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Obamacare Website Mess: Whose Fault Is It?
I'm Michel Martin and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. Coming up, it's no secret that it's getting harder to move on up in this country, to achieve upward mobility that is. Last week, we asked whether the ability of Americans to literally move to different parts of the country is playing a role in this. We heard from so many listeners about this that we decided to dig into the story a bit more, and we'll have that in just a few minutes.
But first, we want to talk about something else that seems stalled this month. That's the government's health exchange rollout. Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is feeling the heat after a rocky start to the online exchanges. Here she is speaking to CNN earlier this week.
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KATHLEEN SEBELIUS: We're not at all satisfied with the workings of the website. We want it to be smooth and easy and let consumers compare plans and choose a plan that's good for themselves and their family, and that's what I'm focused on.
MARTIN: The government says that more than 20 million people have visited the website healthcare.gov so far. Now some have been able to sign up for new health insurance, but many were greeted with slow connections, pages of gibberish, even blank screens. For more on all this and what this could mean, we've called, once again, on Mary Agnes Carey. She's a senior correspondent at Kaiser Health News. That's a news service. It is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente. Welcome back. Thanks so much for joining us.
MARY AGNES CAREY: Thanks for having me.
MARTIN: So I just want to start with some news that we got yesterday. The White House offered some new guidance about when people need to sign up. What is the news and is this significant?
CAREY: Yes. You have an additional six weeks to sign up for healthcare coverage without facing a penalty. The enrollment period has been through March 31 - and remains through March 31 - and you had a grace period of about 90 days before you faced a penalty. But in order to satisfy that March 31 coverage requirement previously, you would have had to sign up with an insurer by February 15 because most coverage starts on the first of the month. Now the administration's saying you can enroll through March 31 and not face a penalty.
MARTIN: So let's go back to the main problems here. Is this a - I know that you're not an IT expert. You're an expert on sort of the policy here, but what's the main issue? I understand that they've been digging at this for a couple of days now. Is this just that the system just overloaded? What's the problem?
CAREY: It seems to be a variety of things. One decision that was made shortly before the rollout of healthcare.gov was their requirement that individuals create an account before they could see rates. That was credited with lots of the bottleneck of the problems of all the things you mentioned with the healthcare website. Now they've created a work-around where you can go and look at rates and don't have to necessarily create an account.
Some experts say it's volume, some experts say it's the problem with all these different insurers trying to communicate with the federal government website, and something called the data hub that has to verify who you are, how much money you make, are you in the country lawfully and so on. But nonetheless, the administration has come under tremendous criticism from Republicans and some Democrats about the fact that healthcare.gov is not working as envisioned.
MARTIN: Well, I have to give you some examples of this. I'm sure you've been hearing from people. Now we've been talking, as you know, all along with people around the country really for, actually I would say for years now, since the policy's been discussed, to talk to people about what their experience has been with health insurance and why they think they need it and why it's important. And we've been checking back with them to see what their experiences have been. Now Pamela from Indiana tells us she has multiple sclerosis. She says she pays $18,000 for her own health plan. She's got a big deductible as well. She's waiting for the exchanges with the hope that they would provide a more affordable option. And this is what she told us happened to her.
PAMELA: Well, I have tried every day. I get the login screen and then I go, you know, to the authentication screen, which comes up as a big, white blank screen. And it doesn't matter what time of the day or the night I have tried it, 'cause I have been up in the middle of the night trying it. And it still doesn't work. So it's extremely disappointing to me that we get this far and then we can't get a site that works.
MARTIN: Are there any human beings available to help you with this issue? I mean, if, you know, there are certain major banks that you can call up in the middle of the night and some human will answer the phone...
CAREY: Yes, that's...
MARTIN: ...Will a human answer the phone?
CAREY: That is one of the things the administration's been emphasizing. There is an 800 number - it's (800) 318-2596. That's the number that you can call to talk to someone. They had also previously had problems with that. But now they say those wait times have been reduced significantly. That's one option. Also, you can apply through paper - to send a paper application in. That's one way to do it. Another thing is to think about - is there an agent, insurance agent, insurance broker, who you know or trust. Also, the law created navigators and assisters. You can find those on the website. That part of the website works, I've checked it. You type in your ZIP code, they tell you the nearest navigator or assister who could help you. So there are other options.
MARTIN: We heard from Rachel in North Carolina. She wrote in to say, I've attempted to get into the system probably about a dozen times, but I'm willing to wait it out until the system gets corrected. But I hope they start talking about moving some deadlines. And we just heard - heard about that. OK, now here's a question, which may or may not be a political question, which is - there are a number of states in which the leadership is very hostile to this program. Is it harder to get into the system in those states? We understand that this is kind of a global kind of website problem, but are you more or less likely to get any help in those states where the governors or the public officials are not fans of program?
CAREY: If they're hostile to the program, they're probably not running the exchange, which means you're going through healthcare.gov - that means the federal government's running it in those sites. So that remains - that problem would happen whether an administration was friendly or not friendly to it.
MARTIN: If you're just joining us, we're talking about the roll-out of the government's online healthcare exchanges with Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News. What about the other side of it? If you're in a - in a state where the political leadership is friendly to it, or is amenable to it, in support of it - are you having an easier time? I mean, we understand that, you know, Maryland, for example, that there was still difficulties there and the political leadership there is very supportive of the program.
