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The U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) should make some states lean more toward getting exchange services from the federal government.
Analysts at the in-house government affairs and human and social services think tanks at KPMG L.L.P., Wilmington, Del., make that argument in a brief on the possible impact of the PPACA ruling.
Members of the court ruled 5-4 that Congress has the authority to impose a tax on residents who fail to buy health insurance.
The court ruled, however, that Congress has no authority to reduce existing Medicaid funding to make states expand their Medicaid programs to provide coverage for all residents who earn less than 133% of the federal poverty level.
Officials in some states say they will try to expand Medicaid access despite the ruling, but officials in other states have said they will continue to do everything they can to block PPPACA implementation, including implementation of the Medicaid expansion provisions.
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"The reality is that nationally the vast majority of the newly insured under [PPACA] would have been enrolled in Medicaid under the expanded program," the KPMG analysts write in their brief. "If the program is not expanded, the uptake into an [health benefits exchange (HBE)] will be greatly reduced and the population that is left may not provide the critical mass necessary to warrant a state-based exchange or make it economically sustainable."
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Its been almost a year now owning my '05 FWD FEH and posting here. Learned alot on improving mpg from here and greenhybrid.com (GH). GH has been bought now and I've basicly said good by to that site. Hope Brad can do some upgrades to this site to increase visitors and members for its future. Others from GH are talking about creating a new Hybrid Site which will include Fuel Efficient (FE) enthusiast also.
Here is a tip I picked I up from Wayne Gerdes (xcel) after running some test on coasting. Normally, I coast as much as I can to improve MPG but I had no idea it could be improved so much.
The Coasting test was done like this per xcel instructions:
Get up to 43mph, shift to "L", at 40mpg, there will be a drop in RPM's. At this point, shift back to "D" and go electric vehicle (EV). Coast in drive to till you must shift to "N" at 10mph so "creaping" will not take place in the FEH. Continue untill coming to a dead stop. Take a measurement of that total "Glide" from 40mph to the stop. My results was .5 miles.
Next, do the same things but when you go EV at 40, shift to "N" (neutral), turn off the key and coast to a dead stop. My results was .68 miles, a 36% increase in distance.
After seeing the results, I tried the test without turning off the key and coasting in "N". My results was .6 miles, a 20% increase over "D" coasting in EV.
Took the testing two steps further and tried the coasting with the engine running (no EV). With the engine running, your burning a little fuel coasting of course, but we all know from those with the nav energy screen at idle coasting your at max instant mpg >60mpg most of the time.
Coasting in "D" engine running (used AC max) from 40mph to 10mph shifting to "N" and to a dead stop. Results was .6 miles, the same as EV in "N". It seems the engine took the drag off the gear set better than EV in "D" coasting.
Coasting in "N" engine running (used A/C max) from 40mph to a dead stop. Results was .82 miles. This is over a 36% increase with engine running in "D" coasting.
One important change from the standard automatic transaxle to the eCVT is that it does not have a torque converter. It is not damaged by coasting in "N" like other automatics. In fact, the manual states that you can tow the FEH up to 75mph with both the FWD and AWD tires on the road. The eCVT is a drive by wire system and there are no gears change machanicly when changing the shifter except "P" (park).
Does anyone realize here the benifits of gliding in the FEH in "N" yet. Let here from you Toyota Hybrid owners also.
Gary, I don't think your measures are really comparable. For instance, in N your coast is probably ending up with less charge in the battery than you have with the same coast in D.
Good point Jim
You are correct about while coasting in neutral, there is no charge going to the battery during EV gliding. There is very little regen in gliding or coasting in "D" either. In both situations, when coming to a stop, I shift down to "L" before applying the brakes to get max regen. Low is not a gear but is the wheels and axles turning the traction motor/generator while slowing and charging the battery. Also to capture the most posible charge while the ICE (engine) is running in the pulse back to the desired speed, I use what I call the "Fake Shift". The best way to perform the fake shift for recharging the battery is to watch the Assist/Charge needle. When the battery needs a recharge, the ICE is turning the generator providing a steady charge to the battery. However, by letting off the gas pedal, you send a high boost from the axles to the Traction motor giving the battery an even faster way to recharge the battery. Again, this is all seen by watching the Assist/Charge needle. Accelerate slowly and watch the charge needle come just to a point it shows no charge then release pressure on the gas pedal, the needle will show a large charge. When the the needle returns to a normal charge again, accelerate slowly (about 300 more RPM) till the needle is back off the charge position again and repeat. Continue as needed.
The fake shift can reduce the charging time and distance to almost half normal ICE recharge. A low battery is never a problem while using "N" for coasting in EV for the best FE. A round trip of about 23 miles using EV/ICE recharge above has gotten me over a 58mpg average at speed limits that averaged 33mph.
On the other hand, coasting in "N" with the ICE running is not a problem at all for me. While gliding/coasting in "N", the ICE is charging the battery if needed through the generator. Shifting back to "D" adds regen through the traction motor/generator. You can always use a fake shift in "D" to lower RPM's in your pulse if needed and pick up additional charging. When accelerating, I have choosen to take it slow if I can depending on traffic conditions. The scangauge has been very helpful determining the load at which to accelerate for the best FE among very many other things it does.
I think this discussion of how to improve fuel mileage has kind of gotten out of hand and away from really useful and workable suggestions for normal driving. I've had my FEH 2006 FWD for a little more than 3 months and put 1650 miles on it. Living on a small island, I drive only very short distances and try to do my best with soft acceleration and staying in electric mode as long as possible. Maybe 5% of my total mileage has been on soft beach sand that always requires a lot of power. My overall gas economy has been a very disappointing 22-23 mpg (only 5-6 mpg better than my 2002 Escape V6 FWD), and there seems to be little I can do to improve that performance. Cool weather and short trips that don't allow the engine to really warm up are negative factors, but I can't escape the notion that my particular vehicle is somehow poorly adjusted or engineered. These figures of 35 or even 40 mpg that I read of here sound completely fantastic to me. I'd be happy to get something like 26 mpg--it would be a 50% improvement over my old Escape! Right now it's a meagre 30-35% saving. Hardly worth the expense of the FEH. Any suggestions anyone?
Chris Feb. 15, 2006
Chris, can't help you with the soft sand driving, but you can still coast in "N" with the engine on or off on hard roads. Just speed up slowly to a higher speed and glide down to acceptable speed and repeat.
