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The One Laptop per Child non-profit develops a low-cost laptop—the "XO Laptop"—to revolutionize how we educate the world's children. Our mission is to provide educational opportunities for the world's most isolated and poorest children by giving each child a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop; and software tools and content designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.
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The hit single "Soldier" is the third single off of his fourth studio album "Sweeter," and has been quickly making its way up the charts, following suit with successful singles "Sweeter," "Not Over You," "In Love with a Girl," "I Don't Want to Be," and "Chariot." Written by DeGraw and produced by Butch Walker, "Soldier" is a song that jumped out at director Carl Diebold the first time he heard it.
"I always look for songs and projects that allow me to tell a story and to inspire people to move and do something," Diebold says. "When I first heard "Soldier," I could see the potential for weaving several stories into an epic video. Fortunately the song was released as a single, and Gavin shared my vision."
DeGraw echoes those sentiments. "It was time for me in my career to release a song that had a sentiment like this one… It's something that people from different backgrounds, with a lot of different stories can relate to. It's about love and sacrifice - stepping up to the plate when no one else does. I think people really understand that - and those stories and emotions are what make this song and video so powerful."
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Please Rate, Comment, and Subscribe!! Thanks This is my 3rd AMV and I am depicting the theme from one of my favorite sagas "The Frieza Saga". If you aren't familiar with my "epic style" of AMV, what I try to do is focus on and capture the raw emotion of what is happening in my scenes. This may differ from the normal "fight-based" AMV that you and I are use to, but I think the emotional aspect of DBZ is just as important as its bad ass fight scenes and I think my unique style can be appreciated by both the seasoned DBZ veteran and the new-comer to the series. I hope you enjoy :) Here are links to my previous Epic Style DBZ AMVs "Gohan goes Super Saiyan 2 for the First Time" - www.youtube.com "Goku's Sacrifice" - www.youtube.com Songs Used: Marrowind Theme Two Steps from Hell - Protectors of the Earth
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A tribute to the most epic and memorable kamehamehas in DBZ. Just started making AMVs, this is my 3rd amv so please rate & comment, thanks. Song: Breaking Benjamin - "Blow Me Away" In order of appearance: 1. Goku vs Raditz (First in DBZ) 2. Goku vs Frieza (Kaioken x20) 3. Goku/Gohan/Goten vs Broly (Father/Sons in Broly Second Coming) 4. Goku vs Cell (Instant Transmission/Warp) 5. Goku vs Vegeta (Arguably, the most EPIC!!) 6. Gohan(/Goku) vs Cell (The Biggest Struggle). DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN OR CLAIM TO OWN ANY OF THE MATERIAL IN THIS VIDEO. IT IS PURELY FAN-MADE AND IS NO WAY ASSOCIATED WITH THE ARTIST OR ANIME COMPANY.
This is my first dbz amv of Goku vs Kid Buu on Kibito Kai's World. The song is called Wake Me Up Inside, also known as Bring Me To Life. The artist is Evanescene.
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HP launches BI appliance
Summary: Neoview bolsters HP's business intelligence with a product launch at the vendor's Technology at Work show in Berlin
HP launched a business intelligence platform at its Technology at Work conference in Berlin on Tuesday.
Neoview is a data warehouse — a combination of new hardware — that HP hopes will fill a major gap in the company's product line-up. Although HP claims to be one of the leading companies in business intelligence (BI) server deployments, so far it has relied on partners to deliver BI solutions.
The base system is a 16-processor unit with 3TB capacity — scalable up to 50TB — which can be accommodated in a single data warehouse. It costs $640,000 (£319,000). HP recommends one core processor (Intel Itanium) for two volumes of data.
Reliability has become more of an issue in data warehousing and business intelligence, along with performance, as companies run large data models with an expectation that results can be obtained very quickly.
Kevin Deyager, product manager for Neoview, said he expects the systems to compare on performance "with any on the market", although he was unable to provide any results from performance benchtests. HP claims to have "unparalleled performance" in handling complex queries, mixed workloads and high concurrency. Deyager said the company had put great emphasis on reliability compared with fault-tolerant systems.
BI specialists that will use Neoview include Cognos and Business Objects, Deyager said.
