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Richard Hugh Baker on Health Care
Former Republican Representative (LA-6)
Voted NO on adding 2 to 4 million children to SCHIP eligibility.
Allows State Children's Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP), that require state legislation to meet additional requirements imposed by this Act, additional time to make required plan changes. Pres. Bush vetoed this bill on Dec. 12, 2007, as well as a version (HR976) from Feb. 2007.
Rep. DINGELL: This is not a perfect bill, but it is an excellent bipartisan compromise. The bill provides health coverage for 3.9 million children who are eligible, yet remain uninsured. It meets the concerns expressed in the President's veto message [from HR976]:
It terminates the coverage of childless adults.
It targets bonus payments only to States that increase enrollments of the poorest uninsured children, and it prohibits States from covering families with incomes above $51,000.
It contains adequate enforcement to ensure that only US citizens are covered.
Rep. DEAL: This bill [fails to] fix the previous legislation that has been vetoed:
On illegal immigration: Would the verification system prevent an illegal alien from fraudulently using another person's name to obtain SCHIP benefits? No.
On adults in SCHIP: Up to 10% of the enrollees in SCHIP will be adults, not children, in the next 5 years, and money for poor children shouldn't go to cover adults.
On crowd-out: The CBO still estimates there will be some 2 million people who will lose their private health insurance coverage and become enrolled in a government-run program.
Veto message from President Bush:
Like its predecessor, HR976, this bill does not put poor children first and it moves our country's health care system in the wrong direction. Ultimately, our goal should be to move children who have no health insurance to private coverage--not to move children who already have private health insurance to government coverage. As a result, I cannot sign this legislation. Reference: Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act; Bill H.R. 3963 ; vote number 2007-1009 on Oct 25, 2007
Voted NO on requiring negotiated Rx prices for Medicare part D.
Would require negotiating with pharmaceutical manufacturers the prices that may be charged to prescription drug plan sponsors for covered Medicare part D drugs.
This legislation is an overdue step to improve part D drug benefits. The bipartisan bill is simple and straightforward. It removes the prohibition from negotiating discounts with pharmaceutical manufacturers, and requires the Secretary of Health & Human Services to negotiate. This legislation will deliver lower premiums to the seniors, lower prices at the pharmacy and savings for all taxpayers.
It is equally important to understand that this legislation does not do certain things. HR4 does not preclude private plans from getting additional discounts on medicines they offer seniors and people with disabilities. HR4 does not establish a national formulary. HR4 does not require price controls. HR4 does not hamstring research and development by pharmaceutical houses. HR4 does not require using the Department of Veterans Affairs' price schedule.
Does ideological purity trump sound public policy? It shouldn't, but, unfortunately, it appears that ideology would profoundly change the Medicare part D prescription drug program, a program that is working well, a program that has arrived on time and under budget. The changes are not being proposed because of any weakness or defect in the program, but because of ideological opposition to market-based prices. Since the inception of the part D program, America's seniors have had access to greater coverage at a lower cost than at any time under Medicare.
Under the guise of negotiation, this bill proposes to enact draconian price controls on pharmaceutical products. Competition has brought significant cost savings to the program. The current system trusts the marketplace, with some guidance, to be the most efficient arbiter of distribution. Reference: Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act; Bill HR 4 ("First 100 hours") ; vote number 2007-023 on Jan 12, 2007
Voted YES on denying non-emergency treatment for lack of Medicare co-pay.
Vote to pass a resolution, agreeing to S. AMDT. 2691 that removes the following provisions from S 1932:
Allows hospitals to refuse treatment to Medicaid patients when they are unable to pay their co-pay if the hospital deems the situation to be a non-emergency
Excludes payment to grandparents for foster care
Reference: Reconciliation resolution on the FY06 budget; Bill H Res 653 on S. AMDT. 2691 ; vote number 2006-004 on Feb 1, 2006
Voted YES on limiting medical malpractice lawsuits to $250,000 damages.
Vote to pass a bill that would limit the awards that plaintiffs and their attorneys could be given in medical malpractice cases. The bill would limit non-economic damages, including physical and emotional pain to $250,000. The bill would also limit punitive damages to $250,000 or double economic damages, whichever amount is greater. Punitive damages would be banned against makers and distributors of medical products if the Food and Drug Administration approved those products. The bill would call for all states to set damage caps but would not block existing state statutory limits. The bill would cap attorneys' contingency fees to 40% of the first $50,000 in damages; 33.3% of the next $50,000; 25% of the next $500,000; and 15% of any amount in excess of $600,000. Reference: Medical Malpractice Liability Limitation bill; Bill HR 4280 ; vote number 2004-166 on May 12, 2004
Voted YES on limited prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients.
Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003: Vote to adopt the conference report on the bill that would create a prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients. Starting in 2006, prescription coverage would be made available through private insurers to seniors. Seniors would pay a monthly premium of an estimated $35 in 2006. Individuals enrolled in the plan would cover the first $250 of annual drug costs themselves, and 25 percent of all drug costs up to $2,250. The government would offer a fallback prescription drug plan in regions were no private plans had made a bid.Over a 10 year time period medicare payments to managed care plans would increase by $14.2 billion. A pilot project would begin in 2010 in which Medicare would compete with private insurers to provide coverage for doctors and hospitals costs in six metropolitan areas for six years. The importation of drugs from Canada would be approved only if HHS determines there is no safety risks and that consumers would be saving money. Reference: Bill sponsored by Hastert, R-IL; Bill HR.1 ; vote number 2003-669 on Nov 22, 2003
Voted NO on allowing reimportation of prescription drugs.
Pharmaceutical Market Access Act of 2003: Vote to pass a bill that would call for the Food and Drug Administration to begin a program that would permit the importation of FDA-approved prescription drugs from Australia, Canada, the European Union, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Lichtenstein, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland and South Africa. Reference: Bill sponsored by Gutknecht, R-MN; Bill HR.2427 ; vote number 2003-445 on Jul 24, 2003
Voted YES on small business associations for buying health insurance.
Vote to pass a bill that would permit the creation of association health plans through which small companies could group together to buy insurance for their employees. Association health plans that cover employees in several states would be excused from many individual state insurance regulations but would be regulated by the Labor Department. Reference: Small Business Health Fairness Act; Bill HR 660 ; vote number 2003-296 on Jun 19, 2003
Voted YES on capping damages & setting time limits in medical lawsuits.
Help Efficient, Accessible, Low Cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2003: To improve patient access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery system. Limits the availability of punitive damages, and sets a 3-year limit for suing. Reference: Bill sponsored by Greenwood, R-PA; Bill HR 5 ; vote number 2003-64 on Mar 13, 2003
Voted YES on allowing suing HMOs, but under federal rules & limited award.
Vote to adopt an amendment that would limit liability and damage awards when a patient is harmed by a denial of health care. It would allow a patient to sue a health maintenance organization in state court but federal, not state, law would govern. Bill HR 2563 ; vote number 2001-329 on Aug 2, 2001
Voted YES on subsidizing private insurance for Medicare Rx drug coverage.
HR 4680, the Medicare Rx 2000 Act, would institute a new program to provide voluntary prescription drug coverage for Medicare beneficiaries through subsidies to private plans. The program would cost an estimated $40 billion over five years and would go into effect in fiscal 2003. Reference: Bill sponsored by Thomas, R-CA; Bill HR 4680 ; vote number 2000-357 on Jun 28, 2000
Voted YES on banning physician-assisted suicide.
Vote on HR 2260, the Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999, would ban the use of drugs for physician-assisted suicide. The bill would not allow doctors to give lethal prescriptions to terminally ill patients, and instead promotes "palliative care," or aggressive pain relief techniques. Reference: Bill sponsored by Hyde, R-IL; Bill HR 2260 ; vote number 1999-544 on Oct 27, 1999
Voted YES on establishing tax-exempt Medical Savings Accounts.
The bill allows all taxpayers to create a tax-exempt account for paying medical expenses called a Medical Savings Account [MSA]. Also, the measure would allow the full cost of health care premiums to be taken as a tax deduction for the self-employed and taxpayers who are paying for their own insurance. The bill would also allow the establishment of "HealthMarts," regional groups of insurers, health care providers and employers who could work together to develop packages for uninsured employees. Another provision of the bill would establish "association health plan," in which organizations could combine resources to purchase health insurance at better rates than they could separately. Reference: Bill sponsored by Talent, R-MO; Bill HR 2990 ; vote number 1999-485 on Oct 6, 1999
Rated 0% by APHA, indicating a anti-public health voting record.
Baker scores 0% by APHA on health issues
The American Public Health Association (APHA) is the oldest and largest organization of public health professionals in the world, representing more than 50,000 members from over 50 occupations of public health. APHA is concerned with a broad set of issues affecting personal and environmental health, including federal and state funding for health programs, pollution control, programs and policies related to chronic and infectious diseases, a smoke-free society, and professional education in public health.
The following ratings are based on the votes the organization considered most important; the numbers reflect the percentage of time the representative voted the organization's preferred position. Source: APHA website 03n-APHA on Dec 31, 2003
Collect data on birth defects and present to the public.
Baker co-sponsored the Birth Defects Prevention Act
Directs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to carry out programs to:
collect and analyze, and make available data on the causes of birth defects and on the incidence and prevalence of such defects;
operate regional centers for the conduct of applied epidemiological research on the prevention of such defects;
provide information and education to the public on the prevention of such defects;
collect and analyze data by gender and by racial and ethnic group9/6/2004
collect such data from birth and death certificates, hospital records, and such other sources; and
(3) encourage States to establish or improve programs for the collection and analysis of epidemiological data on birth defects and to make the data available.
Corresponding House bill is H.R.1114. Became Public Law No: 105-168. Source: Bill sponsored by 35 Senators and 164 Reps 97-S419 on Mar 11, 1997
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Tens of thousands of protesters gathered Thursday in Bangkok defying the authorities that had issued a decree banning demonstrations. The pro-democracy demonstration eventually dispersed several hours after the 6 pm curfew.
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For a second consecutive week, Texas AM coach Jimbo Fisher will be looking across to the other sideline and see a familiar face when his 22nd-ranked Aggies (4-2, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) visit South Carolina Saturday.
Kickoff at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia is 3:30 p.m. on the SEC Network.
Fisher and the Gamecocks' Will Muschamp have links that go back several years. Most notably, both were coordinators at LSU, Fisher on offense, Muschamp on defense, under Nick Saban at LSU for the Tigers' 2003 national championship team.
"Will was one of the brightest guys I've ever been around," Fisher said. "We won a national championship together as coordinators, and we're friends.
"People know we used to own a house, a beach house, together. It was a lot of things. He's always been a great friend, a great guy."
Muschamp also was a graduate assistant at Auburn when Fisher was on the staff there.
"He's a great friend," Muschamp said of Fisher. "We worked together back at Auburn in the '90s, then obviously we were together at LSU. He's a really good football coach, and he's got a good football team."
Muschamp's Gamecocks (3-2, 2-2 SEC) are coming off an emotional, 37-35 victory over Missouri in their last outing. Fisher's Aggies went to overtime for a 20-14 win over a Kentucky team that is coached by Mark Stoops, who was Fisher's offensive coordinator at Florida State before taking the Wildcats job.
"You know all those guys and you hate playing all your friends," Fisher said. "You really do."
Fisher called the win over Kentucky "another step for us in the right direction." The Aggies more than dominated the then-13th-ranked Wildcats, holding what was then the SEC's leading rushing team to just 70 yards on the ground and 178 in total offense.
But they failed to make the plays earlier that could have made for a more comfortable evening, failing to convert a fourth-and-1 at Kentucky's 27-yard line in the second quarter and missing a field goal and turning the ball over twice in the second half.
With 390 yards, the Aggies more than doubled Kentucky's output. For the season, they have averaged over 490 yards a game rushing and passing and have the league's leading rusher in running back Trayveon Williams. Williams has averaged 120 yards a game and 6.0 per carry with seven rushing touchdowns.
"The big thing is on offense the consistency to finish drives," Fisher said. "The way we're moving the ball, we've got to finish drives and put points on the board."
That will be the key against the Gamecocks, he emphasized.
"We're going to have to start fast and finish fast in this one," Fisher said. "We'll have to make our adjustments, too.
"Anytime you're on the road it gives you confidence to get out of the blocks to play well like we did in the Arkansas game. Got a jump and got out front. But this game we're going to have to get out in front and maintain.
The Gamecocks' offense will present just a bit of a mystery, however. Junior Jake Bentley is expected to be back as the starter at quarterback after missing last week with a knee injury, but it isn't certain.
Senior Mike Scarnecchia, who led the comeback win over Missouri, could start again.
"I've told both Jake and Mike that they need to be ready to go play," Muschamp said. "We've got two guys we can win with, and that's good to have."
Scarnechia had seen little time before last week, when he passed for 249 yards. Bentley has started since his freshman year and is an accurate passer with a 64 percent completion rate this season.
"I'm making the decision that I think helps us win," Muschamp said. "At the end of the day, that's what we are going to do, but we have two guys I have confidence that we can win with. I feel comfortable with both guys."


