the Russian equivalent of the ACES, introduced in 1973.
NASA's other suit, the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), is less of a garment than a multimillion-dollar spaceship packed with liquid-cooled plumbing. Worn during space walks, it first touched the void in 1983; the majority of its fabrics were cutting-edge during the Cold War. Though the suit's manufacturer, ILC Dover, has been experimenting with self-healing polymers, and though NASA has promoted the development of advanced materials such as aerogels for ultrathin thermal insulation, those technologies haven't yet migrated into the EMU.
The next era of spaceflight shouldn't have to make do with hand-me-downs, not with the wealth of materials and designs incubating in labs around the world. With the impending private takeover of orbital and suborbital launches, and the first echoes of a mandate to land humans on Mars, there will be many more people going to space, some of them traveling vast distances. They deserve suits that not only keep them safe, but also live up to their ambitions.
The first new suits will be streamlined successors to ACES, only they won't be designed for steely-eyed missile men, but for a new cohort of pilots and passengers who paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to be whisked into space. Called intravehicular activity or launch-entry suits, these are the drop-down oxygen masks of the space industry, devices whose true functionality—which includes pressurization and some measure of life support—kicks in during emergencies.
In its initial contract with a suit maker, SpaceX stipulated that the pressure garment must look "badass."As designers deal for the first time with clients other than NASA, they are being forced to take on new challenges. In an initial contract with suit-maker Orbital Outfitters, SpaceX stipulated that the pressure garment must look "badass." "You don't get that sort of verbiage in government contracts," says Chris Gilman, chief designer at Orbital Outfitters. "I love it." There are obstacles, however, to badass space suit design. A launch-entry suit is ungainly, an oversize one-piece embedded with rigid interfaces for the helmet and gloves, and enough room to inflate, basketball-like, when pressurized—especially in the seat, so an astronaut isn't forced to stand up. Gilman plans to counter this "baggy butt" with tactical stitching. Ted Southern, co-founder of Final Frontier Design, which secured initial funding for its 3G Suit through the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform, hopes to use patterning as fashion designers always have—to improve fit. "I honestly think that's the key," he says. "The more anthropomorphic it is, the cooler it looks."
This is the new business of space suit design: to satisfy the needs of commercial customers, whether that means cramming survivability into a svelter package, or coming up with novel, cost-saving innovations in structure and materials selection. The 3G suit—the first of which is slated for delivery as early as January to the Spanish aerospace start-up zero2infinity—eliminates some metal components. Final Frontier is considering replacing others with high-performance plastic. For the IS3 suit that Orbital Outfitters is providing to XCOR Aerospace for use in its suborbital two-seater, the Lynx, the company is exploring disposable elements. Components such as the bladder layer that seals the suit could be swapped out before each launch.
A simple self repairing suit could consist of a bladder liner filled with a substance like corn starch and a liquid. During normal movement the liner would be flexible. If struck it would be as hard as stone. If a suit is cut and, under vacuum, the material would also become very hard at the leak, freeze and stop the leak temporarily.
There are two warring ideas here that need paradigm shifts.
(1) There is the human safety idea.
(2) There is the potential to do work idea.
If you are looking for safety - building redundancy in the ship's exterior is superior to a "safety suit." If you expect a safety suit to be used, it should be something more like a latex suit that is skin forming, but can be pressurized to great a short term atmosphere while explaning away from the body to creat a small habitat.
Functionality in the suit is irrelovant - the purpose is to keep you safe and alive as rescue arrives.
If it is work you want to do, why be so anthrocentric. Every sci-fi from gungam, to avatar, to starcraft has had working frams (bipodal or track) where the human is kept in atmosphere in the static chestcavity, while the work is done with remote arms.
The increase in scale asside, this "spaceship with feet and arms" keeps the operater safely enclosed and free or the need for any suit.
We need to realize that open space is not for man - it is for robotics and remote vehicles that don't have our hefty biologic needs.