The scangauge (see scangauge.com) plugs in above the brake and sits on your dash (takes less than 5 min,) and can give you instant MPG reading. By seeing the instant mpg reading, you can learn how to improve your driving for better mpg. The cost of the scangauge is $129 and it does so many other things.
The term "normal driving" you use tells me you don't want to change your driving habits or style. You can't have it both ways. I'm getting twice your mileage out of my FWD in ideal conditions but I have to make those short trips also. Example, this morning I had to run to a store (2 miles away) and return home. The speed limit is 35mph so I went up to 40mph, shifted to "N" and coasted back to 35mph. During the coast about an 1/8 of a mile, my scangauge showed I was getting over 70mpg while the engine was warming up and also charging the HV battery. I was able to return home a great deal of the distance in EV. I drive like this during all warm ups and throughout my day.
Hope this helps.
You're on an island- tropical climate? Are you running your air on MAX? If so, you're keeping the gas engine on. Try the lower A/C setting, which will help improve mpg. I live in sunny LA, and am getting 30/32 with the 2WD FEH. Driving in sand will keep the engine on, I'm sure. Coast whenever you can...no island pun intended.
Running the math I'm seeing that it could be the sand driving you're doing. If you only got 5 mpg on sand, it would only bring your average down to about 24 mpg (assuming 30 mpg on pavement).
This coupled with short trips with a lot of stop-and-go plus A/C or defogger could bring you down to around 20 mpg.
Try to run about 100 miles only on the road and see what your mpg is. A scangauge might help you identify your sand mpg for real.
Gary, Joan, et al--
Actually it's a cold island where I'm living, and this being the cold season of the year I never use AC and only very rarely and briefly the defogger. So that can't be the issue. The driving on beach sand certainly is a considerable detriment, but it really amounts only to a very small percentage of my overall driving. I'm perfectly willing to try the coasting technique, but it seems to me that if one has to go to that extent to come up with the manufacturer's advertised 500 miles per tank (i.e. about 33.3 mpg) that borders on fraudulent advertising. Next week we'll be taking our FEH off island and do about 1,000 miles of regular "mainland" driving (hiway and local) driving, and perhaps I'll get different results then. Keep posted.
Some of the people posting are getting low mileage. I notice many of those posts are in December. Is it cold where you live? ALL cars get worse mileage when it is cold, part of the physics of internal combustion engines. My friend with a Prius gets 30 MPG or less in the winter, 40+ in the summer.


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S01:E01 - Chaos Control Freaks
While trying to retrieve the 7th Chaos Emerald from Dr. Eggman, Sonic and Friends are transported to the human world where Sonic is rescued by a boy named Chris.
S01:E02 - Sonic to the Rescue
When Sonic discovers that Cream and Cheese are being held captive by the military, Sonic, with the help of Chris' grandfather Chuck, finds and frees them only to be caught in a trap until Tails come to the rescue
S01:E03 - Missile Wrist Rampage
When Eggman tries to use E-23 to take over the world Amy, Knuckles and Tails launch an unsuccessful counterattack, until Sonic arrives, and with a ring from Tails, destroys E-23 and saves Amy with the help of Knuckles
S01:E04 - Chaos Emerald Chaos
Chris' teacher is replaced with the President's spy, and the first Chaos Emerald appears at a construction site. It's then a race to the stone between Eggman and Sonic, with Chris stealing it from
S01:E05 - Cracking Knuckles
After Eggman tricks Knuckles into blaming Sonic for being stuck in the human world, Knuckles challenges Sonic to a duel allowing Eggman to capture Chris, Amy and Tails using E-47, until Knuckles
S01:E06 - Techno Teacher
Eggman tries to use his robot to brainwash Chris' class but when Intellihente winds up teaching more than brainwashing, Eggman steps in to put the children in permanent detention until a worried
S01:E07 - Party Hardly
When Mr. Stewart drops by for a surprise visit, Chris and Chuck are able to keep Sonic and Friends' stay a secret but after the S-Team Leader, Chris' uncle, arrives things get messier and everyone including Ella and Mr. Tanaka find out Chris' secret
S01:E08 - Satellite Swindle
After Eggman discovers that he is being watched by the military he sends E-90 to swallow the satellite, but this disrupts all television so Chuck and Tails turn Tornado into Tornado X allowing Sonic to enter and destroy E-90.
S01:E09 - The Last Resort
After Chris, Amy, Cream and Cheese arrive at a resort, Eggman appears and tries to take over but Sonic arrives and tries to stop him only to be saved by Amy from E-39.
S01:E10 - Satelite Swindle
It's Team Sonic vs Team Eggman in a baseball game for a Chaos Emerald, Team Sonic falls behind at first but then wins with a Sonic super-play, only to have Eggman steal the Emerald in the end.
S01:E11 - Fly Spy
The President plants a fake emerald to try and attract Sonic but Rouge takes the bait instead and winds up searching Eggman's base, with Topaz, for a Chaos Emerald, until she encounters E-70 and
S01:E12 - Beating Eggman Part1
Tails and Chris discover the third Chaos Emerald in a field and fly for it in the X-Tornado but Eggman and E-51 catch up and trap them, meanwhile Rouge and Topaz launch an attack on Eggman's base.
S01:E13 - Beating Eggman Part2
Sonic saves Tails and Chris from E-51 while Eggman makes off with the Chaos Emerald, at Eggman's base Knuckles appears and helps Rouge plant explosives but they end up trapped.
S01:E14 - That's What Friends Are For
When Sonic ignores the President's party to take Helen, a wheelchair-bound girl, to pick a flower, the President's aide responds by sending a unit to capture Sonic but Sonic outruns them all giving Helen the thrill of her life and ending up at the party
S01:E15 - Skirmish in the Sky
Eggman reveals his new secret base, the Egg Fort, and attacks Station Square but Sonic hops in the X-Tornado and forces the Egg Fort out into the ocean where he sinks it into the water
S01:E16 - Depth of Danger
Sonic and Friends retrieve the fourth Emerald from a sunken ship, Eggman returns with his Egg Fort and attacks but Sonic uses a ring from Tails to destroy the robot with a Spin Attack
S01:E17 - The Adventures of Knuckles and Hawk
After Hawk shows Knuckles the fifth Chaos Emerald Eggman's E-91 kidnaps Hawk for ransom, but during the trade Rouge enters and Chaos Emerald-keep away ensues until Knuckles defeats the robot, gets
S01:E18 - The Dam Scam
When Sonic, Tails, Chris and the Egg Fort crash land on the Nature Continent after a fight, Tails and Chris protest against a dam while Sonic is caught in a battle against Decoe, Bocoe, E-65 and Eggman, until Tails arrives with a ring
S01:E19 - Sonic's Scream Test
Sonic begins his adventures in a new world.