CAREY: Right. The problems - the glitches, if you will - have occurred also in some of the state-run exchanges, and these are in states where the leadership has embraced creating its own exchange, but they tend to have most of these places - tend to have fixed them. The problems were smaller. Of course, the volume is much smaller than the federal government website. One thing to remember here is the federal government is running the exchanges either totally or in partnership with states in 36 states. It's about 14 states in the District of Columbia running their own exchanges, but they tend to - with a smaller volume, you can tend to get in there and fix those problems faster.
MARTIN: Again, sort of talking a little bit about the politics, there is a growing group on the hill, mainly Republicans, calling for Health Secretary Kathleen Sibelius to resign or to be fired because of this botched rollout. But then, there are supporters of the law who say, well, it's actually the Republicans' fault because they stripped out as much they could strip out. They stripped out money for marketing the program. They stripped out as much as they could strip out. And that that has actually hampered the rollout of the program. Do you have a sense from your own reporting of which of those things is true?
CAREY: It seems to be a combination of things. Obviously, the House of Representatives has voted 40 times - over 40 times - to defund all or part of the health care law. So they're no fans of it, for sure. When the administration asked for additional funding for the rollout, Republicans in the House blocked that. But it's also - you've got to remember, there are some Democrats that have also been critical of the delays. They want an extension of the timeframe for the individual mandate. So the criticism, if you will, is growing a bit. It's far more for Republicans than Democrats. Henry Waxman, who's a Democrat of California, was saying today at a hearing on the hill that most of the law has worked well, but this is a major problem that's getting attention. So it is getting some attention from both parties.
MARTIN: But is the issue here - you know, I'm thinking about a major retailer whose website crashed because a product that they were trying to rollout was so popular that the website crashed. They were - and we don't need to sort of say who. But it was a kind of a lower-priced line of a very expensive kind of a designer - Italian sort of designer. And the website crashed because people were so excited about it. Nobody said, oh, you know what? You shouldn't sell that. It's too popular. You know, so is the issue here that the law is just too complicated and that the administration - the administration of it - the implementation of it can't be fixed? Or is this really a technical meltdown or just a failure of skill?
CAREY: That's probably in the eye of the analyst. But again, thank you for saying at the top of this I'm not an IT expert. But as I understand it, you have a lot of contractors working on the site. You have a lot of insurance companies that are offering coverage. They're all trying to talk to the federal government, including systems within the federal government like Medicare system or the Medicaid system that may be a different computer operating system than healthcare.gov. Now should they have known this all along? Should they have prepared for it? Does all this - do all these - the traffic and the problems that have been exposed, will it lead them to fix them quickly? That's what we don't know.
MARTIN: So what is the administration doing to fix this, because clearly they now understand that they have a lot at stake here?
CAREY: Right. They're bringing in - they say they're bringing in top tech experts. They haven't necessarily said who that is at this point. They're going to provide daily updates - the first one starts today - on the technical problems and how they want to fix it. President Obama has made it very clear he's upset about it, and he kind of joked recently that the fact that he's paying so much attention will guarantee that it gets fixed. So the key will be who are the experts they bring in, what are the problems, how quickly can they fix them and what do consumers do?
Some of the people that have notified - your program have talked about - I'm really frustrated, and I'm going to wait. Will people come back? Will they try again? How long will they wait? There seems to be a fairly narrow window of time that the administration has to get on this and fix it before people simply say, you know, I'm just frustrated. I'm not going to try again. But those are a lot of unknowns. And again, with this extension through March 31 - you can apply without a penalty - that gives the administration a little more breathing room to get in there and fix the problems and get consumers on board.
MARTIN: Now we only have about a minute and a half left. But going back to the politics of it, on the one hand, you can see where conservatives are saying that this is exactly why the government should not be running a program like this because they simply do not have the capacity to run a program this large and this complicated with this many moving parts. On the other hand, you have progressives who are now saying that this is exactly why there needs to be a single-payer system because this is just too complicated. You have too many private entities who are all trying to kind of work together. This is why it needs to be a more unified system under the authority of one central person the way it works in a number of other advanced, you know, economies like ours, mainly in Europe and also sort of in Canada. Do you have any sense of which - from a political standpoint - which of those two points of view has more steam or energy right now, if either?
CAREY: I think that things are more focused on the political reality, which is the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land. It is out there now. It's open for enrollment. The administration's trying to get 7 million people to enroll in 2014. And they're very, very focused on trying to do that. So whether or not they can - whether or not this is a political liability, whether or not it hurts Democrats in the upcoming midterms, in the presidential in 2016 is unclear. But that's kind of where the politics lie, I think.
MARTIN: Mary Agnes Carey is a senior correspondent at Kaiser Health News. I want to emphasize once again she is not affiliated with the insurance company - the health company Kaiser Permanente. She was kind enough to join us once again in our Washington, D.C. studios where she's been joining us to help us understand as much as she can about the Affordable Care Act. Thank you so much for joining us, Mary Agnes.
CAREY: Thanks. Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Retrograde condensation occurs when gas in a tube is compressed beyond the point of condensation with the effect that the liquid evaporates again. This is the opposite of condensation: the so-called retrograde condensation.