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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - A group that's worked for more than two decades to get parents more involved in their children's education says a lot of work needs to be done across the country to beef up communication.
Project Appleseed is made up of mostly volunteers who try to get parents, grandparents and guardians involved in the classroom. The group's president, Kevin Walker, says there's a huge communication gap between schools and parents, but states like Indiana have worked hard to improve it.
"Indiana has attempted to step up their game," says Walker. "They did a lot with trying to get parents involved by using a parent-involvement pledge like Project Appleseed originated a few decades ago. Three years ago, Indiana tried that. Indiana's at least doing something."
Project Appleseed asks parents and guardians to sign a pledge to volunteer in their child's school and to read to them for a minimum number of hours per week.
"What parents want is important information from schools sent to them on a regular basis, but they don't want it sent home in the child's backpack or by mail," Walker says. "They want it conveniently in email. They want to be able to go online and look at it when it suits their time."
Walker's group is also pushing for legislation to provide better internet access for families. He says some will argue that affordable broadband just allows people to surf the web or watch videos.
"We're worried about when they do use it right," he says. "Even if they only use the internet for 20 percent of their time to use it right, that would mean they'd be checking on school, checking on their kids, looking for a job, engaging themselves in the larger community."


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Hands-on Model Interpretation on Unstructured Data (text) if time permits.
Basic concepts around machine learning like models, performance evaluation techniques would help. However we will be covering them during the talk so it is not compulsory.


