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Baseball great Barry Bonds is set to be sentenced Friday in his Federal Obstruction of Justice case. Bonds was indicted on perjury and obstruction charges in 2007. He was found guilty of one count of obstruction of justice in April 2011. This has been a long road for Bonds and the US Justice Department. The wheels of justice do turn slowly. You may recall that this case actually began in 2003 in what is known as the BALCO steroid scandal. Yes, 2003! It was then that Bond's trainer Greg Anderson of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) was indicted in 2003 and charged with supplying anabolic steroids to his clients. This led to a major investigation by the Feds and Major League Baseball into the use of performance enhancing drugs. Bonds later admitted to using "the clear" but claimed he did not know what it was. Hmmmm.
So, do we really need to spend millions of dollars to put somebody like Bonds or Martha Stewart in Prison? Yes and no. Nobody should be exempt from following the rules and laws of our country. But, there is no doubt that our incarceration rates are soaring and our criminal justice system is a mess. In the Bonds case, the probation department in its recommendation to the judge is suggesting a substantial sentence of community service, home detention and supervised probation. The U.S. Attorney's office wants Bonds to serve 15 months in Federal Prison. Now, what good will that do society at large?
Punitive vs. Rehabilitative
In an era of too much violent crime and cases in the news like Sandusky, Blago and Bernie Fine, we must differentiate between those who make poor choices and those who can acknowledge their actions and rehabilitate and learn from them. This is where our system breaks down. We have not figured out if all prison should be punitive or if some should also be rehabilitative. We have also not figured out who can be rehabilitated and how to do it. As the majority of people incarcerated in the U.S. are there on drug related crimes, we best figure this out, and fast. California has renamed is department of Corrections, The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Facts about inmates
Get real people!! The fact of the matter is that most people in jail and prison right now are coming home and most of those in 5 years or less. So, this is an issue that we need to address. Further, the cost of incarcerating people is soaring. This is a cost that is sometimes necessary and yet other options like the Bonds recommendation, will work. The one thing I know that works for sure is accountability. Believe or not. The accountability Community Service and probation provide is often enough to put time and distance between the offender and their crime so that it does not happen again or manifest in other ways. If you do not believe this look at the recent case of Lindsay Lohan and how she is thriving with the tight restrictions the judge placed on her. As I have often written, community service is a no cost way to provide the needed accountability and "punishment" while actually being good for the community and the offender.
What should happen to Barry Bonds?
Barry Bonds admits he broke the law and has offered apologies that seem genuine. I am sure we will hear more of this Tuesday. It is this acceptance of responsibility that shows character and matters. Blago tried it but it was too little, too late and his crimes were not a one-time event, rather a long-standing pattern of behavior. There are criminals, criminal thinkers and people of good character who get trapped by their own lies and think they can make it better. Bonds appears to be one of those. Had he told the truth to the Grand Jury, he would not be in this situation. Secrets and lies often lead to prison. That is a fact. Remember that obstruction is a cover up and always it is a lie one is covering up. Just ask Martha Stewart! It cannot be forgotten that Stewart served one year and a day, part of it on house arrest for her Obstruction conviction. Did that help society or the many Martha Stewart employees? Yet, Martha was NOT sentenced to any community service. That itself is a crime when so many could have been helped by Stewart vs. paying for her prison stay.
This insider believes that Bonds should be sentenced to community service, home detention and probation in the ultimate Alternative Sentence. Should Bonds have been prosecuted at all? Yes, in the world I hope we will have, equal justice is key and nobody is above the law.


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Ruin-A-Wish Foundation.
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Granted. No one knows who he is, becoming part of the unrecognisable horde that is 90% of any forum. Thus you rarely, if ever, communicate/see him.
I wish to eat the last cookie ever.
...Not granted. That cookie is mine.
I wish for the best gaming PC evar. Oh, and the funds to upgrade it for the rest of time, of course.
How is that appealing?!
OT: Granted. A puma barges into your house and eats it. Then they shit it on your face.
I wish for a doughnut ring due to the way my last wish was granted.
Granted, someone burns rubber in the shape of a donut on the street by your home.
I wish for a nice tall frosted glass of A&W Rootbeer.
I could try and come up with a better reason, but I really think you probably wont believe any of them anyway :P
OT: granted, it's so tall that you cant drink from it, and if you try to tip it so you could drink a bit, you'd get crushed
I wish to meet the crushinator in real life
Granted. A puma barges into your home and sets crushinator in front of you. Then it shits on crushinator.
I wish for Kirby's ability to copy abilities! :D
Granted but you accidentally swallow Rosie O'Donnell.
I wish to build you a new house.
Granted. Just as you finish putting the bricks on the massive super house you fall off the latter you were on, and like a generic red herring murderer, I hide your body so nobody can find it.
I wish The Escapist was populated by cookie people.
Granted but everything has gone stale.
I wish for more puns in the world.
Making Puns because punishable by death!
I wish for a 3rd arm!
Granted, you now have a third arm underneath your left foot.
I wish for an awesome costume.
Granted but it never comes off and people forever think you are Bowser.
I wish for Mario to save my day.
granted, it's a costume of a person in a terrible costume!
I wish to go deeper...
Granted. You sink to the absolute bottom of the ocean. You die, obviously
I wish I knew what the previous poster was thinking.
granted, you go mad with the revelation...
I wish I could organize my thoughts into files...
Granted, but someone looks at them and sees that there's a surprising abundance of 'porn' and a stark lack of 'not porn'.
I wish for a cupcake.
Granted: But it's one from the fanfic "Cupcakes"
I wish I was better at art
granted, it was poisoned, and now you're dead
I wish for the perfect plate of mac & cheese... just the right balance of the two, with both being tasty...
Granted, but the cheese is actually BLUE CHEESE! (That stuff is unholy!)
I wish to die suddenly and painlessly in my sleep...
granted, someone brings you back to life and stabs you, just see you bleed...
I wish for a chocolate-helicopter that is capable of flight, and after each bite I take the chocolate reappears, so it's basically infinite chocolate which takes shape of a helicopter!
Granted, but the helicopter doesn't need a pilot and take off without you before you can get in or take a bite.
I wish for a fresh bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich.
Granted, but the bread is the horrible stuff with raisins and nuts.
I wish for a dinosaur driving a jet to come and let me have a fly.
Too bad he drops you.
I wish for a new car!
granted, it doesnt have any wheels...
I wish to see your avatar without exiting my browser...
Granted it is forever burnt into your vision.
I wish Australia has a long and beautiful future.
Granted but it's so long that it's the only country that stays after the apocolypse. Meaning that without any food or help from other countries it will die a slow painful death.
I wish that people on my awards event could stop fighting (please!)
Granted the thread has now been locked.
I wish we could all just get along.
Granted, we all get a long piece of string. We then proceed to strangle eachother with our newly aquired string.
I wish that I could travel by cloud.
Granted, but the clouds are lighting clouds that shock you to death when you step on them.
I wish for world peace, but only for Iquanas.
Granted but it's too peaceful and the rest of us commit suicide out of jealousy.
I wish this wish didn't end with the extinction of the human race.
Granted. Your wish is now DIAMONDS...but humans still die in the end, sorry.
I wish I was half as cool as the Old Spice guy.
Granted. You're now one half the man he used to be, before he became cool.
I wish I wrote a comic.
Granted. You create the most indescribably generic comic book series ever. Naturally this makes you millions, but the thought that you could make millions from something so generic drives you into suicidal depression.
I wish flaming pigeons would cut a hole in my roof to let in some sun.
Granted, but only if one of the burning pigeons falls into your house and burns it down.
I wish that Thundercats wasn't cancelled.
Granted but now it's a high school teen drama with zac efron playing Liono!
I wish that SOPA won't pass.
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Africa Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) is the umbrella organization for applied epidemiology training, programs in Africa. It oversees the Field Epidemiology (and Laboratory) Training Programs (FETP) in 16 countries of Africa. FETP is modeled after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS). The main objective of AFENET through its FETP is to build and offer epidemiological services in the country for strengthening public health systems particularly disease surveillance and response, The program is partly funded by the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). AFENET's current focus is on interventions for the control of priority diseases in Nigeria, including HIV/AIDS.
Africa Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) is recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Field Laboratorian
Location: Kaduna
Slot: 15
Job Description
- Registered laboratory personnel with prior laboratory experience (dried tube specimen collection and transportation, dried blood spot collection, handling and transportation) will be recruited for field-based laboratory work.
- The laboratory staff member will perform the blood draws and administer the HIV rapid tests.