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To prove that the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate was not the "least restrictive alternative," the court pointed to a workaround in the law for nonprofits: If there are religious objections to a medical treatment, third parties will provide coverage to the employees. Yet in an unsigned emergency order granted Thursday evening, the very same court said that this very same workaround it had just praised was also unconstitutional, that this workaround also burdened the religious freedom of religious employers. Overnight, the cure has become the disease. Having explicitly promised that Hobby Lobby would go no further than Hobby Lobby, the court went back on its word, then skipped town for the summer.—
The Supreme Court just sneakily reversed itself on Hobby Lobby. (via nedhepburn)
A couple of thoughts here, just to get them down.
First, this unsigned emergency order is NOT a ruling on the case. As the WSJ points out (emphasis mine):
Wheaton is challenging that accommodation [by the HHS for non-profits] as too restrictive, but the Court did not rule on the merits last week. All it did was grant a reprieve from having to obey the mandate while the case is being heard. This says little about how the Court might eventually rule, notwithstanding Justice Sotomayor's angry implication. The reprieve will also not deny any reproductive services to anyone.
This sort of thing happens all the time.
Second, the Slate article quotes Justice Sotomayor's dissent from the order (emphasis mine):
"Today's injunction thus risks depriving hundreds of Wheaton's employees and students of their legal entitlement to contraceptive coverage."
This illustrates a significant fundamental issue—namely, whether contraception in particular, or health insurance in general, is a right. As I described here last week, I think it should NOT be a right. Is it important? Yes. Is coverage for all (who want it) an admirable goal? From a moral perspective, absolutely. From a public policy perspective, no way.
Those who are (fallaciously) whining about their bosses being in their bedroom seem to have no problem with government doing so, provided its doing what they want. The problem is that coercion can go both ways, and many on the left don't appear to see the danger in that.
Doesn't everyone see that once the government is in charge of paying for care, defining minimum coverage levels, implementing cost controls, etc., everything in this space becomes politicized? Everything. We need to remove the government-imposed incentives for employer-provided insurance, get the state out of providing/paying for care, and implement some basic reforms to allow an actual free market to work. Only then can we begin to clean up this mess.
Health insurance is not a right. Employers offer insurance both for tax benefits and to be competitive in the marketplace (since most everybody else offers it—see the vicious cycle?). Until the Obamacare employer mandate, they weren't required by law to provide coverage (or at least they weren't fined for NOT providing it); rather, they offered it in response to skewed market incentives (thanks, Uncle Sam).
Since insurance is not a right, this means that an employer who offers a health insurance plan to its employees should be able to offer whatever level of coverage it wants. This just makes sense on principle. And the reasons shouldn't matter, since it would be a freely offered and freely accepted benefit. Some reasons might be religious or ethical: Hobby Lobby doesn't want to pay for abortifacients, and reasonably so. Other reasons may be practical: a company that hires octegenarians might not want to pay for useless and expensive maternity coverage. An outdoorsman's club that hires men exclusively might not want to cover OBGYN exams. Nobody is forced to work anywhere, and nobody is forced into an insurance plan. Except now. A single word sums up Obamacare: coercion.
Once the government decides that there are minimum levels of coverage that EVERY policy is required to meet, those levels have to be defined (hello there, unelected HHS bureaucrats!), and all of a sudden the narrative changes and we think we have a right to those coverage levels. (And we do have a right now, technically, from a legal perspective, thanks to Obamacare. But it's a terrible idea, one that has already wreaked havoc on the system, and much of the ACA isn't even in effect yet. Not to mention that the implementation continues to suck.)
So now the left is pissed that Hobby Lobby doesn't want to cover 4 (out of 16) contraceptives in their insurance plan, but this only makes sense after the HHS mandated them as being required.
Does anybody remember that it was only a few years ago that most insurance plans didn't even cover contraception? I mean, this is a relatively recent development. But everyone is up in arms about it now, after the Demcorats forced Obamacare down our throats and started creating new "rights" out of thin air.
Look, if we untangled insurance from the market-skewing incentives created by government meddling, and repealed Obamacare, and implemented some other basic reforms in the right direction (Obamacare reformed in the WRONG direction), a number of things would happen:
1) You would get paid more. Your salary would be the only way an employer compensates you (if they aren't offering insurance coverage), and most likely all of your salary would come via your paycheck. That means YOU get more control over your money. It also means your employer wouldn't have to spend all the overhead involved with shopping for and administering insurance plans.
