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Why didn't the parent smack the kid upside his head and tell him to be quiet. She is just as guilty for not teaching him any manners obviously. No pity for his screaming-he deserved the pain and maybe next time will think twice before being mouthy. Anyway, once off the tram, he didn't scream anymore.
Yeah, sure the kid shouldn't have been harassing the person but im sure you (sabrina) when you was a child have said mean words to another and that was probably a child. I'm betting your head would of exploded and your parents too with madness if you had mase sprayed in your eyes, the s**t would of hity the fan my friend

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"Seth's experience directing the nation's largest welfare reform program makes him a great choice to lead the Department of Homeless Services," said Mayor Bloomberg. "Because of his leadership at the Human Resources Administration, this City is providing more assistance to those who need it, while helping more people become self sufficient than at any other time in recent history. Seth's contributions have made the lives of thousands of New Yorkers better. We are fortunate to now have him as the Commissioner for Homeless Services and as one of the next generation of leaders in this administration."
"The New York City Department of Homeless Services oversees one of the most comprehensive shelter systems in the nation," said Deputy Mayor Gibbs. "It brings real support to homeless New Yorkers when they need it most. Seth's work at the Human Resources Administration has prepared him to lead New York City's homeless efforts as we look to not just manage homelessness throughout the city, but create viable permanent solutions for families to escape it."
"I am grateful to Mayor Bloomberg for giving me the opportunity to serve the people of the City of New York as Commissioner of the Department of Homeless Services," said Commissioner Seth Diamond. "Government service is a privilege and I am honored to have spent my career fighting for greater opportunities for low income New Yorkers. I look forward to continuing the efforts of the Department of Homeless Services to strongly support those in shelter who take steps to go to work and improve their lives."
Prior to his appointment, Commissioner Diamond served as Executive Deputy Commissioner of the Family Independence Administration at the City's Human Resources Administration. He oversaw the administration of the City's Cash Assistance and Food Stamps programs, which serve nearly two million New Yorkers. He also directed the nation's largest welfare reform program managing 5,000 employees in a network of centers throughout the city. During his tenure at the Human Resources Administration, he helped transform the agency by playing a lead role in devising a welfare strategy that prioritizes work and personal responsibility. Because of these efforts, the City's Human Resources Administration placed more than 75,000 cash assistance clients in jobs last year, in the midst of a national recession.


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Jim Lachman likes to tell people that in 1968 he went to Vietnam to kill Vietnamese, but in 2012 he went to paint their nails.
Lachman, of Brockport, is a 2010 graduate of Genesee Community College and is currently pursuing a Bachelors in Social Work at the College at Brockport.
A Vietnam veteran, Lachman had the opportunity to return to the battleground this past year -- not as a soldier, but as a guest. Through Brockport's Vietnam Program, he earned 15 college credits studying Vietnamese culture and completed many hours of community service in the city of Danang. He chronicled his experience in a blog called "Danang again." (There's a link at the end of the article.)
On Nov. 13, he contrasted his two experiences in Vietnam in a speech titled "A Forty-Year Journey from Vietnam to Vietnam," which was held at his alma mater, GCC. We invited him to sit down with us and share some of his insights for readers of The Batavian.
Lachman and his wife, Bernie -- who joined him for part of his stay in Vietnam -- were interviewed at Coffee Culture in Batavia last week.
What did you do in the Vietnam War?
Jim: I was part of the C-130 Squadron in the Marines. I worked on large airplanes called VMGR 152s. We were stationed in Okinawa, but we had a sub-unit in Danang. I was there for three months, then I went back to Okinawa. Then I spent three months with the flight crew as a plane mechanic, so I was in and out of Vietnam, Thailand, and up and down different airstrips. We flew cargo and troops back and forth. Most of the missions I flew were flight-refueling operations.
So you didn't see any combat, correct?
Jim: No. I was one of the lucky few who weren't exposed to any of that.
How did you get involved in Brockport's Vietnam Program?
Jim: I was in a U.S. History class at GCC in 2010, and there was a little Asian woman sitting next to me. I asked her where she was from, and she said Vietnam. We developed a friendship -- I asked questions. She told me about a study abroad program in Vietnam at Brockport, and I said "Oh, okay..."
What exactly did you do while studying abroad in Vietnam?
Jim: I probably got about 100 hours of community service while I was in Vietnam. There was a large community service component.
Each week we spent an hour and a half in a nursing home with ladies in their 80s and 90s (there were some men, too). We helped them pick mulberries and peanuts, and they loved to have their nails trimmed and painted.