S01:E20 - Cruise Blues
Sonic and Co. are on a cruise when the Egg Fort appears inside a glacier. Sonic is unable to defeat three E-28 robots, until Knuckles arrives and together they smash the bots and the glacier, but the new Egg Fort 2 emerges from the ice and flies away
S01:E21 - Fast Friends
Sonic begins his adventures in a new world
S01:E22 - Little Chao Lost
While Chris & Co. are looking for Cheese who is lost amongst multiple Chao, Eggman spots them, thinking they found another Emerald, unleashes E-66 but E-66 almost kills the Chao until Sonic defeats E-66 and rescues the Chao from enfironmental destruction
S01:E23 - Emerald Anniversary
When Chris' dad buys a Chaos Emerald for a gift, Sonic and Friends, and Eggman duke it out for the emerald but Eggman unleashes Weazo and escapes with the sixth emerald while Knuckles helps Sonic defeat the robot
S01:E24 - How to Catch a Hedgehog
When Sonic goes berserk and can't stop running, Chris and Chuck discover that it's Eggman's E-88 behind Sonic's problem, but when Amy tries to stop it herself, she winds up in danger and it's Sonic to the rescue again
S01:E25 - A Dastardly Deed
To return home, Knuckles calls a truce with Eggman and convinces Chris to give up all their Chaos Emeralds, but Eggman betrays them and keeps all six emeralds for himself, with the seventh emerald
S01:E26 - Countdown to Chaos
When Sonic and the seventh emerald are knocked into the water after a fight with Eggman's Chaos Emerald-powered robot, Chris steals Eggman's emeralds and drops them into the water, causing Chaos Control and a mysterious island to appear
S01:E27 - Pure Chaos
Sonic helps Big the Cat as Chaos grows stronger
S01:E28 - Achaotic Day
Knuckles has a mysterious vision, Amy is kidnappedKnuckles has a mysterious vision, Amy is kidnapped
S01:E29 - A Robot Rebels
Chris and Big find Froggy, E100 turns agains Dr. Eggman.
S01:E30 - Head's Up, Tail
Sonic and Tails try to rescue Amy and Lily from Eggman.
S01:E31 - Revenge of the Robot
Tails has to sneak out of the mansion.
S01:E32 - Flood Fight
Sonic transforms into Super Sonic
S01:E33 - Project Shadow
Dr. Eggman learns of Project: Shadow
S01:E34 - Shadow Knows
Sonic is confused for Shadow
S01:E35 - Sonic's Big Break
Sonic escapes prison
S01:E36 - Shadow World
Sonic visits Eggman's grandfather
S01:E37 - Robotnik's Revenge
Sonic rushes to save Chris
S01:E38 - Showdown in Space
Sonic and Shadow team up to save the world
S01:E39 - Defective Detectives
New creatures from Sonic's world crash on Earth
S01:E40 - Sunblock Solution
Eggman is praised as a hero, Sonic looks like a villain
S01:E41 - Eggman for President
Sonic reveals to the others that Eggman was purposely causing the Egg Moon to obstruct the sunlight
S01:E42 - A Date to Forget
Amy finally understands Sonic's need for speed
S01:E43 - Mean Machines
The city is overrun by manical household appliances
S01:E44 - Supersonic Hero Appears!
Sonic battles his way out of Eggman's lair
S01:E45 - Prize Fights
Sonic is forced to drop out of the tournament
S01:E46 - A Wild Win
Can our hedgehog hero put the brakes on Emerl's destructive rampage?
S01:E47 - Map of Mayhem
Sonic and company must set sail on a rescue mission
S01:E48 - The Volcanic Venture
Sonic and friends are forced to go underground
S01:E49 - The Biginning of the End
Sonic and his plans must head homeward
S01:E50 - Running Out of Time
Sonic and co. try to get back to their planet
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New York City, N.Y., Dec 2, 2013 / 05:53 pm (CNA).- Pope Francis' words in "Evangelii Gaudium" touching on economic issues have elicited a range of reactions, with one columnist emphasizing their challenge to conservatives to respond generously.
"The challenge for conservative Catholics," New York Times columnist Ross Douthat wrote Nov. 30, is "to spend the Francis era not in opposition but seeking integration – meaning an economic vision that remains conservative, but in the details reminds the world that our Catholic faith comes first."
"The pope's words...should encourage a much greater integration of Catholic and conservative ideas than we've seen since 'compassionate conservatism' collapsed, and inspire Catholics to ask more – often much more – of the Republican Party, on a range of policy issues," he said.
In his Nov. 24 apostolic exhortation on the new evangelization, Pope Francis referred to issues of economics twice – while discerning the context in which evangelization must happen today, and while discussing the inclusion of the poor in society as one of the social dimensions of evangelization.
The Bishop of Rome rejected the "economy of exclusion," idolatry of money, a ruling financial system, and violence-spawning inequality; he praised solidarity with the poor, mercy, the value of the poor, and a better distribution of income.
The Pope's words were dismissed by some conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh as "pure Marxism" and "political."
But writing at Catholic Online, Deacon Keith Fournier emphasized that "his teachings are not political – they are prophetic and pastoral," and transcend the categories of American liberalism and conservatism.
"Neither can this apostolic exhortation be squeezed into the economic overlay which fuels much of the debate in the United States. Yet, just such an effort is being used by those with political and economic agendas, left and right," Deacon Fournier wrote.
"Sadly, they distract the public from hearing a desperately needed corrective and beautiful message from a pastor who has been given charge of what he properly refers to as a church without frontiers."
The deacon explained that the exhortation does not make Pope Francis a "fellow political progressive" of the American left, but neither is he defending the sort of materialistic capitalism which places capital – goods – over persons; rather, the Pope is teaching that economic issues are moral issues.
"Christian Social thought needs to be rescued from those who may have used it as a kind of proof text to legitimize any political theory or economic system that fails to spring from its' fundamental view of the dignity of the human person, solidarity, authentic human freedom, economic and social justice," he said.