The ACES suits are just fine for flight. They just need to find a way to fix the gloves. When they were designing the suits for the Apollo missions, engineers actually came up with several "mech-type" suits, but technology in robotics was simply too primitive. Then the makers of the playtex bra, International Latex Company, came up with the winning design, a flexible suit. Now that robotics is so advanced, I agree we should leave most exploration up to the robonauts.
No one is going to fall on Phobos.
The moon is less than ten miles wide and has very little gravity - no walking that surface will happen.
Further, research has confirmed that the object is hollow.
Much further, the Russian space agency has declared it to be an unnatural object.
Just wait for your body to get too old, then swap it for a full body prosthesis. Cyborgs could easily explore space. Why risk people who have their whole natural lives ahead of them - send the more experienced brains inside suits like Master Chief.
The problem isn't the technology, we have it. The problem is getting it to fit in such a slimmed down suit. @Oakspar77777: Humans will make mecha for space, but it is our nature that we will not settle for any less than setting foot on another planet, or for putting our own two hands to the task. Human nature will decide, and it will decide to make a suit, not a ship. I agree with your point, but we are simply too human. I bid you good luck, and I hope to see you on Mars someday.


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Council of Europe publishes report on minority languages in the Netherlands
Strasbourg, 25 October 2012. The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers has today made public the fourth report on the application of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in the Netherlands.
The report has been drawn up by a committee of independent experts, which monitors the application of the Charter.
The Committee of Experts acknowledges improvements made in education in Frisian and of Limburgish. The Dutch authorities should however continue to strengthen the teaching of and in Frisian at all levels of education. The teaching of Limburgish and Low Saxon should be upgraded to the status of regular school subjects and the offer of education in these languages should be extended, including in pre-schools.
The Council of Europe further encourages the Dutch authorities to explore, in co-operation with representatives of the speakers, possibilities to teach Romanes and to secure and extend the teaching of Yiddish.
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A local-area network (LAN) architecture developed by Xerox Corporation in cooperation with DEC and Intel in 1976. Ethernet uses a bus or star topology and supports data transfer rates of 10 Mbps. The Ethernet specification served as the basis for the IEEE 802.3 standard, which specifies the physical and lower software layers. Ethernet uses the CSMA/CD access method to handle simultaneous demands. It is one of the most widely implemented LAN standards.
A newer version of Ethernet, called 100Base-T (or Fast Ethernet), supports data transfer rates of 100 Mbps. And the newest version, Gigabit Ethernet supports data rates of 1 gigabit (1,000 megabits) per second.
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Editor: Trimble County residents (about 75 in attendance), appeared unanimous in opposition to this recently modified permit application by Louisville Gas and Electric for a coal ash "waste dump" to provide to the county. This is not new, but a continuation of permitting requests that date back to at least 1992. Like a bad penny, they return often.
As February has come to a close, we have our longest days ahead of us this March in the Capitol. We have now completed 37 days of the legislative session. The next 23 days will surely bring us some longer hours as tough decisions will have to be made. Hopefully the weather here in Frankfort gets a little warmer in March too.
With March the last full month of this year's legislative session, the Kentucky House and Senate are nearing the point where they will focus less on their own legislation and more on finding common ground with the other chamber. While the House is still finalizing several of its key bills, my fellow representatives and I have already passed a productive list for the Senate to consider.
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Editor: This is a request to the Citizens of Trimble County who are concerned about clean air, clean water, and the environment of our county to attend the Open Meeting that will be held by the Division of Waste Management on February 20th at 7:00 p.m. at the Trimble County High School gymnasium to answer questions and hear concerns regarding LG&E's revised permit application for a 189-acre coal fly ash landfill.


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VA Health Care:
Improved Staffing Methods and Greater Availability of Alternate and Flexible Work Schedules Could Enhance the Recruitment and Retention of Inpatient Nurses
GAO-09-17: Published: Oct 24, 2008. Publicly Released: Oct 24, 2008.