Then we did an hour and a half a week at Agent Orange group home, and we also did home visits to kids who were too sick to come to the group home.
Bernie: We know the effects of agent orange on American soldiers, but we don't know about the effect it had on the people who live in Vietnam. It has affected three generations with birth defects, mental sickness, (etc.)
Jim: The way I like to put it is, we put poison in their backyard and it's still there.
We also did English instruction two nights a week and delivered food and medical supplies to a leper village. Then we got 15 credit hours studying Vietnamese history, politics, culture and language.
What was the big difference between your first visit and your second?
Jim: I contributed to the death of two million Vietnamese people by being part of the war. By contrast, in 2012 I learned about the culture and the people, and I connected with them on a human level. And I fell in love with them.
A former Viet Cong chairman who now writes for "Da Nang Today" (a Danang newspaper) interviewed me for an article on a "former invader who was coming back to do good." He asked me questions, and he was very curious. But if we had met 40 years ago, someone would have been taken prisoner.
Today, Vietnam is a wonderful vacation spot. You see people there from China, Australia, Russia...They have wonderful and very cheap accommodations, beautiful beaches...and the Vietnamese people don't like the sun, so we'd have the beach almost to ourselves (during the day).
Bernie: I came to visit Jim for a month. It was a two thousand dollar round trip by airplane, and that was the most money I spent the whole time.
I shopped at the tailor stores, which are family owned businesses. The Vietnamese are known through much of the world for their tailor-made clothes.
As a woman in Danang, I could walk safely at night. I couldn't do that in Batavia. All the stores (in Danang) are street-level. (Store owners) got to know me, and I knew that if anyone ever tried to molest me in the street, they'd be all over them.
I went into a bookstore once, and no one there knew English. So they went two stores down and found someone who did. That's what they want -- they want to communicate.
And they revere the elderly. One time we went into a coffee shop, and one of the first questions they asked before seating us was, "How old are you?" Because we're over 40, we were always in the most honored spot.
Jim: And (accepting that courtesy) was part of my being a guest, part of accepting the culture as it was. One of the things the Vietnam Program page on the Brockport Web site says is that as students, we are guests of the Vietnamese government. So that's how I conducted myself. The last thing I wanted was to be an "ugly American."
At every other place I had served (in the Marines), I had the opportunity to connect with the people and the culture. Going back to Vietnam, it was like I had a second chance, you know?
Even if I didn't like an experience, I would try to write about it in a positive way on my blog. At the exit dinner (held at the end of the program), one of the chairmen said, "We've been enjoying your blog" -- "we" meaning the Communist Party. When I told my son about that, he said: "Well, did you think they wouldn't?" Honestly, I never thought about it -- I just wrote from the heart.
What would you want people today to know about the Vietnam War?
The man who taught my politics class was in charge of the Liberation Front (the enemy) in Danang back in '68. He said Vietnam has a "market economy with a socialist orientation." It seems to me that their government works as well for them as ours does for us. I often wonder what would have happened if the U.S. had allowed the Vietnamese to have their elections the way they had planned. When the U.S. got involved, it went from 1956-1975 until (the Vietnamese) could unify their country.
Bernie: People our age will ask us, "Did you go to North Vietnam or South Vietnam?" It's just Vietnam now.
Jim: I can think of two men in history who wanted to preserve national union: Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh. They both wanted the same thing.
After doing some research, I found out that what I was taught about Communism and Ho Chi Minh growing up might not have been the truth.
So then you would say that the Vietnam War was not worth it in the end?
Jim: In humanistic terms, I would have to say no. It wasn't worth all that death.
What I was told when I went over was that I was being sent to stop Communism. After I came home, I discovered the real reason: The U.S. military was serving as the hired guns of capitalism. The reason (for the war) was that the capitalists in charge of the U.S. government wanted to control all trade in and out of Southeast Asia.
We would have been better off staying out of the whole thing and allowing the Vietnamese to have their elections and be the government they were going to be. It would have saved a lot of lives.
As an American military man in Vietnam, how were you treated when you returned home?
Jim: When I came back in July of 1969, I had heard the stories. So when I came into Travis Air Force Base in California, I put on civilian clothes in the bathroom. I made the choice not to call any attention to myself. Even today, I choose not to wear (my Marines hat), because I just got used to that.