Description
If the volume of two gases that are kept at constant temperature and pressure below critical conditions is gradually reduced, condensation will start. When a certain volume is reached, the amount of condensation will gradually increase upon further reduction in volume until the gases are liquefied. If the composition of the gases lies between their true and pseudo critical points the condensate formed will disappear on continued reduction of volume. This disappearance of condensation is called retrograde condensation.

Because most natural gas found in petroleum reservoirs is not a pure product, when non-associated gas is extracted from a field under supercritical pressure/temperature conditions (i.e., the pressure in the reservoir decreases below dewpoint), condensate liquids may form during the isothermic depressurizing, an effect called retrograde condensation.

Discovery
Johannes Petrus Kuenen discovered retrograde condensation and published his findings in April 1892 with the title "Metingen betreffende het oppervlak van Van der Waals voor mengsels van koolzuur en chloormethyl"
(Measurements on the Van der Waals surface for mixtures of carbonic acid and methyl chloride).

References

Phase transitions
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By Charles Colson (assembled and edited from several sources). Colson served as Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969-1973. In 1974 he was convicted for his involvement in the Watergate cover-up. He was the first member of the Nixon administration to be incarcerated for Watergate-related charges, and served seven months in a federal prison. Colson became a Christian in 1973, and after his release from prison founded the non-profit ministry Prison Fellowship. For the next 38 years he was a respected evangelical Christian author and leader.


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Q: I created an api method using java i wanted to use it in my talend intergration but i dont know how to put the method in talend to use I created this code for me to get the postal code of the address i wanted and i wanted to have this function in talend for me to use where i would get these three fields for each row and then get the postal code for that address but i can't find out how to insert this code
public class postalCodeGetter {

    public static void main(String [] args){
        System.out.println(getPostal("221b", "baker street", "London"));
    }

    public static String getPostal(String streetNum, String streetName, String city){
        if (streetNum == null || streetName == null || city == null){
            return "NA";
        }
        try {
        streetName.replaceAll(" ", "%20");
        URL url = new URL("https://geocoder.ca/?locate=" + streetNum +
                "%20" + streetName + "%20" + city + "%20ON&geoit=XML&json=1");

        HttpURLConnection conn =(HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();

            conn.setRequestMethod("GET");

        conn.connect();

        int responseCode = conn.getResponseCode();

        if(responseCode!=200){
            throw new RuntimeException("HttpResponse Code: " + responseCode);

        } else {
            StringBuilder informationString = new StringBuilder();

            Scanner scanner = new Scanner(url.openStream());

            while(scanner.hasNext()){
                informationString.append(scanner.nextLine());
            }

            scanner.close();

            if (informationString.toString().isEmpty()){
                return "Address not found";
            }

            String[] ar = informationString.toString().split(", ");
            String postal = "";
            for (String a: ar) {
                if(a.contains("\"postal\"")){
                    postal = a.substring(14, 20);
                }
            }

            return postal;
        }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }
}

A: One possibility is to create a custom routine as follows.

*

*in the repository panel of the Studio, right-click \Code\Routines and select Create routine. The name of the routine has to be the name of your class, postalCodeGetter in your case.

*copy your code, add the required imports and save the routine.

To use the method of your class in your Talend jobs, insert a tJavaRow component in your flow.  In its Advanced Parameters, add import routines.postalCodeGetter;. The code of the tJavaRow component can now contain a call to postalCodeGetter.getPostal().  You can pass column values as parameters to your method, for instance postalCodeGetter.getPostal(row1.streetNum, row1.streetName, row1.city) if the input flow and schema columns are so named.
Documentation is available at
https://help.talend.com/r/en-US/8.0/studio-user-guide-open-studio-for-data-integration/creating-user-routines

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I just got what is supposed to be a 1977 Winnebago Sportsmans Den Minnie Winnie. I found a VIN on the door but don't see one on the dash. The one on the door doesn't match the title. I'm wondering if there is another one somewhere else? Thanks for your help!