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Registered nurses (RNs) are the largest group of health care providers employed by VA's health care system. RNs are relied on to deliver inpatient care, but VA medical centers (VAMC) face RN recruitment and retention challenges. VAMCs use a patient classification system (PCS) to determine RN staffing on inpatient units by classifying inpatients according to severity of illness to determine the amount of RN care needed. GAO reviewed VAMC inpatient units for (1) the usefulness of information generated by VA's PCS; (2) key factors that affect RN retention; and (3) factors that contribute to delays in hiring RNs. GAO performed a Web-based survey of all VAMC nurse executives; interviewed VA headquarters officials and VAMC nursing officials, and conducted RN focus groups at eight VAMCs visited by GAO. The findings of GAO's survey are generalizable to all nurse executives; however, findings from the focus groups at the eight VAMCs are not generalizable.
VAMC nursing officials--nurse executives who are responsible for all nursing care at VAMCs and nurse managers who are responsible for supervising RNs on VAMC inpatient units--GAO interviewed reported that although VA inpatient RNs are required to input patient data into VA's PCS, they do not rely on the information generated by PCS because it is outdated and inaccurate. These nursing officials noted that VA's PCS does not accurately capture the severity of patients' illnesses or account for all the nursing tasks currently performed on inpatient units. Because of the shortcomings of VA's PCS, nurse managers use data from a variety of sources to help set RN staffing levels for their inpatient units. At four of the eight VAMCs GAO visited, nurse managers told GAO that they set RN staffing levels for their inpatient units by adhering to the historical staffing levels that had been established for the units. Three VAMCs GAO visited set their RN staffing levels using data on the RN staffing levels found in inpatient units in other hospitals with similar characteristics. VA reported it is proposing to develop a new RN staffing system. However, VA has not developed a detailed action plan that includes a timetable for building, testing, and implementing the new nurse staffing system. VA nursing officials reported that VA's ability to retain its RNs is adversely affected by two main factors. First, inpatient RNs reported that they spend too much time performing non-nursing duties such as housekeeping and clerical tasks. Second, even though VAMCs were authorized in 2004 to offer RNs two alternate work schedules that are generally desired by nurses--such as working three12-hour shifts within a week that would be considered full-time for pay and benefits purposes--few nurse executives reported offering these schedules; therefore, few RNs work these schedules. Specifically, according to nurse executives GAO surveyed only about 1 percent of many inpatient units offered alternate schedules and less than 1 percent of RNs actually worked these schedules. The availability of flexible work schedules, for example, working eight 10-hour shifts over a 2-week period, are more widely available among VAMCs but are still limited, according to GAO's survey of nurse executives. Nursing officials and RNs noted other factors affecting retention such as reliance on supplemental staffing strategies--for example, RN overtime--and insufficient professional development opportunities. Both VA nurse executives and nursing officials identified limitations in VA's process for hiring RNs and VA-imposed hiring freezes and lags as major contributing factors causing delays in hiring RNs to fill inpatient vacancies at VAMCs. VA nursing officials reported that hiring freezes and lags at VAMCs and delays resulting from limitations in VA's hiring process can discourage prospective candidates from seeking or following through on applications for employment at these facilities. Although VA has recently taken steps to address some of the factors that are reported to contribute to RN hiring delays, it is too early to determine the extent to which these steps have been effective in reducing hiring delays
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Recommendations for Executive Action
Recommendation: To improve the ability of VAMCs to determine RN staffing levels needed for inpatient units and to recruit and retain inpatient RNs, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs should direct the Under Secretary for Health to develop a detailed action plan that includes a timetable for building, testing, and implementing the new nurse staffing system.