- Pre-implementation training will focus on preparing participants for blood draw, specimen collection, processing, storage, and transportation, and use of rapid HIV tests and bio-safety procedures, ethics and confidentiality, and completion of survey data collection tools and data management.
- The laboratorians SOW shall also include supervision of the dispatch rider in sample packaging, transportation and delivery
Duties and Responsibilities
- Assist the teams to locate selected households in his/her community
- Ensures proper community entry.
- Opens, separates, numbers and arranges specimens for laboratory examination and trace results.
- Maintains simple laboratory records and inventory for supplies and reagents.
- Maintains laboratory equipment and supplies by cleaning and maintaining quality assurance records.
- Maintains a clean and sanitary work area in accordance with standard laboratory practice and procedures.
Minimum Qualifications
- Candidate must possess a degree in Medical laboratory technology or related field
- Candidate must have minimum of 5years medical laboratory experience
Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes:
- Possess good phlebotomy skills including blood draw skills (both paediatric and adult respondents)
- Candidate must be able to collect and prepare dry blood spot s(DBS) samples
- Candidate must have prior laboratory experience in HIV related surveys
- Candidate must good leadership skills and team spirit
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The first Indian Music Academy Marathi Music Awards to be telecast on Star Pravah 7 pm on 24th Nov
MUMBAI: The Marathi music industry is fast evolving with significant leaps in talent and technical expertise. Especially over the last 5 years, we have witnessed a marked difference in the Marathi Music space, with the emergence of outstanding work.
GSEAMS and Art And Artistes presented the first Indian Music Academy Marathi Music Awards, which was held on the 26th of October 2013 in a star-studded event at Mumbai. The Indian Music Academy (IMA), a CSR initiative of Art And Artistes (I) Pvt. Ltd., is the 1st body of musicians in India. Founder Patron Sangeet Martand Padma Vibhushan Pandit Jasraj along with 12 other patrons laid down the guiding principles and key objectives of the IMA, and it was launched by the then President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam in 2006. It has since then worked towards promoting all genres of Indian Music and musicians and also, relentlessly towards the welfare of the musicians.
Art And Artistes, since the last 14 years has emerged to be the only Multi Media Music Company of India, producing world class IPs including Jalsa, Tiranga, Panchtatva, Indian Music Academy Awards, Golden Voice Golden Years, Jai Hind, and many others. GSEAMS, with its expertise of conceptualizing and executing larger than life entertainment properties has come together to create this prestigious platform.
The 1st IMA Marathi Music Awards, at the prestigious Ravindra Natya Mandir, saw a glittering set of performances of Musical Maestros such as Hariharan and Vaishali Samant, scintillating Dance Performances by Amruta Khanvilkar, Anusha Dandekar and many others.
The Red Carpet & the show was grace by the who's who of the Bollywood & Marathi Entertainment Industry to name a few: Sonu Nigam, Ajay of Ajay Atul, Usha Mangeshkar, Sachin Pilgaonkar, Anuradha Paudwal, Bela Shende, Kiran Shantaram, Mahesh Kothare, Sanjay Manjarekar & many more.
The show will be telecast on Star Pravah this Sunday 24th Nov, 7pm onwards.
Commenting on the same Jayesh Patil Content Head, Star Pravah said ?we at star pravaah are proud to be associated with IMA and GSEAMS has done a fantastic job at this event. We are confident that the audience is going to enjoy each and every moment of this entertaining event?.
Commenting on their association Arjun Singgh Baran & Kartik Nishandar Co-Founders GSEAMS said, ?We have been extremely excited, happy & fortunate on the response the awards night has received from the Music Industry. Even though this being our first own awards co produced by GSEAMS the industry has made us feel extremely comfortable and homely by the overwhelming attendance we have got for the Awards. We look forward to the telecast of the show on Star Pravah on the 24th November,7 pm onwards and promise our viewers an enriching content which they would have never seen before.?
Further commenting Durga Jasraj co-founder Indian Music Academy and Founder & Director Art And Artistes and Neeraj Jaitly, Director Art And Artistes expressed, ?Maharashtra has a rich legacy of music genres. The response to the 1st edition of the IMA Marathi Music Awards was overwhelming. IMA Awards have been accepted as the only Awards given by Musicians themselves, and therefore have a great emotional value and prestige associated in the hearts of the entire musical world. This success has been possible also due to the experience brought in by Arjun and Kartik. It?s a dream come true, to have the numero uno Marathi Channel Star Pravah, as our channel partner and supporting us. We thank all our partners and hope that we can continue to bridge the gap of producing Rich Indian Music along with main-stream mass media.?
Do tune in to Star Pravah on 24th November 7 pm onwards.
The IMA Marathi Music Awards is also fortunate to be supported by partners such as - BRIGHT Outdoor, Sakal & UFO Moviez.


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"Be not ye afraid of them: remember YHWH, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses." -Nehemiah 4:14
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Sofia Smallstrom: "Unravelling Sandy Hook"
I highly recommend this video.
1. Proper paramedic/EMT procedure was not followed. All of the "children who died" were declared "dead" and the bodies ordered to remain in the building. Only the police has access to the building (no EMT) and ambulances had to remain down the street from the school at the Firehouse. No action was taken to attempt to revive children, or take them in ambulances or helicopters to hospitals. Why not? Police do not have the authority to make the "medical" decision that children are "deceased" or do not able to be revived. So why weren't EMTs allowed in the building? Also, even the "victim's parents" were not allowed to go in the building to see/verify their children. (See ~0:11:15 in video)
2. Bizarre behavior and interviews by the "victim's families" (eg, Robbie Parker, Chris and Lynn McDonnell) -- smiling, laughing, feigning being upset and "crying" but with no actual tears, etc. (~0:29:45 in video)
3. The School had a recently "re-vamped" video surveillance system. Yet why haven't we seen any video surveillance footage?
4. Early reports were that there were multiple shooting suspects.
5. Possible faked/doctored photographs shown in the media used to construct the identities of the "victims" and "victim's families" -- including the apparant photoshopping of children into pictures. (~0:36:55 in video) Many of the photographs of the children appear to show "dated" clothing, such as that in fashion in the 1980s or 90s. And many of the "victim's parents" appear to be in their mid or late 40s and much older than the average parents of 6-year olds (~1:28:30 of video).
6. All of the funerals for the "victims" were reportedly closed casket, with the exception of that of Noah Pozner, in which the face was covered with a cloth. So what hard evidence do we have to verify actual deceased victims? There are no photographs/video of dead children. In May of 2013, the Newtown Town Clerk refused to release the death certificates of the "victims". (And as discussed in the video posted above on the medical examiner Carver, the validity of the "autopsies" is in question).
7. The "victim's family members" supposedly didn't want the 911 call tapes released because they "didn't want to relive the tragedy", but many of these "victims' family members" are happy to travel all over the nation lobbying for an "assault weapons ban" and other gun control, as well as "mental health screening" requirements.
8. The legislative response to Sandy Hook of increased "mental health screeing" -- eg, to see if people are "competent" not only to own guns, but to parent their own children, etc.
9. "Victim's" fundraising websites/funds were reportedly set up in the days prior to the "shooting event."
10. Highly-coordinated "active shooter" drills involving school children, teachers and school staff, police, paramedics, local residents, and "crisis actors" are now regularly conducted at schools all over the nation. Based upon all of the evidence, the presenter argues that the Sandy Hook "event" was a drill that "went live" (meaning that it was deliberately broadcast in the media as if it was a real event)
11. A woman claims to have called the Connecticut State Police, Connecticut Environmental Protection Agency, and Connecticut Violent crimes Unit asking who cleaned up the blood at the school, and none would give her an answer but just gave her the "run around" and "I don't know" (~1:27:00 in video).
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The Horizon is a leading digital work-space solution, which is used for managing and delivering virtual applications and desktop and these new versions will make it fast, easy and more affordable.
GreatResponder.com Vmware which is considered the global leader in cloud infrastructure, announces the latest advancement in the VMware Horizon with the name of Horizon 7 and Horizon Air. VMware Horizon Air will provide the new hybrid mode capability which will be available to simplify function and desktop delivery by joining the advantages of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and Virtual SAN Ready Nodes with cloud based flat to administer on premises and cloud deployments.
The latest edition 7 of Horizon assures fresh features that VMware explained with the headlines of just in Time Delivery, Blast Extreme, Application Life Cycle management, smart policies and Integration with VMware Workspace ONE.