2) You would get a much broader range of plan options that the 4-size-fits-all straightjacket crap options that Obamacare mandates. Plus, it would be cheaper, especially if insurers are allowed to sell across state lines. Maybe my wife and I decide we're done having kids and we could save a bundle by not packaging maternity coverage into our plan. Maybe I've never smoked and never will smoke, let alone need coverage for nicotine addiction products. Insurers should have the right to offer the mix-and-match approach, and I should have the right to purchase a plan in that model.
3) The (bogus) controversy about your boss being in your bedroom would go away. When you shop for and buy your own plan, picking a choosing the coverage levels you want or need, the employer stays out of it. Surely that will stop the left from shrieking about being allowed to kill their babies in peace, right? No? Well, at least they won't be able to demand that their employers pay for it.
4) You can quit your job (easier). Many people join or leave companies because of the awesome or terrible benefits. When you leave a job with great insurance, that coverage is gone since it was provided by your ex-employer.
De-coupling insurance from employment and implementing a free market approach would diffuse most, if not all, of the moral and political controversy about insurance coverage in the US. It would also reduce cost, increase choice (see, I can be pro-choice), and increase job mobility opportunities.
Here are a couple good reads from the last few days.
Hobby Lobby, Contraception, And The Primitivism Of Politics
The Illogic of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
It's been quite a year for the outgoing HHS secretary. And now she won't get to keep her health plan.
Read the whole thing. Her legacy will be the botched "implementation" of one of the worst pieces of legislation in American history.
Dear Mr. Obama….In your speech on Tuesday, when you said that Obamacare is 'the law' and 'it's here to stay,' you really meant that Obamacare is 'a fluid and constantly adjusted set of unconstitutional decrees, which can be imposed or withdrawn by the Executive Branch at any point, for any reason, up to 21 times and counting.' And by 'here to stay,' you actually meant to say that 'most of it is neither here nor staying, because you don't want America to feel the full brunt of it until after the midterm elections.'
Read the whole thing. It's fantastic.
The first comment: "Plan on being audited, Matt."
It's not funny because it's true.
ObamaCare's implementers continue to roam the battlefield and shoot their own wounded, and the latest casualty is the core of the Affordable Care Act—the individual mandate. To wit, last week the Administration quietly excused millions of people from the requirement to purchase health insurance or else pay a tax penalty.This latest political reconstruction has received zero media notice, and the Health and Human Services Department didn't think the details were worth discussing in a conference call, press materials or fact sheet.
Un-freaking-believable. This guts the main driver of the (purported) cost savings that undergirded the ACA. This is a tacit admission by the Obama administration that this whole thing is a massive failure.
Cities, counties and public schools, lacking the option of passing along increased costs to consumers, are drawing a line at 30 hours.
Well, golly gee.
The administration thus acknowledges that its policy creates a perverse incentive and orders employers not to act upon it. But that can't be enforced. A business will take into account all relevant factors, including the additional costs imposed by ObamaCare, in making decisions about hiring and firing, including whether to terminate employees for poor performance, sell a division, etc. In practice, the new rule is a ban—under threat of criminal liability—on acknowledging the perverse incentive. Call it OmertàCare, a government-imposed conspiracy of silence.
A reduction in workforce size or overall hours of service for bona fide business reasons will not be considered to have been made in order to satisfy the workforce size condition.—
Treasury Department Regulation Document (page 125), published 2/12/14.The Obama Administration is delaying and modifying the employer mandate requirements, but they expressly forbid employers from reducing their workforces in response to (i.e. to avoid) the regulations—claiming that it's not a "bona fide business reason." (via obamacare)
Unbelievable. The tyrannical overreach continues.
Good morning, and welcome to Constitutional Law 101. Let's get started. The first thing you need to know about the Constitution is — well, really the only thing you need to know — is that it's a set of guidelines. And by 'guidelines,' I mean, 'I can do whatever the hell I want.'—
My Socks Don't Fit: White House Delays Obamacare's Employer Mandate…Again
Hilker nails it. This is probably how Obama introduced his Con-Law course.