Cabin Class passengers traveling as a group.
During the 1930s – businessmen and tourists sailed to Europe from the USA.
There were almost daily sailings from New York. French Line offered Cabin Service on the SS Champlain, SS Lafayette, SS De Grasse, and SS Rochambeau.
French Line schedule of Cabin Class service.
The above schedule and rates give a great indication of what it cost to travel from New York to Europe at the height of the Great Depression. $159 for a one-way ticked Cabin Class (the equivalent of First Class). Transportation and all meals. Plus wine and booze, since America was still ruled by prohibition.
The last of the "trio" including SS Colombie and SS Lafayette, the Champlain was a commercial highlight beginning with the inaugural trip on June 18th, 1932. René Prou, the architect, gave this liner a very sleek, but extremely friendly touch. The interiors were simply elegant and modern, in harmony with bright colors. SS Champlain had a great "cleaned" sun-deck, result of the situation of her streamlined funnel. The liner was destroyed, and sunk in 1940, by hurting a mine in La Pallice.
The SS Champlain was a cabin class ocean liner built in 1932 for the French Line by Chantiers et Ateliers de Saint-Nazaire, Penhoët. She was sunk by a mine off La Pallice, France, in 1940 — one of the earliest passenger ship losses of the Second World War.
Although not as well remembered as her larger fleetmates, the Champlain was the first modern ocean liner and embodied many design features later incorporated into the French Line's SS Normandie.
Her interiors were designed by Rene Prou who decorated spaces on several earlier French Line ships, including the cabin motorship SS Lafayette.
When she made her début in June 1932, the Champlain was the largest, fastest, and most luxurious cabin class liner afloat.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, the Champlain was pressed into evacuee work, transporting refugees from Europe to the safety of North America.
This included many European Jews escaping Nazi Europe. Vladimir Nabokov and his family were passengers on the last voyage to New York in May 1940.
It was on the return trip that the Champlain met her fate. On 17 June 1940, the liner struck a German air-laid mine while swinging at anchor in the waters off La Pallice, France, near Île de Ré, and quickly heeled over on her side.
A few days later a German U-boat fired a torpedo into the hulk — possibly to finish her off, as much of the ship lay above water level.
Many sources quote a wire service report from 1940 that as many as 300 lives were lost but this is erroneous.
Although there were many injuries there were only 11 or 12 fatalities.
She was one of the largest ships sunk in WWII.
Her wreck lay quite visible for over twenty years and was eventually scrapped in 1965.
After World War 2, the DeGrasse re-established trans-Atlantic service from New York to Europe from 1947 until 1952.
De Grasse was the first ship built for the French Line after World War One. With a shortage of materials at that time and a strike in England, her maiden voyage from Le Havre – New York was delayed until August 21st, 1924.
The French Line operated De Grasse on that run alongside their larger ships, the 23,666-ton France launched in 1910 and the 34,569-ton Paris launched in 1916.
The arrival of the French Lines 79,280-ton Normandie on the Atlantic run in 1935 led to De Grasseundergoing a refit in 1938 to make her more suitable for cruising. Following the outbreak of World War Two in September 1939, De Grasse was laid up at New York for a few months before being returned to Bordeaux/France in May 1940.
The decision to return her to France soon proved to be a serious miscalculation as she fell into the hands of the advancing Germans.
After the German forces were forced to retreat in 1944, they sank De Grasse in shallow waters at Bordeaux to create a blockade.
After the war had come to an end, De Grasse was raised and towed to Saint Nazaire to undergo repairs and an extensive rebuild. She returned to the Atlantic run in the summer of 1947 with the most noticeable change being the removal of one funnel. De Grasse was relocated on the Le Havre – West Indies route after the arrival of the French Line's Flandre on the Atlantic run in 1952. At the time of Britain's Queen Elizabeth 11 coronation ceremony in 1953, the Canadian Pacific Line was fully booked and had lost their liner Empress of Canada to fire. This led to the Canadian Pacific Line buying De Grasse to serve as a temporary replacement under the name Empress of Australia.
By February 1956, she had again been sold, this time to the Italian shipping company Grimaldi-Siosa to be operated on the Naples – Caribbean migrant run under the name Venezuela.
Now an old ship, Venezuela was operated on that route until she ran onto rocks at Cannes March 17th, 1962.
Grimaldi-Siosa had their aging liner towed to La Spezia for scrapping soon after as they declared her a total loss.
Second "single class" steamer of the company, entered in service in September 1911 on the line Le Havre-New York. An extended version of the CHICAGO steamer brought into service three years earlier.
Between 1915 and 1918, ensures a regular service between Bordeaux and New York (because of the war, the terminus was moved from Le Havre to Bordeaux).
Work includes the installation of glazing-windows in front of the promenade deck.
Demolished in Dunkerque in 1934.
LAFAYETTE will have a very short career. First large engine steamer of the Company, very modern of style, she is brought into service on the line the Le Havre-New York in May 1930. Carries out cruisings regularly. Her voyages to Spitzberg inspired the novelist Roger Vercel. Is completely destroyed by a fire in May 1938, while she was in the great dry dock of Le Havre. Demolished in Rotterdam.


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Chance The Rapper Enlists Chicago Children's Choir For Inauguration Night Performance On 'The Late Show'
Chance The Rapper and Peter CottonTale join other Chicago artists for a performance airing on Stephen Colbert's inauguration night TV special.
8:17 AM CST on Jan 19, 2021
Englewood Choir Photo by Megan Bearder
ROGERS PARK — A special inauguration edition of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" Wednesday night will include a musical performance by Chance The Rapper and the Chicago Children's Choir, among others.
"The Late Show" will air live at 10:35 p.m. Wednesday on CBS. Earlier that day, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be sworn in as president and vice president, respectively.
The episode will include a pre-taped performance by Chance The Rapper, Peter CottonTale, Kofi Lost and Cynthia Erivo featuring the Chicago Children's Choir and the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, according to Deadline.
The song being performed is "Together (Soundtrack From Year In Search)," which Peter CottonTale wrote as part of Google's year-in-review content. It features Chicago Children's Choir members including Austin Burgett, an 18-year-old Lane Tech High School student from Rogers Park.
"Being in a room with all these Black teens from Chicago, it was empowering," Burgett said. "It feels like we are gaining power even with everything that's going on with the world."
The "Colbert" performance was filmed four days after the Capitol riots, where supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Congress. It was a confusing time for the performers, but being in the Chicago Children's Choir has taught them to channel their grief through art, which is a comfort during difficult times, Burgett said.
"The choir was a place where I could gain a voice," he said. "This is how we chose to fight back."
Credit: JP Calubaquib/DNAinfo
Chance the Rapper performs at his 2016 Magnificent Coloring Day concert at U.S. Cellular Field. (JP Calubaquib/DNAinfo)
This isn't the first time the Children's Choir has performed with Chance and fellow collaborators like Peter CottonTale. The choir was on stage during Chance's "Magnificent Coloring Day" festival at Sox Park, performed with Chance at Lollapalooza and was involved in the rapper's recent Christmas special.
"To have these collaborations with Chicago artists, world-class artists, it's a special bond," said Josephine Lee, the Chicago Children's Choir president and artistic director.
The performance is a career highlight for Burgett, who has spent 10 years with the Chicago Children's choir. Burgett, who also plays piano, will go to college next year and likely will study engineering, said he is excited to have this experience on his resume.
"For me, to finally see the full product after all this work will be amazing," Burgett said. "I'm so stoked to see myself on screen."
Chance the Rapper performs at his 2016 Magnificent Coloring Day concert at U.S. Cellular Field.
(JP Calubaquib/DNAinfo)
Rogers Park, Edgewater, Uptown Reporter
Chicago Children's Choir

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Q: Is possible omit specifics tables from existing dump file when use pgsql for import data? I have a dump file and I want import it, but it contains a log table with millions of records whereby I need exclude it when execute pgsql < dump_file. Note: I cannot use pg_restore
Edit:
Since the best option is to edit the file manually, any suggestions to remove 650K lines from a 690K line file on windows?