"We are continuing to drive new innovations and redefine the delivery and management of virtual applications and desktops to a new level of simplicity, speed and affordability," said Sumit Dhawan, senior vice president and general manager, Desktop Products, End-User Computing, VMware.
The new Just in Time Delivery option, is a product of Instant Clone Technology, signify managers can stipulation 2,000 desktops in less than 20 minutes. Blast Extreme presents options for GPU offload to boost the level and mobile network maintenance. The novel Application Life cycle efficiency assures to cut storage space and running costs by up to 70% and cut the time required for running images by up to 95%. Smart Policies and integration with VMware Workspace ONE will both progress administrations of inner assets.
"Increasingly, businesses have a cloud-first mentality and want to deliver anytime, anywhere access to all applications, services and resources across devices. Along with an ecosystem of technology partners that includes Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, HPE, IGEL, NVIDIA and Sphere 3D, among others, VMware Horizon enables a first class digital workspace with the flexibility to choose any delivery model" said Dhawan.
On the other hand, VMware's Horizon Air has a hybrid mode that will cover the means for an easy out of the box setup for the clients. With this new version, users will be able to produce and scale desktops more rapidly, with new Instant Clone technology integrated with VMware's App Volumes and User Environment Management technologies. VMware Horizon 7 and VMware Horizon Air with Hybrid mode are likely to be generally accessible prior to March 2016.
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Costume designer Jane Greenwood is the Susan Lucci of the Tony Awards — she has been nominated 16 times but has never won. This year, her five-decade losing streak will officially come to an end.
Tony organizers announced on Tuesday that Greenwood is the recipient of the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.
Greenwood is expected to receive the award at the Tony ceremony on June 8 at Radio City Music Hall. It will be broadcast live on CBS, with a delay for the West Coast.
TONY AWARDS 2013: Best and Worst | Show highlights
Past winners of the lifetime achievement award include Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Miller, Uta Hagen, Julie Harris and Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn.
The first of Greenwood's 16 nominations dates all the way back to 1965. She was most recently nominated in 2009 for a revival of "Waiting for Godot," with Bill Irwin and Nathan Lane.
She has been nominated for her work on plays and musicals, including Sondheim's "Passion," and has dressed such actors as Jason Robards, Ingrid Bergman, Vanessa Redgrave, James Earl Jones, Elaine Stritch, Rosemary Harris, Colleen Dewhurst and Zoe Caldwell.
In 1994, she was nominated twice — for "Passion" and a revival of "She Loves Me."
Greenwood has taught at the Yale School of Drama since 1976. In addition to her stage work, she has designed costumes for the movies, including "Arthur," "Wetherby" and two films based on David Mamet plays — "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Oleanna."
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Baseball Statistics as Intellectual Property?
From the AP:
A company that runs sports fantasy leagues is asking a federal court to decide whether major leaguers' batting averages and home run counts are historical facts that can be used freely or property that can be sold.
In a lawsuit that could affect the pastime of an estimated 16 million people, CBC Distribution and Marketing wants the judge to stop Major League Baseball from requiring a license to use the statistics.
The company says baseball statistics become historical facts as soon as the game is over, so it shouldn't have to pay for the right to use them. . . .
Major League Baseball has claimed that intellectual property law makes it illegal for fantasy league operators to "commercially exploit the identities and statistical profiles" of big league players.
The LA Times has a more detailed article. The complaint is here.


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Israeli researchers * have discovered a gene that increases the lifespan in mice, and may do the same in humans. Their findings have been published recently in the prestigious journal, Nature.
Recently a number of genes have been discovered which affect the lifespan of laboratory animals. Among them is a group known as Sirtuins, which are found in every species. The gene SIR2 has been found to prolong life in yeast, worms and flies. Researchers in Israel are now experimenting with a companion gene SIRT6 in mice
Dr Cohen of the research team, stated "Originally in mice without the gene, researchers saw premature aging," Dr Cohen said. "They suffered spinal curvature, calcium deficiency and osteoporosis, immune system problems, and diabetes – conditions which are familiar to us in aging humans. "We called the second group, which we created in the laboratory, the 'MOSES' mice and compared their lifespan to that of wild-type mice, which possess a normal amount of SIRT6."
Both groups were fed on a high fat diet designed to bring on diseases associated with ageing. The wild mice developed these diseases, but the MOSES mice remained healthy.
"We were the first to show that these sirtuin genes regulate life span in mammals,"Dr Cohen declared. "The research was conducted in laboratory animals under very sterile conditions. Is this what happens in nature? It's not clear. The human SIRT6 gene is very similar to that in mice.
"It could be that drugs designed to activate the gene will have a positive impact on our ability to treat age-related diseases whose frequency increases in the elderly and in the physiological damage caused by obesity,"
Teach us to number our days
It is hoped that with Scientific advances some severe age related illnesses, Alzheimer's for example and life threatening conditions such as obesity, will be eliminated; however, the signals and symptoms of old age are given to us by a merciful God for a purpose. That purpose is to teach mankind that we are mortal and that a gradual deterioration of our senses, followed by death in old age is our lot unless we seek His help to change our mortal condition.
Psalm 90 states quite succinctly that we have only a short time on this earth and we need to use that time wisely.
9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
The early Genesis record tells us how death became man's lot. Genesis Ch. 3 records that Adam and Eve broke God's only commandment and ate of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. As they had been warned, the curse of death came upon them. From then on their lives would be hard, they would have to labour, gaining their food by the sweat of their brow and would finally die and return to the dust out of which they had been created.
God said , Genesis 3:19 ' In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.'
God was merciful in that He did not carry out His sentence of death right away, He allowed Adam and all mankind time to think how they ought to spend their lives and gave them a promise that if they were obedient and turned to Him, there was still hope. As a 'visual aid', God caused their bodies to age noticeably so that death would not come as a sudden surprise. Hence the Psalmists request... 'So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.' In other words 'help me to see my fate, repent and change my ways before it is too late'.
Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden in Eden 'Lest he should stretch forth his hand and eat of the tree and live forever'(Gen 3:22). This was in God's mercy for imagine how painful and full of regret would be the life of an everlasting sinner, unable to communicate with God and living in a world full of eternally wicked people. The first people on earth lived very long lives, for example Methuselah who lived almost 1000 years, but God soon significantly reduced man's life expectancy. Because of their persistent sinning, Man's life was shortened so that that their evil would not live on and on as an offence to God.
Genesis 6:3 'And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.'
Since then, doubtless because of genetic disorders developing over time, lives are shorter so that now, as the Psalmist said in Psalm 90, we are fortunate to reach our 70s and 80s in good health.
Age related diseases, the tell tale signs of ageing, are then a warning that our time is limited, and if we are wise we will make the most of our time, like the Psalmist in Ps. 71
5 For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.
6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
7 I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.
8 Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.
9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
18 Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
The wise will make the Lord God their hope, they will see in the Gospel given through Jesus Christ that everlasting life is possible and will change their ways. They will spend their time praising Him and speaking of His goodness to all who will hear. For God has promised a reversal of the curse placed in Eden to those who serve Him. This hope is shown in Genesis Chapter 3. Eve was promised that one of her 'seed' would bruise the serpent's head (i.e. put an end to the power of sin and its end result-death) and as Adam and Eve were banished from the garden they were given a hope that there would be a way back. In Genesis 3:24 ' So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.'
The way of the tree of life has been opened by the Lord Jesus at his death and resurrection when he (2Ti 1:10) 'abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel': and he will grant eternal life to all those who have obeyed him and believed his gospel.
In time, Science may be able to reduce the effects of some form of ageing, but the Gospel offers everlasting life, where one will never again feel pain, sorrow or any kind of ill health. Eternal life will be granted by the Lord Jesus at his return to those he finds worthy. At that time he will raise the dead for judgement as we are told in Acts 17:31 ' Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him (Jesus) from the dead.'
The Last Enemy
Chapter 15 of Paul's 1st letter to the Corinthians deals specifically with the resurrection, in verse 26 he states that ultimately when the world is filled with faithful men and women, death will no longer exist v 26 'The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death'
At the end of the Chapter, Paul paints a wonderful picture of the resurrection and judgement when the Lord Jesus returns.
51 ¶ Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus has given us 'the words of eternal life'(John 6:68) but our time to accept them is limited. As our body ages, we need to heed its warning and realise that, unless we heed Jesus Words and he grants us immortality, death will have won the victory.
So, may we echo the words of the Psalm 90:12 ' So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.'
*The researchers, led by Dr. Haim Cohen of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, teamed up for the study with scientists from Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem's Hebrew University and the Carnegie Mellon University.