George Weigel made a similar point, writing in the Wall Street Journal that Pope Francis' program "is not a matter of economic or political prescription, but a revolution in the self-understanding of the Catholic Church: a re-energizing return to the pentecostal fervor and evangelical passion from which the church was born two millennia ago, and a summons to mission that accelerates the great historical transition from institutional-maintenance Catholicism to the Church of the New Evangelization."
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Columnist James Pethokoukis added that "it is impossible to understand the pope's message if one fails to view it through the lens of Jesus' teachings," and that "of course" he doesn't consider market capitalism to be "the ultimate cure to what ails humanity or the key to true human flourishing."
Douthat responded to his fellow-conservatives' objections to the exhortation, saying that "the burden is on them...to explain why a worldview that inspires left-leaning papal rhetoric also allows for right-of-center conclusions."
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Alerts can be a maximum of 90 characters, and in most cases, will only contain basic information such as the type of emergency, when the alert will expire and a recommended course of action. Cellphone carriers will sell mobile phones with the capability to receive CMAS notifications, said Rick Wimberly, president of Galain Solutions Inc., and blogger for Emergency Management magazine, Government Technology's sister publication. Carriers like AT&T have already provided a list of models that can receive CMAS notifications.
Individuals will not be charged to receive the messages, and alerting authorities will not pay wireless phone carriers for sending out the notifications, according to FEMA. The alerts will be sent to mobile phones via broadcast technology to avoid the delay that typically happens during an emergency when wireless voice and data services are "highly congested."
Three types of messages will be sent to mobile phones: imminent threats, Amber alerts and presidential messages, but according to FEMA, most alerts will be issued by the National Weather Service.
Imminent threats include tornado, tsunami, hurricane, flood and other types of severe weather warnings, all of which will come from the National Weather Service, Wimberly said. For other imminent threats — hazardous materials incidents, for example — alerts may be issued by state and local officials, who must complete a four-step authorization process.
Wimberly said that for officials to get permission to send out the alerts, they must:
1. Identify to FEMA what solution (software) their agency will use to send out the alerts;
2. Apply for a memorandum of agreement with FEMA;
3. Once FEMA gives permission to use the solution, the application will go back to the state where the agency is located. From there, the state will review the application and decide whether that local alerting authority is of a legitimate public safety agency, then the state makes the final decision for approval; and
4. The individuals who will actually be activating the approved solution will then go through a training session.
Almost 20 agencies have received approval from FEMA to send out CMAS alerts, including the San Diego County Office of Emergency Services and the Maryland Emergency Management Agency. As of Tuesday, April 10, another 16 agencies were waiting for approval, according to FEMA. The full list can be seen on the agency's website.
Besides winning FEMA approval, government agencies will need to prepare the public before they start sending CMAS messages, Wimberly said. Because citizens don't need to opt in, they may have concerns when they begin receiving the alerts.
"The public will be really pleased with this service, however, it's also my opinion that there will be a certain amount of misunderstanding and there will be questions that will come up by the public," Wimberly said.
It'll be important for state and local agencies to educate the public about the new system to keep concerns or problems to a minimum, he said. For instance, some individuals may want to call 911 when they receive an alert — something they obviously should avoid.
Because the alerts will be brief, they may not provide all the information that citizens need about an emergency situation. The alerts will, however, let citizens know that there is a major situation occurring and that they need to pay attention.
"The biggest thing that needs to be worked out is the educational piece of it," he said.
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The Bruins, down 3-0 in the third, achieved a compact and miraculous comeback. They scored twice in the final 90 seconds after pulling their goalie, and salvaged an extremely unlikely comeback. (The Rangers would win in the shootout.) But in the game-tying goal, a rebound right to Brad Marchand that he put top shelf, was a moment of celebration at the TD Garden. Nowhere more so than in the NESN broadcast booth.
Jack Edwards's homerism is a tricky thing. He's not as obnoxious about it as Hawk Harrlson. (Canadiens fans would beg to differ.) He hasn't yet slid into self-parody. (Flyers fans would beg to differ.)
But most broadcasters go into the industry initially because they're fans, and if their passion isn't beaten out of them by the job, they're still jumping for joy internally when their team succeeds. Most are just able and willing to hide it, is all. So the answer to Jack Edwards's homerism is this: he's only insufferable when Boston is playing your team, or the Bruins are doing well. Which, these days, is all the time.
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Have you ever dreamt of understanding foreign languages through some magic, invisible device that can whisper the translation in your ears?
Dream no more. Technology has made this possible.
We have got used to read Chinese, Russian, Arabic and Tagalog through our computer, using Google Translate. This is also available on our smartphone, you can even look at text through your smartphone digital camera and see the translation on the screen.
But the real dream is to be able to listen to someone speaking whatever language and hearing that person as if she were speaking your language.
Well that dream is about to come true.
Mymanu's Click is an earbud that capture a foreign language as it is spoken to you and translate it directly in your ear into your language. The earbuds are produced by Mymanu, a Manchester based company, and contain a chip able to do the heavy work of translation without having to connect to the internet. The chip requires very little power (in comparison to the one you have in your smartphone) and can work for six hours in a row without recharge.
At this time the earbud recognises and translate in 37 languages, and can also provide you with music streamed from different sources (which is good from a marketing viewpoint since there are many more people interested in listening to music than people in need for a real time translation).
Mymanu has been funded through Kickstarter, reaching 413,820$, 113,820$ over what was asked, and is accepting pre-orders now although so far they are, still, in a prototyping phase.


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Spain suffered another downgrade as Standard & Poor's cut its sovereign credit rating and its unemployment rate rose to its highest level since the early 1990s—now one of the highest in the world.
Bloomberg reported Friday that the ratings agency dropped Spain's credit rating by two notches late Thursday, citing the risk of an increase in bad loans at Spanish banks. The country is in its second recession in three years, and retail sales fell for the 21st consecutive month.
Spain's credit rating now stands at BBB+, a few notches above junk and on par with Italy. While Fitch and Moody's still rate Spain as having a "strong payment capacity," S&P only considers it an "adequate payment capacity." S&P also said that euro zone countries needed to better manage the debt crisis.
In the report, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said of the country's economic situation, "The figures are terrible for everyone and terrible for the government … Spain is in a crisis of huge proportions."