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Q: How to parse json data in Python? Please help me to parse this json in python.
{ "IT" : [
                            { "firstName" : "ajay",
                              "lastName"  : "stha",
                              "age"       : 24 },

                            { "firstName" : "Michiel",
                              "lastName"  : "Og",
                              "age"       : 35 }
                          ],
          "sales"       : [
                            { "firstName" : "Guru",
                              "lastName"  : "red",
                              "age"       : 27 },

                            { "firstName" : "Jim",
                              "lastName"  : "Galley",
                              "age"       : 34 }
                          ]
        }

How to parse this json in Python?Please help me

A: Using json:
import json
data = json.loads(stringinput)

A: import json
jsonResponse = json.loads(data)
jsonDataSales = jsonResponse["sales"]
jsonDataIt = jsonResponse["IT"]
it_first_name_list = []
it_last_name_list = []
it_age_list = []
sales_first_name_list = []
sales_last_name_list = []
sales_age_list = []

for item in jsonDataIt:
    it_first_name_list.append(item.get("firstName"))
    it_last_name_list.append(item.get("lastName"))
    it_age_list.append(item.get("age"))

for item in jsonDataSales:
    sales_first_name_list.append(item.get("firstName"))
    sales_last_name_list.append(item.get("lastName"))
    sales_age_list.append(item.get("age"))

A: Python dictionary with nested structures is very similar to JSON data,
though Python's variables and expressions support richer structuring options (any part
of the following can be an arbitrary expression in Python code) for eg.
>>> name = dict(first='Bob', last='Smith')
>>> rec = dict(name=name, job=['dev', 'mgr'], age=40.5)
>>> rec
{'job': ['dev', 'mgr'], 'name': {'last': 'Smith', 'first': 'Bob'}, 'age': 40.5}

The final dictionary format displayed here is a valid literal in Python code, and almost
passes for JSON when printed as is, but the json module makes the translation official
—here translating Python objects to and from a JSON serialized string representation
in memory:
>>> import json
>>> json.dumps(rec)
'{"job": ["dev", "mgr"], "name": {"last": "Smith", "first": "Bob"}, "age": 40.5}'
>>> S = json.dumps(rec)
>>> S
'{"job": ["dev", "mgr"], "name": {"last": "Smith", "first": "Bob"}, "age": 40.5}'
>>> O = json.loads(S)
>>> O
{'job': ['dev', 'mgr'], 'name': {'last': 'Smith', 'first': 'Bob'}, 'age': 40.5}
>>> O == rec
True

It's similarly straightforward to translate Python objects to and from JSON data strings
in files. Prior to being stored in a file, your data is simply Python objects; the JSON
module recreates them from the JSON textual representation when it loads it from the
file:
>>> json.dump(rec, fp=open('testjson.txt', 'w'), indent=4)
>>> print(open('testjson.txt').read())
{
"job": [
"dev",
"mgr"
],
"name": {
"last": "Smith",
"first": "Bob"
},
"age": 40.5
}
>>> P = json.load(open('testjson.txt'))
>>> P
{'job': ['dev', 'mgr'], 'name': {'last': 'Smith', 'first': 'Bob'}, 'age': 40.5}

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2018 USDGC Tickets are here!
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Discussion in 'Female Requests' started by JaSamFan88, Jun 5, 2018.
I'm interested in playing this out in almost any of my fandoms.
my character. The hypnotism or mind control, will serve to bring our characters closer together, emotionally and physically as they fall for each other. Especially once my character is effectively controlled by your character without needing to be hypnotized or mind controlled.
All replies should be to this thread. There's no need to PM me until after we become partners and are ready to really get into the nitty gritty of discussing details.
What sort of fandoms do you do?
The main ones I'm currently craving are below. All fandoms below are meant as the TV version only, and not books, comics, etc..


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Q: A question about one point of Donald Trump's speech at Helsinki At his recent Helsinki summit, while reading from a prepared, written speech, Donald Trump said during his opening remarks and then later tweeted, quoting himself:

I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace, than to risk peace in pursuit of politics.

Here I got confused: since we cannot mix verb forms in the structure of would rather A than B, shouldn't that only be a risk? Why was there a to?
I would rather
        take a political risk in pursuit of peace,
  than
      risk peace in pursuit of politics.

A: Wow this is a tricky one!
To help, let's consider another instance where we might see this construction

I would rather clean the garage myself than ask that John clean it.

The subject is stating that he would rather go through the trouble of cleaning a room than ask John (maybe John is annoying).

I would rather clean the garage myself than to ask that John clean it and be disappointed.

The subject is stating that he would rather go through the trouble of cleaning a room than ask John because John would not clean it well and that would disappoint the speaker

I would rather clean the garage myself than ask that John clean it and be disappointed.

Interestingly, this reads like a run-on in that who is disappointed is ambiguous. Obviously, we can semantically infer that it is the same as the last sentence, i.e., it is the speaker that would be disappointed. However, it is a grammatically correct interpretation to read this as the speaker asking John to both clean the room and be disappointed (semantically, asking someone to be disappointed is preposterous).
We return to the example text:

I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace, than to risk peace in pursuit of politics.

The use of the infinitive here could be to clearly mark this clause as a distinct verb phrase (further emphasized by the comma [pause]). The parallelism is maintained on a verb phrase level with "take a political risk..."
...I feel like I may be overlooking something simple though, so I look forward to the discussion and resolution of this query!!


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namespace ppapi {
namespace {

IPC::ChannelHandle* g_nacl_browser_ipc_handle = nullptr;
IPC::ChannelHandle* g_nacl_renderer_ipc_handle = nullptr;
IPC::ChannelHandle* g_manifest_service_handle = nullptr;

base::WaitableEvent* g_shutdown_event = NULL;
base::Thread* g_io_thread = NULL;
ManifestService* g_manifest_service = NULL;

bool IsValidChannelHandle(IPC::ChannelHandle* handle) {
  // The underlying handle is wrapped by a NaClIPCAdapter, which is exposed as
  // an FD.
  return handle && handle->socket.fd != -1;
}

// Creates the manifest service on IO thread so that its Listener's thread and
// IO thread are shared. Upon completion of the manifest service creation,
// event is signaled.
void StartUpManifestServiceOnIOThread(base::WaitableEvent* event) {
  // The start up must be called only once.
  DCHECK(!g_manifest_service);
  // manifest_service_handle must be set.
  DCHECK(IsValidChannelHandle(g_manifest_service_handle));
  // IOThread and shutdown event must be initialized in advance.
  DCHECK(g_io_thread);
  DCHECK(g_shutdown_event);

  g_manifest_service = new ManifestService(
      *g_manifest_service_handle, g_io_thread->task_runner(),
      g_shutdown_event);
  event->Signal();
}