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Warning: This is not your typical brunch review. Lego was also involved in the making of this blog.
It would seem that in today's day and age we are sharing more than ever. With thoughts, feelings, relationship statuses and even job changes all available via our social networking sites, there is a good chance when you ask someone "how's it going" or "what's new", you already have a good idea on the answer is going to be. One of our favorite 'sharing experiences' we have is with the people we care about around food. The ability to share a delicious meal with someone and have a conversation about how it tastes and their preference brings generations and cultures together. Now there is a specific restaurant in the continuously developing area of South Wharf which has built its menu around the concept of sharing – The Sharing House.
Now, we must warn you that there are no brunch foods on the menu here. This could vaguely pass as 'unch' (the lunch side of brunch) but there are no eggs or bacon to be found!
We walked in and were welcomed by an arty bar displaying the restaurant name. Apparently the owners spent $12,000 to buy leggo off e-bay to create it – a unique and brilliant concept!
Neither of us were very hungry when we arrived and when the waitress told us traditionally 2-3 of the small dishes per person to share would suffice, but we decided to take the prudent approach and order 2-3 in total. After all, more could always be ordered later, right? We decided on:
- Lick Pier Alcoholic Ginger Beer 660ml to share
- "Rabbit and Cauliflower Popcorn" – Confit rabbit and cauliflower, in a parmesan breadcrumb, served with roasted garlic aioli [$12]
- "Surf and Turf" – Roasted potato gnocchi with spanner crab and crispy veal sweetbreads and a brown butter jus [$15]
- "Porcini" [Pizza] – Porcini and roasted king brown mushrooms, farmhouse goats cheese and fresh lemon thyme [$13]
"Lick Pier Alcoholic Ginger Beer" 660ml [$10]
Mr LB: "I make it a point not to drink coffee when I go out for a fine dining meal. Too many times have I suffered with unfavourable coffee after have the most exquisite meal. With this in mind we decided to order a bottle of alcoholic ginger beer, which is gaining some traction around Melbourne cellars. This beverage certainly didn't disappoint and had a truly fresh and crisp ginger taste with no strong evidence of an alcoholic flavour. A very good substitute if you're over beer."
Miss SL: "I wasn't in the mood for coffee this day as we arrived late afternoon. I wasn't in the mood for an afternoon wine and so a ginger beer seemed like the perfect option as it wasn't too much on the alcoholic side. It was incredibly light and refreshing and was a great way to start the meal, preparing our palate for the food to come."
"Rabbit and Cauliflower Popcorn" – Confit rabbit and cauliflower, in a parmesan breadcrumb, served with roasted garlic aioli [$12]
Mr LB :"As we negotiated on what to order, Miss SL was very persistent with the Rabbit and Cauliflower popcorn. I was equally intrigued by the concept and delivery of this dish, and so in the interest of our relationship, I conceded. What was delivered was something special and also exciting to eat. It arrived in a cute paper bag that gave the dish a casual vibe. The rabbit pieces had a nice chewy texture without being unbearable. The next piece of popcorn ended up being a cauliflower piece which had more punch and was my favourite of the two. The batter was cooked to perfection with a lovely crisp taste and the right amount of seasoning. The aioli married well with the pieces giving a well-rounded creamy texture. It was the perfect entrée item as it encouraged sharing right from the get go.
Miss SL: "First out of the kitchen was the rabbit and cauliflower popcorn. It came in a little street-food style bag and was carefully placed on the table, resting against the aioli. This dish was an unusual an unexpected delight. I really hate cauliflower and can be fussy when it comes to duck, but this dish brought out the best in both of them. The flavour of the rabbit was well-defined but not overbearing. It had a rich flavour that was softened by the crispy, perfectly deep-friend batter. The cauliflower, on the other hand, was powerful – ripping through the parmesan batter screaming "here I am!". I felt that it washed away any remnants of the rabbit flavours previously left in my mouth. The aioli didn't really do anything for me in this dish. Whilst it was rich and creamy I felt that it completely muted the flavours within these little "popcorn" pieces and I preferred to eat mine without it. The downside was that the dish left me feeling greasy once complete."
"Surf and Turf" – Roasted potato gnocchi with spanner crab and crispy veal sweetbreads and a brown butter jus [$15]
Mr LB:"For me, I still haven't worked out the true intention of a Surf and Turf dish. I see it as the dish designed for the kind of person who couldn't decide whether to eat seafood or meat and decided to get them both. I still wanted to give this dish a go as I was curious of how it would be plated up as well, as to taste some fresh gnocchi goodness. The gnocchi didn't disappoint, served with a brown butter sauce which certainly had the right texture and an impressive taste. I had found the crab to be well prepared – it was tender and absorbed the jus. The veal was equally impressive as it was very tender, melting in my mouth. At times it was difficult to differentiate between the two meats based on flavour, but it certainly didn't matter as they had a consistent texture. On its own, this dish is quite heavy with the butter sauce, however breaking it up with the other dishes made it more enjoyable."
Miss SL: "When the deconstructed surf and turf came out of the kitchen I 'ooed' and 'ahhed', despite the fact that I seemed to have been ordering all the foods I dislike (I am also not a big fan of crab). The spanner crab was meaty and just melted in my mouth. It was beautifully cooked as the pieces held together without becoming rubbery in texture. The veal was also very delicious and the flavours of the sweet jus could be tasted. The gnocchi was hand-made and pillowy in texture – light and floury. While I really enjoyed all the individual elements of this dish, I really struggled to find any cohesion. I also struggled to find any really defining flavour throughout the sauce. While Mr LB pointed out he could taste butter, all I could taste was sweet. The gnocchi pieces were definitely the star of the dish here."
"Porcini" [Pizza] – Porcini and roasted king brown mushrooms, farmhouse goats cheese and fresh lemon thyme [$13]Mr LB:"If the image is anything go by, this pizza is a must try. Simply put, it tasted amazing and was the ideal buffer with the other heavy dishes we had ordered. The various mushrooms certainly delivered a diverse mushroom taste to the pizza and the base sauce made it delectable with every mouthful. The crust was lovely, with a light and fluffy texture but a crispy exterior."
Miss SL: "The porcini pizza was my favourite dish out of all the mains. It was wonderful! There were different types of mushrooms cleverly used on this dish, creating beautiful woody and earthy flavours. The goats cheese was mild and creamy but it was the lemon thyme that was the real star – shining through all the flavours creating a magnificent zing that carried on the palate long after the slice was over. This pizza cleverly used seemingly simple ingredients and created something that was delicious and affordable. Next time we come here, we plan to order a couple more of these!"
"Jaffa" -Warm chocolate fondant with textures of orange [$14]
Mr LB: "There is a saying when you go out and eat half the menu of a high-end restaurant, "there is always a second stomach for dessert". Miss SL was very keen for this dish and I was in need for something sweet, so it was quickly settled. I found this dessert to be very intense with its multiple flavours and high-end presentation. There were so many different combinations that could be made while eating this dish! The jellies were full of rich flavour and it seemed to go well with the dob of sorbet and topped with crispy mandarin. My favourite element of the dish was the chocolate fondant, with its rich chocolate and orange flavoured pudding – it was just fabulous. All the flavouring was spot on, but personally I felt a little lost as to the proper way to eat the dish. Overall, it's a deconstructed dessert that is worth trying if your game to explore plenty of sweet tastes."
Miss SL: "We were both really full by this point, but the whole reason I had wanted to come to The Sharing House was to have the deconstructed jaffa dessert. This dessert was a really beautiful combination of blood orange and mandarin jellies, dried mandarin and lusciously chocolatey fondant. When I split open the chocolate pudding it oozed out a rich chocolate sauce. It was perhaps a little too runny, but I absolutely loved how straight-out-of-the-oven hot it was. The sauce had a beautiful choc-orange taste to it which caught me off guard as I thought the jellies were the orange contribution to this dish. The jellies themselves were firm but not chewy, creating an unexpected texture. They were sugar-coated, leaving a sweet flavour on the palate. The dried mandarin was divine, adding a beautifully crunchy elements to this dish."
Overall The Sharing House was a nice experience. It would have been better to come here for dinner and enjoying these meals with wine, or alternatively sticking to pizza for our 'unch' experience. Excellent service, beautiful location and quirky interior resulted in a lovely afternoon of indulgence."
Final thought: "Deconstructed food is the name of the game; beautiful desserts and pizza"


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STOCKTON - It took less than 15 minutes for a jury to find Rajesh Kumar guilty of first-degree murder and torture of his neighbor Valida Raynette Irvin on Friday, ending a three-week trial and potentially sending the Stockton man to a life sentence in prison without the possibility of parole.