Unemployment in Spain ticked up to 24% in Q1 from from 22.9% in Q4 of 2011. Half of the young people in Spain are without jobs, and the situation is unlikely to improve any time soon with employers cutting jobs under looser employment rules and the government imposing an additional 42 billion euros ($55.562 billion) in spending cuts this year.
On Thursday Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said he intended to continue austerity measures despite the fact that calls are beginning to be heard in various European quarters to push for growth instead.
The bad news about Spain was contagious, as Italy went to market with bonds and ended up paying more yield on less demand. Bloomberg reported that, while the country sold 5.95 billion euros in bonds, it had to pay 5.84% on its benchmark 10-year bonds; that was up from 5.24% on March 29. Demand was also down from the last auction, at 1.48 times offerings compared with 1.65 in March.
Italy expects its own economy to shrink 1.2% in 2012, while Spain foresees a contraction of 1.7%.


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Sitting in the CNN studio today, with an earpiece jammed in one ear and a microphone clipped to my jacket, the disembodied voice of some CNN guest urgently proposing that the government take advantage of historically low borrowing rates to invest in infrastructure howled in my ear. Without a monitor, the voice had no body belonging to it. It was the muse of liberalism. The idiot angel standing on the shoulder of Uncle Sam crying out, "Spend, spend, spend."
In 1 Time Warner Circle, all the elevators play the CNN feed in small monitors. On the floor, there is more of the same. There's no escaping CNN in the tower of the corporate parent of CNN. Like some cheap production of 1984, it's everywhere and nowhere, one long commercial break for the country's least popular news network, whose most famous figure is doing his talk show on Hulu, still in his trademark suspenders while his third-rate British replacement shrieks nightly about gun violence.
CNN is irrelevant, but in the ugly Time Warner Center, part shopping mall, part unfinished pile of construction equipment arranged to look like two skyscrapers, defacing the view outside Central Park, it's all that matters. In the CNN bubble, it's still vitally important and incredibly influential, even if its most influential moment in the last ten years consisted of two shameless doughy buffoons screaming at each other about gun control.
If America ever goes the way of CNN, then it too will be reduced to some badly designed urban skyscrapers full of important people talking importantly about issues while outside the world has moved on. The disembodied voice in the backlit wilderness cries out that we must invest more in infrastructure. "America built the Panama Canal. They said it couldn't be done and it revolutionized commerce."
But where exactly is our Panama Canal? For that matter, where after years of insane deficit spending is our anything? What infrastructure achievement has the shovel-ready administration managed to achieve? What has it done besides rename a few areas after politically correct figures and set up some monuments to the destructive energies of the left?
In December we learned that the National Park Service had spent $1.5 million to restore the graffiti on an Alcatraz water tower put there by leftist American Indian activists in the 70s. Their manifesto read, "We will purchase said Alcatraz Island for $24 in glass beads and red cloth." But 24 bucks in tourist junk would be a bargain compared to $1.5 million spent during a recession to preserve the sort of leftist idiocy that trolls today leave in comments sections.
That water tower is Obama's Panama Canal. It's as close as we're going to come to it. Either that or one of those light rail schemes that gets funded, but never goes anywhere. These are our expensive monuments to a left that occasionally talks like Stalin, but runs things like Castro, talking incessantly without anything to show for it except a bigger mountain of bureaucracy overhead. This is our CNN government full of commercial breaks and breaking news bulletins, but utterly unaware of its own irrelevance. It can still spend money, but it can't move out of third place.
There is no Panama Canal project in the works. No great plan to revolutionize commerce and transportation. Only a sad failed attempt to get Americans to switch to electric cars which mainly existed as a way of shoving more pork into the orifices of Obama's donors.
China can build things, for better or worse, because it has the manufacturing capacity to get things done. America no longer has manufacturing capacity, it has bureaucracy. China makes products. America makes government. We make government at home and we export it abroad.
If any country wants to know how to make a big expensive and unwieldy government ruled by the threat of someone screaming racism and someone else promising free birth control for perpetual grad students who one day hope to teach other perpetual grad students or perhaps file lawsuits on their behalf, then we can do that. If you want us to teach you how to make things, go look up some of our books from the first half of the last century. They may have something of relevance to offer on the subject. The America of 2013, whose government is in its own CNN tower, does not.


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La Niña Repetida
For good or ill, she's sticking around. That's what the weather gurus are saying about La Niña. According to Brad Colman, science officer with the National Weather Service (NWS), "It's becoming more and more likely that the winter will be strongly influenced by a moderate-strength La Niña."
In California and the Pacific Northwest, where La Niña deposited huge dumps (world-record dumps in the case of Washington's Mt. Baker) last year, skiers like what they're hearing. Not so in Colorado, Utah, the Midwest, and New England, where she was stingy. Either way, the experts suggest that in '99-'00 she's likely to behave a lot like she did last year.
Skiers in the lean zones can pray the soothsayers are wrong; weather being what it is (unpredictable) and forecasters being how they are (inaccurate), there's room for error. But the Climate Prediction Center, from which the NWS derives its data, has been reasonably successful in foretelling what regional mischief to expect from the El Niño-La Niña cycle of the past few years. Looks like another feast-or-famine year.


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Hello TI's, please send your stories to John Finch at firstname.lastname@example.com and he will flood the World with your story, along with more then 1400 other victims testimonies , anyone who is anyone will read your story. This is the best list you can be on as a TI, and after the war may even be as famous as Schindler's list (almost) , if you are on this list and you do not survive then the powers that be in your country will be in a World of shit , and they know this.
Also these people and organizations that he is flooding will never be able to say that they new nothing about what was going on because Finch was in their faces year after year after year, it is starting to get very hard for these people and organizations to be able to justify looking the other way, and they know this. The more that take part the more effective this will become.
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Olympus PEN E-P3
The Olympus PEN E-P3 introduces a OLED touch-screen to the PEN series, and offers an improved and faster AF system, with a new 12-megapixel high-speed Live MOS sensor and dual-core TruePic VI image engine.