Bernie: When I was a sergeant instructor in the Reserves (in the 1970s and 1980s), we were taught not to wear our uniforms when travelling on a civilian conveyance. Then when the Vietnam veterans insisted that the Desert Storm soldiers be honored, the culture changed. It went from "we're against the war" to "we support our troops."
What led you to speak about your experience at GCC on Nov. 13?
Jim: I was there because of Josephine Kerney, who was my sociology professor (at GCC). She does a lot of study abroad stuff, so in association with the Vietnam Program I'd run into her at fairs and such. I talked about the contrast between my first trip to Vietnam and my second, and it fascinated her. She wondered if I would come in and talk to her class about it, and that led to it being a larger event where anyone could come.
Do you have any thoughts on the current war in Afghanistan?
What I learned from my Vietnam experience was that I can't trust the government. I wonder what my government is lying to me about now. Is (the war in Afghanistan) about money? Is it about pharmaceutical interest in what we can extract from the poppy that grows there?
I've heard it said that "Afghanistan is where empires go to die." Alexander the Great tried (to invade), the Russians tried it, and now it's us.
A Kodak retiree, Lachman returned to school in 2008 out of a desire to become a counselor for military veterans. Currently in his junior year at Brockport, he plans to go on for a master's degree so that he can counsel veterans "who saw things that no one should have to see."
For more information on his experience, go to www.danangagain.blogspot.com.
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According to the study, Lakota's enrollment is expected to go down by 1,040 students, or 6.1 percent, by the 2017-2018 school year.
"This isn't a Lakota problem or a Cincinnati problem or an Ohio problem," said Jerome McKibben, who presented the study to the school board on Jan. 28.
"We see this trend in successful suburban school districts all across America."
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- Number of 10-14 teens is projected decrease from 8,266 in 2010 to 7,320 in 2020
- The median age is projected to go up from 36.9 in 2010 to 40.7 in 2020
- Ages 50+ are projected to go up from 26,729 in 2010 to 36,264 in 2020
McKibben noted that districts like Lakota have high graduation rates, high rates of students going to college, and high rates of graduates leaving their hometown.
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beautiful pics of elvis on them and nice vibrant colours!
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Here's something I made for my jewel case, nothing really fancy, but I figured I'd share in case anyone can use it, comments always welcome, Al
great covers
beautiful pics of elvis on them and nice vibrant colours!
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LOVE this one, great work here, thank you for sharing this artwork!
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Thanks Ron,
I don't know what happened to the preview, I have to check on it, I had to reduce it slightly to post it, but I don't know if that's the problem, thanks for the compliment also, I've been looking forward to your platinum covers will they be on your sight soon? Also, I asked if you could repost the born to rock covers as I've finally managed to get the track, thanks, Al
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Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true…
I was fully prepared to hate this book. I'd never read a de Botton book before, but Mark Larson gave it a thumbs up, and not a whole lot makes me seek out a book like a good review from Mark.
The genesis of the book was de Botton's thought, "there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content," which isn't, of course, a new thought at all — Thomas Jefferson cut the parts out of The Bible he didn't like and kept the rest.
Early Christianity was itself highly adept at appropriating the good ideas of others, aggressively subsuming countless pagan practices which modern atheists now tend to avoid in the mistaken belief that they are indelibly Christian… The premise of this book is that it must be possible to remain a committed atheist and nevertheless find religions sporadically useful, interesting and consoling – and be curious as to the possibilities of importing certain of their ideas and practices into the secular realm.
There are tons of downright goofy ideas in the book, and there were several times where I thought, "Isn't it just easier to, you know, actual be Catholic?" but what I like is the very simple idea that you don't have to agree with or believe in something in order to find something valuable and worth stealing in it. Again, go read Mark's review.
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Is Google's Knol already becoming a den of spam?
Heard about Knol yet? It's Google's Xth new service, and it's a place where you can put up "an authoritative article about a specific topic". That's a knol too. Article=knol.
My first encounter with Knol was at Pointless Games, an entry by my friend Bernie DeKoven, a funsmith of the first water balloon. A knol, Knol tells us, is "a unit of knowledge". I used to think a thought was one one of those, and I maybe even wrote that once somewhere; but when I search Google now for results that include my surname and exclude knol and google (specifically, searls "unit of knowledge " -google -knol) I find nothing but articles by Searle, who apparently did say that. (Hard to tell. All the results are for abstracts of academic articles buried behind usewalls of various kinds. Meanwhile it annoys me that Google includes misspellings in its "advanced" search.)