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The Obama administration is simply re-writing Obamacare on the fly, with no regard for the plain text of the statute. This is lawless behavior, as was the first big delay. The Obama Precedent is now firmly set. Future presidents may delay, postpone, or alter any portion of the this law that they find unworkable. Or politically inconvenient. Or…anything at all, really.
More:The administration has now twice bestowed major Obamacare delays on businesses (a tacit acknowledgement that the law's effects are harmful to the job market and economic growth). At what point do average families and individuals get the same treatment? Millions are projected to pay the mandate tax in 2014 and beyond, most of whom are declining to obtain coverage because it costs too much. This administration has granted "hardship waivers" to some individuals who've lost their coverage because of Obamacare and can't afford the new rates. Why not extend the same fair deal to all Americans? The individual mandate tax is deeply unpopular; a massive majority of Americans support its delay. Please, Democrats, explain why middle class families must comply with this ever-changing law, while businesses get special exemptions and extensions. Also, please explain why you were willing to shut down the government when Republicans tried to delay this law through the democratic process — yet this unilateral decree is just fine. They've struggled to articulate a legal justification for these Obamacare power-grabs in the recent past. Remember, the individual mandate was upheld as a tax. Can presidents just rewrite tax laws now? Again, think of the precedent being set here.
More shenanigans from our ex-Constitutional Law professor.
It's basically publicly funded disinformation.—
Publicly funded disinformation, off the top of my head:
Lies? Not necessarily. Just plenty of hubris and economic ignorance.
The early returns are in. A large majority of the 2.2 million people who had purchased insurance on the exchanges by year-end — 65 percent to 90 percent, according to reporting by the Wall Street Journal — already had insurance. Economic writer Megan McArdle did the math, estimating that just 15 percent (750,000) of the 5 million uninsured that the Congressional Budget Office expected to sign up in the first year have actually done so. Meanwhile, administration claims about increases in coverage for the uninsured under Medicaid are badly, even deceptively, inflated, as Sean Trende has documented.
Economists debate the reasons for this failure of uptake. But, as it stands, Obamacare is largely a health insurance replacement system rather than an expansion. And the replacement is often less generous, more expensive and more restricted in options than promised. Yet, as McArdle pointed out, "the worst is yet to come": small-business policy cancellations, expensive government subsidies to insurance companies for excess losses, higher premiums in the exchanges, the IRS collection of individual mandate penalties, cuts in Medicare Advantage, the "Cadillac tax" on expensive policies, the possibility that some insurers will exit the public market entirely.
In The Wall Street Journal, John Goodman writes that cities with unfunded health-care commitments are getting ready to dump their retirees on the state exchanges.
This article is chock-full of detail on yet more ways the ACA is burning down the system.
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It is truly mind-boggling how this legislative monstrosity continues to go down in flames with each passing day day, yet the left wants to roast s'mores and sing camp songs around it.
I think virtually everybody agrees on a couple things:
- The healthcare system in the United States (both before and after the ACA) was a monstrously complicated thing. Health care was paid for by a bizarre amalgamation of employers, by states, by the federal government, by insurers, by individuals. Nobody designed this system—it's just what we had.
- Prior to the ACA the combination of decreasing coverage and increasing costs were reaching crisis levels. The [monstrously complicated beast of a ship was sinking.
There were basically four options.
- Do nothing. Watch Rome burn. Maybe fiddle. While I understand the ideological appeal, you'll understand why I might think this sort of thing tough option to defend.
- "Republican Common-Sense Solutions. Like, uh, Tort Reform." Except these were basically the same as the "do nothing" option. Back when the Republicans put an option on the table in the '90s, it looked a lot like the ACA. This time around there wasn't really a credible proposal. It was mostly just a proposal to wipe out states' consumer protections.
- The Affordable Care Act. Or something like it. Some half-measure designed to extend coverage to as many people as possible while upsetting the system as little as possible. By necessity, it's going to be as complicated as the healthcare system is.
- Something More Universal or Single-Payer. At the risk of annoying my friends on the left—I just don't think this was possible in 2009. And if you think of the implementation problems we had with the comparably modest ACA, I can only imagine how rough a more ambitious change would have gone.