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Faster, more accurate AF system
Brilliant new OLED screen
Built-in flash with adjustable strength
Beautiful color range
Image noise starts to show above ISO800
JPEGs in iAuto mode tend to be overly vivid
Product Specification
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|Built-in imager-shift image stabilizer
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|35-area multiple AF with the contrast detection system (Auto, selectable in option)
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|Digital ESP (324-area multi pattern metering), Center weighted average, Spot metering (approx. 1% for the viewfinder screen. Highlight / shadow bases are available)
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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
Sara Evans did something a couple of days ago that no woman ever wants to do. She got her photo taken with no makeup on, then put it out there for the world to see. She Instagramed it, and had it on her Facebook page. "I'm being brave and posting a picture of me without makeup," she captioned it. Since then, Evans has been shocked by the reaction. So much so, she made a video for her Simply Sara series to document her feelings about it.
She says she had just had her hair done and had nothing on her face. "So I go, 'Take a picture of me' because I love the way my hair looked," she explains. "So then I was like, 'We should Instagram that picture." When the reaction started pouring in after the photo hit Facebook, Evans couldn't believe how nice the comments were.
Evans has a theory on why her naked face has attracted so much attention. "As women, we are way too hard on ourselves," she said. So showing the world what she looks like without foundation, eye shadow, eyeliner, false eyelashes, lipstick and bronzer might just show them that under all that, we're all more alike than we think.


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Take this opportunity to find out how children really learn to read and write. Explore current research that cuts through the media messages about reading wars and the right way to teach children. Learn by reading stories about children, doing interactive assignments, and exploring the latest in parent and childcare information. You will see everyday children's play with a new eye as you understand how play can connect to literacy.
You'll learn how a child becomes literate from the moment of birth. First, you'll investigate the many things a child's growing mind must do to make sense of the written word and create writing. From there, you'll explore the development of reading and writing from infancy to the early school years. You'll know what problems to look for and how to assist a struggling reader. You will see how you can boost literacy growth during daily routines and child's play.
Gain confidence in your ability to guide a child's literacy development, and take pleasure in seeing how even the littlest events can lead to really big steps in reading and writing success.


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Tiffany Mynon Performance At The Main Event
Platinum Boy Music's own Angel Of R&B Tiffany Mynon stops by The Main Event to perform her latest single "Dance The Night Away" featuring Fred The Godson. Check it below:
Buda Da Future & GrandzMuzik Judge 106 & Park's Freestyle Friday Battle
Platinum Boy Music producer duo Buda DaFuture and GrandzMuzik stop by 106 & Park for the second time to judge this week's Freestyle Friday battle. Check 'em out below:
Amadeus Lends His Support For The Power Is Industry Showcase
Platinum Boy Music CEO & Bad Boy Hitmen Amadeus will be stopping by in full support for the Power Is Industry showcase. The event is hosted by Power 105.1's DJ Whutevva and Curt Flirt. Check for the details below:
Amadeus Interviews With Kevin W. Reese at NEMS Conference 2011
Platinum Boy Music CEO and Bad Boy Hitmen Amadeus gets interviewed by Kevin W Reese before he sat on the Brand Management panel at this year's NEMS Conference. Amadeus speaks on everything from his beginnings as a producer to his biggest placement to date. Check out the video and pics below:
Amadeus Interviews With The Music Connectz Magazine
Location: Bronx NY
Genre: HipHop, R&B, Pop, Gospel
CEO of Platinum Boy Music Inc./TheHitmen/
TMC: For those who are not familiar with who you are, introduce yourself.
Amadeus: What up to all the Music Connectz readers I go by the name of Antwan "Amadeus" Thompson CEO of Platinum Boy Music Inc. Multi-Platinum BadBoy/HitmenProducer & Trey Songz Music Director & Tour Drummer.
TMC: What was is about producing that made you want to pursue it?
Amadeus: I was always exposed to many different genres growing up so I always had an appreciation for music. Fortunately I was able to attend private school & I had the opportunity to learn & study an instrument & that instrument was the drums. As I learned that instrument it became a passion for me & was a no-brainer in regards to transitioning to production because it had everything to do with the beat. I wasn't confident at the time that I would be able to make my own beats from scratch but I gave it a shot & here I am today 15 years later as a successful CEO & record producer.
TMC: Name a few people before you that inspired you to produce?
Amadeus: Diddy & BadBoy/Hitmen Producers, Dr. Dre, Rodney Jerkins, The Neptunes, Just Blaze, Kanye West, Timbaland, Scott Storch & many more. Every one played their part in regards to me becoming a real fan of urban music & wanting to be apart.
TMC: What Genre/s do you specialize in?
Amadeus: When I 1st started producing I specialized in HipHop but as I worked towards perfecting my craft I challenged myself & join forces with other musicians and broadened my horizons so know I can say that I specialize in a few genres HipHop, R&B, Pop & Gospel.
TMC: You have some major credits under belt. Give us a little resume.
Amadeus: I've been blessed to have produced for over 50 artists such as 50Cent, Fabolous, Jeezy, T.I, Keyshia Cole, Lil Mo, Jim Jones, Trey Songz, Busta Rhymes, G-Unit, Marques Houston, Remy Ma, Lil Wayne, Vado, Jae Millz, Papoose, Talib Kweli, Fred TheGodSon, Cam'ron, Juelz Santana, Joe Budden, Freeway, Foxy Brown, Bow Wow, Danity Kane, Donnie Klang, Cheri Dennis, Paul Wall, Cee-Lo Green, Red Cafe, Aasim The Answer, Keith Murray, Canibus & many more.
TMC: How would you describe your Sound?
Amadeus: I can't every time I create a track I don't use the same sounds or style. I create totally off of feeling so depending upon how I feel that day is what type of track you may get from me. Coming up as a producer I vowed to myself that I wouldn't create tracks to sound the same because whenever I produced on a project I would want the audience to say "WOW Amadeus produced that record that doesn't sound like him at all", I want to show the world that Im capable of creating anything and to never box me in!
TMC: You are the CEO of Platinum Boy Music, give us some insight on that.
Amadeus: Platinum Boy was a name I choose for my publishing as I sat in an Ascap office having to choose a name. It was pretty simple at the time I was a young boy & I wanted ALL of the records I produced to go Platinum & I knew I was a capable so I called myself Platinum Boy. Now Platinum Boy is a production company that consist of an artist Tiffany Mynon "The Angel of R&B", Producers Calico Beatz, BudaDaFuture, Grandz, Esteban "Cito" Crandle, Songwriter Eric "Sankofa" Pullins, Recording/Mix Engineer Dave Dar, Musical Director Ron Faison & Global Brand Manager Ro Garcia. So as you can see what started out as one person turned out to be a movement PLATINUM BOY MUSIC!