Naturally, Knol is being covered as a "rival" to Wikipedia. That's exactly what CNet/ZDNet calls it. Social Computing Magazine calls it "The Wikipedia with a business model". TechLounge calls it "Google's Wikipedia".
(I mention those ahead of the current top result in a search of Google News for knol, because that brings up eWeek's Google's Wikipedia Answer: A Second Shooter on the Google Knol-Wikipedia Battle. There I was greeted by a giant Dell ad that tells you to click here or wait 12 seconds, which it counts down in rolling red lettering, like the clock on a bomb about to go off, absolutely distracting from the ad itself. That's a "feature" that makes one annoyed at both Dell and eWeek simultaneously. Nice work, guys.)
Naturally, Wikipedia has much more to say about Knol than does Google. It begins,
Knol is a Google project which aims to include user-written articles on topics ranging from "scientific concepts, to medical information, from geographical and historical, to entertainment, from product information, to how-to-fix-it instructions."[1] The brainchild of Udi Manber of Google,[2] it was announced on December 13, 2007 and was opened in beta to the public on July 23, 2008[3] with a few hundred articles mostly in the health and medical field.[2][4]
Knol pages are "meant to be the first thing someone who searches for this topic for the first time will want to read", according to Manber.[1] The term knol, which Google defines as a "unit of knowledge",[5] refers to both the project and an article in the project.[1] Several experts see Knol as Google's attempt to compete with Wikipedia,[6] while others point out the differences between the projects.[7] (revision link)
To put it briefly, they are not the same. They don't compete.
But that doesn't mean Knol isn't competitive with other sites and services. I think Jason Calacanis nails it pretty well when he asks, Is Google A Content Company? Of Course It Is. So What Should Publishers Do? If you're a writer or publisher, (like,um, we are), Jason's piece is relevant reading. It's a bit on the alarmist side, but Jason cops to that, wondering out loud whether complainers are "crybabies or canaries in the coal mine".
Either way, we need to face the fact that Google has become a platform. Or, as Dave Winer put it the other day, a coral reef. These things grow over a long period of time, and support many life forms. The tougher trick is to be generative. A generative platform is not about lock in. Rather, it's about opening things up, and being supportive of more than those things that depend on you directly. In The Future of the Internet — and How to Stop it., Jonathan Zittrain illustrates the PC's generativity as the flexible waist in an hourglass, rather than the bottom of a stack:
Nice that he includes Linux in there. We should add that Linux cares less about what it runs on, or what runs on it, than either of the other two OS platforms. Which brings us to Jonathan's illustration of the generative role played by the Internet itself:
Google is at the top level of that diagram. More significantly, it has a business interest in the success of its dependents (as do Microsoft and Apple in PC diagram). Wikipedia doesn't have that. Big difference.
At this point I see no threat by Knol to publications like ours or Jason's. I do see a possible threat to academic journals. As I discovered in my search above, most academic journals lock up their archives. Knol's methods and ambitions line up very nicely with those of academics who don't like to see their writing locked away — and who would like the bylined credit they don't get in Wikipedia.
But so far it looks to me like the biggest problems Knol creates are for Google itself. That's because Knol provides one more way to game Google's advertising monoculture. A few minutes ago I looked up "anemia" on Knol, with no results. Then I looked up "hair" and got eleven results. The top result is for this article on hair loss, by Rob E. Angelino, Founder Hairlab center for hair restoration. Or so it says at the top. At the bottom it says "Copyright © 2005-2007 United Global Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved". Not sure how that squares with Knol's defaulted Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, but it's significant that Mr. Angelino also has collaboration closed on the document. You can do that with Knol. It also says here that Mr. Angelino is "Founder and CEO of United Global Media Group Inc." and "currently the CEO of The Beauty TV Network". Mr. Angelino has a total of six knols, including one each for the Beauty Channel, BeautyTV and The Beauty Network. The search also brings up this knol by Julia Elorriaga of LastSkinCare.com, and hair bleaching tips by Sara, who has several other knols but no bio. At the bottom it says "Contributed to Mahalo.com by Greg S".
With the possible exeption of Sars's post, all that stuff is commercial gaming. "Units of knowledge" these aren't.
Knol will succeed if serious contributors outnumber the gamers. I don't hold much hope for that, even though I remain charmed that Bernie DeKoven's knol about Pointless Games was what launched me into this long post.
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Google changed the world too much
For a long time we have been under the cloud of Google. Google way becomes the rule of the internet. I don't like it.
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Doc, for a bright guy you act like you've never been on the internet before. It's an interstitial ad. Click the link or wait 12 seconds...