STOCKTON - It took less than 15 minutes for a jury to find Rajesh Kumar guilty of first-degree murder and torture of his neighbor Valida Raynette Irvin on Friday, ending a three-week trial and potentially sending the Stockton man to a life sentence in prison without the possibility of parole.
Kumar, 42, brutally beat, stabbed and dumped Irvin's nude body on May 1, 2011, Deputy District Attorney Thomas Testa said. The jury believed Testa's account, rejecting arguments by defense attorney Jeffrey Hirshfield that Kumar himself was a victim of another man named Michael.
Hirschfield argued that Michael entered Kumar's Rosemary Lane apartment, assaulted and killed Irvin and forced him to dump her body. Jurors said they did not believe Irvin's death was quick. They believed she was tortured by Kumar through evidence that included photographs of Irvin's injuries and DNA evidence.
"There was not one thing (the defense) said that could be defended by evidence," juror Chris Altieri said.
Irvin's family cried as the courtroom clerk read the verdict. The family refused comment after the trial.
The entire 12-member jury stood and spoke with Testa and police investigators on the second floor of the San Joaquin County Superior Courthouse in Stockton for 45 minutes after their decision was read. They vented about the case, each one supremely confident that the conviction - although swift - was both strong and just.
Testa caught Kumar and his defense attorney in "lie after lie" the jury agreed. When Testa asked the jury if they would have convicted Kumar even if the District Attorney's Office had sought steeper punishments - including the death penalty - their resounding answer was "yes."
"We decided in 10 minutes that he was guilty of first-degree murder," Altieri said. "The only reason we weren't out sooner is that we wanted to know what more we could add. We were venting that he deserved more."
Irvin, 46, was a shoe sales associate at Dillard's Department Store in Stockton. Her family members testified that she sought conversation with Kumar because they had both endured the loss of a loved one in the days before the slaying. Kumar's motive in Irvin's slaying was not clearly defined, but jurors said they believe it involved an attempted rape.
As the defense argued that another man committed the crime, Testa submitted DNA evidence that linked Kumar to Irvin's death. Surveillance footage also showed Kumar at the cinder block trash bin.
"The circumstantial evidence was so compelling, it was obvious to us," juror Jerry Kinney said.
Kumar is scheduled to appear back in court for a sentencing hearing Aug. 26.
Contact reporter Keith Reid at (209) 546-8257 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/lodiblog.


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Today Atari announced the games it will be showcasing at the second annual New York Comic Con. Godzilla: Unleashed for the Wii and DS, Bullet Witch for the Xbox 360, and Dragon Ball Z Shin Budokai: Another Road for the PSP will all be available for the public to get its hands on.
"Comic Con is a natural environment for Atari to showcase several of the company's upcoming games, especially those titles that lend themselves to the anime and popular culture worlds," said Nique Fajors, VP of marketing and sales, Atari. "While Godzilla: Unleashed, Bullet Witch, and DBZ Shin Budokai: Another Road offer different gameplay features, storylines and visual flair, all three share a common bond of Japanese art and influence -- a bond that has been extremely prevalent in comics and other popular art forms."
The New York Comic Con will take place February 23-25 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City.


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Arts education hasn't historically been valued as a "must-have" in nationwide school districts. In fact, it's often one of the most popular cuts to be made when cash-strapped states want to decrease spending. That's because painting, music, and theater are generally considered "extras" or entertaining complements to education, but not core subjects. That view is shifting as educators open up to the idea that learning art-related subjects makes kids better academically as well as personally.
One school district willing to stake its reputation on that is Los Angeles Unified, which this week unanimously voted to protect its arts education program by categorizing it as a core curriculum. It also enacted addendum measures protecting the program from future budgetary cuts
Go here to read more: http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/10/13/arts-are-fundamental-one-school-board-makes-arts-education-core-subject


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Although rare, some side effects of Ester-C include stomach cramps, diarrhea, headache, nausea and vomiting, states Drugs.com. Increased urination, skin flushing or redness, side pain and lower back pain are other possible side effects. Side effects are more likely to occur in people taking high doses of Ester-C.
Ester-C is a vitamin C supplement used to treat and prevent vitamin C deficiency, explains Drugs.com. Vitamin C assists in the growth and repair of all body tissues, including skin, tendons, ligaments and blood vessels, according to MedlinePlus. Vitamin C also helps the body heal wounds, create scar tissue and maintain the health of bones, teeth and cartilage. As an antioxidant, vitamin C contributes to the body's defense against free radicals.
Although many people use vitamin C to prevent the common cold, research shows that vitamin C supplements do not reduce a person's risk of developing the common cold, explains MedlinePlus. However, as of 2015, studies show that people who regularly take vitamin C supplements or eat diets rich in vitamin C experience shorter colds with milder symptoms.
Eating a balanced diet is the ideal way to get enough vitamin C, notes MedlinePlus. Some food sources of vitamin C include citrus fruit, kiwi fruit, strawberries, raspberries and watermelon. Broccoli, spinach, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and winter squash are other good sources of vitamin C.


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Assembling carbon nanotubes into two dimensional structures and devices using DNA origami in a process that is scalable to billions of devices assembled in parallel. Carbon nanotubes are also being formed into fibers hundreds of meters long and if the carbon nanotubes were able to be selected to be all metallic then carbon nanotubes could be used for nearly lossless power lines.
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Self-assembly of Carbon Nanotubes into Two-Dimensional Structures and Devices and on the Verge of Carbon Nanotube Powerlines
Nature Nanotechnology: Self-assembly of carbon nanotubes into two-dimensional geometries using DNA origami templates
A central challenge in nanotechnology is the parallel fabrication of complex geometries for nanodevices. Here we report a general method for arranging single-walled carbon nanotubes in two dimensions using DNA origami—a technique in which a long single strand of DNA is folded into a predetermined shape. We synthesize rectangular origami templates (75 nm 95 nm) that display two lines of single-stranded DNA 'hooks' in a cross pattern with 6 nm resolution. The perpendicular lines of hooks serve as sequence-specific binding sites for two types of nanotubes, each functionalized non-covalently with a distinct DNA linker molecule. The hook-binding domain of each linker is protected to ensure efficient hybridization. When origami templates and DNA-functionalized nanotubes are mixed, strand displacement-mediated deprotection and binding aligns the nanotubes into cross-junctions. Of several cross-junctions synthesized by this method, one demonstrated stable field-effect transistor-like behaviour. In such organizations of electronic components, DNA origami serves as a programmable nanobreadboard; thus, DNA origami may allow the rapid prototyping of complex nanotube-based structures.
"We expect that our approach can be improved and extended to reliably construct more complex circuits involving carbon nanotubes and perhaps other elements including electrodes and wiring," Goddard says, "which we anticipate will provide new ways to probe the behavior and properties of these remarkable molecules."
The real benefit of the approach, he points out, is that self-assembly doesn't just make one device at a time. "This is a scalable technology. That is, one can design the origami to construct complex logic units, and to do this for thousands or millions or billions of units that self-assemble in parallel."
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In the past year, how many times have you tested for ketones?
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Total votes: 409
In the past year, how many times have you tested for ketones?Poll dates: December 4 - 11, 2005
Total Votes: 409
Almost two-thirds of our readers (63%) report testing a few times per year or less. Less than one-fifth (19%) report testing every month, and only 8% report testing almost once a week.
For people who check ketones frequently, urine test strips in a vial are the most economical, costing as little as 16 cents per strip. For those who test infrequently, foil wrapped ketone strips are a better choice because vials expire 90 days after opening. Foil wrapped strips cost about 40 cents per strip, but you don't waste lots of strips due to expiration.
However, there is a better way to check for ketones -- checking for blood ketones. We have a summary of the benefits of blood ketone testing, along with citations to recent studies, in our Care Suggestions page (see item five).
For people who check blood ketones using the Precision Xtra, ketone test strips cost about $30 for eight, or about $3.75 per test. If you check for ketones 10 times per year, that's about $40 per year, about the same price you'd pay to keep your urine ketone strips current. If you check more frequently, then urine ketone strips are less expensive.
This table summarizes the results of this poll over the past years:
Answer Dec 2005 Sep 2004 Sep 2003 Never 15% 14% 13% A few times 48% 50% 43% Almost every month 19% 17% 18% Almost every week 8% 9% 10% More than once a week 4% 3% 5% Almost everyday 1% 2% 4% I don't know what ketones are 2% 1% 3%
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Without ground breaking university research there are many communication tools that would not be in existence today and yet we take them for granted.