TMC: What is something people might not know about you?
Amadeus: I love to be alone & I love to be home!!!
TMC: What does Amadeus have coming up in the near future?
Amadeus: Look out for Platinum Boy Music's own Tiffany Mynon "The Angel of R&B" album coming soon, of course I will continue to produce record for all of your favorite major artists, & touring the world with Trey Songz as his Music Director/Tour Drummer. Also make sure to support & purchase the new Justin Bieber Christmas album in stores 11/1/11 Under The Mistletoe I produced a song on that album titled "Christmas Eve" written by Justin Bieber, Chris Brown & Kevin McCall MAJOR!!!. Be sure to ALWAYS log on to our website WWW.PLATINUMBOYMUSIC.COM for ALL updates on the Platinum Boy Music family & if your on twitter follow us & we'll follow back @ProducerAmadeus @TiffanyMynon @Ro_Gar @BudaDaFuture @GrandzMuzik @ATLBoundWrita @CalicoBeatz @RonFaison @DaveDar. Special shout out to Tynita Larae & the Music Connectz Magazine family for the interview thanks for all of your support. God Bless
Amadeus & Tiffany Mynon To Take Part In 203 Music Fest's Industry Night
Platinum Boy Music CEO & BadBoy Hitmen Amadeus will serve as a judge for this event with a guest performance by "The Angel Of R&B" Tiffany Mynon. You can view the details below:
Tiffany Mynon Performance At Black Star Music & Video In Harlem, USA
Harlem's own Tiffany Mynon performs "Please Believe" and "Dance The Night Away" at Black Star Music & Video aka The Lion's Den this past weekend. Check the performance below:
Amadeus Producer Watch Feature In Straight Stuntin Magazine
We have to thank DJ KaySlay for the 4 page feature and interview in the latest edition of Straight Stuntin Magazine. Stop by your local newsstand and purchase a copy or 3!
Amadeus & Tiffany Mynon To Take Part In The Main Event
Platinum Boy Music CEO & Bad Boy Hitman Amadeus will serve on the panel of judges that includes PBM's own Buda Da Future and feature writer for Don Diva Eric. Amadus will also take part in the producer panel. Tiffany Mynon is also slated to take part as a feature performer for the night. Check out the details below:
Tiffany Mynon Performance For BET Music Matters
Platinum Boy Music's "Angel Of R&B" Tiffany Mynon graces the BET Music Matters stage with the likes of Leon Timbo, Emilio Rojas, Kris Kasanova, and Bridget Kelly. Check out her performance below:
Tiffany Mynon To Perform At Songs4Solace
Platinum Boy Music's "Angel Of R&B" Tiffany Mynon will be performing at the Songs4Solace Concert Series, which brings awareness to breast cancer. Please join us for a worthy cause. Details below:
New Music: Jus Cuz "Hold Up" Produced By Buda Da Future & GrandzMuzik
Platinum Boy Music producers Buda Da Future & GrandzMuzik produce "Hold Up" for Jus Cuz off of their debut album PM2AM. Check the cut and Buda's cameo in the official video below:
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My latest bestest friend, Rabbity, (purchased at the Country Living Fair), is bemused by the Den.
Quite frankly, there's old embroidered stuff everywhere! Rather a lot, mostly chopped into or awaiting the same, is on this bamboo rack which used to be in the ultra chic bathroom in my single-girl pad way back when. How times change!
Yet more lives on a thrifty car-boot-bought towel rail. Most items are on here because they fall into one or more of the following Hen's Den vintage embroidered categories: they're larger cloths; they're beautifully worked; they're in good condition. As such, they're keepers I won't be cutting into.
The other day when I was searching for something in my Den, I discovered my stash of embroidered tea cosies in a basket under piles of large pieces of fabric, presumably now too large to be housed with the toppling piles on the towel rails. Today, with a few luxurious hours ahead of me waiting supplies for other projects and with the Munchy at his drama club, it was time to get patching.
Of all the things I make and create, chop and sew, this sort of thing I was indulging in today is my most favourite. Before long, I had a pretty little pile. Oooh exciting!
I decided a 4" square would be best. I used flourescent quilters' tape to mark out the size on my 6.5" square ruler. This makes it much easier when you have a lot of patches to cut. You can see through the ruler enabling you to fussy cut your fabric. Oooh, I do like a spot of fussy cutting (if it's not too wasteful). I keep all the leftover bits of linen and use them to embroider words for brooches, notebooks, dolls' clothes and the like.
To pair with the yummy embroidered squares, I turned to The Stash.
Most specifically, the bestest bit, my vintage stash. I decided on a colour scheme of mainly pink and blue, with touches of green.
Much pleasurable patching later, my creation is starting to take shape. I decided to hand quilt, as the two pieces I've patchworked for this project are relatively small.
But oh my little fingers are bearing the scars already! It could be a while (well a few days) until this one is finished...


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You can make a couple of arguments here. Some energy can be generated by capturing diverted energy when the driver brakes -- not an engineer, so can't describe that well, but I think it can be done.
You can generate some of the power from solar or wind farms. Or generate it from your solar-paneled roof or garden wind turbine. Frack a gas well and run your own generator. Realistically, though, how much electricity can you get that way?
Yes, you save on fuel made from imported petroleum. If everyone bought an electric car.
This sounds like alternative-energy bashing, which it's not. It's bashing promoting a let's-pretend world. Maybe burning coal or natural gas is the right way to fuel mobility, but if it is, let's be clear that we are making that choice.
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"I make decisions every day that affect the health of my cattle and the safety of the beef that they produce," writes Anne Burkholder in her new blog, "Feed Yard Foodie," launched earlier this month. "If I treated my animals as pets, I would be doing a disservice to you as the consumer because food safety and quality would then not be my top priority. When asked what I do every day, I always answer, 'I care for animals that will be harvested to feed to my children and to yours.'"
Sound like a scripted public relations commercial for the beef industry? Well, that assumption couldn't be further from the truth. The writer behind "Feed Yard Foodie" is a cattle feeder, buyer, wife and mother from Central Nebraska. Burkholder grew up in Palm Beach County, FL, where she was an athlete, and her life took an interesting turn when she fell in love with a Nebraska cattle feeder while attending Dartmouth College.