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Ironically, I just ended up here after publishing a knol on website usability... then started skipping round, erm, Google... for opinion formers.
I agree with you by the way, that gaming might be a problem. Difficult in some cases to tell the difference too, I guess. Most people with knowledge of a subject fall into one of two categories - enthusiast or pro. Cutting off the pro's reduces the content generation and, if that content is of real value, then I see no harm in author recognition either. I'm in no doubt that the guerrilla "marketeers" will be on it like a shot, but, by the same token, the UGC fanboys en masse will be onto it like a shot..What i really do hope is that Google use the ratings system properly as it grows, and a score out of 5 isn't going to be enough to separate wheat from chaff, but a decent system might just be enough to maintain the integrity of the content.
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Which ipad should I get?
I dont mind getting refurbished or slightly used electronics (most people keep their phones etc. in a case these days, so its virtually as new anyways) since I can often save a third of the price or more.
And Ive been itching to upgrade my ipad 2 ever since the ipad 3 came out. Was actually about to buy it in the next week or so but then... Well you know what happened on Tuesday.
On one hand it's pretty nice, since the prices of refubrished ipad 3s have fallen quite a bit. But on the other hand...
What should I do, forum? Get a brand new ipad 4 or a refurbished ipad 3?!?
Here's the deal as I see it... I can get a refurbished 32gb ipad 3 a little cheaper than a brand new ipad 4 16 gb. I can't afford to spend much more than 500 dollars on it (Christmas and kids, you know how it is), but my old 16 gb ipad 2 ran out of space pretty fast, so I definitely see the advantage of getting a 32 gb.
They both have the same screen, right? The increased resolution is one of the biggest reasons why I want to upgrade, so if the gorgeous display in the ipad 3 is the same as in ipad 4, that kinda counts in the 3's advantage.
The ipad 4 has the Lightning connector, which I actually really like. (Makes plugging it in easier) The old connector on the other hand means that I can use it with all the accessories that are out there right now, instead of waiting for them to upgrade. (I have a speaker dock and the camera connector, so changing connectors will be a slight hassle, but not really a dealbreaker)
And then there's the camera and the CPU. The camera is the same, as I understand, but the CPU and graphics are twice as fast. It would be really nice to be futureproof for the next two-three years, but its not like the ipad 3 is a slouch, right?
Need somebody to push me in either direction, so what to do here? Get a 16gb ipad 4, or a 32 gb ipad 3?
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I'd say get the ipad 3 32gb. You got existing accessories which will cost you to replace. You'll end up saving significantly. You should be fine for a couple of years. You get the benefit of a retina screen which is the only real reason you'd want to upgrade from an ipad 2.
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Go for iPad 3. I did the same two weeks ago, upgrading from iPad 2 16GB to iPad 3 32GB. And after putting it next to my friend's iPad 4 there was NO difference both in terms of speed AND graphics. Unless you are a serious crazy gamer the third generation will just do the job perfectly!
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They carried placards that read "Support Marriage Equality: Contact Your Senator," "Honk if you support marriage equality," and others. The Senator they were referring to is Walter S. Felag, who represents Warren and parts of Bristol and Tiverton. The Democrat recently co-sponsored legislation that would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, and would put the issue out to public referendum in 2014. Those protesting for equality Thursday said they haven't heard from Sen. Felag, though they have reached out to him with letters, Facebook posts and by other means, hoping to compel him to change his stance on the subject.
One of the organizers was Joyce Katzberg. She said she and her fellow protesters informed the town in advance about their plans to picket, and said the response from passers-by was great.
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Apart from the obvious reference to love tied to Valentine's Day, the day is significant from a social standpoint, she said. Valentinus, for whom the holiday was named, was an early Christian martyr who was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry and for ministering to Christians, who were persecuted under the Roman Empire.
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Passengers recount scare when JetBlue captain had to be restrained after mid-flight outburst
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Passengers aboard an early morning flight bound from New York to Las Vegas first noticed something wrong when the plane's top pilot came out of the cockpit, didn't close the door and tried to force his way into an occupied bathroom.
The JetBlue captain's co-workers tried to calm him as he became more jittery, coaxing him to the back of the plane while making sure — above all — that he didn't get back near the plane's controls.
Then, he sprinted up the cabin's aisle — ranting about a bomb, screaming "They're going to take us down!" and urging confused passengers to pray.