So we have the ACA, which isn't all rainbows and unicorns—but it was better than the alternatives. As the conservatives love to point out, it was large and complicated. A bunch of pieces haven't worked as desired. So they get tweaked, changed or dropped. But the body of the act works pretty well.
On the downside, a website didn't work for a month. On the upside, we're now looking at 3 million who have insurance through the exchanges, 6 million through expanded medicaid, 3 million more or so insured by staying on parents plans until 26. Perhaps it's not all snow flakes and kitten giggles. But its worth a few s'mores and camp songs.
The ACA was passed with legislative dishonesty and political payoffs, and it is flawed philosophically (it's a significant intrusion on personal liberty); it is blatantly unconstitutional (despite John Roberts' twisted logic), impossible to execute well (as predicted), and was the cause of one of the greatest presidential frauds in history ("if you like your coverage you can keep it").
So here are some of the biggest problems (so far) with implementing the ACA:
The young (more specifically, the young AND healthy) are not signing up at the levels required for the whole system to work. And why should they? The way the ACA works is to transfer a massive amount of wealth from the young and healthy (who consume few healthcare resources) to the older and more expensive people. We know definitively that the numbers aren't there in the age-spread required, at least not yet. But people are also starting to recognize that age is less important than overall health. And guess what? Insurers don't gather that info any more—thanks to the ACA: they aren't allowed to deny coverage or raise individual premiums based on pre-existing conditions. It's like forcing auto insurers to cover the 16-year-old male with three speeding tickets at the same rate as the elderly woman with no record and who drive 500 miles a year.
We also don't know how many people have actually signed up and begun paying for their policies purchased on the exchange. The Obama administration likes to count page hits and shopping cart entries, but won't release real numbers.
Fewer and fewer hospitals are accepting Medicare because the service payments are so low. In addition, the policies sold on the exchanges often have anemic in-network coverage, and those options are frequently local. If you bought a policy on the Maryland exchange (say), good luck finding an in-network urgent care clinic when your son breaks his arm while on vacation in Florida.
Fraud: "if you like your plan you can keep it." This may have been the most dishonest part of Obama's constant shilling in support of the ACA. It's well proven that the administration knew they were over-simplyfing (to put it charitably), but the arguments of the political analysts won over the policy wonks who knew the truth. In trying to (politically) clean up their mess after millions started getting cancellation notices, the administration started making exceptions and re-writing regulations to allow people to take a "hardship" exception to the law, so they could still buy their old policies that don't meet the minimum requirements of the ACA (foisting the one-size-fits-all approach is yet another illustration of liberal hubris). So not only is the HHS allowing the ACA itself to be a reason for granting a hardship exception to itself, the whole thing is screwing up the actuarial calculations of the insurers. Guess what that means for next year's premiums (and beyond)? Yep, they go even higher.
The implementation of the ACA is a glorious example of the law of unintended consequences, and of the incredible hubris of the central-planning left who want to be judged on their motive and intent rather than their real-world results.
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Book Description:From "The Talk of the Town," Jamaica Kincaid's first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New YorkTalk Pieces is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town," composed during the time when she first came to the United States from Antigua, from 1978 to 1983. Kincaid found a unique voice, at once in sync with William Shawn's tone for the quintessential elite insider's magazine, and (though unsigned) all her own--wonderingly alive to the ironies and screwball details that characterized her adopted city. New York is a town that, in return, fast adopts those who embrace it, and in these early pieces Kincaid discovers many of its hilarious secrets and urban mannerisms. She meets Miss Jamaica, visiting from Kingston, and escorts the reader to the West Indian-American Day parade in Brooklyn; she sees Ed Koch don his "Cheshire-cat smile" and watches Tammy Wynette autograph a copy of Lattimore's Odyssey; she learns the worlds of publishing and partying, of fashion and popular music, and how to call a cauliflower a crudite.The book also records Kincaid's development as a young writer--the newcomer who sensitively records her impressions here takes root to become one of our most respected authors.