A: Then you have to edit the file manually.
A crude alternative might be: create a table with the same name as the log table, but with an incompatible definition or no permissions for the importing user. Then restoring that table will fail. If you ignore these errors, you have reached your goal.

A: The correct way to is to fix whatever problem is preventing you from using pg_restore (I guess that you have already taken the dump in the wrong format?).
The quick and dirty way is to use a program to exclude what you don't want.  I'd use perl, because that is what I would use.  sed or awk have similar features, and I'm sure there are ways to do it in every other language you would care to look at.
perl -ne 'print unless /^COPY public.pgbench_accounts/../^\\\.$/' dump.file | psql

This excludes every line between the one that starts with COPY public.pgbench_accounts until the next following \.
Of course you would replace public.pgbench_accounts with your table's name, making sure to quote it properly if that is needed.
It might get confused if your database contains a row whose first column starts with the text "COPY public.pgbench_accounts"...


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November 21, 20211:32 AM UTCLast Updated ago
Struggling Venezuelans put faith in latest Mexico migrant caravan
By Jose Torres and Lizbeth Diaz
Migrants from Venezuela join in the caravan heading to the U.S. border near Villa Comaltitlan, Mexico November 20, 2021. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
VILLA COMALTITLAN, Mexico, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Venezuelans are in a migrant caravan that departed this week from Mexico's southern border with Guatemala, according to organizers, just as Mexico is mulling tighter restrictions on their access to the country.
Reuters spoke with a dozen Venezuelans who said they had left in the caravan of around 3,000 people from the city of Tapachula on Thursday after fleeing poverty and hardship in their homeland, where elections are due this weekend.
Luis Garcia, one of the caravan's organizers, said Venezuelans made up between 20% and 30% of the group. A number related harrowing episodes on their journey from South America, particularly in Panama's Darien region.
"I don't want to stay in Mexico, we want to go to the United States, we just want them to let us pass," said Daysi, a 63-year-old Venezuelan from the city of Maracaibo who joined the caravan with six relatives, including two of her children.
"Nobody leaves their country because they want to, but there are days when you eat once, others not even that, there's no medicine, there's nothing, we're dying."
The government's National Migration Institute, which has tried to break up caravans, could not say how many Venezuelans were in the group, which also featured Central Americans.
The number of Venezuelans crossing Mexico has leapt in 2021, and Reuters last week reported the government is considering setting stricter entry requirements to stem the flow.
The caravan, the second large one to depart Tapachula within a month, has made slow progress and on Saturday reached the village of Villa Comaltitlan in the state of Chiapas.
Another 34-year-old Venezuelan woman from Caracas, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals, told Reuters by telephone she was beaten and raped by two hooded men in Darien, but resolved to continue "through the power of God."
"They put a gun in my mouth," she said. "I couldn't say no because there were dead women there who resisted."
Reuters could not independently verify her story, but she shared a document showing she had registered the sexual assault with doctors. She too planned to reach the United States so she can send money back to her baby and mother in Venezuela.
Reporting by Jose Torres in Villa Comaltitlan and Lizbeth Diaz in Mexico City Editing by Dave Graham and Matthew Lewis
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Pearland is a city in Brazoria County, Texas with, as of the 2010 census, a population just over 91,000. In terms of cities with at least 10,000 residents, Pearland was the 15th fastest-growing city in America between 2000 and 2010. Established with the construction of a post office in 1893, the city of Pearland was originally referred to as "Mark Belt."
A substantial player in the medical and retail industries, Pearland is home to numerous large employers, including the Pearland Independent School District, Walmart, Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, the City of Pearland, HEB Grocery, Davis-Lynch, Home Depot, Target, Bass Pro Shops and Kemlon Products.
For fun, Pearland offers the Pearland Town Center, Shadow Creek Town Center, The Spectrum District, Silverlake Village Shopping Center — featuring Super Target, Michael's, Marshall's, PetSmart, Ross, DSW and Office Depot — The Crossing @ 288, Shadow Creek Market Place and Cinemark Movies 12.
When it comes to culture and health care, Pearland boasts the Pearland Medical Center, Reserve at SCR, St. Luke's Emergency Center, Texas Children's Pediatrics, the Pearland Parks and Recreation Department and the Pearland Natatorium and Recreational Center. The University of Houston-Clear Lake also offers a satellite campus in Pearland.
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Coronavirus digest: US COVID hospitalizations cross 100,000
More than 100,000 Americans are hospitalized due to COVID-19, marking a new all-time record. President-elect Biden gave a dire warning as cases continued to rise. DW rounds up the latest developments.
Coronavirus hospitalizations in the US surpassed an all-time high on Wednesday. A record of 100,226 Americans are hospitalized with COVID-19, according to data collected by COVID Tracking Project.
Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Robert Redfield warned: "December, January and February are going to be rough times. I actually believe they're going to be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation."