}  // namespace

void SetIPCChannelHandles(
    IPC::ChannelHandle browser_ipc_handle,
    IPC::ChannelHandle renderer_ipc_handle,
    IPC::ChannelHandle manifest_service_handle) {
  // The initialization must be only once.
  DCHECK(!g_nacl_browser_ipc_handle);
  DCHECK(!g_nacl_renderer_ipc_handle);
  DCHECK(!g_nacl_renderer_ipc_handle);
  g_nacl_browser_ipc_handle = new IPC::ChannelHandle(browser_ipc_handle);
  g_nacl_renderer_ipc_handle = new IPC::ChannelHandle(renderer_ipc_handle);
  g_manifest_service_handle = new IPC::ChannelHandle(manifest_service_handle);
}

void StartUpPlugin() {
  // The start up must be called only once.
  DCHECK(!g_shutdown_event);
  DCHECK(!g_io_thread);

  g_shutdown_event =
      new base::WaitableEvent(base::WaitableEvent::ResetPolicy::MANUAL,
                              base::WaitableEvent::InitialState::NOT_SIGNALED);
  g_io_thread = new base::Thread("Chrome_NaClIOThread");
  g_io_thread->StartWithOptions(
      base::Thread::Options(base::MessagePumpType::IO, 0));

  if (IsValidChannelHandle(g_manifest_service_handle)) {
    // Manifest service must be created on IOThread so that the main message
    // handling will be done on the thread, which has a message loop
    // even before irt_ppapi_start invocation.
    // TODO(hidehiko,dmichael): This works, but is probably not well designed
    // usage. Once a better approach is made, replace this by that way.
    // (crbug.com/364241).
    base::WaitableEvent event(base::WaitableEvent::ResetPolicy::MANUAL,
                              base::WaitableEvent::InitialState::NOT_SIGNALED);
    g_io_thread->task_runner()->PostTask(
        FROM_HERE, base::BindOnce(StartUpManifestServiceOnIOThread, &event));
    event.Wait();
  }

  PPB_Audio_Shared::SetNaClMode();
}

IPC::ChannelHandle GetBrowserIPCChannelHandle() {
  // The handle must be initialized in advance.
  DCHECK(IsValidChannelHandle(g_nacl_browser_ipc_handle));
  return *g_nacl_browser_ipc_handle;
}

IPC::ChannelHandle GetRendererIPCChannelHandle() {
  // The handle must be initialized in advance.
  DCHECK(IsValidChannelHandle(g_nacl_renderer_ipc_handle));
  return *g_nacl_renderer_ipc_handle;
}

base::WaitableEvent* GetShutdownEvent() {
  // The shutdown event must be initialized in advance.
  DCHECK(g_shutdown_event);
  return g_shutdown_event;
}

base::Thread* GetIOThread() {
  // The IOThread must be initialized in advance.
  DCHECK(g_io_thread);
  return g_io_thread;
}

ManifestService* GetManifestService() {
  return g_manifest_service;
}

}  // namespace ppapi

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65 Congressmen Demand UN Accountability for Cholera
This is a press release from Congressman John Conyers Jr.
Conyers & 64 Colleagues Write Ambassador Samantha Power Urging UN to Take Responsibility & Remedial Action for Haiti Cholera Outbreak
(WASHINGTON) – Today, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), along with 65 other Members of Congress, wrote Ambassador Samantha Power, the Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), about the UN's inadequate response to the cholera epidemic in Haiti. Specifically, the letter detailed how in October 2010, UN peacekeepers in Haiti introduced cholera to the Caribbean nation and urged the UN to take immediate legal responsibility for the resulting harms. While the UN has expressed a desire to repair the damage, to date, no significant action has been taken. Following transmission of the letter to Ambassador Power, Rep. Conyers issued the following statement:
"As we approach the fourth anniversary of the tragic earthquake that devastated Haiti, much work remains to be done to rebuild and rehabilitate the Caribbean nation. Unfortunately, this effort has been imperiled since October 2010, when United Nations peacekeepers operating out of a base camp nearby Port au Prince inadvertently introduced cholera to the Haitian people. As a result, hundreds of thousands of Haitians have been hospitalized, and thousands of Haitians have died. The UN has a moral and legal obligation to repair the harm resulting from its peacekeeping operations," said Conyers.
"Current efforts by the UN to eradicate the cholera epidemic in Haiti are far from sufficient. In order for the UN to maintain its credibility around the world, it is imperative for it to acknowledge its legal responsibility and act now. This means fully funding the Cholera Elimination Plan and working to improve the water and sanitation infrastructure in Haiti. Failure to do so will jeopardize the UN's standing and moral authority in Haiti and other countries where its personnel are deployed.
"Although the United States' mission to the UN has demonstrated its interest in remedying the massive harm caused by the cholera epidemic, on the dawn of the fourth anniversary of the Haitian Earthquake, I urge the Obama administration to intensify its efforts to find a just solution that will address the needs of the Haitian people. Access to clean water and adequate sanitation are fundamental building blocks for economic recovery, and the United States must not waver in advocating for the needs of the Haitian people."
A copy of this letter is attached and the body of the message can be found below:
The Honorable Ambassador Samantha Power
U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
United States Mission to the United Nations
799 United Nations Plaza
Dear Ambassador Power,
We write to draw your attention to the United Nations' response to Haiti's cholera epidemic – a response that threatens to undermine the UN's mandate to promote human rights and peace around the globe. In October 2010, UN peacekeepers introduced cholera to Haiti from a UN base camp some 40 kilometers northeast of Port au Prince. Overwhelming evidence demonstrates that the epidemic resulted from the UN's use of inadequate and outdated protocols that failed to prevent its peacekeepers from bringing cholera into Haiti, as well as its reckless disposal of waste into Haiti's largest river system. UN culpability was recently detailed in reports released by Yale University Law School and School of Public Health, and by the UN's own Panel of Experts on the Haiti cholera epidemic.
The UN's response to date has been wholly inadequate. The UN continues to refuse to take responsibility for the outbreak, and the fund established by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon to provide resources to the Cholera Elimination Plan sits at only 10 percent of the total sought. Secretary-General Ban claimed, in a July 5 letter to eighteen members of Congress who had expressed concern about the UN response, that the UN has built two wastewater treatment facilities in Haiti. But the UN was only one of many donors who contributed to the plants' construction and both have faced operational difficulties due to a lack of funding.
We appreciate that the U.S. Mission to the UN has demonstrated its interest in remedying the massive harm caused by the UN cholera epidemic in Haiti. We urge you to continue the Mission's focus on the issue and to intensify efforts to find a just solution to this outbreak.
The benefits of such a focus and the implementation of just remedies are evident. Most critically, full funding of the Cholera Elimination Plan, along with improved water and sanitation infrastructure in Haiti, will reduce or eliminate cholera on the island of Hispaniola and help to combat a range of other diarrheal diseases and public health concerns. It bears emphasis that the right to clean water and adequate sanitation are rights guaranteed to the Haitian people by the UN General Assembly in July 2010 by Resolution 64/292. Moreover, as the Washington Post Editorial Board noted on August 11, "by refusing to acknowledge responsibility, the United Nations jeopardizes its standing and moral authority in Haiti and in other countries where its personnel are deployed."
In addition, failure to accept responsibility for its actions will make it significantly more difficult for MINUSTAH to fulfill its mandate to build the rule of law in Haiti. Exhortations to submit to the law, to police officers, judges, government officials and citizens in Haiti will be undermined by the UN's own actions in regards to accepting legal responsibility for the cholera epidemic. Resources that may continue to be required for peacekeeping operations could instead be used to save lives and allow the Haitian people to realize their basic rights.
The United Nations has a moral and legal obligation to redress the harm resulting from the actions of its peacekeeping operations. It is time for the UN to accept responsibility to prevent needless additional tragic deaths and illness among Haitians. The United States, due its standing as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council and its significant financial and diplomatic investments in Haiti, must be a strong voice for justice. We appreciate your support in this noble and urgent endeavor.