I'm a firm believer that the best spokespersons for the beef industry aren't celebrities; they are ranchers, and Burkholder is a great example. While already successful in the beef business, transitioning into the world of online social media has been a new experience for her. Here, she offers her advice, first impressions and reasoning behind this new project that often takes her from chores and puts her in front of a computer:
"I think that as afraid that I am of social media, the biggest challenge for me was to just start blogging. Blogging is such a huge tool for the industry. Only 2% of us are directly involved in production agriculture today, and while I can't bring 98% of the U.S. to me, I can bring my story to them online — that's why I decided to start this blog," she says.
Yet, like a lot of ranchers, being tech-savvy isn't the first tool in their arsenal, and she called upon the beef checkoff to help get her blog off the ground.
"I'm so thankful for the checkoff for helping me get started. My biggest obstacle was technical. They provided me the resources and saved me a lot of time, so now I can get right to work. I believe it's a good use of checkoff dollars when a producer asks for help. This blog isn't political. I truly want to share my story with consumers and bridge the gap between rural and urban America," she explains.
In just a few weeks of blogging, "Feed Yard Foodie" is gaining national attention, and the demographics of her readership include moms, athletes and consumers who live in big cities on the coast.
"I would like to help consumers understand where their beef comes from. I didn't grow up in agriculture, and I have a lot of empathy for the consumer, especially those who sincerely want to know where their food comes from. I want to show them what I do every day — raising animals and producing safe and healthy beef. I'm a person just like they are. I have the same priorities. My job is feeding the world. I'm striving for a strong consumer audience," adds Burkholder.
Burkholder has the hard work ethic and the desire to make this blog a successful one, while still managing to take care of her family and the feedlot. Yet one more ball to juggle doesn't seem to bother her. Follow her blog and take part in the consumer-rancher conversations happening at "Feed Yard Foodie," the next up-and-coming website to watch!


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The Mediation Clinic was founded in 1994 by Professor James Stark, formerly director of Civil Clinical Programs and associate dean for academic affairs at the Law School. The three primary goals of this clinic are:
- Placing students in the role of neutrals rather than partisans, to help foster an integrative, problem-solving orientation to the practice of law.
- Improving students' ability to represent clients effectively by helping them learn, in the context of mediation, generic listening, questioning, persuasion, negotiation and conflict resolution skills that are fundamental to the practice of law.
- Helping students evaluate the benefits and limitations of mediation and other dispute resolution processes so that they can responsibly counsel clients about their choices.
This program is the law school's only in-house clinic that does not focus directly on client representation or litigation skills. Along with courses offered in Negotiation, Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution, the Mediation Clinic is part of a curriculum designed to educate students about less adversarial approaches to disputing. There are no pre-requisites.
Serving as a neutral provides a unique perspective on how litigants experience conflict and the courts-- a perspective that is often hard to appreciate while representing them. Serving as a mediator also provides a fascinating glimpse at lawyers' bargaining behaviors and both effective and ineffective styles of negotiation.
If you are interested in this program, please contact Prof. James Stark by email at firstname.lastname@example.com to arrange a meeting, or feel free to call (860) 570-5278.
James Stark has been a clinical law teacher since 1974, first at the Washington College of Law, American University and since 1979 at the University of Connecticut School of Law. A nationally recognized expert in mediation and alternative dispute resolution, he is the co-author, with Douglas Frenkel, of The Practice of Mediation: A Video-Integrated Text (Aspen Law and Business), a leading law school mediation skills text, now in its second edition. He has published widely, including Preliminary Reflections on the Establishment of a Mediation Clinic, 2 Clinical L. Rev. 457 (1996), selected for inclusion in Hurder, et. al, Clinical Anthology: Readings for Live-Client Clinics (1997), and Changing Minds: The Work of Mediators and Empirical Studies of Persuasion, 28 Ohio St. J. on Disp. Resol. 241 (2013). He has lectured on mediation topics throughout the United States, as well as in Germany and Italy.
Mediation Clinic students participate in an intensive, six-week, thirty-hour training program before they begin to mediate employment discrimination cases under faculty supervision. Cases are selected from among those pending before the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO), the state agency to which most employment discrimination claims arising in Connecticut must be brought as a prerequisite to filing suit in state or federal court.
Once casework begins, the classroom seminar focuses on further refinement of mediation skills; the ethics of mediating, the role of representative counsel in mediation; and discussion of strategic, communication and role issues arising in students' actual cases.


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6 November 2019
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4 November 2019
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4 November 2019
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30 October 2019
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20 - 21 October 2019
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JSON Notation for PHP 7.0
tldr; I've been experimenting with the PHP interpreter, and I made a thing …
JSON is by far the most common API request format. I design, build, and fix API servers for a living. I write a lot of API tests as a result.
I often find myself wishing that I could write JSON directly in PHP code like this:
$payload = { "hello": { "fish": $fishType } };
This would save me a lot of time when I'm copying examples from API documentation or JIRA tickets into my test suites.
You'll find a patch that adds this to PHP 7.0 here: diff against PHP-7.0 tracking branch.
Some caveats: I'm no expert on the internals of PHP, and this patch is very naive. It probably breaks things in ways that I'm not aware of. It passes the PHP test suite locally, but that doesn't mean you should be trying this in production.
Here's some examples of what it allows you to do:
<?php // this is an array syntax that PHP // already supports $a1 = [ "hello" => "world" ]; var_dump($a1); // and this should be an array too now $a2 = [ "hello": "world" ]; var_dump($a2); // this is forced to be an array $a3 = (array){ "hello": "world" }; var_dump($a3); // and this should be an object // // you can still use array assignment inside $a4 = { "hello": "world", "goodbye" => "everyone" }; var_dump($a4); // this should be an object inside an object $a5 = { "hello": { "fish": "trout" } }; var_dump($a5); // create an array of objects $a6 = [ { "hello": "world" }, { "goodbye" => "everyone" } ]; var_dump($a6); // this is an object that contains an array $a7 = { "hello": [ "world", "trout" ] }; var_dump($a7); // we can still cast nested arrays to objects $a8 = { "hello": (object)[ "world", "trout" ] }; var_dump($a8); // we can pass data objects as arguments too function provide($arg1) { return $arg1; } var_dump(provide({"hello": "world"})); // we can define and return data objects // without having to assign to a var first function returnObject() { return { "hello": "world" }; }
Let me know if you'd also find this useful. If there's enough interest, I'll see if I can convince someone who is involved in the world of PHP.internals to help me get this turned into an RFC.