The pandemic has put a huge strain on the healthcare system of the US, the worst-affected nation worldwide. Almost 200,000 new cases were reported on Wednesday, and 2,753 new deaths.
The UK became the first country in the Western world to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for use. It will be rolled out to the public next week.
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The EU's medicine regulator, European Medicines Agency (EMA) will hold a special meeting on December 29 on whether to roll out the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for use. The body insisted it had the "most appropriate" method to approve vaccines, after Britain announced it will use the vaccine use next week.
UK ministers falsely claimed that Brexit had freed them to adopt the vaccine before the EU. In reality, the EU's 27 member states are free to approve a vaccine for temporary emergency use if they so desire.
Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who was in power from 1974-81, died on Wednesday at age 94, due to complications arising from COVID-19. He had previously been hospitalized due to heart issues.
German federal and state governments have agreed to extend the country's current partial lockdown until January 10, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Wednesday. She will hold talks with Germany's 16 state leaders again on January 4 to reassess the situation.
"Generally, things will remain as they are now," Merkel said.
Data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) showed that cases in Germany rose by 22,046 to 1,106,789, on Thursday. The death toll rose by 479, bringing the tally to 17,602.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a large scale immunization campaign in Russia, which is set to begin by late next week. The country will be administering its domestically developed Sputnik V vaccine, which received regulatory approval in August.
Experts have warned that the Russian vaccine is yet to complete the advanced studies needed to ensure its effectiveness and safety as per current scientific protocols.
The Italian Health Ministry has banned midnight masses, as the country reports more fatalities than any other European nation during the recent weeks. Italians will also not be able to move between regions during the holiday period, except in emergency cases.
Christmas Eve mass will end at 8:30 pm this year, so that attendees can make it home in time for the 10 pm curfew that has already been imposed.
Slovenia's government says it will begin mass testing this month after restrictions imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus did not have the desired effect. Health Minister Tomaz Gantar told a news conference that the first 100,000 test kits will be delivered in just over one week and that the government planned to acquire 1.5 million antigen tests for the 2-million strong country.
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Control Panel is being phased out by the Settings app, but you can still access it in Windows 10—for now.
The classic Control Panel, which has been a part of Windows since version 3.0, is finally in its sunset years. With each revision of Windows 10, Microsoft is slowly deprecating many of the items found in Control Panel and replacing them with modern interfaces found in the new Settings app. The Settings app has almost superseded Control Panel, but there are still a few tasks that you can only perform from Control Panel. The latest revision called the Creators Update, takes it even further, adding new categories for managing Apps and changing Themes, among other changes. If you need to access the Control Panel in Windows 10 for one of the holdout settings, or if you just prefer the classic Control Panel interface, here's how you get to it.
Its absence from the Power menu is the latest sign that the Control Panel is on its way out. When you press Windows key + X, you will now find only the Settings menu. The Control Panel is still around, just hidden from view.
The first method you can use to launch it is the run command. Press Windows key + R then type: control then hit Enter. Voila, the Control Panel is back; you can right-click on it, then click Pin to Taskbar for convenient access.
Another way you can access the Control Panel is from within File Explorer. Clicking in the Address Bar provides a quick link to Control Panel and other locations.
Search is another way you can find it. Click Start, type: control panel then hit Enter.
You can also add a shortcut to Control Panel on the desktop. Open Start > Settings > Personalization > Themes, under Related Settings, click Desktop icon settings. Check the box for Control Panel, click Apply then OK.
There you have it, the Control Panel is back!
We don't know for how long though, so, maybe it's time to start embracing the new Settings app while the Control Panel is phased out. If you want a little more power, be sure to check out our previous article about how to enable the powerful God Mode. Also, check out our keyboard shortcut article for all the commands for opening settings quickly.
Thanks Andre for this little valuable tip for improving Control Panel access. I frequently view the Reliability Monitor out of curiosity and your little tip makes it much easier.
I'm stupefied why MS would eliminate the easy access to Control Panel from the start menu in Creators Update. Oh well, you provided a solution for us. Thanks again.
You are welcome Wayne. Well, I guess its legacy code that must be maintained with each revision. You can always pin your frequently accessed items to the Taskbar. Reliability Monitor itself is a part of the Microsoft Management Console, so that might be a reason why parts of the classic desktop will be with us for little while longer.
Another simple way is to right click on the windows icon and you see control panel as one of the selections.
That option is no longer available in the Windows 10 Creators Update.