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"Then Peter came and said to Him, 'Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?' Jesus said to him, 'I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.'" Matthew 18:21-22
"And the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them." Matthew 21:14
"'Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?' And He said to him, 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.'" Matthew 22:36-40


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McALLEN - Christine Jacqueline "Jackie" Kalifa, 23, passed away on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, in Mission. She was a happy, loving, caring, extraordinary person with a beautiful future ahead of her. She was loved by everyone she knew and she was always there for those she loved. Although her life was cut short she left behind a lifetime of beautiful memories full of smiles, laughter and love.
Kalifa is survived by her mother, Floriza (Javier) Martinez of McAllen; father Enrique Kalifa III of McAllen; love of her life, Bryan Long; children, Bryan Anthony, Jazmin Ayiza, and Armando Jesus "AJ" Ventura Kalifa Long; brothers, Christopher Kalifa and Jathan Martinez; maternal grandmother, Alicia Lozano and maternal great grandmother, Floriza E. Navarro of McAllen; aunt, Yesenia Y. Lozano of McAllen; and uncle, Armando (Yvonne) Lozano of McAllen. She is also survived by Bryan's parents, George and Sue Long, who loved her like a daughter.
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The botched rollout of HealthCare.gov has put a spotlight on how the federal government manages IT and carries out procurement. In a Nov. 14 speech, President Barack Obama called government IT procurement a systemic problem. And Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), co-sponsor of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act, said the recent mishaps with what many call Obamacare have elevated the House-passed bill "from relative obscurity to prominence in the halls of Congress."
But what evidence exists that the rocky launch was caused by IT mishaps or acquisition failures? Proper medical treatment requires an informed and correct diagnosis, and government reform needs the same in order to be effective. So let me suggest a different systemic problem requiring a different curative regime: the government's need for improved program management.
Several years ago, a group of current and former government CIOs, chief financial officers, chief acquisition officers, budget officers and business managers came together to produce several white papers to address this matter. Let me draw from the capstone paper to outline my argument.
Concerned that unsuccessful programs continue to waste billions of dollars while still failing to deliver needed services, we voluntarily assembled to discuss the reasons for program failure and the necessary actions to ensure success. The focus of our discussions and studies was on building a program management capability that can deliver the government's mission in the form of outcomes and results.
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Would these program management practices have spared HealthCare.gov its disastrous debut? We'll never know for sure, but such steps would certainly have helped to flag the trouble spots much sooner.
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Could not agree more, the MAJOR problem was lack of good program management and OVERSIGHT that makes a PM adhere to good management techniques. Capturing the metrics that verify a project is on track (e.g. EVM (linked to a resourced IMS), Requirements Stability/Tracability, Design Stability/Tracability, Fault Opening/Closing, etc) is the basis for evaluating and ensuring progress. Developing Documentation (a la DOD 5000) captures the planning that ensures the required thought has gone into the project/program. From the Congressional Hearings, it was evident that none of this was present at CMS. No Project Management + Lack of Oversight = FAILURE!
Agreed Alan - better PM would have surely helped but in this case the PM failure is more a symptom than the cause IMHO. The projects complexity and apparent lack of transparency along with architectural decisions appear to have doomed the initiative from the get-go. We will be trying to learn from this one for a long time...
I would add as far as Change Management goes: Repeatable and traceable or auditable.
The premise that government should be involved with health care insurance is absolutely idiotic. Why waste time discussion a problem that should never have been tried in the first place.