You will find on the market different kinds of dog collars, and a dog owner occasionally does not know what to select, because every collar has a very different impact on the pet's neck. So you need to be well conscious of the collar kind which fits best your dog, and of course, which also satisfies your quality requirements. Below are a few collar types which are recommended for your dogs.
It's a simple belt, attached to the puppy's neck, using a metal buckle. Made of nylon or leather, it might be adjustable. It can be utilized as a simple collar, in order to tie your puppy, or it could be an identification collar (such as the civil permit, range medal, etc.). If you use this collar to educate or to train your own dog, it may cause an resistance reaction from the puppy (tug - pull, push - push). Therefore according to Yippr™ this collar can not be utilized at all for education or obedience training, because there are no means of applying a correction using the collar (a slight collar stroke), with no automatic opposition of the dog. In any case, you can damage your elbow or your shoulders should you use it with a massive dog.
This collar kind is the most recommended for puppies since it can be well adjusted on a growing puppy's throat. It is made of nylon, with a plastic buckle. But as well as the simple buckle, it can't be utilized for obedience training.
It's a special collar, which divides when it is hit. It was invented as a result of a puppy's death, whose collar did not break, even if the puppy was hanging. It's advocated when you allow your dog running free in the back yard, without being scammed.
Also called "choker", this collar is used the most frequently for puppies. A research made in Germany proved that this kind of collar causes the wounding of their throat, of the spinal column, as well as of their throat, even if it isn't used properly (meaning in 95 per cent of those cases!) . As it isn't employed for obedience instruction, but as a preventive step, this collar can't be utilized for all sort of dogs , neither by all kinds of persons. It's actually a chain, with a type of ring at each end. The collar slides into one of those rings at each end.
The collar slides into one of the rings, which makes the shape of a "P". The leash is attached to the ring at the end of this "P", that is the reason why the collar may slide. Take into consideration that in case your dog walks in your left, the collar will not have the kind of a "P". But if the dog walks on your right, the collar has to form a "Q". After the collar is connected to the second ring (the still ring), no slipping of this collar is permitted.
This type of collar provokes an entire strangulation of the dog. A whole lot of dogs died. You must never leave this type of collar at the dog's neck if it's alone, outside or in a kennel, as a collision might happen very fast.
If the string is large enough, it can slide less readily, or so the collar is not as effective. If the chain is soft, the correction will be effective. The adjustment has to be perfect if you want an efficient correction, by sliding the string. A too short or a too long collar will not correct conveniently the dog and there will look the threat of a wounding for the dog or even for whoever holds the leash.
These collars are ordinarily employed for conformation exhibitions. They're employed in precisely the same manner as the traditional strangulation collars, very easily.
These collars are a variation of this strangulation collar. They're effective for a easy, fast and precise correction of the dog, if it's well adjusted.
The alteration round the puppy's neck is important when you want to have an effective dog collar. It's strongly recommended for puppies and mature dogs, for any kind of education or obedience training.
It is an exhibition leash for small dogs.
This collar can be used for the same reasons as the traditional strangulation collar. It's used to fix the dog, exerting an equivalent strain on the whole surface of the neck. If it is well corrected, this collar doesn't pinch the skin and does not hurt the creature. The pinch - prong collar is actually a whole lot more secure when it's used, than the usual strangulation collar. A study made in Germany proved that the injuries on the throat, on the trunk and in the throat are somewhat less, when it's used the pinch collar instead of a strangulation one. This sort of collar is ordinarily employed for puppies which pull on the leash, which deny a customary correction with the strangulation collar or for those who are not able to restrain a very strong dog. This collar is used for dog obedience training and it must be used properly. It must not be used for a puppy.
The dog halter is often used for the dogs that pull on the leash. It may be utilized as the horse halter, but it is usually applied near the eyes, so it's quite uncomfortable for the majority of the dogs. This halter isn't a muzzle and in order to be effective it must be used with a kayak.


Native warm season grasses conjure up good thoughts for some and reminders of bad experiences for others according to Tim Schnakenberg, field specialist in agronomy with University of Missouri Extension.
December 1 hay stocks declined nationally for the third year in a row to 79 million tons, the smallest December 1 figure since 2012.
Understanding of the cattle microbiome can provide tools for improving animal health and productivity.
Adding extra fertility after drought is boosting toxins like nitrates in hay.
Is Creep Feeding Beef Calves Profitable?
For creep feeding to be profitable, the costs of the added weight gain must be less than the value of that gain.
Forage sorghum silage in the Texas High Plains is a viable option with sugarcane aphid control, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service study.
We asked, you answered. Here's a look at livestock owners' opinions about hemp and its role in U.S. agriculture.
Medical goldmine, pipe dream or somewhere between?
Here's what you need to know about hemp as a feed ingredient for cattle.
If the pasture of stockpile is heavy, then it can often be grazed even under fairly wet conditions without too much long-term damage but, you will need to have a watchful eye.
Success grass-fed beef production is dependent on several factors.
Hay produced on irrigated grass and subirrigated meadows can be a potential supplementation source throughout Nebraska.
More than 1,500 cattlemen and women attend informative and engaging sessions to improve their business skills at the 2019 Cattle Industry Convention & NCBA Tradeshow.
Despite the important niche that tall fescue fills, there are important downsides to consider when grazing livestock on tall fescue grass.
The Washington Hay Growers Association represents the farmers growing feed and fiber crops that fuel global industries, from Northwest dairy cattle to pets large and small and livestock around the world.
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HE PROPRIETOR WAS a kind man, and when Sentaro told him that he was a stranger and had come to live there, he promised to arrange everything that was necessary with the governor of the city concerning Sentaro's sojourn there. He even found a house for his guest, and in this way Sentaro obtained his great wish and became a resident in the country of Perpetual Life.
Within the memory of all the islanders no man had ever died there, and sickness was a thing unknown. Priests had come over from India and China and told them of a beautiful country called Paradise, where happiness and bliss and contentment fill all men's hearts, but its gates could only be reached by dying. This tradition was handed down for ages from generation to generation--but none knew exactly what death was except that it led to Paradise.
Time passed like the flight of an arrow for him, for he was busy from morning till night. Three hundred years went by in this monotonous way, and then at last he began to grow tired of life in this country, and he longed to see his own land and his old home. However long he lived here, life would always be the game, so was it not foolish and wearisome to stay on here forever?
Sentaro, in his wish to escape from the country of Perpetual Life, recollected Jofuku, who had helped him before when he was wishing to escape from death--and he prayed to the saint to bring him back to his own land again.
Such was the willfulness of the man's nature that he looked back and regretted all he had left behind. He tried to stop the bird in vain. The crane held on its way for thousands of miles across the ocean.
"I am sent to you by Jofuku, who in answer to your prayer, has permitted you in a dream to see the land of Perpetual Life. But you grew weary of living there, and begged to be allowed to return to your native land so that you might die. Jofuku, so that he might try you, allowed you to drop into the sea, and then sent a shark to swallow you up. Your desire for death was not real, for even at that moment you cried out loudly and shouted for help."
"It is also vain for you to wish to become a hermit, or to find the Elixir of Life. These things are not for such as you--your life is not austere enough. It is best for you to go back to your paternal home, and to live a good and industrious life. Never neglect to keep the anniversaries of your ancestors, and make it your duty to provide for your children's future. Thus will you live to a good old age and be happy, but give up the vain desire to escape death, for no man can do that, and by this time you have surely found out that even when selfish desires are granted they do not bring happiness."
"In this book I give you there are many precepts good for you to know--if you study them, you will be guided in the way I have pointed out to you."