Agency Affected: Department of Veterans Affairs
Status: Open
Comments: August 2010: VA concurred with the recommendation, and chartered a Staffing Methodology Action Team (SMAT) to revise the current staffing methodology process for nursing personnel. The SMAT developed a plan to implement the new staffing system. The first phase of the plan, the initial pilot implementation phase, focused on nursing staff requirements for all inpatient points of care. This phase, completed in March 2009, included participation from Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs) 1, 6, 15, 16, and 20, and tested the new process. The second phase will provide guidance to include additional points of care, other than inpatient. A methodology for Community Living Centers (CLC) has been developed, and efforts to address outpatient care have been initiated. The third and final phase will provide the guidance for a fully automated system that encompasses initial data entry through report production, including automated methods that integrate with VA databases. This phase is awaiting approval. A new draft Veterans Health Administration (VHA) directive, Staffing Methodology for VHA Nursing Personnel, has been issued.
Recommendation: To improve the ability of VAMCs to determine RN staffing levels needed for inpatient units and to recruit and retain inpatient RNs, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs should direct the Under Secretary for Health to ensure that the new nurse staffing system provides RN staffing estimates that accurately account for both the actual inpatient acuity levels and current nursing tasks performed on inpatient units and adequately take into account the level of ancillary and nursing support that is available on VAMC inpatient units.
Agency Affected: Department of Veterans Affairs
Status: Open
Comments: VA concurs with this recommendation. As of July 2010, VA stated that the Staffing Methodology for VHA Nursing Personnel will include a prediction of the numbers and skill mix of staff recommended for the practice setting based on desired nursing hours per patient day (NHPPD). Factors that will contribute to the staffing calculations will include clinical, human resource and administrative indicators. Indicators that will be standardized will include unit turbulence (admissions, discharge and transfer), employee leave (annual, sick, military) and indirect patient care activities (systems improvement, employee education and research). Development of tools to support outpatient care (primary, home based and specialty clinics) are currently under development and are planned for implementation in the fall of 2010. Development of tools to support operating rooms, emergency rooms and specialty inpatient are planned for implementation by fall 2011.
Recommendation: To improve the ability of VAMCs to determine RN staffing levels needed for inpatient units and to recruit and retain inpatient RNs, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs should direct the Under Secretary for Health to assess the barriers to wider availability of alternate and flexible work schedules for RNs at VAMCs and explore ways to overcome these barriers.
Agency Affected: Department of Veterans Affairs
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: VA concurred with this recommendation. As of July 2009, VA stated that the Office of Nursing Service (ONS), in conjunction with the Office of Workforce Management and Consulting (WMC), has assessed barriers to the effective use of alternate and flexible work schedules (AWS) for Registered Nurses (RNs), and identified two barriers. First, the restrictions imposed by the paid system (dFas) restricts the scheduling of nursing personnel from working a Saturday/Sunday night tour of duty that crosses pay periods. Second, the law as written restricts flexibility in scheduling personnel in configurations that are not clearly three 12 hours per one work week. General Counsel (GC) has determined that no flexibility exists in the law that would provide an equitable solution for implementation. ONS and WMC are working with GC to craft proposed legislation to convert the language of the law to allow for implementation. Once this language is passed the enhancement to dFas will need to be incorporated to comply with the regulation. WMC will draft implementation guidelines following the current restrictions to be sent to all Nurse Executives by August 1, 2009. ONS will then survey the Nurse Executive group in November 2009 to determine use of the AWS and identify additional barriers.
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Participation Has Increased, but Action Needed to Achieve Goals, Including Improved Quality of CareGAO-14-207: Published: Mar 6, 2014. Publicly Released: Mar 6, 2014. -
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Actions Needed to Improve Administration and Oversight of Veterans' Millennium Act Emergency Care BenefitGAO-14-175: Published: Mar 6, 2014. Publicly Released: Mar 6, 2014.
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Public Health Threat Continues, Despite Efforts to Help Ensure Product AvailabilityGAO-14-194: Published: Feb 10, 2014. Publicly Released: Feb 10, 2014. -
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Threat to Public Health Persists, Despite Actions to Help Maintain Product AvailabilityGAO-14-339T: Published: Feb 10, 2014. Publicly Released: Feb 10, 2014.
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