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By Marty Downs, Bob Lalasz, Matt Miller, Lisa Feldkamp and Cara Byington of the TNC Science Communications team
We find tons of cool conservation and conservation science stuff on the Internets — and share the best of it with you every week in The Cooler:
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Why don't woodpeckers get brain damage? (Popular Science)
In Grant's gazelles, parasites decide who's boss. (Science)
Yawning is contagious, even for wolves. (National Geographic)
Looks can be deceiving: Pheasant population up, but native prairie and CRP acres still down. (Pheasants Forever)
Amphibious fish, raised on land, show how terrestrial ancestors may have adapted. (Science)
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Could bamboo replace steel? Bamboo fiber composite shows promise to replace steel reinforcements in concrete. (American Ceramic Society)
Koalas and climate change: Hints on how to protect all the specialist folivores. (Conservation Letters)
I hate that new stuff: Are novel ecosystems cheapening restoration policies? (Trends in Evolution and Ecology via Phys Org)
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Couples only: Why climate change shouldn't be a single Sustainable Development Goal. (SciDev.net)
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Deadly free fall: monarch butterfly population in precipitous decline; legal petition seeks "threatened" status. (International Business Times)
Explained: The wandering stones of Death Valley's Racetrack Playa. (Nature)
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How recording the DNA of trees could undercut illegal logging. (Mongabay)
A small island community's big plans for marine conservation. (Dot Earth)
E.O. Wilson's audacious plan: half the planet for wildlife. (Smithsonian)
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Breaking the deadlock on climate change communication? One open–access editorial, plus two commentaries (1, 2) behind the paywall. (Nature Climate Change)
Fewer than 5% of papers in the top 20 conservation biology journals are open access. Is that any way to inform a global conversation? (Conservation Biology)
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Thank you for including "E.O. Wilson's audacious plan" (Smithsonian) in your list of articles. It represents the sort of aggressive, visionary plan that could actually save much of the earth's biodiversity. Another great project along these same lines is being run by the American Prairie Reserve http://www.americanprairie.org
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When Florida State Seminoles head coach Jimbo Fisher took over for the legendary Bobby Bowden in the 2010 season, the pressure was on him like no other coach in the nation to return a program that dominated the 90s back to prominence.
After top-notch recruiting classes and development, Fisher has accomplished that seemingly impossible mission in 2013 by leading the 'Noles to an unblemished 13-0 record and an appearance in the BCS National Championship Game on Monday night against the Auburn Tigers.
Fisher has gotten this program to the title game by basically emulating what Bowden's teams in the 90s did–dominating everyone and everything in their path.
The 'Noles are among the best in the nation in every category offensively and defensively and have not won a game this season by less than 14 points.
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Directed by Luke Gilford and released for Urban Outfitter's video series, it follows dancing churchgoers who worship a segway-riding goddess. Don't try to act like you've never joined one of those churches before, we've all been there, and it's nothing to be ashamed about.
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The only thing better than your favorite song is a cover of your favorite. True, we all love the original, but there's something so cool and amazing about a great cover. Covers allow us music fans to think and even interpret songs in different ways. And while random people singing covers on YouTube is fun, […]
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June 5th, 2014
There are few things in life we love more than a good cover here at Much, and today's delivery from the cover Gods is truly a thing of beauty. The BBC Live Lounge acted as the backdrop for Ed Sheeran to perform Sam Smith's breakout track Stay With Me, a venue we will know refer […]
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May 8th, 2014
We first heard about singer Anthony Vincent Valbiro when he blew our minds with his cover of Katy Perry's Dark Horse, switching between 20 styles in four minutes. Valbiro, who heads the company Ten Second Songs, is back, this time with a cover of Jason Derulo's Talk Dirty. Our faves from this little ditty have […]
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March 20th, 2014
Singer Anthony Vincent Valbiro is a man of many voices. The New York musician has a company called Ten Second Songs where customers can request Valbiro record a custom track in any genre for a small fee. To show off just how impressive Valbiro's range truly is, the singer recently uploaded his version of Katy […]
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Two days ago, singing group Pentatonix (made up of musicians from NBC's The Sing-Off) posted an a capella cover of Lorde's hit single, Royals. Since then, they've already amassed over 3.5 million views on YouTube and many have gone as far as calling this version of the song better than the original. We gave it […]
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June 20th, 2013
Remember Tyler Shaw, winner of last year's MuchMusic and Coca-Cola Covers competition? He might have passed on the torch to the Oducado Twins but he's proven himself to be completely capable of making a name for himself. Check out this exclusive interview we had with Tyler below and tell us what you think in the […]
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Yesterday on New.Music.Live. we revealed the Top 3 finalists for the Much and Coca-Cola Covers Competition and Kirstyn Johnson came out of the Top 10 with her cover of Frank Ocean's breakthrough track, Thinkin Bout You. This year's winner (or winners – duet!) will win a trip to the MMVAs, where they will take home […]
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Yesterday on New.Music.Live. we revealed the Top 3 finalists for the Much and Coca-Cola Covers Competition and the Neil Pranjivan came out of the Top 10 with his cover of Frank Ocean's breakthrough track, Thinkin Bout You. This year's winner (or winners – duet!) will win a trip to the MMVAs, where they will take […]
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