Growing up, I enjoyed playing a game called "Never Have I Ever." The point of the game is to come up with something you've never done, that everyone else in the group probably has. I was particularly good at this game. Never have I ever ridden a bike. Never have I ever gotten my driver's license. Never have I ever pierced my ears.
That's right. There are a few things in life that most people my age have done, but I just haven't gotten around to yet, like: learning to ride a bicycle, getting my driver's license and piercing my ears. Like most kids, I started learning to ride a bike, but when my parents said that the training wheels should come off, I said I'd just hop off instead. Similar story with the license; I survived driver's ed, but never bothered to go to the Department of Motor Vehicles. I guess you could say that I have a fear of wheels. I also have a fear of needles, which explains why I never got my ears pierced … until my return trip to Singapore.
Last summer I traveled with the Carolina Southeast Asia Summer program to Singapore, Brunei and India. I came back to Southeast Asia this summer as the research fellow for the same program, and during my stay, I met up with the Summer 2011 SEAS program assistant, Hui Qian Tan. She, too, had never gotten her ears pierced.
We reunited at a dim sum lunch with the rest of the SEAS program, and from the beginning it was a day of firsts: my first Chinese dumplings, my first taste of chicken's foot (actually, quite tasty, if you can get around all the toe bones) and my first (and probably last) piercing. The idea to get my ears pierced was completely spontaneous. During lunch, Hui Qian mentioned that she'd finally decided to break down and pierce her ears. (Her mother had told her that the first daughter to get her ears pierced would receive her grandmother's fabulous earrings, and the bribe had been enough to convince her.) With the excitement of trying new things urging me along, I suddenly heard myself announcing that I'd be joining Hui Qian. I'd pierce my ears, too. Once the announcement was made, there was no going back. Spontaneity isn't really my style, but there's something fun in going against your own style occasionally, and I'm glad I did. After all, when would I next have the chance to get my ears pierced with someone about my own age (and a few years older, to top that!) who was also a first-timer?
Many people would urge you against getting your ears (or anything else for that matter) pierced abroad. A fair enough warning, in general, but it's certainly not applicable in Singapore. The first day that I toured the country, I actually saw a street sweeper with nothing but flower petals in his bin. And with a $S1,000 fine for littering, trash on the roadside is almost obsolete. With spotless streets, you can imagine the quality of the hygiene everywhere else. Getting my ears pierced in Singapore would probably beat going to UNC Hospitals and getting the top surgeon to pierce my ears himself.
So, when the last of the dumplings and liu sha bao (or salted egg yolk custard buns) had been enjoyed, Hui Qian and I made our way to B*dazzle Jewelry, a ritzy shop on Somerset Road, which Hui Qian had picked out for our debut piercing. Once there, we looked through an assortment of studs — pure gold, titanium, nickel-free, all the way down the line, and we both selected the purple titanium with crystals. The piercing itself took much less time (and pain!) than the selection process. With the click of a high-tech disposable cartridge ear piercing system, I lost one of my sure-fire "Never Have I Ever" game-winners and gained instead a beautiful set of earrings and a great memory.
Our ear piercings also came with three complimentary check-ups. So last week, shortly before I left Singapore, Hui Qian and I got together again. Of course, our visit began, as usual, with a delicious meal, this time at a delightful Hawker Center, where we feasted on chicken rice with mango bean curd for dessert. And then we headed to B*dazzle for our check-up, where I discovered that one of my earrings was too tight, and I was about to have a gaged look instead of a traditional piercing. Imagine my parents' surprise if I'd come home with gaping holes in my ears instead of some simple crystals!
I was relieved I'd returned for the check-up. But I'm even happier that I finally got my ears pierced and with a good friend, no less. And now that I have the thrill of trying new things still fresh in my mind, I have my sights set towards that bike and car back home.


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Falling Away from Me é uma canção e videoclipe da banda norte-americana de nu metal KoЯn, do seu quarto álbum de estúdio Issues. Foi o primeiro single do álbum Issues, lançado nas rádios de todo mundo em 6 de dezembro de 1999, alcançando Tripla Platina com o lançamento do álbum de KoЯn Issues em 16 de novembro de 1999.

A música representa a musicalidade tradicional do KoЯn no seu álbum de 1999 Issues, o conhecido estilo nu metal da década de 90, além de ser a mais trabalhada musicalmente, ganhando a posição de primeiro single do CD.

É considerada a melhor música do álbum Issues, e muitas vezes até a melhor música do KoЯn. É a canção com mais profundidade, expressão e impressão da banda, visto pela letra composta por Jonathan Davis, baseada em sua infância.

Estilo musical
Começando pelo single Falling Away from Me, no álbum Issues o KoЯn mostra uma musicalidade bem mais trabalhada, diferentemente do Follow the Leader e os álbuns anteriores a esse, KoЯn abre mão de batidas eletrônicas de Hip Hop e vocais rapeados freqüentes, e aposta em utilizar mais Guitarras, tanto a Base quanto a Solo, principalmente em riffs, com teclados (eletrônicos, em forma de sampler), e uma integração vocal entre Jonathan Davis e outros integrantes da banda no backing vocal, no refrão do single Falling Away From Me.

Letra

Inspiração
A Letra de Falling Away From Me é altamente expressionista e impressionista, composta por Jonathan Davis, vocalista e líder do KoЯn, é baseado na sua difícil infância.

Jonathan Davis em sua infância sofreu muita violência de seus pais, além de constante bullying no colégio, mas felizmente conseguiu vencer isso com sua separação dos pais, ganhando a vida com a música. Davis sempre comentou que certas músicas do KoЯn continham temas dessa sua difícil fase da vida, e essa inspiração chega ao máximo na canção Falling Away From Me.

Expressão e impressão
Nos versos de Falling Away from Me, Jonathan Davis com o KoЯn consegue atingir o máximo de expressão e impressão, mostrando a terrível realidade de uma infância acompanhada de sofrimento: a violência pelos próprios pais, e o suicídio movimentado pelo sofrimento às mãos de bullying e depressão.

Cada estrofe contém sua interpretação própria no contexto da canção, mostrando o caso de uma pessoa altamente depressiva, pessimista, desacreditada com a vida, justamente Afastando-se de mim mesmo, Afastando-se dela mesma pela sua vida violentada.

O contexto dos versos
A músicia começa com um riff de guitarra, com captador da ponte, reverb e com um Dunlop UniVibe com slow rate e mais profundidade no Depth, com um tom melancólico e estridente, em Si menor, criando uma atmosfera melancólica e osbcura.

A primeira estrofe introduz mostrando uma pequena análise da condição do eu-lírico que a canção mostra naquela hora:

O eu-lírico está cansado, provavelmente das agressões que recebeu pelo dia (Hey, I'm feeling tired, my time is gone today), já tão deprimido que pensa em suicídio (You flirt with suicide, sometimes that's ok), e mostra uma atitude conformada com aquele acontecimento tão contínuo enquanto mistura esses pensamentos terríveis com a sua solidão e sofrimento (Do what others say, I'm here standing hollow), e nessa situação ele está se afastando dele mesmo...(Falling away from me, falling away from me).

Na segunda estrofe, já existe um momento de pensamento altamente depressivo do eu-lírico, um momento em que ele sente que aquilo nunca irá acabar:

À noite, com seu dia terminando, o eu-lírico está pensando no seu ruim dia, como todos os outros, com violência física e mental (Day, is here fading, that's when I'm insane), e realmente pensando em suicídio para acabar com sua dor, o conhecido bullycídio, vide Bullying (I flirt with suicide, sometimes kill the pain), e tenta se iludir dizendo que "Amanhã será um dia melhor", mas não consegue, pois sabe que não será (I can always say "It's gonna be better tomorrow"), e com tudo isso continua se afastando dele mesmo... (Falling away from me, falling away from me).