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$tar War$: An Open Letter To George Lucas
Dear Mr Lucas,
Stop. Please just stop.
I can't take it anymore. A writer more talented than you (not including my 5 month-old nephew) once wrote: "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them." Well now is the time when I can no longer suffer and must take arms against your money-grabbing, face-urinating evil ways. You cannot understand my pain; it is beyond your autistic, self-important ivory-towered existence where toadying henchman agree with your every utterance and you wipe your puckering asshole with the money of eager fans. You have no idea how hard it now has become to be a Star Wars fan. Where once we stood proud (ignoring the convention-goers of course) and held aloft our lightsabers proclaiming "May the force be with you," now we cast sad eyes upon the ruins of a once great Empire, wiping away a tear as we turn our back upon a legacy and admit, finally, we were wrong.
I, like so many others deceived, stood in line for The Phantom Menace daring to hope that, after 20 years, we would once more be amongst our childhood dreams and heroes. And, like so many others, we filed outside afterwards confused and doing our best to convince ourselves that we enjoyed what we had witnessed. I agree that expectation would never match what would be delivered onscreen, but it felt like a dagger to the heart to witness the gutless excuse of a movie you actually produced. But we took strength and drew hope that Attack of The Clones would prove Menace to be no more than you finding your feet after so many years away from directing and writing. But no, Attack of The Clones was just as poorly executed as Menace. It just had more flashing lights and videogame set-pieces with a little less of that Rasta-haddock Jar Jar Binks. Finally, it was with a heavy heart that I welcomed Revenge of The Sith, accepting it was going to, in the parlance of our times "suck ass." So great was my reluctance to accept this onrushing faecal juggernaut as the closure to a lifetime's love of Star Wars that I watched it on pirate DVD. I couldn't allow myself to give you more of my money simply to watch it for the sake of it completion. To this day, I haven't bothered to watch Sith on legit DVD nor purchase it - because a shiny shit is still a shit.
I bought the originally trilogy on VHS way back when, it was a regular staple of my movie diet. I went to see the Remastered versions at the cinema because I was a child when they were originally released and wanted to see them again playing wide and loud. And I bought those again on VHS because I'm a fanboy tool. I bought the Star Wars monopoly board game because I'm a fanboy tool. I should've known better after The Phantom Menace, but I bought that on DVD because I thought maybe you would include all the cool stuff in the Deleted Scenes section, because there was no way that turgid film was the real Star Wars movie, it couldn't possibly be. But nope, there it was in my living room in all its THX mediocrity. And I watched Attack of The Clones and bought that on DVD, knowing better but powerless to resist my fanboy urges. And I bought the Original Trilogy on DVD, despite them having pointless additions because I'm a fanboy tool. Now I learn that you are, yet again, re-releasing them on DVD. This time I can get the original, as-seen-in-the-cinema versions as well as the butchered new editions.
Well no more, Mr Lucas.
You shall receive not one more penny from this fanboy tool. Because what was once great has now been reduced to little more than your personal ATM. Tweak an explosion here, insert a new awesome CGI monster called Bungfwap doing backflips and that's another $400 million you can stuff in your goitre. Nope. Not going to happen. And I'll tell you why, Mr Artistic Integrity who cried into his beard when Warner told you to edit THX 1138 because it made no sense and was, to be honest, rubbish. You have too much fucking money.
You have entered your own planetary orbit where you are your own god and nobody has the balls to wrench the controls from your hands as you wilfully sail The Millennium Falcon into the sun.
Whereas you enlisted help with the original trilogy because even your own friends told you the script was piss-poor, you reached such a level of power and autonomy based on those original movies that none of your underlings dared to whisper "Maaaan, George hasn't got a clue what he's doing."
I mean, how do you go from "The circle is complete, now I am the master" and "May the force be with you" to Anakin and Padme rolling about in a field riding CGI cows saying "I love you more, no, I love you more," huh? That's another matter entirely: over the course of three really, really dull films, you have reduced Darth Vader from one of the quintessential, all-time-great movie villains into a whiny teen full of angst because his Jedi teacher might tell him off for levitating space-fruit in an effort to woo his beloved.
My child will be born January 2007, and I'm looking forward to sharing its first experience of watching classic movies. And you know what? Fuck your new Star Wars movies, they're out of the picture. It will be Star Wars (stick the New Hope subtitle up your ass), Empire and Jedi - burned onto DVD from the original VHS. And only when they're old enough to realise your fall from grace will they be able to watch the new ones, because I don't want to have to explain to a crying child why Han Solo, Princess Leia, Chewie and Luke have been replaced with Pikachus, cut-scenes from Halo and a middle-aged man refusing help and writing himself up his own ass.
So no, I'll not be buying this month's reissued Star Wars movies. And I shall now go and thank my mother for giving away all my original toys to the goodwill store and apologise for treating her as a pariah all these years for saying "They were just toys." Because that's all they were - ancillary merchandise to allow you to build another wing on Skywalker Ranch to house your ever expanding ego. They weren't symbols of my childhood dreams and hopes. They were plastic figures that should've been called "Ahahaha fuck you, pay me" toys.
Besides, Tremors owns new Star Wars any day of the week.
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August 9, 2014 January 24, 2016 greenteeth Uncategorized	alcohol, conformist, drink, eccentricity, individualism, nanny state, odd, satire
Nanny State is on the warpath, admonishing finger wagging furiously, lips compressed into a thin line, she is launching another determined effort to make sure we are all too scared to think for ourselves or make our own choices, Nanny is now warning, with the usual threats of early and painful death is we disobey, that we should only have an alcoholic drink on alternate days. Nanny says government experts have advised her to issue this warning:
Drinkers should not consume alcohol on consecutive days to avoid endangering their health,
New advice will recommend a 'one day on, one day off' rule, with the public urged to abstain on the day after they have had a drink.The new guidelines have been drawn up by Public Health England, the government quango charged with promoting healthy living.
Even drinkers who are not considered to be consuming alcohol at dangerous levels will be encouraged to abstain every other day, under a pilot project aimed at getting heavier 'high-risk' drinkers to cut down.
In its 'Marketing Strategy' for 2014-17, under the heading 'Promoting irregular drinking,' the quango says daily drinking is "a key contributor to increased risk' of alcoholism, and alcohol-related diseases such as cancer, heart attacks and liver disease.
The government scientists who produced this latest example of scaremongering say that failure to comply with their diktat may result in regular drinkers being diagnosed with ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder). This is a mental illness for which any sign of eccentricity, non – conformity or individualism can be interpreted as a symptom.
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Fellow Manc. Noel Gallagher gives the standard northern response to Nanny State and her cohorts – is he displaying symptoms of ODD or just warning the busybodies to FUCK THE FUCKING FUCK OFF