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If the insurance mandate falls: Supreme Court asks whether rest of Obama health law can go on
WASHINGTON (AP) — The heart of the Obama administration's health care overhaul hanging in the balance, the Supreme Court is turning to whether the rest of the law can survive if the crucial individual insurance requirement is struck down.
The justices also will spend part of Wednesday, the last of three days of arguments over the health law, considering a challenge by 26 states to the expansion of the Medicaid program for low-income Americans, an important feature toward the overall goal of extending health insurance to an additional 30 million people.
The first two days of fast-paced and extended arguments have shown that the conservative justices have serious questions about Congress' authority to require virtually every American to carry insurance or pay a penalty.
The outcome of the case will affect nearly all Americans and the ruling, expected in June, also could play a role in the presidential election campaign. Obama and congressional Democrats pushed for the law's passage two years ago, while Republicans, including all the GOP presidential candidates, are strongly opposed.
But the topic the justices take up Wednesday only comes into play if they first find that the insurance mandate violates the Constitution. If they do, then they will have to decide if the rest of the law stands or falls.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's much-anticipated ruling on health care, expected in late June, may have one surprising outcome: a modest impact on President Barack Obama's re-election bid, even though he is intimately associated with the challenged law.
That wouldn't be the case if anyone other than Mitt Romney was Obama's likeliest Republican challenger this fall. Romney, however, is singularly ill-positioned to capitalize on the issue because he championed a similar health care law as Massachusetts governor in 2006.
It's a political dilemma that some Republicans — chiefly Rick Santorum — have been raising for months. It gained sudden urgency this week, as Romney continues his slow but steady march toward the nomination and the Supreme Court's conservative majority expressed pointed skepticism about the federal health care law's constitutionality on Tuesday.
At least one of the five most conservative justices on the nine-person court must vote to uphold the 2010 Democratic-crafted health law for it to remain in place and continue its phased-in changes to current policies. Some independent analysts were struck Tuesday by the seeming hostility of questions from conservative justices, and several now predict the court will overturn the law this summer.
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Ok, I think I figured it out. the integer required should be the denominator of the fraction of the precision required. For example, 1/4" precision would require the integer 4 and 1/256" precision would require the integer 256.
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I had a similar situation once. I found that the best solution was using Regular Expressions. That way you can parse whatever the user puts in your text box. In my case I restricted the units to inches, but they where free to write some like 10'-1 5/16", 5/32", 10" or 8.75".
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Finally, An Answer for Smokers
Patricia Haines started smoking at age 15,
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Concerned that she sometimes felt short of
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The low-dose computed topography (CT)
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A study sponsored by the National Cancer
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the mortality rate by 20 percent over traditional X-rays when used to screen current and former smokers. The National Lung Screening Trial involved 53,454 participants, ages 55 to 74, and lasted more than a decade. (Patients received an eighth of the radiation exposure with the low-dose scan than they would have with a conventional CT scan.)
Encouraged by the study's primary results, which were released in 2011, TMC became the first and only hospital in the Charleston area to�offer the CT scans for lung cancer.
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Bemidji State rolled into the National Hockey Center this past weekend and handed the St. Cloud State Men's Hockey team its first home loss and took three points from the Huskies in a WCHA series. The two teams skated to a 6-6 tie Friday night, and BSU got the victory Saturday by a score of 3-1.
Friday saw SCSU lose two goal leads twice in the game. The Huskies lead 3-1 at one point in the first period, and chased starting goaltender Dan Bakala from the game. However, the Beavers roared back and took a 4-3 lead in the second period. Ben Hanowski tied the game with his second goal of the night towards the end of the second period to tie the game. St. Cloud came out firing in the third period and got goals from Travis Novak and Jordy Christian to take another two goal lead at 6-4. However BSU again scratched and clawed their way back to tie the game at six. Novak and Andrew Prochno had three points for SCSU in the tie. Ryan Faragher allowed six goals on 25 shots.
Saturday saw the Huskies strike first only 3:25 into the first frame. After notching his first NCAA goal the night before, Nick Oliver scored for SCSU to give the Huskies an early lead. However, that was the only goal SCSU would get in the game. The Beavers would score the next three, and despite being outshot by SCSU by a total of 34-14, BSU won the game 3-1.
With the loss SCSU falls to 6-8-4 on the season and 4-5-3 in the WCHA. The Huskies are off this weekend, but will return to action at home in two weeks for a series against Denver. For updates on the Men's Hockey team, remember to check us out on Twitter.
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10 Top Telescope Questions7. How come the objects in my telescope look so small/dim/featureless?
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