Depois da introdução das 1ª e 2ª estrofes, começa o refrão, o eu-lírico se lembrando de uma cena em que era violentado fisicamente, fato do bully ou violência dos pais (Beating me down, beating me, beating me down; Down into the ground; Screaming some sound, beating me, beating me down; Down into the ground).

Na quinta estrofe, o eu-lírico se encontra em um estado entorpecido, variando entre as lembranças de quando foi espancado e entre o estado "atual", repetindo que está se afastando dele mesmo com essa vida. Provavelmente na quinta estrofe se descreve o estado do eu-lírico após ser espancado, pelas várias tonturas descritas, e o eu-lírico enquanto se lembra repetindo, que está se afastando de si mesmo ((Falling away from me) It's spinning round and round; (Falling away from me) It's lost and can't be found; (Falling away from me); It's spinning round and round (Falling away from me); So it down)

Após a quinta estrofe, volta o refrão. O eu-lírico continua com a terrível memória do espancamento, afastando cada vez mais ele de ele mesmo.

Após a volta do refrão, vem o sétimo e oitavos estrofes, talvez a parte mais marcante da canção, onde conta que enquanto o espancamento, o eu-lírico orava a Deus para que os violentadores e os pensamentos de suicídio vão embora(Twisting me, they won't go away; So I pray, go away), mostrando subliminarmente a fé de Jonathan Davis, mesmo com sua terrível infância, já que a história da canção é baseada em fatos reais da infância de Davis. Nesta estrofe , existem vocais gritados, porém muito baixos, quase imperceptíveis se não houver atenção. Simbolizam as lembranças, por isso são baixos, das vozes dos bullyers na mente do eu-lírico.

Na oitava estrofe, mostra novamente que realmente a vida do eu-lírico está se afastando desse (Life's falling away from me; It's falling away from me; Life's falling away from me), em vários sentidos, talvez por que ele estivesse próximo da morte, ou por depressão, ou pelos próprios motivos físicos, o espancamento. Porém apesar disto tudo, o eu-lírico tem grande vontade de sobrevivência, e mostra raiva com (F!ck), ao final do verso.

Após essas estrofes, o refrão se repete duas vezes e a música termina com a Intro da próxima faixa Trash, com que a Falling Away from Me mantém uma conexão entre os contextos.

Mensagem
A mensagem de Falling Away from Me é justamente uma crítica à violência nas crianças, ao suicídio em crianças e adolescentes, e ao bullying, este último tão presente na vida de Jonathan Davis. Davis tenta expressar ao máximo a vida de uma pessoa constantemente violentada física e mentalmente, com sucesso. Paralelamente, Davis tenta, não somente nessa canção mas também na vida real, combater essa violência com o público-alvo do KoЯn e também o público-alvo do bullying, os adolescentes. Davis quer que, como ele, os adolescentes não fiquem depressivos com essa situação realmente tão depressiva (e que pode terminar até em suicídio), mas sim lutem contra isso e se livrem dessa vida para uma vida nova!

Vídeo musical
O Videoclipe de Falling Away From Me mostra basicamente a história descrita acima, porém com  a particularidade do eu-lírico ser representado por uma menina, e o aparecimento recorrente do KoЯn, com um cenário "particular", em uma sala vedada, com o fundo verde, e dezenas de lâmpadas incandescentes acesas.

Faixas do Single
Na Alemanha e Austrália o single Falling Away From Me de KoЯn foi lançado em edição especial, com várias faixas bônus remixadas.

Edição germânica
 CD5" 668135 2
 "Falling Away from Me" (radio edit) – 4:31
 "Jingle Balls" – 3:27
 "Falling Away from Me" (acappella) – 3:45

Edição australiana
 CD5" 668369 2
 "Falling Away from Me" – 4:31
 "Falling Away from Me" (Krust remix) – 8:29
 "Jingle Balls" – 3:27
 "Falling Away from Me" (Mantronik remix) – 6:05
 "Got The Life" (Josh Abraham remix) – 4:01
 "Falling Away from Me" (CD Video)

Recepção
O som teve grande popularidade nas rádios, sendo o primeiro single do KoЯn a realmente "bombar", chegando até na Billboard'''s Hot 100, na posição 99. E chegou em sétimo na Mainstream Rock Songs e Alternative Songs. O vídeo fez grande sucesso como o anterior: "Freak on a Leash", com apresentação contínua na MTV e Total Request Live'' como terceiro lugar, e chegando em número 1 na primeira semana. Ele acabaria por se tornar o terceiro vídeo de KoЯn com grande sucesso sendo 10 dias primeiro lugar geral.