Research at the five universities of the SETsquared Partnership has led to the invention of the mobile phone which created a whole new industry and has affected the everyday lives of billions of people – the way we socialise and the way we do business. In a similar way the creation of the internet was only made possible by ground breaking research at universities within the SETsquared partnership.
Perhaps more than in any other area we can see and experience the impact of university research through the field of communications and information technology, much of which originated in the labs and minds of our university professors.
Research at the five universities within the SETsquared Partnership includes:
- Optical Fibres - Pioneering research and development has played a pivotal role in the development of optical fibres that underpin the internet.
- Satellite Research - The development of small satellites enabling countries and industries which could not previously afford to build satellites to now build small low-cost satellites for various uses.
- The Speech Scrambler - The 'speech scrambler' is a device used by the UK's 'blue light' emergency services to provide secure communications over mobile networks.
- The Strained Quantum Well Lasers - The development of strained quantum well lasers which provide a fast, powerful, precise and energy efficient way to send signals and information down optical fibres and for writing and reading optical memories such as CDs and DVDs.


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A homestead exemption will reduce your local property taxes. In Texas specifically, the property code "allows homeowners to designate their homesteads to protect them from a forced sale to satisfy creditors." [Travis County Appraisal District FAQs] However, the law does not protect homeowners from tax foreclosure sales of their home in the event that taxes are not paid.
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The Royal Canadian Air Farce was always a sort of satirical comfort food for Canadians. These days it's more like the bargain no-name brand of macaroni and cheese; twenty years ago it was primo Kraft Dinner.
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently dealt a stinging blow to the False Claims Act (FCA) plaintiff's bar in United States ex. rel. Absher v. Momence Meadows Nursing Center, Inc. et al., Case Nos. 13-1886 & 13-1936, 2014 WL 4092258 (7th Cir. Aug. 20, 2014). In one bold and decisive stroke, the Court essentially eviscerated the "worthless services" theory of liability in FCA cases, reversing a judgment of over $28 million in FCA fines and treble compensatory damages.
The Momence Decision
Momence owned a 140-bed long-term care facility in Kankakee County, Illinois. Between 1998 and 2006, almost all of Momence's residents were Medicare or Medicaid patients. For compensation, Momence received reimbursement on a "per patient day" basis – a flat per diemamount for each resident – rather than a la carte reimbursement for separately provided services.
In order to get paid, Momence was required to provide government regulators with a Minimum Data Sheet ("MDS"), that included patient information such as disease diagnoses and health conditions. Momence certified, under penalty of law on each MDS, that the information was accurate and that its residents received appropriate quality care, and therefore, the MDS information could be used as a basis for payment from federal funds. As a Medicare/Medicaid provider, Momence was subject to inspection and enforcement by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS"), a federal agency, and the Illinois Department of Public Health ("IDPH").
Between 1998 and 2006, government regulators inspected Momence 117 times and found numerous deficiencies. The relators in this case, two former nurse employees, alleged that Momence violated the FCA by knowingly submitting hundreds of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid, and then retaliated against them for allegedly reporting evidence of Momence's fraud. It was also alleged that Momence actively concealed its noncompliance from the government by directing its employees not to document symptoms of scabies or pressure ulcers and to hide existing charts containing such symptoms. Momence also allegedly used coded message to alert staff to the presence of regulators.
In fact, evidence at trial showed serious instances of noncompliant care and resultant harm, including evidence of problems relating to infection and pest control (such as scabies outbreaks), medication, food and water temperatures, cleanliness, and accidents. Expert witness testimony was also presented showing that Momence had systematically violated Medicare and Medicaid regulations concerning the duties of personnel at the facility, standard of care, and protocols for addressing patient care issues.
At trial, relators submitted evidence that Momence provided inadequate care to its residents while receiving full compensation from the federal government, thereby structuring their case, in part, to conform to a "worthless services" theory of recovery. Under the "worthless services" theory of FCA liability, a qui tam relator may bring claims for FCA violations if defendant received reimbursement for services that were seen to be "worthless." Although the Second, Sixth, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits have adopted the "worthless services" as a separate theory of FCA liability, in Momence, the Court declined the opportunity to decide whether "worthless services" actually stands separate as a distinct theory of FCA liability.
Rather, in a more rudimentary fashion, the Court found that the relators' action failed primarily because they "failed to offer evidence establishing that Momence's services were truly or effectively 'worthless.'" In a moment of admirable clarity, the Court observed that services that are just "worth less," that is, services which do not rise to the level of compensation received, are just not automatically propelled into the ambit of "worthless services" sufficient for FCA liability purposes. The Court explained that in order to prevail under a "worthless services" assertion, the "performance of the service [must be] so deficient that for all practical purposes it is the equivalent of no performance at all." In other words, services that merely reflect "diminished value" do not arise to level of "worthless services" sufficient to impose liability under the FCA.
For FCA defendants, the Court's ruling makes eminently intuitive sense. As the Court stated in its decision, it would be "absurd" to find that services are "worthless" given the fact that government inspectors repeatedly allowed Momence to continue operating over a period of years. In essence, the government itself recognized that Momence's services were of, at least, "some value," otherwise it would have shut Momence down completely. Adding the final nail to the coffin, the Court also noted that relator Absher's own mother resided at Momence during the time period when the alleged "worthless services" were provided to Momence's residents without objection by Absher, a trained nurse. In fact, the Court noted that at trial Absher even testified that her mother received "good care" at Momence.
The Effect of Momence
In Momence, the Court specifically refrained from ruling on whether the "worthless services" theory was sufficient to stand on its own as a legitimate basis for FCA liability, or whether it just should be seen as an evidentiary component of a false or fraudulent claim under the false certification theory of liability. This uncertainty was of no moment to the Court, however, because in the final analysis, given the deficits in the nature of the evidence, and the failure to present proper arguments for the jury, the requested relief and ultimate jury verdict was simply too much for the Court to countenance.
The amount of money involved in this case, over $28 million dollars in fines and treble damages, was significant. However, apart from Momence's own individual sigh of relief relative to the dollars involved in this particular case, the real value many litigants will see here is that the Court's decision in Momence offers a welcome and substantial respite to those who have constantly grappled in recent years with an amalgam of what seems to be constantly changing and disparate theories of FCA liability. For now, at least, there is one less pitfall for FCA defendants to avoid.
While Seventh Circuit en banc rehearing is possible in this case, there is no doubt that the Seventh Circuit has given litigants a clear signal. Certainly now in FCA litigation, "worthless services" does not just mean services that are "grossly or woefully inadequate," "materially substandard," "wholly deficient," or whatever other descriptive language plaintiffs often attach to describe a level of service that may not be equivalent to compensation received. Rather, "worthless" really does mean "worthless," and efforts to build an FCA complaint around a paradigm that suggests otherwise will no longer make the grade.


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The City Council's Public Health and Human Services Committee will discuss the Henry Lee Willis Community Center Monday and has asked a high-ranking state official to attend the meeting.
With the Henry Lee Willis Community Center set to close Wednesday, city councilors are still searching for answers on why the agency's state funding was pulled.
The City Council unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday night asking the state Department of Health and Human Services to have a representative at the meeting to answer questions about the transition of Willis Center programs and services to other agencies. The meeting is scheduled for 4:30 p.m.
Councilor-at-Large Frederick C. Rushton said state officials have been silent about why the Willis Center lost its state funding, and that could be an indication that something is preventing them from being more candid.
He said if state officials cannot provide details because of an ongoing investigation, say, then the public should be told that.
"Is there an investigation going on that prevents them from giving full disclosure?" Mr. Rushton asked. "If there isn't an investigation, then they should spill the beans, because the city certainly deserves it.
"Our biggest issue going forward, though, is working on establishing transition controls for local people," he continued. "The ship has sailed; (Willis Center) will be shuttering its doors and it's time to chart a new course."
William S. Coleman III and Brenda Jenkins petitioned the City Council Tuesday night for an opportunity to address the council and the city administration regarding the closing of the Willis Center.
Ms. Jenkins urged the council to press state legislators to answer why the Willis Center, which has provided a wide array of social services to the local minority community for more than two decades, lost more than $11 million in state funding, and to explain the process the state used to reallocate its contracts to other agencies.
She questioned why other minority organizations and agencies were not included in the contract allocation process.