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Way Past Due: Liberty Heights National Worthy of Offers
by Jeff Bendel | Dec 14, 2021 | Event Coverage, Featured, News, Player Reports | 0 comments
Just a few weeks ago, we put out a feature piece on Liberty Heights primarily detailing the trials and tribulations of Coach Mike Wright, his staff, and the incredibly talented collection of players throughout his tenure. In pivoting, their current roster is arguably more impressive than any previous group—yet their individual recruitments don't echo this notion. Sure, college coaches are going to push back and place blame on the aftermath of covid (leading to transfers, an additional year of eligibility, and the general logjam going on at various programs), but that line of reasoning doesn't make anyone feel better. Admitting that you'd rather have a finished product in, say, his fifth year as opposed to a young, blossoming prospect who is rearing to be sculpted seems very self-serving. Is winning a few additional games worth the revolving door that has been created in college basketball? Simply, no. Now, let's look at the pieces within Liberty Heights National and try to understanding the overall lack of recruitment…
It would be difficult to start a discussion about the Cardinals' roster without first mentioning 6'3 '22 Elijah Jamison. Not only is he the lone returning piece from last year's squad, but Jamison's blend of IQ, poise, toughness, and confidence makes him an ideal floor general. Though he was already among the top point guards and players in the state, he's only gotten better since decommitting from East Carolina. In terms of his on-court identity, Jamison has steadily transitioned into an all-around point guard and doesn't have any glaring weaknesses within his skillset. He's also shown a willingness to improve his deficiencies, specifically by becoming a reliable, consistent threat from distance after being tabbed as a so-so shooter for most of his career. Jamison still prefers to get downhill, where he's as efficient as anyone when finishing or applying pressure in the midrange, but can now also torch opponents from beyond the arc. He's a crafty passer, rugged defender, and strong rebounder with a college-ready frame. It's perplexing how anyone could watch Jamison and make sense of his zero offers. The two-way floor general should be coveted by an actual slew of Division I programs.
There was no shortage of excitement upon hearing about 6'8 '22 Ezra Ausar and his decision to join Liberty Heights earlier this season. Previously at IMG Academy, his reputation immediately made him as notable as anyone. After watching him, it's easy to understand why. Ausar is a long, powerful, overwhelming athlete with the mentality, physical tools, and unique collection of attributes to dominate a game. It seems like folks want him to chase high scoring totals to prove his status as an elite-level prospect, but that simply doesn't align with his identity—nor should it. The appeal with someone like Ausar should be obvious. He's extremely tough and unselfish with great rebounding instincts, defensive versatility, and (above all else) the understanding of how to embrace being an interior player—rather than trying to prove himself as a wing. Additionally, Ausar does possess skill and shouldn't be regarded as just an athlete. He poses matchup problems for most traditional big men, especially along the perimeter, and regularly sets up others in scoring positions. Add in his rebounding sense and overall activity level, and Ausar should certainly hold more than five offers.
Between guys like 6'4 '23 Silas Demary Jr. and 6'5 '22 Ryan Prather Jr., there are far less issues within their respective recruitments. Despite only being a junior, Demary has more offers (seven) than anyone on the roster. It's justified, as he's extremely talented and clearly going to continue trending upward. Demary's blend of IQ, size, defensive prowess, and offensive abilities as a combo-guard with comfort from either backcourt position should allow his recruitment to maintain its current trajectory. Meanwhile, Prather is the lone committed player on the team—calling it for Akron in November. He's arguably the best shooter on the roster, but what he brings to the team goes far beyond spotting-up. Even Coach Wright said that "Prather voluntarily gave up his starting position for the betterment of the team. He just wants to win." That statement really embodies unselfishness and provides even more security for Prather's success at the next level.
While there might be some bias involved, 6'7 '22 Cinque Lemon could be as under-recruited as anyone in the state—much less this specific roster. It's worth noting that this roster is deep and balanced, which typically doesn't allow for guys to post ridiculous stat lines. However, anyone who watches Lemon and doesn't see the makings of a Division I prospect should subsequently exit the gym. It's just uncommon to see a prospect with his collection of ability and physical tools. Lemon is a fluid, versatile wing/forward prospect with the flexibility to actively toggle between multiple positions. The idea of a tweener leaves folks with an uneasy feeling, because they are often unqualified to play either forward position (typically power forwards trying to prove perimeter skill). Lemon's situation is actually the opposite, where he's more than capable of excelling from either spot–simply based on opposing personnel. USC Upstate is the only school to extend an offer over the last six months, joining Eastern Kentucky, Charleston Southern, and Lee's McRae. It honestly feels like programs are overlooking him for no legitimate reason, but that should definitely change over the coming months.
Although both guys are being actively recruited, it feels like 6'8 '22 Jabare Perry and 6'7 '22 Charles McClennahan Jr. are deserving of more than three offers apiece. Perry is a strong, rugged, fairly skilled post prospect with a clear understanding of how to embrace his identity on both ends of the floor. He typically operates around the basket through his ability to post-up, but also displays feel as a screener, roller, and capable midrange shooter. Perry is a solid athlete who finishes well with either hand, runs the floor hard in transition, and provides a useful rebounding presence on either side of the ball. On the other hand, McClenahan possesses quality instincts as an inside-out threat. He's shaped like a big man and effectively operates inside the paint, but is skilled and adaptable enough to switch onto the perimeter as needed. McClenahan has the size, skill, and athleticism to appeal to a variety of scholarship-level programs. Both guys should have more activity within their recruitment.
In rounding out the roster, 6'3 '22 Eric Morgan Jr. quietly goes about his business and maximizes his two-way presence for this group. He's as low-maintenance as any of the Cardinals, truly able to defend his position and capitalize on spot-up opportunities as a perimeter shooter. Morgan is smart, tough, and does a great job of filling in the gaps. Despite recently joining, folks should already know about 6'5 '22 Jalen McDonald and his exciting, explosive game. He's always possessed the tools to be a high-level prospect, and continues to display flashes of improved perimeter shooting. McDonald is still an imposing athlete and generally tough player who will play at the next level. In addition, 6'5 '22 Ayden Ince provides another scrappy, reliable shooting piece to this roster. He does currently hold a few offers but, just like the others mentioned above, should see his list continue to expand throughout the course of the season.
In the end, college coaches don't need to overthink the process so much. Having faith in oneself to properly develop these prospects at the next level is simply more impressive than taking a ready-made player, squeezing out their last moments of eligibility, and accepting pats on the back. It's understandable that we are discussing other's careers or livelihood when referencing these coaches, but it's a two-way street—and one side of the street has no leverage. It is time to stop ignoring the obvious and start extending offers to (arguably) the most talented group in the state.
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