Referências & Ligações Externas
  Falling Away From Me - Korn

Canções de Korn
Canções sobre suicídio
Singles de 1999

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President Bush's endorsement of John McCain last week could prove to be as much of a curse for the Arizona senator and Republican presidential nominee-elect as a blessing.
While the president's endorsement could help McCain raise much-needed money and rally still-distrustful conservatives to his side, Bush's dismal job-approval ratings -- at this point the lowest since his father's at 32 percent, according to the latest Gallup Poll -- could effectively shackle McCain with a proverbial ball-and-chain that could cost him the November election.
Already, the Democratic National Committee -- in the opening salvo of its determined campaign to paint a McCain presidency as a third Bush term -- posted a video of the unpopular Bush's backing of McCain on its Web site.
But Democrats aren't the only ones targeting McCain for defeat in November.
Angry supporters of the Boeing Company -- including some Republicans -- are also determined to stop the GOP nominee-elect's bid for the White House over the Chicago-based aircraft maker's loss of a $35 billion contract to build a new generation of Air Force refueling tankers to the parent company of its European arch-rival, Airbus.
And some hard-line social conservatives, such as Representative Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado) and Focus on the Family's Dr. James Dobson, have vowed they won't support McCain under any circumstances because of McCain's refusal to back their call for the expulsion of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S. and for a constitutional amendment banning same-gender marriage.
Tancredo, one of McCain's rivals for the GOP nomination who is a fierce advocate for deporting all illegal immigrants, dropped out of the race in December and announced that he will not seek re-election to his House seat. Dobson, who vowed that he "cannot, and will not" vote for McCain "as a matter of conscience," reiterated last week that he will stay home rather than vote in the November election now that McCain is the nominee-elect.
The European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) and its U.S. partner, Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman, won a competition with Boeing on February 29 to build the refueling planes in one of the biggest Pentagon contracts in decades. The unexpected decision has sparked outrage from union halls to the halls of Congress over the impact on U.S. jobs, prestige and national security.
EADS and Northrop insist, however, that about 60 percent of their tankers will be built in the U.S.
An unusual bipartisan coalition of Boeing supporters in Congress are directing their wrath at McCain for scuttling an earlier deal in 2004 that would have let Boeing build the next generation of Air Force refueling tankers. Boeing now will miss out on a deal that it says would have supported 44,000 new and existing jobs at the company and suppliers in 40 states.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California), echoing the thoughts of many congressional Democrats, said the earlier tanker deal was "on course for Boeing" before McCain started railing against it. "I mean, the thought was that it would be a domestic supplier for it," Pelosi told reporters. "Senator McCain intervened, and now we have a situation where the contract . . .may be outsourced."
Members of Congress from the affected states -- Republicans and Democrats alike -- were even more scathing in their criticism of the Arizona senator.
"I hope the voters of this state remember what John McCain has done to them and their jobs," said Representative Norman Dicks (D-Washington), whose state would have been home to the tanker program and gained about 9,000 jobs.
"Having made sure that Iraq gets new schools, roads, bridges and dams that we deny America, now we are making sure that France gets the jobs that Americans used to have," said Representative Rahm Emanuel (D-Illinois). "We are sending the jobs overseas, all because John McCain demanded it."
Representative Dave Reichert (R-Washington) was just as furious. "John McCain will be the nominee and I will support him, but if McCain believes that Airbus or EADS is the company for our Air Force tanker program he's flat-out wrong — and I'll tell him that to his face," said Reichert.
Representative Todd Tiahrt (R-Kansas), whose district includes a Boeing plant that could have gained hundreds of new jobs from the tanker program, said McCain's role in killing the 2004 Boeing deal is likely to become an election issue. "I think we absolutely will hear more about it," Tiahrt said. "We'll hear it mostly from the Democrats and they have every right to be concerned."
Sure enough, both of the leading Democratic presidential candidates, Senators Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, have criticized the Air Force's decision.
For his part, McCain called the blasts against him over his role in killing the Boeing deal off-base, insisting that the deal was the kind of pork-barrel spending that he has opposed for years and has made a major plank in his presidential campaign -- and that the Boeing deal was particularly rife with corruption.
McCain has run ads touting his role in fighting "pork" such as the tanker project and cited the deal in a recent GOP debate. "I saved the taxpayers $6 billion in a bogus tanker deal," he said.
"[With] all due respect to the Washington delegation, they vigorously defended the process before — which turned out to be corrupt — which would have cost the taxpayers more than $6 billion and ended up with people in federal prison," he said. "I'm the one that fought against that ... for years and brought down a corrupt contract."
McCain scuttled the 2004 deal after revelations that a former Boeing executive improperly recruited an Air Force official while she was still overseeing contracts involving prospective Boeing deals. The former Air Force official, Darleen Druyun, and a top Boeing executive both served time in prison, and the scandal led to the departure of Boeing's chief executive and several top Air Force officials.
Keith Ashdown of the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense, said Boeing executives who broke the law were to blame for the demise of the tanker contract — not McCain. "This was theirs from day one," he said. "This idea that any lawmaker is to blame is a joke."
Nonetheless, McCain's opposition to the Boeing contract could hurt him with voters in Washington and other states affected by the tanker program, said Todd Donovan, a political science professor at Western Washington University, who noted that Boeing would have performed much of the work in Everett, Washington and Wichita, Kansas, and used Pratt & Whitney engines built in Connecticut.
Significant work also was slated for Texas. "If he can be painted as somehow being associated with job losses ... it could hurt him on the margins," Donovan said.
But McCain's role in the tanker deal didn't bother Alabama politicians, including Republican Governor Bob Riley, who endorsed McCain three days after the Air Force contract was announced. The EADS-Northrop tanker, based on the Airbus A330, will be built in Mobile, Alabama, where it will produce 2,000 new jobs, and support 25,000 jobs at suppliers nationwide.
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The day after clinching the GOP nomination last Tuesday with victories in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont, McCain traveled to Washington to receive at the White House the endorsement of the man to whom he lost the nomination in a bitterly-fought contest eight years ago.
McCain stood stiffly in the Rose Garden as Bush hailed him for showing "incredible courage and strength of character and perseverance" during the GOP primary campaign. "A while back, I don't think many people would have thought that John McCain would be here as the nominee," Bush said.
McCain said he welcomes Bush's help, particularly with fundraising. Bush helped raise $66 million for the Republican National Committee and GOP candidates last year.
Money has been a serious challenge for McCain and for Republicans in general this election cycle. Through January, McCain had raised $54 million, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission -- a figure easily dwarfed by Obama and Clinton, who've raised $138 million and $135 million, respectively.
Last month alone, Obama raised $55 million, and Clinton $35 million. McCain, by contrast, was on track to raise only $12 million, about the same as in January, according to his campaign.
McCain recently retained Cincinnati businessman Mercer Reynolds as his national finance co-chairman. As Bush's money man in 2004, Reynolds helped raise a record $273 million -- a record that has since been matched by the combined coffers of Obama and Clinton -- by using "pioneers" who collected more than $100,000 in contributions and "rangers" who raised $200,000.
Grover Norquist, a leading conservative activist and president of Americans for Tax Reform, said Bush's stamp of approval helps McCain win over the 32 percent of Americans who continue to stand by the president. Bush remains popular with Republicans and conservatives -- 73 percent and 57 percent, respectively -- in the latest USA Today/Gallup Poll.
But Republicans make up only 27 percent of the general electorate, thus McCain must win the support of independents, who make up 32 percent of the voters. "McCain needs to solidify his Republican base and then add independents and Reagan Democrats to it," Norquist said. "He needs all of the 32 and a third of the 68."
McCain's biggest problem: Independents are leaning toward the Democrats by a nearly two-to-one margin, fueled mainly by concerns over the economy and by continued opposition to the war in Iraq. McCain's fierce support for Bush's troop "surge" and opposition to a withdrawal of U.S. troops is unlikely to sit well with voters fed up with the war and determined to bring it to a end as soon as possible.
And McCain has to be able to win over independents -- the majority of whom are moderates -- without alienating the GOP's conservative base, and vice-versa. That may not be possible, according to Stacie Paxton of the Democratic National Committee. "He's having to walk a tightrope" between conservatives and independents, said Paxton. "We'll be making it clear every step of the way whose side he's on."
And if, as now is widely feared, the economy goes south between now and the GOP convention in September, nothing McCain does in the fall campaign will get him elected. That's because of a cruel reality of American politics that dates back to the Great Depression of the 1930s: That the party in control of the White House loses when the economy goes sour on its watch.
Recessions in 1952 and 1980 (the latter dooming Jimmy Carter's bid for re-election) cost the Democrats the White House, while similar downturns in 1976 and 1992 (the latter killing George H.W. Bush's hopes for a second term) proved costly to the Republicans.
His critics and allies alike worry that McCain, who will turn 72 in August and would become the oldest president in American history if elected, may not live long enough to finish his term, given the physical and psychological toll that the tremendous demands of the job places on a president.
But experts on aging have concluded that McCain should not only be fit enough to complete two four-year terms, he should also have at least five years left over for a comfortable retirement.
Despite his grueling personal history as a Vietnamese prisoner of war and later as a sufferer of skin cancer, McCain has "a very good chance for a very long life," said Jay Olshansky, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and the author of numerous research papers on aging and mortality.
Yet all the evidence from more than a century of U.S. population statistics indicates that McCain belongs to a group that has been dubbed "the alpha geezers." More than a third of Americans now live past the age of 85 and many of them remain active well beyond retirement age. In fact, the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population now are centengenarians -- people aged 100 and older.
On the other hand, since the dawn of the nuclear age, every U.S. president, from Harry Truman to George W. Bush, has physically aged more rapidly while in office than they otherwise likely would. Ironically, the last president to die in office from natural causes was Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died from a cerebral hemmorage in April 1945 -- three months before the first atomic bomb test explosion in New Mexico and four months before the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki near the end of World War II.
And longtime consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who announced his third run for the White House two weeks ago, is even older than McCain. Nader turned 76 two days after announcing his candidacy on NBC's "Meet the Press." But because Nader, as an independent or third-party candidate, stands little chance of getting elected, his age isn't likely to be an issue.


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