Ms. Jenkins said about 280 employees of the Willis Center are about to lose their jobs, and many of them do not know if they are going to be transitioned to other agencies
"It's an injustice for the city of Worcester that we do not have any answers," she said. "It's an injustice to have (the Willis Center) lose more than $11 million (in state funding) with no one raising red flags or questions."
Mr. Coleman, meanwhile, said the void caused by the closing of the Willis Center is "huge." He said the community is frustrated by the lack of answers from elected officials.
"This is really important; it's about diversity," he said. "We need to get some real answers. The community of diversity is looking for political leadership from our local elected officials. Why did Henry Lee Willis lose its contracts?"
Mayor Joseph M. Petty said he shares everyone's frustration on this matter. He said the state has been very clear that it's not going to say much more about it.
He said it is important for city officials to focus their attention on working on solutions and making sure that people who have been served by the Willis Center continue to be served by "culturally competent" people.
"I know this is hurtful," Mr. Petty said. "I hear you loud and clear, and I share your frustration."
District 2 Councilor Philip P. Palmieri, who said he first learned of the demise of the Willis Center when former state Rep. Vincent A. Pedone told him about it at a Christmas Party in December, urged the mayor to convene a public meeting in the next couple of weeks with state legislators, city councilors and representatives from the state Department of Public Health and Human Services to discuss the matter.
But Mr. Petty said he first wanted to see what happens at Monday's council committee meeting. Mr. Palmieri, meanwhile, said he wasn't confident that much light would be shed during the committee meeting.
District 4 Councilor Sarai Rivera said she can't express her level of frustration on the matter. She said she was "extremely disheartened" to see the way some of the Willis Center's programs are being transitioned to larger, out-of-town agencies, such as the South Middlesex Opportunity Council. She said some local agencies were never even approached about taking on some of the programs.
"It's like sharks in a tank out there," she said. "How are some of our local agencies going to be able to compete for these contracts? How were these organizations chosen? We need to know what the state's plans are so agencies and organization that are culturally competent will be able to obtain contracts."


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Sample cover letter for Internship position at Fidelity
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GOT THE JOB? Yes
Norma Gaeta
4523 Plainfield Avenue
Clay, NY 13088
Ms. Debra Arms
Cowen Group, Inc.
2474 Charla Lane
Lewisville, TX 75067
Dear Ms. Debra Arms,
I am writing to apply for the position of Equity Research Associate with Cowen Group, Inc. and I have acquired the skills and experience you are searching for in an applicant.
I have a bachelor's degree in economics and outstanding research and computer skills. I have extensive knowledge of finances and excellent investment skills. I have the ability to gather all information needed to gauge your profit margin and equity return. I can then use this information to evaluate and determine where your company stands financially.
I have the ability to monitor all new developments that affect the industry including the latest trends, the economy and geopolitical issues to determine how they could affect the growth and performance of your company. I can then use this information combined with your financial situation to offer good, sound investment advice that you can depend on.
I have the communication skills to explain complicated information concerning finances and investments in a very clear and concise manner. I also have excellent problem solving skills with the ability to offer suggestions that will help improve your current financial situation.
I have the skills to keep accurate financial records and to maintain and keep the company's database updated. I possess excellent analytical skills with the ability to solve complicated problems. I am dedicated, trustworthy and dependable and I hope to meet with you soon to discuss the fine points of this position in more detail.
You can reach me for an interview by calling (123)-244-9138 and I will be looking forward to your call.
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Highlight your education and strong analytical skills
As an entry-level business analyst, your cover letter should highlight previous work and educational experience. Since your job will deal largely with data and reports, you should include examples of the technical business skills you have learned and used as part of your education and in previous positions. Try to address as closely as possible the requirements stated in the job description for the best chance at gaining an interview.
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In your cover letter, go into more detail about certain aspects of the qualifications and experiences that you mention in your resume. This is your opportunity to explain how certain skills were applied during internships and previous positions. Don't just say that you understand insurance rules. Get specific and note that you how you have previously utilized your familiarity with HIPAA Compliance and Security Policies and Procedures or with Medicare rules and regulations, depending on what the job listing mentions.
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Your Address
Your City, State, Zip Code
Your Cell Phone Number
Your Email
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Dear Mr./Ms. Lastname,
I would like to express my interest in an insurance analyst trainee position with XYZ Company. Throughout my job search and conversations with insurance industry personnel, I have come to respect the professionalism that characterizes your firm and its employees. I am confident that XYZ Company's values and objectives would highly complement my own strengths and enthusiasm. I would like to be considered for your Insurance Analyst Trainee role, or a similar position that requires refined analytical and communication skills.
Evidence of my leadership and analytical skills can be seen in my responsibilities as analyst intern at ABC Company, and my commitment to academics.
My educational background in government and business, combined with my internship experiences, has been excellent preparation for an analyst career with XYZ Company.
Please review the enclosed resume and references, and consider my application for your Insurance Analyst Trainee role. I would appreciate the opportunity to meet with you in New York and explore the company environment, as well as possible job opportunities. I will call your office next week to discuss these possibilities.
I look forward to exchanging ideas with you concerning a career at XYZ Company and the positive contributions I would offer as a member of your organization.
Thank you for your consideration.
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What would you risk to be with the love of your life? A family is threatened by an irresistible attraction in this compelling debut that will appeal to fans of Liane Moriarty and Anita Shreve.
Looking back on it now, I can see it was instant. the second we locked eyes. Boom. Just like that. the me I had spent a lifetime perfecting began its disintegration from that moment. And despite the carnage it brought to all our lives, I still don't regret it.
What would you risk to be with the love of your life? And what if your soul mate is the one who will destroy you?
Mel is living the dream. She's a successful GP, married to a charming anaesthetist and raising a beautiful family in their plush home in Perth. But when she boards a flight to Melbourne, she meets Matt and her picture perfect Stepford life unravels as she falls in love for the first time ever.
What begins as a flirty conversation between strangers quickly develops into a hot and obsessive affair with disastrous consequences neither Mel nor Matt could have ever seen coming. Mel's dream life turns into her worst nightmare.
Love at First Flight will take everything you believe about what true love is and spin it on its head.
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LeadSift, which sifts through millions of social conversations to deliver targeted social leads, announces today The LeadSift Fingerprint, a dashboard targeted to social users who try to understand how marketers uses their public data.
The LeadSift Fingerprint crawls through an individual's Twitter history to uncover psychographic and demographic insights, which is instantly displayed in a dashboard. Through natural language processing software, The LeadSift Fingerprint gathers insights about Twitter users from their organic social conversations. The social fingerprint is calculated in a two-step process: enter a Twitter handle and watch the platform deliver insights and information around the users personality and lifestyle. Users can discover their own social fingerprints as well as those of friends and acquaintances.
"Millions of people are sharing their thoughts and actions on Twitter everyday, but what they may not realize is that they end up as a complex, difficult-to-understand information graph," said Tukan Das, CEO of LeadSift, in a statement. "We created this platform to provide individuals with the power to see what their Tweets say about them by extracting publicly available data from their Twitter profiles, which accounts for their social fingerprint."
The LeadSift Fingerprint uncovers details about Twitter users, such as the following:
"We created this platform to provide consumers with a better understanding of their social fingerprint, but we also can visualize the endless possibilities for digital marketing teams," Das said in the statement. "Millions of dollars are spent every year on market research to understand the complexities of the target customer. We see a future where brands across a wide range of industries, including retail, telecom, insurance, sales, media, and marketing, can use platforms such as the LeadSift Fingerprint to identify the interests of their ideal customers and plan their marketing strategies accordingly."
LeadSift Releases Audience Intent Miner to Bring Ad Targeting to Twitter
Audience Intent Miner lets marketers identify, understand, and target customers by demographics and psychographic data from Twitter.


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In 1863, at the height of the Civil War, Congress passed a law aimed at punishing corrupt defense contractors who were overcharging the Union Army for its supplies.
The False Claims Act empowered ordinary citizens to sue such profiteers and recover a portion of the fraud as a reward. The law survives today and has won whistleblowers more than $200 million in the past 30 years.
But what happens when the alleged profiteer is a state government? That is the latest federalism question to emerge at the US Supreme Court, where the conservative wing is trying to restore what it views as the proper constitutional balance between the federal and state governments.
At issue in today's case is whether a private citizen can sue a state under the federal act, or whether such a suit violates state sovereign immunity guaranteed by the 11th Amendment.
At its core is a fundamental choice between federal or state power.
The case may also raise the broader issue of whether ordinary citizens who have not been the immediate victim of a fraud against the government have the legal authority to bring such a suit even when the defendant isn't a state government. In the past, the courts have said they do. But recently a federal appeals court in New Orleans threw out a whistleblower case on those grounds.
If the court decides the case on this broad basis, legal analysts say it would mark a major shift in the law and represent a significant setback to whistleblowers.
This "is probably the most important whistleblower case ever argued before the Supreme Court because it goes to the ability of the federal government to call upon its citizenry to defend the law - and whether that fundamental act of patriotism is legal," says Stephen Kohn of the National Whistleblower Legal Defense and Education Fund in Washington.
There is no question that states accused of bilking the federal government should be held accountable. But states-rights advocates say more is at stake than recovery of monetary damages.
Taking sides
Friend-of-the-court briefs were filed by 44 states, four cities, and various educational and social-service organizations. All warn that private false-claims suits against state and local governments, if allowed, would not only threaten the constitutional balance, but also the financial survival of some government groups.
On the other side are the US solicitor general and watchdog groups who argue that when the states ratified the Constitution, they consented to suits by the federal government.
They say citizen-initiated suits under the False Claims Act are the equivalent of suits brought by the federal government because the victim is the federal government. By filing such a suit, they argue, a private plaintiff becomes a kind of government lawyer.
Under the act, the federal government retains the right to enter or take over such a suit.
The case before the court involves a false-claims suit brought by Jonathan Stevens against the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (VANR). Mr. Stevens, a former VANR employee, charged that the agency was falsifying employee time sheets to qualify for federal funding it didn't deserve.
The federal government investigated and found no wrongdoing, and declined to enter the suit. But Stevens pressed on.
Vermont asked a judge to toss the suit, arguing that such a suit against a state by a private citizen should be barred under the 11th Amendment. A federal judge and appeals court disagreed.
"We conclude that such a suit is in essence a suit by the United States and hence is not barred by the 11th Amendment," wrote Judge Amalya Kearse of the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals.
Dissenting Judge Jack Weinstein says the law does not deputize plaintiffs as federal lawyers, and that prior rulings say the US may not delegate its authority to sue states in federal court. "Any discussion of the 11th Amendment must take place within the larger context of our federalism and the constitutional balance it was designed to maintain."
The parties also disagree over the meaning of the text of the False Claims Act. The law says it applies to any "person" who presents a false claim for payment to the US government.
Stevens's lawyers maintain that the "person" includes a state government. Vermont counters that person means person - an individual, not government entity.
Attention getter
Vermont and supporting states argue that if the Supreme Court upholds the circuit court's decision, it will spark a flood of litigation targeting state or local agencies administering federal funds - including Medicaid, Medicare, and education grants.
States-rights advocates say a successful private suit against a state or local government organization would only succeed in punishing innocent taxpayers who would be forced to pay triple damages awarded against the state or local government.
"Local government entities are particularly vulnerable to lawsuits by disgruntled employees intent on winning a share of the [act's] bounty," says a friend-of-the-court brief by the Orleans Parish School Board, which lost a similar lawsuit.
Mark G. Hall, Stevens's original lawyer, says taxpayers have an interest in ensuring that their tax dollars are not being misspent. "The core issue is whether the country as a whole is able to recoup money that somebody wrongfully diverted," he says.
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Charles Hamilton posted $25,000 bail and was released from jail on Wednesday, January 26. He was referred to a psychiatric earlier last month and as of Monday, has been confined to mental treatment for the time being. The rapper was charged with resisting arrest and assault, stemming from a December 10 incident with police in Cleveland, Ohio.
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'New use sought for old jail'
By Judith Pannebaker BCC Editor
Pictured: Photo by Judith Pannebaker
County Clerk Candy Wheeler and District Clerk Tammy Kneuper display original and bound copies of historic court records of Bandera County. The archival effort is funded by a $10 user fee attached to all court filings.
(Editor's note: Thank you, Roy Chancy of the Bandera County River Authority and Groundwater District for loan of the Dec. 16 newspaper.)
Surprisingly, the headline, "New use sought for old jail," came courtesy of the front page of a Bandera newspaper, dated Dec. 16, 1982. Everything old, it seems, is new again.
On Dec. 10, 33 years ago, the members of the Bandera County Historical Commission discussed plans for using the century-old jail, located on 12th Street, as an archives center and exhibit gallery. During the meeting, which was convened in the building designed by the famous Texas architect, Alfred Giles, then County Judge-elect Tommy Curbo toured the 1881 building. According to the article, the county had leased the jail to the local historical commission, which was described as an arm of the Texas Historical Commission.
After prisoner detention was moved to the now-razed jail located behind the Bandera County Courthouse, the historic jail on 12th Street found new life as a museum under the direction of Gladys Graves, with exhibits consisting mostly of a "collection of memorabilia assembled by Mrs. Graves." Additionally, the space served as a repository for "old county documents and records no longer needed for daily reference at the courthouse" - some of which dated back to the 1856 founding of Bandera County.
An assemblage of handmade office furniture "from pioneer days" was also stored in the old jail. Fortuitously, historical commission member Marjorie Langford and others rescued both the furniture and historical records from a trash pile when the courthouse on Main Street was remodeled in the 1960s. In the early 1980s, the documents had not been indexed or organized, but were - happily - kept intact.
Fast forwarding to the present, employees working with County Clerk Candy Wheeler and District Clerk Tammy Kneuper have worked at categorizing all the records saved in the 1960s; however, not all have been restored or bound.
As District Clerk Tammy Kneuper explained at an earlier meeting of Bandera Commissioners Court, "The 81st Legislature authorized the collection of the archival fund for the restoration of old records. Records from 1961 and back have been mandated for archival preservation."
To fund the preservation, each year commissioners approve a $10 fee, to be included in the cost of any lawsuit, including appeals or cross-actions, counterclaims, intervention, contempt action, motion for a new trial or third party petition in the district court. The fee also applies to filings such as deeds, births and marriages in the county clerk's office. "The ten dollars becomes part of the filing fee and it's strictly a user fee," Kneuper continued.
"We now have 75 percent of our old court records completed," she added. Other local historical records, however, remain languishing in storage pods. "If we archive five books a year, we could go on for 25 years," Kneuper said. "The oldest record I've had restored is case #513, which was recorded in 1896."
Each bound book of historic records costs approximately $1,200.
At this time, Wheeler's office has no funds for record restoration, but she has archived some records, the oldest being from 1856. "The $10 fee will help us," she said. "We want to renovate the filing in records management by purchasing rolling shelves to double our storage space."
In 1982, historian and then-Commission Chairman Peggy Tobin discussed the importance of preserving old records, as well as finding "the highest and best use of the jail building by all the people of Bandera to whom it belongs."
Curbo advised "that extreme care should be taken and professional advice sought by any group seeking to arrive at a master plan for re-use of a building as unique and historic as is the jail."
On Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013, Bandera City Council agreed to convey municipal property on 12th Street to the Frontier Times Museum for a proposed historical renovation project. The undertaking would eventually include restoration of the 1881 jail and 1868 courthouse, as well as relocation of two other historical buildings to the area of virtually unusable land at the end of 12th Street, which is owned by the city.
Speaking for the project were George Sharman, chairman of the Old Jail Committee; museum Executive Director Rebecca Norton; Bandera County Historical Commission Chairman Roy Dugosh; and historian Dave Burell.
The museum expansion would include relocation of an 1887 farmhouse from East Texas to serve as a visitors' center with offices, gift shop and restrooms. Additionally, the former Dug Spring School, a one-room school similar to those once found throughout the county, will be moved to the site and renovated.
Once legal procedures are identified and followed, the city will convey the property to the historical commission for their project.
In January 1983, commissioners court was slated to appoint a new and expanded historical commission that would make the organizational changes necessary to carry forth a project as large as the rehabilitation of the old jail. A need for an auxiliary, nonprofit corporation to seek and receive funds was also stressed.
In addition to Tobin, Langford and Curbo, other members of the historical commission at the meeting were Frances and Harold Sherman, Jennette Saul, Matie Mae Pue, Sallie Lewis and Jay Edwards.
Current members of the Bandera County Historical Commission include Dugosh, Burell, Norton, Elenora Dugosh Goodley, Alison Swift, Billy Reeves, Merry Langinais, Cindy Harrington, Lauren Langford, Cecil LeStourgeon, Mary McGroarty Smith and William Feather Wilson. Tobin continues to serve as historical consultant.
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This week, Car Pro Show hosts Jerry and Kevin share videos honoring fallen heroes and promoting seatbelt safety.
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Kevin: You don't always wear your seat belt? Watch this. It might change your life.